I've never told nobody I feel bad about these things.

And in rap, you're not actually supposed to be like, yeah, I did this, I did that, I did it.

And that was the first part of the record.

It's like all of that, getting all that out the way so I can get to this place, going through prison.

All this project basically was, was me taking you through a 15-year sentence and showing you how

redemption is important because the person that came in was this way.

The person that came out is this way.

That's so many people that I know. It's beautiful, man. That's like, that is exactly why art exists. That's so many people that I know.

It's beautiful, man.

That's like, that is exactly why I already exists.

That's why a song like this works so well at the end of the album.

It works on its own, but have the context, to have IDK in the studio to dissect his brand new mix tape, even the devil smiles. IDK, thanks for joining dissect, man. Hey man, thanks for having me. I'm a big fan of what you do, so. Appreciate it, man. Yeah. Yeah, excited to get into the project. We're going to talk about themes, talk about concepts and everything, and just get into the weeds on it.

I guess before we get there, though, a question that I always like to ask everyone,

but especially artists is like, I'm always curious about your relationship with music.

You know, music is something we hear all the time where a kid, it's in the backgrounds,

on the cartoons that we watch, but then somewhere along the line, music becomes something more.

It becomes more than something we hear in the background, and we develop a deep relationship with it.

I'm wondering if you know if you could talk to me about when that might have happened in your life, if there was an album or a song that was a catalyst to that?

The idea of wanting to make music and be a rapper, probably I would have to say came from,

except from the DMV from watching Waleh.

And hearing about him on the radio, him being, because I'm African, my parents is from Sierra Leone in Ghana.

And him being African, rapping about being African, being on the radio from the DMV, that kind of was the first thing that sparked like potentially thinking I could maybe do something.

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