THE BIG INTERVIEW - GloRilla Talks New Music, Yo Gotti, N*t Quick, and Reveals Cardi B is Her Cousin

THE BIG INTERVIEW - GloRilla Talks New Music, Yo Gotti, N*t Quick, and Reveals Cardi B is Her Cousin

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to another episode of The BigThe Big Interview Podcast. She's related to
Cardi B. No, you're not. That's my cousin. No black people
cousin are cousin? Like, likeyou know what I'm saying, because because
you're my cousin, you know whatI mean? Like, is it my
cousin, cousin? There's my cousin? Okay, all right, big boy,

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Neighborhood, Beautiful Day, the Neighborhood, Ladies and Gentlemen, Grandy nominated
Glrilla and the Neighborhood. Welcome tothe neighborhood. She came in with good
people and good energy right now toman, Yeah, man, yeah,
she came in. She came inwith the hometown. It's only like four
people left that in the city.But not welcome to the neighborhood. The
last time you came into the runthrough here, we didn't get a chance

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to sit down. So it's apleasure to have you in the neighborhood.
Okay, thanks for having and Grammynominated two You think you all bad?
Huh? You know, but no, you know, like anyways, life's
great. Hey, man, Italk about the album title because I feel
I know what's behind my album title. But what you know what I think.

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I think it's like, you knowhow especially like social media, people
talking madness whatever, it is likeall right, talking what you want to
talk. Anyways, life's great.There you go the easy call. You
should have called man call y'all,but the label probably wouldn't have clear it
all. That ain't following the clearthing. So so why that title?
Why did you rest on that titlebecause like it was a good openness statement.

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Yeah, yeah, it was.I got us talking about it.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. How do you feel about the album
now? Because because you you figuredthere's been great moments for you? Is
there an expectation? Do you puta pressure on yourself now that there's a
that the album is here? Yeah? But at the same time, monsters
too much better account. I'm like, okay, I'm new. You know
what I'm saying. I can't betoo hard on myself. I'm doing good

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for around me. I don't gottabe worried about Oh I gotta dude these
to beat this person, to beatthe person. It's like, I'm new.
It's a lot of people ain't here, and I am so because people
like mess with you already you knowwhat I'm saying and when you say news
on and so forth. But there'sthere's also a difference between being new and
people knowing like real too, youknow what I'm saying, and not even

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just the co signs. Are thepeople that that that jump on are the
people that give you accolades? Likeit's some real heavy hitters that already recognize
your talent in the game as well. Yeah, I literally too, like
they missed with me. Yeah?Amen? And I know you get asked
this all the time. Your realname, it's what glow? You know

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what I mean? You're like,don't call me Hallelujah. Ain't that so?
Your birth giving name is Gloria Hallelujah? Why you just didn't come with
Gloria Hallelujah as your stage name?Because only people that I knew from school

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and church calling me glory. Everybodyelse calling me glow? Right right?
Did anybody call you hallelujah when peoplewere trying to be funny? Oh okay,
well I definitely gonna call you Hollolueenah. You know what I'm saying.
I'm definitely not gonna come at you. You know what I'm saying. That's
all I needed you you through fright? Can you man, you pick
me up? How viral that wouldgo? But believe that. So with

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the success going on right now,when you when you look at what's happening
with you right now, do youget a chance to kind of like be
in that moment too, because alreadyyou come from a class of like heavy
hitters, you know what I'm saying, like like gaudy everything over there is
is amazing, but the artists haveto make it amazing. You know what
I'm saying. It's not like it'sit's just giving to you. But now

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that that you got your own andyou're starting to look at it, how
good does that feel that your nameis holding that weight? If it,
I feel blissed, I feel ahally favor, like what my name means?
Yeah? Hello, you know shesaid. See now you're not running
from the name, you know whatI'm saying. And I wanted to call
you hallelujah right now, but it'sjust well, I feel like you're a

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snap, you know what I'm saying. Believe that now? Did you grow
up always enjoying music? Uh?Yeah, I went thinking I'll be doing
it though, Like I ain't gettinginto it and tiegot into high school?
Really, so so you enjoyed musicjust listening to it? Yeah, and
just just knowing that what made youget into music? When you say you
didn't think about it until high school? I do you sing in church?

