SZA presents TDE's Top Dawg and Punch with the Clive Davis Visionary award at the Billboard Power 100 Party 2024.
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00:00 Hey, wow.
00:05 Okay, Punch and Top know more than anybody that I hate being outside and being in the
00:15 cameras, but I will say I was just talking to Punch the other day about how much vision
00:22 he had to have to see what he saw in me with no credentials.
00:30 I really was looking insane and behaving insane and refused writers and all these things,
00:40 and he believed in me, and people would come to him and tell him he should change how I
00:45 look or I should be doing these kind of beats or working with these writers, and he didn't
00:51 change a single thing about me.
00:53 He completely believed and constantly told me that I was the greatest, which I thought
00:58 was ridiculous, and I was so grateful for his delusion.
01:04 And now, Top literally somehow also had this belief in me, and I was nothing like any of
01:14 my family members in TDE.
01:17 I didn't come from the same place, I was just a different type of person, and no matter
01:22 how many times we would have conversations that differed, he would fight to understand
01:28 me.
01:29 And it really takes a visionary to believe in somebody that's completely just so different
01:36 and don't know from Adam, but completely continue to pour into them and believe in them the
01:41 way that those two gentlemen believe and pour into me constantly, currently.
01:46 So congratulations to my two dads, and I'm so thankful to have y'all in my life, and
01:57 you know, you deserve it all, and I guess we have more stuff to do together, more things
02:02 to build, but y'all are iconic without me, and I'm blessed to know you, so congratulations.
02:16 Well, well, well.
02:20 You know me, I'm like behind the scenes all the time.
02:23 I'm like scissor.
02:24 I don't like all these cameras and pictures and limelight.
02:30 Just want to stay behind the scenes and do what I do in the background.
02:37 But my man Punch, he gonna take over, he like to do this talk, and he got 240 for you guys.
02:43 I want to thank Billboard, thank my team, thank SZA for kicking ass when everybody counted
02:51 us out.
02:52 TD is back on top.
02:54 He gonna always be there.
02:57 I'm out.
03:02 And I want to start off by thanking my family first, who's in attendance for the first time.
03:09 Wouldn't be able to do anything without you two.
03:12 Carry Quack.
03:14 I want to thank Billboard for considering us for this honor of Visionary of the Year.
03:23 And when you think about a visionary, you think about you have to have foresight.
03:30 And coming from where we come from, we both come from the Nixon Garden Projects, you have
03:36 to have vision.
03:37 You have to have foresight.
03:40 And usually you don't.
03:41 You can't see past your circumstances or even see past what's right in front of you.
03:46 So from there, we went on to get 20 years in in this business.
03:52 So I say that takes a razor sharp vision for sure.
03:57 And I mean, even to help different artists, like a young girl from the suburbs of Maplewood,
04:04 New Jersey to reach the top of the pop charts.
04:07 It's crazy.
04:09 And that also takes vision.
04:11 So to the visionaries, keep seeing things with your eyes closed.
04:18 See it through.
04:19 Appreciate it.
04:20 Let Billboard know we need two of these.
04:33 Each house.
04:33 (audience laughing)
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