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Ricardo Love Season 1 Episode 129

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This is Aston Cleveland and Ricardo Long.

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And welcome to the Indy Hookup. What's up, Hess?

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Ricardo, Ricardo, man. Check this out, man.

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What's up, what's up?

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Today, it don't matter what day, but today, you understand me? It's not national, it's international. Naruto not. Naru, what's up? My family is learning the black velvet project.

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Yes, sir.

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Going vegan. Dear America. I can't take it anymore. I can't either. I guess I better start. Amen. Uh I think next week is our two-year anniversary.

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Congratulations.

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A week three. Beautiful interview with Naru. Naru Quinnai. Our interview came out with Caden. Shout out to Caden. Shout out to Naru. Shout out to Jeff Panzer. Shout out to you, Ricardo. And uh we got a little new music. No, we got a lot of new music, family. Check this out, man. I met this group. Shout out to AS Music Radio. I almost forgot. I'm getting old, Ricardo. So I have to stop and pause and think why I talk to you. Hey, I met this young man, man, out of Chicago. Uh, all black everything. All black everything, man. The movement. And it is a movement, man. Shout out to you, family. Love the conversation we had. Then our sister, man, our mutual friend, beautiful, looking good and singing good. Gypsy love. Town business. Here I go. Now, other family member, man, way on the other end of the company. Right. Crowd control. Hey, we might need that with this president, man. He gotta go in the war. Oh my god. Naruquina. Dear America. Come on, man. Come on. Ricardo. That's what we need. And since it's his new album, we got to have his beautiful young lady daughter. My friend, my niece. Najee. Shopping on Jupiter. Najee Ray, I'm going with you. Because I gotta get off this place. Okay, now we got the Black Velvet Project, man. Nah, real quick. Nah, man. He's all over the place with this one, man. All kind of genres. I'm so proud, man, watching this man. You know, we got a whole bunch of stuff going on, the boo boo family. Black Unity Conference Universal. They got new music out. And his album is trying to assume. That's one nice one. Have a nice day. Wait. Don't you agree? I agree, Ricardo. This album is fire. You know what I wanted to say. Hey, hey, that's what. And then what is life all about? Man, I don't know. My baby's on my mind. And of course, he got to have some kind of environment. Save our planet. That's what we're doing, man. Shout out to you, my brother. Love you, dog. Love you, honestly. Uh, we've been friends for about 45 years. 45 years in the making. My mama's twin. Now real quick. Ricardo?

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Yes, sir.

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What we do?

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We do it all. Mixing. Mixing.

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Master. Mastering. ISRC code. All your encoding. Uh video editing. Yes, sir. Music editing.

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Yes, sir.

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Radio interviews. Yes, sir. YouTube interviews. Everything. We are a one-stop shop.

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One stop.

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For the independent artists, all over the world, family. That's global. Hey, reach over there and tap that man and tell him to tell them who we are. The indeed.

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Uh first, all black, everything.

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It's black stopping here. I'm taking it to another level. Quit listening. Yeah. Anywhere. What whatever is the black hair thing? In my heart, yeah, I'm like the brave man. And I'm rapping at your door. Fellin' level more. Look at he behaving. Get a fair without the y'all. See they say, but I'm a dumb, give it up. This is the moon. And I'm in that this butt number y'all. Black level for black moon. And the black clues are cruise and pushin' sums for moon. Feelin' all the black, just like I'm black from the moon though. People playing games, people singing fame. This is the move I'm sick with the black on black man, but it's all black for you, fools.

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Oh black rat, all black jays, all black jays. Rest you number 12, man. She hate on that. We put the city on our back like a tack. It's a fact. You did the be it. So the past the moon, baby. Second and numb, we number one in the movement. O black, everything we do see.

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You did me do it. The movement I move it. And they call them cute uh. Hey yo, it's all black, everything. Fit it down, everything. Get them cute is insane. Spanish bit, you can think I'm bueno. So you can kill yourself if you think I'm lame on like black skullies, black bit with a black home. Black pipes, black rims on the black home. Big planets, dark spaces with a bright colour. The graph will stop until I get that black color.

