As you guys all know, Reggie's a journalist.

And a good one at that.

Very research takes her time.

She's detailed.

And she's been in the game for some years now, right?

So I wanted to get your thoughts on Russ.

So let me preface this by saying, I love people who are passionate about music, okay?

Especially in these times, right, in this day and age, where a lot of people are just

showing up for the bag, trying to collect as much streams as they can and go on to the next

thing.

It's really beautiful to see people who enjoy and are passionate about the music, right?

It's like, all right, cool.

You're not caught up in the drama of things.

You're not caught up in the bullshit that this lifestyle might come with, but your focus is the music, right? My thing with Russ is, is like, you know, like, yeah, that's all cool, but all that is cool and dandy, but maybe we've spoken about this in a similar way before, but with Russ, it's like, dude, you know you're a musician, right?

He comes off like a politician.

All the fucking, it's at times you forget that Russ makes music because, and again, a salute to everyone's first amendment, right?

All right. Salute. Oh, my gosh. Okay, please,

freedom of speech. Salute to you. I understand. Kudos to you. But I think what a lot of artists

don't understand is that the optics of how they come off once they voice multiple things over and

over and over and over again. Reggie, do you know what I'm

alluding to? Yes, I do. Oh my gosh. This is this is bad of me to do. I'm sorry. Oh, we're going to get back to Russ. We're going to get back to us. Okay. That's fine. But when you said like the optics of an artist really matters, I just have to slide this in there because it just happened. Have you seen

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