Episode 801 | "0-5 Zone"

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Happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary.

To each of you.

Yeah.

I made the applause

a little louder

for 10 years.

Good to see everybody.

Thank you guys

for your contributions. Thank you guys for the effort shown Thank you guys for the camaraderie The solidarity that you've shown For however long each of you have been here Keep that applause going Mic check, mic check, mic check.
All right.

Oh, thank you to y'all out there.

Come on now.

Best fans in the world and the worst fans in the world all in one room.

All in one.

All in one room.

Keep the applause going for the best and worst fans in the whole wide world.

That's a fact.

Boy, do y'all make it hot when I'm in trouble with these corporations.

Actually, I only get in trouble with these corporations because the fans are the best and the worst. Thank y'all.

Thank y'all for letting corporate know when I sleepwalk butt-ass naked to somebody's door. Thanks.
Really appreciate the fan base. Couldn't have got here without y'all.
Keep the applause going for the best fans in the world. Hey.
All right. I am mind-blown.
And that's tough to do with the way that my mind is structured. We were talking about, I don't know, I wasn't even here for the talk.
We were talking about Podwives is Ian's wife on the network. Technically she is because Podwives, the show, new episode out now.
Huh? Huh? Analytics. Huh? Run it up.
Analytics. Lot of ladies, huh? Ian's wife is technically on the network, and they found her doppelganger on the Dave Chappelle show many, many, many years ago on that, what skit was that? Who Knows Black People.
Who Knows Black People. That lady looks exactly like Ian's wife.
I even told my girl. I was like, look, they found somebody that looked exactly like Jules.
I just texted you. It is her.
It's just, whatever. From what I haven't seen it.
The consensus of the crew is that is her. I would have never said that.
I don't think that that logistically could be Julia because that was shot 20 years ago.

And that would have made Julia, what, 12 at the time?

I was saying something like that.

Like Jules is, I don't even know how old Jules is.

But I figure she was 13 when that skit came out.

Pretty much.

I've not seen the skit.

I'm telling you what. I've seen the skit.
Everybody said. And then Ian confirms, I don't know if Ian is playing though.
Because Ian plays a lot. Yeah, he'll play into something.
Yeah, he'll lean into some shit. You're like, I can never really tell what him.
Ian is saying that that was Julia, his wife. And because they married, I can't really get my jokes off the way I would like.
Because when you marry your girl, then the jokes are off limits. Pretty much.
Even though when you've been with your girl long enough, I think the jokes are kind of off limits. Oh.
Wait. No.
Y'all think that? Yeah. Oh.
You don't? No. Y'all don't.
Y'all crack a lot of jokes up here about niggas and their girls. Yall don't think that I don't I think that I cross all lines and limits I don't believe that I be cracking on you I know Not her At the expense of who I don't know her Huh? At the expense of who If you're cracking relationship jokes White jokes pertaining to him You know he likes to dip his tip in milk And all that pretty shit.
Yo, what? Yo, wow. You let us talk about him.
His wife, his girl. I can see that.
I can see that. Oh, that's interesting.
I can see that. Yeah, you're right.
It's not personal to her. It's just...
No, it's not a personal to her. I don't know her.
No, it's not personal at all. I don't...
I don't like that. I don't like that.
No, it's not. You do know she watches as well, so she knows when you're cracking jokes about her or pertaining to her.
But I don crack jokes about her we can progress the conversation what I'm saying is everybody up here is stunting I don't think it's right to crack jokes on nobody, girl or wife if you've been together for more than five years under five years your bitch do some doofy shit, then we're going to talk about it. Well, I ain't been with mom five years.
Y'all crack a joke, we're going to end up squaring up. I don't crack on Freeze.
I don't do that. He don't leave the opening to crack on him.
That nigga sealed tight, nigga. He don't crack.
I crash out over mine. Big Freeze.
Big Freeze, that's how it should be. I crash out over mine.
Yeah, what's up? Freeze, you know the plastic shit you put around your door when it's cold? Yeah. You got all of it.
A little ceiling. No draft coming through? No, not a draft.
Not even a fucking... I respect that Freeze.
Big Freeze. How y'all doing, man? Good, man.
What's up? What's up? Feeling great?

How you doing?

How you doing?

They look amazing, boy.

I want to know how you feeling.

I'm feeling real good.

I'm feeling real good.

I did it big with the blues this time.

Nigga look like Pepe LaPille.

Come on, man.

Michelangelo up in this piece, huh?

Got some balloons covered up the view with a little step and repeat.

I like this shit. Huh? It's dope.
Amazing. I've been in enough clubs with Ishten O.
He With a little step and repeat I like this shit It's dope, amazing I've been in enough clubs With Ish, you know He like a good step and repeat Now That boy gonna get in front Of the step and repeat And lick his lips That's my man I got a cracker That's why you're here I'm feeling good Wife, you woke up Made some eggs with spinach Okay, okay Come on now Eggs with some spinach Made some eat pork. Yeah.
Yeah. Excuse me.
Ain't that the best? Yeah, put yourself to the side and please your nigga. It's bigger than you.
Yeah, yeah, ain't about you right now. You don't eat it, but cook it.
Yeah. Yeah.
Then I felt bad because the whole house would smell like pork. Smell like that.
About an hour after. That shit smell good.
You smell bad? That shit smell good. I ain't ice cube.
Cook the hog in the morning. I ain't cube, nigga.
I ain't trying to have a triple-double in the park. Make some bacon.
Facts. How y'all doing, man? Flip, big flip.
Hey, solutions. I want each and every one of y'all to know that we couldn't have got to 10 years without y'all, man.
Give it up for yourself. Give it up for your...
You definitely got tears without me. That's not true, though.
You got to take nine years and ten months. That's not true, though.
No, your signing is going to take me to 20. I appreciate that.
I couldn't have done it. I couldn't have done it.
Look at Free, Big Freeze. Fuck they talking about.
Yes, sir. Listen, man.
I'm going to take a bean pot. Want to find a call with that, too? I'm going to buy a couple of them shits in exchange for some art.
Looking like the price is right over there. I'm selling art up in this place.
Look at my man Freeze with his shoes on. Yeah, that's right.
My nigga Mark, fresh from a flight, ain't even have time to stop home. Stopped at Short Hills for the people all over the world.
That's the expensive mall in Jersey. Stop at the Short Hills.
Cop something real quick. Put the rollie on, threw it in the sky, wave it side to side, keep your hands high.
I look like the poor version of you. You don't look poor.
Stop it. Compared to what you got on, we look like a before and after picture, man.
Not really. Those are boobs you got on your feet.
No way. No way.
And that's an off-white tee right there. And the jacket.
I see how you're doing it. These jeans are baggy for you.
I see what you did. It's mad funny because the lady in the store is like, do you want a bigger size? I said, this is the biggest size I've ever worn in my life.
I fucking MC Hammer out this bitch. A 34? 33.
I got Parks through on the long sleeve. Throw some color.
The green polo. The green polo The green polo That's dressed up for Parks It's a little something Shout out to everybody out there that's still got a Christmas tree up It's about time It's time It's time now It's been time It's almost March I ain't gonna hold you Nah you can do Valentine's Day I took it down about a week and a half ago Sicko Wow I know.
I know. I know.
That's way longer than normal for me.

If my Christmas tree, I think my girl Christmas tree is still up.

You've been together.

You can't talk about it.

If the tree is beautiful, like you put a lot of work in the tree and it's just beautiful

and you love the pine smell, I'm not mad that you letting it rock, too.

That shit ain't still pining this time.

It got to be fake.

Yeah.

It got to be a fake tree.

The pine spray.

Yeah.

Put the pine spray. That's pine salt.
It got got to be. Put the little sticks in there.
Got a flip. Mail looking good.
Hey, you know, 10 years. You said come dressed like we were going out on a date at 6 o'clock.
I was like, wait, it's for the senior special or something? I don't know. I thought that was like a crack, but it's okay.
No, I wasn't trying to be funny. That was like my best instruction.
Because I feel like a dinner date at 9 p.m. gives a different look than 6 p.m.
Sure. It does.
Absolutely. And I didn't want to be caught saying that to a lady.
Like, hey, get dressed like it's dinner at 10. That's a little flagrant.
So, 5, 6 p.m. Is's a difference for you as a woman?

Well, if it's after 10 p.m., I'm not going.

It's too late.

Nah.

Same.

I'm saying

it's pretty much the same.

Same outfit, right?

Yo, we're going to start with lies.

You're talking about

happy hour.

You know what?

Hold on, hold on.

Hold on for a minute.

You are right.

Hold on for a minute.

Let's give it up for lies.

We couldn't have gotten

the 10 years.

We could not have gotten the 10 years without some lies. That's a fact.
I ain't going to lie to you. Now.
You're right. Hold up for a minute.
Let's give it up for lies. We couldn't have gotten it 10 years.
There you go. We could not have gotten it 10 years without some lies.
That's a fact. I ain't going to lie to you.
Now. You're right.
Yeah. All right.
Yeah, man, I'm not going to go. Ish.
Good day, sir. I'm going to strike on my man's name.
Here you go when respect my man name.

Wait, where you go when everybody knows your name.

Let's go ish. You ain't even give us a new that's that ish sweatsuit colorway.

This is new.

But it's okay.

I said a new that's that ish colorway.

I mean.

Carolina Blue is dressy for light-skinned niggas with nice eyes from the 90s.

Carolina Blue.

You got to talk to your management. What? I didn't get the memo.
Oh, yeah. Ish had the Uno reverse card in his pocket.
Said that he's not in the group chat because he has a green bubble, which is very immature of us. I never looked at it that way until he said it.
He might have a point, but I'm not ready to be that level of maturity. Y'all think Ish should be in the group chat even though he makes the bubble green? Yes, if you make an announcement.
Ish has an iPhone. Now, also, does that...
Yeah, Ish, you got an iPhone from when you was a sports agent. I key.
You was a sports agent? Oh. I just didn't know.
Yes. I just didn't know he was a sports agent.
Listen to this. if it was a personal homies group chat, y'all can say that when it's a group chat pertaining to work I remember one time we was off, I came to work y'all laughing I came here, drove my ass from home, got up early, came work Oh yo You ain't get the group chat We off today You have an iPhone I don't use that bullshit Use it now It's a Y phone I'm gonna just Open up the iPhone And carry two phones Just in case I get a group chat You did it when you was A sports agent And you was trying to Get LeBron to LA And he did And he did And he did I just ain't get the commission chat That's when they fired him As soon as LeBron to LA.
He did. And he did.
And he did. And he did.
I just didn't get the commission check. That's when they fired him.
As soon as LeBron signed. Stupid.
We're good now. So, again, I didn't get the memo that we were supposed to come in dapper.
So all of you gentlemen and lady look nice. Well, that's the PC version of the talk we had off air.
It is. I curse the niggas out.
The talk we had off air voice. was, Ish is a fat fuck.
Joe, why do you keep saying I'm fat? Anyway. You trying to trigger him.
No, no, no. It ain't going to work today.
Not today. Not today.
It's not going to work. It's nothing but positive vibes.
I won't trigger y'all and anything y'all have done to trigger me and while we were away from here, I won't let it affect me today. Oh, well.

That's the deal.

Okay, 10 years.

No triggers on our anniversary.

That's no fun.

Save them for Friday.

All right?

All right, no triggers.

Deal?

Deal, everyone?

Sure.

Is it a deal?

I'll do my best.

Yes.

All right, we got a deal.

Mark is going to be the one to do it. I had this whole talk with my girl this morning about who was going to be the one to do it.
It's going to be Mark. Because he don't be here for the Friday so he get to come in with that oblivious, hey! Hey, I was just, I saw the show! That's my favorite thing to do.
Don't watch when you're not here. Alright, I'm going to go get me a little water to celebrate.
Could you throw me a water, though? Listen, man, it's 10 years. Please, y'all.
We have to show solidarity. I don't even know.
It's left-handed, nigga. I love y'all, man.
Likewise. We came in.
We had to turn this shit up for this nigga. If it wasn't for us, this nigga wouldn't be, oh, he coming back.
He wouldn't be as lit. He caught me privately and said, oh, how you going to say that? No more private.
You can get to that part. If it wasn't for us, he wouldn't be lit like that nigga who he is.
That's true. I believe that.
I'm hitting around the floor. He'll be lit.
I don't know if you're trying to be funny right now I truly believe that Hey come on He'll be lit as Joe Budden But we talking about like The We added the Tomato sauce to the spaghetti Yeah He had the noodles I miss those days My niggas Icen-ish Came through When shit was turbulent And it was awesome because they didn't know a thing about podcasting or the business.

It's like, yeah, come on, for $500 a month.

That's funny, huh?

Give it up for that.

Come on, man.

I used a bull at $500 a month.

Actually, now that I think about it, I didn't think niggas got.

There ain't no shit. It was a minute.
I'm like, yo, 250 for the month. It's pod and it's slow.
And I'm gonna buy you an egg and cheese. That's a winning dog.
I got you. Oh, man.
Nah, make some noise for exploiting your friendship. Make some noise for exploiting your best friends.
Turn the applause up. Rest in peace, Hovain.
Hovain, man. You fixed all that shit, man.
For free at least. You fixed it up for free.
Rest in peace, Hovain. Rest in peace, bro.
Rest in peace, Hovain. I miss you.
I love you. I know you see this fuckery going on down here.
I'll talk to you. I'll talk to you.
You know what I mean right. Flippin' Mel, hold up now.
Hold up now. We have been here for over two years, and we have no drop.
But we do it live every time. It's like a show.
OK. So why don't we record that and just make it a drop? It's more fun if we do it live.
You was getting a drop, but... Emma?

Actually, you got a drop.

You got a couple of drops.

You said it.

Yeah, you made your own drop.

Okay.

Like, we didn't ask for a drop.

Okay.

Somebody did that.

I want a drop.

I'm down with Mel, man.

We should have a drop by now.

What do you want your drop

to be, Flip?

I'm from Queens

or something like that.

Something.

Something cool.

Something cool. It could be the Flip and Mel.
It could be that. I think we should have separate drops.
What was the rapper? Big Flip, right? The rapper dude from Texas? Little Flip. Little Flip.
Little Texas. Flip.
He's Big Flip then. Yeah, you Big Flip.
I think we should get drops. I agree with Mel.
All right, so Mel wants a drop and a billboard. Yeah, I'm off the billboard thing.
You made your point.

I agree. It's fine.

But a little drop will be cute.

It'll be cute.

Okay, we'll put it in the suggestion box. Okay, put it in the suggestion.

Big Melon Flip came.

When these niggas started to flatline out,

make some noise.

Make some noise, huh?

These niggas started coming in here on some bullshit. Melon Flip came, picked it up here, make some noise.
Make some noise, huh? Hey. Huh? These niggas start coming in here on some bullshit.
Mel and Flip came. Picked it up in here.
Make some noise. How did y'all feel when that happened? Personally? Yeah.
I ain't give a shit. My check ain't changed.
They're supportive. To me, they're supportive.
Yeah. I'm supportive.
Very supportive. Flip is something that I would never be, with it terms to the type of Watch your mouth on our anniversary.
That's not an insult. The output of energy.
That's not an insult. That ain't a diss.
I'm repping for everybody today. No, that's not a diss.
Just different styles. I get it.
Exactly. He just added another ingredient that was missing.
That's a fact. To find out that initially that when they said if I came on the show that they were not going to be here, they were going to take the day off, they were extremely welcoming.
He said that. I heard you say another episode.
They were extremely welcoming. Extremely, they engaged.
I fuck with them for that, man. Some people, they didn't give any bad face.
I gave bad face. When you first came up, I'm like, oh yeah, you was trash to me.
When Big Mark came with Flippin' Mel started to flame out, get a little wacky.

Once Flippin' Mel got a little yummy, Big Mark came through.

Hey!

Big Mark.

Oh, talk about it.

In my head.

Come on now.

What a day.

What a day.

None of this possible without my higher power up there.

God, I love you.

You know what I mean?

We have a great day today. So happy to be here.
Big Parks. Hey! Parks said fuck the dress code, but it's cool.
That's still Parks. It was a little foggy in the group chat, and by the time I remembered, it was like, it's too late.
Fuck it. I'm wearing colors.
This is different. Fuck it.
That's a tux. I mean, I've worn tuxes Up here before You have That's true Absolutely has I would have put it on If I would have known That is true I believe you We know that shit back You could have done that That's why I ain't even Saying nothing Big Peasy man Alright man What y'all ready To talk about today Y'all ready to talk I'm ready to talk I'm ready to talk I'm ready to fucking, man.
I'm ready to lie about some shit. Joe, can I thank you for something? And this actually goes to your group chat point.
Thank you for the Valentine's Day recommendation. Hey.
It worked out perfectly. I sent a note out to the group.
I know you mentioned last episode. I sent a note out to everybody.
Y'all all said, fuck that guy. You ain't holla at me? Every last one of them.
I was in desperate time. I forgot you weren't on the group chat.
I don't know spots in Jersey. I would have helped you out, but I don't know spots like that.
Well, you said New York too. I said New York too.
But you said preferably Jersey. Yeah, preferably Jersey.
You said it. You got your part, Sucker.
You the king of New Jersey. Why you ain't answering? Oh, you don't want to go where I would be at.
You can't go there. I hung out with Freeze on Valentine's Day after Valentine's Day in Jersey.
I can't even pull up on him. I meant to come eat up with y'all, but I was in bed, sleep.
It's all good. We had a blast.
We sure did. Well, the spots you took, I ended up going to Caviar.
Thank you, Mel, for the suggestions as well. I just couldn't get into the spots Mel suggested, but Caviar was dope.
They were really nice.

The show loved food was great. Accommodating.

Live music. Intimate, like I said, right?

It was everything you said. Oh, they had live music?

They had live music that night, yep.

She killed it, too. The assistant

killed it, and then at the end, the brothers were nice.

I mentioned I knew you, and they were real excited. They told me

your whole meal. Name drop.

At the end,

where the check came, right?

They were comfortable. They took pictures with me as me.
Yeah, talk your shit. I came in as me.
I'm him. But they was like, how'd you hear about us? I was like, oh, you know, Joe Button is like, oh, he comes in here on Sundays.
He orders the brunch. He orders the pork bacon.
He orders the this and that. They was going all the shit you ordered.
They was hyped. Yeah, but it was a great experience.
Thank you, Joe, for being a good friend and colleague. Anytime, anytime.
That's my only problem with name dropping is that sometimes it nets you some info because the person you're talking to want to tell you everything. Oh, yeah, he ordered the shrimp and grits.
I see him every Sunday around 1.30. They'll get you killed.
Oh, you don't like that. They'll get you killed.
That's just what my wife said. She's like, damn, she got a lot of information.
I'm glad you're cool with him. You don't like that.
I don't. What does that mean, brother? My brother? What does that mean, my brother? You so welcome it when the nigga spill their guts about me to you.
I like that. But wait, but they do that unprompted.
I don't name drop-ish. That's the difference.
That's a good one. That's a good one.
I don't name drop you. Them niggas be like, hey.
They just start giving it up. You should have bought the house materials from Homeboy.
You should have. No.
From Homeboy that told me you dipped off on him for the house materials. You should have bought him.
Ish, that is kind of real. I told you the same shit happened to me.
Every time I'd be in Jersey niggas be like, Ish took my girl. Ish did this.
No, for real. Am I lying? That's right.
I was in a barbershop. Dude was like, Ish stole my fucking girl, man.
The whole Jersey has an Ish story. Markets lie.
Yo, you pie. Yo, stop hanging around him.
Stop hanging around him. Yo, you pie on a pod? Yeah.
Yeah. Yo, don't no pods.
Yeah, it's crazy, son, but it's cool. He's still mad.
I never let him cut my hair again. Oh, shit.
Hey! Oh, shit. Abubaka.
Yo. Abubaka.
No, not Alex. You can't do it.
Oh, my God. Alex.
Thank you, bro. This your dress clothes? Come on, man.
My man, Alex, up in this piece. I see you with the Swanson on.
Alex, anywhere I'm at in the world, you welcome, my brother. Anywhere I'm at, you could come, nigga.
The fuck they talking about? Ain't no 10 years without Alex, man. Let me get a round of applause.
Let me get a round of applause for Screen Man up in this week.

Hey, Alex, since Screen Man left, his business has gone

down the toilet, and it's totally

not factual. Total no facts,

misinformation. Yeah, it's mad

misinformation since you left.

Yeah, it's horrible. It's a struggle.

It's a struggle. Ice brought his iPad

for one week. Facts.

I was sold.

He brought that iPad one week and then boogie. I'm going to let him get his shit off.

We told Erickson, yo, help us out.

Look some shit up.

He was just like, get the fuck out of my face, nigga.

He was like, all right, cool.

So we're going to spread lies.

I'm cool with spreading lies.

Yeah, fuck you.

And I got something today for you.

And there's an audience for lies.

Yeah?

There's an audience for lies.

They want lies.

The president.

Listen, if I told you all the truth, the price of this shit would change exponentially. The truth is good.
There's some good truth. That's a good point.
But can't do that. It's too cheap to give you the truth now.
That's a good point. We ain't got nothing else we need to say at the start.
Do we do? We do? Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Nah. Let's just go.
Let's go. Let's get it.
Yeah, all right, all right. Yeah, come on, now.
Oh, my God. Shut your toes.
Oh, my God. Dub B with the banger.
Dub B with up. Where? Man.
Chops is stupid. You're the best now.
Still on your block. Huh? Salutations.
Hey, rock on. I don't wanna hear that rock on shit.
Hey, rock on. Jump button.
I don't wanna learn this weekend. Man know about rock on there.
I don't wanna hear the rock on shit after this weekend. No more.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, man.
Oh, man. Oh, man.
He's getting parts. Come through his set.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's getting parts.
Still on your block. It's the same set every week, nigga.

That's hate.

That's hate.

That's hate.

That was hate.

That was hate.

Shout out to Raccoon, man.

Big Jersey.

Big Jersey, big Jersey Man, we gigging it harder All day, dawg, I live in the car Take your time with it Jump on that nigga Don't wanna see me with it The funny shit is I think I'm only playing this Cause Rock on played it Alright, damn, that's me That shit, I ain't Think I can bet Cause all my deets stay dirty Like a project bitch On the lowdown Mount in the hook It friend, my friend, my friend, my friend, one, two.

It's about to go down, ladies.

If you focus, man, would you please rock with it if you oversteady?

No.

Get focused, man, because whether hootie or over, man, redoing us.

If you focus, man, would you please rock with it if you oversteady?

No.

Sing the track down.

Oh, stop playing, man. Bring it back.
Bring it back. Bring it back.
Bring it back. Bring it back.
Bring it back. Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa If you with me, throw the diamond up one time Ladies, if you with me, just round to the baseline Everybody that's contributed over the course of ten years Grab her from her honor, make her shout out I'm ho outside, now what the fuck ain't gonna do with me just ride to the baseline You don't be scared to grab her from her honor and make her show I'm ho outside Now what the fuck they gon' do with me? Got money, got bras, got a crew with me With a banana cut, set out a zoo with me Get down and lay down nigga and shoot with me Now how the fuck they gon' deal with me? I ain't goin' nowhere, they gotta deal with me Got the whole VK ready to kill with me You scared motherfucker,? Keep it real with me Keep it real with me Know what the fuck they gonna say to me Got the clap Yeah I mean Stay with me Clap Yeah I mean Don't play with me Clap Yeah I mean Stay with me Don't lose me, y'all Please don't confuse me with dog I'm different and dog is down

All of them the kennel theie, don't be scared to grab her from behind And make her show out, ho outside, make her hot backside If you with us, throw the diamond up one time If you with us, just grind to the baseline If you with us, us just grind to the baseline Hope we don't be scared to grab it from behind And make a show out hoe outside I'm a liar, I'm a liar, I'm a liar, I'm a liar Ayy, okay Come on man, come on now Come on, y'all know I'm a R&B head and heart What y'all thought I was coming to do Oh, yes, oh, yes Oh, such a glorious occasion Such a glorious occasion Make it some rap for you, Sadiq, right quick, nigga Tomorrow you're coming, girl, I can't be seen You know what I mean? All the happy couples listening out there, all the miserable couples out there Couldn't have done it without you. Couldn't have done it without you.
First thing I'll do is rush to you. It's our anniversary.
Everybody at a corporate job, everybody in a cubicle. Shout out to the execs out there.
It's our anniversary. The entrepreneurs, the nine to five, and all that.
It's our anniversary. Ay.
Shout out to all the high schoolers out there. It's our anniversary.
Shout out to all Pull high schoolers out there Shout out to all the other pods out there, man Shout out to all the high schoolers out there Hey, I only make plans to hold your breath Yeah, everybody in the car right now, what y'all talking about? Yeah, I'm smoothed out, Smoothed out, nigga. Positive vibes, positive affirmation.
We got a real good day today. We got a really good day today.
What else? At the end of the day. Ralph yesterday.
This was fucking white bitches. Victoria's Secret giveaway.
They only sell certain sizes.

They only sell certain sizes, and they wasn't putting black girls in commercials.

I remember.

Oh, y'all remember?

Nah, I remember.

I remember.

It was tough to fuck a big-titty black girl back then.

Finding the Fredericks.

I'm serious.

It was tough to find a Fredericks.

Being a young nigga, what the fuck is Fredericks?

Yo, you an idiot For real Yo shut up You told a nigga Fredericks I'm 24 Where's that at are home Shout out to Mom, Duke, everybody parents that listen to this shit, man Put me in your arms, hold me And tell me you love me and I'll be there Hey girl! All right, we can start, man Before I get up and hit a little two-step, I'm feeling great. Feeling really good, really good, really good.
God is good, God is good. One question.
What's that? Just one question for y'all.'s hear it Hey! You got damn right! You got damn right! You're good, boy It's our special going to be so busy With you and me All right, man. Let me give some round of applause for the best crew in the entire universe.
So happy to be here with y'all today. Mic check, mic check.
Let me make sure the levels, the levels, the levels is good. You know what I mean? I pulled out a lint brush for you bastards today.
You know what I mean? Niggas can't never find a lint brush without their girl. Thank you, baby.
Baby, where the lint brush at? Facts. She know right where it is.
They know right where it is. Linty bitches.
All right. Welcome to episode 801.
To the haters, I'm not stopping anytime soon. Hold this applause for the best podcast in the world.
Do a monologue real quick. To the hate listeners out there, I know every month you get a nice little AdSense check with your theories and your hypotheses.
This is not stopping anytime soon. We are far removed from that dark Edgewater afternoon where I looked Corey dead in his face and asked him, nigga, how the fuck long you think I'm going to do this shit for free? He ain't had nothing to say.
I don't know. Hey, I said, oh boy, I ain't going to keep just going to this little studio and running my mouth for no money.
You know, some of that attitude that you new podcasters have adopted. It was no ecosystem.
It was no big company throwing a bag around. Different era.
It was nobody to come save the day. It was just you, a mic, passion and faith.
I know a lot of you niggas are faking passion and faith today. But for those that really have it, they'll get you where you need to be.

