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Celebrating Moms with Mommy Rapper
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May 12, 2020
We are celebrating MOMS on this episode of Caren Glasser Live! Caren welcomes clean rap artist Mommy Rapper who’s on a mission to provide children and families with clean entertainment. 🎤🎵 Check out more shows here: http://carenglasser.live. Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser Visit The Super Boomer Lifestyle store: https://thesuperboomerlifestyle.com/ #mommyrapper #cleanrap #Monicamorong My Direct Links, Programs and Equipment I use for my Shows and Promotion: BeLive: http://bit.ly/3p7E0DB Get Your Book In Front Of Thousands of Potential Buyers! https://bit.ly/2HJ38Qu Logitech HD Pro Webcam: https://amzn.to/362BuXP Wired Earbuds with Microphone: http://amzn.to/3p1pmOi Lavalier Lapel Microphone: http://amzn.to/3p9EFVo Blue Yeti USB Mic: https://amzn.to/395hExi ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic Microphone: http://amzn.to/3qzEy5A
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hello everyone karen Glasser here and
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welcome to karen Glasser live we have
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such a show for you today
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I can hardly wait we are celebrating
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moms and we are welcoming Monica also
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known as mummy rapper to the show if
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you're here live we're thrilled you're
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here live make a comment down below if
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you're here on replay same same same
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thing make a comment down below and of
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course share share share share we love
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it when you share today I want to
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introduce you to Mummy rapper she is a
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mom a mother of four girls who goes by
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mommy rapper it's she's a clean rap
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artist who isn't afraid to speak her
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truth she was disappointed by the lack
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of clean rap songs and commercial music
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that was the catalyst in her decision to
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be the change she wanted to see instead
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of just complaining about it with other
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parents so mommy rapper is currently
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focusing on growing her brand as a clean
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commercial rap artist recording more
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original music and breaking into the
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music industry with her niche clean rap
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blip brand recently she was featured on
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Entertainment Tonight and we are excited
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to bring money rapper to the show so
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without further ado I'm going to bring
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you in right No hey there hi Karen hi
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everybody I am so happy that you're here
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we started the show with the song that
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kind of started everything right mother
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and you got you you in statement tonight
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found you little things found you Canada
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Entertainment tonight tonight found you
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I found you we all found you because
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what you're doing is so unique and so
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amazing and so we decided that's what we
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can honor mothers today by bringing you
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on to the show so without further ado
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let's just jump right into the topic you
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know I'm fascinated by what you do so I
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want to know why you do it why are you
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doing this I've asked myself the same
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question
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but I feel so passionate about it and
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I'm very clear on my why it's the hell
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that I have to let go of that's been my
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journey the last eight years so I grew
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up to rap and hip-hop and it was fine
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growing up when you're a listener under
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the age of you know 20 30 years old
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before kids you're not really thinking
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about it you're enjoying the beat you're
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enjoying the songs becoming a mother
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though and when your kids get about two
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years old or so they're picking up now
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on the lyrics so I couldn't rest it in
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the car anymore so my I was born after
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having two kids realizing there's a risk
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they could repeat these words or phrases
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and even though a lot of it is edited
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out right here Mart they're picking up
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on what's being said right so this
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started back I think 2012 right is when
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you decided to roll this all out you
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started doing crowdfunding tell us a
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little bit about what that was about
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yeah I've been thinking about sharing
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the first youtube video that I did in
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2012 because when you get an idea to do
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something different and to make a change
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in an area that you feel needs changing
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uh-huh doesn't look so fancy right I
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didn't know anything about YouTube in
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2012 so the for the first couple of
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years I was just starting my channel and
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after a few years it started to pick up
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steam in Vancouver Canada where I was
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living at the time Wow I developed this
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reputation as this mom rapper and I
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started performing at women's events and
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emceeing women's events performing at
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children's festivals um and then my
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friends were encouraging me why don't
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you do a Kickstarter like seeing if this
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is something you could actually monetize
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and make a living out of and I thought
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at the time I'm just a stay-at-home mom
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of two is that something it was just not
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part of my wheelhouse
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you know how the Kickstarter so I just
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went for it
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well I was trying a picture of you one
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of the things that I love about you is
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that you're so whimsical I mean there's
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a picture
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with bubblegum coming right out of your
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mouth and we think that you are trying
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things you're not you are fearless you
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are doing things that I think a lot of
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women might have dreamt about but would
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say there's no way I'm gonna go do this
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I'm just I'm just not going to do this
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but you decided to do this I started the
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show by saying you have four kids let's
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talk about the four kids I'm going to go
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ahead and put them into the stream
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I mean they're for them I'm just going
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to go ahead and put them up so you've
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got hep from what age to what age do you
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have so the eldest is now 13 and 11 the
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eldest is niya
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the 11 year olds Talia the 7 year old
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with the basketball there is Alana and
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the little one is Aveo
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she's 1 1 years old so you're starting
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them early and are they all rapping at
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this point or it's just mommy
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whatever mommy does over there well some
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of them have the performer gene I would
