PipemanRadio Interviews Tech N9ne at Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2023

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I'm here with Jack nine Man representing Kansas

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City, Missouri, Kansas City Chiefs
all day, all night Strange Music,

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number one independent label in the world. Thank you Nice. And you know

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my old head engineer he passed,
but that was his favorite team too.

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He would be so happy right here
we're playing to night. Look look at

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that shirt behind you, man.
You see that? Oh yeah, I's

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seeing that before. That's my uncle
Ike Nice. Yeah, man, So

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you gotta love this. I played
Madden Football and who I always pick as

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a quarterback? Mans? He is
badass and I'm a Giants fan, but

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I have to pick him as he's
the best. He's the new Michael Jordan's

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football, I know, right,
it's amazing. Who was it? Who's

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the Michael Jordan football? Before?
It was Tom Brady? Right? Yeah?

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And I don't think so. I
like Mahomes better. And then I

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never liked Tom Brady. I never
met him. I never was big into

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him. I used to like Montana
though, remember my Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah. Didn't you guys get Steve
Young too? Did we have Steve

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who? You know? He was
the one that replaced Montana? I don't

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remember that. There you go.
So here you are at Blue Ridge?

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Yes, wow, for the I
don't know how many time, man.

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And it's a wonderful thing. I
know, way great festival. Yes,

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yes, yes, I've been doing
it for years. I don't know one

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of the last time I was here
maybe twenty nineteen or something, I don't

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know. Yeah, you know what, it's such a great festival. It

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took you two hours to get in
here, didn't Oh my god, man,

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we got here I'm talking about,
like we got here at one,

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we didn't get situated. It's almost
right. Now. Wow, we missed

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the food, you know what I
mean. We didn't eat breakfast purposely because

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we're gonna eat a catering. Got
there too late. Horrid. Oh no

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fuel, you know what I'm saying. But we got it though, Man,

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you know what I'm saying. That's
when the buddy goes into overdrive,

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you know what I'm saying. There
you go, and yeah, this is

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gonna be like one of the final
times you're gonna be dressing the way you

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normally dress on stage. Yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes,

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yes yes about that. Yeah,
man, I've been wearing the original Nuthouse

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scrubs for two tours. Now,
that's what I started with. You know

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what I'm saying. My group back
in the day, Double n U,

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Double T h O w Z E
the House of Newton Arcolicult, Untamable Techniques,

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and I wear the scrubs in honor
of the Nuthouse that gave me the

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Tech nine spirit, you know what
i mean. So now for this upcoming

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tour with Hollywood Undead, I'm changing
everything. I'm getting the new mask made,

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not this clown mask anymore because everybody
kept saying it looked like Sean Crahan

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and I'm like, that's my brother, but no, it's a mode of

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my face. You know what.
I'm sizzling. So I'm getting new mask

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made. I'm getting changing the whole
fit everything. I'm just assembled my new

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band. You know what I'm saying. We about to start rehearsing when I

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get done with these few shows.
I'm changing everything, man, changing everything.

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Change. The music has changed.
It just came out the last month,

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on the twenty eighth. I think
it's called Bliss, you know what

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I mean, just dropped. The
album is booming right now. Man,

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I've shot like six videos already.
The music has changed. The music changes

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all the time. Evolution has to
happen and every living thing, and it's

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happening to me. I've been meeting
my morph for ten years now and I'm

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still morphing as we speak. You
know, I love that because I was

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about to say, You're not an
artist unless you're evolving and changing. You

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know why, you want to write
the same song every time. You got

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fans that like what they like?
I said, want my old music,

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by my old albums? You know
what I mean, because when you're changing,

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you're gonna piss off some people.
I don't get no fucks. I

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don't given noo focks. I have
to evolve. You have to do it

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for you because that's how you stay
real with the audience. Sir. I

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see I see my audience changing as
I change, you know what I mean?

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And some people they're just stuck in
the past. And that's cool.

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They have that to go on,
they got that to reference. Okay,

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I want Tech nine's darker album,
so I'll go back to kod King of

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Darkness and Oh nine, my only
dark album I've ever done, and I

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ever will do. You know,
you got people who are stuck at ever

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Ready and O six. You got
people that are stuck at Angelic and OH

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one. It's okay, you know
what I mean. But I'm sorry you're

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missing all this greatness right now because
I am better than ever? Why can't

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you like old and new? And
what I'm saying, the better than ever

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is the key, Like how good
of an artist would you be if you

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never got better? Right? Right? If I just stuck to it at

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one thing that made me money,
you know, I'm just doing it for

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money. And not for the love. And that's why I am changing.