Far removed from those days.

Round of applause again

for fucking Ian

bringing some money

to this shit.

Come on, man.

Shout out to Ian.

I know he's white.

I know it's

Black History Month.

Gotta shout out Ian.

Every time I think

the money ran out,

he go find another way.

He go find another bag. And I look him in his face and be like, ain't nobody gonna pay us for that.
They do it. Grab them a po.
They do it. Shout out to Ian, man.
Shout out to Keib, Erickson, Tanner, Savon, all the behind the scenes people, Big Paul. And that was Chris Reed, the cameraman that I was talking about back in the day.
Shout out to Chris Reed, my guy. I looked at Ian like he had 10 heads when he said, hey, we should film this.
Like, who the fuck is spending money on that? Podcast means an audio thing. I ain't taking my little 300.
What Chris Reed costs? That shit was a lot back in the day. $250 a week.
Wow. Don't sound like much now.
Times have changed. $250 a week to pay for a visual component where you only getting 75 cents back? Damn.
Different days.

Very different.

Different days, man.

If you keep your head in it long enough, the days will change, man.

Ain't that right?

If you just keep going.

You're not wrong, though.

You got to get somewhere.

Just keep walking.

You're not wrong.

You're going to go somewhere.

Just keep walking.

Get to California.

You walk longer.

Hey, you got to keep going, man.

Hey, extend the journey.

Amen.

Not wrong, though.

What you want me to do, man?

I'm just here to have a good time today.

I'm on total bullshit.

I feel good.

I feel great.

I feel blessed.

I'm happy to see all y'all.

Episode 801 brought to you by, fueled by, powered by, prize. This is a's a round of applause podcast, man.
Hold on. Absolutely.
Pride Spits. Go ahead now, huh? National ad campaign.
Six months after. Yeah, four months.
However long it was. I thought that commercial was going to stop during the Super Bowl.
They put on a Super Bowl. Didn't see it.
Not a think piece in sight. That's a fact.
There wasn't a think piece in sight. Facts.
The only black podcast to have a co-podcaster to have a commercial on the Super Bowl. Nobody did a deep dive.
I don't understand how they picked the deep dives to do. Yeah, you do.
Yes, you do. You know exactly how I do.
Hating the blood. I do.
I do. Yeah, it's hating the blood.
It's hating the blood. They all need hugs.
Go prize picks, man. Couldn't have done it without y'all.
I am your humble, gracious, grateful, highly favored, and fully dressed co-host dressed in leather fucking pants. Come on, round of applause.
Hold up now. Huh? When he put the leather pants on, he means business.
Real leather, too, I think. Right.
I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know.
How much they cost? I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know.
It's not about the price of things, man. It's not about the price of things.
It's about how it makes you feel, my brother. Okay.
How do they make you feel? Sweaty. Rich.
He said sweaty. Sweaty and rich.
No, these shits are actually pretty comfortable. What's the line? What's the what? Lining.
Ish. I'm asking.
I'm trying to be funny. I don't know, nigga.
Yeah. I got to play because they feeling good out there.
With the Stephanie, yo. Everybody that's feeling good out there Hey You know what I mean Just real quick And then we get to it Y'all figure out wherever we start We start wherever the fuck y'all want I don't care today That's how I'm on it Ooh The Nightwing Oh That was nice.
What? That was nice. If it keep playing, I won't feel like Bart no more.
Stephanie has that dog. All right.
Big Melissa Ford is in the building. Hootie hoo.
Queen's Flip is in the building. Yuck.
Big Ish is here. Big Bean Pie Freeze, the freeziest of them all, is here.
I actually look good, my brother.

Mark, Dr. Mark Lamont Hill is here.

Huh?

Huh?

Talk about a new addition.

Big, Big Parks is here.

Elmira's Finest.

Ian is here.

Poe is here.

Corey is here.

Big Alex.

My man, right?

Where Stavon at, though?

Hold up.

You don't know where you had a flat.

I'm about to say.

Oh, he called a flat.

See, and that's why he got fired from here. Why you ain't going to help him? That right Traffic and flats.
You got triple A. Three Africans.
Yo, 10-year anniversary. That's an underrated joke right there.
That was crazy. Yo, yo.
That's my man. Yo, yo.
Yo, I'm live on air, I'm live on air, what's poppin'? Oh shit, what up boy, you alright? Skane Dollar, my god, it's my 10 year anniversary Skane, I'm on these niggas' asses, and I couldn't have done it without you or your wife actually, I love you, I love Gabby, I I love your entire family. I don't know what you calling me about, but you have to tell me later.
Yeah, no, call me later. It's Flipped Dead.
Tell that nigga I still want to. Yeah, Flipped Dead.
What's up, doll? I love you, nigga. Yeah, we love you, man.
All right, we gone. All right, love you.
Yeah, back to what we was talking about. What was we saying? Nothing? Nothing at all.
You got your intro off.

You know what I'm saying?

Introduce everyone.

Listen, I'll ISO for y'all to get some shit off to the haters or the lovers out there.

I'll ISO for y'all.

It's 10 years, man.

We here, man.

We're talking to them other real estate niggas.

Nigga, don't step on my shit for this nigga.

Hey, yo, we standing strong.

There you go.

Hey, yo, we standing strong.

We here, nigga.

Talk to these niggas, Flair.

You trying to count us out, nigga, as a team.

Talk to them, Flair.

You can't count us out, nigga.

Yeah.

Huh?

Big ice, nigga.

We a team, nigga.

Fuck you talking about?

Big ish, nigga.

I'm sorry. We stand as fuck, we here, nigga.
Talk to these niggas, Flick. You trying to count us out, nigga, as a team.
Talk to them, Flick. You can't count us out, nigga.
Yeah. Huh? Big Ice, nigga.
We a team, nigga. Fuck you talking about? Big Ish, nigga.
Library, for real, nigga. Yeah.
Huh? MBC legend, for real, nigga. Joe, jump off, nigga.
Come on, we here, man. Call him out sometimes, nigga, but he's mad.
Yeah, they can't play with us. Nigga, Piketty Pops, nigga.
What's up? White man, huh? But he makes it happen, nigga. Dr.
Mark Lamont Hill, nigga. Yeah.
The C, I can't say that C part. Dr.
Up in his piece. We can't say the C part, but he said that to the UN.
Save that nigga from CNN. But we saved him, nigga.
Got out of here. You don't need them white networks, nigga.
We don't need them. He don't need the UN, nigga.
He up here with us. The greatest in the world, nigga.
Yeah, you got U-us. Ten years.
White in the UN, you got U-us. Yes, you got U-us, nigga.
I mean U-S. I'm gonna have to get two in the building, nigga.
Africa, nigga. Oh, man.
Alex and Alex, what up? I see y'all, nigga. I don't know y'all niggas.
But I'll fuck with y'all niggas, too, nigga. I'll take this place off and turn up, nigga.
What the fuck you talking about, nigga? 10 years, nigga. And my guys still got the tag.
We don't pop no tag. We in the tag on our shit now.
Tag still, nigga. Yeah, fuck they talking about.
And I'm not bringing it back. Just again.
Pardon me. Pardon me.
10 years, years. Big Corey, nigga.
Yeah, big core. You don't know the stories, nigga was in a Tahoe, nigga, that 17 deets.
Now, we was in a Tahoe like that Kendrick G and X at the fucking Super Bowl. That's a fact.
With merch. 37 niggas in there.
Oh, yeah, and merch. And merch.
And didn't sell it. That shit hurt.
When you load up the Suburban with the merch and it don't sell, now you got to travel to the next spot with the merch. God damn it.
I didn't think we brought the merch out the truck. We were organized.
Yeah, no, it was a mess. It was a total mess.
But if you stay in it long enough. That's right.
You need a little bit of mess. There will be some mess.
Nobody said it was going to be a clean sweep. Actually, nobody said shit about how it would be.
Just Nicky and Meek saying, you fail a failure-ass nigga. Yeah, yeah.
Your little podcast. Shout out to Nicky and Meek.
That's my girl, Nick. I remember that.
Shout out to Nicky. Oh, yeah, no, that was a tie.
That was a thing. Once they said that, I was like, all right, it's got to work.
All right. It's like when you put all your chips to the poker table.
All in. Your hand better win.
All in. Caught an ace on the river.
Oh, God damn. Oh, thank God.
Hey, now sometimes when I wake up, I'm relieved. Yeah.
There'll be a point in your journey where you don't get to be relieved. Shit is stress, gray hairs, arguments, sacrifices.
You got to skip your family functions. No family reunion.
You ain't seen your Aunt Debra since she was 50. She 90.
She 90 now. Sometimes you'll be booked for the funeral.
Now you can't even kiss Aunt Debra on the forehead. Just gotta send a card with $20 for Aunt Debra.
You'll misimport things. But that's what the sacrifice is about.
I'm not here to preach to to y'all I'm not here to lecture y'all today I'm just feeling good outside of disobeying the trust code but I still feel good I still feel good and that's my man you can't help it where do you guys want to begin I don't know what's important I don't know nothing that happens in the world. That's nice, though.
I don't know anything that happens in the world. How was your Valentine's Day? I was going to say Valentine's Day recap.
What did you do? Went to bed. I went to bed.
I thought about stopping the seat. Well, I told her I was working, right? So on Valentine's Day, I worked.
Y'all got out of here. They left early.
I stayed a little bit. So by the time I got home, I was beat.
And I'm fat. So when you're fat, you just don't feel like moving around.
So you know what? We said, you know what? Let's get dressed. Let's just drive around, find a little spot, go sit at a bar,

just talk, reminisce, catch up.

So we got dressed. I threw on some sweatpants, like some bullshit.
Don't you know every

single place was

jam-packed with

couples in love,

dressed for the day.

Every place.

So we went home,

threw on some very scary people. Oh no, it was very scary lovers.
I didn't even know they had that. I didn't even know they had that.
We threw on very scary lovers and went to bed. And Saturday, we were supposed to go see Tank and Fantasia and Trey Songz in Atlantic City.
But the weather was looking absolutely nuts. And my driver don't know how to drive fast when the roads are clear.
we skipped that. You know where bad weather goes through.
Yeah, so we skipped that. Yeah, man.
And that's that. That was my Valentine's Day.
I ended up buying her some fucking Chanel bag. Holy shit, that's what I forgot.
She did some five senses gift. Okay.
And girls always do some fucking... So here's five bags.
It's your sight and your hearing. What is it? And you smell.
And you smell and you touch and you scent. Taste.
Taste. She bought these shits out.
She bodied the hat she bought me, bodied that. The cologne that she bought out of this world,

some scent that I never smelled, bottle I never saw.

She killed that.

For the touch part, she got me a sex toy.

For those wondering, I'm not the person that uses sex toys

during sex or masturbation.

That's like her thing, go in the drawer and get the little shit if I make it come. Go ahead, get it.
Hey, I ain't gonna... Hello? Right there, go in the drawer.
I ain't gonna make it sound like I bet a thousand. Right there.
In the event that I miss, go ahead and open up the drawer. More like baseball numbers? Yeah.
So she got me a sex toy. I'm going to bring it here.
It's a male sex toy? Yes. A pocket pussy.
She got you the guac guac? What is that? It's called a stroker. But it's...
I think that might be what it is. What is that? Yeah.
The shit that turned? It turned into all that wild shit and you're supposed to... The shit that shorty bought.
Go get it. Go get it.
No, no, no.

That's a pocket pussy.

That was a mold of her pussy.

Yeah, that's different.

I think he's talking about the guap guap shit.

The guap guap.

That's what they call it.

Oh, shit.

All right.

All right.

Not the rubber pussy reveal.

All right.

I got a lighter that you got to scan, and it plays a song that means something to you and your girl. All right, lighter.
Okay. Okay.
You got to scan the song. Nice, nice, nice, thoughtful shit right there.
Snow Allegra, find someone like you. Okay.
the jam. Hearing.
That's hearing. Yeah, I guess.
I guess. A little sensitive, a little feeling too.
Heat, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Well, no, no, no.
I got some car air freshener of her. Oh, yeah.
Of her. Yeah, yeah.
This is her. Straight out the ice bag.
Hey, huh? I got some car air freshener of her.

Smart.

Put your car.

Does it smell like her perfume?

You know what that's for.

Let the bitches know.

Yep.

Let the bitches know. Let's mark your territory.

He's taken.

One each car.

One each car.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right.

I got a really nice T-shirt from Zara.

Guess what's on it?

Guess what's on it?

This is probably her.

Her.

Her and tits. It's her.
her. I got to cover it up.
It's her. I got a t-shirt with her.
And I got whatever this is. The guap guap.
That's it. Oh, wow.
That's it. It turns.
That's it. That's it.
Turn and do all that other wild shit.

That's it.

Now, I'm from the old school.

Yo.

So I like to masturbate with my hands.

So I laughed her out of the room when this little device came out.

I did laugh her out the room.

And then you turned it on, right?

And then I tried it. Wait, nigga.
You got to. I don't even.
Uh-oh, there you go. Uh-oh.
Uh-oh. It's humming? Yeah, it's vibrating.
Oh. Oh, shit.
Hey, big dog. Big dog.
Uh-oh. oh 18 speeds like the old bicycle 18 speeds Ooh Now Before y'all judge I'm gonna try this thing Yeah no judgment No judgment.
No judgment, bro. It's still going.
My girl got me one of those. I'd fuck it.
Why wouldn't you? This is just like a new age Fifi, right? What? It's modern tech. It's a little different.
I am gonna try this thing. So, I'll be back with my...
Pretty glad you didn't bring down a used pocket pussy. That would've been weird.
No pockets.ops. I've never used this thing.
That would've been weird. So, yeah! Shout out to Shalate.
That's my Valentine's Day. Got some freaky shit that I ain't used yet because I'm fucking fat.
But, yeah. That was it! That's not a bad one.
Mel, did you do anything to Valentine's Day? That was it, man. I went on a date.

It was cool.

On Friday night?

Mm-hmm.

Oh, nice.

Mm-hmm.

What, did you think?

It was going to be Saturday?

Well, because you had said

the Saturday thing before,

so I had to at least ask.

Yeah, no.

Mm-mm.

It was on Friday night.

Yeah, I went straight from the pod.

How was your date?

That's why you dressed like that.

It was really nice.

It was really, really nice.

Got to check a restaurant off my bucket list. Okayelin star little situation okay good time classy yeah it was a first date um yeah but i've known him for a minute first date on valentine's day is that's but it wasn't really like a first date because we've hung out but it was like him planning and doing all that stuff.
Yeah. I would never do that.
Okay. It's not, he wasn't a stranger.
That's the point. Fair enough.
Is that he wasn't a stranger. It just sends a hell of a signal.
Yeah. I'm not worried about the signal it sends.
What if that's the signal he wanted to send? That's a better man than me. Absolutely.
Not about you,

just in general.

You just put a lot of pressure

on yourself

when you make a major date

on Valentine's Day.

Well, he works

in high-pressure situations,

so I think he's used to it.

High-pressure situations?

It's like an interrogation.

I like to probe my colleagues.

Hey, yo.

I don't think I cleaned anything up That sounded totally different in my head Than it did when I said it out loud I don't want to probe y'all I'm moving on What you did for Valentine's Day freeze? We skipped like two people What you did? Let's go to you Nah, go ahead We work our way around the room What you did? I didn't do anything for Valentine's Day. I don't celebrate Valentine's Day.
That's not true. I got my wife a gift.
There you go. Shout out to JR.
I'm saying, you know, I got my wife a gift. Told her what I said on the podcast.
She started to laugh and curse me out. And, you know, just sat down and spent some time with her.
What did you say for the audience that missed that episode? They didn't miss the episode. I saw their comments, too, about free Linky.
My free mom. Flip is the worst husband.
I didn't like that. You're lying.
I went on Patreon and told them, like, you know, you don't got a father. I started disrespecting them, but it's not about that.
But, you know, we just had conversations and just had some laughs. She appreciated the gifts.
Was she happy with her Valentine's Day? She was. She was.
I bought a just some... A car, right? Fly shit.
No, flowers. I bought a this Montclair hat.
She been wanted. She don't know about the car yet? She don't know about the car yet.
I bought her this perfume. It's been...
Yeah, I just bought her some stuff, man. There you go.
That's good. That's what's up.
I'm the dad that stepped up. That's right.
I stepped up because, you know, yeah. Joe put pressure on you? No, because it's important to step up.
Sometimes, you know, we're just busy and, you know, things. I don't celebrate Valentine's Day.
I try not to celebrate these holidays or encourage the celebration. But when you're on a big broadcast, you have this man saying things and bringing gifts in front of you.

So you're like, all right. There's flowers for Mel.

I ain't put no pressure on nobody. I went in Chanel and sat

in the nigger chair that's on the side.

I went in Chanel, let her run

her mouth to somebody about whatever

and went and sat right down. No pressure for me.

Yeah.

You're rich. You don't have pressure.

Ish, what did you do for Valentine's Day, bro? Nothing. In the crib, right? In the house.
She know what it is. Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.
Huh? What are you gonna have done? I ain't got no blazer. Joe, leave him alone.
That's gonna. Leave him alone.
It'll be back again. All right, so it's J.D.
Nunn. Freeze? We went out.
We had reservations. Nice, Freeze.
Where did y'all go? You kept it a secret before. No, no.
Honestly, so it was a new restaurant. I'd never been there before.
But because I didn't know what time we were getting out of here, I didn't want to book nothing that was too far away from home. So by the time I get home, then we get ready

and now I'm running late. So I kept

it close to the crib. But

we had an amazing time. After that

we left there. We went over to

our spot. Parks and Rim came down

there and met us.

And we shut that shit down.

Facts.

Saturday, what did we do?

We slept in for a little bit. Then we went out to dinner again.
Nigga, you did a two day Valentine's Day I did a three day You're right You're fucking it up for you His name is Freeze No we didn't His name is Freeze I see Alright It was Valentine's weekend But when I'm like I'm telling you When I get married I'm not doing none of this shit Smart guy That's what I'm saying When I get married I'm married We married We don't gotta Valentine's Day. Hold on now, Savon.
The Don just walked in this. Nigga looks like.
Nigga looks like. Savon.
That nigga got money. That's that money right there.
And that's a nice little jacket. No, no, no.
That ain't cheap. That ain't cheap, y'all.
That ain't no bad. That's a fact.
Hold on. What is that, Velvet? The need to know, boy.
They ain't even buy the cheap joint. Yo, I remember one of our first anniversaries, man.
I told Savon, man, let's celebrate, man. Go to the store, get some champagne for the guys.
He was like, all right, what kind? I was like, some Ace. He went to the store and got the ace.
He was like. He came back with the ace of hearts.
He said, oh my God, you spent that on the, oh, you spent that on the ace? Now look at him though. Now look at him though.
Javon, thank you, man. We couldn't have got to this 10 year mark without you.
Even though you're doing your own thing, you're still family, you're still gang and and this shit will fall apart without you. So fuck what HBO talking about.
Yo, it's like nine niggas up here, bro. It's like 15 people.
Who? We got tequila. Oh.
Don't ever play with... You bought the cheap one.
Don't. This ain't the cheap one.
This ain't the cheap one, either. I'm playing.
I know, no, that shit ain't. Not at all.
All right, now. I ain't gonna have that shit.
Come on, you can touch it. Yeah.
You know I want to open it. No, not yet.
One thing you won't do yet is open this. We have just begun.
We'll get there. It's fine.
It needs to be chilled anyway, so let's get that show. There you go.
We'll chill it. Yeah, we'll chill it for you.
For a couple hours. Chill.

We'll chill it and then you chill.

We'll chill both of y'all.

Oh, shit.

Where was we at?

We was on freeze, right?

Yeah, yeah, no, I'm done.

That was it.

That was what I was up.

Three-day Valentine weekend.

Big Mark.

You already know what I did.

I did that Friday, called it a wrap.

I went to Philly on Saturday.

I was gone.

Hey, dog, I'm not going to lie to you.

I don't think I could get a five-minute conversation with this nigga.

Yo, I'm in the airport running with the...

I'm like, yo, dog.

Now, let, dog. Mark, right? That nigga, what? He called me this morning and was like, yo, I'm coming straight from an appearance.
Yeah. It's Black History Month.
This is his biggest month. That's our reparations month.
I didn't know what that meant for him business. Yeah.
That nigga told me where to get per. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, work.
I'll be double-go. And that slows down when it's not Black History Month.
Yes. Like that's what I'm going to get back to its normal cadence.
Yeah, like it's like from Martin Luther King Day till March 1st or to February 28th we good. After that it's a wrap.
You don't hear it. Women's History Month is March.
What about like nothing for Juneteenth? Yo, that's the new joint because you know that's some new shit. Yeah, now Juneteenth, I'll be booked up.
Shout out to you. I'm about to get on my pro-black shit.
It's a blessing, man. Well, it's good that you know you haven't been on that.
It's good that you know that that's like a new door that you opened. Hey, no, you're not.
Hey, no, you're not. Yeah, I'm probably not.
Where would y'all like to begin today All-Star weekend? We in Parks I asked my brother Parks We did eat I said earlier We went to eat And then we met Freeze And Miss in Peace Cool little spot Yeah, it was great Actually, it was way nicer than I expected I don't know what I expected See? Because you said small spot It ain't really It's small Compared to New York shit Oh, that's That's what I was thinking. I didn't know Parks had never been there.
Real DJ? Yeah, yeah. Very good DJ.
Yeah, great music. Then we left there and went to Last Lap, met Amani, had a little more fun.
Hey. And then got home about five in the morning.
Jesus. Nice.
Go ahead. Last Lap's still around, huh? Yeah.
That shit's still kicking. Sure is.
Where is that? Lower East Side. In the dirty part of Manhattan It's in the nasty Stink dirty part of Manhattan But it's fine It's fine If you want to fuck a hipster girl You go in there A hipster girl They don't just be hipsters I didn't get Yeah Be thugs Y'all would know I wouldn't know It's not my bag I'm just talking I've been there for the times there for the times.
We had a time, though. We had a time.
I'm good.

Great weekend.

I'm glad you and Rem had a good time.

Yeah, man.

All right.

All-star weekend, yes.

Is that our start?

It could be.

It could.

I mean, worse than whatever.

Yeah.

It was pretty bad.

Did anybody watch?

I watched the dunk contest and three-point contest,

and I was actually surprised by the dunk contest. At first, it was horrible.
The first round was absolutely horrible. But then the second two rounds were pretty dope.
Homeboy from the Spurs and McClung. Stephen Castle.
Yeah, they went crazy. Didn't you pick him? He's nice enough to be in a dunk contest.
No, I picked McClung. He should have got more points for that dunk he did.
He definitely should have. Went through the rim and then through the left.
That was insane. Steven Castle was nice enough for us to stop referring to him as the boy from the Spurs.
He's all right. Yeah, he's all right.
Shout out to him. Shout out to McClung.
You know, I'm at the age where I didn't watch any of that shit Friday. Me neither.
Yeah. None of it.
Valentine's Day. Nah.
Saturday, I was completely free. Didn't watch none of that shit.
I didn't watch none of it either. Didn't watch none of it.
I was like, damn, I'm at the age where I just don't care. Yo, All-Star Saturday night used to be the shit.
That was the one. You might have missed the Friday games, the celebrity game.
It used to be the Rising Stars Challenge, all of that shit. But Saturday night, you was locked in.
You was in the house. I didn't give a fuck

about none of this shit.

Yeah.

I was in the house

and didn't turn it on.

So Sunday, I'm home

because it's Sunday

and I'm home.

So you know what?

I cut on the TV.

I cut on the TV

and we was getting ready

to bust a move

somewhere around nine,

but I watch up until I leave

and what a clusterfuck.

Yeah.

What a clusterfuck. What a clusterfuck.

45 minute intros.

Right.

I'm really glad I missed it.

I watched the SNL shit, which was

great.

Eddie Murphy's a fucking genius.

Eddie Murphy was on. Everybody was on.

Everybody from the whole fucking history

of the cast pretty much was on.

And they did a music thing on Friday night, which we went back and watched that was also actually pretty fire. That was way better than the All-Star game.
You know who I don't want to see on a Sunday which is reserved for All-Stars All-Star Sunday? No, the one person I don't want to see? Dawkins Connect! Yo, I tweeted. I said, oh shit, they moved the Rising Stars game to Sunday.
They modified the whole, some tournament shit. They modified everything and somehow Dalton Schenect was on an all-star floor and I like him.
But him and all them other bum niggas that they had out there that had to face the OG squad, which is James Harden, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry. It's like, yo, what are y'all trying to do to us on a Sunday? And they tried to make it close a little bit.
Once I saw the tournament layout shit, I was like, I'm definitely not watching this. I'm not even looking forward to looking forward and if the tournament layout wasn't bad enough listen I love Kevin Hart as much as the next man I know he has some type of deal with the NBA it's over now I don't want to see Kevin Hart and some of that shit was a little funny just because I wasn't watching basketball fuck might, might as well crack a couple jokes.
I don't want to hear Kevin Hart that much on a Sunday, Kev. No disrespect to you.
And if that wasn't enough, right after the first game or something like that, Mr. Beast comes out.
Why the fuck am I looking at Mr. Beef? Mr.
Beast. What channel are you watching? I don't want to look at Mr.
Beast on All Star Sunday. So now I'm sitting there like, oh shit, I never noticed Mr.
Beef doesn't have lips. Stop saying Mr.
Beast. Mr.
Beef doesn't have lips. He look like the skull teeth just talking.
Like, I don't know where he got his veneers or whatever the fuck is going on with his mouth, but it looks weird. And if that wasn't bad enough, Mr.
Beef walks to the crowd and gets Jaren. What's Jaren? Jaren.
Oh, Jaren. He says, all right, we're doing some three-point shit.
We're going to grab a random fan from the audience. He'll have to make one shot versus Dame Lillard, who will have to make three shots to his one.
He goes to the audience, grabs Jaren. Jaren comes out to ask him, hey, you ever played basketball? Yeah, a little bit when I was a kid.
He still looked like a kid.

So I'm like, all right, let's see how this goes.

He goes out there and does what?

You guessed it.

Bricks it up.

Bricks it up.

We got to wait 13 minutes now

for Jaren to make a fucking shot on a Sunday.

Yeah, that's crazy.

It was bad.

