EP: 645- Backwood Brat Interview (uncensored)

Backwood Brat came through the Cruz Show to talk about her music, life & so much more. She was a whole vibe and she had some hilarious stories to tell us. It's a must listen

Episode Transcript

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I'm from California, Long Beach incase you want to know. And let's
be real, it gets grimmy thisLanta, this Lanta game banging. So
if you calame said helpe, yousaying tens hoes because if you don't get
loud, one thing I can't say. Here's some root with the cap of
st facts man, I got afew. All right, I've been hearing
both ears now, so you knowthat I'm good. It's me back with

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Brown. You know that I'm notfrom your hood. Yeah, I'm from
Long Bees. You deal with what'sgood, good good good good Yo.
Back with Brats on the Cruise Show. Let's get it real. Yeah.
Intro by DJ Fuse. That's myDJ man, DJ Fuse. I with
him. Yeah, shout out toyou, yeah fuse, my guy,
my guy, how you feel?Are you a RATEDS fan? No,
he's a gang banging fan. Idon't gang bang like. I don't get

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that. No gang bang. I'mscared of the gangers. I don't do
that. We don't do that.No, no, no no. Somebody
got me this hat and I likeit. Yeah that's right. Well,
welcome to the show. Welcome back. Yeah loud, I know, I
know, we became besties for sure. Yeah. Man, in did you
catch up with Chief Keif Bro?No, no, never, Bro,

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I got to I got just performedlike I got to see, I went,
I like ran over there I sawand then like I said, how
this sexy read? But then Idon't know where Chief keep wearing? He
must have gone through the back way, different type of way, I said,
my baby daddy. Then boys fromChicago know how to move in silence,
you feel me. They know howto get in and out exactly exactly,
he said. Nobody gonna see mecoming up in here? Yeah,

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what is it about Chief Keith?He's a pioneer right for sure? Yeah?
I love his music, like Ilike, like all his own ship.
I don't know him, and like, yeah, I just love like
his music. How he looks.I love that he's real, authentic,
true to himself. He don't givea funk. Would nobody else say?
Like, no, for sure,No Hard Feelings too out now the follow

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up to No Hard Feelings Right,Yeah, By the way, I loved
to Plan B on the first one. Crazy Plan B was crazy. Yeah,
but it's relatable. Yeah right yeah, man, talk just about to
cover for this one. It's meand my mama and Santa. Yeah,
bro, that was the same Santafor like a couple of times. Like
he loves Santa Claus. He lovedhis job because he's literally career out of

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it for sure, b don't you. I thought it was a volunteer job.
No, no, no, theyget paid for that. They have
to go to some kind of school, Santa school. L No. Something
I love about the cover art,though, is the fact that you're crying
because we all have those pictures guys, the Easter Bunny Santa, like fut

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it was funny like for sure.Yeah, that's why my mama was in
it because I was crying. Idon't know, because this ship I was
like too or something. I don'tknow what are the directions. Let's hope
he retire now you know, hemight still be up in there. God
blast God Blast Man back with Bradis here man? No hard feelings too

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out now, good to see youagain. I like clean as well with
the with the sample in it,yeah right, you get fair to call
it a sample or did we getaround that. I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know that. I don'tknow the like definitions. I'm not
like that. Yeah, it's thetYeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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obviously cleared if it's if it's onall streaming platforms, yeah, yes,
maybe I should shut up like thefads right now. Dog, Oh my
god, I don't know. I'msnitching right now. I'm sample snitching right
literally, I'm so sorry. Snoopdog Is is another song on the project.
Yes, yes, you know Snoopobviously Long Beach. You're from Long

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Beach, right, there's a tiethere, there's a connection. Yeah.
I just got to meet him,like not that long ago. I met
him on Grammy Weekend. I thinkyou know out here, Snoop. It's
just a part of our lives,like Kobe was. I need him to
be like my uncle, like howbig Boy is, Like I need him
to be be like that's my favoritekniece, like you know, like yeah,
so it's like I've been saying,like Snoop, like what's up?

