The Breakfast Club - Kid Ink Interview

Episode Date: January 23, 2015

Kid Ink stops through to discuss his upcoming album, his success with radio hits, getting more tattoos and much more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Damn Puerto Rican vibe. His label rep had him out drinking the night before. They said you was out sniffing cocaine, doing tequila shots. We was out promoting. I'm always taking tequila shots. And if he was sniffing cocaine, he'd have been up. That's right. So, you know.

You crashed hard, though. Nah. Why don't you do some kick, ladies and gentlemen? I'm here. What's going on? Nah, man. To be 100% real with you, I made a decision. I was out promoting my new album, Full Speed, February 3rd.

Make sure these DJs are spinning the right records. And just me and people, I ain't been out here in a minute. And I like to go to the club. You ain't go out with Envy? No, I'm playing with you. I was in Boston. You're not right. I was in Boston that night. That's the thing. I was supposed to have go out with Envy? No, I'm playing with you. I was in Boston. I was in Boston. I was in Boston that night.

That's the thing. I was supposed to have a show with Envy that night and then, you know, Envy canceled. I had to go to Boston. So what happened was I had to find something to do

and then, you know, I decided I was going to stay up for my next interview in the morning and then they canceled on me. That's when you do the drugs. You got to stay up, just pop the pill.

But what happened was my next interview canceled so I had like four hours of just sitting in the hotel like, bro. That's when you pass out. And then 30 minutes before I tapped out and then woke up though and was like, I think it would be better for the interview if we did

it the next day, not because I'm drunk. It just wasn't, I wasn't witty enough. I wasn't, you know what I'm saying? I gotta be in my zone with y'all out here. You don't be getting high and stuff like that. I mean, I see you tweet about like edibles and stuff. Yeah, it's weird, man. Nothing. When I'm in Amsterdam, I take shrooms.

I'm not gonna lie. Oh, I always say shrooms is my favorite drug. Shrooms is fun. It's natural. You just have to be... That's what I say. You have to be in a really good mood when you take it because if you're not in a good mood,

you'll have a terrible trip. I had an amazing trip. You ever had a bad one though on Zoom? I make sure if I have any mind about having a bad trip, no.

Can't take that. Close all the closets and all that before you do it. Close the closet. I'm not going to the bathroom and doing the over the mirror thing. So what's an amazing trip?

Because I always hear about bad ones. My dude told me he did a Zoom one time and everything was like Super Mario Brothers. Yeah, the amazing trip. That sounds amazing.

No, that was just some crazy club. It was some crazy club. The ceiling was all lights that was just going crazy. I couldn't see nobody's face. It was like a video game. I kept telling people, I was like, I feel like I'm in a comic book. Everything's just moving just fast-paced.

You don't even remember the last five seconds. We were just having fun for a long time. I felt like I was in Alice in Wonderland or something. Yeah, I actually saw Alice in Wonderland offshrooms.

See? It was crazy. The colors was amazing. And I saw Winnie the Pooh. I saw... What? No, I did. I saw Eeyore.

You saw him? Wait, what person? You saw Winnie the Pooh? I was like, what movie you saw? You saw him. No, they person? You saw Winnie the Pooh? I was like, what movie you saw? You saw him? No, they was with me. See, that's the thing.

I've never had nobody physically there that wasn't there. I didn't see anything crazy before or nothing like that. Well, my friend's boyfriend turned into Eeyore while we were playing Pictionary. That's a lot of Winnie. Did you watch Winnie the Pooh recently? A lot. That says a lot about her subconscious. What? The fact that you see Winnie the Pooh and you hallucinate? Recently? A lot. That says a lot about her subconscious. What?

The fact that you see Winnie the Pooh and you hallucinate. She thinks about honey and all that. Exactly. A guy with a cut-off shirt and no pants. He is kinky, yo. That's who Winnie the Pooh is. Now, one thing I can say about you, Kid Ink, man, you stay out of the way, man. You get a lot of radio play, but it's, like, all about music with you.