And if that wasn't bad enough,

during the next break, who do they roll out? You guessed it. Another nigga I can't...
Let me not say that. DJ Cassidy.
You're so angry about this. I'm angry for Ish.
I'm angry for my man. DJ Cassidy is a friend of the show.
He's been to the show. Came up here when he was a little under the weather.
Spit all over Ish. Spit all over Ish.
Put mad phlegm germs. And Ish took it for the team, too.
Like a soldier. He sat there and just got spit on by some niggas.
He's talking about some ice right there. Spit that way.
No. Hey, a three-hour episode.
DJ Cassidy spit all over his. But took it for the team.
I don't know why these companies, I'm saying this respectfully, I don't know why these companies and corporations feel like the best way to present our black legends is with DJ Cassidy. I'm cool just seeing Too Short.
Too Short going to come out and give me blow the whistle. I don't need DJ Cassidy funny hat wearing ass in the back doing some 357 get loose stethosonic fucking choreographed dance.
I don't need to see it. I don't need to see it.
Just give me E40, yo. I feel that.
Just give me, tell me when to go. I don't care if y'all quiet.

That's how I feel.

I wasn't mad at it because he also brought Sweetie out.

So, all right, I'm cool now.

Oh, shit, that's the other thing.

He found Sweetie.

So I was cool at that point.

How'd she look?

Beautiful.

Oh, here come Parks again.

Here come Parks.

I was cool at that point.

Y'all love that Sweetie.

Yes.

And everywhere she shows up, she do look good. So let me not try to sound like she don't look good.
I forgot she rapped. Me too.
I didn't know she ever did. I thought she did do the little blow the whistle.
All right, tap in. Hey.
Guess who I don't want to see on All-Star Sunday? Who? Just a guess. Sweetie.
Sweetie! Who he brought out after that? Wait, who was after Sweetie? En Vogue. En Vogue.
Now, I wasn't mad at En Vogue. I love En Vogue.
I was not mad at En Vogue. Well, I used to like En Vogue.
You know what? The Bay Area got a lot more legends than the world gives them credit for. That's true.
They've contributed way more to music than the rest of the world would like to recognize. That's a fact.
Now, when En Vogue came out, I absolutely loved that. I couldn't figure out if Dawn was there.
Why? Because I don't know if Dawn was there. I don't know if the taller, attractive woman that was all the way to the right was Dawn now that she's aged a little bit

or did they replace Dawn

I know there was

the Dawn Envogue

I'm old enough

to know there was

a little beef

for a little minute

so I don't know

if Dawn was there

she was

she made it happen

was that Dawn

yeah

oh then awesome

awesome

they got all of them

back in the same room

I was happy about Envogue

I was happy about Envogue

nice nice

nigga if you could be

happy about Sweetie

I could be happy about

oh no for sure

for sure

they ain't had a dress

I like Envogue's music

I know

Thank you. In Vogue.
I was happy about In Vogue. Nigga, if you could be happy about Sweetie, I could be happy about In Vogue.
Oh, no, for sure. They ain't had a dress as one.
I'd like In Vogue's music. I know.
Me too. What the fuck was that? What the hell was that? Remember she held a long note at the beginning of the first joint? Hold on? Yes.
Yeah, that was my imitation of that. Did they have a dress as one? I can't do it now.
I can't do it. Yeah, they look great.
They look great. Shout out to En Vogue.
Who else? It was a lot of bullshit on that Sunday All-Star Weekend. Then the first time out of the game, I do like the Inside the NBA tribute that they did.
That was fire. But that was fire.
That was the best part of everything I saw. I didn't want to see them niggas no more neither.
Nah, nah. You got to do it right.
And that, I just, it was the first time out of the game. And that shit took like 15 minutes.
Bro, it was long. But, Paul, I think that was the best part of everything that I saw from the whole weekend.
They went through Craig. They went through Charles.
They went through all these niggas when they was young. Like, that shit was fire.
All the people that we lost. You know what I'm saying? So, I think that was dope.
I think they went out. because went through Charles they went through all these niggas when they was young like that shit was fire all the people that we lost

you know what I'm saying

so I think that was dope

I think they went out

because that's their last

All-Star game

so I think that was fly

I just hate that the best

like you just said

the best part of the

All-Star weekend

wasn't the All-Star game

yeah you're right

that was the best thing I saw

and it's like

it used to be a thing

like it used to be

an actual good game

I used to be excited

to actually watch

the players play

and instead of like

making the players just play

you know what I mean

they do all these other tricks. Drafting players and doing all of them.
What happened? No, no, no. It wasn't even that.
Tell me to raise the amount. Go ahead.
What happened, it was so lopsided after a while where the West was just so stacked. They had the, it took the excitement out the game.
You knew the West was going to win. So they tried to change it up with the draft.
So now you're mixing a player pool up where you're not getting everybody on the same squad. And it's like, that's stupid.
Like to me, what you do is to me, you make a big enough cash reward because players make too much money to care about the all-star game. They got too much at stake.
You try to win a championship. You're not worried about it.
But you put real money on it. If every player won even a million dollars, right? If every single player won a million dollars, I think players would play a lot harder.
To win. I'm talking about to win.
I agree with that. But then what happens is you're risking getting injured for an exhibition game.
Now we can't, you know what I'm saying? So they kind of don't want to play hard. They just make too much money that they really don't even give a fuck.
I'm going to keep it a buck. Or so it seems.
I said they need to do, I said many years ago that they need to do what baseball did and the winner of the all-star game gets home court advantage during the finals. That would also make people play hard.
Really? Yeah. Unless you want to attend bum teams ain't got no shot at the finals anyway,, there's enough players.
Like for the Knicks, for example, that's a good example. Y'all got two guys on there.
Y'all have a legitimate shot at going to the finals. So Cat and Jalen going to play hard.
You know what I mean? LeBron is going to play hard if he had played. Like, I think it's a great idea.
Yeah, that ain't a bad idea. You got to incentivize it in some way, shape, or form for them to even want to play.
It was barely any basketball played. They showed us players aggravated, frustrated from all the TV production shit.
You got us taking 20 and 30 minute breaks, and then you want us to go out here, and we can't. We can't do it.
We've cooled off, and then you risk an injury. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying? What I did see that I think will help to change things is Victor Wimbignano. He wanted to play.
Who not only wanted to play, was visibly upset at other people not playing. Yes.
He's great enough and young enough to make a difference in this. What did you think about him and Chris Paul doing that shit? Trying to cheat the system.
Skills challenge. That shit was sick.
I liked it. I did too.
I liked it. That shit was funny.
I hated that shit. That's some Chris Paul fucking bullshit too.
You know that Chris Paul Chris Paul said it was a Victor idea. I would say that too if I was Chris Paul.
It didn't smell like Chris Paul. It smelled like Chris Paul, man.
Come on, man. Just do the skills challenge.
The fans came to see a skills challenge not to watch you try to win by pretending to throw shots against the wall. Throw the skills challenge challenge in the garbage agreed that shit was never that fly and give us a one on one match up with that's all I care about some of our best one on one players in the NBA never happening I would love because players don't want to get cooked they don't want to get cooked exactly they're not doing that that's it they're never doing that but that's the answer one on one is the I'd say get rid of slam dunk contests at this point.
The shit is uninteresting. We've seen all the dunks we can see.
I think next year it'll be better. I don't.
Why? Why? Because people like Zach Levine and them are talking about potentially coming back. Zach Levine is 78 years old, man.
Oh, and I saw what Ja Morant said. Ja.
He said that a couple years. Yo, Mack McClung, you inspiring me.
Yeah, I know. I know.
That's inspiring. Not the NBA dropping you as the face of the league for the next 10 years.
Mack McClung is getting you inspired. That's how I potentially get some of that back.
The dunk contest is done because dunks are done. The excitement is not on the focus of the dunk no more.
The league don't care about dunks. They don't care about dunks no more.
Right. It's not a highlight anymore.
They don't give a fuck. No, I think the dunk contest lost its luster when these niggas started doing corny shit.
There's nothing left to do. Nah, some of these...
Shit. Bro, that's not true.
They're still doing some creative shit. Yo, if you watch some of these street...
It's like it's all props now. These street dunking niggas...
They're killing it. They be doing crazy shit.
Yo, check it out. That's true.
These AA dudes don't do that shit. So, what's some shit that you can find to do.
Drop the hoop to it. Two feet.
They're not going to do that. I'm just saying.
Put it up two feet. Fuck that.
Nah, that's a move. 11 feet maybe.
That might get some interest, but. And I heard them float an idea of the NBA versus the foreign players in the NBA.
They don't want that either. I don't.
Lead them internationally. Don't do that.
That would be Wim and Yana, Joker, Greek Freak, Luka, Shai. And Embiid.
Embiid. Well, he'll be injured.
He'll be injured. That's the only game he does play.
Carl Anthony Towns would be on that team. That's a lot of jokes, bro.
Leave that alone. tree that's gonna be a real awakening for the NBA it's a test and listen you don't even have to do that every year do it every other year that would fix things we would wanna see that cause Shai was another one that took the game really seriously he took it seriously he took the game seriously he won the MVP that nigga won the MVP.
That nigga wanted the MVP? Yeah. That nigga put the ball in the bucket, bro.
I don't give a fuck. He got moves in the elevator.
That nigga get to it. Oh, he a problem.
He probably gonna win MVP of the league this year. He might.
I don't think he deserve it, but he probably get it. I still want Jokic to get it.
The NBA just ain't black enough no more. Nah.
That's the other elephant in the room. Right.
It's not black enough. You think? It's definitely not black American enough.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Victory with Miyama don't count.
I want a nigga without parents. I want somebody who, I'm serious.
Single mom, struggle. Single mom.
Struggle. Struggle, yes.
From the trenches. But you can't do it.
This is, whoever's in charge, whoever there, Jesse Collins is, that's in charge of producing this, you could tell it's not like us.

You could tell that, you know what, let me not say that.

Because let me not just rush to raise some background.

The NBA is an analytics-driven league now.

Yes.

So you could see that they're applying that also to content creation.

And they're leaning to that more so than curation.

I agree.

And the other thing is.

It's not curated.

That's a curated properly. They're so international now, bro.
Like China, all this other... Like the NBA don't...
America might not be the big market it was. They're not necessarily got to cater to what we want to see.
Nah, I think it's a three-day weekend. Right? Whereas most events, events is just one day.
So now you got to entertain the fans that are coming from across the country and all around the world for three or four consecutive days. So you got to come up with all these little goals.
But the other leagues do that shit too. No, who? Baseball has the home run derby on the night before.
Yeah, they do. You know what I mean? The Pro Bowl is not, they do their little quarterback challenge and all that shit.
Pro Bowl is down in the drains too. It is.
All that shit is trash.

So you got a whole weekend that you got to entertain these people. Thank God the fucking Canada

and USA hockey teams got shit lit

for me. Thank God

that they went out there. Them brothers, whoever

those brothers were,

where the one brother scrapped,

10 minutes later,

oh yeah, I'm watching this.

I'm watching this now.

And that game that they play, the next game game, won't be a ratings problem at all. Won't be a ratings problem at all.
That's what you need. Bring Chris Childs back.
Bring somebody back that's just going to knock one of these niggas out real quick. Rest in peace, Kobe.
I don't want to be. I was like, you ain't.
Rest in peace, Kobe. You see what Chris Child did.
The goal. Test that, and bow! We'll watch that one.
Hey, put Gervonta Tank Davis in the skills contest. Call me.
I'll Jesse Collins this shit right back to where it need to be. But yeah, as you now know it's bad, I ain't been in a while.
I don't even hear the baddies talking about going out to the city. They was out there.
You got the call? Now it's time out. I did.
The baddies are in San Francisco, period. The New Yorkers was a lot.
They went out there. Starlots was out there.
I'm going to matter to that now. But okay.
I'm taking your word for it. Yeah, I'm not looking for it.
I just want to hear the chatter. I just want to go to the airport on a Friday, headed somewhere else, and see the San Francisco gate lined up with them.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Those are the good old days. It was.
Back in the day. You old, nigga.
You can put a shot up or two. What, three? All right, I'll take your word for it.
Nah, they was out there. If the baddies are there, cool.
My young boy called me and told me they was out there. Shit, nigga.
They did. Adam Silver, I think you got a shit show on your hands.
I think that there's some credence to the inside, the NBA team only shitting on the product. There was a lot of that, too, during the All-Star game.
A lot of commentators just totally shitting on the product. Yeah.
There's something to that. I mean, I like that he told the truth.
He did. He did.
That's why niggas that tell the truth don't be on TV. You got to hype shit up.
Your job as the commentator at those things is to make this interesting and not make you want to turn it off. I agree.
Sorry. I think that's a bad job.
I think you could have whatever personal feeling you have, but you're supposed to be selling the product. You're working for the NBA at that level.
I think you're supposed to try and jazz it up as much as possible. I absolutely love the Rafael Sadiq performance.
I love the job that the band did. I love all of those Bay Area classics and hits that they were playing.
I saw them play You Can't Touch This for about eight bars. I saw Gavin make a post about this as well.
But where was MC Hammer? And that's what I mean about curation. That was my question.
That's what I mean about curation. I thought he was coming out during the Cassidy set.
How could you not bring MC Hammer out in San Francisco? The All-Star game. They might have pitched it.
I'm sure they probably did. They might have pitched it, yo.
I ain't sure about shit. MC Hammer would have showed up.
Hammer would have been there. Maybe, maybe not.
Hammer would have been there. Ain't no maybe not.
Hammer would have been there. That'll liven it up.
Put the fucking baggy sequined pants on, nigga. And think about this.
The average goer wouldn't even have known who the fuck he was, bro. I don't care.
I don't care either. Really? They'd have known when the song came on.
They'd have known when the song came on. The kids don't know.
My daughter met MC Hammer. I was like, who the fuck is that? You think the average goer knew in Vogue? But that's what I'm saying.
It's like Gen Z. There's like a resurgence with Gen Z really like kind of trying to figure out what was going on in the 90s and early 2000s.
That's why they're all watching Sex and the City now. So I figure they would know the retro shit.
They would know the song too. They would know Can't Touch This.
They might know Can't Touch This. They might know Can't Touch This.
Even if you just let them do a verse, right? Too Short didn't do the whole blow the whistle. You're just giving them a verse real quick.
Blow the whistle has never died. Wait, you Can't Touch This.
Can't touch this is using commercials now. They still have can't touch this on TV.

Yeah.

You know can't touch this.

And it's the Rick James sample.

I mean like,

they'll know the music.

The music will resonate with them.

Okay.

All right.

Shit,

fuck you can't touch this.

Let me do pumps and a bump

and put the bikini on again

and go out there.

Like you did in the video.

You got to bring Shorty

for the video number one.

Yo.

The first one.

All that we want.

Hey.

Freak ass boy. I was saying.
Listen, Adam Silver, you got a hell of a problem on your hands, but I'm not paid to fix it. Keep it simple.
Good luck. That'll be my advice.
Good luck to you and the players. I feel your frustration.
I just feel for them. Simplify that shit, yo.
Doing too much. How can I be alive long enough to where the All-Star weekend just don't do it? I never would have thought that would happen.
Money, bro. NBA All-Star weekend.
It's money, bro. Like, the players used to look forward to it.
I don't think the players look forward to it. I said it before.
I'll say it again. They don't.
They don't, right? Put Magic Johnson in the game again. Sign.
The best All-Star game in the history of All-Star games. Watching them niggas get away from him.
Right? You think they don't play defense now? Hey, my guy Magic was posting out that nigga Barkley saying, you got it. No, no, that was Carvalho.
Carvalho said, nah, just score. They ran a 0-5 zone.
Bring magic back.

Bring magic back.

Yo, I come from the all-star of Mike versus Kobe still.

No, the Kobe AI one

was the best one.

That was a great all-star game.

I was there in DC.

That shit was amazing.

That was the best one

I've been to.

Like, as far as the game,

but again, you talking about Kobe.

You had money for a while.

You went?

Yeah, he was there. You had money for a long time.
You talking about Kobe, you talking about Steph, you talking about AI, them niggas was going, they wanted to win. They jumped the shit out of Kobe.
AI and Steph jumped the dog shit out, but yeah, bro, people wanted to win. Now they don't give a fuck.
Yeah. It's just a different mentality in the league today.
Too much money. Ain't no dogs.
Too much money. It is, bro.
I don't think that's it. I think these guys are passionate, but whatever.
That shit was a mess. The young niggas is passionate.
Oh, shit. Do you know, Mark Lamont Hill, that we have our date reserved at the gym for basketball? What's the date? Keep.
It's March 1st, I want to say. March 1st.
Okay, say less. Let me check and see what that is.
I'm going to have to get in shape. It's Saturday.
It is March 1st. March 1st.
I'm going to get. It's Saturday.
The gym is booked. I think we all should go like a team.
But when I say that to y'all, that doesn't happen. So I don't want anyone to go.
Let's see if the opposite effect will occur. Reverse psychology on this.
They're going to show up. Saturday, March 1st.
We all go to the gym. What time? Play some taps.
Taps? Yo. Play some 21 or something.
Pass out. Play a tap.
Yeah, but hey. I want to.
What?

Me too, but hey, we'll film it.

We all out of shape.

We going to be all right?

Huh?

We want flip to referee.

And flip a referee.

All right, what time are we doing this, Keeb?

What time do we have to gym till?

Come on, come on out and say, I can't hear through the door.

5 to 10.

5 p.m. to 10 p.m.? Yeah.

We'll go later if you want.

5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
We done fucking Kee later if you want. 5 p.m.
to 10 p.m.

We done fucking

kids, man.

Let's go kids.

I better hit the

treadmill now.

You gonna play?

I'm playing.

I'm about to do

something for some

cardio.

Horse.

Around the world.

Old ass nigga.

All of that.

We can do horse

in around the world.

We can do all of that.

We can do all of that.

We can even play.

I'm just letting the horse.

Let's do rise and shine.

That's the easiest thing.

Game go to one. You know what I mean? Whoever get the 21st win.
That way it's a series of one-on-ones. This nigga said 20.
He said 20. No, but you're not always on the court.
He's 11, nigga. We do 11 in Jersey.
Yo, what the fuck are you talking about? For Rise and Shine? Okay, King of the Hill, whatever. And we call that knockout in Jersey.
Okay. Nigga.
Y'all would. 20.
That nigga said 20. Damn.
We're not doing it. We're not.
11, 10. Yeah, 11.
Tell the niggas I sent shit. You little 30 size, 32 ass.
Maybe you took like two pointers. Yo.
What? No, don't say had All-Star Weekend, right? What? I saw a Spades tournament out there. They had one up here when it was in New York.
I saw D-Wade Spades. Who did it? D-Wade again, right? Yeah, yeah.
D-Wade already. I'm just telling you what I saw.
D-Wade know about me. I made the championship.
My sources said that you were in a Spades tournament and cheated. Oh, shit.
Mark, get new sources. I'm not even joking.
If your sources told you that, then get new sources. What Spades tournament? Let me see.
There's no Spades tournament in the world where Joe Budden cheated. How do you cheat anyway? I'm just really like that.
I'm really, really like that. I'm telling you what a nigga told me.

It's okay, my brother.

It's okay.

Go ahead and look in your little phone.

Go ahead and look in your little phone

for some information.

While you do that,

it's time for my favorite part of the show,

Price Pits.

Yo, what kind of jean suit is that?

That shit is kind of...

First, don't look so surprised.

No, I'm saying I've been hunting for a jean suit. I can't find one.
Oh, this is a theory. Not a blazer.
That's what it is. That's why.
You've been hunting for a jean suit. Yeah.
Not a blazer. What kind of jean suit is that? A theory.
Theory. Yo, on the low, Theory be having some shit on the low.
This is not an ad. I don't know if they pay black people.
That ain't the low. No.
Theory ain't bad. They fire, nigga.
Theory and Vince. What I'm looking for like some fire cheap shit.
That's like getting most of my sweaters from. Theory and Vince.
Theory's not cheap. Theory's not cheap.
Stop it. Don't do that, yo.
Why you always doing that? That word is relative. Theory's not expressed.
That word is relative. It ain't cheap, nigga.
It's not cheap. It's nice.
I like, I enjoy Theory and Vince. And Vince staples, boss.
I can't fit none of that shit. Yo, I been.
You was looking for a jeans suit since the Super Bowl. That's so cool.
Right? I'm lying. I've been looking for a jeans suit.
It's been a whole week. I can't find that shit.
I can't find shit. Kendrick got him wanting to change his drip up.
See it? Kendrick got him wanting to... Theory, my nigga.

Kendrick got a jean,

all jean afternoon.

At the Grammys.

But no, asshole.

No, the Super Bowl.

It was the Grammys.

Both.

Oh.

Yeah, both.

He had Jeff Hamilton

on at the Super Bowl.

Oh, well, he did have

those fabulous boot-cut jeans

on, though, from Celine.

And I think if you found

a jean suit,

I think it would look like that. You should absolutely get some boot-cut jeans.
I ain't to lie. I tried to freak shit up the other day and throw on a little jean shirt.
Eh. No.
I put it back. And it was one of them, one of them, what the fuck, Brim? The Givenchy or something that don't make it big? Mm-hmm.
Nope. I tried on a little satin varsity jacket in theory She be tight with me

Like I be uncomfortable with some of that shit on

Well that's just cause you just buy a size too small though

No

They don't make

You're in good shape

Like to wear shit

You just wear it

You just

You're sizing

I like tight

Okay

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I think he's the first rapper to put up over, was it 100 million listeners in a month? He did a whole bunch of, yeah. He broke a lot of shit.
And he broke that record. He also, you know, you talk about all the...
First living male recording artist to have three albums in the top billboard.

Top 10.

Top 20.

Top 10.

Top 10.

He has number one, number nine, and number 10.

Gotcha.

That's a stat.

GNX went back up to number one.

Damn made it to number nine, and Good Kid Max City is number 10.

Goddamn.

Clearly he was right about his set list. For the fans out there that would like to hear me say it again, I was wrong about the set list.
It worked. It worked.
He had his own plan, and as you can see, it's working. Yo, and for y'all fans that needed to hear that, I'm wrong every day about something.
It's not a day that passes where I don't get something wrong? I wish you guys could see all of them. All the mistakes.
Y'all seem to get a real thrill out of that one. It was tight, girl.
You ain't go in there and go in about being wrong. You ain't go in there and kill Joe that he was wrong about the settlers.
What do you want me to say? Nigga was wrong, yo. I was wrong.
That's it. Oops.
Got one bad. Fuck it congratulations to Kendrick yeah the entire TDE entire PG Lang entire PG yeah the entire PG Lang say that shit both of them whole west coast yeah whole west coast I do feel the rest of the country's west coast resentment kicking in I know the west has been saying that for a while I I'm starting to feel it.
Yeah. I'm starting to feel it.
I see it. But, I mean, the West was ready for it.
I don't know if Memphis is feeling like that. I'm just talking about New York and Atlanta.
Nah. Nah.
Nah. Nah.
I don't think so. Memphis Art is still cooking.
That's what I said. I don't I said I don't think Memphis But I do see everybody else Just getting tired of it It's like Alright y'all I got a moment Act like you've been here before Type of shit And the West Coast Not doing that What do you think about Act like you've been here before It's their moment Yeah In the middle of a moment like this Yeah it's their moment I'm rock Shit is not dying down Yeah Yeah I get that But the The sentiment is Dog y'all acting like Y'all have never been Here before No people like No people like I don't have to keep Reminding everybody Yo we up right now But I don't know if They've ever been here before 92 Yes they was Yeah they were.
Yeah, they were. They were.
That chronic doggy style run, that early 90s? That early 90s. It was massive, but this is, I mean, it's just a different era, I guess.
It's like comparing fucking basketball players from a different era. It's just been so long.
Like a lot of the... Hip-hop didn't have the platforms that it has now.
There was no hip-hop at the Super Bowl. It's a different shit.
It's a different level. It's the same, yeah, it's big in terms of hip-, but it's bigger.
Like being that hip hop is bigger, it's bigger worldwide. Even though when they say act like you've been here before, I don't think that necessarily means that you had to have been there before.
Right. No, you don't.
That's not what the, I don't think that's what the phrase is about. Right.
It's like have some class, have some. Yeah.
It just means you ain't gotta be on a. Act like shit ain't, shit is not to you and that you're just fucking...
Yeah. But how are they supposed to act? I mean, what would that look like if you're the West Coast right now? Like, how do you celebrate in a classy manner? Like, I don't see what they've done that has been unclassy.
And I'm like, talk your shit. That's what I'm saying.
Run the score up. Fuck it, because your moment gonna leave.
The record is still hot. And the shit that's going on is still going on.
It's being promoted on big platforms and bigger platforms and so it's not going anywhere and they have a right to celebrate that. Yeah.
Right. For a long time it's like the East Coast we are hip hop and all that shit and we lend you guys or pass you guys the torch.
So let them celebrate and have fun. They did not like us at the SNL shit.
Exactly. The old skit with Will Ferrell.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That shit was funny.
Yeah, they're not stopping. That's really what the problem is, though.
It's just New York. I don't even think it's Atlanta that much.
It's just New York. I didn't want to see Will Ferrell do that.
That shit was funny. I mean, I got that level now.
I had a chuckle. I had a chuckle.
I just didn't want to see him do that. It's at that level now.
Are we gatekeepers, guys? Yes. We are gatekeepers.
Yes. New York feels like because we started here, though.
I've said this a million times. New York thinks that New York is the end-all, be-all when it comes to hip-hop and that it hasn't grown past New York.
I mean, at one point, all the labels and stuff. That's dated thinking.
They're still here, right? The labels are not all. The labels are not.
They're still here. At one point, they were here.
They were. Right.
You had to come to New York to how they get signed. There's a lot of things that were happening.
Even for your records to get that national point. Yes.
You would be regional, but if you didn't make it in New York, it was almost like you didn't really count. Exactly.
Then that all changed. That happened.
So we have that cachet. But it's not that anymore.
And a lot of New Yorkers still hang their hat on that. And a lot of people were like, hey, dog, we don't care about that old shit.
This ain't 10, 15, 20 years ago. Now we don't have to make it in New York.
We don't need New York. We don't give a fuck about New York.
It's only New York that keep yelling New York. That's Young Money's doing.
Young Money did that. Do y'all have any thoughts on the Wayne performance from the SNL shit? Anybody see it? I saw it.
It was dope. The stream that I watched, his mic was like not on.
But they fixed it and the shit that's going around on the internet. He sounded good.
I want to watch the whole, I didn't see it. I plan to watch the whole.
I like any time a live band is behind a rapper with hits. Because a live band They made it sound Like Blue Note They killed it They made it sound Just like a Contemporary version Like that unplugged But was he Was he on point Cause I heard he was fire Yeah he was good He sounds the sharpest I ever heard He was good It's gonna make some people Had him Super Bowl That's what it was doing That's what it was doing They're wrong but I get why people would feel like that I did have a chance to listen to the Party album over the weekend me too me too I did because Friday it didn't really you know it hadn't really sat with me but I heard the album again I found some cuts on the air I found some cuts on the air that didn't hit me the first time.
Girl just lied. She makes me cry.
I can't be blamed for anything. I'm fine.
I didn't catch this the first time. I know you tried to ruin my life, but you can't, though.
By the way, the beef ain't done. Fuck a Grammy.
Don't even call that bull super while you round me. I thought it was good.
Court documents are drafting. Okay.
But I'm a lag team. And I know I told Party I'ma give him a verse.
But then I heard what he sent and said, fuck features. I'm a kid and I'm still gray.
Fuck with that little man. Hey, switch the beat on him.
I got this on Valentine's Day, but this one for the boys are gone. Don't you think that's a bit weird considering the album name? Man, fuck that.
I'm a rabbi. I'll have my ex and still hate on me.
No way. That's an internal issue.
It's something I thing to have to clarify. Hey.
That's mad funny though. I saw my man, the girl that they was hanging with.
You don't gotta do that. I I hate on a girl.
Well, none of that was necessary. Yo, what in the fuck? That was not my version, man.
I need that version. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I need a deluxe. What the fuck, bro? Yo, that is hilarious.
That shit is hilarious. Hey, y'all didn't need the internet, yo.
You internet people did not need the internet. The world was fine when I didn't know how creative some of y'all were out there.
Yeah. Holy shit.
Mark, you weren't here when we did the review. What did you think? It was just what I thought it would be.
A couple songs that I liked. A lot of stuff didn't feel like well-developed concepts.
Musically, I got bored early. The only song I like when he raps.
So, you know, give me a hug. I thought it had some classic bars in it.
Oh, interesting. The rest of it.
Classic bars, huh? A couple. Legend Legendary bars.
Look, I'll just say it. No, but in general, if I were giving it mics, I'd give it three.
I'd give it three. T-Pain said it sounded like just old records that they had.
That's exactly what it sounds like. That's exactly what it sounds like.
Throwaways and demo. Have done shit.
Yeah. Finish.
Yeah. And it's like, I'm also tired of Drake sounding like that.
I'm tired of that sound from him. And I don't love Drake as a singer anyway.
I like him when he raps. I love him when he raps.
I don't like when he sings. But that sound of his, I don't like it.
We were actually listening to a drive to Edgewater. So it was a 45-minute drive.
We heard a lot of the album for the first time. And my wife was like, yo, I can't take any more of this.
It sounds like one long-ass, painful emo song. And that's what it felt like to me.
And I'm not gonna hold you. I'm glad you said that.
Like I saw a party made a post about, hey, this album wasn't for the deep dives. It's for niggas to fuck to.
I want to let him know I don't want to fuck to that. It ain't much on there that I'm fucking to.
It ain't a whole lot on there that's the bag for me.