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I jump up I jump up. I jump up the black. Come on, lady. Cause I be smoking on that loud. Sittin up in the belly with my head in the cloud. Big with the bad bitch. Moment in the making of bag in happening, my motherfucking paper grabbing. I've got another minute. I'ma give it a little kidney. Wanna fit the bottom?

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Oh nuts, gypsy love. Here I go.

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We look all alone in the winter room. Undering all the memory, that we had to build a morning back. The magic fashion. The one is telling me to walk away and go. The wheels are changing now, they blow up precious love away. But still I smiling and no regrets are too big. Now I went to heaven by love and all the time. I'm not reasonable. But not somewhere between the rain and the sunshine. I'll always love you, but right now I gotta say goodbye. Damn, here I go again.

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This is King Bryce with crowd control ice, cold flavor with a slight kick to it.

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From race, I'm glide to glide, watch me trail plays. I'm going hard in the paint, like I'm joined in the fourth quarter, kid. You know what time it is. Number one, oh sorry I lied. Number one, two, three, four, and five. King Price, bustin'. Mama, Mia, can I get a witness? Operation blackouts, vision like side clouds, skaters at a hundred mile radius. Shout out the rotten rascals, trigger dredge, jersey, all the craziest. Yes, I started with the bosses. My scope stays giving on the riches. Can I just bust in it?

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This is Naruquana. Dear America. With dear America.

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I got something to say. I'ma put it in this song. Hope you feelin'. Time for change. Naruquana. Tell me something, America. Do you want peace or do you want peace? Willin' act now or just wait for Jesus. We too comfortable, bro. We must revolt. No faith in the system, so we don't vote. This is real talk, not politrics. We out of order, y'all. I mean the world is sick. Capitalism. That won't save you. Open your eyes up, gain a new point of view. Racist people singing the same song. Like Rodney King said, Why can't we get along? Illegal immigrants, call them pilgrims. No love for the natives, though you killed them. Then you took their land. You think that we forgot? Open your shirt collar. I know it's getting hot. You point your finger at what others do. That only means that three more pointed back at you.

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I really like to have a talk with you.

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We need a new flag, new anthem, new song. That won't remind us of when you did my people gone. New money too. Mine is the slave owners. We ain't forgot when you used to stick them dogs on us. Strange fruit on the trees. Killed if you ran, whipped if you tried to read. No reparations. For 400 years, this country's built on our blood, sweating deal. Can't forget my native folks. They was here first. They live in harmony with the planet Earth. Now that's global warming. Trash everywhere. We're America. Do you even care?

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I really like to have a thought with you. It's not just what you say, but what you do.

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Sometimes it feels like America suffered from collective amnesia. They forgot their history of what they did to people all around the world. Now they wanna act like the watchdog of the whole damn nation. Wake up. Wake up. You're America.

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Nauru nail America.

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We don't understand that we're dealing with an entrenched enemy that's both physical and non-physical. We're dealing with physical entities that seek to destroy and or subjugate or keep us in a second-class status. But we're also dealing with a non-physical enemy that's in our heads. We don't understand how deep deconditioning is. We don't understand that this is not a sprint, it's a marathon. We don't understand that it is not going to happen overnight. We don't understand that this is chess, not checkers. If we want to have things that we are old, if we want to have things that we think we deserve to have, then you gotta put a system, a plan, a strategy in place so that that thing can happen at some point. A lot of us don't want to put in on a feasible solution because we won't be around our lives to see it come through fruition, come through fruition.

