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SHNEAKO
- November 17, 2025
THE COLLEGE DROPOUT
Episode Stats
Length
16 minutes
Words per Minute
162.72112
Word Count
2,683
Sentence Count
139
Misogynist Sentences
8
Hate Speech Sentences
6
Summary
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Transcript
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This was me two years after I moved from New York City to New Haven, Connecticut, I think in 2003.
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Cute little kid, no idea what I wanted to do.
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This is me July 4th, 2004.
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This is me the next year in Haiti visiting my family.
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Then this is me six years ago to this day when I had an opportunity overnight to change my life forever.
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I was gonna really time up with the drop too, maybe
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100K, I used to work at the Sunway
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I fucking worked here
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100,000, 100,000 subscribers
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100
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I had already been doing YouTube for 5 years
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And then overnight I went from 30 to a hundred thousand subscribers the next summer is when I decided to drop my ass about a
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call
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My teacher said I was a loser. I told her why don't you kill me. I give a fuck if you feel me. I'm gonna fall
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Hey, how you doing? Good to see you, girl. I just got a haircut. You can get a red book out of here
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Let's fucking we get it from you don't like it? Nah, it's good. Let's go. Oh, you can tell a white guy did it
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Yeah, man.
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You want someone to hit you with the scissors and the clippers?
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Yeah, why?
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What's wrong with it?
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Nah, it's good.
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It's good.
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What do you see?
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He sees something.
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Your lineup could have been a lot more sharper.
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Really?
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Yeah, man.
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Where?
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Just all around, man.
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He could have hit you with the little details, man.
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He could have fine-tuned it just a little bit.
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Just a little bit, man.
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It's crooked?
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Nah, it's straight.
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But it's a little bit, like, natural.
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Yeah.
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That's what I asked for.
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Natural.
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Yeah, natural, natural.
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I mean, he could have done a lot sharper without going beyond the hammer, but he'd be good, man.
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Good seeing you.
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My whole childhood, I never knew if college was in my story.
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I always knew that I wanted to drop out.
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And this is the story of why I dropped out of college.
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You can't catch my hustle.
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You can't fathom my love, dude.
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Lock yourself in a room doing five beats a day for three summers.
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That's a different world like three summers.
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I deserve to do these numbers.
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the kid that made that deserves that made back so many records in my basement i'm just waiting on
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my spaceship there's something undeniably rebellious about dropping out of school i
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always knew it was something the main character does the main character doesn't do what he's told
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and follow the path that's already paved he creates his own and i was already an outcast
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this picture embodies exactly what it was like for me growing up an asian mexican looking boy
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but this picture is in Haiti because I'm part Haitian but I was born in New York City but grew
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up in a dangerous part of Connecticut while still going to a private school full of waspy white
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people. My existence was a walking contradiction. None of it made sense.
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around the world everyone will tell you nobody loves talking about race more than Americans so
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I don't take full responsibility for the fact that I never fit into any box I wasn't supposed
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to conform internally i always knew that my path to success had to be driven by me don't make no
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money but she won't drop out of parents so look at her funny now tell me that ain't the visionary is
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not supposed to see what everybody else is seeing in fact school is the real contradiction because
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we teach kids to grow and change yet change is impossible if everything you're learning has
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already been taught and there's no better example of curriculum than school true innovators can't
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repeat what has been taught they have to follow the light from within oh yeah i got the perfect
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song for the kids to sing and all my people that's because my father as a photographer is most likely
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the reason that i always viewed life through the lens of a movie and one of the most cinematic
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moments of my life was when i finally decided to pull the trigger and quit i was driving from
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long island new york to myrtle beach alone during the summer waiting for my junior year of college
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to start i've always found the best place to process thoughts is on a long road trip why i
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decided to go to myrtle beach in south carolina i don't know why but i knew that i had to get out
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of new york and go somewhere that i had never been before it was around a nine hour drive one way and
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i had went by myself at the time i was driving a nissan ultima 2003 that i bought from my sister
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for one thousand dollars most of the ride i was listening to podcasts and trying to get a new
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perspective but when i played the album yay and specifically heard the song ghost town
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that's when i rolled down the windows put my arms out felt the breeze of the mountains and
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with tears running down my face of being real speeding down the highway in a car that i should
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not have been speeding in i have to quit something overcame me and i think i'm still on that road
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trip to some extent there was one road trip i took with my sister from the top of california
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to the bottom and that's when i developed a lot of my creative style and realized exactly what i
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want to put out into the world. There was one road trip I took with my brother across the country
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and we even stopped in Wyoming where this album cover was shot. The actual specific part of the
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song where I pulled the trigger in my mind to quit was when 070 Shake sings
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I can't do it justice
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Dreaming, talking, in your sleep, I know you want to cry all night.