I think you got Centell'd with that too.

That post. Yeah, okay, maybe.

It was a Centell. Maybe.
But the principal still...

Shout out to Centell too. That's my man.

I'm cool with getting Centell'd.

I like him. I like it when it's funny.

Yeah. But yeah.

But the sentiment is still the same though. A lot of people were saying that.

Yeah. And it's not

on this album.

Who are y'all fucking with? Yeah, forget it. Forget it.
What is all the hoopla with the fucking, what is it? Bots and suppressing and, oh, he lowered the price of the album. He better.
That's what did it. Really? Yeah.
Well, streams are dropping every day. The streams are dropping and they, that's a hard a hard coat Vern the streams are dropping and they lowered the price of the album to like $4.99 shit I'm not putting that on Drake even though it does look a way for Drake to be attached to something where you lower the price on the album but it is a technically a party album yeah it's $7.99 on iTunes right now yeah but them drop every day.
I heard y'all talking about how many numbers he's going to sell. Some people are saying $150, $250, $350, $450.
It's looking like if he hits $150, he'll be very lucky. I was predicting like $110, and I'm not even sure he hits that now.
My number was $120, and now I'm just looking. We get $100, maybe.
Damn. My number's 120.
I don't see it going nowhere near, nowhere higher than that. I'm doubling down with that one.
If you're Drake and you sell 100,000 records of this, how do you explain that? Do you just say this is a party album? You see my album? 1,000% you say this is a party album. You don't explain shit.
It's a party album. It has nothing to explain.
It has nothing to do with me. Wow.
Right. I want to play this clip of L.A.
Reid talking about the mythical button that you hear talked about so much in the music industry.

The red button?

Yeah.

Well, that's some Drake shit.

No, I'm playing.

I'm playing. But long before that, there is the belief amongst industry people that there is a button that you press to get an artist popping, like to get an artist lit.

So L.A. Reid was on.

Shout out to L.A. Reid, legend.

He was on Tank's podcast.

Shout out to Tank as well.

Was on Tank's podcast and Jay Valentine.

And this is what he had to say about that mythical button.

Oh, got it.

Singles put out a single. He said, the button.
And we were at a conference when I said this to him.

He said, the button, huh?

He said, sit right here.

I sat down beside him, right?

We had a conference in, I forgot where we were.

I thought we were in Florida.

I can't remember, maybe Miami or something.

Anyway, Whitney Houston comes on stage.

And Whitney Houston sings. And he looks at me and he said, that's the button.
That's the button. He said, do they sound like that? Shit.
I was like, oh, so what you're telling me? Especially it is not hot. Oh.
I thought, I really did think, like, you know, record labels, they take talent, good, bad, or indifferent, and they push the button. And the shit goes, right? That's what I thought.
So Clyde, push the button. This button that we've all heard about.
Sit down right here, young man. Let me teach you something.
And then I was like oh I completely disagree It's a great story But there's a button It's L.A. Reid's line Well I'm glad that y'all all picked up on the fact that L.A.
Reid is lying But on the playback I heard it differently I heard him say We think there's a button that can be pressed good, bad, or indifferent. Yeah, that's the key part of that.
And that was the important part there. So when he sits him down and says, hey, look at Whitney Houston sing this song.
It's like, yeah, anybody with ears can say you would press a button for that level of talent. Yes.
Everybody thinks they're at that level, talent-wise. And we all go up there saying, hey, press the button, press the button, press the button for this shit I just made in the basement last night.
It doesn't work like that. I just thought this was a really nice way of getting out of that button conversation.
But there is a button, though. Yeah.
A prime example of the button is Milli Vanilli before all that. You know what? People say that Milli Vanilli sold records before that button was pressed.
Yeah, and they made good music. And it was a great-ass album.
It just wasn't them singing. Whoever the person was.
No, but that's what I'm talking about. The button is putting two people who were frauds to create a whole...
That's a different button we're talking about. No.
Okay, all right. That about.
That's not the button. The button is putting the power behind it.
Yes. It's Tommy Richmond.
Marketing dollars behind it. And after watching the Milli Vanilli doc, I don't think it's fair to call them frauds.
Because they were talented. It just wasn't the talent that they were showing us in America.
But that's what I mean. They were dancers,

they were choreographers,

they were doped like everybody else.

And they sung

on their first album

where they sold records

over there somewhere.

And they had a look.

They had all of those things

that went into the

little Terrence Trent Darby

was popping back then.

They had a look.

But the singing that was...

We owe it so.

We owe it.

He know about all that shit.

It's...

What? Some Terrence Trent. You guys know Terrence Trent Darby.
He doesn't go by that name anymore. Well, he's Terrence Trent Darby.
He's Terrence Trent Darby, does. My name is Clay.
I'm going to call him. Word is wrong.
His name might be Joseph Suaze now. What's his new name? He's Terrence Trent Darby.
What's his new name? Sananda. All right, we done.
You done. Okay.
You done. Now you're done.
New name. Shout out to Sananda.

Sananda Matria.

That's exactly why I didn't watch a movie this week.

It goes by.

That's why I didn't watch a movie this week.

Oh, the movie's out?

Yes.

It came out Saturday.

It's out.

Yes.

Make some noise for Big Bang.

Let's go, man.

Hey.

I didn't watch it, so I don't have a review yet.

Thank God.

I will have a review Friday.

I'm watching it with my lady tonight.

I'm watching it

I say anything but seriously I'm gonna watch it I do I DVR I just I was traveling didn't have access to cable

I want I want to watch it. I appreciate you DVRing it.
Yeah, I DVR'd. I'm looking forward to watching it tonight.
Okay. Did you watch it? Yes.
No, I mean watch it. I know you were there for it.
No, I watched it. I watched it with my girlfriend, Nicole.
Okay, what'd you think? I really liked it, actually. I was kind of surprised.
I was terrified what the editing was going to look like, but I was, I was very happy

with it. I was very happy with it.

That's all that matters. Yeah.
Do you want us

to come back with our review like you did

last time? I don't think I have a fucking choice.

No, no, no. Review

away. We'll respect you.

Review away. We'll respect you.

If you say don't, I'll watch it, but I just

won't say nothing. Like you did

the last time. Yeah.
I'm going to still say something. Try me.
It's fine. It's okay.
No, please go ahead. The floor will be yours when you guys see it and review it for me.
Okay. You said Terrence Trent Darby changed his name to what? It's a whole woman.
Sananda Matria. Show him.
Shout out to Terrence Trent Darby and Sananda. Everybody.
And Milli Vanilli. And Milli Vanilli.
And watch that Milli Vanilli doc. It's one of the better music docs.
It's wonderful. It's great.
And sad. It's super sad when you realize how they got exploited and you hear the real story.
Like that dude in the south that was doing the background vocals for one of them. Because I was a big Milli Vanilli.
I love that album. I actually love that album.
And when I found out the... Their first American album, Blame It On The Rain.
Yeah, Blame It On The Rain. Yeah, I loved every...
And everybody actually didn't like that album. They sold a lot of records for a reason.
There was slaps. There was slaps.
Slap after slap. When we was kids, that's why I said, like, I wouldn't say the button got pushed for them because the music was dope.
Right. But it is interesting to think about what it means for the industry to put so much energy behind making this a thing.
I don't think the button works, but it may not work these days. It does work.
Hold on, wait, wait, content creation has taken over. Soulja Boy, in the beginning of the ringtone days when he cranked that, a button was a push behind that.
Yes, it was. You don't think these content creators are getting? No, not initially.
Not initially. Contact creators are under the button.
Bobby Smurda song, a button wasn't initially pushed behind that. It happened after that when he recorded it.
I just want to inform you, because you're my man. You're conflating things.
Please explain. Soulja Boy popping off organically.
Bobby Smurda popping off organically. That's what I'm talking about.
Is what incentivized them to push the button. Them to push the button.
I'm talking about the initial push, yo. You can tell the difference when it's organic and it's just bubbling out there and you and your friends is playing it in the car and a couple clubs got it.
We can look at it right today with Jell-O. Bingo.
It's right there. Bingo.
It's right there. The song came out.
It got legs. legs he gets the deal now he's the all-star game now he's it he had two weeks of organicness whoever he wants to be yo Adam Silver uh Jell-O is why the Detroit Lions lost I don't want to see him perform no more he's terrible at performing he don't know how to perform he barely know how to rap he barely know how to breathe while he rap I rap.
I'm no longer talking about what you think of the song. The song could be something.
They not either. Him, he don't know a lick about shit when it come to performance.
Don't book him no more. His hands look crazy.
They not looking at that either. They looking at the numbers.
Yeah. That's it.
They got somebody that just sit and track analytics and say, oh shit, everybody's talking about this. Go get him.
We don't care how good he is. And we're going to give him a bag.
Oh, actually, now that is a great segue to that other L.A. Reid clip that I had.
Anytime a musical genius is talking, if you're into music, you should probably check it out. For sure.
This is L.A. Reid on why the music industry may be lacking currently.
Right, and I think you and I talked about it, how many important boutique labels do we have that are black? Because that's where the community is built from, right? You started at Blackground, right? Yep. Boutique.
A boutique, right? And the artists I had started at LaFace, and there was Uptown artists, and there was uptown artists and there was death row artists there was motown artists there was stacks artists and they were like and and and that was where that's where black music was uh nurtured curated and and and and it wasn't no disrespect to anybody but but it wasn't so much us asking for permission.

Because people that looked like us were making those decisions. And look how different the industry looked then.
So the moment we just talked about when we said, guy, and I'll be sure, and keep sweat yeah and baby face and and all and heavy d and the boys and and i could keep going on and on guys those are black people making decisions about the music we heard on a national international level that is all but dead so if you look at the grammy stage what you see missing is people that look like us making decisions deciding that's what's missing he smoked that yeah and it's changed music he smoked it because all the music decisions are now being made by mostly white men so look at the stage the artists are great by the way i love chaperone i thought bencin boom was incredible i really did i love the artist right he was great i really love dol, by the way. I love Chaperone.
I fucking thought Benson Boone was incredible. I really did.
I love the artists, right? He was great. I really love Dolce, by the way.
Dolce did as well. But even that.
She fucking exceptions. That's black.
Boutique. From a boutique.
Thank you. That's Top Dog, right? Yep.
Thank you. Thank you.
Shout out to L.A. Reid.
I think he's not 1,000%. I think he's not 1,000% because he said the decisions are being made by white men.
I think the decisions are being made by green. They looking at numbers.
It's all just numbers now. That's all they care about.
Now let's put these people here because they tracking. It's not true.
Okay. Because I'm telling you what I think about what he's saying.
But the green is still being only looked at by white men. As opposed to the artistry or as opposed to the actual quality of the music that's being judged by TDE.
They are a prime example of the point that he's making. So, yeah, the numbers are behind it, but the niggas that are able to put out the product is TDE.

We see it all the time where SZA is arguing

and all of the artists are arguing

because they're not dropping

frequently enough.

If the white man was controlling that,

they'd be pushing them niggas

out the door

because it makes more revenue.

Sometimes they make it obvious

when a black person

is involved in it.

The pop-out show.

Kendrick's pop-out show

being on Amazon. I came in here and shouted out Tim.
Tim and Amazon, salute, salute, salute, friend of the show. But Tim is a black man from Compton going in Amazon and saying, hey, y'all, look at this.
This is buzzing. Look at this.
It may only be buzzing here. He also has a situation where, like I said, the show we talk about, the Kendrick show is amazon which show i have it's the parish show that i got it got it kendrick already has a relationship where i'm doing my did my shows with amazon so now if i'm doing a pop-out show yeah i'm gonna do it through amazon that don't necessarily mean that this person tim says yo this is the right thing to do to stream it here.
It says, we got your streaming. I'm not streaming rights, but we got the situation over here.
Let's work together. It could go like that.
It don't go like that. And that's what L.A.
Reid is saying. It could go like that.
But that's not what ends up happening. Even that Kanye, whatever that shit was that what was that Kanye shit? Is that what that was? Yeah.
I was that I ain't talking about that that's that J Prince shit I'm not talking about that cause that was Amazon as well damn my mind I'm getting old but even to Joe's point we guessing and we we are speculating but the relationship with the dude Tim at Amazon might be the bridge. It's Tim at Amazon.

It's Larry at Apple.

And unfortunately,

a lot of these music labels have gotten rid of,

we had this talk here

where Universal consolidated

and now you got rid of

all the boutiques,

all the black people

that curate and develop

and pick a song

and dress an artist

and you just got rid of it now. So that's why shit looked the way it looked.
And if you don't see it like that, I'm not trying to change your mind. But it is what it is.
Yeah, because I want to say even to the Dolce point, Dolce's been everywhere this year. So if you're the Grammys, again, you're looking at numbers, you're looking at analytics, we need to get her.
No. That's wrong.
I disagree. This broadcast is too big.
I can't let you say that. I disagree.
Please. Nobody nowhere looked at Doshi numbers and said, let's give her this long of a set at the Grammy.
That didn't happen. That didn't happen.
Dog. That did not.
First off, they had all the nominees for Best New Artist did a show, did a set. Yeah.
She was one of them. So it ain't like we didn't pick people, we just picked Dolce.
She's one of the Best New Artist nominees because she's been everywhere. They put her in front of everything she needed to be in front of.
So she's going to get the nomination. You get the nomination, all the other Best New Artist nominees perform.
Yes, she's going to perform. You think Tice, you think Tice had any influence? Hold up, let me get this one to be one with.
beat one way up this year I'm talking about this year as am I because we all came in here and said hey they got some things right this year yes right like they came and they gave their speech homeboy gave his speech at the grandminton to say we changed some things around and while Jesse Collins normally puts the awards, I'm positive that a black person somewhere had a hand in Doshi who didn't have a top 100 record. Who's never had a top 100 record to say, hey, we need eyes on this.
A black person did that. If you don't see that, I'm not trying to make you see that.
But that happened. That was going to be my question.
So do you think that her feature would have been a lot smaller if somebody black didn't have? If she got a feature. No, I mean, because Ice is right.
Every single artist who was nominated for new artists had the performance. This year when it was corrective.
And I don't know the numbers. There was a lot of corrective shit this year.
There was. There was.

We don't know what the numbers were for those artists.

Even in it being corrective shit, it's them listening to black people saying, hey, you're getting this wrong.

It wasn't white people at the Grammys protesting saying, hey, this ain't going the way it's supposed to go.

What I'm saying is, I'm solely speaking on the Dolce point.

Her being able to perform at the Grammys, I don't put that on a black person saying she needs to be able to perform at the Grammys.

Thank you. Holy speaking on the Dolce point.
Her being able to perform at the Grammys, I don't put that on a black person saying she needs to be able to perform at the Grammys. Because they opened up and said all of the best new artists are performing.
And all of them wasn't black. Let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question. To do that, though.
Is that true? To do that, you would be shortchanging her team. You would be shortchanging the people that fought every day for years before that Grammy appearance for that to happen.

It did not go the way you say it, but go ahead.

Have your shit.

I was just about to ask you, do we know what her numbers were?

No, I don't know her numbers.

Not astronomical.

Especially, that's what I was about to say.

I don't know if her numbers were through the roof to the point where numbers dictated her

being up there and getting highlighted to that magnitude. When I said numbers, I wasn't talking sales.
I'm talking about analytics. Everything that's been going on, Dolce's name has been up there.
All the publications are mentioning her. They look at this shit, but that's her boutique label working.
The team did that. I'm agreeing with that.
I'm agreeing with that part. I agreeing with that part.
Because her numbers... I'm agreeing they did the work to get her where she needed to be seen.
I was just saying that the Grammys... And I'm saying last year's Grammys...
I'm agreeing they did the work. The Grammys, the year before last year, would have never allowed that.
They would have had that very small stage before the commercial break where they give the new artist 15 seconds going into the commercial. That's what I'm saying.
Yes. Yeah.
That changed this year and I'm positive. Actually, I know for a fact a black person had a hand in that.
Okay. Okay.
I agree. He said it.
And congratulations to Dolce. A thousand percent.
Absolutely. He killed it.
Well deserved. I thought our team had more to do with it.
Like talent got to meet. Talent, and your hard work got to meet your team's hard work.
That got to meet timing and some white person understanding this. Say that again.
Say that louder. No, that's the argument me and Ice had the other day when I was just like, yo.
And again, we ain't going to beat this horse. But, yo, it has to be a marriage, fam.
You can't just go pull Joe Blow off the fucking street and just make him a star.

I don't see that, especially over a duration of time.

They might get an album that goes crazy.

They might get an album that sells four or five million records, but give them a 15-year

career.

Give them a 10-year career.

I don't think that button is that powerful to make these niggas have longevity of a decade

of quality shit. I agree with that.
And I don't think today the button ain't to make these niggas have longevity of a decade of quality shit.

I agree with that.

And I don't think today the button ain't there for longevity.

That's what I'm saying.

They don't want longevity no more.

L.A. Reid, I loved your Whitney Houston point.

Sorry.

On my bad flip.

I loved your Whitney Houston point.

There is a button.

Absolutely.

I begged you to push that button.

I was buttoned.

I was buttoned.

I went in L.A.

Reed office for 52 weeks

in a row with mid.

He talking to shit.

Scrunched my face up

when they played it

on the bigs.

Damn.

Ah, ah.

Did whatever I could

to feel it.

Feel this mid.

Joe Budden,

get out.

Go back out

to your stoop

with your cigarettes.

Actually,

we're dropping you.

We're dropping you

now that I've heard

the Joe Budden Get out Go back out to your stoop With your cigarettes Actually We're dropping you We're dropping you Now that I've heard The new slap you're working on This is why Shout out to the guy I love him Go ahead Even though times have changed This is why I feel like A&Rs are important And they need to come back Even though times have changed For the artist development I agree You know what I mean There's no more Artist development They're throwing these characters Out there and they're just saying sink or swim. And then when they do press the button, it's just for a short term.
So then now they fall under the line of the one-hit wonders or you couldn't do this. And it leads to something bigger.
Depression. But that's...
They don't care. Later on, they don't care about that.
They just make the money, offer you instant gratification. Profitability.
Yeah, profitability. So that's why I think A&Rs is important.
They want to spend less, make more in a short amount of time. Exactly.
That's the formula now. Just the adjustment, I guess adjusting to the new formula, it's crazy.
I don't agree with it, but I get it. I just loved hearing L.A.
read. Like I said, anytime a musical genius is talking somewhere, if you're into music, you should probably check it out.
Yeah, he buys that shit by the way if y'all didn't get read his it's amazing the music stories the back scenes how LaFace was formed how he got through to the last stage of his career it's actually amazing amazing book if you want to really hear about L.A. Reid's life it's dope it's dope as hell nigga Mark I think that's the first book recommendation on the Joe Bunn Podcast in 10 years.
No, it's not. I'm joking.

No, I'm about to say, Ish told niggas to read some Malcolm Gladwell shit.

What's my name? What's my man's name?

Malcolm Gladwell, yeah.

Right? Check it out.

I've recommended 77 books up here.

Knock your shit off, bro.

Ish with the books is the same as LeBron.

It's the same as LeBron. Age one.
Yeah, he coming Age one Yeah he coming here With a book carrying it Trying to be all edumacational Yo the hate just be Oozing out the lover But it comes with love This shit just oozing out the lover It's cool But it comes with love It's cool I be wanting to read books man But there's so many words Get an audio book done And then it get blurry The word and sentences get blurry Then Then I got to start using my finger and shit. You can listen to Audible.
Huh? No Audible. You can listen to an audio book.
Never. While you're in the car.
It depends on the voice and the audio book. Sometimes it's fine.
If I'm listening to that, I'm going to crash in the car. It matters.
I'll listen if you book me to be the voice for your book. Look into it.
That's some hard stuff. No, but you could do great with voiceovers.
I'm shocked you don't already do that shit. They don't pay no money.
Voice work? No, book voice work. Oh, okay, all right.
Book voice work is great. Voice work is great.
Book voice work is great. I don't even like doing my own books.
They pay so little. It's not.
It's very rarely worth it. You only do it for the reader.
But yo, but don't do that, y'all. Man, at one point, Ian was super me up.
He told me that he was going to try to pitch my voice for Waze, and we lost. It must be the Morgan Freeman and them niggas.
Is James Earl Jones alive? No. No.
He died last year. Last year.
Rest in peace, James Earl Jones. He was another thorn in my voiceover side.
They had him. I don't know if I want to hear you saying cops up there.
And now what's my man name?

The black president from 24.

What's my man name?

Dennis Haysburg.

Haysburg, yeah.

Dennis Haysburg.

Man, that is really annoying that you know all these dudes, man.

Sorry.

He's the Allstate guy. Allstate, yeah.

The Allstate guy.

Way next hell.

He's another real.

Yeah, way next hell.

No, I tell you, old as hell.

You 70 years old.

He's another thorn in my voiceover side, man.

Hey, whenever the dude young niggas get in there,

I hope I'm still young enough to do it.

No, you're going to be the old nigga like them?

No, I would be the young nigga in voiceover world.

Yeah, I'm saying, but yeah, yeah, yeah.

Some of these dudes got to let go of the position.

Change the guard.

Morgan Freeman in it.

Morgan Freeman got to go.

I'm dying.

Nah, he good.

I'm dying.

He good.

Nah.

I can't wait to be his chef for a day.

You could do Lion King part four.

Hey, let me make Morgan Freeman soup one day.

Thank you. Morgan Freeman got to go.
I'm dying. Nah, he good.
I'm dying, man. I can't wait to be his chef for a day.
You could do Lion King part four. Hey, let me make Morgan Freeman soup one day.
No, nigga. Stop.
Can't say that, man. I'll fix this problem.
What's wrong with you? Hell no. Stop.
Hey, yo, bleep that, man. Hey, yo.
What is wrong with you? What's your problem, nigga? What Morgan Freeman like for lunch? Yo, nigga. What's wrong with this guy? Oh, I done found mad new ways to kill people.
Watching this Very Scary People shit? We are on the table. Jakers are creative.
Yo, people don't realize how much work it takes to kill somebody. You know what? It's a fact.
Because people don't think about killing people. Yeah, they do.
No, that's not true. That's not true.
Hold, they do. Hold up.
Hold up. That part is a lie.
That part is a lie.

That part is a lie.

They don't think it through, but the thought crosses minds.

Yeah, yeah.

Not putting it into action and implementing and killing somebody.

You've never had a fantasy about killing somebody?

No.

If ever, ever.

Yes, you did.

No.

Yes, you did.

I don't believe you.

You never thought about shooting somebody?

They got shot.

It's like, nah, I'm playing, I'm playing.

I'm joking, I'm joking.

Johnny, I'm playing, I'm playing, I'm playing.

This nigga crazy.

Bow.

Nah, not really.

Yes, you do. shooting somebody? They got shot.
It's like, I'm playing, I'm playing. I'm joking.
I'm joking.

I'm playing. I'm playing.

I'm playing.

I'm playing.

This nigga crazy.

Bow.

Nah,

not really.

Yes,

you did.

We all go through that,

yo.

I don't believe him.

I've never been shot.

I think you lied.

But if I got shot,

I could tell you

my dream,

what my dream

that night would be.

Shooting the nigga back.

Oh my God.

The whole clip.

Oh my God.

Jesus,

man.

Couple reloads.

These dedicated ass killers be having the suitcase to fit the body right in the closet. He 350, we need to upsize it.
Them niggas be having the chainsaws, the shit. That is work.
It's crazy. And then at the end, they show the lady killer was the angel of death.
The angel of death. She started killing bunch of motherfuckers.
I started getting sexist. Yeah, what's she about to do with the body? Let's see this bitch track.
Let's see you carry this one. Oh, man, I'm horrible.
Delicated killers. Oh, my Lord.
A couple of years ago, you know what I mean? There was a guy who dressed up as an acidic Jew, right? And he killed the guy in the middle of the street. And they caught him.
I thought that was extremely clever as well. And they caught him.
They caught him in 2023. He was in Teaneck.
They caught him in Teaneck in his apartment. But even that, when I was watching that, I'm like, that was clever.
How did you catch a nigga? The nigga just came home from prison. Nigga from Brooklyn, came home from prison.

And then he laid on him and killed him, dressed up as a Jew.

And they caught him two years later.

I just Googled that shit.

They caught him.

Niggas used to wear the dread wigs.

Yeah.

Niggas used to wear the dread wigs.

Pop him dressed up like a Muslim woman. A lot of them niggas, a lot of them OG niggas, man, they do that, man.

Dressed up as an old lady pushing the shotgun car.

Dressed up like a Muslima?

That's it right there.