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Like and I'm and I'm like friends, will you the other partner of whiskalif
for white? You know what Imean? How Whisky was making suit with
me before you Nah listen, He'llfind his way to you, right,
I know. Like that's why Inamed the Snoop dogg like I'm trying to
shoot my shot. It doesn't getmore direct deposits than that. I don't
represent gangs. I represent snoop dogs. Yeah. Have you been listening to

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since you were a kid? Yeahright, yeah, yeah, I mean
uh young, Like, yeah,who taught you? Who brought my mama
life? Your mom? Yeah?At eleven? Yeah, what was that
conversation? Like she smoked, soI think like she just needed help like
rolling up, So like yeah,she smoked till she had multiple scrosses,

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so it's just like she needed helprolling up. And it was just like
cool. And then I was allowedto smoke at my house. Like my
friends like will come to my houseand be able to smoke. Wow,
not like at eleven. You know, in high school, like like all
my homegirls and like my homeboys,like they used to come to my house
and smoke and stuff like that.Because I used to go to school like
Farm, Orange County, so it'slike Orange County School, the arts,

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and I went over playing trombone,so like everybody would go to Long Beach
my house, but they all livedin Orange County, so it's like but
my house was cool. It waslike the hood, you know, what
I mean, it was fun.It was that house. It was like,
yeah, it was a house,you know what I mean, Like
it was cool back then you haveto buy it lowkey. Now it's everywhere.
You can buy at Walmart. It'swild, but like literally it's everywhere.

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Right back then you had to geta you know, a little bit
plug, little plug, a littleplug, you know what I mean,
or like you really know, likeyou would go down to like the little
like dispensaries that was like not dispensary. Yeah, you know, damn damn.
You know. So you grew upin southern California your whole life,
Yeah, Long Beach, Long Beach. Yeah, and then like now I'm

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out here, well, I meanlike once I like live Long Beach,
I still be out here in lA. Yeah, what's I aside from
Long Beach? Your favorite area inLady kick it out. I like I'm
a valley girl, Okay, Ilike the valley. I like like I
like Likeland Hills. Yeah, LikeI like Malleble you know what I'm saying.
I like that type of ship,that expensive taste. Yeah. And

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I like Glendale, Yeah, Iloved Yeah, I love Glendale. That's
what my studio. Is I loveeverybody like in Glandale, like they fuck
with me. I'll be walking aroundthere they be, they know me,
they know the girl. Yeah,the Armenian family. Armenians love me and
I love them. I tell themall the time. I'm like I love
y'all and they're like, Okay,I'm like, no, I really love

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y'all. There's a lot of similaritieslike Armenians and Latinos and like the black
and brown and Armenians. It's like, yeah, I don't feel like everybody
like outside of like European kind oflike ship. Do you get what I
mean? It's like kind of morelike similar like that, like do you
get what I mean? Because likeme, like I'm Haitian and then I'm
Filipino, So it's like it's likedifferent, but it's like similar in some
things that we do are similar.Do you get what I mean? Yeah?

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Yeah, we don't get that shipand see what I'm saying, Yeah,
exactly, Haiti, How does thathappen? How do your parents meet?
I don't know how they met.Yeah, it was like, oh
no, I not know how theymet through my mama best friend. My
dad was trying to holler at mymom best friend. She's my god she's
my godfather. She like my godfather. And she was like nah, like

(07:13):
let me pass you to my friend. And it was my mama, your
dad. My mom's Haitian my dad. And that's what everybody's always speak languages.
No, I just speak French.I speak French and like creole,
but I don't speak no like tagallo. I don't know like potin or some
ship's like there we go. ThatThat's the only thing I know. And

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that's mean right, it's like bad. What does that mean? That means
like for yourself? Yeah, that'slike means I love you. Maha gitaita.
Are you all Filipino? My boyfriendFilipino? Yeah, speaks French to
a little bit. Okay, yeah, you know like you like you just

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like no, but and like andlike hey do we just be like and
they like yeah, what's up?Yeah? Out now a streaming platforms talk
to us about the content of quitMy Job and what that song means to
you. I love sugar free,Yeah, so I love sugar free.
To pee so back with to pe, like you know what I'm saying,

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Like that's what it was. Yeah, Like you know what I mean,
that's what it is. You know, if you're from l A, you
already know that's just what it is. You're gonna learn the culture one way
or another. So I just feellike, but yeah, sugar Free to
pe that was like my inspiration forthat song. I was just like,
I'm I'm sugar free now to Wow. So I just like put my hat
on. No, he's him hisnew dog. I shot them out so

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much. I don't know why theydon't love me like Loo like I love
you. I really think that youmy dad in another life, Snoop Dogg,
you my uncle, Like I don'tget it, like you know,
just love the girl. That's it, right, that's all. Yes,
yeah, And people be calling melike, oh, like yeah, she
likes sugar Free, like you knowwhat I mean, everybody know that's why
I like, that's why I'm inspiredby. I feel like it's more obvious