You don't ever see you in the news for no DUIs, no domestic violence, nothing crazy. Nah, man. Yeah, where's your girlfriend today? I usually see you with her. She's in the room taking a nap. Lucky her, right? Now, she getting ready for just the rest of the day, and then I got the flight out later, so, you know,

over there packing, you know, it's early. So last year you took her to Paris for Valentine's Day. Yeah. So what are you doing this Valentine's Day? You going to ruin it? I got to get some tea. You going to Day. Yeah. So what are you doing this Valentine's Day? You going to ruin it? Dubai. I got to get some... You going to Dubai?

Yeah. You know what, man? What happens is, I was just there. Dubai's cool. It's hotter than this. But I feel like promoters always help me out. I'm always in a good situation where I get booked on holidays or Valentines, and it's just like, where are you going this year?

Let me call my booking agent. Hey, Brooklyn is Brooklyn, man. I can't bring the wife to Brooklyn. Why not? Hey, Brooklyn is a great borough. No and it's just like, where you going this year? Let me call my booking agent. Hey, Brooklyn is Brooklyn, man. I can't bring the wife to Brooklyn. Why not? Hey, Brooklyn is a great borough. No, it's not. It's not for Valentine's Day. Yes, it is.

There's a lot of things you can do in Brooklyn. I'll pass. Okay. How have you managed to hold on to your day one? Because you're getting a lot of love out here, man. I'm sure there's a lot of chicks throwing the box at you 100 miles per hour, sir. Boxing. You know, really, I mean, she's there.

Yeah, she don't play that. Sometimes, you know what I'm saying? Well, she's not there all the time now. Like, the road's stressful. As soon as you're there for a week, it's just like, I'm tired. I'm going home. I'm going to do regular stuff. So she'll come on the road for a week and get to see, you know, what's going on.

And I think, you know, I have a little bit of, you know, she gives me some space because, you know, it's a stressful job. I can't do nothing always about the fans and what people do. You know what I have a little bit of, you know, she gives me some space because, you know, it's a stressful job. I can't do nothing always about the fans and what people do. You know what I'm saying? You've seen how people come up and run

and kiss people in the face in the middle of the night. You can't really do nothing about that kind of stuff sometimes. And you never cut a bitch? Punch the bitch? Why would he do that? Not you,

it's his girl. Oh, not me. Maybe. I wouldn't, I didn't see it. I'm not gonna see it. I'm not gonna see it. TMZ didn't see it, it didn his girl. Oh, not me. Oh. Maybe. I wouldn't, didn't see it. I'm not going to switch on the brain. If TMZ didn't see it, it didn't happen.

Yeah. But y'all probably be FaceTiming when she's not there. A little bit. I haven't really gotten, I've never been in a FaceTime like that. It's hard for me to look at the screen. And you got to hold it at the right angle so you don't look crazy. And then I'm looking at myself the whole time, like, what do I look like? I look crazy right now.

Yeah. You're not even looking at the other person. You're looking at your little look. I look okay. They boxers this little and my boxers be the one in the background. Now, you work with Chris Brown so much, right? Right. Are you guys going to do a whole album together?

Y'all might as well. Y'all look like y'all popped off the same gremlin. It's the same. Y'all the same person. No, but seriously, because I was really thinking that. Because it's like, how many songs do you guys have together? Me and Chris probably got about like five records total that we've done. And I think three have come out.

So it's two from the first album and then we just dropped one the other day. And all three of them are singles. Why not do a whole album together? It's not, all three of them are singles and it's not like, you know, of course I wasn't going in like, all right, we got this Chris Brown record for the next one. It's about to instantly be, you know what I'm saying, the single. I knew it was going to be a single but I think it's really

when the album came out the fans was it was track five on iTunes without a title and it was number one on hip hop wow and I was just like y'all don't even really know

what you're buying like you could change the track and y'all could be buying something else later but you know from there I think it's just easy work I come into the studio

with the records that I think he's going to vibe with and it's usually you know what I'm saying, on the same page. It knocks him out, man. Did y'all have a relationship before music? Because it seems very organic. I mean, we ran into each other.

I think it's the circles we run around. You know, I'm from L.A., I was born and raised. He's out in L.A. running with, you know what I'm saying, a lot of the same just people that I've grown up with. So it's easy contact as far as that. They said Carute introduced you guys. Carute didn't introduce us. I met Carute in like 10th grade or something like that.

You went to high school with her? Fairfax High School. Did you finger her or anything back then? Damn it, man. That's so disrespectful. Why would you say that? Ask the question. I've never talked to Carute.