Dude that was jello with my brother last year, broke out of the CFCF and was walking through West Philly where he jabbed on. Yeah, yeah.
That's how you do it. He got caught trying to find his opps instead of running away.
He went to go shoot. He's like, I want to find my opps and shoot them again.
They caught him with the hijab in the middle of 52nd Street. But yeah, it was crazy.
The dedication is crazy. That's the dedication.
And for the people that could not tell, I was totally joking about Morgan Freeman's lunch. Please say that.
I was totally joking about Morgan Freeman's lunch. I would do it for dinner.
And Joe said that he'll poison me for dinner. Yeah.
What a man that is. Fucking Morgan Freeman.
They got to let go of the voiceovers, man. They really trying to get you on that Waze shit ain't nobody getting I can see you doing movies no Waze did it Waze did it they had T-Pain do it they had I think Snoop did it I don't want none of y'all what does T-Pain eat for lunch oh man I hate to have to do it to my man but you got the voice the voice for it man you just gotta know not for Waze go to Disney nigga Disney gives the bags out Batman does fucking Waze so Joe could do it Joe could not do it you said Batman Batman does fucking Waze do you wanna hear Joe when you're driving down the highway turn right nigga hey yo he ain't gonna say that the boys is right up there quarter mile right watch your ass play with him if you want he don't know ass.
Play with them if you want. He'll know the distance problem.
Play with them if you want. I would get off immediately.
In exit 17. Now, nigga.
That's not my exit joke. Now, nigga.
Get off now. Joe don't know math like that, so he think the quarter mile up is a little farther.
He got you jammed up. He doesn't know directions in real life, so that would be.
Yeah. Nah.
That's not going to work. Geography is a turn suit.
It's not going to work. It's not going to work.
Yeah. They never told me when I was dropping out of school that my accountant would do all of that.
They told me I would need the knowledge. They were wrong.
Stop saying that. Stop playing.
I'm joking. Stop playing.
I'm joking.. What you gonna do when I go back to school? Then our competitive shit is over.
You do know that when I go back to school, our compete, bromance, whatever they call it, it's a wrap for you. He's gonna really go.
You gonna play for the performer. He gonna go.
No, he's still there. No, but if you go, he's been in school for 30 years.
What are you, two credits away? The competition heat right back up if you go back. When I go back to school,

it's a doobie for this.

Don't get no honorary shit.

Don't get no honorary shit.

Like the artist get?

Yeah.

Yeah, don't do that.

We don't want that.

That shit is fly too.

We want to see you

right in school.

But then you got to

give them niggas some money.

They got to be

the Budden Gymnasium

or the Budden.

Ooh, Performing Arts Building.

Yeah. Ooh, that's it.
That's nice. Ooh, like fucking Alvin Ailey.
Yes. B-Pack.
There you go. The B-Pack.
B-Pack in district. Oh, wow.
Yo, what you saying, Briggs? My man. Yo.
B-Side. Stupid nigga.
Yo. Oh, man.
That's funny, man. You be donating to colleges and shit like that, right? You be donating to organizations? I donate to organizations.
I ain't never donate to no school. You send it like in a checkbook or you just like zealot and shit? How you donate? It depends.
What's some of your favorite causes to donate to? Yeah. Not causes, but how do you send the money? What's her name? Direct Deposit.
Direct Deposit. So why? I got me thinking about that, man.
You put it to medical school. It's direct deposit.
Oh, direct deposit? Yeah, you can sign up through direct deposit and monthly that comes out of your account. So you know that and just still carry the checkbook? Yes, I do.
Yes, I do. And I donate to animal causes.
Mark, help your girl out with the checkbook. I heard that last episode.
You carry a checkbook because you said you like to be old school, right? I am. Yes.
I don't have it on me right now. You donate to the niggas on Channel 11 at 2 o'clock in the morning with the straight dog.
Lisa Evers and them. The straight dog and cat at 2 in the morning? What's that commercial? You said you got a dog from here.
North Shore Animal League not donate the North Shore Animal League. You do not donate the North Shore Animal League.

ASPCA, Toronto Wildlife Fund, the SPCA in Toronto.

Yes, I do.

God damn it.

I 100% believe that.

I believe it too.

I believe that too.

First time I even heard you say the word Toronto.

And Daisy out here starving.

Holy shit.

Oh.

First time you said what?

Donate that shit to Daisy so you're not eating that dry ass rice. I didn't hear my man.
What? Yes, you did. Yes, you did.
I'm trying to over-talk you. I'm trying to over-talk you.
I'm watching. I ain't saying nothing.
Now she fucked her. Girl.
Alright, moving on. Moving on.
Speaking about Toronto, there was a plane crash in Toronto,

you know?

There was.

Oh, yeah, the Delta plane.

Yes.

That shit looked nuts.

And there's footage of it.

What the fuck is going on?

Can somebody say,

first of all,

flights are cheap.

$30.

Trump has gutted the fucking FAA.

That's what's happening.

For real?

What's the FAA?

That's what caused it?

Federal Aviation Authority.

The Florida Association.

Federal. You think that's what caused it, man? I think that there's...
No, I think it was the weather. Huh? No.
Oh, shit. Look, she just be up here lying about shit.
How many plane crashes have we had in the last like two to three weeks ever since he started to like... No, I'm disagreeing.
Because she's doing a station... Am I allowed to disagree? Hold up, y'all.
Let them disagree. She's doing a station my mother do.
Some shit go bad and they want to blame Trump, nigga. Come on.
Sorry, mom. There's a lot to blame.
My fault. She's going to be mad.
You're right. Trump isn't even the president.
A lot of people are blaming the FAA and saying it's because Trump gutted the agency. But a lot of the pilots are saying, in fact, all the pilots are saying, no, that's not the case.
Like they said, it's bad luck, air conditions, poor piloting, but it's not actually Trump. I get why people think that, but that's not the case.
Okay, so what about the DC crash? We're going to blame Trump for everything in the next four years. What about the DC crash? The DC crash is actually the one where the pilots, the experts came out and said it's not like...
It wasn't about FAA? Yeah, there couldn't have been, there's nothing else they could have done. No, not the plane.
The plane was doing the right thing. It was the helicopter.
That has nothing to do with Trump. They're saying even there's nothing the FAA could have done differently that would have stopped that from happening, the D.C.
crash from happening. You gotta go do your research.
So they're saying bad training. Bad training.
I've heard training. For the big crash, they said it's also just bad luck.
Like a, what do they call it? Like a perfect storm. Like a lot of things happened that went wrong, but it wasn't from a lack of infrastructure in the FAA.
What the people's thing is, it's been a bunch of perfect storms in the last two months. Well, y'all the ones keep wanting to fly everywhere.
I've sat my ass grounded in the living room. True.
They ain't going to perfect storm me out the game. Some people got to fly for work.
Some people got to travel to see family. I just make sure my pilot's white and I'm comfortable.
Oh, my God. Well, you know what? It's funny that you ask that.
There you go. It's funny you ask that.
I'm just joking. A black pilot.
You a sellout. Hold on.
That's fine. Stop saying that, yo.
There was a black pilot recently that when he landed, he took a picture. He had dreads.
He had a reel. Fronts.
And, yeah, and he caught a lot of heat because they were saying, we don't want our pilots to do this and look just way. To look like that.
I don't want my pilot to look like that. I also don't want my pilot to be a white boy with long hair and like you know like tatted knuckles.
You know what I mean? I was about to say if the pilot got up there looking like fucking jelly roll. Yeah I'd be uneasy.
I'm not saying it's fair but it would make me question the flight. I'd stay awake the whole flight.
But that's the problem. You want equality for black man and you talk about all the black struggles and we finally get it.
And then now, you know, you stay on the other side. I don't stay on the other side.
I'm saying I have biases I got to work through. I'm not saying I'm right.
I'm saying acknowledge the wrong. Yeah.
I don't think, wait, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. Hold on.
Mark is a doctor, so maybe he can't be ignorant on recorded broadcasts. So I'll do it for him.
Thank you. Go ahead.
Let him tag you. I think that there are some gigs where profiling is okay.
Captain America. Name me something.
We are going to talk about that. Because I went to see Blackton America.
I went to see it. It was good.
Did you watch the whole movie? He said Blackton America. Blackton America.
Got it. I went.
I saw the whole movie. On Sunday, it was some type of Valentine's Day date.
My girl paid. Hey.
Salute. She didn't have to call Amex.
She paid. Hey.
Nice. So I saw that movie.
I will get to my review on the Black Captain America. But you said name the gigs.
A pilot is one. Bro.
A pilot is one. That's not true.
I'm pro- Listen, I'm of the belief I don't want to know what the fucking pilot look like because that little door should be closed when I'm walking it. Well, a lot of times pilots will greet everybody that's coming on.
Or you see them. Especially on the way out.
You'll see them on the way out. You see them if you're waiting at the gate, they walk by you with their little fucking stripper bag.
Yo, wait a minute.

You don't need... No, nigga.

When they come in

to board the plane,

sometimes they walk

right by you.

That's not true.

And hold up, real quick.

The niggas be late.

Real quick.

They be late a lot.

They be late.

There was a stewardess

standing on the wing

of the plane

taking pictures.

Flight attendant.

Flight attendant

with a fucking

taking pictures while people were waiting to, held the plane up, right? Because they were supposed to go. And it was fucking, while it was delayed, stood on the fucking wing and took a picture.
It's a lot of bullshit going on. I wonder if she's black.
We should be able to profile any job where it's life or death. Any job where if this goes wrong, we should profile.
Now, I know that sounds bad. But you don't mean racial profiling.
You mean like behavioral profiling. No, I mean just profiling.
Not really racial, right? Profiling has a negative undertone because that's what white people be doing to us, but I'm using it the black way. Yo, I came in here years ago and said every year that they do the Meadowlands Fair, I go and profile people.
You do? Yeah. Because those people working the machines and the roller coasters be niggas homeless off Route 3 that they give a job to for three weeks and now me and my kid are going to plunge.
No, I'm profiling these niggas. I don't want the dude in the dirty overalls to have a say in whether I live or die today.
No. It still don't stop you from going buying a dirty ass funnel cake.
Exactly. Oh yeah, I'll eat a funnel cake.
We're extra pound of sugar. And if you're asking, funnel cake is not my go-to.
I do the Italian sausage. Mexican street corn.
Your stomach must hurt all the time. You got a lot of sugar.
And if you're asking, funnel cake is not my go-to. I do the Italian sausage.
Oh, man. Mexican street corn.
Your stomach must hurt all the time. You got a lot of energy.
Yo, bro. I'm telling you.
Mexican street corn. Yeah, the Mexican.
I'm telling you. That shit is the shit, yeah.
Elote. I'm trying to tell you something, bro.
You hit us with a Spanish name for it. That's what it's called, Elote.
A doctor or a nurse. We're profiling them.
What do you want them not to look like? I want an Asian doctor. Yo, this is going to be funny.
Or in... Y'all got a story.
Or my man from Pakistan or Dubai. I want a doctor.
Sorry. I want him to have a last name that I can't really pronounce.
Ramish Kalashish. That's not funny, son.
Wait, it's bad that we're saying this? Yes. I can't point.
I ain't going to hold you. I'm here for the truth, my brother.
My godfather had a stroke a couple months back. And I went to the doctor, and his nurse had the fattest ass.
It was fake. Bro, I was looking at her type of way, like, yo.
Made you not want her to be a nurse? Yeah. Because you think she's a stripper.
Or her priorities might be kind of fucked up. Priorities.
I know what he's thinking. He thinks she's a stripper.
Okay, well then. Or she might have got a lot.
You know they all say they paying for school? What school girl? That's the line. So I think she was telling the truth.
Her ass was so fat. I'm scrubs.
I was like, y'all. Damn.
Let me ask you something. Your children's school, you don't profile the teachers? Yes, absolutely.
We do. A thousand percent.
You do. Yep.
It's still bad. Every chance I get.
But there's some good black teachers, though. Excellent black teachers.
Whoa. Whoa.
Whoa. Whoa.
I don't race. Nobody said nothing about that.
That was a setup. That was a setup.
I'm not talking about racial. Yeah, stand up for blacks, nigga.
You said I can make my shit to do want to be a doctor. Because I do want to be a doctor because they take it.
No, he take it. Why not Johnson? Johnson? I had a good black.
You take Johnson. I'll take Paul.
No. Yo.
You better take any doctors. I was trying to set him up.
You're crazy. What I'm saying is that.
Stand up for black people. That's a way great.
It took black teachers. I ain't going to say that because y'all make fun of me.
You know what I'm saying? Shit, rest in peace to homeboy, the young football player that was too big for the rollercoaster ride or the free fall drop. And some bleep that word out.
I want that word to come back, by the way. I wish we need to do something.
We need that do something. We need that back.
Of course, what's the word? That one we need back. What's the word again? I thought that would've came back in the 10 year anniversary.
I thought, he brought paper straws back. I mean, it's gonna be plastic straws back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We should be able to get that back.
But anyway, that young man, the derelict that was working came over and shoved the fucking seatbelt thing closed,

had total disregard for the weight requirements on this ride and all types of shit.

That was horrific.

That was horrific.

Bring back profiling.

Not racial profiling.

Just profiling.

But if your normal profiling,

it fails you and you hit the advanced button,

then race can come in.

You know what it is?

And some of it be,

yo, you're in a spot and you see a homeboy walk in. Yo, you know who else I profile a lot? Elevators.
Profiling. Who? Elevators.
Well, you can't do nothing in that one. You can't do nothing.
That's not true. What'd you say? That little dirt in them corners and them cracks? That shit will have you feeling a little uneasy.
Oh, no, I thought... No, you meant people on elevators.
Yes. He said people.
People on elevators.

Oh, I'm talking about

how dirty an elevator looking.

Because an elevator,

we in this closed space

with the potential

of it getting stuck

for,

and now we just in here

for a few hours.

I'm profiling everybody

that gets on an elevator.

I am.

Sorry.

Like, size them to see

if you want to be stuck

on an elevator with them?

Yeah.

Like, how's this going to go

in the event that this...

My mind is worse.

You watch too much

murder, death, kill,

so you wondering

that if this nigga turn around with a knife, could you beat his ass? I mean, that's one way to look at it. That's my first thought.
Yeah, dog, that's what you look at. That's one way to look at it.
So what'd you do? Or, I mean, my childhood best friend, Julian, rest in peace, lost his life. Yo, nobody want to hear that.
Lost his life play fighting in an elevator shaft open and he fell down. when I got on the elevator a few weeks ago and these two white gentlemen got on with me, the door closed halfway and then tried to go up.
Elevators be faulty because buildings, when they want to skip certain permits and budget cuts and shit, the elevator be the first thing. I know my mind is warped and nobody's thinking thinking about it.
You're not going to do when it's sketchy and they go in the elevator with you though. You're getting off? That's all I'm asking.
He's clutching his murse closer to him. Oh, got it.
Can I beat him? I don't know. Can you? Can I take the weapon from him? Are these the judgments you make with him? You know what you do, Detroit.
If the elevator gets stuck, is he going to follow my rules and regulations? What will I have to show him? No, he's not going to follow nothing. You got to show him.
I don't get off. Who gets stuck on the elevator and starts stabbing niggas? The niggas in the shit that he watched? The niggas that on them dots that this nigga watched? Better start stabbing niggas.
It's your fault, buddy. I can get about two niggas a minute.
Yeah. I'm going to have to eat them.
Like, what the fuck? Why did you start cutting a nigga when you stuck in the elevator for 10 minutes? I might have made it. He might have made it.
Yeah, he hit the button. Yo, last time I was in L.A., or one of the last times I went to L.A., when me, Ian, and gang was at Katana enjoying a meal, right? 8, 9 p.m.
The elevator across the street in the Mondrian got stuck. It was no, it was, actually, it was no electricity in the Mondrian.
So, naturally, the elevator is stuck for about four hours. Oh, fuck.
That's a little ass elevator, too. That's different, bro.
Who I'm stuck in the elevator with? That's a little ass elevator. I don't care if I'm in there with Halle Berry.
I'm, nah, that's different. Classophobic, right? And what floor? Hold up, what floor? Oh, I don't know.
Right. Yo little I don't care if I'm in there with Halle Berry.
I'm nah that's different. Classophobic right? And what floor? Hold up what floor? Oh I don't know.
Right. Yo no no no.
I don't want to be with Halle on 32. I want to be with Halle on like two or three.
I can survive two or three. You think you can still back Halle? Of course.
Okay that was the end. Why you play with him like that? See now they making it a thing.
Why you do that? Because you made it a thing by asking the question. He knows.
No, that's not true. You asked it with incredulity.
I don't think that anyone... You think you could still bag? I don't think there's anyone in the world that he think he can't bag.
I just wanted to hear what my man would say. I'm with him.
Them baddies be the easiest to bag. He could bag anything, nigga.
Then why'd you ask? Yeah. Because I wanted to hear my man say...
He's the human pack monk. You setting him up.
I can. You setting him up.
Is there somebody that you think you can't bag? Is there somebody? No. Not in that.
No. See? Another alley up to the rim.
I put my niggas in position to win. You can bag anything, nigga.
Human path mark. Human key food.
I'll have Holly Berry in a psych ward. You would? Walking bed for the right.
I would have her in a nursing home. Let's go.
How do you feel about that?

What like do you Do you have to do you have to say that I could bag anything under the right circumstance? Of course, how about you ice? Oh, yeah, they down for skit I'll do skits in the end I'm not sure in When that boy That's your end right here. That's your end right here.

Yo, everyone got you.

Come on in this room.

That's what he call it.

Come get in this room, bro I'm telling you now This is short form content And yo When that nigga blow up That nigga have J-Lo in there This is real room That's when he would introduce The 48 hour room You shitting me? I got a surprise for y'all But what I'm saying is that We all all have our tactics. True.
All of us have our tactics and our way in. It's just how you handle it.
That is true. And if you put the work in, it won't expose you later.
Do y'all believe that whatever our tactics are is like riding a bike? Yes. Or do you think you need to freshen up on it, sharpen it sometimes? No, you got to sharpen the tools up.
But you have to sharpen it if people catch on to your tactics. Yes.
How they don't catch on. Because if you do it too much on social media.
You ain't doing it to the same motherfucker all the time. Social media.
No, no, no. If you post a girl.
If you make it work. If you post a girl and say, yo.
He's sitting in the same DM 50 times. No, no, no.
That's not that. I'm going to give you an example.
I'm going to give you an example where a person I know got caught up. You find a girl.
You post her. Shout her shit out.
Yo, now you just click the link. I remember your man did that.
Yeah, my man did that. Your man still do that sometimes.
He still do it. No, he don't.
No, no, no. That's his go-to.
No, no, no. I know what he do now.
I saw your man do that. You see what she's into.
The happy birthday shit? And you shout it out. The free shout out.
Now they appreciate the shout out. Now, if you do that to two or three women within a two-month span, people catch on.
Like, yo, I know your game. and then shout out.
The free shout out. Now they appreciate the shout out.
Now if you do that to two or three women within a two month span, people catch on. Like, yo, I know your game.
They don't shout me out. You know what I'm saying? My man, I had to tell him, yo, stop doing that.
You look horny. But it worked.
I'm glad you told him. The batting average was, give me a good batting average.
Glad you told him, though. 360.
500. 500.
It worked. Shit, 290.
290. 290.
390. Every time.
Shout out's work. 290 ain't bad.
Oh, shit. I do want to big up the NBA I'm coming back to this topic because this is real funny I want to big up the NBA for bringing out Barry Bonds on one of those one of those intros one of those segments that they had the ghost it was Barry Bonds it was and two other ghosts two other Bay Area was it Willie No.
Not Willie Mays. White or black? Black.
Willie Mays is dead. Black.
But I'm just saying, for the city to recognize who the fuck Barry Bonds is, and we're going to respect them no matter what they're doing over there, I absolutely love that. Back to sharpening our skills.
Like, why do niggas' girls be so mad when you're just trying to sharpen the skills? It wasn't nothing, yo. Y'all just had that practice, yo.
It wasn't nothing for real, ma. They don't respect the practice? That's what I'm saying, y'all.
Hey, I wasn't going to take a dip. If you take a dip, take a dip.
It wasn't that. It wasn't that, nigga.
I was just sharpening it up a little bit. She hit, she go, block her.
Yo, she want me to block everybody. I'm sharpening the skills.
You're a shadow boxer? Oh, my Lord, yo fishing Sport fishing, that's all it is That's it Catch and release They don't be like that shit Why you following her? Look Did you see her? You see her, right? That was Big Freeze, baby No, no, no That was Big Freeze That was not me That's what I overheard I'm just frozen in love I'm just frozen in love You be careful with that, man. You gotta be careful trying to sharpen your skills because you sharpen your skills in real time.
And it worked. Nah, you sharpen your skills on some practice shit.
Hey, yo, listen. I just had to...
Fuck around the cut. Nah, bitch, bitch, run the door.
I'm gonna be vulnerable. I'm gonna be vulnerable, yo.
Walked to the Targo with my wife yesterday or the day. I forgot.
That's what you got the Valentine's Day gift from?

No. Hell no.
Watch your fucking mouth.

Now...

I didn't get it.

I looked to the right. There was a amiga, I mean

a girl and

she was looking. I said yo

I'm already married. I can't give you

your green card. I cracked a joke.

My wife was right there to the left. I said it to my

I looked. Said to my wife.
I told that girl

I'm already married. I can't give her a green card.

And we walking and walking. I cracked a joke.
My wife was right there to the left. I said it to my, I looked, said to my wife, I told that girl I'm already married.
I can't give her a green card. And we walking and walking.
I couldn't even look that direction because now I'm looking that direction. And the girl, she heard me.
She thought it was funny. So, you know, my little She heard it? Yeah, my little corny line worked.
So now I look the direction. I'm not even looking that way.
I'm looking in the direction, man. Boy, when I got home.
Unless you had it. It was a big argument.
No, it was a big argument. I'm like, she tried to crack a joke in front of JR on them.
I'm like, yo, man. I got mad at my wife telling her, like, yo, listen, put a little more respect on my name.
I'm too smooth for that. Like, that's...
Nobody paying attention to that. Like, if you was really trying to hire you, what do you do that? And she got offended by that.
I'm too smooth. I'm too playing.
I almost gave her my phone

and she said,

she almost killed me.

My ego got in the way.

You shouldn't try to

prove to your wife

how player you are.

No, what I'm saying

is that I don't need

to...

No, listen, listen.

That's a joke, Bob.

What I'm saying is that

I wouldn't go outside

and disrespect you like that.

That's what I'm saying

is like, respect me.

No, for real.

Put some respect on my name,

especially in front of my children.

But you almost gave her

your phone for what? What'd you want her to see? I lied about that just, I'm lied about that. I'm not giving a fuck.
I was going to say. I'm just lying to make it sound compelling.
But my point to her was, and she was offended, but my point to her was like, have a little more respect for me than that. I respect you enough not to even play like that.
Who the fuck is that? Somebody that worked at Target. Yes, I looked initially.
Yeah, I cracked the joke. But then later on, I have to exit.
When I'm exiting with the stuff, I thought they'd take the receipt at Target. Oh, you slowed down.
Like, wait, what? I just slowed down. So I went through it this weekend, man.
This week. It's your fault.
And if you listen to the podcast, y'all niggas be throwing me under the bus. Parks? Never.
Yes. Never.
Y'all be throwing me under the bus, so chill. You know what I mean? We don't have to stay on this topic.

I mean, my girl's got, and I'm not,

this is the last time I'm saying something about my girl.

Like, she's got me to a place, our trust level is at a place now,

I came in and told y'all, where I'll send her a girl,

like, or Instagram profile, and say, I want her for my birthday or we need her. Fight.
My girl has opened my eyes to just how many squiggly lines are on behind these girls' pictures. She has totally ruined the fantasy film.
They are terrible.

No, it's so bad now,

I'm wondering why these women

even take the pics with anything

where it could be a squiggly line.

Because we stupid.

The bathroom door is bent.

It's bent.

It's like this.

We ain't looking at that.

Because niggas will start sending

a 500 and a cash app off the pictures Yes Yes Not me They ruined it You don't see the doorknob Going like that What doorknob They ruined it It look like some Harry Potter shit Nigga It's still crazy They ruined it for me I'm cool Now I got my sex toy too It's cool He got the Gawk 7th hour out For real Cause we running around Talking about Before we had to deal with catfish then it was AI but now the real bitches is AI yeah the catfish shit was a little bit like cyborgs the catfish the catfish era Joe was nasty that was a nasty that was a nasty era the catfish era it was dude you just gotta love your girl be faithful that's it not cheap that's a cheap or you know not eat food or you gotta bump into something got to love your girl. Be faithful.
That's it. Not cheap.
Not cheap. Or you know what it is.
Not eat food. Or you got to bump into something in real life and see it in real life.
But we don't see people in real life no more. So it's like, oh, it's bad.
That's what happened with me in the Catfish era. I met the real person in real life, nigga.
I said, you know me? She said, nigga, what? I don't know. Look the message.
She said, that's not me. It's crazy.
No, there was a phase from 2010 to 2015 where you asked Jordy her name and she told you her Instagram name. Facts.
Really? Yes. He's right.
You've been married a long time. Don't worry about it.
Catfish ever is nasty. You think I'm not coming to your wedding for real? Catfish was disgusting, bro.
You think I'm not coming? Who said that? I'm just letting you know. All right.
I'll be there. You're going to go no matter where in the world it is.
Okay. Give it a speech, though.
Bitch don't think he could lose me on a destination wedding. I didn't even say that.
Nigga, I'm coming to Italy, wherever you're going to be at. You know he's going to be somewhere opulent.
I'm coming. Yeah, nigga.
Cool. You have a speech? Yeah, I need time to write it.
I need time to write it down. You don't think you can just freestyle it? No, not for my man.
I love him too much. I love him too much.
I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't freestyle it.
So you'll write something down for him? Have to. Do you want him to give a speech? And just so y'all can.
I feel like the place to start. I'm looking at your face.
For the unmarried people in the room, whoever in here is unmarried, don't think that my love for Ish is just special. I write a little something for y'all.
This is how you get into the voiceover. Oh, my God.
Make a start at the weddings. That's funny.
Like a wedding band. What else needs our attention? Where were we? On a crash in Toronto? I don't know.
We just talking shit. We just talking shit.
Just vibing. vibing tell me about this on Roots Picnic man I seen you a little excited about it Nala Blackman gonna be there she's performing everybody's silence right now it's there but no I'm just saying she's performing I just saw it and I'm a support that's what's up I thought you said Mark.
Mark. Dr.
Dr. Mark Lamont Hill.
The Roots Picnic, the annual Roots Picnic is coming out again. It's going to be dope.
Girls Love Karaoke is going to be there. I saw that.
I thought that was fly. I thought that was fly.
It's going to be a lot. It's the 15th anniversary of a couple major albums.
Roots, Do You Want More as well as what's the other one? I just want to sing Music Soul Child. For the Roots, it's 30 years.
For Music, it's 25 years, which is crazy that both of those albums are that old. But you got Lenny Kravitz headlining.
You got Meek Mill headlining. And who's the third headlining? D'Angelo.
Yeah, and D'Angelo is headlining. Oh my God.
You can't miss that. I know I'm going to get dragged out to that.
And Jeezy's 20-year anniversary of TM101. Really? Yep.
Miguel, K-Tranada, Jagged Edge, Jeezy, Black Thought, Pusha, and 2 Chainz in the little freestyle. Not little.
In the freestyle shit they do every year. It's going to be crazy.
Live mixtape. I'm in there.
Tim's. Yeah.
And Glowrilla's going to be in their lotto. I'm going to have to go with that.
Oh, Tim's in the wagon is coming. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
It's going to be good. I like water.
Tim's bringing that Volkswagen. I mean, Volkswagen.
World Series of Spades, it's right there for you, Joe. Hang on.
Crystal Waters and CeCe Penniston. Wait, what? Yes, there's Rich Medina, Black House Set.
Crystal Waters and CeCe. Rich Medina is doing a Black House Set? Yes.
With Crystal Waters ande and Eniston. Probably Saturday.
That's probably going to be a Saturday. I don't want to go deal.
I can't say that. You know, Roots Pinn is going to put out the schedule like two weeks before.
Exactly. You got to hit the thing directly.
Like, what day are you on? Yo, y'all Philly bitches that smell like grass, you some soap that day, man. I ain't going to hold you.
I know y'all be doing all that eclectic shit, but some of y'all stink Philly bitches.

