Showmanship: Why Your Live Performance Can Make or Break Your Career

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All right, what's going on, people? Not just

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music podcasts in a building. Another opportunity,

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another chance to get some things out. Learn

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some things, talk about some things, communicate

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some things. It is currently Wednesday in real

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time. How's everything today? Quincy Murdock

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in the building as always. What's happening?

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What's happening, man? Blessed to be back. We

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at the end of the week. You know what I'm saying?

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We made it. So, man, hey, blesses, man. How you

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been? Doing good, man. Can't complain. If I was

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to complain, wouldn't be much I could do about

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it anyway. But! Right, right. Real time. Satisfaction

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is good though. Everything is great. No complaints.

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Yeah so There So there's this notion about shows

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right and Showmanship has been a conversation

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we've had before especially when it comes to

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being an entertainer. I think though the objective

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and plan to go into a show though can get taken,

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you can go down the wrong path taking on shows

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if you don't have some type of show. Let's just

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say that. If you don't have some type of show,

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you don't got no idea if you ain't never been

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to a show, you ain't never rapped your song,

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you ain't never sung your song, you ain't never

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did your act live. It's a different situation

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than saying, go play my music. Here's some music,

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go play my music. But it's a different story

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when somebody has to present a song. So showmanship

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is something that is totally not thought about.

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Why is it the most? Forgotten things. So let's

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ask some questions Q you've done plenty times

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you've gone places gone Clubs gonna left the

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state gone plenty places. You've done plenty

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times you touch the stage you touch the microphone

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live Why is it different? There is a different

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situation from saying here play my music Versus

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hey come to my show come see me saying come see

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me rap come hear me rap What's why is it such

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a different situation? Tell me It's just that

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engagement with the fans, with the people. I

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think my favorite part, like people ask me all

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the time, what's your favorite part? Creating

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the music or performing? And I say performing

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because each performance you get to add a different

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layer to your show. Like you just said, like

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a true showman is gonna add Things like they

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they really think they shows through they really

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think okay, how can I? Hit this real for this

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run better. All right, maybe I'll try this different

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run in this verse on the on the R &B song I got

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or you know Maybe I add a freestyle to the end

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of this route. You know, I'm saying my rap song

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like like you just said like a true show showman

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It's gonna put a lot of effort into his show

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And that's what I do. So like, I love performing

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the song. I love the engagement of the crowd.

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You know, I love when they love the music because

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that's really what it's about. If you're just

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doing music and staying in the house, you won't

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really know how people gravitate to your music

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unless you're physically out there and you putting

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it in their face and you performing. So I always

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said like performing has always been my thing.

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Even when I first started out, I was just rapping

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on street corners, bro. Like just cause I love

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to do it. Like it was, and I wasn't getting paid

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or nothing. Like, so when people, like people

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ask me like, you know, like how, how can you

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do free shows? How can you do things just volunteer

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wise? Like, because I actually love performing,

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like, and my track record shows it. I just anywhere

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with a mic, I jumped on it. Back in the day,

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even when I freestyled, I ain't had no songs.

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I just get on there and freestyle. You know what

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I'm saying? So that's actually how Learned song

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came about. I actually freestyled that song before

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I even wrote it down. And somebody was like,

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oh, that's high. Like my mentor at the time,

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Jason, Jason Davenport. Shout out to Jason Davenport.

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My mentor at the time was like, man, you need

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to you need to write that. You need to put that

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on wax. So it started as a freestyle. That's

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how Learn Song came about. Me freestyling on

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the mic. So. I like, you know, saying like, I

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agree, I think performing your song overweighs

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the creativity of the song, I think it's important.

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To me it is performing. Yeah, these are these

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are There's one point that you pointed out some

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point let's let's let's let's gravitate on now

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see y 'all don't You got to have this line where

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you're Making the song come to light we talked

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about that with you know different ways of doing

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it. This is one big way though He just pointed

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out You have to. There is a certain nuance to

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a stage in being in front of people and connecting

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to people. It's here's your chance. And as he

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said, whether it's a street corner. It can be

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in it could be at a church, it could be at the

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liquor house. I've been in front of five people

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versus going to Nigeria, being in front of two

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hundred over two hundred people. So. Also, I

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want I want to like artists coming into the game

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is getting started. Those look like these performances

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make you a break you as artists. That's when

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this is when you really find out if you really

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bout that when you live shows in front of people.