Okay. Thank you. You're perfect. Y'all could be family, though. You, Chris, and Tyga got to be related in some way because were they the light skin yes some deadbeat dad out there getting off on everybody now you're doing lucius lucius from empire now y'all you did a song with fifth harmony yeah that was a big song um i was actually just helping

write on the album so i had about about two records that were, you know, potential to make it from me working. Like one of the records was, these are actually records that we did when I did the Body Language session. So I was in there with Stargate and the Cashmere Cat. And we cut like six records that day. And two of them ended up going to their project. And then they picked the one up featuring me.

And then it still went out there too. You smashing any of Fifth Harmony? Nah, I've never actually met anybody from Fifth Harmony. He has a girlfriend, Charlamagne. What is wrong with you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw you in the studio with Xzibit too. Yeah, man. Xzibit got his own radio show out in LA right now, so he invited me over to the studio. You know, that was the first time I met him. Oh, so y'all weren't working on no music or nothing like that?

He played me some songs, but nah, I wasn't working on no records. I just been promoting. I finished the album, I'm chilling right now. Do you give your honest feedback when somebody like Exhibit's like, hey man, check out my new music. You sitting there like,

come on Exhibit, man. Nah, I mean, I honestly only heard one record and the record I heard, I told him, I said, this sounds like it's

for a movie or something. Like, I'm not gonna say this is for the radio or this your next single. I'll tell you what it could work for instead of telling your own, you know what I'm'm saying like the record can

exhibit could snap though he could wrap his ass right I mean I think I bought the first album you know I'm saying records I don't put it past him it's just you know pin my ride thing probably threw everybody off it's like new fans that only know him from that so it's like right it's like a whole new generation that don't know none of them records they just like that's the guy from my ride like yeah this little dude was trying to climb this other dude he was like you know what exhibit has oh pit my ride ass dude was like 17 it was clowning each other yeah i wouldn't say that to exhibit face so he probably knocked you out he's

not a little guy he definitely uh you know i'm saying think about the old records but we had some fun we're smoking out yeah you still get tattoos uh i try i got one on my right but i think that's a press play button yeah i you know i had a cool little idea but it's i'm running out of room i'm coming up with ideas and then i'm looking in the mirror for a good 45 minutes like where can i put it only put some stuff on your legs and there's a waste you know what's next you gotta get your done what shall i. What? Charlamagne, what is wrong with you? You might have had it done already. Why don't you ask me if you had it done, sir?

That's not a question for me to ask. Angela, ask that question. That's where you get your girl's name tattooed on your penis, right? I don't know. That probably would hurt. I've talked about how that doesn't work. I just don't see how that works. Because the skin there, when the skin is that thin in a certain area, it really hurts.

It seems like that hurts, man. But when it's... Nah, I'm not even going to get into that. And then when it's not, it probably looks weird. Right, the scabbing, I'm not trying to. And then you got itchy all day. What kind of shit is that? You walk around scratching your ass all vigorously.

Which one hurt the most? Hand tattoos, fingers. Like you said, the skin is is thin and it's more like bone though is where it hurts the most more than like the skull and the face don't feel like nothing was that your first obsession tattoos like oh yeah i think it was like 15 16 years old i was just always drawing looking at myself with a pen and i honestly was drawing on myself and showing the tattoo artist like let me get this and he would go right over the ink i don't know if that was damaging back in the day actual pen ink on me but at the end of the day you know i'm saying that's how it started and then from there the tattoo shop was around the corner so it was

literally i'm running over there working cleaning tools staying up till two in the morning when it closed and then like you want something yeah practice on me let's get it now there's a lot of artists that you work with that everybody respects you in the industry. So how did you decide who to put on your album? I usually try to, you know, features. I do the songs first and then see who can sound good on this. Pay attention to you. I'm a fan of music in general, so I'm always paying attention to what's going on, who's

hot just in the street and just on the radio. And it's like, from there, I try to go after, you know, people that are my peers, people that I've run into. I don't like chasing features if I don't know you because that's when it starts getting a little personal. When people don't hit you back. You know what I'm saying? Stuff gets mixed up or even when they don't really know your vibe. You see that?

