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T oil because you work with Rihanna on that record, I mean one of the few key outside collaborators on that work outside of production, yeah, how did that happen? Was that experience for you in the same room when they painted a painting for us? Yeah, definitely man. I always wanted to work with Rihanna. I loved everything about her. You know the art of it. How she represented women. You know that they don't just have to defeat themselves. but they express themselves the same way she expressed herself through

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and you should care. I love everything about her so I always want to work with her.

She had her album. She made the album and her name immediately appeared. I reached out and locked myself in the study. We made it happen. Good vibrations. Great vibe. Quickly done. Great flash. He has incredible energy. a vibe in itself, yeah, yeah, love, yeah, it's like it's a beautiful love song, but of course the complex thing is always, yeah, tell us about that man, my boys, ech, yeah, the guy who sang on the record was in the studio vibrating, he planned tracks on the track on the track. On the court, this guy is incredibly talented and I've always liked having new ears and bringing new talent, you know, new talent to the world's mates because there's so much good stuff out there that you always have to make sure people can do it. .

Listen to him and how many don't get hurt, it's cool, he's one of the guys, so he's playing this record, the man just plays these drums and it feels like euphoria, you know, we immediately knock it out, probably like the next day, beautiful . The experience of being able to focus on something as something positive is that yeah, I mean, it's a nice gift to try to love a song like that, you have to put yourself in a place that we needed to try to put everything else aside, exactly that. is. why I say let's get it out ASAP yeah yeah yeah I heard the beat and immediately you know I just go back to this space where you already know you're a teenager and now you're figuring out what the concept of actually feeling more attracted to a woman but really love and stuff, you know, and filling that kind of love and getting your heart broken, you know, going back to that space and the simple idea in the simple concept that I love and they're filling in between All the other madness around the album I was going to ask you, don't you have that in your life to settle into a relationship?

You know that cementing the account well must be enormously grounding given the kind of madness that exists in itself. normal existence exactly and that's the year in the year you know you can't have a love you know without your pride affecting it you know without having I'm going to take out your ego the situation you know making your humble the idea of ​​that you know, you know, then I felt that there was a perfect exclamation, Martin, you know, you know, what happened? xxx, yes, it presents you as an offensive bonus, you know to me and in public that America is an idea and the kind of feeling is in that song that speaks. about it's a sound, it's not a direct place, you know, crazy lyrics, crazy lyrics, bar pairs and tact, yeah, what's xxx?

I to the Wizard of York xxx is the idea of ​​total chaos in madness. That's what I got from you. A controlled organized madness. Magnus, you know us trying to control this Magnus, so when you hear the lyrics or what he says, you know it's a place, you know it's ideas, it's kind of I was trying to control that idea, the lyrics, the songs, do you even have a good idea? If the original idea of ​​what America is for better or worse gets a content idea, a simple content idea, is that so? Hmm, you know that's one of the songs you like to play about Donald Trump as president, but it makes its way. which again in a situation where you're like you know, okay, this is the world we live in right now, yeah, it wasn't the world we were in before you had a short, you know you have a very personal with Barack Obama and I wonder what that elevates in you as a person the opportunity to get to know him the opportunity to share thoughts with him and have ideas with him as president at that time what he took from that experience what I took from that experience was the idea of ​​knowing that more is needed is going to take more than just eight years a four year idea idea of ​​change you know, many times he was a child when he was elected but not a child just a younger adult, we have the idea of ​​where I got the idea to go for 360 like that so we have a conversation with him as he sits me down and says he changed them you know don't start why I'm here it starts once we leave the space we were here that was your idea .

I know subconsciously that this is due to the idea of ​​me self-evaluating my own personal thoughts, the way I think, and what I'm going to get out of this meeting. When I walk out into the building, you know, that was the experience that someone always has. Dear, just the idea of ​​knowing that right now I have to think beyond this year or last year, you have to prepare for the next decade of what you are going to do that will result in changing an idea or thoughts that we have. have used for so many years you are free to get hooked right now you will have that game we have the court right here that court right here and jump on those pajamas keep publishing this in the media - I have to look at that left-handed person, we have the court right here, that That's what I'm going to weigh, how much to talk about.