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It's about the love. Yes,
it's about the love. Brother, And

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it's like, if you love it
and you do it hard as you can,

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everything else will come. That's right. I know they're being real.

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Yes, then people will stick around
when you're real it's great or later,

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man, that's right. Something.
I know it's on your Facebook, and

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I just know I see it on
your wrist that I really love where you're

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saying, fuck that. Man.
I've lost some close friends of mine to

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fennel on the streets. I mean, you know, people who are getting

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it from the hospitals, you know
it maybe stop their pain. But when

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that shit hits the street and the
people that are taking their coke or whatever

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or whatever they do for fun don't
know that it's in there. That's when

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the dealers need to be charged.
Sorry, and shit, I think Big

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Farming needs to be charged because that's
that's just get the shit out of here.

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You know, there's no reason for
it, and they're doing just for

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the money. Yeah. Did you
see that new series about oxyens on Netflix?

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Ya? Like, I already knew
that was going on, but watch

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that and it's like, oh,
what bullshit. Yeah, it used to

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be used to be. They used
to give me whenever I would hurt my

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leg well, like I tore my
guy struck near me this muscle on the

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tour before, and they gave me
morphine. I took the pills for like

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two days. I'm like, nah, that feels too good. I gotta

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stop. You know, I'm saying
that was morphine. But I didn't die

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though. See, I consider myself
lucky because they gave me morphine one time

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for something and I was like,
don't give it that to me. And

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I liked the ship at all.
Yeah, I loved it, and I

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was like that luckiest day in my
life. But I used to be a

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drug addict back in the day.
Though I've been I've been cleaned off X

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and shrooms and no not shrooms now
I'm back on shrooms now. Uh yeah,

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micro does and yeah yeah yeah,
but all the harder shit. You

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know what I'm saying. I never
did cocon, I never did heroin,

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but everything in between there. You
know what I'm saying, I haven't done

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that since two thousand and six.
Maybe, yeah, I've been cleaned off

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that since two thousand and six,
and I've been sober of alcohol for two

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years. That's one of the worst
drugs in my opinion. Oh yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
So good for you. He was killing

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me. It was killing me.
I was drinking like a rock star since

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in my early teens. Like my
doctor said, so now that I'm in

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my fifty first year, well,
actually I'm in my fifty second year.

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I'll be fifty two November eight.
So my doctor's laugh. Good, thank

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you, man. I feel good. I feel good. I feel good.

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But my doctor said, if you
don't stop, you're gonna die.

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I'm like, I don't want to
die. I just had a little baby

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months she's six months. Hey,
I'm stopping and I'm getting healthy. I

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want to be here. Good for
you, because how many parents are there

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that don't stop after that and then
they leave that little baby without a parent,

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right right right. I don't want
to do that. I want to

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do that. So I want to
talk about that. Then what does it

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feel like to be a dad?
Oh? Man, all over again?

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Man? You know, before Elena, she's six months now, I had

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Dantes, which is twenty eight,
Aliyah who's twenty nine, and a Rainbow.

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Her name is rain but we call
a Rainbow Rainbow twenty four. So

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does it feel like after all these
years, Like I have a sister that's

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thirty years younger than me, you
know, and I'm like, I have

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adult kids now, and I'm like, I don't know if I want to

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do it that way. I like
having the grandkids where I can just be

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the cool grandpa, teach them how
to mash, teach them as skateboard,

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surf, and then feed them a
bunch of sugar and drums and give them

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back to their parents. Yeah.
Yeah, Yeah, I'm doing I'm doing

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I'm in the most right now.
Man. I'm enjoying. I'm enjoying time

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with my newborn. Back then,
I didn't have time because I was hustling

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to keep money on the Yeah,
you know what I'm saying, to take

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care of my kids. You know
what I'm saying. Now years later,

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and I have all this cushion,
you know, from all the work I've

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done, thanks to my teammate Strange
Music and myself, I have time to

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just do shows on the weekend,
you know what I'm saying. One off

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like this, you know what I
mean, and go back home with a

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little women get ready for the big
tour. October sixteenth with Hollywood And did

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you know, so, I'm really
enjoying the time that I have and that

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I didn't have with my other kids. Man, you know why I love

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hearing that because you know, people
they assume things okay, and even if

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they see okay, Like back in
the day when you're working your butt off,

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I'm thinking, oh, you know, I'm missing parent blah blah blah.