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than like other people. But Ilike like E forty two and stuff like
that, you know, but likeyeah, but I feel like sugar Free
a little more like obvious of myinfluence from I feel like you got an
old soul. I feel like Ido. People say I do. I'm
a nice girl. But I'm like, I'm nice and I think I got
an old soul, Like what doesthat really mean? Though? People just
tell me that and I'm like,does that mean I'm old? No,
it just means you have a certainway about you and you have a certain

(09:37):
understanding that not many have your age. Yeah, then yeah, I think
I got that shit. Sound good? Yeah, that's right, it sounds
good. Thing. Yeah, Igot that shit. Yeah yeah, no
hard feelings too out. Now what'sup? Jack? You just mentioned that
your dad's have Filipinos. Like howyou get your singing voice because the Filipinos
know how to sing? I thinkdamn, So you don't do your research?

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You know that I singing shit?Yeah? No, I don't know.
I think it's just I think that'slike the island girl in me.
I just want to be like alittle island girl because like I'm obsessed with
like Jamaicans soup. So I justyeah, I'm like obsessed with Jamaicans and
Armenians, like I don't know,I love y'all, Like I don't know,

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I just loved it and want tobe them. Like you know,
you don't own a karaoke machine?No, no, but my grandma do.
That's right. And then when wego like my my Filipino grandma,
and then when we go to myauntie's house, they make me do karaoke
like they or they just make medo like YouTube and they make me like
bring out the karaoke micce and performmy songs. It'd be twenty Filipinos in
the room, like I'm literally likeand then they're like, my aunties are

(10:41):
like, perform your song, Comeon, perform your song. I'm like
no, Like, no, Idon't know what's going on. Everyone speaking
to Gallo. And then I'm therelike, don't make me go to church
with them. They only speak toGallo. What am I gonna learnt?
In handsight? Though? If youperform for them, I think that's a
way to like overcome a certain fear, bro, because if you can perform
for your RELEGI is that close that? Yeah? Yeah, judge random,

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you know what I'm saying, Like, that's your school right there, Bro,
It's a blessing. Yeah. Yeah. The hardest crowd to please is
your family. Like my sisters,they literally think I'm lame like my rap
music. They're like they're like,what is this. I'm like, I'm
like I'm so hard. And mycousins too, Like my boy cousins love
me, but the girls are likewhat are you doing? Like are they

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younger? Yeah, that's why they'relike what's going on in all of them?
Standard? No? And then likemy my girl cousin who's like a
little younger, she just started thinkingI'm cool recently because she was like she
like goes on my Instagram. She'slike, oh, I see certain people
follow you like I'm ship and it'slike bitch, like yeah, do you
feel like anybody understands you? Likefrom your family? So my grandma,

(11:48):
my Filipino grandma, she's with theships. She plays my music all day
on her phone, like she justlets it play like NonStop. My biggest
thing. I like that. Yeahyeah, love it, love it right,
Like, so she's my biggest man. She understands me. She knows
that, like I'm just like alittle like she just like I'm her favorite.

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Yeah. Did you ever have aregular job? Yeah, what they
call a regular job? Yeah?Where'd you work at? Active Ride Shopping
Long Beach? That's my first jobI got fired of. You know that
skate shop? Did you skate too? Yeah? Of course? All from
Long Beach, but I got fired. So what they fire you for obviously
still very raw stealing? You werestealing? Yeah all right, Hey they

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said come get the last paycheck,like come bring back the stuff and you
can get your last paycheck or likekeep the stuff. What are you gonna
do? Wow? And keep itmoving? Yeah, worth more than the
paycheck exactly. Yeah, like wheelsand trucks and boards and like shoes.

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Times times tough? Are you justit was just a happening. I mean
I was like fifteen, I wasworking there, like you know what when
you first can work or whatever thefuck with a little like you know what
I mean, I was like fifteen, but like I literally a lot of
people from Long Beast literally know mefrom that store of like they used to
work there with me, Like youget what I'm saying. So like I
don't know, I love Like Idon't know, I fuck with it like

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I just I just was bad kid, just like you know, I just
like I just like this shit.At that point, did you know that
you wanted to do music? No, no, I'm saying I know I
wanted to do music until I wasaround like people other people who was like
doing music, like it was reallylike, uh, I was like dealing

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with somebody and he from active hewho I got fired with, but anyways
him he but anyways him like hewho kind of like convinced me to do
music. I'm still cool with him. It was cause of like he wanted
me to be a producer and Iwas like no, like I'm finna red.
But I used to produce too,and like engineer and like do all
of it. But it was justlike I just want to rap. I