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This was a difficult time because I knew that I didn't want to be in school,
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but I was still enjoying every moment I could through the most hedonistic activities possible.
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I was going out and partying three, four nights a week.
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I was taking a lot of drugs.
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I was sleeping with as many women as I possibly could.
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I was skipping class, but there were very few times
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where I actually did pay attention during film school
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and I learned quite a bit, but there wasn't enough output.
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There wasn't enough of a specific path.
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They told us to become an intern afterwards
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and work at a news station operating the camera,
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but I'm not here in film school for four years
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spending almost 40,000 a year just to stand there
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and operate a camera that I don't even want to be behind of.
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I want to be doing everything.
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I'm not in film school to be bound by the corporate life.
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I'm in film school to be kind of free.
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That moment and that decision was single-handedly
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the hardest decision by far
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that I've ever had to make in life.
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Not only was I now in a quarter million dollars
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of student loan debt,
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but I was going to be abandoned by my family.
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All the glitters is my gold.
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And you can't blame your family for cutting you off when you decide to take your own path because they want what's best for you
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They need you to be safe and driving off into the abyss is following the unknown
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There's no way to protect somebody driving alone on a road without a GPS. So I made the correct decision and didn't tell anybody
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There was a period of several months during the next semester while I was living with college students
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acting like I was going to school and although it was extremely difficult I
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was grateful the entire time because I knew I needed that pressure to succeed
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I knew that without a safety net and the fear of the unknown I would find a way
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to make it out and really one of the thoughts at the time that was giving me
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purpose and hope was the fact that Kanye West did it his whole identity was
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follow your dreams no matter the cost i spelled unknown wrong yeah i spelled this word wrong my
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favorite moment during his netflix documentary when he was dead broke still fresh out of chicago
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in new york city delivering beats to rappers apartments like a crack dealer and on the road
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he's driving talking to the camera and he doesn't know where the documentary is going he says man i
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got big dreams motherfucker i might be living your american dream but i'm nowhere near my where my
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dream is dog i got man i got aspirations i got big dreams mother everybody dreams so you might
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as well dream big his music and his life was so inspirational for me that i knew if he did it i'm
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gonna do it too not only that i'm gonna work with him one day and then i did and that would not have
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happened if i had followed the path his first album college dropout taught me to put your pain
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into your work. The song Through the Wire is the perfect example of that. Ye had gotten a car
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accident so bad that they had to wire his mouth shut and he was only eating inshore. It was during
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the time where he was trying to get signed, still called a producer, but on the way to becoming a
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rapper. Not just a producer rapper either. The crash was so bad it was all over TV. He wasn't
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supposed to survive and his mouth was wired shut almost a sign from God saying stick to the keys
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you don't need your mouth to make a beat. Instead he chose to record the song anyway and it became
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one of his first hit singles. That album helped me decide to stop running away from whatever makes
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you different. Instead of trying to escape a disadvantage in front of you use it and channel
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that energy into everything you do. Your individual struggle is exactly what makes you unique. People
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don't understand that by numbing their pain, they're throwing away their recipe for success.
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Individuality is the only aspect of someone that's worth listening to. Otherwise, you could just open
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up the books they give you in school. It's not about your IQ or your height, your race, or anything
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that's out of our control. It's up to what's in here.
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I swear if you're looking for truth, then just listen to your heart
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It's the only thing they can't take away from you
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Work but a lot of people trying to mislead you you stay on it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Stay up. Let's be on now. You doing all right? Yeah
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You don't mind the picture
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There's a problem right there's not disclosure agreements on that so the science has a fucking gag order on it and that's
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That's, that's where, that's where we start to come into this year.
