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We're excited to have Teyana Taylor back.
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This is a moment right here. It feels official.
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Kind of feels like it's the first step towards 2021 for me.
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It's the first conversation I've had where I feel like it's like almost the new year, which I'm dying to get to.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I am, too.
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I hope we don't get stuck in 2020, though.
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Like I'm scared for like the new year.
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Like it because we have to do like It's like Groundhog Year.
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We just keep waking up and it's 2020.
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It's like, "What did we do?
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I thought we were good people.
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Did we I thought everyone I know is a good person. What did we do wrong?" Like I don't get it.
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I'm scared, but I'm excited. I'm excited.
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I'm excited about this playlist.
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Let me tell you, you have gone deep deep into timeless R&B performance here.
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I am looking at this thing.
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This I want to copy this. How do I do that?
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I'm trying to get that feeling back. Like that feeling.
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It's like You can't even explain it. It just feels good.
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But even the selections, like and we'll get to this later cuz we're definitely playing, but out of all the Kanye records to choose Heard 'Em Say, Listen, that record has made me cry.
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Like It's just like You know, and for like I just found out last year that like Uh uh uh uh What did I find out? I just drew a blank. Oh my gosh.
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Something I It was a random fact that I found out about that song, and I was like, "Wow."
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But like that's one of the songs like I've been listening to for years, and I never really listened to the lyrics.
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And it's weird because I make music, and I never listen to the lyrics until like recently.
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And I'm just like, "Yo, this is like I knew it was a good song, but it was just about the feeling.
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It just made me feel good."
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I just would like I just vibe out, and I'm like It's like I almost close my ears or something, but I just I feel it.
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I don't even think I don't think twice. I don't overthink. I just let it play.
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You know, and then it's just like I'm like, "Yo, I just I just try to chase that feeling.
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And I And I I haven't gotten it yet.
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So, Kanye, I'm coming for you.
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Adam Levine, I'm coming for you.
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I mean, the pot is the pot is set.
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I mean, there's been some incredible examples of people who started out and had great careers in music who actually turned in some really exceptional roles.
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And the next artist on the playlist is one of them.
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Justin Timberlake is no slouch. Yeah.
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Uh you know, tell us the story about Justin Timberlake and how he figures into the whole Tierra Whack jigsaw.
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Yo, honestly, Justin just has it.
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I don't even It's Yo, when I can't find words to express, that's how you know, like it's it, like it's just like I can't I can't explain.
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When I put When I Any song I put on Justin Timberlake, it's just like I just lose my mind.
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His voice, just him, his swag, his just everything. Justin, I love you.
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If Justin, I hope somebody showed you this, just know that I'm a huge fan. I love you so much. Mariah Carey is up next.
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Uh the queen of Christmas, they call her.
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She officially starts Christmas with her fans. It's unbelievable.
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Um To me, the thing about Mariah is that she gets a huge amount of recognition for her tone and for her performances and her ability and her charisma. But as a writer, Yeah.
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she is unreal as a writer.
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Now, Mariah Carey is a proper lifetime diva.
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Like that kind of that kind of diva that you know is just like her whole career is something else.
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Why are we playing this song Shake It Off?
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Why is it featured on your playlist, Tierra?
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Man, I was like going through some stuff and uh it came on shuffle one day.
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I was driving and I was just like cuz I take really long drives just to like just to think, you know, just clear my mind.
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And when I play that song, I'm just like, "Yo, like why am I tripping?"
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I had I had to literally just shake it off.
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Like it's okay, it's going to be okay.
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Something better is coming, you know?
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And that song for that moment, like it just was and I've been playing it ever since.
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Like cuz I remember like that song got me out of what it like the funk that I was feeling.
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The funk that I was smelling. Yeah.
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What kind of How big a role did music play in your childhood when you were growing up in Illadelph?
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Um honestly, yo, so I was just playing the Blueprint 2 by Jay-Z, right?
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And I was like, "Yo, like" cuz I was just letting it play while I was driving once again, letting it play.
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And I was just like, "Yo, like" I realized how much my mom like she really like she's a hip-hop head like and I forget sometimes until like I said, I play certain songs and I'm like wow, I remember being in the backseat of my mom's car and her just like turning the speakers all the way up and just us just running around like driving like and I'm like, yeah, so I I just got to give it all to my mom.
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She's so she's like the coolest mom in the world. Mom, I love you.
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Listen, let me ask you a question, Tierra, cuz we're in the kind of like that that sort of generational hip-hop space right now that your mom turned you on to.
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When you decided that you were going to take on rapping and I I don't actually and I hope this tastes right, but I don't consider yourself you as a rapper or a singer or a performer.
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I I do think of Wack World as a whole thing.
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Like it's a whole thing and I never know what I'm going to get.
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But you do rap and you do it really really well.
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When you present it and you have these songs, do you ever get nervous about playing them to your mom given that you know, she was the one who turned you on to the music in the first place?
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How kind of honest is she about about your music?
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Uh my mom is the most honest person in the world.
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Like she's like my number one and then I have like my managers.
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They tell me everything, but um I remember like at a young age when I first was starting to rap and she was like I would like to say I rap to her and she's like, "Ah, that's not that good."
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and I would like get so mad because I hated her honesty.
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But her honesty made me better.
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So like I really appreciate her so so much.
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Like I can't thank her enough.
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Um but yeah, yeah, she's always the most honest.
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What is Christmas like What is the holidays like in Philadelphia?