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No, he's working to provide for
his family. Yes, yes,

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you know. And so now that
you don't have to do that as much,

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now we see the reel you that
doesn't want to spend time with your

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kids that you didn't want to think
about it is. It's a double as

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sword because time is everything to kids, no matter if you're putting them through

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college while you're working, no matter
what you're doing, buying them cars for

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their sixteenth birthday, whatever you're doing. In the end, that time matters,

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man, you know what I mean. And you know, we went

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through a lot, man, a
lot of battling together, you know what

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I mean, with my children because
I didn't have the time. But we

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got past it because I started evolving
and started learning how to control my emotions.

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This whole thing's It's a hard thing
to do, but I've mastered it,

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and now me and my kids are
on the incline. Nice, you

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know what, I'm sizzling after all
the hurt from the past. No matter

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how much you provide, h man, the father is the one who knows

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how hard he has to work to
get everything they need. Yea. And

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when they're not doing that, they'll
never understand that, you know what I'm

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saying. And you're right, and
I understand completely because like I remember my

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kids being kids. I'm like,
man, eighteen seems like a long time

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away, but it's gonna happen like
that, right, you know, right

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right right now, now that eighteen
is thirty eight, Yes, yes,

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yes, My little one is six
months man, and she's already messing with

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the phone and already responding to music. Six months man. Wow, does

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she listen to your music? Oh? Yes, she listens to my music.

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But she listens to like old school
music. I play her old school

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music, you know what I mean. So, but when she hears my

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voice in the music, she knows
it's daddy already. That's cool. Does

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she have a favorite yet of music? Does she have a favorite artist besides

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dad beside. She don't really know
yet. She's just listening to right now.

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Her favorite artists are number Blocks.
You know what I'm saying, one

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and another one is two and another
one is that's three five four three two

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one number blocks. You know what
I'm saying, This little teaching show that's

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her favorite right now. There it
is there. So tell everybody how they

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can reach out to you on your
socials and buy your merch most important.

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Yeah, if you want anything Tech
nine, it will go to Strange Music

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Inc. Dot net. You know
what. I'm sizzling for merchandise and everything.

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I am Tech nine, the Real
Tech nine on Instagram. I don't

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know what I am on Twitter?
On go on Twitter? You know what

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I'm saying. I think I'm Tech
nine on Twitter. Man, I'm never

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on there. I have a I
have a team, my team. I

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am the Real Tech nine on TikTok
too, but I'm not on TikTok.

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You know it's in My team tells
me, Hey, we need to post

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this TikTok it's caption, you know. So you know I'm more on ig

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and Facebook, man, the Real
Tech nine all day. Is there a

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techtok TikTok they wanted you to do
and you're like, no, I'm not

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doing that. Oh yeah, it
was some stuff. It was some stuff.

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At the beginning. I was like, no, I'm not about to

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get on there and dance with nobody. Man. Sorry, sorry, sorry,

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sorry sorry. Yeah, it's a
yeah, it's a it's trending,

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but not for me, you know. And you know, things trend on

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TikTok of mine and I'm not trying
songs of mine like face Off with the

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Rock and Hood go Crazy and everybody
but me and Red Kingdom for the Chiefs.

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You know what I'm saying. All
those things, yes, go,

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they go viral on their own.
I just do the good music. It's

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a trip, right, Yeah,
I just do the good music and somehow

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the kids will find it. That's
a beautiful thing about TikTok. It is

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it is. It's a great algorithm
for artists. Yep, yep, yep,

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yep, yep, yep, yep. So cool. I'm glad you're

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here. Uh man. You are
badass, and even more so now that

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you have evolved. Yes, totally, I love it. Tech nine evolved

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And thanks for being on the Adventures
pipe Man. Thanks for the Avengers having

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me man. You know what I'm
saying. I've evolved since we started this.

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I'm I'm I'm a new man right
now than I was ten minutes ago.

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There you got, thank you.
That's the way it should be.

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Yes, sir, you're the copy, I'm the original. How you wiggle

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it, yo? Just be the
one of them called tech nine and you

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listen to the pipe Man on W
four cy dot com. Baby let's go

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good? Or was taught me the
more Gloria brought me? Any Lord,

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I'm across for you at Norton.
Thank you for listening to the adventures of

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Pipe Man. I'm W four CUI
Radio.