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and this is noise than your watching

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Matt when you’re listening to an emcee

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it’s kind of like you’re engaging in a

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conversation with them hip-hop as an art

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form it spoke the same language as us

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it’s very natural I don’t have to you

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know translate what I’m thinking through

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an instrument I think the point in my

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life when I really started getting

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involved in hip-hop and really started

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to fall in love with it was in

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elementary school so from a pretty early

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age the art was very raw and very real

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[Music]

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my break ready

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[Music]

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switch it up on him just a little bit

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they were given TJ’s credentials and his

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I guess dexterity with the guitar to

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adapt to different styles I wanted to

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I felt I felt like that song would be a

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good fit given his given his strengths

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yo yo yo I’m staring out the window

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where’s the Northern Lights never

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thought that he would take us to where

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we boarded flight the board in between

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bicker with sleeping ashore tonight and

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for the team with us we had to win or to

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fight so the light my pillars my

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passport

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travel with chance for shot right on my

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launch pad imagining blast-off they

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calling me conscious I said you’re more

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finding comfort in the mental with the

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pencil watching the closet monsters and

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move my first fancy class to pass the

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time that in quoting me in textbooks my

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thought is asinine

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but if you do never smoke much never got

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it no son but still loved to run through

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jindal for sleeping pros cut the chef’s

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go to Martin rose from the Sonia

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withered soul being a lawyer but we

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never knew that true that I seek the

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person beneath the surface to meet the

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circumstances that’s ready missus be

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converse to freedom purposes a lot of

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people tell me that for an introvert I’m

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pretty extroverted I mean in everyday

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life I am very much an introvert but

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there are certain elements and

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environments that really bring out more

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energy or bring out more of a

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willingness to want to engage and there

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was one song in particular where even

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before the mat program came up that I

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knew I wanted to shoot it with Sarah

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because of how drum heavy it is and with

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that song we just really wanted to take

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it back to the essence of hip-hop just a

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drum break and an MC and we’re blessed

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enough to have TJ on guitar to add his

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take on it as well but the core of that

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is the vocal and the drum

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[Music]

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[Music]

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like the clinker your body knows I love

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you angel don’t get it where you fit in

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but I want to say you’re thinking

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outside the box Tony the only time that

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I’ve been

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just throw package at this old plastics

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unique like old bastard no men Rob calls

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it don’t check inside said specific you

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bring in the toe tags I first connected

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with Sarah is actually at I’m one

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started the event earlier this year when

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it was just announced that they received

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the Canada 150 funding and I saw Sarah

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playing and I was just totally blown

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away by how amazing she was and just how

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much passion she brought to to her to

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her instrument the third song that we

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did was entitled speak now sometimes

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telling someone you care can be

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difficult sometimes telling someone that

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they’re messing up can be difficult and

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sometimes when someone is no longer here

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and they passed away you feel like

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you’ve kind of lost that chance to tell

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them what they meant to you but you know

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through music and through writing

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there’s always that opportunity to say

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what you’ve always wanted to say and get

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that out check yep gain the world and

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lose your soul try to see what the

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future holds but looking back to check

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if the sutures close knew the road that

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I walk is off in the lonely one younger

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feeling awkward in solitude over Seoul

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becomes a lifeline and more essential as

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I grow with age find a piece in the

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sinus deeper below the day’s me a magic

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would wanna keep up the flow to raise

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hell when we blow the stage you know the

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praise is all coming from heart summing

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the sparks and a fire you’re planning

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pilots call you my brother above the art

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live parallels as well we both raising

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nieces and both found Queens somebody

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mama can meet with no hide when I met my

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weakest I showed it outside for the

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hardships no man I have shoulders that

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wide told it that’s why it’s known but

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now I gotta say it that it’s because of

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y’all I found my way in

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what I should have said the words they

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deserved to hear and for the times when

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the feeling was more than what we

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willing to share but this is for the

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time now we given find that it’s never

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too long before the giving is gone and

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so I got a speed now speak now say the

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words give them life they deserve to

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hear it so live it right bit my tongue a

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thousand times didn’t know how to find

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the words to let you know that you were

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out of line down the line that’s all my

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sister leave with the kids in the bags

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pack but you collapsed up in the crib

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too drunk in the Klan’s bag loved you

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like an older brother so she never blow

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your cover never spoken up your other

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side hope he won’t discover so it was

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tougher cuz she suffered alone kept

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appearances appearances but this was in

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a home

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I played the mother and the father

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figure hard to picture how we’ve never

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heard the sound is he trying to the dark

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it’s liquor she said she needs a partner

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with us felt safe in the storm and made

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it the norm crazy went had an organ

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different and I know you’re hurting

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cause nobody’s walking with you but you

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talk is if only you could be thought the

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victor and there’s no winners so either

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rebuild to let it go but no release to

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prepare for the times when I should have

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said the words they deserve to hear and

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for the times when the filler was more

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than what we willing to share but this

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is for the time that we give him find

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that it’s never too long until we’re

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giving is gone and so I gotta speak now

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speak now say the words give them life

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they deserve to hear it so let me write

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I cry with my grandmom past the ash

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gathered last chatted about a childhood

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and laugh and

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to see your weekend on the hospital bed

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and those are moments that I cherish

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given Silas instead cuz I really got to

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know we’re just talking combing their

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hair she knew that death is called a no

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stalling cold with a prayer but never

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dream she’s leaving summer so my

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grandfather wheezing he was a fall

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asleep in the deepest slumber eight

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months later but shed no tears that dog

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fears the story that I read so clear

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it’s just the universe at work didn’t

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understand it feeling disenchanted but

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had to shift to a different vantage his

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life is made a give and take in the play

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your high and low working rest birth to

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death Thurman is your time to go so for

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every Milly minute that they gave us we

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better for having their hands to raisers

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for the times when I should have said

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the words they deserve to hear and for

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the times when the villain was more than

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what we willing to share this is for the

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time that we give her find that it’s

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never too long until the giving is gone

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and so I gotta speak now speak now say

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the words give them life they deserve

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the hippies on living brain they deserve

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to hear it so live it right they deserve

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to hear us to live it right

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say the words give them life say the

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words give them life they deserve to

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hear it so live it write a song at the

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end of it kind of really comes to a

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peace with the situation I felt by

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writing that song and kind of putting my

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all these emotions and thoughts into

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words and really clarifying everything

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that’s going on inside was definitely a

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huge part within the healing process

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thank you so much for watching I hope

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you enjoyed the music be sure to check

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out all the other artists that took part

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in the Matt program

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