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don't want to like I have todo a lot of this, Like I'm
not one of those people. Idon't do like pewter stuff like gadgets,
like you want to go in thereand be free. Yeah, Like I
just want to like spread my wingsfly, like wrapping my little boxers in
my sports bra, like do mythings, smoke my weed? Like I
don't exactly like bro, like that'sall I want to Everyone's problem, yo,

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No hard feelings. Who's that towardsare you? Everybody? Is that
everyone? Because like people said ifyou or didn't didn't understand you, or
didn't root you on, No,it was just no, it was just
everybody in the world. Because alot of people say like I mean.
And then also some of the peopleI'm saying stuff about it's like it's like
it's no hard feelings, bro Like, it's just like I'm just talking little
shit like it's funny, Like everything'sa joky joke, like just last literally,

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so it's like no hard feelings towardslike stuff that I'm saying, Like
in a nicer word, it's like, bro, it's no hard feelings.
But then also it's just like there'sno heart feelings. I don't fuck with
onney'all. You know what I mean. You said, yeah you're mean,
or people call you mean, yeah, people say I mean, and it's
like no hard feelings bro like,because I'm like, I don't think I
mean. I think I just likejoke and I think that my jokes come

(15:03):
off really meantime. Actually that's crazy. Or sometimes I think like I just
say I say the wrong thing atthe wrong time, Like so many people
don't like me because of one thingI said. But I didn't have a
bad intention. It's just that like, well, like I have autism and
I'm just blame it on that.It's just like I'm really a little autistic,
Like fuck, what can I do? Yeah, like, shit,

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I got a little aspergers. What'sthe big deal? It's a big deal.
When you were approaching us, Ithought, all, this girl is
gonna curse us out, She's gonnasay some ship and that what I tell
people, like I'm so nice andlike that's why Like whenever Ale introduced me,
people he know, like you justgot to meet the girl and then
you're gonna like fuck with her.But from the outside, I look like
an asshole. But then he knowswhen you meet the girl, she's so

(15:48):
sweet. You're a very nice person. But it also feels like you could
fuck someone up if you wanted to. And I want that energy. Like
at all times, I wanted tobe like where nobody ever tries to do
nothing to me because it's like youknow, yeah, you know I'm gonna
get down. Why because I popoff for no reason? You look like
you could fight, Like I Ilike fighting. What's your record? I
don't. I don't fight girls becauseI think it's like domestic violence. You

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like fighting dudes? Yeah, okay, I fight dudes. Record. I
don't know, Like I don't belike, no, I'm not undefeated.
I know that I done probably gotmy ass, like beat a couple of
times. My dudes, what isyou talking about? No, I'm not
winning. I'm doing the best Ican. I try to do like I'm
a one hitter. I'm a onehitter. So it's like with girls,

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I just like I aim for noses. That's it. What was that?
Girls? Here? Do you wantto punch in the arm? Right now,
let's go. It's my first timemeeting him, you feel me.
I feel like it would better ifit was you, Jeff. Oh wait
wait, that's that's that was asoft one. You get, man,

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Stop hitting Jeff. Literally. Ilove the opportunity to get some anger out.
Literally fight men. Yeah, Ididn't feel like, you know,
like if they got dreads, youget what I mean, pull them by
their dreads. I get the armaround and anger to know. I remember

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in middle school there was some kidwho would always make fun of me because
I've always been short, and Iwas like, bro, like you got
ginger hair, like I'm gonna suckyou up exactly, And then he was
just like I was like, sayone more thing. He said one more
thing. I was like, allright, carry out, and I just
punched him. I never got suspendedfor that, though, I got I
got in trouble at high school becausea white boy called me a nigga and
I and I beat his ass.Yeah yeah, Jake Caliber. She just

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remembers, like everybody talks about thisto me, like I was like,
this was like the one time therewas like a thing at my school.
So it's like I have like alot of memory loss issues. So a
lot of my things that I knowabout myself is everything on my best friends
have told me, like I'm friendswith people from my high school, like
one of my best friends like frommy school, Orange County School, the
so it was like a goodie tooshoes like art school, do you get?