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I only wish I'm in Jupiter, just like I do think. Oh, I kept me away from myself. Now I cling to the ones who don't offer me help. And I wish you could see all the words that are built. Always made me the queen, but there's no one to know to me, so I just flew on my own. Never knew it'd be fun, always be in the known. Keep my friends and my mother's distance passes. All the ships go away and they belong to me. Oh still, I wish that I could see things like how we see. They get lost in the cells when it's our own space. It's not about the words, go deeper. Select what you've already heard. Cause in my mind I find I crazy and send me Oh we go shut the triple Just like a situation of Christian Oh my just touch imagination I'll make a shot triple just like I'm just with the ocean within the cloud is bad so I see it's soundation so that so I can sound like a shot Oh just like now album feature from Black Velvet the last to be the first album this is Trying to Ascend Falling falling falling falling Falling in space shock inside of a burning flame Quiet as a whisper I hear someone calling my name reverse on Earth my destination confirmed I don't really wanna go there the people are like germ like germs they fight over trivial things and destroy their own planet So what can I bring to the table?

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I'm not able to save the human race They told me that was not my mission it was just a holding place to escape I would have to free my mind I would just be on this planet for a limited time then I traveled through a tube met an egg in a womb and I started to form into the shape I would assume when it was time I arrived with no form of communication I had to reveal all of my skills and be patient I soon forgot my mission and became one of them so I'm trapped around this planet trying to ascend to ascend to ascend to Black Elf all over again Wanna tell y'all a little story about my life check it out I was born and raised in Oakland and I probably well have my grade They said I was a gifted child but sometimes I just wouldn't behave sneaking in the girls' bathroom I was only the age of six the teacher caught me going in there a recess I sat on the bench I said please don't tell my mama she might break out the Hot Wheel track or maybe be extension cord and leave some bruises on my back I asked the most high do forgive me all of my crazy sin but if I'm being truthful I probably do it all over again all over again all over again all over again all over again Daddy was a drug addict heroin was a drug he used I started smoking weed at 12 and I just felt so confused would I end up like my daddy that's not who I wanted to be so I set out on a journey what I was looking for was me Music started calling I think am I to save my life it became my only addiction my lover and my wife I ask the most high do forgive me for all of my crazy sins but if I'm being truthful I probably do it all over again all over again all over again all over again all over again ladies there were many I couldn't even count them all they came from many countries thick thin short small and tall you see when you live in Oakland variety is the spice of life I truly did love the ladies I never thought I would have a wife but the answers they blessed me with a woman and a child and if I'm being honest this the only thing that slow me down I ask the most high to forgive me for all of my crazy sins but if I'm being truthful I probably do it all over again all over again all over again all over again all over again all over again all over again all over again all over again we're in the mix of an album feature this is black velvet with have a nice life what you looking at what you won't hear intimidation you tryna pump fear I ain't scared to die what about you you think you hella tough but you got a crew I don't drink beer I don't do drugs I'm not your N-word I ain't no thug I'm a real man I pay real bills think with my head don't act on just what I feel I'm not a tough guy I'm not nice either keep testing I'll make you a new believer you see them dudes there my bodyguard they well trained so they don't have to act hard they go through the rain they know martial arts they not bullies they all have good heart but don't mistake they kindness for a weakness one punch and you gon' have to get your teeth fixed I try to tell you I really ain't the one so I suggest you take a hand up gun it's okay to run you got the message right be with you and have a nice life have a nice life have a nice life have a nice life have a nice life don't touch me keep your hands back you wanna hug girl all you gotta do is ask you saw me don't stay I don't give you rights I'm a performer but I'm still human right please overstand I don't sign autographs and I'm not out looking for a piece of We can take a picture converse and debate about politics or the world's fate or your favorite song that we played tonight then I gotta leave I'm jumping on the flight to the next city to the next spot the next concert so I can grab the mic and rock it was nice to meet you I'm glad you came tonight appreciate the love have a nice life have a nice life night life have a nice life have a nice life night light night have a night life night night life indeed yeah yeah yeah waiting waiting black velvet I wanna tell y'all this little story about this sister I was hanging out with it got a little wild but not the way you do not the way you do not the way you do your game is cellophane I can see through you mad at a brother cause I won't do you I didn't tell you to take your clothes off at my house pull up your pants put on your blouse I wanna get to know you just a little better I ain't feeling for no love like some other fellas can