DLS HOOPS: Juju Talks His Rap Career, the Aces, and Ellie the Elephant

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Speaker 7 Joey Chuck92 says, as a fan without a W team, how should I choose? I'm a Sixers fan. Do I wait five years for the Philly team?

Speaker 10 If you don't have a team already, I got two words for you. Ryan Ryan Howard, you feel me?

Speaker 10 I encourage you to go ahead and hop aboard the Atlanta Dream Train right now because think about it. You're not a bandwagoner.
We haven't won in a while. We were not necessarily the top of the list.

Speaker 10 If you go with New York Liberty, guess what you are, sir? Opposer. You just got here.
They're the champs. What are you doing? Even if you go with the Aces, I feel like, okay, we've heard that before.

Speaker 10 Now,

Speaker 10 the Minnesota Lynx,

Speaker 10 If you want to go there, if you have a problem with Atlanta, don't like the players or anything, I suggest you go with the Lynx because they have,

Speaker 10 of course, MVP, number one.

Speaker 10 But they got the stud boys over there, man. They be having such a good time.
I think they're so easy to root for that. Anybody in any walk of life just tuning in.

Speaker 10 You will like them links. So, yeah, links.
But my body's opinion, give the Atlanta dream some love, brother. Salute.

Speaker 7 RD Mancini says, Alyssa Thomas and why she's an underappreciated all-time great and should be getting louder.

Speaker 10 MVP chatter. Yeah,

Speaker 10 I think her MVP chatter should be a dab lighter, even though she loses to the dream every time she steps on the court with them. But I think she should also get way more credit.

Speaker 10 Sis ain't got no shoulders, bruh.

Speaker 10 Sis shoulders is like out of here. She refuses to get the surgery.
I don't know what it's called, torn labrums, whatever it's called, it's torn on both of them.

Speaker 10 And she did be shooting that thing out there.

Speaker 10 She shot, I think she hit one three-point of her entire career because,

Speaker 10 and she still, she got a triple-double yesterday.

Speaker 10 She still does everything that coach asks her and more.

Speaker 10 Never really not an all-star, all-star performances. Like she, USA squad last year.
She is definitely, definitely one of the stars of the league who should be talked about more.

Speaker 10 And just for her, man,

Speaker 10 a lot of people are so focused on scoring these days and so focused on being the man. Man, in that world, bro, she be dishing it.

Speaker 10 She could have a, she could get 10 more points a game if she really, really just wanted to go for stats. But since we got that dishing it, oh, my wife opened.
Up, up, cake out, up.

Speaker 10 And so, yeah, you're right, bro. She should be mentioned way more right now in that MVP chatter.

Speaker 10 But I don't know if she would get it just because you get spanked by the dream every single time I seen you go out there, neither here nor there. Salute.

Speaker 7 Red and gold 24, and the Mad Sailors say Vegas is 4-1 since Jewel Lloyd went to the bench, but the one game they played against a good team, they lost by 50 plus.

Speaker 7 So, are we looking at a turnaround, or did they just benefit from a soft schedule? And have have we ever seen year to year drop off as drastic as the Aces?

Speaker 10 Yeah, man. The Aces,

Speaker 10 I definitely don't think that their schedule is the reason for them putting it together. As well as

Speaker 10 that 50-point loss came against the Lynx.

Speaker 10 Like, you got to be fundamentally sound. You got to have a plan.
You got to be working and running on all cylinders when you go against the Links. The Links ain't going to play with you.
You see,

Speaker 10 New York Liberty is still trying to beat the Links for the first time this year still, this day.

Speaker 10 I mean, they play tomorrow night, so I don't know when you're going to hear this, but the Liberty have lost to them, what, three straight times already this year on home court, on another court, wherever.

Speaker 10 It don't matter. So I think that the Aces, we can't fault them for

Speaker 10 50 points. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 10 I was finna try to make up a little soliloquy, but you can't get beat by 50. I don't give a damn who you're playing.
I don't give a damn you're playing the Bulls.

Speaker 10 You can laugh at them to be losing by 50 points. So you're right.

Speaker 10 They got to get it together. But I do see more promise in them because Jewel going to the bench voluntarily, might I add, has been a better look for them.

Speaker 10 They make that camaraderie get together, especially after you lose an all-star guard and Kelsey Plum. That's what people don't necessarily talk about enough when it comes to the Aces.

Speaker 10 Kelsey Plum was a dog, is a dog.