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say if they're more on the dance side of
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things they all like to dance so that's
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why they were begging me for tick tock
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for you know at least a year now and I
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decided I caved
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I let them try it that didn't work out
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how I wanted it to so I just did the
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tick tock account and we can post up on
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work yeah so and that's kind of why you
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you pushed into the clean rap because
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you started to see some of the stuff
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that was out there on tick tock right
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and it's not the kind of stuff that you
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wanted your kids to necessarily be
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listed on I inadvertently exposed them
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to all the explicit music I was trying
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to protect them from all right and
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instead of auditing at first I thought
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what everyone's doing tick tock it's
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cute there's parents even dancing and
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family is doing these things but that's
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just a sliver of what's on tick-tock you
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have to be very careful as a parent
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absolutely so when I was doing some
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research on you I went back into yo you
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have quite a few songs at this point and
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we're going to talk about the new album
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that's coming out but one of your
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earlier ones actually struck a chord
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with me I don't know exactly why I like
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it so much but I'm going to
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on right now we're going to just play
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the entire the entire video I think it
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really highlights you as a mommy rapper
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so here we're going to put it in let's
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go ahead and put the solo on and we're
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going to start Ron frame of mind
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doors closing dating get that it just
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wasn't I'm spending circles like
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tornadoes going out my mind disconnected
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from my third I live in blind dope don't
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wanna quit this light I ain't your
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ordinary housewife wanna zoom I think
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the dream is my dream or what I'm I know
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how to improvise see some people
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mesmerize fear of my enterprise watch me
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as a special life tired of the inside
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where my ladies in the game the ones who
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don't sell outs again you babe
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so once you don't push was profane in
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teen doom okay jury
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while hanging from poochie's you giving
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me a migraine I'm not on the same plane
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I'm doing my own thing I just wrap my
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ghost thing up Haven my own lane if you
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want the same thing that baby has grown
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man with my own thing to do with my own
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thing I'm doing my own thing to do with
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my own thing to do am i doing my doing
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my own thing circumstances make me
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anxious this world is in shambles while
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most keep on acting like they gonna live
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till the world just collapses bustling
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they work in tech heal up the planet
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your thoughts aside beside people's even
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just a superficial where you live in
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also show for real they're tripping
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listen we all want for cam you're
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ignorant don't think that because the
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favorite they all have because they made
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it so much danger in looking up to all
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these pop stars and show skin and use it
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to sell think gotta be hot if you wanna
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get no that's gotta be cool if you wanna
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show promise gotta be famous gotta get
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no it's gotta be famous gotta be famous
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can't be bothered too many artists who
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need an awkward show in some new places
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rap games are moral and I got my own
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something role models I'm going
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full-throttle doin my own thing to do
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with my own things I'm doin my own thing
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to do in my own way my
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[Music]
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[Music]
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you know I watched that and I think to
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myself you are giving moms who are
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watching and not watching right this
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minute but maybe on replay permission to
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do their own thing and I think that
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that's the message here is that you
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decided at in my lie to say your age yes
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I'm not hiding it anymore because it's
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part of the story and it's part of the
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fear of being a disrupter in the rap
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industry I do feel like I am poking at
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some issues in the music industry I feel
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like it's inappropriate and
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irresponsible for a lot of creators in
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the music industry and mostly the
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executives and that there's such little
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regulation and there are labeling around
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certain songs but I'm speaking out in
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the lyrics if you really listen to the
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lyrics I'm speaking out against how
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things have just gotten out of control
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and children are our innocent victims to
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what's happening in the music industry
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it's just a free-for-all and even though
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there's some parameters put in place
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around labeling a song as explicit so a
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parent knows I mean we have music
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streaming in our house Karen I don't
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know the age of your kids but the kids
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can go and say okay google play whatever
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song or Alexa or all these things
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alright and it returned the original
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song it doesn't hear clean if they say
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play the clean song so I have a mission
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around rap and I also have a mission
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around what you said giving women and
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moms permission to express themselves
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without limit and to not have fear
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because women have a history of being
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shunned and criticized and more worse
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than that probably even executed right
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that history there is ingrained
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ancestral fear around women speaking up
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so I you're right I don't have fear but
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and it takes a lot of courage to step
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out and
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make up against something that you don't
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agree with and I don't believe
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censorship I want to find a solution for
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everybody
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I love win-win solution so how can all
