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Joe how are you hi Nikki how are you
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doing I'm blessed and you I'm fantastic
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if you knew just how many of your fans
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have asked for this I know they have
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made me aware thanks barbs 73 questions
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Nicki Minaj this is happening let's do
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this come on in vog now before we begin
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I just want to say how beautiful the
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drive was here and it's even prettier in
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here thank you can you tell the audience
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where we are right now we are in Malibu
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California at the recording studio yes
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we are and what precisely were you doing
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just before I arrived actually I was
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working on a very special lyric and it's
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in the studio where most of the lyric
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working happens right yes and how are
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you feeling about life these days
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blessed happy thankful grateful given
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that we're in Malibu what would you say
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is the biggest difference between life
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in New York and in LA
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New
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York has the
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Queens yes it does and how would you
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describe yourself to the few people on
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Earth who may not know who you are
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pink
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rapper animated that checks out now you
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got to know how excited I am for your
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next album and that you recorded it here
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I did is pretty cool so what exactly
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does a typical day at work in the studio
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look like for you well um
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I tend to listen to the beat and then I
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get a Vibe for it and if it's something
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that I love then I go on the mic M my
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engineer juice records me I lay some
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ideas down and then I listen to them and
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then I write it based on what reference
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I loved the most okay and then I record
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and then we listen for days sometimes
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months sometimes years and then one day
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it comes out I'm so sorry if this is
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being forward but could you freestyle a
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few bars for me right now because I can
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tell you Anna will love
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it
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what that's that's scary that I don't
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what if what if she doesn't like how
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could she not
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um
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okay oh my gosh no pressure first I'd
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like to say that um I don't know if you
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know this Joe but I definitely have
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mention mentioned her in my songs before
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Oh I know um but this one obviously
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would be a lot more special so let me
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think take your time you got
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this okay let me
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think
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okay I heard them who they sent for said
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you were 10 you must have me meant for
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had in a summer a
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win hello and the win yes mission
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accomplished now you usually record in
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both of these rooms or just this one yes
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come on in okay getting a full tour here
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now what exactly is the difference
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between these two rooms you are entering
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the room where after I leave there I
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come here I sit there juice sits here
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and and
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um we begin listening back
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to the iconic music we created now
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you've collaborated with so many artists
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in your career I was wondering if you'd
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be willing to describe a few in just one
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word okay Ariana Grande ponytail Elton
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John glasses Beyonce blonde hair this is
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this is all true who's another artist
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you'd work with Miss Lauren Hill what
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inspired the title for your next
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album a feeling of whole circl H and why
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did you call I'm
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sorry Joe I'm sorry a feeling of full
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circl all good now why did you call your
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first album Pink Friday well I wanted
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something that represented my favorite
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color pink and uh another member of my
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team at that time said Pink Friday I
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fell in love right away now if you were
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to describe the look for this next album
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in a single word or idea what would it
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be
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vetar I mean or as I said it on my album
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vamin now you've also said that Jay-Z
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Foxy Brown and Lil Wayne were some of
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your biggest influences when you were
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coming up what did each of them have
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that you wanted to
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emulate Jay-Z business savvy Foxy Brown
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Immaculate
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delivery Little
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Wayne
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trendsetter and out of all the people
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you can rely on who are the ones you go
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to if you ever need
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advice my
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spiritual uh friends I think anyone who
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can speak with deeper meaning and what
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would you say is the deepest meaning
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wisdom that you've ever received um to
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remain humble important to be humble
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okay so your fans have now a peek inside
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two of your Studios I say we keep
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exploring the property all right you
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guys let's go outside and get some fresh
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air let's do it we should just be in
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time for sunset so Nikki I wanted to ask
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what would you say is your favorite
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feature not by Nicki
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Minaj I would say if I rule the world
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Nas and Lauren Hill good one and what is
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the one song with 100% certainty that'll
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make you cry
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um hello Bal I may have a feeling I know
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the answer to this one but what was was
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the last great movie that you
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watched Barbie yep there it is upd or
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blowout and definitely in my blowout era
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freestyle or written
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verse written verse I like to write and
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while you are writing what is your go-to
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takeout order whenever you need a
