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It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest on the program is the rapper

Blue with his production partner, Exile. He released the album below the heavens last year.

Blue, welcome to the Sound of Young America.

Young right here. I'm chilling with some young man. What up, young world? Hey, young world.

That's a good intro. Okay, so there's very little information about you, your young guy.

There's not that much out there, so I want to kind of put together your biography if we could.

Your folks were really young when you were born and I know that they split up. How old were you

when they split up? Three, four or something. What do you remember about their relationship when

you were a little kid? I actually don't even remember my dad during that time. I just remember him

once, twice where we lived, like two different places we lived. I remember seeing him. I got like one

moment from each place of my dad. But my mom, different things like taking me to night school with her.

You know what I'm saying? I remember walking across the bridge. I don't know what school that was.

It was like over the freeway when I was little eating McDonald's in the class and

like my birthday. I remember being in my grandma all the time.

Did you split time between your parents or did you live mostly with them? They were living together

at first. You talked about after this? Yeah, when they split up. I was mostly with my mom and I

were visiting my dad occasionally. One moment. It wasn't like a legal thing. He would just come through.

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