When people don't hit them back. You're sensitive. But it feels like a lot of people would hit you back and want to work with you. I can't imagine that you can't get, you know, you've had proven success and track record. I think that way. I mean, I usually try to look at those benefits for my career when I'm going up features, but other people don't care, I guess. You know, when you're in your zone, you're in your moment,

especially when you're getting features from, like, probably bigger people. Like, if you're out here and then you got a Wayne feature, you probably feel like, I don't need no getting features. He need to get a feature from me. Where it's like, people don't want to meet in the middle and understand how you can benefit from both sides. Did you download Lil Wayne's mixtape that he just put out? I didn't get a chance to.

He was tweeting about you the other day. He was tweeting about the Hot Boy record. Yeah, man. He was tweeting about the Hot Boy record which was dope. That was my first acknowledgement. You know what I'm saying? Time ever talking to Weezy. Just getting any type of respect from that, you know, side of things. So it was dope to really see that. And for it to be a record that's not, you know, it's not like it's a record that's spinning everywhere.

So for him to hear it, whoever played it for him, appreciate it or whoever, you know what I'm saying, who heard it, the DJ, all that good stuff. Did you reach out to him after that? Yeah, I did. Tried to actually be a part of the mixtape, but he said, he was like, man, if we would have got that done like two days ago, it could have got done.

So I think, you know, we're going to try to do two days ago, it could've got done. So I think, you know, we're gonna try to do something for just whatever his next situation is. I was working with R. Kelly because I see R. Kelly's on the album.

R. Kelly, I wasn't actually able to get in a studio, but we've been trying to like, we've been communicating and trying to work for like the last, for the last album

we had a record that just didn't get finished. You do know he peed on a little girl, right? Allegedly. No, that was never the tape by the way. He was found not guilty, sir.

That was allegedly? That's child pornography if you saw that. Y'all stop it. Y'all wanna throw Bill Cosby under. No, that was never amazing tape, by the way. He was found not guilty, sir. That was allegedly? That's child pornography if you saw that. Y'all stop it. Y'all want to throw Bill Cosby under the bus, but you saw a tape of R. Kelly

and it's allegedly. He was found not guilty. He was found not guilty. He said it wasn't him, sir. But you know he did pee on a little girl, right? And that's child pornography if you saw that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't bother to. I was a little boy. So I don't think I processed it as well you know what I'm saying I thought it was

pretty funny you know the rest of the tape wasn't peeing but yeah the eating part was amazing I learned how to eat

because of R. Kelly in that tape he put on for sure did that make you want to try that when you saw R. Kelly doing that for hours uh

not at that time clarify what you tried like I said I was a little boy I was like to try that when you saw R. Kelly doing that for hours? Not at that time. Clarify what you tried. Like I said, I was a little boy. I was like, what is going on? You're like, that's gross. That's when the doo-doo comes out. Right. What about when he came on the girl, then he peed and he came again in a matter of 30

seconds. Come pee, come. He was a little boy again. He was going full speed. Can you think about that? seconds come P come full speed but you know when I sent him the record I'm thinking like I just are Kelly he sent me back to wrecking I was like yo he didn't do the parts that I you know I'm saying really wanted him to do something like how do you tell Kelly like yo nah I need you to go back in not that I really wanted him to do. So I'm like, how do you tell R. Kelly, like, yo, nah. I need you to go back in. Not that I don't like what you did,

but I just need you to, if you could just add this and then tweak this part and then move this and then I'm even, you know what I'm saying, moving stuff around and turning stuff up and down. You're like, he's going to be mad at me.

He's going to not want to do the record now, but it was all good. He sent the record back. He went back in the studio and redid stuff and sent it even back crazy. But if he can't listen to you, then why would you want to work with him?

