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What Elton John Told Young Thug That Changed His Music Forever · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Young Thug is capable
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  Speaker 1: of seamlessly jumping from rapping, is singing with exceptional skills
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  Speaker 1: as a vocalist and both arenas, and he's been showcasing
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  Speaker 1: is singing more and more in recent years, and that's
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  Speaker 1: doing part to a legendary influence Elton John. They first
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  Speaker 1: linked up about three years ago when Thug infused Elton's
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  Speaker 1: hit rocket Man into his teen song High and Elton
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  Speaker 1: tells Billboard he wanted to meet me, and we shot
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  Speaker 1: the Breeze for forty minutes. He asked me what advice
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  Speaker 1: you would give me. I said, did you sing in
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  Speaker 1: the choir? And he replied, yeah, of course, gospel choired.
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  Speaker 1: So I told him sing more, don't just rap, because
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  Speaker 1: the mixture of rap and musicianship at melody is what
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  Speaker 1: really makes rap take off. And he's doing that now.
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  Speaker 1: Elton olds Young Doug's talent in extremely high regard. He
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  Speaker 1: was blown away by his freestyle while making their new
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  Speaker 1: song always Love You. In fact, Elton says he's never
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  Speaker 1: heard anything like it before. He calls it an amazing
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  Speaker 1: moment in his musical life. Their track also featuring Nicki
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  Speaker 1: Minaj appears on Elton's upcoming album, The Lockdown Sessions, out
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  Speaker 1: October two, that's direct from Hollywood.