we chill we can build up some anticipation I like to take my time I don't mind waiting waiting is a good thing maybe you should try it discipline yourself go on a sex free diet waiting is a good thing mama told me that your body is a temple indeed as a fact try waiting I don't mind waiting waiting you should try waiting waiting waiting waiting she got mad and called me all kinda names it didn't matter to me I still felt the same revealed her true intention she was not seeking love I like to start slow with a kiss or a hug lots of conversation and some intellect if that's not what you like I mean no disrespect we can sit some tea pouring libations and get to know each other cause it's fine waiting waiting is a good thing maybe you should try it discipline yourself go on a sex free diet waiting is a good thing mama told me that your body is a temple indeed as a fact try waiting waiting I don't mind waiting you should try waiting waiting try waiting waiting waiting is a good thing maybe you should try it discipline yourself go on a sex free diet waiting is a good thing mama told me that your body is a temple indeed that's a fact try waiting I don't mind waiting you should try waiting waiting try waiting waiting as we continue the black velvet album review this is fly talking to my people I hope that you hear my voice my ancestors would change her but now we have a choice we can come together and stop fighting among ourselves we possess the power of ain't waiting for nobody else we gon' fly we gon' fly we gon' up and fly away take care of our children and live to see your bride a day we gon' fly we gon' fly on wings made out of gold they might possess our body but they sure can't touch our soul we gon' fly we gon' fly yeah oh yeah we gon' fly we gon' fly they told you you were black brown yellow red or white but with so much less different than we are alive we all live on this planet that we call Mother Earth If we don't get our shit together we all might be dispersed We gon' fly we gon' fly we gon' up and fly away take care of our children and live to see a bright a day we gon' fly we gon' fly on wings made out of gold they might possess our body but they sure can't touch our soul we gon' fly we gon' fly oh way yeah oh yeah we gon' fly I said we gon' fly I done seen so many things people fightin' over blocks they shootin' up they selves but they run from the cops won't pick up the book to say they not you're born line if you step on they Jordans they'll be ready to fight the names we call each other I don't wanna repeat we pass it down for generations that's the way that we teach hate speech makes me wanna fly away but I got work to do so that's the reason I stay I'm from Oakland California West Coast East Bay my name is Nairo when I pleasure to meet you today Now let's fly y'all we gon' fly we gon' fly we gon' up and fly away take care of our children and live to see you by today we gon' fly we gon' fly on wings made out of gold they might possess our bodies but they sure can't touch our souls we gon' fly we gon' fly away yeah oh yeah we gon fly I said we gon' fly away fly with me y'all indeed next try don't you agree black bell now the world we live in now is strange and best y'all betcha and the things I've seen could rearrange your brain is it safe to say that some a rider step now when I go through all the things we can obtain and the situation seems so out of hand now we fight and every day to stay alive do we matter do we really count it all y'all if we do it's time to fight for what is arise don't you agree don't you agree with me oh yeah don't you agree don't you agree with me oh yeah I told her I was open to suggestions I was only here to try to free my mind suddenly all of the ancients was sequestered The visions that I saw was so sublime A world where people truly came together and our planet was considered as divine every life was sacred and it was respected left our dreaming Cause we run out of time with me Oh yeah don't you agree Don't you agree with me? Oh yeah I know you like chillin' but you can't do it all day we fight for this planet Yeah we tryna make a better way better for our babies and our future generation you brought her the problem if you not participating Stand up for something make your voice be heard I don't care if you a gangster a hustler or a nerd we all need this planet to survive So our number one goal is we all gotta stay alive no job I'm just here to spit facts Now don't you agree with that wake up y'all it's time to get moving play some urgency on what we out here too Don't you agree? Don't you agree with me Oh yeah don't you agree don't you agree with me oh yeah don't you agree indie hookah black bell that has taken over the indie hookah as we continue this is what is life all about the world keeps turning around and around all we up all we die the sun remains in all its glory every day another word life all about what if life all about what if all about Human beings, they say we are fragments from a different star Gifted with the spark of life. Will we ever get it right? What is life all about? What is life all about? What is life all about? Walking around in a giant fish bowl. When did we get here and when will we go? Are our ancestors extraterrestrial? Yo, if so, did they teach us all that we know? I'm tryna light it up like tic-tac-toe. I got my backpack, waiting right at the dope. Walking through nature, talking through the trees, watching the mammals and all the flying things. I love it in the morning when the birds start to sing. Turn off the phone, I don't wanna hear it ring. Looking all around, we have too many things. Do we need it all? Or is it just creep? Or is it really something more deeper than that? Question your belief, cause they might not be facts. What is life all about?