Get right for that day.

This sounds sexy.

I went down there the day that

Lauryn Hill had lied.

All that shit.

What does your male be wearing? Free people?

I do not wear free people.

I'm an Eastern Park way shop.

Oh, my clothes.

You're the clothes, yes. I thought you were talking about fragrance.

You still a legend. My fragrances are not from free people.
Okay, you're the clothes, yes. I thought you were talking about fragrance.
You still a legend.

My fragrances are not from free people.

My dress, absolutely.

My skirt, absolutely.

Well, the dress got to get the person close enough to smell your fragrance.

Right.

And that's where I smell expensive.

What the fuck is free?

That nigga's a stupid.

Free people.

That shit don't be.

So I've been reading this shit.

They said that Dove is some bullshit. It is.
Dove soap? Yes. They saying Dove is bullshit.
Don't use it. Use Dr.
Bronis, nigga. So I tried.
I think that might be it. That I tried.
Some peppermint shit. Peppermint shit.
Dr. Bronis.
That shit will burn your... I feel like I got sunburn on my chest and on my arms.
You need you need pubes to use that. Yeah.
My chest.

But you got sunburn because you lasered everything off.

Nigga, you know it leaves the wound fresh.

Dog, that shit ate my skin up.

You have to dilute it.

Yeah, that shit is caca.

No, it's not caca.

You got to dilute it.

That shit is basura, my nigga.

That shit worked good.

You hate shit, man.

That shit worked good.

You just can't be clean like a kid, dog.

I got gentle skin, my nigga.

Get the fuck out of here. I don't use lotion.
Get some Johnson Johnson. That's worked good.
You just can't be... That was amazing.
I got clean like a kid, dog. I got gentle skin, my nigga.
Get the fuck out of here. I don't use lotion.
Get some Johnson & Johnson. That's your problem, man.
That's why shit fucking you up. He do be smelling...
That's why he be smelling like white people mashed potatoes. You know I smell good, my nigga.
You know I smell good. That nigga be smelling like the most seasonless mash.
You know I smell good. He know.
What the time, man? If he got caught, he'd throw something more. He know.
If he got caught, he smell a little good. Nah, I bought, I spent like 40, 50.
More than that. I probably spent like damn near $100 yesterday.
Like 100 grand. On trying to buy new deodorants and trying them out.
So you bought, wait, wait, you just bought? You bought mad. I bought like six bars of soap yesterday.
Swear to God. He bought mad deodorants.
That's just the most interesting person I've ever heard of. Tell us the most light skin shit I've ever heard in my life.
What you did with the remainder deodorant that didn't work, nigga? No, that peppermint shit was trash. I'm telling you, that shit was burning the shit out of my skin.
He's trying to give it to that YouTube review bag. That's all.
I see the play, my nigga. He ain't got a lot of meat.
Old spice. No.
This right here is for me. Yo't you just use black soap? Or are you against it?

No, black soap.

I don't like the way it smells.

No, black soap.

Raw black soap will peel your skin.

Yeah, that black soap.

Raw black soap will peel your skin as well.

I try to use that for some other shit.

Yo, sometimes I'm funny.

Yo, you don't get to 10 years without being funny sometimes. Yo, why you don't use black soap? Or are you against it? They start talking.
That shit wasn't that funny. Exactly, it's not funny.
Me and Freeze thought it was funny. Yeah.
Me and Freeze thought it was funny. Y'all can't tell us what we think is funny.
Black soap will peel your skin off. And you try to be funny, double a tongue, because it's good.
Stop.

I didn't say nothing about this, girl.

Don't do that.

And I told you about playing like that with our families.

Yo, I still can't believe that Rich Medina,

CeCe Peniston, and Crystal Waters.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Saturday, I might take a...

I might...

I might do that.

I might do that.

Mm-hmm.

We should all go down there, man.

I might do that.

I'm with it.

Group trip.

Group trip.

Group trip, then.

Yeah.

Yeah, hook it up, Mark. Yeah, I get that.
Yeah.. Mark can get us in.
You think he could? I think he could. Oh, wait.
He might. Can you? That's the setup.
That's the same shit he did to you. Yeah, yeah.
I'm not going to do that. But I don't mean like just, all right.
Niggas need like the passes. All the passes.
All right, y'all in. You could get us in with like a wait.
Like if we wait by the gate. Yo, stand right here by the gate.
I'm going to go see what I can do.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Come around to the side.

One of those.

And I'm not trying to be funny. I'm cool with that though.

You said Questlove stopped sending you the birthday invite to the movies.

Then I checked my phone and he sent it to me.

Okay, so you back.

We good.

We back.

Shout out to Questlove.

We be back.

We be in the VIP.

We be in the VIP.

I get it.

Everybody in.

Nice.

That was a part of the 10-year journey, man.

Root's picnic.

Yeah.

It was a good time. Good times.
Good times. Y'all don't want to do it? Why don't we live podcast again? Why don't we what? Do a live podcast from the Roots Picnic.
Were you here when I asked everybody what their fee would be for a live podcast? No. No, no, no.
If you would like to do it. Ask him what his is.
You ask him.

What's your fee for a live podcast?

Honestly,

I was definitely charged,

but I didn't even think

about money for it.

I just thought it would be

such a good look.

Big Mark.

Such a good platform.

Big Mark.

You done told me

what the pop out is.

I miss my honesty.

I'm not telling y'all out.

I mean, I would charge.

I'm just saying,

but that wasn't my first talk.

Ask them now.

This should be a one minute

go around and then we close.

What would yours be?

I don't know.

I'll have to talk to my team.

Good answer, Freeze.

Freeze team is my team.

All right, all right.

Good answer, Hitch.

Doing it for the love.

All right, for the love.

All right.

Hold on.

No, it's not for the love.

Fuck that shit.

Definitely not for the love.

For the love of money.

For the love of bread, nigga.

You know what my feet are.

Mel?

Favored nations.

Mel, has your rate going up?

Yeah. Lots of things are happening.
Lots of things are happening. We're just ordinary people.
Maybe we should take it slow. Take it slow.
This time we'll take it slow. Hey, yo, I hope, I hope.
I'll make it bark. Hey, yo.
I need to. Y'all fried me up? Yo, y'all make it just be alright.
It ain't chicken me. It ain't chicken me at all.
We're moving on. All right, Mark.
Hey, you got your answer? Yes. Got it.
We're not going to the Roots Pick. Yeah, not at all.
That's the answer. We'll go to hang out.
Right. Yo, if y'all really want, y'all want me to get a sprinter? Let's do it.
Yeah. Fuck it.
Let's go. Yeah, that'd be dope.
When is this? Do shit like that. May 31st and June 1st.
Yeah. I'm doing that, Rich Medina.
I ain't going. When is the Jeezy part? They ain't released a schedule.
They don't ever release a schedule. It's probably going to be Saturday too, but.
I'll find out though. Yeah.
Let's go ice. Yeah, please.
I'll find out. That Rich Medina shit just got me.
That's going to be crazy. That got me hype.
And CeCe still sounds good. Seriously.
I'm not joking. I'm not joking.
Oh, you're talking about. All right, stop.
All right, moving on. Yo.
But how much is it? Hey, yo, nigga. Yo, nigga.
Niggas had a meeting. Yo, look.
So you called... Everybody's chopped.
Let's be respectful. Hey, listen.
Sometimes we have to take advantage of opportunities that is presented to us. We have to know it's on the board.
And when the opportunity comes knocking on your door, it's not up to you guys to fucking step on somebody's fucking moment, you motherfuckers. All right? I want to say that to you niggas out there.
Let motherfuckers have fun and do what they do. It's their moment.
How dare you guys play around, chastise, try to make fun of somebody's moment when they're being praised and highlighted? Who gives a fuck? Nigga, I wore the socks. I told you before this morning.
I'm talking to the people. I pulled you to the side.
You did? I told you. The people, nigga.
Yo, you don't. The people, nigga.
The people. They pulled me to the side this morning.
He don't listen for shit. He do what he want to do.
Yeah. You motherfuckers stop playing.
Now I'm dead ass. I saw that shit.
I don't like that shit. Kendrick, what is this Drake throws DeRozan jersey? So at his show last night, I guess maybe night before last now, you know, he's performing.
He's doing his thing. He pulls up DeRozan jersey.
He did. Balls it up, throws it to the crowd.
Throws it on the floor. Throws it on the floor, whatever.
And I guess my question, and I get it. He don't fuck with DeRozan.
I actually don't think he's wrong about his issue with DeRozan. But at some point, the shit just gets corny to me.
Like, at some point... That's some childish shit.
Yeah, and you

play and stuff. I think he thinks it's working because it's

playing to these Australian crowds and these white

crowds, but I feel like at home it's

looking crazy. You can't ahoy matey your way

out of this one, buddy. Right, that's what I'm saying.

I don't know if it looks crazy, but I feel like

it is detrimental that you're just dragging the

shit out of the way. That's the part I agree with.

Nah. He reminded people that you met.
He's singing the song now. Huh? He sung the song.
What song? Not like us. What are you talking about? Drake sung the song, my nigga.
When? Oh, I didn't hear this. When did you see this at? He's singing the song.
Did you like it when he sang it? His version? Man, it's like your sources. Bro.
I feel like that would be all over the news. Drake is singing.
That's where I got it from. He's singing the song.
Sentel? Was it AI? Yeah, I ain't going to hold you. Imani and Ish with these new barbers.
Yeah, they always switch their shit up. Imani and Ish with the new barbers.
I don't know how y'all freaking the game for 2025. My barbers have been the same for three years.
You got a black barbers? But he got a new blade. He went to Bliss.com, got some new shit.
He got the new Bliss? Wait, wait, hold on. Wait, wait, wait.
Your barber's not black? He got the new Andes? I don't know. What he got, nigga? I go to sleep.
Wait, your barber's not black me? You go to sleep in the barbershop? You got a white barber? Nah, he's Asian. Oh.
Okay. Bitch.
Bitch. Oh, shit, I never.
Oh, stop. You don't want an Asian doctor, but you want an Asian barber, nigga? Everybody just stop right now.
He got the spectacle. We got to mute up.
We got to mute up. Yo, for the 10th anniversary, I ain't going to lie to you.
This is my honest opinion. I really feel like you hold the keys to taking us really where we need to go and we just kind of find a unearth it.
Antoine, you've been working here long enough to know. You having an Asian barber is like a drink drop.
I've mentioned this before, man. I've never heard you say your barber is Asian.
Is she a girl? He's Filipino, man. Nice.
Nice. That's different.
This would have a girl barber. That's different.
Filipino and Asian? You have a Filipino barber? Yo, what? This is not different, yo. Black Asian.
That's black Asian. Yeah, that is a different kind of Asian.
It is. That's like Cambodia.
When he said Asian, I thought you was so ignorant. Do they work in a black barber shop? Nah, he dola.
He got one. He don't have a shop.
He got one of the suites. He used to work right up the street.
All right. But now he got one of the suites.
Fort Lee? The whole, everybody go to him. He don't push.
Yeah, he black Asian. That's what I'm saying.
All of the crew go to him. He don't push your linebacker.
Who the crew? I ain't getting into the name game. Danny.
Our crew. Nobody in my crew has a Filipino barber.
Nobody in my crew has a Filipino barber. Except for you.
You and my crew. I count you.
I'll tell you. Turn around.
Let me see your shit ish real quick. Nodge is bald, nigga.
Don't nodge me to death. I didn't even say Nodge name, but the rest.
Echo don't go to a Filipino barber. I got the barber from X.
Echo does not go to a Filipino barber. I got the barber from X.
I swear to God I will call Echo. I got the barber from X.
But does Echo use that barber? But he don't go there. Yeah.
He just said, I know somebody that. No, nigga.
I know somebody for you. That's our barber.
Why can I not believe this? That Ish has a Filipino barber, even though he's telling me. Yo, something's wrong with your brain.
That's why. Wait till Umar find out that you got a Filipino barber.
Ish is diverse, yo. When I tell Umar...
I got it. I got it.
I'm looking at your hairline. I got it.
I'm looking at it, man. When Umar hit his couch pat on your barber.

Yeah, you a ****, bro.

He used a blade and shit?

He used a, like...

All in.

Oh.

Oh, when you started getting the hoodies made over there.

You can't say that, nigga.

Yo.

I know we're making cheap over there, but you can't say that?

He just don't get his hoodies from him.

So that's the plug to get it for...

You can't say that, nigga? My mom tried to startodies from him. So that's the plug to get him for...
You can't say that, nigga?

My mom tried to start some hoody smoke between me and you.

Stop calling my mom.

Shout them his face.

Don't call my mom no more.

Solid.

Because then another beef just laying on my plate that I didn't know I had.

My mom been asking me for 3 and 4X hoodies for months.

I don't have them.

I didn't have them.

Stupid ass Ian.

Here she go.

Yo, you could just... You know who got three, four, and five X hoodies? Like, yo.
Yo, moms, yo. Yo, moms.
They say whatever they want. Who, mom? Ish.
Thanks. Thanks, mom.
Shots are some division. It's all right, bro.
Give me the hookup to the five X hoodies, nigga. I got you.
You always got me and never get me. You always got me and never get me.
I'm still waiting on the fucking hundred doors. Oh, man.
Yo, what's wrong with you? Got money just sitting in the bank, waiting. You don't call.
Oh, you got it just sitting there. Oh, you got it sitting there, huh? No, I moved it to the money market.
What percent? I can't say. But you did it.

Ain't bad.

You did it.

Ain't bad.

I took your advice.

You don't ever take my advice.

No, this time I took your advice.

You don't ever take my advice.

No, the money market,

I took your advice.

Remember, I was stubborn

a few months ago.

I was on my black shit.

I want to look at the money.

Oh, I remember.

Remember?

And he was like,

I do that shit.

I did that shit.

I did it.

I moved it.

Nice.

I don't feel all the way great about it yet. I'm still black.
I get it. That's me.
I want to see that shit. That's not true.
If the world were to get into some type of apocalyptic it's the end and you need something fast. You got something fast.
Yeah, but even when we first had it. I know it's fully insured, yada, yada, yada.
And you ain't give them all you got. That was the whole point.
It come in every month for you. You're doing that shit that you did last part.
That I did. Bro.
It don't come in every month. Huh? Net 90.
Yo, stop doing that. Net 90? Could you lie? We're going to throw one of these pillows.
Stop doing that. We lying, D.
Could you lie?

We're going to throw one of these pillows

out of the city.

Stop doing that, J.

We couldn't have gotten

to 10 years without lies.

We couldn't have gotten

to 10 years

without some lies.

This guy's crazy, bro.

This nigga was lying on me

before I even got up here.

I don't think

the money market niggas

give you enough

for what they ask you

to give them,

but that's a talk

for another day.

It is. You just got to be thankful.
And why don't all banks do that? Why would they do that? Because that's how banks run. Yeah, but they want to keep the small people small.
What are you talking about? I just don't think it's right. I just don't think it's right.
All banks should operate that way. No, they shouldn't.
I feel like they should. Yeah, because you ain't get enough money yet.
Not that I did. I just know some niggas that got it.
But they tell me about it. If I got more money, what would my thinking be? Your thinking would understand your position that you play in the world and the people under you and the position that they play in the world.
Haves and have nots. So the powers that be, the powers that be don't want other people to excel.
They purposely keep you at a certain level, niggas, so they can eat off of you. No, I got that part, but do you think...
So we're not going to open up all of the instruments that you have at your level to them? What percentage of people that are at that level, whatever level you're talking about, do you think adopt that thinking? That's my question to the room. Do y'all think that at a, what level are we talking about?

30 million a year?

No.

40 million a year?

Yeah.

Do y'all think that all of the people that are at 30, 40, 50, 60 million a year have

adopted the thinking that Ish is referring to?

Most do.

Or do y'all think that some people keep their soul?

I think most do.

I shouldn't word it like that because that's not what I mean.

No, don't say keep their soul.

I think what happens is your day-to-day living, you forget those people even exist. I'm dead ass.
I think they surrounded by everybody that's on your level or higher. You kind of forget that even exists.
We see it in politics every fucking day, my nigga. The people that are making the laws forget that the little people exist.
Them niggas is just a cog in a wheel

that just keeps moving.

I think that them people know

that the little people exist.

They just don't give a fuck about them people.

Same thing.

Yeah.

Same thing.

And them people know that

if the little people down there

get smart enough,

it threatens them.

Yeah.

50 million a year.

Would y'all adopt that thing?

Yes.

No.

I wouldn't.

Because I would remember

where I came from.

We got a no from Ish,

a no from Mark Parks. No.
A no from Parks. Flip.
Everybody say it until they get it. A no from Flip.
Mel? No. I hear you.
I hear you. What a circumstance, you.
What'd you say, Mark? It may change. Yeah.
Everybody's saying no except for Freeze. I believe Ice.
I'm telling the truth. I believe Ice.
I believe Parks and I believe Mark. Oh Oh, you don't believe? I believe us over here.
I believe this side of the room. But it may change.
Depends. I just do.
I believe this side of the room. You don't believe your boy? Who? Yo.
Me. Real talk, I think a lot of people go in with that mindset, and then when they get to that level...
It may change, though. All of that shit changes.
You learn more, though. I think it's levels in life, and I still, even where I am today, which ain't a high level, I still really, really, really go to the ground and poly with niggas today that are way beneath my level that I'm on, and I still try to pull them up.
But you're just a people's person. And you have the patience to do so.

When you get burned by doing that

or going down and speaking to people that don't

appreciate those things, it will sort of

leave a bad taste in your mouth. If Ish made 30 million

a year, I don't think he'd be in America.

He wouldn't.

I don't think he would live in America.

I think him and his family would move to St. Bars.

I'd be six months on. So what do you say about niggas

that's rich that go back to the hood and poly in the hood,

even though they go, you know.

What's rich?

Rich, like 50 rich.

He'll still go back to the hood

and see niggas and check niggas

and have conversations with them?

I think 50 is outlier, so that's not fair.

I think.

Why do you?

I don't think that's...

Name somebody else besides 50.

See, I think this is what happens.

I think that we're looking at the entertainment sphere.

And in the entertainment sphere,

yeah, it may not be that many people

because they can't go back home.

But I think there are people that are doing

I'm saying. Once you get up there, everything changes for you.
You don't even have the resource or time to worry about it. Say if you're up and you just so happen to go back to the neighborhood to go check a family member, you see somebody that you made a promise years ago when you wasn't up.
I've seen situations happen like that. Oh, break those.
I break those. No, no, you don those.
I break them. Stop it, Joe.
Sorry. You gotta stop acting like you're like that.
You and 50 are the same type of nigga too. Oh, it's just for the camera.
You're the same type of nigga. You see somebody like, oh yeah, I said that.
I remember that. I'm one of the most giving people in the world.
Yeah, come on, Joe. Stop.
I'm front for the cameras. I give and give and give and give and give.
You only gave it to the Jersey City niggas? No. These niggas should be funny, see? Oh, I was just asking.
Which one? I ain't gave it too many of them. Can I kiss me and them? Can I kiss me and them that chased them? Yo.
He paid them niggas up. I'm going to buy you a gas station.
Hey. Yo.
Holy shit. Flip.
Damn. You can't say that.
A subway for you? Hey. Don't get crazy.
Hey, yo, hey, the clock is ticking for me. I'm going out with a bang.
Yo, this guy is idiot. Wait, I'm going out with a bang.
It don't mean too much to me. I'm going out with a bang.
Going that way. Before what? Before what? Clock is ticking.
On your exit? On my exit. The clock is ticking.
It's very soon. There's too many meetings I'm having.

Now, don't shake your head.

You don't know what I've been going through this whole fucking week.

I got to come here and be a fucking professional because that's what they use against me.

Be a professional.

But this shit piss me off.

I'm pissed.

I'm sitting here with a lot of anger, not towards anyone, but I have to put on a face to perform.

My time is almost out.

The word you're looking for is professionalism.

Yeah.

That's what they imagine.

That's the word you're looking for is professionalism.

That's what they're asking for.

That's the word you're looking for.

You got to be a professional.

That's what they're asking for.

It don't feel good up here when you got to be professional.

I don't like professionalism.

I don't, but I thank you guys.

Let me think.

You might be honest.

Was this thing built with professionalism?

It wasn't.

No.

But I got rid of the nigga.

All right. Don't do that.
I'm not. I'm not.
And shout out to them. Ten years.
I'm shouting out to everybody. Everybody that's contributed.
Everybody that didn't contribute. They played a significant.
Very, very, very significant. And then Ice will look at it.
Yes. There's no joke for me.
I'm not even laughing. I'm very serious about it.
I'm serious as well. I'm very serious about it.
Their fucking sweat equity when shit wasn't where it needed to be, not only did it get us where we needed to go, but today that very same work ethic, it angers me. Man, these niggas will go, won't they? These niggas will not die.
You got to work. They got to work.
Salute to them. That's a joke.
That's a joke. Shout out to everybody.
Body to body. No, yes it is yes it is yes it is I don't want yo yo yo yo for 10 years 95% of the shots that I've sent up here have only been for play play it's just on air theatrics it's part of what makes me the greatest in the world at this when I go home, I have real thoughts about some of this shit.

You got it, bro.

Just leave me alone. Yeah, what Jay-Z did?

Now listen, yeah, no, listen,

that's a great segue.

Great segue. Hey.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, yeah. Sure I do.
I'm from the streets with a hood. Swallow a man.
Bullets a follow a man. There's so much coke that you can run to slalom.
The cops comb the shit top to bottom. They say that we are prone.
It's on the blueprint, man. It's home sweet home.
Oh, I know, motherfucker. I got you.
I know exactly. I was in chaos when this shit fucking dropped.

Where you was what?

I was in chaos when this shit dropped.

A legend.

Now flown on over that ground prone.

You are now gone.

Welcome to hell where you are.

Welcome to hell.

But when them shells come, you better return them.

All scars we earn them.

All cars we learn them like the back of our hands.

Use your, use your back.

Wear a G on my chest. Oh yeah, disrespect is always loud.
No matter the magnitude of the superstar we speak of, in this instance, it happens to be Sean Carter, Jay-Z, all of that, whatever was going on with him, I don't even know because I didn't really read up on it or take it seriously. It's out the window.
Yeah. It's out the window.
All charges dismissed, dropped, countersued. Now we are suing you, Tony Busby, for the stress, the duress, the heartache, the pain that you caused me and my family.
You have caused me to lose $20 million deals. Yeah.
I absolutely love this. I hope he's calling him out to the top.
I do not see enough of the media loud. Loud.
Y'all are not loud enough for me. I agree.
Pardon me, my fucking Gert. Y'all are not loud enough for me right now.
1,000%. Let me get the round of applause real quick.
1,000%. I hope he's calling him out to the socks.
Congratulations to Hove. I don't know if it's irony.
You have laid the blueprint. You have laid the blueprint for how black men should handle these things when they are false.
That's important to know. When it's a false allegation, too many times for too many years in recent years, there's just been shakedowns of sorts.
But he came out with conviction from the gate. That don't mean that you're not about to lose deals, because just the sheer announcement is going to make you lose deals.
But he came out, said I didn't do it. The internet was loud.
Boy, y'all were loud. Almost like y'all was waiting on another black great to fall for shit like this.
I think that's nasty of the internet, but I get it, I get it. Y'all on some today nasty, grimy shit.
But I was really excited about this. I would love for more media outlets to report on this in caps.
In caps. Write it in big, bold font.
It's too quiet out there for me. And Hov ain't going to say nothing because he's Hov.
He's just going to speak through the countersuit and crack homeboy's muffin. Again, I hope he rip him down to his socks.
I hope he take everything he got. I promise you, I hope he take everything he got.
He filed the lawsuit like a day before Blue Ivy's premiere for Lion King. So he was forced to make a choice to go see his daughter or stay away because of the negative press, which is what he ended up having to do.
Disgusting. Which he put in the suit as part of his reason why Hovich is countersuing.
I hope he strips him down to his socks. Like, I want want.
Take the socks. Not for nothing, and I ain't even on that.
I want your family to feel what my family potentially felt or what you tried to make my family feel. Yeah.
You get what I'm saying? Like, we don't think about the losses that could potentially occur from people being falsely accused of shit. I want you to strip them.
Dead ass. Yeah.
It's obvious the court did, because it was dismissed with prejudice, so so they can't refile that usually happens when a case is so obviously fake fake you know that the court doesn't want to entertain it anymore i mean all the evidence that came out i was at this person this person was in another part of the country i was here oh that person didn't appear oh you know have you heard this statement the statement didn't even make sense yeah anybody that knows New York City? Like, at one point, the girl was like, yo, I just remember this really big circle driveway that we pulled up to this house. Right.
That barely exists in the trusty area. Right.
None of it made sense. What's interesting is Puff also issued a statement.
Puff charges have been dropped too. Because the case was dropped against Puff and against Jay on this particular case.
And Puff is basically like, see? People be lying. This is another example of these cases coming out used against me to lie.
So while this case is false, it seems Puffy is using it as an excuse to kind of say, look, everybody's after me. This is wrong.

I think it's unfair to even mention Puff during the whole segment.

But they were grouped together.

But I think it's important to note that this is why it's interesting because Jay is innocent of this, and I believe Puff is innocent of this one.

But it's interesting to see how that plays into the rest of his cases

in terms of the court of public opinion.

I said that.

