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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, it's the way up with the Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Angela Yee, and Jasmine from the Jasmine brand is
here yes, and Friday is here with us already. Know man, Friday?
Why the name Friday?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
With two wives?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I was a big party next door weekend feel.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
I was just like trying to think of something like
so I could get their attention, you know what I mean,
anything like I could get Drake attention to them.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
So I just came up with Friday. I was like
a youngin and.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The two whites, so that you could google it and
nothing else.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
To you to get my ship mixed up.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
I appreciate that. Did you have any backup names?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Nah?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
That was like the first name. It was either my
real name or that like, that was the first name.
And I remember I went into college with it. They
started introducing myself as Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It just stuck.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
They were like, my favorite day, Jasmin's favorite day is Thursday.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Friday because it's like before Friday. I feel like you
kind of are anticipating Friday. It's like an anticipation thing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
No, I feel you, but.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
This is a perfect time for us. Like the song
that you have blessings part of why did this show
way up? Is because I feel like I'm not where
I need to be yet, but I'm on the way up.
So I'm in a good space from where I started from.
And that's how I look at this show too. So
that song, to me, I really connected with that, cause
it's like, you know, it's a blessing to be in
the position that you're in, but then you're also looking
(01:21):
forward to like Wester and I saw one of the
most amazing things you've already made happen. And this is
a real tears jerking moment. But buying your mama house, Yes,
So was it a how did you break the news
to her? Was it something that you guys worked on together?
Was she part of the process or were you like
banged today? This is what we're doing now.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I've been telling her like months before, like I'm about
to buy you a house, you know what I mean,
even the house I bought her. I showed her like
this might be the one, but I never like let
her shoe it in person, so she was like excited,
like for like two months, like just let me shoot
the crib, you know what I mean, Like I let
everybody else come to like you know, my aunt came
to see it, my uncles, my cousins.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
She was the only one that ever saw it until
I bought it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And you bought her house before you bought your house.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Nah, for sure, I had to are your mama's boy.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, clearly I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The last son. So it's a little different with me
and my mom.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
My favorite track is empty Stomach And you're really emotional
and you you're.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Are you a crier? You think you're a crier?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Not on some shit though, like when I'm sad, I'll
cry more like on some happy tip, like if something
happened like, but I cry a lot making music, I'll
say that that's where I like express myself.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I haven't really heard a lot of artists say that.
Where does that? Does that help you produce better music?
Does that?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Is that someplace you have to go to in order
to create some of your hits?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I just I just feel like music might escape. So
that's where I'm gonna show myself the most, you know
what I mean. I don't really talk to people that
much or express myself in that way, So I feel
like when it's time to create it just come out.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Natrue, did you be like is it the ugly cry
or is it just like a slaze?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Is the ugly Especially I'm recording by my socia. I
just let it all out, even that song. It's it's
not even like me writing. It's just me freestyling, you
know what I mean. I don't really write nothing, so
it's really just coming out me.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And I think it's inspirational for people too, because there
are people right now in that situation and others don't know.
Like just because you might've had a song that you know,
got placed man or something, but that doesn't mean you're
rich or that you have money.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
That's the whole reasoning of this song. Like I remember
me and my brothers went to La. We probably like
three thousand, four thousand dollars all together, were like, let's
just pay like two months.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Rent going out there.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Everybody in Philly like damn these niggas went to La
not knowing, Like if you don't go to LA with
a plane, you're gonna be fucked up out there. Like
it's just like and it's worse out there too, because
everything right in front of you. It's not like Philly,
like you could be damn bad and Philly, Like I
don't care.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Everybody we all know yeah as regular you know.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So it's like when you were laying you down bad
and you just see the Capitol Records building and he
was like, damn, I just want to get in this
ghon bro security not letting so.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
You want to you went up the Capitol try to
get it.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, actually literal like every week and my brother.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
We y'all would just go up and be like, hey.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I'll be we'll be on some tip like I'm a producer,
I got session here security on some tip like with
who you know what I mean. I was like they
looked at it and like, your name not even on this list.