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What is life all about my babies on my mind?

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I just can't wait to get home, my baby's on my mind. I just can't wait to get home, my baby's on the mind. Well, well, well, I've been working this job so long. Think about my baby, gotta get back home. I just can't wait to get home, my baby's on the mind. I just can't wait to get home, my baby's cooking food. I just can't wait to get home, my baby's cooking food. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's been making this food all day. I got to show a love in a special way. I just can't wait to get home, my baby's cooking food. My baby's in the moon. I just can't wait to get home, my babies in the moon. She told me to come home right away. She think about me waiting in her necklight. I just can't wait to get home with my babies in the moon.

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The indie This has been an album featured by Black Velvet, the last to be first. This is their last song, Save Our Planet.

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The temperature is rising, the earth is calling. Please honor your promise. You said you would take care of her. She feeds you, she shelters you, she gives you everything you need. So why won't you take care of her? She is angry now. She started off confused, then she became annoyed, and now she is becoming violent. Fires and hurricanes are becoming more prevalent. She is trying to warn us, we need to make a change. If not, then maybe we can't remain here any longer. Her frustration is getting stronger. Can't you see that she's hurting? If we won't do it for ourselves, can we at least do it for our children? The babies deserve better. The babies deserve a chance. Why destroy something so beautiful? Why won't we just take time to listen? What we are doing is not sustainable. There is only so much space for our debris. We poison the land, air, and the sea. It shouldn't take a genius to see. She is suffering, she is smothering, she is not happy, and she must protect herself. We were supposed to be the caretakers, the planters, the harvesters, not the destroyers. Won't you listen? Don't you care? Are you only concerned with your lifetime? Don't you wanna preserve the planet for future generations? What is our purpose if we can't protect the planet we have? Why would we ever be allowed to have another one? Please at least do your part. Every little bit helps.

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You've been listening to Black Velvet, the last to be first. You can get it on Bandcamp. Go now. Support independent arts. Good indeed. Bonus trash. Naruka na I can't take it anymore.

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Oakland, California, California, California, California. I'm on this beat with them temple boys. Oh boys, oh boys, boys. You know me, you know me, you know me. I gotta come just a little bit different. A little bit different, a bit different. I can't take it anymore. Do you hear what I say? Commercialized stations and the things that they play. It's the same exact song about ten times a day. In the record exact, well, they like it that way. I call and I call up my local DJ for my favorite song that they never will play. It's only bling bling and frivolous things and a couple of topics that border obscene. They could be real nice people. I don't wanna be mean, but I scream when I hear mumble rhymes in my dreams, and boy bands and pop queens and all of the like. I think we should protest, I think we should strike and boycott the stations. There's thousands of songs, there must be some better ones. I know I'm not wrong. Let's march through these stations by twos and by fours with no invitation. Just bark through the doors, take over the airwave. Do you hear what I say? And no song will get more than two plays a day. And the people rejoice, cause we like it that way. We can do it right now, we can do it today. If you feel like I do, then let's make a vow to shut down these stations and never allow them to control what we hear and control what we say. Just open your mind to the words I display. Without they're nothing, and they can't exist. United, we're strong, and they can't resist. If they do not listen, we'll turn off the station and repeat this whole process throughout the whole nation. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. It's crazy out here. Gotta change things up. Next will come TV and all the mass media with corporate execs who get grittier and gritier, pushing murder and mayhem. Violence and rape, racial discomfort, sex, drugs, and hate. I know we can stop them, it can't be too late. I don't wanna see another two-party debate. With career politicians controlling our fate, who tax us to death with their pockets inflate? The time is right now, we don't have to wait. Just open your mind like you'd open a gate. Break out of the matrix, a world that's so cold, where nothing's creative. Computerized soul on an endless type path that connects in a circle, a simile line, where they pride you and jerk you and place you in boxes. Your numbers don't file. They say, Have a nice day with a deadest smile. Now, whatever you do for the rest of your life is on a hard drive or on that cloud in the sky. Your credit card purchases, hospital records, your incomes divided and cut into sections. You tax when you born and tax when you died, and tax in between. There's no reason to lie, no free education or health care at all. In the United States, with a big eat, the small, and everything's packaged and labeled and marked. The food is no good for the stomach, the heart. Pollution is rapid in season in air. And people walk by like they don't even care. They walk by each other without even a greeting. Everyone's racing, yes, everyone's speeding, forgetting to live. They're all planning to die. They look for a savior that comes from the sky. I don't know why. They won't do for self. It's driving me crazy. I think we need help. Hello, hello, hello. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it anymore. I can't take it and hate it, but indeed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Now we're going vegan.