I think some of the ones against Puff, by the way, are going to come out as false as well. I've been saying for a long time, I think that the people that are coming out against Puff, and I think Puff has lawyers that are great.
I don't know his lawyers, but I'm assuming that he has some of the best lawyers money could buy. I think what's going to happen is some of these people are going to start recanting their stories

and start getting their ass whooped on the stand,

and it's going to fare better for Puff to have more than less.

I think the more people that come forward for Puff,

I think it's going to fare better for him to have more people than less

because we're going to start proving some of these people to be liars,

and it's going to play into the reasonable doubt.

And also, jurors don't trust it.

I remember there was a case in Georgia, Dr. York.
I don't know if y'all remember dr york from back in the day but i do yeah and you know he was there were thousands of cases of of child molestation at some point the jury the prosecution said we don't want to present thousands because it will seem so unbelievable that the jury may throw it all away because we don't believe this so to your point i think a small group of credible cases is better than throwing a bunch of stuff against the wall and making people doubt the whole thing and because some settlements are gonna come everybody chasing the bag like the busby dude that was the same attorney that prosecuted um um deshaun i think stuff like that is important to know because busby wasn't chump it wasn't like some I don't want to say Lisa Bloom ambulance chaser like this was somebody who has done this with a resume but you might have been chump you might have been taking advantage of these black people that were ignorant to the law or their rights and that had a whole bunch of money. And typically when you have a whole bunch, somebody sued you today for a million dollars.
You, right? You give it to them. What's the charge? It depends.
It's not worth the headlines. Well, that's where the shake down comes.
You get what I'm saying? And so that's the shake down. That's where the shake down comes.
You might be chump and you just made a fortune in doing this type of disgusting shit. Now I get you for two million, I get you for a million, I get this person for a million.
Nigga, you talking. As Jane Doe.
Bruh, Jane Doe. As Jane Doe.
With no nothing. There's nothing to lose.
There's nothing for me to lose in this instance. Bruh.
Until you go up against that one that's going to fight you back. Until you go up against the one that got a platform big enough to be like, suck my dick and now I'm going to sue you.
And you can take some heat because that's why the Puffy thing is important too because part of the shakedown was I'm tying your name to this person that everybody hates right now because the allegation was they both did it at the same time. They both did it.
They attacked me together. You're right.
So by saying that, the average celebrity's going to be like, I don't want nothing to do. I don't want to be nowhere near him.
I don't even want my name on the same sentence as him. Here's a million dollars taken.
I don't know, Hove, well enough to say this. I just don't think that that's the text that's getting him to the threesome.
Hey, me and him. I don't even want to say him sentence as him.
Here's a million dollars taken. I don't know Hov well enough to say this.
I just don't think that that's the text that's getting him to the threesome. Hey, me and him.
Yo, I got Puff and this girl here. Come through.
I just he's never been that. He doesn't move that way.
Congratulations. Congratulations.
Congratulations.

Give the round of applause.

Give the round of applause for Hov, man.

Give the round of applause.

Job well done.

Job well done.

You have laid the blueprint for how men, black men especially,

should handle false allegations

from Jane Doe's.

Yes.

It happened to me again.

I'm calling a lawyer.

I'm calling him.

Get his lawyer.

Jay-Z lawyer?

Yeah.

And I'll start a GoFundMe

to pay.

I was about to say,

I ain't taking no cuts.

Yeah, we not taking

no cuts at all.

Y'all wouldn't take a cut

so I could beat my charges?

Nah.

Not at all, right?

We good.

Not for a second. What are the charges? Nah, I would.
Hoarding. Yeah, I'm not taking a cut.
Masturbation trafficking. Yes.
All right. You moved this girl from state to state.
In your mind. To masturbate.
It's crazy. Yo, congratulations Hov and his entire family.
Facts. That shit came out around with the Super Bowl now.
That shit muddied a lot of waters. Or it was the attempt.
Potential. Was to muddy a lot of waters.
So, again, just congratulations to Hov. Job well done.
Tony Busby. Well, I don't know what the future looks like, man.
It's going to be rough. I hope it's bleak.
I got him losing that. I got him losing whatever the count of shooting is.
He going to settle. Hope may not want to settle.
Yeah. I hope he don't settle.
I hope he don't settle. That initial statement didn't speak like I'm going to accept any type of settlement.
He should sue him into submission. I'm going to show you that I'm different.
And then came back and rewrote some shit. I'm from Marcy.
We ain't doing that, nigga. Yeah, no, Ove just opened up the notes.
The notes tab. He went crazy.
I'm going to show you. Okay.
He did his thing. Yeah, no, all the way fire.
All the way fire. Again, congratulations.
Can't congratulate him enough for that nasty ass move. Tony fucking busby.
Let's see, let's see, let's see. What does that say right there? Has your girl ever seen your group chat? I'll answer it first because mine's as fast.
My girl has seen anything that has to do with my phone. With your phone? Yeah, it's ours.
Now, she's seen it all, read it all, sent it all to her best girlfriend, gossiped about it, every last drop. All of it.
Even the bitches that I was texting, I didn't mean that shit. Like, it don't matter.
It's all on the record. This is a weird question because, first of all, yes, she's seen some of my group chats, certainly, but group chats don't really be like shit in there really at least in my experience it's usually just talking shit their group chat be like that yeah they got messy group chats ours don't that's why men shit we just be catching a vibe that's a projecting talking shit about each other it's like listening to this podcast damn near like ripping on somebody yup fucking an occasional fat.
An occasional fat ass. No? Am I? Occasionally, I guess.
You're right. That's projection and that's one of the fucking double standards that exists out there.
Because you know what girls do? Girls be showing dicks and all that. Real niggas ain't sending the girls nudes.
Yeah, niggas ain't doing that. Like a real nigga is not sending the nudes to they whole crew.
Never. Like that's not happening.
Girls do that. Niggas on my trips and shit.
Girls will send a nigga whole monkey to everybody else in the team. Really? That's crazy.
Yes. I'm not sure.
I didn't know. Look at this guy.
Damn. I really didn't? You lying.
I don't send my pictures out, so I never said my thoughts about or worried about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They do, though, Doc. Girls do.
That's crazy. On my Instagram algorithm, I bumped into...
Mel? Oh. Go ahead.
I'll clear up. You're a part of the conversation? Well, I think you guys have the assumption that there's all just, like, dicks in our group chat.
They didn't say that. That's not what I said.
Mm-hmm. You have their...
Gender wars. It's not that.
Gender wars. Gender wars.
We wouldn't have made it in 10 years without gender wars. Hey's give it up for Gender Wars.
Come on. What's in your group chat? Oh shit.
Furniture. Sorry to disappoint.
It's not a bunch of dicks. I'm sorry.
He laid me down in this chase lounge and he folded me like this chair right here. He folded me like this.
No, Wayfair's having a President's Day sale. That is what's happening in my group chat.
I know, maybe in my 20s it was different, but right now, it's furniture. I have a wife.
She tells me what goes on in girls' group chat. All she do up here is lie.
All that she does up here is lie. I will said, baby.
All that she does up here is lie.

I will show you my group chat right now.

I will show you my group chat right now.

I don't want to see it.

But so you only got no spicy group chat.

Do other women you know have spicy group chats?

Oh, absolutely not.

And she done removed some holes from the group chat too now.

Green bubbles probably.

Green bubbles will definitely get you.

Yeah.

Sometimes it gets a little vanilla sometimes. When they talk about dicks in their ear and shit like that, I'm like, okay, I'm exiting stage left.
This is not my. Okay.
So it's not like there are dicks in the group chat. You're just not a sender of them.
Yeah. What are you talking about? You just said it was all Wayfair.
It can be conversation. My current group chat right now is like is furniture and candles and shit like that.
Yes. Okay.
It's not. This podcast would have got nowhere without lies, Joe.
Give it up for lies. It has been over a year one.
I got some gender war shit here real quick. Oh, yeah.
Count me up. I was looking at.
No, you're going to jump in this one. This one you'll jump in.
You're never counting on gender wars. I was looking at a post from a gentleman named jeff fargo it was a black man and a white man on a podcast on instagram they was talking and the black man took exception to the term happy wife happy life i do too you follow me right yeah he spoke about it, I totally agreed with what he was saying.

He was saying, why does that phrase exist?

Actually, I'm just playing.

I'm going to play.

Yeah, go ahead.

Duh.

Because I'm going to fuck it up.

Kids don't respect a man who sacrifices his own purpose.

They cook.

Neither do women.

That's the black guy right there.

Have you made this mistake where you kind of lost sight of your purpose because you thought that that was the best way to be a father or be a man?

Oh, yeah.

I fell into that trap, too, where I stopped working as much.

I made my priority, my wife and my kid, and I lost sight of the goal.

And one day I looked up, and their lives were worse because I couldn't provide.

They were getting more of my time. They were getting more of my quote unquote love, but their lives weren't any better.
They need to see you hustle. Your wife, your kids need to see you win.
Your children don't want a miserable dad. They want to see you crush it in life.
That's what they want to see. Have you ever heard the phrase happy wife, happy life? All the time.
Does it piss you off like it pisses me off? Yeah. It's annoying.
Because there's no situation with happy wife, miserable dad. If dad's miserable, wife miserable, kid's miserable, there's no such thing as happy family, miserable dad.
Dad must suffer, but he must enjoy the suffering. God damn is what I said, when I heard that.
I never put that in a vacuum that way.

Remind me to tell you something off camera.

Okay.

But why does,

why he gotta be miserable

if she's happy?

That was exactly what I was gonna ask.

I think that's not what he said.

I think the idea is that we,

that's the assumption

that people would be led to think

because me and him

just had the same question.

You know why?

Because when you say happy wife, happy life, it seems as if the only priority is the people outside of you. Exactly.
Like if they said, it should be happy spouse, happy house, right? Yes. Both of us.
Agreed. Both of us.
Absolutely agreed. But men are often...
But it's not that. It's not that.
Men are discarded. Men are discarded.
It's often like, okay, you gotta do whatever you gotta do to make sure the house, to make sure the kids are fed, to make sure everybody's happy. And not for nothing, it's a role that we accept.
We accept that role. We all say fuck ourselves.
To hold up this house. Yeah.
To make sure she's happy, to make sure the kids are happy. Some people like that.
Some people are proud of that. That makes them happy.
Yeah. But know why? I don't know if it necessarily makes them happy.
We forego our happiness. Yes.
Our happiness is an afterthought. Secondary Secondary.
Dog, you got to listen to, cut it out. Yeah.
That nigga, he be saying a bunch of fly shit. He a dick sometimes.
But I'm telling you, he basically says that, yo, as a man, when you start ascending in age, you kind of put your happiness to, it's like, what I'm a bitch for? Ain't nobody coming to save you. Ain't nobody going to listen, nigga.
You got to make it happen regardless. And you kind of live by that.
Yo, we got to do the work. We got to do the work.
We got to do the work. When we first came, you're like, yo, we're going to put our heads down.
We're going to do the work. And I think benefits going to be at the end of it.
And that's what happens. And as a man, that's how you kind of carry through life.
But your happiness ain't your priority. Society makes that normal.
Yes. That's why patriarchy is unhealthy for men too.

Yes.

If your wife is happy

and your children is happy,

you know what I mean?

That's all.

You're succeeding as a man

no matter if your body

is killing you

or any of that shit.

And a lot of times

you can't even complain about it.

A lot of times

because you'll be looked

at a certain way.

Yeah.

Right?

A lot of times

you go through

internal turmoil

but you have to put on

a happy face

when you walk into the house. Right? That applies to men.
When they say leave that shit outside, but a lot of times you're bringing it inside, you just have to put a mask on. So it won't affect them.
It says something. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.
Go ahead. It's okay.
No, it's okay. It says something last episode I was listening.
He said if I only had $20 in my account, I would never... They would never know.
My lady would never know. And I've been there before

where I'm sitting here

trying to rob Peter to pay Paul.

I'm borrowing money.

My wife may have the money.

Word.

You know what I'm saying?

That part.

You know what I mean?

But I'm going to borrow it

to make this thing happen

because my idea of manhood

is partly about being able

to take care of everybody

and to be in control.

And everything.

Yeah, and I'm like

literally not sleeping in the night

trying to figure out

how to put these things together.

That's a fact. Because I don't...
Stress will fuck you up you up. You can die from stress.
And we do every day. You spend your last money to make sure your kids have and all that shit.
Make sure your wife have and shit is different. You just gotta eat that.
A lot of male voices. Let's give male a chance to process and reply to this or speak to this.
And we're not-warring. No, it just sounds like from what you guys are, you know, saying collectively that you fall victim to, you fall victim to like a kind of, like the idea of what a man is supposed to be.
You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. Like provision and leave your, you know, non-emotional, leave your stuff at the door, like all of that stuff.
Your humanity is inconsequential. And that doesn't, I don't really, I just don't see it that way.
Maybe it's because I'm not married. Maybe it's because of that.
That's what happy wife, happy life is saying. But that's why I think that me and Ice had the same question at the same time.
That I don't think that that saying foregoes your happiness. I never took it as that.
I didn't either. I never took it as that.
And also to Ice's point, like a couple of seconds ago, some people actually like that. Sometimes the source of their happiness is to see their wife and their family thriving.
And so I don't think that it's a blanket statement that can be applied to all men, you know? It's a bad thing when you think that. And so hold on.
The other thing is that this is the first time in history where men and women are basically kind of on equal footing in terms of making the same money and whatever else. So, what I hear from a lot of women is it's no longer provision that they're looking for.
What they're looking for is partnership. What they're looking for is a little bit more self-development.
And that is what they're not finding. But that's that's part of the same problem of patriarchy exactly we're not trying to do that we're trying to pay these bills and make sure that the lights are on and we get judged on that no and so wait hold on one second to further that point i think that all the motivational speakers that speak to y'all have done y'all a disservice by saying the only way to develop yourself is get rich, get fit.
That's it. What about all the other ways that you can develop yourselves? You guys have been left at, left, you got, there's been a grave disservice done to you because of that way of thinking.
That there's no value in that other level of self-development. That it's just get rich for provision and for yourself and get fit and that's it.
What if the people are, I don't't disagree with what she said what if the people that i think that's true i think that's true what if the people that's receiving it receiving the perks don't think about your happiness at all oh well then that's a fucked up mate let me ask you a question that's just that that's not how many years do you think hold on my bad my bad because that's not intentional right because everybody has man. But what if they also think that you're the man,

suck it up, figure it out,

because the role that you,

that you not took, I guess,

because the role that is, I guess, assigned to you, right?

So she's not thinking that,

because I'm going to be careful.

She's not thinking that, yo, I wonder if he's, she's going to check on you, but she's not going to go out her way. Some people are not going to go out their way to find out what are you going through at work or the finances, because men, we shut down.
We shut down when you try to ask certain questions. We're not communicative a lot of the time.
We don't want to get into that, yo, forget about that. We don't want to, because a lot of times...
And we're talking not to. And we're talking not to.
And nothing worse than a complaining man. And nothing worse than a crying man.
I think that get rich, get fit shit is some modern shit. That's some new age shit.
Yeah, that's new. Most of the motivational speakers I follow, they don't live by that motto.
Like, I think that the motivational speakers I follow, they find it insulting that we only relegate it to protect and provide. What I'm hearing, and I promise you I'm not trying to beef, like me and Mel had a big argument that went viral where she said should the CEO of Xerox date the bus driver? You can't have both things.
You can't say that I just want you to work on your personal development, but you also got to make as much money as me because now the man's going to bust his ass to any detriment to make as much money as that particular woman that wasn't my argument i i just the expectation put on her because of your argument is what i was basically saying i was just like why should she if that's not what she wants if she's going to hold out for somebody if she doesn't give a shit and she will anybody, bus driver, post office worker, or, you know, a CEO of a Fortune 500, that's her choice, but it's based, the whole argument was around, there's slim pickings, and you should just take what you should get. And if it's a bus driver, then just be happy, no matter what your station is in life.
That was what that conversation was about. That wasn't that.
Because it was the bus driver was doing everything that you wanted. It was based on the M.D.K.
Williams shit about her saying she shouldn't have to date the bus driver. And I said if the bus driver was checking all of these other boxes outside of the monetary box and that makes him a great man and he's still a great coach, he just don't make no money.
But back to back to what we talking about now today's society is telling men and we hear it every day that provide and protect are your two primary things that you need to do get your money up that's provide and protect provide and protect provide and protect and that's being beaten to men's head so in doing that provisional piece and that protection piece men are forgetting themselves to be able to be providers and protectors. To show up.
Yes. For the things that we are being taught every fucking day are our two primary objectives.
I feel like that's what A Million Little Things is about season one. I can't speak to you.
In closing for me, and this is, tell me if I'm wrong, a lot of times when the woman is the provider, the man in the home feels like he's not respected. True.
The man feels like he's not respected or he's not looked at as a man if the woman is the provider. Now, I don't know what that looks like.
I don't know if, but that's a big thing as well. I think it's two things.
It's a lot with that. Yeah, I'm just saying, I don't want to open that gate, but.
My homegirls say that the man feels less than, right? And so he has an insecurity because he's not the breadwinner, I don't want to say breadwinner, he's not the primary financial provider in the home. But then I had a conversation with one of my peoples, and this was a couple months ago.
Actually, she's an advocate of the pot. And I was saying, like, yo, you make more money than you do.
And she got a real high position at her job. And I said, every single day you go to work and you boss people around.
Right? And that's your daily life. And I said, yo, a lot of times women can't check that at the door.
So when you come home, you know you make more money than your man. And you are basically doing the same shit that you do for eight to ten hours at work to your man and then when he starts to complain you look at it as him being jealous that you make more money no you talking to me like a subservient and that's where some of the dog i promise you three days later she called me and was like yo i never had that talk with nobody that talk was so insightful i didn't know that i'd be talking to my man like that and he said it and i looked I looked at it the way he said it.
Like, yo, you just jealous of me because I make more money, whatever the case may be. A lot of times, we are allowing society to make us worship titles and money.
Damn, I wish I had this clip to add on to your point. But when, I have a brain freeze right now.
It was on Shannon Sharp, the black comedian, the lady, not Cheryl Underwood. Leslie Jones? No.
Not Leslie Jones. One of the sakes, though.
No. She was like, yo, I'm not the breadwinner.
Just because I make the most money, I'm not the breadwinner. Yeah, and I didn't see that clip go around enough.
It wasn't Monique. She said something like that before.
I'll find it at some point. But she was like, even though I make more money than my man, I'm not the head of household.
Or a breadwinner. I know plenty of people that are in that relationship.
I know plenty of people that are in that relationship where the woman makes more money than the man, but the man's still a man. That's a hard thing to get to, I think.
I think that's a really hard thing. I think it comes down to finding a good, compatible partner.
I agree with that. And figure out who you want to be.
I don't want to be the head of my household. I just want a partner who I'm equal with.
And if my wife made 10 times more than me or 10 times less than me, I still want that relationship. Me too.
And I know some people take pride in, like Ice was saying, some people take pride. It was Sharon.
It was Sharon. My better than Sharon.
Some people take pride in taking care of the family and doing all that. That's true.
Just like some women take pride in just taking care of the kids. But I think the issue is how society treats us or makes us think that that's who we're supposed to be and what our role is.
That's what I'm always trying to work out. I let it be known in mine.
If my depression get to kicking in high gear, this whole shit is kaput. The kids, you, the house, the bills, the mortgage, 401, savings, future plans, all this shit is kaput.
That's facts. So, yeah, happy house, happy spouse.
I like that. You can't, though.
You can't what? Let's just talk. It's not true.
What do you mean it's just talk? Because reality kicks in. So, regardless of your depression, your bills still got to get paid.
It don't matter what you going through, my nigga.

Lex got to eat.

But this is the part.

In this part, I'm going to lean into what Mel is talking about, right?

If I have a bad enough argument with my girl, I'm not saying that my work won't get done.

How I show up in the world is going to look differently.

It's possible.

So, yeah, I need to be handled a certain way

the same way you need to be handled a certain way.

Because I need to go out there and be my best.

It's not about the work not getting done.

It's about, do you want my...

That's unique to this job, too.

Okay, well, I had no other job.

No, it's unique to this job.

Because in corporate, you know what I'm saying?

You sell your personality to make a living.

Right?

So if you having a fucked up day, we see it.

It's going to come across on camera.

But if you worked in a corporate office and you was a VP of finance,

or if you was da-da-da-da-da, your shitty...

I would be skimming the books.

And that still could happen.

And if you worked in corporate, it still could happen.

Your team got to eat it.

You could miss some shit that fucking line and cost you all some money because you distracted. You're not focused on your job.
Off on a tangent, I just thought that that happy wife, happy life, he was the first person I've heard on the internet really looked taken aback by that. Me, I've never heard someone be...
He looked pissed at that. Yeah, I've never heard someone bring that down like that.
I see where they're coming from from I don't think that that phrase necessarily means that though me neither okay um I do have a part of the show uh this part of the show is from a name I can't pronounce but I'm gonna go back to school and it will lose our life competition for good this says on December 20th the Discord community lost a beloved member of the JBP community, Jason Blayton Abru. I'm hoping I'm pronouncing the last name correctly.
Blayton was a talented rapper, Amani's Eskimo brother, allegedly, and a devoted father who spoke often and highly of his children. Well, put your dick in your fucking bed anyway during our time with blatant he was critical of the pod following joe for many years to us blatant was family he logged in daily to update us on his day talk about his love for his ex slash bm and playfully tell us to fuck off He stopped responding one day and several days passed without an update.
We all wondered if Blayton was finally taking a break from writing in his Discord diary. After a little investigating and 15 days later, we found his obituary.
God damn. The news was shocking to us and we're still trying to process it as a family so I ask have any of you lost an online fan or friend you've never met but built a relationship with was it difficult to explain to your real life family slash friends who may not understand online relationships rest in peace peace, Jason Blayton Abreu.
Man, rest in peace. Abreu.
Abreu, I'm sorry. Great question, and rest in peace to Jason Abreu.
Yeah. And yes.
Distinguished panel. I've had that experience.
And it's hard because I know the first time it happened to me was in 2006 when I used to run a blog called The Barbershop Notebooks was when blogs were still new online communities people didn't really understand it but these were people who I engaged every day now you people kind of know to be in spaces or on twitter or whatever you know that you can be in community with people you never met but back then it made sense to us intuitively like we knew that was our people but I had never met his name was Omoriende Glenn Wright's his real name, and I had never met him before, and he eventually died, two people, he died, he is very openly HIV positive and actually had AIDS, and he was working on his PhD, and he was doing all his cool stuff, and he was so excited, and he was working, and then suddenly he took a term for the worst, and just, he just was gone for three weeks, and we were all trying to figure out what happened to him, and I remember we all, many of us went to his funeral. And we were like crying.
And it was the first time we had met. And we were trying to figure it all out.
And we were like, why are we crying for somebody we never met before? And we couldn't make sense of it. Now I think it's easier to make sense of it.
You should feel normal. You should feel okay.
Family is what you make it. Community is how you build it.
It does not have to do with physical walls or material spaces. It's about who is in your world.
And so grieve and experience it. Very well said.
Yeah, that was great. And to answer the question, this has happened to me many times.
Same. My trademark lawyer.
I came in and talked about him. Trademark lawyer.
He was 25 years old. Jesus.
I met him through the pod. He hit me.
He was like, yo, da, da, da, da. He was doing all my trademark shit.
And, you know, it's timed. So when you file for a trademark shit, and the time had lapsed.
And I'm like, yo, I'm hitting him, I'm hitting him. And my shit going straight to voicemail.
And the USPTO, the trademark people, they put my name, my email, and his email. So when I Googled him, it found that he had passed away.
He was an attorney from Florida. Young.
He was 26, I think. 25, 26.
Pod watcher. And he had passed away.
And I felt the way, because he used to be calling, yo, I got caught cheating, yo, my girl. He'll call me and be asking me for advice and all types of shit.
And he was like a young, up-and-coming kid. I think his father is in politics heavy in Florida.
I think his father's a congressman, I believe. And yeah, he had passed away.
There was a fan a few years ago that had made the news for something. And then he passed like in like a year, a couple years after but he was a huge podcast fan like I'm always appreciative to the person that lets me know that the person passed like you were aware how this person felt about the show or us and you made it a point to let us know but it's always that yeah I think I think the dude that you just mentioned.
Yeah, the Botham Jean dude.

Rest in peace.

Was it a podcast?

Botham Jean.

Yeah.

Really?

Yes.

Yeah.

Wow.

Wow.

Rest in peace.

Rest in peace to Jason Abreu.

For sure.

Rest in peace, bro.

Prayers for those inside the pod, outside the pod, anybody out there going through a silent battle. Our prayers go out to you.
And shout out to Jason Abreu's family. For sure.
Family and friends who may be dealing with the loss. But great question, and thank you to whoever sent this in.
Yeah. Cue it up.
Good idea. Yeah.

And for the 10-year anniversary,

I mean, it makes sense. We can't get an episode come and go

and not let outstander. Put the guy here without

outstander. We need No The Leds too, man.

Oh, man.

We need No The Leds at all, man. Come on.

No The Leds gotta come back,

but y'all be too pussy.

No The Leds should come back. I'm voting for No The Leds to come back.
I'all be too pussy No The Ledge should come back I'm voting for No The Ledge to come back I tried to bring it back a few years ago I don't know if it worked Wait what circumstances does that get played? What No The Ledge? A hot take When you're about to stand on the ledge And say some shit that people are scared to say I like that And say it with your chest. Bring it back.
Bold.

You like that.

I do.

I love that song.

I'll cue it up for you if you got something. No, I'm now all the way hip to my white people news, but white people seem pissed at whatever joke Ryan Reynolds told at the fucking, what's her name? Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I see. At the SNL shit.
Yeah, at the SNL thing. Because Shorty...
Blake Lively is in a lawsuit with Justin Baldoni from the movie that they did together. Yeah.
But that's his ex, right? Who? No, it's his girl. Ryan Reynolds.
No, that's his current wife, Blake Lively. So they're being sued for $400 million by Justin Baldoni.
For what? God damn. For defamation.
She said that he made it uncomfortable on the set.

It ends with us.

Yes.

So she started.

She started it.

The lawsuit.

She filed the first lawsuit.

Yes.

And he clad back.

Yeah.

And it's fucking ugly.

That bag.

Super bag.

He got two.

Super, super bag.

He even has a disservice.

He got all the bags.

Yeah.