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That's when a lot of artists be like, man, you

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know what? I ain't I ain't really ready for this.

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I'm not ready for this because that's going to

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make you a break you. I've wrapped this song

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in front of two people. and was nervous, but

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did my best, gave them the best show. And I left,

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they left out of that place two people broadcasting

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my performance and that brought attention. So

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those two people, however many people was in

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that room, you want to leave an impact on them

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people. And I've been in shows over 200 people.

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You know what I'm saying? So I gravitate towards

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both, both spectrums, you know, like the least

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crowd when it ain't no crowd. So, like, when

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the crowd gets bigger, it just makes you appreciate

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the blessing when you do get that crowd. But

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you got to put in the work, though, when you

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see no crowd. Like, trust me, I'll be rapping

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and singing my heart out. Like, you know what

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I'm saying? If it's two people, they're like,

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it's 200 people. Because I'm going to give you

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a show. I'm a showsman. I might not dance like

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Usher, might not dance like Chris Brown. You

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know what I'm saying? But I'm not stagnant. Anybody

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watch my shows, you know, I use every inch of

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that stage. I'm moving around. I'm pretty much

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sweating at the end of my show. Probably don't,

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even if it's just five minutes, I give you my

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all, man. You know what I'm saying? That's it.

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That's it. See? I'm sorry, cut in. No! This is

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a conversation on real life showmen. Being a

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showman, you know. They're... Some people don't

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realize how important it is to be, this is your

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opportunity to connect. Like he said, two people,

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one person, no people. Thousand people, 28 ,000.

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It has to be the same showmanship. Has to be

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the same show. Now - They paying attention to

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you. I just didn't care about what you have to

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offer. So that's how you got to look at it. Sing

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to that one person that their attention is on

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you. Gravitate to them. Sing that song to them.

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Also keep it towards the crowd. But gravitate

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towards them fans that's actually in tune with

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what you got going on on that stage. So you just

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said it though. Here's the chance for you being

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some in front of somebody's face, right and Sometimes

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you only get this one chance You only get this

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one opportunity to They don't come often put

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yourself in front of somebody like he said often

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is the case for a lot of people when it comes

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to doing shows especially if He said you're just

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starting out right? These ones these are things

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that some make in the early parts, thinking that,

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oh, you know, the show is gonna be this, the

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show is gonna be that. You think you amped up,

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you hyped up. But then when you get in front

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of them people and you get that live microphone,

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and it's loud, it's going through some loudspeakers,

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and you may say one... thing wrong one bad line

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you might you gotta keep going you mess up you

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gotta keep going hey you know how many times

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i done fumbled over a word but you wouldn't even

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notice in my videos and i just recovered like

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that that but that's something that's just in

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you yeah and then doing it a lot doing it enough

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practicing i used to be man i'd be in a sometimes

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bro when i was little i used to imitate just

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Like live shows in my bedroom yo like my first

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the first people that I saw into was my crowd

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was my mother and my grandma I used to sing and

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Sing they like boy you sing sing that again sing

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that again like, you know, you got a voice sing

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that again sing that That was my first crowd

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So I'm telling y 'all like that's where it started

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practice with this stuff. You got a practice

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like you practice with everything else You know,

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practice makes perfect with performing. You know

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what I'm saying? Doing it, just walking in your,

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just do a show live in your bedroom with nobody

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in there. Like, I hype myself up before a show.

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You know what I'm saying? I go into that mode.

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when it goes I mean, he just said one thing that

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plays a factor, especially in what I do is live

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music, live, live, live. Hear the words, live.

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If you mess up, you gotta keep going. You can't

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just like have these moments where you think

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like it's like a stop button. You know, you hit

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that stop button. Nah, that's not how this goes.

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This is not how, people are going to hear. If

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you know if you understand like he said if you're

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practicing this stuff if you fumble of a word

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you know what to do But if you don't know what

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to do if you fumble over a word and you stop

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doing a live show They're going to hear They

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will hear it. So you have to add these things.

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So think about recovery Recovery from fumble

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the fumble recovery from the mess up you might

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hit a wrong note But you got to learn how to

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recover, you know I play keys a lot when it comes

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to life. So if you miss a key, you hit a key

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wrong. You got to learn how to pick up the ball.