At one point, they being my brother from the building,
they're like, bro, security told him like if you step
fifteen feet in this building, you calling the law.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You should go see that security again.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
No, no bullshit, he'll be shot.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Like I just want to say, but he was doing
his job.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
He was doing his job done.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
If you got.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
In, I just would have went to every room.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I yeah, walked around the belt and walked in any
room just playing beach.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
That takes confidence though, because I wouldn't have that one
never I would meet I would want to do something
like that, but I would never.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But I think that's good that you know how many
talented people there are that don't have like yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Really, I feel like it's the fear. It's the fear
holds them back because I feel like a lot of
artists have hunger, but they're just scared.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
And it's a At that point, he's like, I don't
got nothing else to lose.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's like when you look at it like that, it's
the only way, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And just to set the stage, Friday is on. God
Did That was his song? Yes, originally that was an interlude.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
All right, so tell us that story.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I remember I sent the hook to my A and
r Eddie. It was just me on the keyboard like
you heard it. It was just my hook without no drums,
no rappers. So KYLEI hit us back and was like,
hey is a movie, Like I need this for the album.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was like three four days went by.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
He just hit us like I put four rappers on it,
like three three rappers and the singers. At first we
already started the paperwork like it was supposed to be
called God Did Friday?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
In the look three days ago by he like I
put three rappers.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
As soon as he said that, I'm already thinking, I'm
thinking Nas, Kanye and jay Z just off the hook
that I created. So I remember it was just like
little rumors going around the industry. We never really got
the confirmation who was on there until it really came out.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Oh you know what I mean. I never I didn't
even hear the record till it came out.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Where were you when you hold the record?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
At my mom house?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Was all right next to each other because it was
like on some tip like, especially when we heard John
Legend was on the song. I was on some tip
like I might not even be singing lead anymore. You
gotta think at the day.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
And it's normal. I ain't say, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
At that point, I got five six thousand followers, I
ain't nobody, So you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I already put in my head John Legend, he got it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I'm just probably singing the choir a part on the hook,
but he doing the twelve am. It's just me and
my family in the crib were waiting for call it,
you know what I mean? He doing his little talk,
you know what I mean, my voice came in. We
just started going crazy around the house, like, oh.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And you know what's interesting because you have been doing
music already for like almost ten years. But people think
that's the first look and sometimes they don't understand the
grind that happens beforehand, for sure. So can you talk
about the time period of like when you first got started,
because I think for a lot of people out there,
like I said, they just think, oh, he just you know,
(07:35):
the first time ends up on this big sonkey.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But it's a lot more than that, Noah.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Just like you said ten years, like I got introduced
to this like eighth ninth grade from my cousin Marco
here producer. Since then he gave me a laptop. I
was producing like every day.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
But even before that, you even before that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I played my whole life, Ye sung my whole life
in churches since I was like probably like eight eight
years old, like lead and Clo, you know what I mean.
But at the age fourteen fifteen, when I started like
producing and writing every day, you know what I mean.
For myself though, Like you know what I mean, So
every day I didn't miss a day, like I'll be
up at night making songs, go right to school, to
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the point where my mom snapped on me, like you
know what I mean. So it's just ten years and
like people think it's this happened overnight, but it's like
they don't see, like all the work you really put
it in to get here, and it's like I feel
like them ten years just prepare me.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
When did he.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
See some of that footage?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
If you singing in church, I got I'll send it
to you.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's legendary too, that's how And your dad was a pastor. Yeah, okay,
so how does he feel about it?
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Area's kid, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
For sure, you feel good about it, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Everybody they already it's a little different because I got
Haitian parents, but they already knew he talented, Like you
know what I mean, Like this is past. But the
way Haitians looked at it, if it ain't school or
or go to college, you ain't really shit, you ain't.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know what I mean, tell that happens.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
They just looking at it as like all right, this
is a little fun hobby. You talented, but if you
want to go to college or school, You gotta get
out the crib. That's how they looked at it. So
when I first got like my first check in twenty twenty,
that changed everything. They ain't really they wasn't really rocking
with it. You gotta think, like, Rent, dude, your son
making beach lot ship.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
In the house.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Did you have a job? You know what I mean?
Did you have a job also or nothing?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I was on and off with the job. So it
was like, you know how moms is, like she nicely
shipped the whole month.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It was the first hit, first hit. Already know I'm
making Like I don't see her. She was about to
snap one. Rent dude, Like, I don't got no bread.
I'm just making beach in the house.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
What kind of jobs did you have?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I worked at Dominoes? Okay, fum heavy. No, that was
a good joint for me, like because I was it's
just different.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But you're delivering the piece.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Of delivering like I was just listening to music.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Did anybody ever not pay like steale pizza from you
or anything?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
No, I'll give you the game though, don't do Dominoes
in the hood. I didn't remember my cousin Leo, he
was like bro I just got Dominoes. I'm like, Nigga,
I'm not doing Dominoes. Niggas gonna rob me, you know
what I mean. So he was like, no, it's a
gioint like twenty minutes out the city. It's like a suburbs.
That's where I go, you know what I mean, where
the white people at. He like, Bro, they give me,
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they give me, they give me ten dollar tips, twenty
dollars tips. He like, it's just one old ass. Well,
you give me like fifty every time I go to
his period. That's how they rock.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It's just different. I'm like, we're over there. I was getting.