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Right then? Like? I justliked listening to music, Like I think
you ever better? Like, yeah, do you think that there's a church
album coming up for you? Yougotta have like five ten albums you gotta
do, like because Snoop brought outa gospel album, I might do one
though, yeah don't, I mightdo one. Don't don't call the album
no funny? Is that what you'regonna call the album? The gospel album

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be called what? Yeah? Canyou imagine T D. Jake's you know
what I'm saying? Like, yeah, we got glorial up in here?
The album it's called no No Funny? So do you grow up in church?
Did you? Did you want tosing at first? Yeah? I
didn't want to sing its really though? So what knocks you off of the
singing square and make you get intoI actually I had lost my voice Like

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as far as like how do youlose your voice? Is it like the
vocal training. Uh, because Iheard a voice back then. Then I
hear we started going to church forlike a little minute. Then when I
got to ask, I started smokingweed and I just didn't use no voice
for a long time. Then Itried to use the game. It was
chick. It wasn't there. Huh. So are you rapping at the same

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time? Are you figuring like,damn, I can't sing like I used
to. Yeah, I don't likeokay, you know, but we had
all the tune. Half these halfpeople can't sing down horrible really though,
So you start, you start smokingand then your voice go from there on.
Yeah. Yeah, I just Iwas like, I just can't do.
And then my mom musa still tryto give me a doing. I'm
like, ma, I can't singno my way, it ain't no hippanis.

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And so then then you know,as I got older, my voice
my ud probody was he And soI'm like, you know, maybe I
could rap. So so, hadyou always been writing that you write songs,
poetry or anything of that nature.Nah, I maybe wrote a poet
in school and I don't know seriousstuff though, Like just because he was
an assignment, I did it.So what makes you say, all right,

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I just I just want to startwriting raps. I want to rhyme.
I wonder what what what makes youget up and do that? Cause
I heard it used to be likechallenges on Facebook and everybody, like the
first one was the guns on Dickby Soldier Boys and everybody. It was
a challenge. So I was.I heard that was the first thing I
did, but did I didn't takeit serious thing. I just I didn't
let nobody here with my brothers,And so I heard remix, Uh what's

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Kodak uh bot? What's not evena Kodak black song? The okay go
ahead? Yeah, I had remixedthey nixt and I let my friends said
they they were like that, ohhard, But my voice was kind of
a little this is my voice ofreal southing. I was trying to sound
southing. And so my cousin like, you're really hard. You used to
take a serious and that's when Istarted. And how old are you around

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that time? It was? Iwas probably like eighteen nineteen really though,
So before before you start getting inlike artists mode and making money, what
was the jobs beforehand? You know? How you gotta do this with that
yeah, so like I ain't gookay, So as a teenager, I
work in a check because when Iwas in high school then a restaurant.

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Yeah, oh hello, I knowit. Well, you know I used
to wait over five hundred pounds,so I know I'm all, but go
ahead. I don't think if youplay something to chump, I probably know
every restaurant that you're gonna talk about. So you used to work there?
Yeah, Then once I graduated highschool, that's when I started trying to
see if I what's up, we'rerep me? And then that's not went

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to the studio, and I wasstill working in check because then I just
put check and start working. Theword had jobs. So does anyone tell
you? And I know once youcould all come together, it all looked
genius when it all come together,like the playing work. But is there
anyone that tells you that, hey, you just you know, you're out
of school, now you gotta work. Maybe there's not not the rap,

(08:22):
things not gonna happen, but itwas there anyone that I didn't believe,
but like, hey, you knowreal life, you gotta you gotta keep
working too. Now, nobody eversaid there because I never I always had
a job, okay, because Iwent and gat. Nobody used telling me
you need a job. I alwayshad a job because I wanted to have
my own one. So have youbeen back to any of the places that

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you worked at since since the shinebeen blowing up? Noah, because I
don't even be a mean feel likeI heard that? And what about any
of the any old bosses or anythingthat you gotta roll by when you win
your Grammy? Are you gonna rollby and just just put your Grammy,
like you know, on the dthrough box or something like that. I
don't know. I don't even thinknothing, don't I don't know. What

(09:05):
did that feel like when you hearGrammy nominated? Feel like I'm huh,
yeah, I feel like I'm sayinghey man, And it's got to be
one of those things where you know, I don't think. I don't know.
If you say, like, oneday I want to get a Grammy,
maybe you do it in the longform, but most people don't set
out to like, oh, Iwant this, but when it comes,

(09:26):
you'll accept it. And when itcomes, it's like, damn man.
People really recognize the work that Idid. Because if you look at the
Grammy history. Think about how manypeople have nominated been nominated at one Grammys
and now you're a part of thatclass. Yeah that's crazy. Yeah.
Man, It's like I always knewI wanted to do rapping and stuff,

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but I never like i'd be surprisingmyself sometimes, Like I really feel like
I underestimated myself blue because I neverknew a Grammy a nomination like if I
win, lose whatever. A nominationis so big I could say I'm Grammy
nominating. Yeah, man, whodo you go? Who this thing?
Who do you go to the Grammy'swith that? That night? You know?