(18:11):
And then I was there like insweatpants every day being like bad and
stuff like I want like like fuckingformal queen and homecoming queen. Like then
I left the school. Wait oneformal queen, Yeah, homecoming queen with
my gay best friend like like yeah, like I were like crocs to the
dance, Like there's the pictures ofme and all my friends. And I

(18:36):
was fat too back then, soit was just like girl, at least
you could have gave a little bitof a fun, right I thought I
was. I thought I was killingship. I said, then you walk
up in here, my cross,y'all finna be walking around here with your
dirty feet, trying to take offyour heels, prepared to get how it
should be uncomfortable. I came inhere, lucky luck, y'all put usually

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walking with dary I love people thatAre you keeping up with Kendrick versus Drake?
Yes, who's winning so far?Kendrick? Yeah all the way.
I'm sorry Drake, but like I'msorry, I love you Drake and Drake
though I don't want you know,I don't want no smoke. But but
Kendrick and winning from a woman's pointof view, right with both these guys
dropping allegation after allegation, what doyou make how do you make sense of

(19:22):
it all? I just take itas entertainment. Yeah, yeah, I
just take it as entertainment. Ilove like the this thing. I feel
like, yes, Kendrick, youbrought you fucking revive rap like hell yeah,
baby as crazy, baby's like fuckingsleeping on la be like la y'all,
boo boo, fucking whatever the fuck? Nah, We're cool. We
just revive rep for y'all. So, I don't know. I think it's

(19:44):
like hard and then the thing isit's just like like I just feel like
I like hardship, so also likeKendrick is just also more appealing to me.
I like more like vicious shit likeI love I like, I loved
even Euphoria like that one. Itwas just like that was probably my favorite
because better. I mean, that'swhat I want. I like to see,
like, you know, because Ilike Chief Keith. So I want
to hear the intense. Yeah,I want to hear like I want to

(20:07):
hear someone like where it sounds likeyou're mad. I don't want it to
sound like you're chilling. I wantto sound like you mad, like you're
kind of yelling at us a little. Yeah, I got almost directed towards
you. You're like downy hear me, right, I'm like, I'm like
literally like half and I'm like,damn, I feel like I can't say
nigga no more like she a dishrecord to right now anybody, like anybody

(20:33):
could be they could be anybody inthe whole world right now. Sixteen.
Let me really think you can getit, probably really be. It would
probably be my my ex girlfriend.Yeah, yeah, because you just be
doing a whole ass ship. Sheon everybody who I don't know how she
finds every girl I talk to.It's like I follow somebody. She says,
Oh me too, Bro, she'dbe coming down under all my bitch

(20:56):
of ship. And it's like,Bro, we're not gonna do this.
We're not gonna do this, We'renot finna. Yeah, and she doesn't.
It does with you. I'm like, I'm check you. I've been
telling the girls I talked to you. I'd be like, block this bitch
right now. Don't even like bro. They'd be like, why, what's
wrong? I'd be like, no, she's crazy. That's the reason why

(21:18):
I don't foot with her. She'scrazy. She internet bits word of sugar
free. Come on, don't don'tbro. I foled a little bit.
I got with you, bro,be real. He about to get married
to or something. Didn't he getmarried? You married and then divorce right,
divorce believe exactly. He had totry it out, he had shot.

(21:41):
He gave everybody you don't try itout once, so no strong.
I got two girls who is Ifollowed every time? My two favorite ex
girlfriends, But one of them Ireally the one who gets under my skin,
though I really hate her. Though, but it's just like I fuck
with you so hard, but Ihate your guts because you did everything her.
Yeah, and then she's just crazy, like she just will go to

(22:03):
the Internet and just randomly like decidelike she'll call me and if I don't
answer, she got me blocked,but she'll randomly unblock me call me if
I don't aswer, She'll go tothe internet like this bitch liked and it's
like, what the fuck exactly?And then she has like all these little
like she's like a white girl andshe like has all these like lesbian fucking
like she's like has a lesbian cultbehind her, and they like attack me.
They're like they're like, back,what you suck? Like, I'm

(22:25):
like, I'll be honest. Shesounds like a great time. She is
Taorus. I'm like, I'm acancer. That's my most compatible my two
favorite ex girlfriend. We be fistfighting like Taurus and I love her.
Yeah, that's my forever bitch.When it's a little toxic like that,

(22:48):
it's kind of hot. It's fun. Yeah, it is with girls because
with boys it's like I don't reallyneed that, but with women it's like,
no, we need some toxicity.This is annoying. We're up on
each other all the time, likewe're girls. Like, come on,
let's get a little caddy up manback with Bratt. No hard feelings too
out now, Hey check your richefor the Cruise Show. Thanks for listening

(23:11):
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