I was getting like some nice little bread at Dominoes.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Domino Dominos twenty minutes out right. How did your mind
feel about the song?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Know the truth?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
When she heard that, Yeah, that's funny shit.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
She don't like she liked that song, but she like
especially that fuck you like a freak Creek part.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
She like what that means? You know what I mean?
But she's like, what that mean?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
What you say?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Like, I don't be saying nothing. I don't know it'd
be weird. I'll be trying to ignore it, like it's
certain stuff I post. I try to block my mom
on from that joint.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
From my stories?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, it might be my story.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
She being thereby story. She don't even know she blocked
from my story.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Oh for sure. She be knowing when I blocked her too.
She's like, why I'm not seeing on your page. I'm like,
I just posted to know the truth, So I don't
want you to see that right now.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Now, let's talk about musical influences as far as being
from Philly, because Philly has such a strong history when
it comes to music. So who are some artists that
and I'm sure your parents too, but that you grew
up you know, listening to inhering because I think that
you know Philly in the music game legendary.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
No, for sure.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
It's just I remember, like earlier, it was like really
boys man for me because you got to think I'm
in the church at a young age, so the closest
thing to the church a little bit was dumb niggas
like boys and Men. When I was like eleven twelve
years old, I started listening to Boys and Man, Bride
Me Knight and stuff like that music soul child, So
I'll say, like boys and Man, crazy and then I
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started living my you know, going through my life and
like Meek, P and b Rock, it's just it's Philly
got like a a broad sound.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I feel like, yeah, it does.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
But them like my influence out of Philly, like Boys,
Theo Man, Music, Soul Child, Meek, mil P.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And b Rock.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Is there anyone from Philly you want to work with?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Nah? For sure?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Me and Alminney White got something coming, you know what
I mean? And me and Meek got a lot of
shit coming too.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Oh that's dope, all right?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So how has so Meek has been on it for
a minute or what's that connection?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, Meek was on it early, just off the strength
of like me and Cruz and Nick Pets some people
part of his team, like me and Meek just been
working like like real early. So it's just like me
and me got like a lot of tracks together. It's
like it's just like a natural How I be flowing
and how he come in is just like a natural thing.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Like I don't know how to explain it, but it
just it just touched people.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So like a collab project, you think, Nah, for sure, Okay,
and you performed that the Grammys.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, I mean that's a huge, huge look.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So let us know what that whole experience was like,
even the rehearsals. Who did you bring with you? Who
is out there with you? Did you go back to
the Capitol Building?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
No? No, I ain't go back.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It was just me, Me and my manager, my A
and r Eddie. It was just like a tight people
who came with me. But it was like, I ain't
an I was nervous shit that whole week out my ass.
Like I'm thinking, like, bro, like I could mess up
a jay Z performance. That's in my head the whole week.
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I'm not telling nobody this, but that's in my head, Bro,
I could really mess up with jay Z's performance.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
What was the moment like when you were actually on
stage performing, it.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Was like it was just free, Like I remember, like
before the performance, if you see on like on my
TikTok or Cali page, Cali walked in my trailer, you
know what I mean, And he played the instrumental. He
brought all his people, he played the instrumental. In my
ear mind you I'm in the trailer just singing it
over and over. Make it right, you know what I mean. Nigga,
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come to my trailer play. The instrumental just told me
to sing it, you know what I mean, right before
the performance, and I just busted out. It was just crazy.
Everybody like are you ready? So that's just the energy
I came in on the performance like I just came
in like, yeah, I seen jay Zy, like where are
my mic at?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I was ready, like you know, I walked like where
my mic at? What's up? Jay Z? Are you like.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
These niggas not worried about you? Like these niggas not thinking?
Is he nervous? Like you gotta do your job.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
If you don't do your job, they gonna call you
out on it. It was just professional. Everybody came to
do what they needed to do.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
At the door, he's what's up?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Oh god, this guy. It's Friday. All right, sir, We're
in the middle of an interview.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
But I wanted you to be able to come in
the room.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
I was gonna ask you, what is it like, you know,
working and meeting jay Z, what's that experience like?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Because I would feel.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Like it.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
It's like, now what you think jay Z cooler and
a lot of little niggas like you know what I mean?
You know how little niggas be in a game, like
on some cocky cocky ship. Jay Z really like a
cool nigga. Like when I'm next to him, I don't
feel like he is a celebrity. He was a regular person,
regular person saying regular jukes. I remember like doing you
know what I mean? I remember like doing the performance.
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He like, were taking a picture. He like, you know,
I fult for you, right, Like what you mean? He
like they was trying to take you off the record.
He's joking, But Calen Ben told me jay Z fought
for you. Oh that's you know what I mean. But
hearing it from him, he like, Bro, when I heard
your voice, just showing it hungry, you know what I mean.
