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This is a video about platform shoes.

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Among other things as well, but

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mostly about platform shoes.

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For as long as I've been creative,

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I've been fearful.

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Fearful of rejection,

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fearful of failure,

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fearful of 'who does this kid think he is'.

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But a year ago,

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I signed my record deal

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and I thought I was going to wake up one morning

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and all of a sudden, be the dopest person on the planet,

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with sick style and incredible music.

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I realized soon after that it was not going to be that easy.

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I realized that the art that I appreciate

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and the people I appreciate

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are not just your average person walking down the street.

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You could take away their money and take away their fame,

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and they would cut up a garbage bag

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and be wearing it like it just came off the runway in Paris.

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They'd still be doing that thing that is just left of center

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that you either love or you hate,

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but to be frank, they don't give a fuck what you think.

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Art is risk.

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Upon realizing this it's been an interesting journey.

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I'm on the path to being a person that I'm equally terrified by and obssessed with.

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My true self.

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I realize that if I wanted to make cool shit,

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I had to make cool shit.

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If that cool shit was letting myself scream into a microphone

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in a room full of people looking like a complete idiot,

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because I know that it's gonna sound amazing on the final track,

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it's about doing that.

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But this doesn't only apply to me.

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If it means taking rad photos

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that your friends are gonna condescendingly call

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'so tumblr',

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it's about doing that.

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If it's about singing at the top of your lungs

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when you're tone deaf,

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it's about doing that.

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If it's about showing off your ass

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because you know it's cute,

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even though you might get called a slut,

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it's doing that.

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If it's wearing something that you probably can't pull off

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like women's platform converse shoes,

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when you're a 19 year-old man,

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it's about doing that.

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Whatever it is,

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I urge you to do it.

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Don't let people stifle you

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because you're doing the shit

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that they have always been too scared to do.

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Love your body,

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let your mind wonder,

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and let yourself be the person that you've secretly always wanted to be.

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Life isn't about finding yourself.

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It is about creating yourself.

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I love you guys so much

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and I'll see you all next week.