Speaker 10 if asia ain't got it for this quarter for this stanza kelcey going at you and to the hole no matter what and one and foul getting contact miss devoid of that they're still trying to get it together but i don't think

Speaker 10 50 point losses 50 point loss but i don't think that their schedule has anything to do with that 4 and 1 i think it's just this part of the season

Speaker 10 you can get it together if you're a together getting it team if that makes sense if it don't make sense, find me $2, but salute to the question.

Speaker 7 Dale 305 says, I'd love to hear Juju talk about Deja Night Carrington finding her joy in Minnesota.

Speaker 10 Yeah,

Speaker 10 I mean,

Speaker 10 it's easy to find your happiness when you jump on the number one team up seven games in the playoffs standing there. I find me some happiness too.

Speaker 10 You go from Dallas who getting the dog behind kicked out of them every game almost. Salute the page.
I see you. You know, you already know what time it is, but it's not your fault.

Speaker 10 It's just ran in a certain way that's just not

Speaker 10 working for me. Like, I don't know what's happening in Dallas for real.
It'd be times where back when they had Alyssa Smith, her girlfriend, you feel me?

Speaker 10 Like, they would have her on the bench in times. I'm like, put listen, like, what's happening? She ain't played but two minutes in the second half.

Speaker 10 So imagine going from that, even DJNA, excuse me, pardon me, three three Janae these days, because

Speaker 10 what?

Speaker 10 At the end of the day, you go from having a, what, battle for minutes with Grace Berger. Salute to Grace Berger, no disrespect.

Speaker 10 But you go from there to the number one, the number one team in the league.

Speaker 10 Down on the list, Nafisa call you right now. And them girls say, you know what?

Speaker 10 We need you right now. They're making her feel like we need your toughness.
We need you a part of what we got going on. We need you to do the bus stop after the game

Speaker 10 we need you sis and and she bought in because you have an option to buy in or think all that shit goofy or whatever nah sis got the pink hair now courtney everybody showing a love jessica shepherd everybody showing her love when she got there so i think that it's a great move and it's not hard to be motivated when you around love and i think that's a message even to dallas bro lead more it's love.

Speaker 10 And then you won't have fans in the crowds. We won't know La Chance was coming from the crowd because they sick of the coach.

Speaker 10 When you got that going on, Maesha Hines Allen had to go and tell the fans, hey, come on, man. We love our coach.

Speaker 10 That's when you get away from stuff like that, you can find a little happiness no matter where you go.

Speaker 10 I feel like if sis would have gone to Connecticut, she would have been more happy than she is right now. But great question.
Salute to you, dog.

Speaker 7 718 Chocolate and Dickie, Tiki Tembo, say, is Ellie the Elephant the best mascot in the W? And best mascot in sports might be a debate, but Ellie boat races all others in the W.

Speaker 10 718 chocolate, you feel me?

Speaker 10 What a name. You got to know, man.
Salute. Is Ellie the Elephant the best mascot? I don't know, bro.
Blooper from the Braves is hilarious. The Fanatic in Philly is pretty awesome.

Speaker 10 The Phoenix Sun still got that gorilla. I don't know.

Speaker 10 Work on that. Y'all, we need to

Speaker 10 get that match got together, brother. We can't still be with the gorilla

Speaker 10 in 2025 as a match guy. Neither here nor there.

Speaker 10 Let's see, football. Rampage for the Rams.
He's pretty awesome. I don't know.
You might have a point because...

Speaker 10 No one I'm mentioning is as awesome as Ellie. Ellie come out

Speaker 10 clocking T. She got on fan.
She boots on the ground. Ellie got the Beyonce moves down pat.
You might be court side. Ellie might just be twerking on you.
Oh, I mean, but get in there.

Speaker 10 Like, Ellie got it going on for real, for real. So you might be right that Ellie, you know what? I'm going to agree.
I'm going to agree. Because Ellie got a championship ring, too.

Speaker 10 That's what folks don't even know about. Ellie got her Ellie size championship ring from the Liberty that she just be rocking, man, because she's just

Speaker 10 a bigger part of that team as the fans are.

Speaker 10 You feel me? A little bit more, probably, because she be hyping them up. I see Ellie on the All-State commercial, man, with John Quill.
What the hell?

Speaker 10 So, yeah, she's the best mascot in all the sports right now. Now,

Speaker 10 a lot of teams don't have a mascot.

Speaker 10 I'm not pointing any fingers or any elbows, but some teams don't even have a mascot.

Speaker 10 And I think that if some teams could find themselves a mascot, we could get in some running because I feel like a mascot from this place right here

Speaker 10 will be like, bro, we'll have it all together.

