Sharing stories through freestyle rap

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And so, what happens is you start to

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rap, you're getting these freestyle

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cyphers or these battles or these music

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sessions, and everybody's really just

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exchanging their story, and you start to

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realize we're really not that different.

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And music just made it feel very, very

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obvious and very, very powerful.

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Me and Benny got a joke when he show me

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diamond chain, she going to take forever

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shipping and I'm going to take forever

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paying.

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First 6 months in LA, a friend of mine

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said, "Hey man, there's this contest

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with Timbaland. I think you should enter

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it." And so, I just entered it and then

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one day I got a call. I picked up my

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phone and it's Timbaland.

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Timbaland is arguably the best producer

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of all time. He's right next to Dr. Dre

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and some of the other legends. And for

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me, that just felt like such a

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breakthrough. I think all independent

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artists can relate to that because we

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all take this risk and this and this

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jump to say, "Man, we want to be

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creative. We want to create our art."

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And you go through this grind period

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where you just don't know if you're even

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making any progress at all.