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Kyle is a different kind of West Coast rapper

VENTURA, Calif. - As he stood on a hill overlooking a residential neighborhood in the laid-back coastal town of Ventura, Kyle Harvey stretched out his arm on a recent afternoon and pointed at a spot a few hundred yards away.

"You see that gray cement wall? That was my house right there," said the young hip-hop star known to his fans by his first name alone. "Every idea I ever came up with I had on that wall, pacing back and forth, looking out at the ocean and the islands and stuff.

"It was like my little thinking spot."

As cheerful in general as his bubbly 2017 hit "iSpy" would suggest,

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