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We back, we back, we back. Yeah. Told them I was going vegan. Who started laughing? They really weren't believing. Yeah, tell them I was going vegan. Had to break it down, had to give them all the reasons. Yeah, tell them I was going vegan. Who started laugh when they really weren't believing? Tell them I was going vegan. Had to break it down, how they give them all the reasons. All I want is plant based food down my throat. I was sippin' no tea. No sugar, no meads at all. And I ain't really missin' it, y'all. Yeah, and I'm doing just fine. No goof, no chicken, no swine. I ain't needin' that swim or fly. Plant base, baby, that's the way to eat. I ain't been sick in a hundred weeks. Fucking up my food, I ain't missin' nothin'. It smells so good coming out of my oven. Now rookin' I open gallery learning. Cooking up this vegan cuisine, I'll be burning. Tell them I was going vegan. Food started laughing, they really weren't believing. Told him I was going vegan. Had to break it down, how they give 'em all a reason.

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Back in the day, you used to look at my plate and say, Where your meat tea, where that heat be? Where's your protein? And I'll say, Look at me. You see these your beans and these green leaves? Then better protein than your chicken wings. Cause they are strict vegetarians. And they still I can't believe it, Naruquina. Remember, we used to talk so much mass back about my food. I just can't believe it. So to see you here now, eating the vegan life. Ha ha, what's going on?

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Tell them I was going vegan. Who started laughing? They really weren't believing. Had to break it down, how they give them all the reasons. Well nothing hip stuff, that's what I eat. Y'all can keep that cheese, I don't want it in my teeth. No white bread, no hybrid wheat. Cam it and tough with Gabonzo B. That's what I'm eating on. Tell me that I'm wrong. I don't mess around with no GMO clothes. Fast food naught. I'll be cooking mine slow. I eat it straight raw. That's the real way to go. I know some budget elderberry in the line. I got veg nothing, now I'm feeling kind of fine. I told y'all before it's starting vegan on mine. Feels so good, so I put it in a rhyme. I make my own pesto with waffles and hummus. It feels so good when it enters my stomach. Either cheese level beef flying through the roof. Vegan life is healthy, y'all live improve, improve. Tell them I was going vegan, food started laughing, they really weren't believing. Yeah, tell them I was going vegan, had to break it down, had to give them all the reasons. Yeah, tell them I was going vegan, food started laughing, they really weren't believing. Tell them I was going vegan, had to break it down, how they give them all a reason.

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So you've been listening to Naru Kwana and Black Velvet, his group. This is something we've never done before, and we're trying to see if we'll do it again. This brother has been very special to us. He's a community leader. He doesn't just talk the message, which is powerful in and itself, but to have him actually be on the ground, foot soldier out there in the Oakland Bay Area, community doing the work and then spreading the message worldwide in his songs. Special Brother deserves a special show. So from Heston Cleveland and myself, Ricardo Love, we appreciate love you, we prospect you, Black Velvet and Naru Kwana. Thank you for joining us on this episode of Good India.