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You can't just leave it sitting there. That's

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why I see a lot of y 'all newcomers that ask

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that question about the showmanship. Like, how

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should you go about a show? Practice, practice

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and more practice. Like you say, practice and

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practice and more practice. Some people think

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it's just about grabbing a microphone and getting

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up on that stage. That's not the first time you

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want to get in that mode that you don't want

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that to be the first time. You do not want that

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to be the first time. And also, I advise you,

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if you're starting out, use your backtrack with

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your song playing with your lyrics in there,

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like, you know, because that's good for recovery.

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Like if you're not really polished or it might

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be a song you do for one time, not saying let

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the backtrack play, but still rap over that track,

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show your ability. But that's practicing also

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for other shows where you can just acapella,

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you know what I'm saying? Straight out acapella.

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But some of the best don't never feel like you

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cheating because you use your backtrack, your

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original track. You'll be surprised. A lot of

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artists, I watched clips of the Chris Brown,

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the Usher tour. They just went on, started. They

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use their backtracks. They're using their songs

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because they're dancers. Not saying they can't

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sing, but they need that in case they can't get

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every word. You know what I'm saying? All that

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moving and dancing. And that's what, like you

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say, you go into a show with a plan, and this

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is part of they plan, they notice. You know what

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I'm saying? So, yeah. And if you didn't know,

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some people with tracking, I mean, this is across

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the board. Your tracking really plays a very

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big important part in your live show. Live show,

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can make a break, especially the tracking part,

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can make a break the whole entire show. If you

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got your tracks on point, you know what you want

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your tracks to do, like you said, you might,

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for the sake of, leave the vocals in. Don't go

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up there with a track that's just instrumental

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and you don't know the song, you ain't strong

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with it, like you said. Also, you might have

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a whack mic. You might have some, the mic might

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be whack. So now you just relying on this whack

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mic trust me, bro. Listen, I've done this enough

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to know bro, like I've I've done this enough

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to know man the system the quality Thank God

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for Juneteenth the quality we had man. We had

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some of the best sounds of shout out to them.

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Whoo Because you don't know as a performer you

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really thank them sound engineers run like them

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sound engineers Oh life everything they can make

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your break you to you know, I'm saying so also

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Be prepared for wacky system, wacky mics. You

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know what I'm saying? You got to think all this

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through. A lot of artists won't even think that.

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They just show up to the show and just ready.

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And y 'all using somebody else's mic. Y 'all

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don't know how this mic is. Y 'all don't know

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how this system is, sound system. Get what I'm

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saying? You ain't come with no backup. So you

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got to at least come up with some backup on your

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end. Because this is going to make or break you.

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This is your performance at the end of the day.

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And you got to treat it like as such. And remember,

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it's not the studio. If you ain't at the studio,

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you ain't gonna, that's another thing I wanted

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to add to the, when you mess up, hit that spot,

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that space bar and erase it and go back. There's

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none of that. This ain't a live. Cisco made me

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want to go listen to In My Bed every time he

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perform it. Every time he perform that thing,

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I want to go and listen to that song. That's

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just how much he, it sounds better live. He just

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sound. And I want that's the impact that you

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need. I want to go check this song out. Somebody

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wrote under my comments like I put the video

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up. Where can I find this song? Oh, it's on all

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platforms. Quincy Mariah, this true love. It's

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on all platforms. So it's like you never a live

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show can bring traction to that song. You'll

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be surprised. It's on about love, man. You know,

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it makes believers, nonbelievers, believers.

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So, and there's another thing to add to this

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and be done with this. Most times that if you

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just take advantage of just when you make a song,

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like always make it your duty, especially if

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you're planning on going to perform. Like always

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make it your duty to practice your works. Practice

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it, practice it, practice it. I have to play

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keys every single week. So I mean, every single

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Sunday, sometimes Saturday and Sunday, most cases

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Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, because you had

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practices with choirs and all of that stuff or

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bands or however the nature. You got to do all

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of this stuff. What did I just say? Practice,

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practice in your songs. Practice your music.

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Sing, sing, sing, sing every day. Yeah. Practice

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your stuff. At work, sing your song. Keep your

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voice ready. Keep your voice ready. You will

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be in trouble. Just rap. If there's something

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you love to do, man, we shouldn't have to tell

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you to do it. You should want to do this all

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the time, even when you're not doing it at that

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moment. It should be incorporated into your life

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some kind of way, daily life. You feel me? Some

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kind of way. So, again, I was in it. So you don't

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have to be, again, in the sake of saying perfect

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it, but for the sake of know your music very,

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very well. Know it. Strongly know what your songs

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are doing, how they move, each verse, counting.

