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Guaranteed Human. Hey, welcome back. We live at One Music Fest. Hey, Carlos. Backwoods, backstage. I've been kicking it with the homies from poor minds all day. Lex and Dreia, Dreia and Lex. Yes, honey. The girls. Yes. I told y'all. Match is real. And Kenny, motherfucking burn. Important people. And I got to say, you know, I already got to get people. You know, Kenny is our partner, though. I know. I have to give Kenny his flowers because I love, like Carlos, you saw the vision. You know what I'm saying? And we had just moved in our studio. It was still tough for us to get guests. And Kenny was like I'm coming on that I'll fuck with y'all Kenny was one of the first big guests we had on the show me came and you showed us love you are sweet you are knowledgeable you are funny and I just want to say thank you because when you came on everybody was like all right I guess I can rock with him and see yeah uh you all Listen, y'all light so bright and I told y'all when I met y'all. Thank you. And then in tandem, it's extra powerful. Yeah. I salute y'all. And I'm here whenever y'all need me for whatever, whenever. Thank you. None other than Mr. Kenny Barry. Exactly. Yeah, I want to say this before we get started, God damn. I've been in Atlanta since 1992. I just saw Gibb Goody and Uzi. I said, start telling me, nigga, I'm from here. I came here 18 years old. I'm from Washington, D.C. I think people always having this conversation about Atlanta and how, if you ain't from. I'm like, nigger, I'm part of every piece of this fabric. Yeah. So I just want to shout out the city I love because I love it too. This motherfucker, we got to get the music back on track. We got one music festival, which is happening right now. I mean, a long time ago, you couldn't be in Piedmont Park doing nothing.

Yeah, fat.

Nothing.

It's 16 years of this flash shit, so. Yeah. Yeah. And we at here all day, minute. Yeah. Yeah. Y'all doing y'all thing. I saw everybody on Instagram yesterday on day one. I was like, I got to go see them tomorrow. Yeah. 50 nights get off at 3.45. I'm going straight to the goddamn podcast. So good to see y'all.

Yes, we're so glad you pulled up on the edge. Yeah, man. Now this atmosphere, you know, this music fest, this is in your wheelhouse, man. Mm-hmm. What are you seeing from the executive side? And why it's important for it to be in Atlanta?

Anytime some niggas come out in the rain, you know you got something.

Yeah.

I walked on stage, I swear to God, it started rain soon as well. They ain't moved.

Yeah.

I love my people, man.

And because we don't have things like this consistently, because things happen all the time, I mean, you just heard of Howard University, five people got shot second day.

So everybody's paranoid the next day to go on the yard.

We need to keep showing up and showing that we are powerful in numbers.

Because if we can't do that, you see what's happening politically.

We fucked.

So we got to keep this energy.

And I can't say enough about the team here and the things that they are putting on, not just for the city of Atlanta, but for great artists. I just had Luke Skywalker on my stage. I had Ari Lennox on my stage. Carl Thomas. You can't do that nowhere else. Mix the generations up and everybody going crazy. And that's what I love about this festival, too, in particular, is that I feel like it's a lot of older legends, but then it's also a lot of like the new school artists that are really making a buzz. Like I think with a lot of other festivals, it's either like younger people or older people. No question. But y'all, babe, to that point, y'all know y'all motherfucking, I ain't gonna say elders like they're that motherfucker old, but Luke damn near.

But y'all know pop that. Y'all know goddamn, you know what I'm saying, birthday. So, you feel what I'm saying? Look at Lex. Yeah, yeah. We don't pop that for sure.

No, so it's a thing of like, you know your history.

Yeah, yeah.

And you feel that here so nobody feels excluded.

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