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break B wings and some french fries hot
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sauce and
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ketchup delicious and when you think
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about your times and history in Trinidad
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is there a favorite memory that always
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comes up my grandmother for sure now
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what if that question replace Trinidad
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with New York City the smell of snow and
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when you think of yourself as a child
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how would you describe that smaller
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version of you helpful when did you
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first realize you love performing
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entertaining people being in front of an
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audience probably around the age of five
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and when did you first hear the sound of
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your own voice on the
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radio
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um when I was working at my labster um
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maybe I know maybe 17 years ago must
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have been crazy and what was the worst
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part of that
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job having
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to constantly wash your clothes because
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they smell like Red
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Lobster what performance in your career
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were you most nervous about beforehand
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all of my televised performances early
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on in my career what was the first album
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you heard that completely changed your
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life his education in Lauren I read you
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wrote your first rap when you were 12
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years old yes do you remember any of
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those lyrics cookies the name chocolate
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chip is the suck up my sty like Cherry
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life
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say now I want to go back to Red Lobster
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for a second what other jobs did you
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have before you got signed
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lots of
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waitressing uh customer service rep
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um
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telemarketer uh receptionist
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mhm and also I even sold fire
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extinguishers oh random assortment of
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jobs which of those jobs did you love
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the
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most W is manager now you originally
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uploaded your first mixes to Myspace if
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you remember can you tell me who was in
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your Myspace top
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eight I have no idea but I'm sure little
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wi is probably one of them probably and
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what was your first accent that you
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think you nailed well I thought I nailed
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it but I'm learning I did not uh the
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Jamaican accent would you like to
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demonstrate a Jamaican accent for me
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now yeah hey I successfully got you to
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Freestyle I guess I can't ask for it all
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all right follow me to the house now
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Nikki you were the first woman who
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signed with young money do you think
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that that came with any pressure
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absolutely when exactly did your alter
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egos first start to come out in your
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music I think on like five star chick
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with yogatti and
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um bedrock with young money um I started
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tapping in more into like the Barbie
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Persona I'd like to list a few other
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personas do you think you could describe
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each of them with one
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word sure here we go Harajuku Barbie
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Japan red ruby the sleev
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Roman now out of Harajuku Barbie red
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ruby or Roman who is your favorite of
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the three I guess my favorite right now
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is red ruby but as a whole in our Barb
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Community I would say Roman okay and how
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would you describe your fashion and
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style early in your career
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cookie does that word still describe
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your style today I wouldn't say so when
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did your fans first start calling
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themselves barbs I gave them that name
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because first I was calling them Barbies
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cuz I was calling myself Barbie and then
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I just thought that barbs sounded more
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like a term of endearment really stuck I
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like it what did you think when you
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first saw your official
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Barbie oh gosh well um
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I just was very emotional grateful
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couldn't believe it ecstatic yeah it was
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amazing now shifting gears if you could
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eat only one food from a bodega for the
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rest of your life what would it be um
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well definitely it would be a sandwich
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turkey cheese lettuce tomato salt pepper
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oil and vinegar jalapenos mayonnaise
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mustard extra
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turkey extra cheek wow there's a lot
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going on with that sandwich next time
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I'm out at Bodega I'll order the Nicki
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Minaj and see what they do so would you
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like to have a drink I love a drink
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thank you Nikki okay good okay I'll hang
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here and enjoy the sunset while you're
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gone now Nikki what would you say Queens
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does better than any other burough get
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the money and out of all the places
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you've ever given a concert what's been
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your favorite City to perform in
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well I would say New York well obviously
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New York City has to be the best and
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whose style did you look up to the most
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when you were younger I looked up to a
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specific era of the hipop
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culture where the engent salt and pepper
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is sort of like really cemented into my
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psyche at one point and it's why till
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this day I am in love with bamboo
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earrings and I even put bamboo earrings
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in my fendy prints online at one time
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it's sort of like the girl that L J was
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describing on round the way girl now I
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got to ask what's the secret to a
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perfect cat
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eye uh well you can't be nervous you
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can't be um late you have to be very
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calm and you know you just have to
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think angle and sharp noted hey what was
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your favorite Mech Gala look yikes
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and what about a typical Nicki Minaj at
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home look I rather like this look