Speaker 10 Like, we'll have the best mascot hands down. But for right now, in reality, in this plane that we live in, Ellie got it.
Salute to Big Ellie.

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Speaker 10 Oh, my goodness, the all-time is scary. I don't want to leave out people.

Speaker 10 All-time best coach in the W.

Speaker 10 Oh my goodness. Van Chancellor, I mean,

Speaker 10 four in a row with swoops, big swoop, dog, with Coop, dog,

Speaker 10 the Tina Tomp, dog. Like, bro, I don't know if you can go.

Speaker 10 You can't beat four in a row. So salute to Van, bro.
Van, the all-time. If you go four in a row, then talk to me.
But you ain't went four in a row, can't. I don't.

Speaker 10 That's saw.

Speaker 10 You feel me? Now, these days,

Speaker 10 man,

Speaker 10 I like what sis out there. She's doing out there in Golden State.
I love what she's doing first year

Speaker 10 and contender.

Speaker 10 But Sandy Brandello,

Speaker 10 Becky Hammond,

Speaker 10 Minnesota coach. Cheryl is the best coach in the league right now.
I'm going going to go ahead and go with Cheryl. I've been Jesus for damn sure.
It ain't the Dallas coach.

Speaker 10 Coach Cochlannis, it ain't you, bitch, bro. So you don't even got to worry about that.
I also like my sister, though. Fever coach right now.
Stephanie White, bro.

Speaker 10 Like, what she did with Connecticut cannot be understated. Like, Connecticut was never like that, but they were always.

Speaker 10 Like that.

Speaker 10 You feel me? Like, she definitely, she, look, she went over and replaced Miss Christie Sides for a reason because she's just that good of a coach.

Speaker 10 So Stephanie White definitely deserves like an honorable mention in this. But Cheryl, man, Cheryl Reeves, bro.
I think like she done been there, done that, won with these folks, bought it back.

Speaker 10 Yeah, man, Cheryl, salute.

Speaker 7 Jay Felici, 3089, says, can Juju speak on his early music career that involved the God Fahim and Mark Hami? Juju's contributions were great. And wonder why he hasn't continued collaborating with them.

Speaker 10 Yes, salute, man. The God Fahim, Mach Hami, man.
And look, them my dolls. Like, we came up together as far as like

Speaker 10 a specific time in life. You know what I mean? Like, them boys still rapping they behinds off right now, too.
So, go check out Machami on every platform you can right now.

Speaker 10 And the God Fahim on every platform, the 50 tape legend. I think it's up to about 70 of them boys right now.
Always forever gonna ride for them. Whenever I started doing this sports stuff,

Speaker 10 we just moved to different places and moved to different areas in life. And you know, my dog Mark got the deals on deal.

Speaker 10 You feel me? My boy going crazy. And my dog Phi, he done started a family.
So, yeah, bro, we still, I'm still cool as hell with the game.

Speaker 10 But at the same time, I just haven't had time enough to focus kind of on that side of life, which is my one of my downfalls. Like, I think that I want to do music so bad,

Speaker 10 but waking up every day, if you don't know out there, we tape our show, what

Speaker 10 we go live at 9 a.m. and finish around noon.

Speaker 10 And for some reason, I haven't got my wiggle together, my pace together to be as confident as I supposed to be while I'm doing this show. That has taken up a lot of my mental health space, you dig?

Speaker 10 And so, times where i'm used to writing and spending going to the booth which i still do i'm usually these days spending time in therapy i'm spending time working on my mental working on myself chilling with my girl you feel me like i'm giving them pretty much all of my time and i've neglected that part of myself for real if i'm being honest that i do need to dust off you feel me because that's where my true happiness lies even though i love doing the alley oop I love doing this sports thing, but it's not my true passion.

Speaker 10 So I think that's a great question. I think that question is a great reminder to wake the hell up, Jew.
You know your passion is that music. You know you want to spit.

Speaker 10 Whether it's bars on bars, dunk tapes, or whether it's Atlanta music that make you feel good. It got to be something coming out more than what I'm putting forth.
You right, bro.

Speaker 10 I did a song for the Atlanta Dream right now to kind of shake off some card webs them folks been playing it in the arena you feel me salute to all the dj dj chalet dj mohawk you got the no man

Speaker 10 let's go back down

Speaker 10 let's go back down

Speaker 10 you right i'm gonna get back in the booth i'm gonna get back in the booth like i post to because that's the ultimate goal for me. That's where my ultimate happiness lies.
So I got you, family. Salute.

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