I think we are reaching the end of our time. I mean, I just want to leave everything I've done, so I'm serious. I'm going to get to Duckworth, okay, I mean, this is amazing on the record, which shows how tenuous everything is, you know what I mean, like he's on a highway because he's on a tightrope at all times and the left or the right can change everything all the time, yes, when did you realize that story that had happened, when did you realize that you knew each other, that's what we did, that story is shared, I believe you in the room when You figure it out and look at each other, I mean?

Almost a year after I met Top Dog Man when I was 16, then my dad came to the studio after being locked in with him for a minute and we had a relationship. Now bring my dad too, you know, he listened, you know, trying. with top dog but my dad doesn't know miss top dog you know the industry standard is top dog before you stop dog he was another name so when he walked into her room and saw top dog it was this guy , they turned around. It means flip and still to the day and top flips, plus, a totally nice straight, oh yeah, still to this day they laugh and laugh and trip and tell each other the same story over and over, you know, have you waiting status? tell that story I've been waiting it was the right time it was the right time I'm at the top he himself didn't know he was going to do it or even execute it that way to get through the last song or be anywhere just make it make sense I've been planning for him and he turned, you know, because beyond the song, when you can really, you can hear the word, hear your life, you know it in words, you know that it is so true to you and that it affected your life. life is 100% based on one decision it really makes you sit back and appreciate the moment you know I think that's something we all planned that record as a man look what we had when we were recording

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for the world to hear and taking care of it to families.

You know, we are blessed, but listen to this, it was easy, this is what happened, this is real life, this is amazing and since the boy I always told myself broke, anything is possible and he always comes back one hundred percent. percent confirmation. and that story is a confirmation, you can say that and all the great artists in this, you know, it's this kind of internal battle with maybe who was putting on like I want to be, other people want me to be and the district with his wife, By that I mean, me. I really feel like this is a deeply human album, that's the only way I can describe it.

I tried trying to find words to describe it and silly in a simple way, it's really a really human experience, but since it's cool, it's definitely the best word. to describe for me, it's an album about my own self-discipline, that's my favorite word last year, discipline that you know, in obedience, you know how to control your own emotions and even how to speak that truth on a record that you know how to expose yourself even more . having that closer connection with another human being and having them relate to it, you know it's not easy to speak your truth, you know that and the things that your fear you know when you're seven seventeen and even a couple of years ago, you know that, but I know at the end of the day you know that music is not for me, it is for someone else who will upgrade to listen to it and progress in their lives and that is the reason why I always choose to have that dynamic when I approach it , you already know. uninterested in the whole situation where you're recording making a lot of music, you know, that appeared on this album, you show that there's a lot of music that didn't appear on this album, yes, xxx, I have six verses on that topic, yes, that's why The changes are so crazy.

Are we talking about a lot of music we've never heard before? Really places to get to where you need to get to, so yes, because now my process is the premeditated one of not throwing all the paint on the wall. I can and I take advantage of it and if people think there is a resurrection on Easter weekend, then there are some things in a city that are pretty good, right? It is not like this. I'm still trying to get him to write that and yet it's over. Some people are like the number one killer, some things in Allen, but it's not that, but everything sucks and you know, a lot of times the people, the list of my music, are really good and really, really, really good. yeah, I did these amazing things, you must laugh out loud when it all worked out, man, it would be mine, it would belong, I'd be impressed if you did that to us all the time, I think I accomplished thirty percent of what I want.

Getting there was a beautiful shame, I appreciate that no, I really appreciate the opportunity to sit with you, man, I know you don't do it often in them, you know, you know, I hope you got it, come on, we've got enough for everyone now same, but If it's not like you say, it's on the album, yeah, man. Hello, I appreciate it.