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My mom and my daddy. Iheard that from gang members. Hello.
How how proud is are your parents? They super proud? Really though,
have you did anything nice for themyet? Yeah? Yeah. See,
I'm waiting on my son and mydaughter. Yeah. My son is
a fifteen, my daughter's fourteen.I'm just waiting for something to pop.

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Yeah, just so I can getsomething back, you know what I'm saying,
Because I feel like I'm a gooddad, but I do want something
back, you know what I'm saying, Like, So, what did you
get your dad? I had gothim a car in the house. Wait,
you got him a what a carin these? And a house?
Damn your mom's when I didn't gether shouted head cars, I just got

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her ass, you know her bankaccount? Good? Damn ward that?
Oh yeah, I was looking forsmall stuff. Man, what does that
fit? Like? I want totake you strip And I ain't even joking
or none of that stuff, right, like growing up and everybody got their
story. But growing up, youknow, it's seven of us. My

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mom's single family, single parent,and we went through bouts of homelessness,
you know what I'm saying. Andthen when I got on, I was
able to buy my mom my house. And I remember getting my mom my
house, and I remember telling,I'll say, you know what, you'll
never have to move again. Restin peace, I say, you never
have to move again, and willnever be victed. You'll never be evicted
again. What did that feel like? When you got them their house?

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You feel like, dang, Ireally was able to do these you know
people right bout all the time nowI move my mom good. I never
knew i'd be an abbe then ableto do this because like you know,
we never had nothing, yeah,man, growing up, like my daddy
never had no just a real niceass. You know, we never saw
nothing like. So now that theyget it, he's just live it.

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And it's got to be crazy thattheir their their baby girl got it for
them. Is it in their nameor your name? Just keep it in
your name? Yeah, keep itin your name. Keep it right though,
so they don't they don't go getup in that crazy one day.
You know what I'm saying, Like, you want to give it to them,
but you want to keep it towhere you can go back and if
they if they do trip, youcan go back and take the house back.
I ain't gonna do that, Okay. I just want to see what

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kind of daughter we've seen. Youget to work with a lot of people
within the industry from the people thatyou are now meeting, is there someone's
advice that you seeked out for yourown career? Oh yeah, Alice?
Hello, why are you listening tothat guy cook? Like he's a hard
worker and like he always say,he smell rich. I was telling them

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that last week. Yeah he smellrich. Go ahead, like he got
like his hustle. I like hishustle. Like he always say he never
feels rich. He don't know whatfeeling rich looked like he always I mean
feel like so he always want tokeep going to he able to be like,
Okay, I feel good, Ican rest. And so he worked

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so hard like you will think howreach is now he don't even work the
hard right what he do, Butthat that also probably keep you working different
too. Yeah, like that makesme like, yeah, they up there,
so I need to get up thereand they mean I got up.
How did that relationship start from fromyou just writing something down one day?
You know what I'm saying, toto actually get next to Gotti? He
had He wasn't the first people tohit me about the song. He had.

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Oh called one of the video dudesand me fis and he was telling
me, but I really want tobelieve in it. But I was coming
like okay, he do be withhim. He was like, gotn't want
to see what's soup? Should likethe same day or maybe the second day
after the video dropped, and Iwas like, stop lying. I don't
like yeah, got it would havereached out, but he was reaching out

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through him. Then he ended upreaching out through his own page and I
was like, yeah, I gottago see what's soup? Got him up?
Got it he he he. Whenyou think about me because you think
about got it that's on top peopleyou think about, you think about but
you can't leave you got it outwhen you think about me. So when
I linked with him on the yacht, it was just that yeah, yeah,