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Manhattan on the weekend is a completely different city than what it is on Tuesday.
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People are putting on their, I have a hinge date later outfits.
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They're nice jackets, they're gonna go out later.
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They're not dressed for work, they're dressed to be seen, to hang out.
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I was at NYPD and Fire Department Gallows tonight.
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The most patriotic I've ever seen in Wall Street.
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I thought I was a man.
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That's a woman yelling over there about Jesus.
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That's a woman?
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That's a woman, yeah.
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What is this all about?
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What is this for?
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So who do you guys think did 9-11?
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It was a terrorist attack, right?
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By who?
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You know.
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You hear that woman yelling over there?
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Yeah, the whole time.
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That is the deepest voice of a woman I've ever heard in my life.
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Are you Bengali?
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Where are you from?
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I'm from Bangladesh.
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Got it right.
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No, you gotta be from Queens.
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You're Dominican.
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Oh, wow.
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Are you?
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Yes, let's go.
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And you are Puerto Rican from LES.
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No, I'm from the Bronx.
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Two for three, I'll tell you.
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Two for three.
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So are you rookies?
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We're cadets, so it's like we take a promotion and we become a cop later down in the line.
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What's that movie called?
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Police Academy.
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You're at Police Academy right now.
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Yeah.
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So how much more time as a cadet do you need?
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You just have to finish college and you get your degree and then you could just join in.
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You could even do it before, but it's good to just finish your degree at least.
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Which is good pay, right?
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pay, right? You're gonna be a cop under Mamdani's New York City. Mamdani, they're not gonna have
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a lot of work if you decriminalize everything. We gotta make sure they're busy. Have a nice day,
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guys. You too. Have a good one.
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Going to the event? Yeah, I'm going to the fight Saturday, the weigh-ins tomorrow.
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Yeah, we're going to the fight as well. Are you at Islam or Jack? Islam, Islam.
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of course where do you think we're from georgia yeah yeah how did you do that i'm good right
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international i know nice to meet you nice to meet you so your favorite is marab yeah
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polish really yeah you see i mean to pour you it's a boy yeah of course i like mariah he
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he said did stream with marab yeah oh yeah let's look him to uh georgia restaurant in las vegas
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We're obviously cheap, he's a crazy guy.
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Crazy man.
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You can go to the weigh-in tomorrow.
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How do you get the ticket?
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Just go there early?
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Just go there early at 4.30.
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Can I get a picture?
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Sure.
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That was pretty good, I guess, Georgia, at first.
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Pretty good.
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Most people say Russian, right?
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They think Russian?
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Yeah, that's it.
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Who's that guy?
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Is he with you?
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No, I don't know.
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Is he with you?
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nice
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brother who this guy oh you with him who this guy
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stop filming
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i don't concern
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don't concern break the camera
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This is Sneeko?
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Hey, what's up?
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Wait, hold on.
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You opened up my Instagram, but where'd you open?
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See, I'm banned on Instagram.
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Is that yours?
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He got Sneeko at it.
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So can you tell Mata to unban me?
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Because I'm banned on Instagram.
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Oh, you're unbanned?
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Yeah.
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Unbanned on Instagram.
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Yo, I'm ban him, bro.
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What the fuck?
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Of course, man.
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Thanks, man.
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Where are you from?
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He left.
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sneeko edit so can you tell matter to unban me because i'm banned on instagram are you
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on instagram yo i'm banging bro what the fuck man thanks man where are you from
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you left bro oh this one is my gift for you now look at me one two three okay now you
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that's not that's a canon that's a i see the canon in there it's a fake camera it's a fake camera
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I was just watching your video the other video
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The one that you were returning from getting banned from
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On band, yes
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Yo, I fucked with you
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Yo, that's crazy
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Bro, I'm just super
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What did you think of the video? I spent a lot of time on it
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It was good, I liked it
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Hey, yo, Pierre
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Yo, that's amazing
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We just shook our hands four times in five seconds
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