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What what What are some of your earliest holiday memories growing up as a kid in Philadelphia cuz you right, it does get cold.
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So you get that traditional seasonal Christmas holidays thing. Get that snow. We get all that snow.
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We don't all really like the snow, but we appreciate it, but we don't like it, but you know, uh it it's good. It's good.
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I I usually go to my family's house, my Aunt Nikki's house um and it's just a bunch of cousins and we're just like just having fun, laughing, joking. All we do is laugh.
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And um yeah, just a lot of family time.
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How's your experience being being an artist around artists?
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Cuz it's one thing when you invent and imagine it and you imagine what it's going to be like for you.
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It's another thing when you find yourself at the kind of events that we both met at And you're surrounded by other artists and sometimes they come up to you and they acknowledge you and they appreciate you for what you do.
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How have you found that experience and has anyone really made a great impression on you, someone that you really enjoy getting to know and meeting over the course of the last couple of years?
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It's funny, I was thinking about that.
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I was just driving uh to to come you know do this this meeting and um I was just thinking about Erykah Erykah Badu.
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And like she's like been like OG like like a mother to me.
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Like she's like my favorite right now.
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Um her, Alicia Keys, like all these like huge legend legendary legends. Like legendary legends.
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Like like just big sisters.
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Like just just everything.
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Like I get the best advice from them.
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Um we talk like on a daily basis.
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Yo, I've been killing Erykah in uh the we have the iPhone game Anagrams, the word game. I've been killing her.
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She keeps coming back to get killed.
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Like I feel so bad like I'm putting her out there, but like she's so bad. She's so bad at it.
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Like she beat me like once out of like a hundred games.
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And she rubbed it in my face, but I just I didn't really care.
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I actually I just I let her win. I did.
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I'm just going to be honest. I did let her win.
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You let her win the one time she won, you like you can't even Wow, I'm seeing a whole different side of you.
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I play with my eyes closed, but I didn't tell her.
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Like I was like all right, let me just and I You're a monster. Who are you?
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You're You're so competitive. You're Who are you? I am. I am.
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YOU YOU KNOW I PLAYED SPORTS in school.
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Like I'm like the most competitive person.
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Like I I don't like to lose and I just keep coming This is amazing.
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You know what I really appreciate about every time we speak Tiara is you just keep like you just keep like like revealing yourself very deliberately, but then sometimes some sometimes something will come out and you'll be like I'll be like wow, I learned something new about Tiara now.
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She is a total competitive nightmare case.
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But that's why I rap so good. Come on. Come on, Zane.
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I got to talk I GOT TO TALK.
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LOOK, I'M a rap rap heart, but I love to I love R&B.
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You talk a lot of too, right?
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When it comes to competition.
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Like you definitely like to talk, right? Yes. Yes.
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Yo, you know what's crazy?
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I know you were talking about artists, too.
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Like I love Yachty so much, too.
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Yachty is always He's always looking out for me, Lil Yachty.
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Like he's like the best like It's probably Yeah, he's probably I really like appreciate He's just I don't know, he's so genuine, you know?
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Cuz like in the industry, you don't meet a lot of genuine artists.
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Like they want to use you and then they're done with you and then but like he sticks around. He checks on me.
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And even him putting me on the, you know, the song on his album.
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Like that was like a huge blessing.
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I appreciated it so much.
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He doesn't get enough credit for that.
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He's an artist He's an artist's artist.
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He really supports and you're absolutely right to call him out on that.
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Him, Tyler, Rocky, like like it's crazy.
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Yeah, these are all free spirits and free thinkers.
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Every single person that you mentioned is an unafraid artist. Yes.
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I love each and every one.
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Tierra, what's the story with 2021?
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We have these three songs, two of which we're obviously very fond of here at Apple and we're super stoked to be collaborating with you to some degree on that.
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Um and Dora, which has kicked you back into action in beautiful style.
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Um but what what are you sort of hoping to achieve next year? What can you tell us?
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That's a very roundabout friendly kind of way to ask you like what's the facts? The facts?
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Um I'm coming back bigger, better, stronger and just wiser, man.
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And I like I'm still Like I said, I'm still I always want to remind people that hey guys, I'm still human.
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I'm going to make mistakes, but you know, I feel like I've learned from every mistake I've ever made and I just always try to do better. And um yeah. It is what it is.
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And you're being creative still? You enjoying it? You enjoying it? You working? Yes, having so much fun.
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I've been This is like the happiest I've ever been in my whole life. Like honestly.
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Like I'm being all the way real with you.
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And um I'm actually going to the studio as soon as I hang up with you, which I'm not in a rush, but I'm just letting you know, that's where I'm going. I'm going to the studio. So yeah, I'm excited.
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Um I've been just feeling bubbly and happy and just good and yeah, I'm excited.
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What went through your head when you heard the when you heard Dora?
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When you started to hear that coming together in the vocals.
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I sat with it and then I went into like this dark room.
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They set up some bean bags for me and I was like, all right, I'm just going to try anything.
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I'm not going to overthink this because like I said, I don't like when I'm afraid of stuff.
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So, I tried not to be like afraid by just doing it.
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Like just don't think about it.
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Take your feelings out of it. Just do it.
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And that's what I did and um yeah, it just it just came out and I'm like this was this was at a time where like I still was kind of like weird like like going through weird feelings and thoughts about just the quarantine and everything.
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And um just like I I wanted to get out. I wanted to get outside. So, open the door.
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You know, I'm ready to go outside. Yeah, man. There it is.