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you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, So you link with
him on the yacht. You justsaid that like it wasn't nothing. You
know what I'm saying. You've everbeen on the yacht. Okay, you've
been on the yacht right now,Okay, so understand the room, all
right, Glorilla, understand the room. You can't just say like like yesterday

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we had who was in the neighborhoodyesterday, young Blue and he was talking
about private jets and stuff like he'here private Yes he does, man,
And we ended the interview immediately.I was like, man, I like,
ain't no young dude coming in hereand making me look bad, you
know what I'm saying. And II ended it. So you guys on

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the yacht, it comes together andit's real. And here we are today.
That is crazy. What about thecamaraderie, Like I know, we
got we got sweetie who who whoWho's doing her thing. There's a camaraderie
there. You and a lotto.You know what I'm saying. Grammy nominated
a lotto, you know y'all y'allshare Grammy nominations as well. Cardi B
like females, ladies mess with you. When sometimes people try to put everybody

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towards or put everybody you know againsteach other. Why do you think they
rock with you so hard? Andthe real ones probably because they feel the
real energy. Like I'm out thin, I'm like just raw. I ain't
trying to be no baddy. I'mjust me. Let me tell you now,
I don't know how to work this, so it doesn't sound personal,

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you know what I'm saying, Anddon't take this as personal. Just just
me listening to the music, soon and so forth. You know,
Quick, such a disrespectful song,you know what I'm saying, and like
such, and I'm not talking aboutme. I'm talking about four a friend,
you know how. That's just somesongs that become an anthemate and we

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not included, like damn, yup, they help on us right now,
you know what I'm saying that Andyou never hear us do a song
called fast because it don't happen.You know what I'm saying, Like,
ain't no dude that really put asong together like we had braggs. Oh
yeah we had a hag on butthere ain't no real dude that's saying.
Yeah man, you know no man? Yeah yeah, man? Who who

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the many women like, yeah,you're many women? Been a woman?
You know what I'm saying. Sowhen you go to do something like that,
you don't think about like feelings oranything like that. Glorially, they
don't cur they don't cur about retaliation. Now, I really ain't like too
quick. Yeah I heard about that, heard about that. Man, Hey

(16:57):
man, y'all that do that?I have nothing for you, man,
that's crazy, but yeah I heardabout that. And just playing Devil's advocate
here. And I don't want toblame the victim. Uh what about if
he's just so good, it's yourfault, see know what I'm saying.
Yeah, but like if it happenedtoo many times? Like did you talk

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to my ex? Did she talkto did you? Oh my god?
Did you so you got it?Bad? Uh? What's bad? Oh?

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We're like you do it like lessthan if I say less than less
than what like like when you saynut quick like in how many? Like
what? What? What's bad?Okay? I got it bad? Alright?
There it is right there man.But but you gotta think, can
you hold you breath for three minute? It depens on what the three minutes,

(18:03):
don't It depends on what the threeminutes is. Like if you had
a pit bull biting on your legfor three minutes, you'd be like,
oh my god, that's a longmother time, right, So it depends
on what the three minutes is.How about I think I could do that.
I think I can do that,But I gotta like do rap lyrics,

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like I gotta take my mind offoff I'll be all over the places.
I'd be like, yeah, dude, did you put the macaroni and
cheese in the oven? All right? Who's coming over for Thanksgiving? Like
you gotta really throw yourself all right. I don't talk too much about myself.
It's a good song, though,Glorilla. I want to do something
which you call for real, forreal, for false for false. I'm
gonna ask you some questions about yourself. If it's for real for real,

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just say for real for real,IF's for false for false, for fosse
for false. You're ready, okay, all right now, Glorilla, and
I think you already answered this,but she will make a gospel album for
real, for real? I heardthat win. No, I'm just playing
take your time on the gods,bab because you got And the only reason

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why I say that is because howold are you? For real? Twenty
three? You got a lot ofsaying ahead of you, you know what
I'm saying, Like because you grewup kind of in the church, right,
so you had to be all youknow, godli Then I know this
probably been coming from unc This probablysound like bad advice, but you gotta
crash the car. You gotta crashthe car just a little bit, you
know what I'm saying. And thenyou know, like like I'm talking about

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to the point where it's like youwake up one morning be like, oh
my god, we're my underwear atyou gotta have those kind of mistakes,
you know what I'm saying. Soso take your time on that kind of
thing for real, for real,for fall, for fall. Her cousin
gave her the name Glowrilla. Allright now, what was what was the
name before? It was big Glow? Oh and you all little I love

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when the little ones be big,you know what I'm saying, and the
big ones be little. You knowwhat I'm saying. So, how did
you do anything professionally under Big Glow? Nah? Okay, before I actually
start rapping your head, before Iput anything out. It was big Glow
and with the name the government namebeing Gloria who with glow? Really?

