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Time now for a segment called The Song That Changed My Life.

On deck we have Nicolet. He's best known as the production half of the group The Foreign Exchange alongside our old friend Fontay.

They formed in 2002 in what I think is fair to call the most 2002 manner possible.

They met on a message board.

Nicolet, who lived in Norway, met rapper Fontay on the hip-hop website, OK Player.

Fonte lived in North Carolina and also performed in the hip-hop group Little Brother.

Nicolet and Fonte eventually recorded an exchange tracks across the Atlantic Ocean.

That's why the album was called the Foreign Exchange.

These days, that isn't a particularly novel way to make music but in 2002 it was a big deal and the two of them were an incredible fit.

We just want to tell and like you want it just what, just what I know you know you know

you probably don't, don't, don't, don't know, the way we call you.

I think I saw just let our music rule you.

I'm more than beats, I'm more than rhymes, please I'm not your everyday fine.

J-D's on the mission and shine and get some sunlight and get our ones right and keep

our fam tight. The foreign exchange is more than just a beatmaker and a rapper.

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