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I got this many beats before I start. You know,

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you got to do all of that stuff has to be locked

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in It has to be locked in. So again, that's the

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difference again from the studio and studios

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studio That's you can go mess up do it how many

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times whatever how many takes you want to do

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it? Stacks all that stuff the all that you could

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that's the studio but their life is the product

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of that That's the product meaning QC go go out

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perform it make it make sense. Make it syllable

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That's the sellable point. Somebody can make

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sales off of, you know, good music. So good music

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being performed the correct way can go a long

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way and go a very long way. And that goes back

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to even even the the littlest shows can go a

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very long way. You know, not even bro. Say that

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again. The little show, small shows, because

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for me, like you, I mean, for me, I've been to

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Literally two programs where there is like literally

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only one two people sitting in there and they're

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looking at you And they really are there to take

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in what you're about to do Right, you have just

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you say give it to them the same exact way that

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These five thousand people sitting in there looking

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at you. You got to give it to them the same exact

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way Because one of them people could be your

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ticket to that five thousand Today time they

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got to do is get on Facebook today four thousand

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friends Oh, I just went to this bomb show. Quincy

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Murlock did his thing. Now the next show you

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got. Little bit and I'm going to come to that

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show. Check you out. Let me go check this. Let

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me go check them out. Let me go check them out.

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You know what I'm saying? And like you say, you

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don't get too many of these opportunities. No.

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You don't like like performances, getting on

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lineups. Very strategic. You don't get a lot

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of these opportunities. So you have to make the

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best out of every opportunity you get performing.

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You know what I'm saying? You got to act like

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it's your last show. Because you don't know when

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you're going to grab that mic again. It might

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be it. It might be it. As a musician, me and

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you know that, bro. Like it ain't guaranteed.

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So slow down. You know, get kind of funny. So

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when you get. on programs and you get on events,

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the people giving you a chance. These promoters

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are, even if you betting on yourself and people

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show up, you get a crowd. Bro, that's a blessing.

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Take advantage of that. Like you say, you told

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me, my show, live in the moment. Boy, live. L

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-I -V -E, live. L -I -V -E, live. L -I -V -E,

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live. Go together. People don't even pay their

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part attention y 'all forget y 'all be so that

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does my last thing all about anyway Don't be

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so caught up in the moment that you forget to

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live it It is really a situation when you can

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perform that song that's that's the difference

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in the the You know the press I say the perfected

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part versus the energy you got to show people

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the energy that you had When you created that

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song what was the energy? What was the emotion

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you just get up there and be like? I thought

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I saw a star in the sky. That's what you're going

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to get. That's all you're going to do that we

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need more than that. You know, you got this energy.

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I thought you got to have something there that

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somebody will be like, well, he was just standing

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there like this the whole time. And if I could,

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I would do it again. Come on. Come on. Come on.

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Energy. You know what I'm saying? I'm giving

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y 'all a little. Engage with the crowd too, in

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a way. Energy. Energy. There you go. Yeah. If

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you ain't got no energy, they ain't gonna look

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at you crazy. You gotta sell your record. You

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know, you gotta sell your record. But for the

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sake of that, that's all. You know, nobody takes,

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you know, shows. It's just advice. It's just

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enough, y 'all. Nobody takes shows serious enough.

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Y 'all gotta take the show serious. Take it serious.

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Practice your act. Don't just record your song

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and go see it at home and don't ever practice

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it. But again, just making it make sense. Your

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act really counts. You really have to make your

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act count. A lot of people don't take the act

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serious. We'll be back with y 'all next time.

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And guess what? We appreciate y 'all rocking

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it with us. Till next time. Peace. Oh yeah, my

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bad before I end it. Don't forget to get help.

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If you need help, get help. Help is very important

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to have. Help is very important to have around.

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But remember, do not latch on to folk. Don't

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get to the point where you're just lingering

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constantly in somebody's help. Learn from the

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moment. Move on from the moment. Don't make anybody

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seem as if you're just gravitating to them just

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for one thing. Autism community. I love y 'all,

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disabilities community, I love y 'all. We'll

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keep y 'all, you know, in our prayers if needed.

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And we're out, peace, love.