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the music creators continue to create
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whatever their heart desires its bucket
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so that children are exposed to mature
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subject matter before they're ready and
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you're doing it I mean so and you did it
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while you were quarantined that's the
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other piece of this is that in the
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middle of everything as you're getting
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ready to roll out this album and I'm
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gonna put the album cover up again
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mommy wrapper clean rap Volume one as
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you're doing this in quarantine I mean
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that's kind of crazy
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well I got the vision last year what I
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really miss I'm like this is the year
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last Mother's Day in 2019 I wanted to do
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it but the baby was like three or four
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months a little not to let go I'm like I
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have a baby I'm gonna do this next
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Mother's Day so the quotient process
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started around December of putting the
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songs together going to the studio I
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recorded the four songs before
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quarantine started but then it was the
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music video I wanted to shoot for the
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lead single mother and I had to let go
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of doing a traditional music video
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because you're not supposed to be in
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contact so that's why I did a music
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video that was more of a dance
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compilation of other moms and to
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celebrate moms and not do a traditional
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video where I'm performing to camera and
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exactly and and you can find this video
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you can go to youtube you can you can
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check this out and I'm going to give you
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a link also where you can purchase these
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songs for your kids it's clean I mean
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it's and it's for the moms I find myself
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just sitting here just moving to the
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beat and I don't even be honest I don't
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even like rap but there's something
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about what you're doing here that makes
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me feel good I mean it really does make
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me feel good let's talk about what's
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going on I mean so Entertainment Tonight
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well before we talk about that I want to
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make sure I thanked you for that
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statement because I want to reach every
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demographic you're me well we're not
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going to talk about eight
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because I don't really actually believe
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in the it's not an important topic but I
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mean you're in a certain demographic I'm
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in a certain demographic kids are in a
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certain demographic I want to reach
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everybody
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I want to make rap I call myself the
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Ellen of rap I love it oh it's so
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accessible and so down-to-earth and it
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doesn't matter what age you are what
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gender you are what race you are she's
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so relatable and cool and I'd love to be
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able to have that type of reach through
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my music but yeah Entertainment Tonight
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it's magical that all you have to do and
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this is my message to all of you is
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create what you're going to create and
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then put it out there if I didn't reach
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out to them I tagged them I email them I
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sent a direct message to a reporter for
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Entertainment Tonight with the music
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video I launched called mother I had
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just put on YouTube and I like barely
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any views I did it maybe the day before
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she said I love it I want to write a
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story on it so you just never know you
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and your destiny you just have to put
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yourself out there not wait for stuff to
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happen but you're fearless I mean you're
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doing this you're just doing this and
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figuring it out later you're not saying
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gee should I send this over to
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Entertainment Tonight no you just did it
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you were also written up in a one of the
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top viral of on-site websites called
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little things so talk about that I mean
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you're just popping up everywhere and I
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think that she has frozen we're gonna
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have Monica go ahead and refresh
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yourself drop out and come back in while
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we're sitting here chatting and while
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we're doing that Monica I'm gonna have
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you actually refresh yourself I don't
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know if you can hear me but you are
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completely frozen
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alright I'm gonna drop you out and have
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you come back in so as you can tell she
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Monica mommy rapper I'm sorry is a
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go-getter this woman is I want to be her
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when I
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a little bit younger she's amazing and
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I'm gonna bring her back in I think in a
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second here she is there she is and
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she's back what happened I don't know
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you completely froze but you had a smile
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on your face while you froze it was all
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good
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it was total it was all good so we are
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talking about little things we're
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talking about Entertainment Tonight what
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how did the little things have come
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about that's an online site again I just
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did a bit of research we didn't talk
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about my background pre-wrap it actually
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was public relations oh I know you have
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to do your research and find out the
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different beats it's called the beat
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that different writers and reporters
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have and pitch the right people you know
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maybe pitching a sports writer your rap
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story so I missed googled the top viral
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sites right now BuzzFeed was number one
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and little things was number two and I
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thought what the heck what do you have
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to lose what's the worst set up and you
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get no response or you got a note right
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and I you clearly got a response and
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then out of since last week you then got
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another message today and that is about
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the Canadian the Canada Entertainment
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Tonight they have reached out and you're
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gonna do an interview with them as well
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and that I'm so thrilled and I used the
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Entertainment Tonight tweet about the