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Is that flow to you at first? Like like, did you feel like
that's perfect? Yeah? He no, I ain't gonna do. When he
first said, I said, Ilaughed. I said, hold on.
Then I said, you know thatis really because if you look at it
like number A and two als togo and you know what. And also,
you're a beautiful lady, you knowwhat I'm saying. If you weren't,
and then we call you glow reallyto be a different name, you
know what I'm saying, it wouldbe a little different. They'd be like,

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oh, man, Glowilla here allright now for real, for real,
for false, for false. Sheused to have a tattoo of her
name big Glow? Yeah, andwhat did you do with it? Used
to? I hate it? Covidup? Where was it at on my
really dull? What did you coverit? Up with. It's a gorilla
right here. Let me see youcan see a see it a lot.
I'm gonna take my shirt off.You pull you pull that down too much.
I'm taking my shirt off. Putsome clamps on me. Okay,

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So so under there it says bigglow. It's like somewhere right, so
you were committed to big Glow.I heard that, Do you have any
glow real tats on you? Notthis real? But I just got the
gorilla right here on my I gotthe gorilla place on my own. I
heard that. Watch I look atit to be pictures of me. But

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this is my problem place, allright, this is my problem. Hell,
you get this bro? You seewhat she walked there? She went
alright, alright now for real forreal, for false, for false.
She's related to Cardi b for realfor real. No you're not. That's
my cousin. No black people,cousin are cousin? Like, like you

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know what I'm saying, because becauseyou're my cousin, you know what I
mean? Like, is it mycousin? Cousin? There's my cousin?
Okay, all right, what's herdad's name? I got it right here,
I said. I don't want shedon't want the world on a day.
Yeah, that is true. Yougot me, you got me,
all right, so for real,for real, that's your cousin, alrighty

(22:02):
for I'm not gonna take that,but I'll take it alright now, alright
now, you went on that sixtyDay Cleans before recording FNL, and the
cleans wasn't like meat, like vegetablesand everything. Hell not? Is that?
For real? For real? Whatthe clans consist of? Drinking water?
I used drinking she was water.I was trying to gang white.

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I love it. We had theex sad money through Friday. No dude,
I heard that. I can.I can stick with that one.
Yeah we cant the no dude Yeah, no club being going out having fun
and no alcohol for two months yepand no alcohol yep. Damn. You

(22:45):
wasn't like upset angry? Yeah,that's probably when she wrote because I was
is that when you wrote? Quick? I'm gonna go ahead, alrighty,
So the sixty Day Clans and thenyou come off and then what do you
do after your sixty day Clans?I will find me, yeah, exactly,

(23:07):
so you start to celebrate up?Yeah? Amen? What if every
time you felt like, oh mygod, dude, I gotta it worked.
So every time you just had todo some kind of cleans you know
what I'm saying. Before the albumdrive you like, girl, we gotta
clans. Oh you know it.That's a good idea. What album's here
now? So alright and you're onyour way, you know what I'm saying.
Ye, Clorella definitely want to thankyou for coming into the neighborhood hanging
out with us. God willing youwill come back. Hopefully I didn't scare

(23:30):
you too much already. Okay,I like talking to you. All right,
We'll come back tomorrow tomorrow. Yousee at first she did that,
She's like, oh yeah, waittomorrow. No, No, do you
get days on? No, that'sit that need because I got break this

(23:51):
tomorrow. Okay. So so isit the tour coming or you got shows
coming? Oh? You know Igot the AMA Sunday? Like, no,
congratulations to you on that too.All hurt that you want me to
roll up there with you? Areyou you good? You up there all
right with you? Though? Isaw what you did there, you know
what I'm saying. Bal She wentin, yeah, yeah, she was

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man, Yeah, I went youman, You know what I'm saying.
Even you is that your cousin,that that hugged me. Nah, your
friend even when she's gonna be like, give me the air HUGO. Thank
you for coming into the neighborhood.Queen, God bless you man, and
God will we will see you soon. All right, hallelujah, Praise there

(24:36):
is man, big boy neighborhood