Because you have good ears. I mean, come on. Right, but I feel like it's something you've got to still show and prove, especially if it's like, I've talked to R. Kelly, but I don't know what his favorite song is. I don't know if he really rocked with my records like that more so than just respect the brand and what I'm doing. So from there, it's like I've got to show and prove

and earn these people respect, man, and really do that. Let's talk about your brand. You feel like your music is bigger than you? Because I feel like you could be marketed a little better as a person. Right. I think that's my fault. I think, you know, my whole plan in the beginning, like I tell people, is because coming from the West Coast,

I felt like we were stuck in such a box at the time when I was coming up to where people wanted specific sound. They wanted everybody to be the next game and all of that, to where I thought it was more important not to really stress about my personal where i was from and give people too much besides the music first and let them appreciate that and then put two and two together when they're like oh that's the same guy who does this i was interested in what he did and i didn't even know that was his record and then i think it kind of it was better i'm saying for the growth i'm not a person who's in a rush to, you know what I'm saying,

to succeed over the top. What about other artists? Are you signing other artists? You said, am I signing other artists? Yeah, I just signed this cat from Arizona, Vida Rula. He's a crazy, like, spitter, more of a go-in, like, spitter. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to help just develop his songwriting skills,

and I think he's going to be a crazy artist. And then I got a bunch of different little producers. I've got Ned Cameron who does a lot of my big records. And then we're working. It seems like a natural progression for you. Brick Baby Shitro, he's on a Hot Boy record. Let him get to know you a little bit more

before you start signing artists, man. I mean, yeah, I'm not in a rush to but it's the same time I want people to know that it's not just me out there working. I got a team and group of people. Like these are still people that motivate me in the studio and who inspire me to go harder. So I feel like the same time, you know what I'm saying? They're getting their shot in their moments without me even having to force it.

I think it was just like, I remember reading something Kendrick said a long time ago, how it was just like their plan was everybody get their own fan base, this and that, and then come together and, you know what I'm saying and and it just looks better that way without over forcing it you know your fans come together now you've been with your girl for a long time how long you've been together uh six years okay so does she go through like your social media and instagram and make sure you ain't dming and tweeting people did you have to do you have to explain this tweet you said i saw you you said uh wilding out girls you said every time you see one tupac all about you starts playing in your head.

I know she asked you about that. I know. What does that mean? She actually missed that. And then somebody else brought it up in front of her. And then I had to explain it. But it wasn't that bad. It was, she thought it was funny to an extent.

She was like, you really said something about the Wildin' Out Girls? Like, what'd you say? And then I told her what I said and she thought it was funny. It was just, you know. What does it mean? But that's me just trying to, like I said, I'm trying to be a little bit more personal with just my thoughts and I was watching Wild N' Out and that was the first thought

that came to my head. Tupac, what's it all about? When I'm watching, because it's a lot of those, I thought it was funny more so on Nick Cannon. Like I was like,

yo, Nick Cannon really goes out there and finds all like the popular internet video girls, people that I see always just in different clubs or whatever the fact may be. The best thing you was just saying, they hoes that I see always just in different clubs or whatever the fact may be.

The business users saying they hoes. I see them saying hoes everywhere is what you're saying. I know a couple of those girls, man. They're good people. I do too. Some of them are the girls. I know a couple of them very well. He was talking earlier today, just before you got in here.

She's not one of them, sir. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You get your cook on too, right? Oh, man, I'm out of here with the chef work. Right now my favorite specialty dish is my lobster burrito. I saw you tweet that, yeah. I might sell it.

Like I'm really, I might get a truck just for that one burrito and some fries, and that's it. How'd you learn how to do that? You was just sitting around boiling? I was a fat boy when I grew up. I was always into cooking, mixing up stuff, and just making fat boy meals. And I think from there, you know, just really paid attention to it, really, you know what I'm saying, stepped my game up.

It's just like I could make that at home. I feel like when I go to restaurants, I'd be like, mm, this is great. I'm going to go home. Yeah. I do the same thing. And this too is about to be crazy. I can tell you a super weed smoker. Oh, man.

So when you're thinking stuff like that, you smoke a lot of marijuana. And sometimes the food you make at home is way better than anything you could buy anywhere. You know exactly what you like. Just cleaning up after, though. That's the problem. Right. Yep. That's the problem, and that's why I have maids come twice a week.

How'd you avoid the whole gang lifestyle? How'd you avoid having to be a blood or crip or whatever? I think I was somebody who was lucky enough to have a lot of friends who were, I guess, doing that situation for me. You know what I'm saying? We're still around all these guys and still in the circles,

but they weren't, you know what I'm saying, asking me or forcing me to do none of that. I think they kind of, a lot of people saw the bigger picture because I got into music early.