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story that was covered about my album as
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an opportunity to retweet it with the
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comment to Entertainment Tonight Canada
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when I said I'm not sure how many people
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know I'm Canadian so I'm a Canadian
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living in California and I feel like
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they would want to know that that here
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is a mom who's doing something unique in
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rap music just what again what's the
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worst that can happen it goes ignored or
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whatever so so so here we got the I if
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you're just tuning in right now we're
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talking to mommy rapper and this is her
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new album we were talking before the
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show what do we call these things right
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now are they albums or they CDs what are
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they I don't know but we're gonna call
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it an album and
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how many how many songs are on this
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album so there's four singles and I
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decided to do it as a collection instead
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of there's different strategies nowadays
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you can just release singles and spread
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it out through the year but as I
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mentioned earlier I had a vision and I
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think it's really important to pay
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attention to the downloads that you get
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and I got this download to do an album
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you know an EP is a short held extended
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play and it's usually three to five you
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know three to six songs and I just
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follow that little prompting to do it as
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an album for Mother's Day it's so timely
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and appropriate mommy rapper and I
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originally was gonna call it mom rap
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songs but there's four songs on there
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and only two of them are about
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motherhood there's mother and I'm boss
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those are specifically targeted to moms
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or not to moms about about motherhood
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and the challenges of having a dream or
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a business being an entrepreneur and
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raising kids it's a delicate balancing
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act especially in this day and age
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you're not just raising kids you're
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you're homeschooling them you're you're
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making sure their activities are taking
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all day long and all night long so this
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is this is truly a different time that
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we're living in right now and you've
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managed to be raising four kids
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homeschooling them creating albums and I
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want people to go over to mommy rapper
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comm /music because they can go pick up
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your songs there they are there you can
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also go to YouTube as well if you want
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just you know to listen to the single
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mother which I just I love saying I just
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absolutely saying and I know that people
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are wondering how they're gonna stay in
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touch with you they can go to your
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website mommy rapper and there's a lot
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of really cool stuff there you can find
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out more about mommy rapper you can also
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if you're on facebook you can follow her
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on Facebook
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mommy rapper and the same thing on
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Twitter if that's your playground go
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over to Twitter and look for mommy
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rapper and finally on Instagram also
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imagine that Mommy rapper it's it's easy
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to remember I think it's
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point um any any less any less thoughts
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that you would like to share with moms
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out there that are raising their kids
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that are that have an idea in their head
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and they're just afraid to take action
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what would you tell them that I totally
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understand
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I empathize with that feeling of
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overwhelm or non-belief how is this
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gonna happen I've really had to train
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myself and I'm still in the process of
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learning how to take it day by day
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because we can get caught up and hi
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Naomi
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and Owen Ellis I see your comment - um I
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love you guys these are some of my
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Vancouver peeps I love their you're
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supporting it wearing because I left
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Vancouver five years ago and it's so
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great to keep in touch with my Vancouver
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tribe of women thank you so much Joan
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Ellis so basically yeah mom's you know
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I've always really tried to stay
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grounded and focused on mothering first
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but the two tend to compete with each
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other the the role of mother and the
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role of dreamer and now I feel like
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things are happening because I really
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feel like I have started to integrate
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the two harmoniously right and it's the
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number one ingredient to my message to a
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mom with a dream or an idea is patience
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because when we're not patient it makes
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us anxious and I used to wake up every
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day with this horrible anxiety and
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stress and it's not a comfortable energy
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to provide to a family for the mother to
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be stressed and I it's all thoughts
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based it really is if you think positive
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thoughts it's cliche that everything is
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happening the way it's meant to all the
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cliches of that it's meant to be
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everything's happening in divine time or
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for a reason it's very
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calming and then you can just take it
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day by day that's my advice well and
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that's great advice and I know that
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those who are listening live or on
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replay that's great advice if you were
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here and you have a comment and want
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something to say to mommy rapper she
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will come back and respond to you make
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sure you put in the comments say that
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you're here on replay we'd love to hear
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from you and most of all we know that
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you have a choice as to how you spent
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your time and you decided to spend it
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with mommy rapper and I and we are
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forever grateful we want you to go out
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and give somebody an awesome day and
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we'll see you next time on the next
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episode of Karen blaster live goodbye
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everyone thanks Karen
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