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actually um do and gabana on the coat
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and Tom F on the sneaker little wife
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beater and some jean shorts nothing too
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much Barbie chain of
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course what was the first designer item
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you ever
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bought I don't remember but I remember
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the first designer fake designer item I
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was given from uh my
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friend it was a fake Louis vuon ooh and
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what clothing item do you have the most
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of in your
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closet um I have a lot of sweaters
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because I'm always cold who's a new
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designer that you're super excited about
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at this
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moment you
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well does veton count as a new designer
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right now not really
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Joe counts for me does it yeah I love
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demo okay so let me say that want me to
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yeah shout out to Georgia
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okay what has been the most rewarding
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part about being a
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mother um every single second of every
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single day learning that I was able to
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love on a whole other level that is
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beautiful and how did having a baby
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affect how you recorded your most recent
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album well because some of the songs
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started off being written about 4 years
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ago um there were songs any I couldn't
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record sexually explicit songs while I
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was pregnant um so I ended up just
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getting turned off for like a very long
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time and I had wr's blck for a while
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even after I had the baby and um so now
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I'm doing a balance of what I think
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feels like Nicki
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Minaj but that's doesn't make me you
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know feel like eek yeah and why did you
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go with a nickname papa bear for your
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son
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well I don't know you know I've always
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been a nickname person I give everyone I
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love these nicknames normally and um he
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actually had a couple nicknames he his
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first nickname while he was in my
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stomach was
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Bubba and and um when he came out it
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just transformed into papa bear I can't
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explain it but when I looked at him
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that's what I thought it's really cute
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do you see any of yourself in his
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personality
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yet yes and what is the number one most
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favorite thing that he loves doing in
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life
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swim or just be in the pool in any way
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in water playing in Warner can you give
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me any hint about what his name is sure
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amazing so many people have asked me to
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ask you this I can okay ready for the
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hint all right well we'll keep it a
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secret I read you've been doing voices
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for him will any of these show up in the
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most recent
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record no that's for me and him fair
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enough I also read that you quoted
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Lauren Hill in your high school yearbook
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I did what lyric did you use to survive
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is to stay alive in the face of
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opposition which of your rrap snacks
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flavors is your favorite I'll never tell
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what did no one tell you about being
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famous that you really like other people
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to
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know it
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is it's only it's not for the faint of
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heart you once said that being famous
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comes with a lot of guilt how do you
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manage that today
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um by just focusing on the positive
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energy the love energy and um learning
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how to love myself enough to realize
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that I put in my BLT Twi and tears into
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this I deserve it it's okay what
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celebrity do you have saved in your
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phone that would completely surprise me
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or anyone else out there who's a fan of
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you thank
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[Applause]
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H that's a very interesting question at
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the moment I would say the iconic the
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legendary
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beautiful
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boss
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an I wouldn't say I'm completely
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surprised when was the last time that
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you were truly terrified um my son ran
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out of the door in the hotel I was at
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recently and ran in the hallway as if
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this was just another part of the house
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that he thought he was in and so just
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for those couple moments I was terrified
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that is scary Nikki what makes zero
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sense to
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you um what makes zero sense to me
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is thinking that you could ever go up
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against the barbs and
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win what is the the biggest
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misconception about
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you that I'm mean would you still
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consider yourself a
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homebody yes you once said that the
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thing that motivates you the most is
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proving to yourself that you can do
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something what do you have left to prove
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to
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yourself if it was all worth it I think
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it was but Nikki you've now answered 72
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questions before I go I want to ask you
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10 years ago you said you'd be married
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with a baby and that has come true 10
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years later what do you predict for
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yourself in another 10 years hundreds
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and hundreds of
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billion and being able to help a lot of
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people that I think need help in today's
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pro well we can't wait to see you
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achieve that what a great answer to end
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a great interview it's official you've
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just completed your 73 questions thank
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you and your fans are going to love it
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thank you for having me you guys I love
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you so much this is a dream come
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true thank you for having me I love you