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And then he's gonna tell me, like when you make it,
don't forget about I'm.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
About to forget about you.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
That's impossible. Yeah, so you didn't even stay on the record.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
That's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
And to hear it straight from him, And then what
about little baby, Now, explain how that song that you
did Forever, how that came about? Because original he actually
got that song from Vory Rooy.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That was me and Vory song.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
If Rooy posted it on Instagram, it just start going
crazy like you know what I mean, everybody posted on
YouTube SoundCloud. I don't know how little baby heard it,
but he heard it and he just hit void like, Bro,
I need that hook?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I called boy, like what you want to do? You
know what I mean? Voy like, Bro?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
You know I think I'm fresh off God dud so
Voy like, Bro, it's your time, bro, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
He like, is she time?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You fresh off? God did? Like, here's go another one,
like go even further.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
So he just gave me yet right if I was worried,
I have been like and let's me stay on it too,
whichould be like, you know, well, congratulations on all of that.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Now, death Jam? When did the deal with death Jam happen? Like?
Tell me? Was it before God did? Was it after?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
It was like it was like before God did, depth
Jam been reached out, you know what I mean, like
before God did because I remember, like me and Timbling
we had something like going viral, like I sent Timbling
like a few hooks, like a few simple pecks in
my voice, and he just kept posting it every day
and tagging making beats run it. So around that time,
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tun Gi like being reached out. That's why I really
went with depth jam. It wasn't even like, oh he
got God did, let's signing. They they've been on my edge.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
They probably was nervous too, like man, now got.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well and then you did the deluxe verys and of
the album, okay, of the EP. So timing wise, because
sometimes people sign a deal and then it takes a
long time for them to you know, put out any music.
So what's the experience been like for you? Have you
been able to dictate like, Okay, here's the plan, we're
doing this, then we're gonna do the deluxe.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Then it wasn't really no plan. It's like right after
God did, the whole world watching me, like it's like
who Friday. So we just had to give them a
you know what I mean, give them the EP right
after the Grammys performance, like everybody watching me again. That's
when we gave them the deluxe. So it was just
like trying to like capitalize off the moments. But I
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feel like this time around, we really got time to
It's gonna be a different time where we set everything
up the way we need to.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It was good, yeah, for sure, And I'm telling you
going to church growing up singing in the church and
feel like that's the best networking and best experience.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
It seems like it really prepares you, but it does because.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You're performing in front of people. It probably makes you
more comfortable.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
And you've been doing it since you were a kid.
But you're an introvert, so weird to you're an introvert.
But then you sing in front of the church and
you lead it song at choir, that's kind of I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
That's where I feel comfortable, yea, you know what I mean,
Like that's where I express myself into music.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
That's what And maybe that's why you can tap into
your emotions too. Maybe the church, the church element, the
God element.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Probably you fixed wells and then you got your house
now too, so your mom got a house, you got
your house. I mean, it feels like it's really shaken.
Now what else is on your bucket list?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Shit?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I just want to like just give out great music,
you know what I mean, heartfelt music that people feel.
It ain't really like nothing more like the way I
came in. I'll always be thinking like what's next?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Bro? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Like I already got five time Gamy nominated you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
The Billboard hits. It's just like where do I go
from here? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
So now I'm just focusing on the music and giving
out my fears, like heartfelt music to the point like
when I go on tour, people come out, you know
what I mean, to feel something.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
What's the hardest part of all this because sometimes people
around you change, or like you said, sometimes people think
you got it. Everybody calling like I need a job,
I need this, I need that. Has that been happening
for you? And how do you deal with you know,
the stress of that.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I got a tight circle. So Nigga's not even coming
at me on that tip, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
If they do, I just ignore it, you know what
I mean, Like it's just like it ain't I don't
know what's the hardest.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
It's just probably the hardest part.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Is just knowing that everybody depending on me, you know
what I mean, Like my whole family, Like all right,
Nigga is in your hands, bro, like you Yeah, I'm
the youngest. That's probably like the hardest part, just that pressure,
like it's really on me. And if I make the
wrong move, I don't just mess up shit for me,
I mess up ship, for my whole team, my family,
(20:48):
my mom, my brother. So that's probably the hard part,
but it just drives me to go even harder.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I want to say, for the in the right for
the right person in that situation. It actually helps you,
you know, not make I mean, obviously we all make
some decisions that aren't always the best, but to always
keep it in mind, to be careful fix all right. Well, Friday,
thank you so much for coming through. And we're so
happy that you came here. We are on in Philly,
which is an honor for us, and so congratulations on everything.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I appreciate you, and we'll.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
See you again. Listen, just like jay Z said, don't
forget about us.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No, I won't. I won't.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
You legendary, Sure, this one of my like you know
what I mean. I used to watch you since I
was the youngest, so this one of my dreams right here.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Friday,