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Syd: We gon' delete Tyler.
[laughs]
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Syd: I'm Syd. Let's Play, Pause, Delete.
[laughs]
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Syd: That's, that's a good one.
Syd: Um, OK! Hold on-wait!
Syd: Delete basslines, 'cause I'm terrible at writing them.
Syd: We'll pause on the melody.
Syd: Melodies are something, I think,
that come kind of easy to me, kind of naturally.
Syd: Usually my best idea is my first one.
Syd: But there are times where -
Syd: I have a beat that I'm like: Ah!
Syd: I need to write something to this beat.
Syd: This beat is calling me -
and I just can't find the right melody.
Syd: I'm gonna play drums.
Syd: I think I'm really good at making drum loops -
when it comes to my own music.
[snaps]
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Syd: Well-here-OK. So, here's the deal. Right.
Syd: We gon' play, Kaytranada - literally.
Syd: He's in the playlist.
Syd: We got, like, a couple songs together.
Syd: Little Simz, you my homegirl,
but we just gon' have to delete that
so I can tell this story about Thundercat.
Syd: Pause on Thundercat.
Syd: Thundercat is uh, one of my like closest friends, actually.
Syd: We're in several group chats together.
Syd: So, we've never taken a road trip together -
but we did spend a New Year's Eve.
Syd: Matter of fact, it was me,
Thundercat, and Kaytranada in Johannesburg.
Syd: There were fireworks, it was raining,
we were all on stage dancing to Kaytranada.
Syd: We went back to the hotel afterwards,
and we had a Super Smash Brothers tournament.
Syd: It was great.
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Syd: Play In-N-Out.
Syd: That's my - if you know me, you know.
Syd: We're gonna delete Jimmy John's.
Syd: Sorry!
Syd: And we're gonna pause on Roscoe's.
Syd: Roscoe's is a staple.
Syd: Although I don't eat there much,
I live very nearby a Roscoe's.
Syd: There's a lot of beautiful, Black people outside.
Syd: We love to see it:
Syd: Black management - feel me - people of color.
Syd: Roscoe's is a vibe.
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Syd: We're gonna delete Paris.
Syd: Play LA:
Syd: You know, it's where I'm from.
Syd: It's my hometown.
Syd: We're gonna pause Bali.
Syd: I've been to Bali twice now.
Syd: I was with a girlfriend at the time.
Syd: It was New Year's, like, Day,
or, like, two days after New Year's.
Syd: We did the Airbnb.
Syd: The villa - private pool -
you know - we did it big.
Syd: I had a, I had a Bali bae,
if you, if you want to call it that.
Syd: If you will.
[laughs]
Syd: I mean - you know - it, it, it was, it was a trying time.
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Syd: Dang...OK!
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Syd: We're gonna play Earl Sweatshirt.
Syd: I think he's just one of the best
lyricists - poet - whatever you want to call him.
Syd: I think he's one of the greatest.
Syd: We gon' delete Tyler.
[laughs]
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Syd: And we'll pause on Frank.
Syd: He's also one of the best lyricists, I think.
Syd: Even though I never know what he's talking about.
[laughs]
Syd: There have been many times where I was writing, and
you know was stuck or something, and I thought:
Syd: What would Frank do?
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Syd: Play on flight,
'cause being able to fly would be - it would be fun.
Syd: I don't know what I would necessarily do
with that talent at all, but it'd be fun.
Syd: We're gonna delete spitting fire.
Syd: That's kind of random to me.
Syd: But we'll pause on reading minds,
because - when I was a kid - that's the superpower I wanted
for sure - was the power to read minds.
Syd: I don't know! For some reason,
I always felt like people didn't like me, or something.
Syd: So, I was always just like:
Syd: I wish I could know what they were really
thinking about me.
Syd: Matter of fact, in high school I took psychology,
just 'cause I thought it would get me a little closer
to being able to read minds.
Syd: And it didn't, it didn't, it just confused me further.
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Syd: Ugh, OK. We're gonna -
[laughs]
Syd: play -
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Syd: “Body,” 'cause that's my jam.
Syd: Delete “Missing Out,” because -
trauma.
Syd: We're gonna pause on “Birthday,”
'cause that's a song that pops into my head frequently,
actually.
Syd: And shout-out to Disclosure.
Syd: I was a huge Disclosure fan for so long.
Syd: So that was kind of “the dream come true”
to be able to work with him.
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Syd: Oh, OK.
Syd: Hmm.
Syd: We're gonna play 90s. Off top.
Syd: We're gonna delete the last decade:
Syd: It's been, it's been cool; it's been fun -
but the 2000s, though!
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Syd: That was a real era, right there.
Syd: It's wha - It's funny because,
I feel like - my generation -
we kind of look back to the 90s as being like:
Syd: “Mmm, mmm! The hip time!”
Syd: But when I look back,
I look at the early 2000s, more so.
Syd: Early 2000s production - man! - was just like -
[kiss]
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Syd: There's a new era of music coming -
a Renaissance of sorts -
and I'm looking forward to it.
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Syd: Thank you, guys.
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