So it was like, like I said, I used to run with Nipsey. Like, I produced his first single. I was in the same circles. I was right there onosson i used to you know i'm saying stay in the same neighborhoods go to the same schools so you know i used to get banged on in front of my house every day like go home and like bro my door right there like you're gonna really bang on me right here so it's like i had the opportunities but then i just saw the outcome man and i saw a

lot of people just smart right i had a lot of friends go to jail and die around me early. I got homies I went to school with that's in for life. And I got homies that didn't make it past 11th grade. So it's like, you kind of look at it like, nah, man, that's not really... And I'm lazy. I always tell people like... I'm too lazy. As soon as y'all had a gang meeting...

You're going to have a gang meeting and I'm going to wake up like, today, not today. I'm not going to the meeting today. I'll see y'all later. I'm about to play GTA all day. I'm not doing it. gang meeting and I'm going to wake up like, today, not today. I'm not going to the meeting today. I'll see y'all later. I'm about to play GTA all day. I'm not doing it. You know what I'm saying? So for me, I think I just, I would have gotten in trouble

because I'm just not. Not showing up for those meetings. Yeah, and then as soon as the big homie would have said something crazy, I'd be like, I don't care who you are, bro. And then, you know what I'm saying, that kind of stuff doesn't. You got shy to stab.

Right, just from not being in order. You know what I'm saying? That's why I can never do gangs, frats, like all that in order stuff where military, like it's, I just can't. But they respected your talent enough to be like. Right, and they respected that I was making them beats too. Like all these people were, you know what I'm saying?

LA, I felt like it was a lot of people trying it out, seeing if they could be artists, seeing what worked, man. And, you know, I was making beats for all these guys. Somebody told me that neutral guys get it get it the worst sometime though kind of because I mean I felt like when some it just depends when they know you not on bs or they know you don't want to be on bs you know I'm saying nitpick at you just to look better in front of their homies but I ain't never had I ain't never been jumped and nothing like that ain't nobody ever beat me up you said banged on though what's banged on getting banged on is just where you from or why you around here.

I live right here. You know what I'm saying? All that stuff. What you got. You know what I'm saying? People try to pocket check. Robbed y'all. I ain't never been robbed either, though.

So I don't know about none of that. All right. Well, we appreciate you joining us this morning, son. Yeah, I'm here. Al comes out February 3rd. February 3rd. Full speed. High Boy's a tough tune, though.

It's even a little harder, though, than the stuff that you've been delivering to the radio. Yeah, because I think I always make that kind of music. I listen to that type of music. I think I'm always, you know what I'm saying, just trying new things. My biggest problem is, like I've been explaining to people, is I know how the game works.

I know that I'm going to need a single first. So, you know, when I go into the studio for that first two weeks, I'm usually focused on, all right, this is the kind of beats I'm going to work on this time, and this is the kind of records I'm going to try to get off, present them to the label, hoping that they're going to pick one out of ten, and they'd be like, let's take seven of those. Wow. I'm just like, nah, I don't know.

No, let's try to just get this one on this person, and then they'll come back with, this person said they want to get on this feature once again. I'm just like, bro, now how am I supposed to argue with you if you done already threw all the features on the song and stuff like that? So I think, you know, I understand a little bit more how to play that game with this project.

You know what I'm saying? I was a little bit more like, I'm only sending these. I'm going to tuck these records and then send them these and make it to where it was harder to fill it up with a bunch of singles just poppy singles man I try to everything but I had the mixtape come out it's a little bit more stronger street stuff you know I'm saying I think that's when I do that when I give the fans more freestyles right now I'm working on the alumni like mixtape album compilation project whatever you want to call it and you know that's

going to be a little bit more of a thing where i'm showcasing the artists around me and the people who are you know i'm saying grinding i think you know we do a lot more than just radio records i just understand that that's a good gift to have to make a radio record some artists can't do it the same day in life well for nothing trust me actually man but i had to prove it to myself with this last project i actually sat down And picked a record I was like Alright I'ma just go default I'm not gonna overthink it

I'ma just make this kind of record And see if it works And then it ended up being Hotel Featuring Chris Brown I'm like I wasn't supposed to be that easy man I was trying to

See if it didn't work And just make sure It wasn't the same But I vibe that way I don't know There you go Well it's Kid Ink It's the Breakfast Club.

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