That Mint Mobile. Soccer.
That Mint Mobile shit was his, right? Football, whatever you call it. Football.
And I think he did a tequila or some liquor and sold it for the other figures. So thank y'all for hipping me to that.
I couldn't keep up. Let's get a Bud and whiskey.
Nah. Ryan Reynolds is also Deadpool.
Is that... That's the light shit.
That's the... That's the...
Yeah, that's Play Play money. I'm just saying.
No, that's Play Play money. It's bags.
That is not Play Play money. That is not Play Play money.
When you own... Marvel? Nick Mobile.
He's a billionaire. No, I know that.
A multi-billionaire. That ain't Marvel.
The Deadpool money is my sneaker money. That's my Play Play money.
That's my sneaker money, man. Mel.
No, wait, wait, wait. He holds.
No, hold on one second. He is not just Deadpool.
He is the fuck. We didn't say he was just Deadpool.
No, I mean like. Blade.
He was Green Lantern. I'm not talking about the characters.
He has equity fucking stake. In what? He EPs those fucking movies.
Yes. She's right.
She's right. Let me get you.
I'm not talking about his character. I'm'm talking about he EPs you know what we need to start utilizing more on this show I'm telling y'all moving forward for the 800s ChatGPT needs to be the new screen man we be saying too much bullshit up here my mom used ChatGPT for everything and get the straight facts.
We could just say, hey, does Ryan Reynolds

have equity in his

yada, yada, yada, yada?

His production company,

if you look at the credits,

his production company,

it's Maximum Effort.

That's what it's called.

His production company

is called Maximum Effort

and it is a Maximum Effort

production.

What you would do

if Ryan Reynolds

called you a legend

from the 6th?

What you would do

that week?

Put it in the profile.

It's a trick. Don't skip it.
She's so doofy. She's going to walk right into the trick.
Chat GPC just said he don't have equity. Of course he does not have equity in Deadpool.
He produces the movies. If you look at the credits.
Yes, Ryan Reynolds has equity in Deadpool. While exact details of the deal is not publicly disclosed.
Reports indicate that he structured his contract to include back-end points, meaning he earns a percentage of the film profits rather than just a fixed salary. At Google Maximum Effort Productions, it's his, and that is...
They said it is equity. Yes, he has equity in Deadpool.
Me getting back-end money don't mean I have equity. That's all I'm saying.
I'm not pretending to know Ryan Reynolds' business. Me getting back in don't mean I have equity.
Says he does not have equity, but it did say. He doesn't mean that he's an equitable partner in everything that they're going to make.
His production company, Maximum Effort, has been involved in Deadpool-related projects, furthering, trying his financial interest to the franchise. So she, yeah.
I'm not. I don't pretend to.
I don't pretend to. You don't have a check to get to you? That's just Google.
They say he's not a billionaire either. Oh, he got 610.
I keep telling y'all, niggas be throwing, we throwing a billionaire word around too much. It's hard out here for a pimp.
It's hard to get $20. Okay.
It says right here. Ryan Reynolds has invested in various businesses including the media empire he co-owns or has sold and his shit is valued at more than $14 billion.
It says right here he sold his aviation, his stake of aviation gin to Diablo for $610. $610.
That's one venture. Mint Mobile was around $300.
Ryan Reynolds is lying to the government. Mint Mobile for $300.
610. That's one venture.
That's one venture. Oh, Ryan Reynolds was around 300.

Ryan Reynolds is lying to the government.

Mitt Mobile for 300.

Nigga, that's 910 right here.

Ryan Reynolds is lying

to the IRS

and something should be

done about it.

Well, salute.

Salute.

That's it.

Salute.

Keep it low.

That's my bad.

Stop ratting on Ryan.

I'm just saying,

come on now.

Keep it low, Kim.

Mitt Mobile.

How you keep up Billy?

I do agree that we throw

the B around a lot.

We do.

But I think this one is justified. This one is correct.
Yeah. Ryan Reynolds might have it for real.
Yeah. But for that Mint Mobile deal, he made $300 million from his stake.
From the liquor $600. Aviation gin.
And he's dating who? He's married to Blake Lively. They got four kids.
You know her. Is he faithful? No.
No, I'm just joking. I don't know that.
Men don't cheat, bro. When I was out there playing them bye games, I was aiming low.
All right. Slipper? Slipper? No, no, no.
Come on, bro. You should have went to Ryan Reynolds, right? I was aiming way too.
You should have me? Ryan Reynolds? Young nigga, too. Anyway, go go ahead Ryan Reynolds.
Good for him. A Billy just sound nice.
He's your age, Ish. Yo, to be a billionaire at 49 is young.
That's ridiculous. That's absolutely ridiculous.
I'm slacking on my Mac. Well, we told you that when you was 25.
Oh, you're a dumbass. Me and Corey have been happy for years, man.
Slipping on your pimping, right? You could have been Ish Reynolds, man. Yeah, no.
He waiting for that Ross connect to come through them doors. He waiting on that little luxury high-rise in Newark.
I'm coming to vandalize Ish luxury high-rise. You're taking it to the cleaners, right, Ish? Yeah.
You see they hit 21. Ish going to build a little cleaners underneathers underneath his high rise.
No, they gonna take him to the cleaners. Filipino barbershop.
They gonna put some shit there, too. A little Asian barbershop.
I mean, what the hell your shit got pushed back? That's how. Ish, don't worry.
All real black men know the exact moment that their hairline got all the way twisted. I know mine.
We was on tour, Slaughterhouse. We had an Orlando date.
I was trying to get fresh because it was some pussy out there that I wanted to be fresh for. Nigga, that Orlando barber, I felt it.
He said, shit. He said, wait, yo, dog.
That ain't how it's supposed to feel. Now, why you moved? I've been getting here because a long time.
That ain't how it's supposed to feel. It ain't I've been getting haircuts a long time it ain't supposed to be back there that was the end to me that was the Zeke that was the Zeke for life shout out to him though shout out to him shout out to Orlando and listen shout out to the Orlando barber who else be fucking up black men's hairlines from early since young? Baby moms.
Mothers. Mothers.
All over the country. All over the world.
And don't give a fuck. They don't know.
They have no idea. Anything to not call the dad.
They don't use no that. Anything to not have to communicate with the dad.
Not supposed to shake their hair up there, y'all. At all.
No, I'm talking about cutting their hair. I ain't supposed to be at the barbershop, but fuck she know.
If she won't talk to the dad. Exactly.
And when dad take you to some fly shit, the mom get mad. And when you come out with this shit crispy, start hating this shit.
I remember the moment that fucking Lex showed up with a fresh shape up at one and a half. I was like, yeah, what are you doing? He was like, no, he loves his barbers.
She does everything amazing. I was like, wait, what? Some job.
Is it okay to be sexist in some jobs? Yes. With some jobs? That is some good female barbers.
Mel, you think it's okay for us to be sexist with some jobs? Sure. Absolutely.
She fucking just learned the gig. She doesn't know the gig now.
Just go along with it. She's not to just get us the fuck out of here.
Listen, in spite of me, in light of me being wrong with the Kendrick Super Bowl set, in light of all the success that he is having, I just felt I would go back to the beginning of Kendrick and SZA for my sleeper I am going with SZA this record is called Babylon

some old scissors some of y'all don't even remember how old scissors sound so

we are never even heard old scissors and Kendrick smoked this I can't recall the last time I took advice from anyone Take life a figure weight Who trusts pretty girls anyway? And I can't recall the last time I took advice from anyone I'm sure I'll be the death of me And acting Marie's call

The last amount of love from anyone

I call daddy

Who's got one anyway

Not me

Are you hating yourself? Do you really hate me? Are you hating yourself? Was it worth it? Would you do it again? Aren't you tired? Always making a mentor I know you hate me now I bet you hate me now Bring on the thorny ground Lost my heart, then I hope to die with the peace of Pieced together my brain soon as this beat rewinds Nitrogen and propane I spike your drinking times Let me the heart to swallow this game you throw up every line I know those people got Napoleon complexes that's my confession You said that we equal but I know you beyond guessing that I beyond desperate 6am on a Friday morning my darkest hours Them heartless hours My apartment is lost in a coffin I'm paired to the world like a pot Me a couple downers down and out on my nooks I water hard on my tugs and I call she don't pick up then I fall when summer's ending I mean it's no pretending I'm stuck in my ways and you're her finger That's life, that's you, that's me, that vice You're wrong, I'm right I'm right that's right I belong somewhere on ice I'm cold I'm a new blood type even colder cold shoulder boy and sinner you know cold shoulders I have nothing to lose my dark side been well entuned a Gemini girl shaving faces and this here just one of my moves Babylon was it worth it Would you do it again? Aren't you tired? Always making a mentor I know you hate me now I bet you hate me now Bring on the thorny ground Crucify me Crucify Crucify me Crucify That is the record that introduced me to Scissor actually Off the project that introduced me me to SZA. Shout out to SZA Kendrick, P.G.
Lane, the old TDE. Shout out to Punch, Problem, all my West Coast heads out there.
Brand new old music. That is SZA, and that record is called Babylon off of her project Z.
All right, all right. For the people out there that were Shazamam.
I'm going to play some new old music as well. Why not? Not as old, but last year.
Turn it up on the street. I'm going to Houston.
This is Fifth Ward by Sauce Walker. Bye, Sauce Walker.
Oi. Mm-hmm.
Real shit popper. Boy top dropper.
Got them hoes singin' when they see me, it's a opera Pull like Harley Davidson, big chopper Big bird, fog, leghorn, walk a flock up Drift score, women pay me cause I pimp hard Yes, Lord, drop my rose, rest through field war She gave me that pussy free, I heard you till four I be giving daddy, she know this ain't lil' boy Really putting it down around these parts You a guppy, little nigga, you a drown around these sharks Salsa King, Blackjack, can't fall down around these hearts If she dripping with some pimpin', got no clowns around, she smart Blowing pounds around these narcs We ain't stressin', sellin' hard

All these bitches sellin' pictures Till these dippin' credit cards

Woke up sippin' in the Bentley But I ain't livin' in the car

Y'all done really hurt my feelings Niggas really sippin' par

Splash, get on, superstar

It's popper, popper, boy and top drop her Got them hoes singin' when they see me, it's

a opera Pull a lot, pull a lot, Harley Davidson B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B- rose rest through field water She gave me that pussy free, I heard you toy I be giving daddy, she Walker.

Something a little different.

I like it.

I like it.

I fucks with Sauce, man.

Me too.

It's really nice.

He's super fine.

I'm going to Detroit.

What up, though?

This is Elderberry by Black Milk and Fat Ray. She's mad at it.
The hell? Bro. Stone Island, military code, literary goat.
Fam died, what you think I'm at that cemetery fo? Outside, what you think I took that elderberry fo? Topside, what you think I'm really legendary fo? Rate-coated in January snow, nigga Break's over, we runnin' to the dough All this work, we gotta be somethin' on the flow Don't get hurt, pluggin'rick for real with the blow Bro, we was really trained to go Verbal combat, nigga, I'm air-bun with the smoke Show your contract, nigga, the whole world'll be woke Jokes, feel like everybody got them when you on the bottom Even though they gross as a hoax Ghost, paranormal activities Niggas stay scared, play dead like chivalry. No dignity, boy.
If you can write like me, a bitch will tie you to the bed like misery. You shoot visually, we shoot literally.
All that murder, Captain Lee, you messed up spiritually. Too cold lyrically, swallow my soliloquy.
This for the bar smiths to to honor their abilities Cut bold, isn't it? It never cease to amaze me Niggas know the realest is still a gift of fugazi Crazy Man, it's your master Yeah When you take that hit That second voice that starts talking to you Is now in control You're not yourself anymore War I just want to get in my own mood Ain't no trick or treat Niggas trying to trick you off the street Tricky ass niggas Can't fuck with trick tricking me Bitch this the D All gone real Mr. T He'll lift his teeth Draw heat Lift you off your feet the streets Hard rock nigga, Chris and Neif, let you keep it beat, keep it brief when you speak to me All to peace, murder all your beats, may they rest in peace, niggas sleep All that you can eat, when you rep the beat, she gon' pop that P for a G Cause she love the D, I'ma pay that fee, it's on me, all my niggas free Like the stove, they gon' treat you bold if your dope is weak Learn and grow, all I wanna know is how to sow and reap Run it up and keep your mouth shut, all that talkin' cheap I don't give a damn unless it's fam, keep it short and sweet Niggas really don't support they peeps, better play for jeeps Niggas better wake up out they sleep, if they gon' compete, eat It never ceased to amaze me.

Niggas know the realest is still a gift for gays.

Crazy.

That's Alderberry, Black Milk, and Fat Ray.

Salute.

I'm going to a young lady by the name of Savannah Christina,

and this song is Worthy of Love.

Cool. Young lady by the name of Savannah Christina, and this song is Worthy of Love.
I don't know what it is about you Two in the morning calling me up and I'm there to answer Blood on my hands for you I've got a soft spot for you Like every time I get back up I'm myself falling for you You let me be myself around you You close the door and leave the world outside Don't judge me for my past You tell me take off the mask And just play with you No, I ain't got no plans, I just wanna stay with you

How do you know just what to say?

Never let your ego get in the way

Keeping it real, letting me heal

I need you, baby, making me feel like I

Thank you. Never let you go get in the way Keeping it real, letting me heal I need you baby, making me feel like I I'm worthy of love Like I, I'm The best of me Feels like you got the best of me Feels like you've got the best of me Yeah

And it feels right

Where I'm supposed to be

Cause I need you close to me

When the nights get cold

When the days get long

We'll be right back. When the nights get cold When the days get low And emotions take its toll Cause I always see the wrong When the sun don't shine through And I just can't find the light When I'm good all by myself That's when I need you by my side How do you know just what to say? Never let your ego get in the way Keeping it real, letting me heal I need you baby, you're making me feel like I, I'm worthy of love Like I, I'm more than enough

Like I, I'm never too much

Like I, like I'm worthy of love

Like I, like I'm worthy of love

Thank you. I'm worthy of love.
Like I, like I, worthy of love.

Like I, I finally found the way.

That is Savannah, Christina, worthy of love.

That was fire. That was fire.
Big Mal, what you got? Hold up. I ain't going to hold you, boy.
I farted. That nigga shit.
Nah. That's what he just said.
Yo, get away from me, man. Hold up.
Hold up for a second. hold on, hold on.
Mark about to tell you. Mark about to tell you.
Ice. We just did a little investigation about this shit, man.
First of all, every time this nigga can say I got a sleeper, it's a young lady from such and such. I already, I was skeptical, so we started looking at the IG to see what she looked like.
And we asked her, how she looked? He go, what is that? She all right. He said, she all right, she all right.
That's what he said. So he tried to throw us off the scent.
That's what the man said. OK, I did the deeper science.
Oh, what's the deeper science? Oh, wait, I got to hear that. I feel like that's some surface level science.
Good looking lady, Ish found it. I ain't got to lie, let me start with love.
There we go. Ish deservedly, that's a word, right? Deservedly won.
And who knew that cantaloupe was spelled with a U? A lot of people. I had no idea.
I'm going back to school. I'm going back to school.
Yeah, I know. Y'all left me in a group chat.
Once they left me in a group chat, I was like, oh shit, they knew how to smell it. Ish deservedly won the Sleeper Award last year.
I'm back there just trying to take a smoke and vibe. Man, this nigga Sleeper came on mad hard.
You just don't play nothing. You're right.
I'm not going to. You ain't got to play nothing.
Got it. Don't play my shit.
However, I did hear the rumor. I heard the rumor.
I keep my ears to the streets. I was never going to bring it up.
But since this is the 10-year anniversary and Alex is here. Oh, shit.
Nah. Now, since this is the 10-year anniversary and Alex is here.
because I try to keep a profile of who people have been their whole life. So even though Ish is killing the sleepers, I remember when he came in here playing Luther Never Too Much.
I remember. And Jay-Z, PSA.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And his switch to being the sleeper god happened too fast.
Word on the street is that alex has been feeding you songs well that happened go sleepers at the old spot he used to walk in the back i never no i'm talking about when alex was long gone oh he kept it going he kept the foul now i never it, but since it's the 10-year anniversary and Alex is here, I'm not saying I believe it. I'm saying that would explain how Ish has turned.
No, I didn't make that up. Oh.
I didn't make that up. I'm not even that creative.
I would have never thought that you and Alex was close enough. I'm waiting for that need to know, Mixer.
Hey!

Waiting on that need to know, Mixer.

And let me shout my guys out for taking over Mandy's business.

Let me shout my guys out for taking over Mandy's business,

doing with it what couldn't be done without y'all.

Let me shout my guys out.

Took that.

Get out.

Go to Atlanta.

Hello.

Anyway, yeah. Now, I don't know if there's any truth to it, but that would explain how you have quickly turned into the sleeper guard, because that boy know music, Alex.
He do. That boy Alex knows some music.
Especially R&B. And you don't.
Hey, yo, when the last time I talked to you? And you don't. When the last time I talked to you? At the mixer when you was Mandy's plus one.
You ain't got to talk for that, though. When you was Mandy's plus one.
Oh! Wake it up, Alex. Why we got to speak? Why we got to speak for you to steal my sleep? Because every Friday I drop the new new.
Oh, he probably got a little playlist somewhere. Every Friday, Alex drops the new new.
You just send it over to him? All that hate, hate. It's okay, bro.
That's my man. That's my man.
So it's untrue. He's never given you a sleeper.
So the rumors are false. He's never given you a sleeper.
He's never given you a playlist. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Let's address the worst mean things. Oh, he probably gave me a sleeper back in the day.
Back in the day meaning years ago? Yeah. Okay.
Now, recently. 2024? What year? 22? When we came on the pop? 21? Years ago? I don't know.
Did you sign your shit? I don't know. Did you sign your contract? Yo, what did I got to do when we came on the pot? I don't know.
I don't know. 21, I think.
This nigga's so stupid, bro. Don't try that little trick you did, too.
The retroactive tape. No, nigga.
Just sign it. Yo, whoever he just played, I'm buying it.
When we did our research, I followed. It said followed by Joe Budden.
Yeah, we did our research. We found an IG.
We was like, okay. First name.
What's her name? Savannah. Savannah Christina.
All right. I may not know how to spell cantaloupe.
I know to spell Savannah S-A-V-A Savannah Christina Oh Christina here she go Oh I do follow her We know we looked We went to look to see if Ish followed her And the first thing you said was Joe Budden And of course his competitor I do follow her She'll be popping up on my algorithm, but whatever song that was right there, ish. Hat tip to you, my brother.
Nah, that shit was fire, nigga. That shit was fire.
I ain't heard your EP since it dropped, nigga. Don't hate it.
Oh, shit. You did all that all hip-hop interview.
All hip-hop ain't push it. All hip-hop ain't push it.
Of course, nigga. That shit came on and girls love karaoke.
Fuck they talking about. Fuck they talking about.
Yeah, nigga. That was a trap, nigga.
I'm supporting my man. It came on and girls love karaoke.
And I sung every word. And I sung every word.
Imani requested it? No. Oh, shit.
No, I just asked.

He said it came on.

No, it came on and it was a vibe.

The chicks didn't know the words.

But once they seen me singing and catching the vibe,

they was like, all right.

No, this shit's not a ring.

All right, see, that's it.

I wasn't trying to show.

That shit is a bop.

It's a bop.

No, it's a bop.

No, I don't play on your name.

I know.

I've been there.

I've seen it.

No, it's definitely a bop.

And I've seen the AllHipHop.com interview, nigga. Nessa.
You and Nessa. Nessa, shout out to Nessa.
Love you. Shout out to Cap.
Love him. Some people you know where they get together and it's just like, oh, that couple makes sense.
Yeah, totally. That's Nessa and Cap all the way.
Mel. Yeah.
Give me a hug. Let's go.
Nope. Nope.
Come on. You said don't play it I'm not playing shit Don't play nothing Play your bio Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope So you're not gonna play nothing I'm not playing fuck all You ain't gonna play New Caitlyn No I'm not playing nothing Who else Mel be playing You ain? You ain't going to play fucking Impala, Tame Impala? No, no.
Who made Sex on Fire? Who made that? Who made... Kings and Leon, come on.
Kings and Leon. No sleeper? Nope.
Nope. For a 10 year? No.
Right after the shout out, you don't even need to play Sleepers no more. No.
Mm-mm. Nope.
You told me not to, so I'm not going to. We should wrap this thing up.
But did you send one to Parks? Yeah, I did. Don't play it.
Could it, was it fired? Was it fired? How the fuck does he know? He don't know the song. Oh.
Okay, a little sassy. Okay, I'll find some.
Find some outro music. Mark right there.
Oh yeah, Mark. Big Mark.
I've been traveling. I haven't heard any music this week.
Don't have anything. Come on, play something more for that.
What's that soundtrack you keep playing shit from? I play one song from one soundtrack. You goddamn asshole.
That nigga heard one little. The Dame Dad song.
It's a good soundtrack, by the way. That nigga heard one little soundtrack and every week we gotta hear

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alright

alright

fine

we had a good pod

it was a great pod

it was a great pod

it was an amazing pod

great anniversary

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great anniversary pod

again shout out

to all the people

that have contributed

throughout these 10 years

shout out to the people

that are still in the room

I'm not trying to be funny

I wasn't trying to be funny

there you go

Thank you. I can't get off on these .
Oh, all right, I'm getting free advice.

Next week, Rory, I got you. I'll play the sleeper, man.

All right, Mel is done and Mark is done.

Yeah, do a toast.

A toast would be a good idea.

Yeah, we should do a toast.

We should do a toast.

Oh, it would be so sexist to tell Mel to open this

and harken back to her bottle girl days. That would be so sexist.
Oh, all right. The culture up here.
The culture is... The culture is sexist.
Are we trying to be... I'm not trying.
I mean, some of them are... That shit is a blast, man.
Sometimes. Don't try to spray it on me And flip me either Don't try to get your shit off I'll get up I'll move Oh man Don't shoot it this way lady I'm telling you Lady Mel stop Lady Don't call her lady Nah for real Cause you gonna try to do Some funny shit right now I'm not I promise Oh you just gonna do it Properly I'm a consummate professional.
All right. Oh, she even has a shot.
She even has a shot. She's shouting at us.
You are. She about to poke my whole eye out.
I'm not. Oh, she did that shit.
That's how you do it. Shout out to you.
Silently. Yeah.
All right, I'm forward for y'all. Oh, damn.
That's right. A lot of shots, girl.
She had enough of you niggas. She did.
Acting like John Wick. Yo, we here, yeah, nigga, 10 years.
Let me guess the cup in the middle is yours, right? Weirdo. No, I don't drink.
I don't drink neither. You don't drink, Flip? Nah.
We drink. You should have got, yeah, she got a little apple cider champagne for y'all.
I do the little kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Little Martin Alley's. You do the kids for New Year's? Oh, man, you not lazy.
Look, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark drinks.
Mark drinks, yes. I been drinking the toast show.
Hey, yo, 10 years, y'all. Come on, man.
Let's have a toast. Give me a water, blood.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yo, gotta get some more cups.
Everybody in the room toast, man. Hey, yo, yeah, yeah.
Everybody come in the middle. Everybody in the back, come out.
Come on. Where the mama niggas at, man? Come in the middle, man.
Come out, man. We got to do this right.
Hey, St. Paul Halley, put your ass out here.
Yeah, we got to do this right. Ten years, dog.
Ten years. Let's go, man.
Flip don't drink. Nah, I need to know.
Hey, I'm not drinking that shit. Flip scared after what happened with that fucking, what you gave him? I need to know, boys.
Parks, who that shit gave him? Come through, come through, come through. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Flip ain't taking nothing. We in the middle.
We in the'all. We don't need nothing.
Erickson definitely need one. We in the middle with it, man.
Yeah, yeah. Erickson gotta come out, man.
He got to come out, too. Get another one.
Get another one. Get another one.
Let's go. Yeah! Yeah! Hey! I'll pass it on.
I'll pass it on. I'll pass it on.
I'll pass it on. I'll pass it on.
I'll pass it on. I'll pass it around.
We got no one. They throw away.
They throw away. They throw away another one for 10 years.
They throw away another one for 10 years. Turn to the canter, y'all.
Hold up, man. Oh, shit.
Oh, shit. That's all wet.
That's all wet. She's getting shot.
I'm gonna get my baby. She's getting shot.
All right, come on. Let's get a toast.
I feel like I need to be at least on the mic because this is an audio production. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's cool. It's cool.
Let me wait till Imani get his. We got my baby.
Ain't no bitches here, baby. I don't know how to do it.
I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to do it, man.
All right, we wait. Let him on it.

All right, E used to be a bottle girl. All right.

My nigga E used to be a bottle dude.

Bottle boy.

Wait, what was the name of raw shit? Bel Air?

All right, so we got the whole crew up in here.

Everybody got a little something.

Come on, Vern.

You can do it too, man.

You done snuffed enough niggas.

Come on.

Come on.

You done beat enough niggas up behind the scenes.

Come on.

You can join us.

You can join us, man.

Yeah, give Ish a water.

Nigga with a Filipino barber don't need no ace. He got a Filipino a Filipino barber don't need no ace.

You got a Filipino barber, you don't need no ace.

Listen, we are making this toast to the constant dedication, to the fucking effort to the faith

to the passion

that everybody here has displayed. We are making this toast to an amazing past, an even better present, and an even better future.
We are making this toast to family, friends. We making this toast to all the pets that have been here.
Come on, come on. We're going to shout Rory's dog out.
Shout to Daisy, the new Rory's dog. You know what I mean? We shouting out the pets.
We are making this toast to people that have altered their lives to make this thing happen. To the people that have fucking held this thing in their home with their fucking wife having to hear this bullshit for years.
We making this toast for the people that have moved from across the country to be here with us for years. We making this toast for Flip who moved to Jersey, got a crib with an elevator in it.
We're making this toast for the people that have made real life sacrifices to make this thing go down so we can provide some of the best content in the entire world. Not in urban.
Not in urban. To the best content in the entire world ever for the fans out there.
And last but certainly not least,

we are making this toast for the fans out there.

The day ones, the day twos, the day a thousand.

Whenever you got here,

we are just appreciative and happy that you are here.

God, hopefully we continue to do this thing

for a few more years.

We making this toast to M's.

Oh, oops, oh, whoop.

Wait, whoop, whoop, whoop. Oh, wait Oh, wait.
Hey, wait, oops. Wait, oops.
We making this toast. Hey, again, we making this toast.
We making this toast because we have been present before the ecosystem existed, while they were building the ecosystem, while all the companies bailed and dodged because many podcasters before us have failed. And we are standing still.
So thank God for that. Thank you guys for that.
Let's put glasses in the air. Let's put glasses in the air.
And let's have a big one. Again, thank each and every one of y'all.
And we'll toast to that. Thanks for Joe.
Thanks for Joe. Come on, yeah, no, I'm with you.
I'm with you. I got my coffee mug.
Baby, I see you over there. Hey, make a toast for my baby.
Make a toast for my baby before I get in trouble. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir. Ten more years.
Ay. Let him out, nigga.
Mighty to body, I see you. I love you out there.
Ay, Peter Rosenberg, I love you out there.

Hey, Peter Rosenberg, I love you too, nigga.

I told you we was gonna get shit lit.

I know you thought you'd be a part of the week, but you was.

You was, man.

Amazing, amazing, amazing.

Always for the ladies, always for the ladies out there. Back a part of the show, we made that toast for the fans that are no longer with us today.
Rest in peace.

You know, we do this prayer at the end and we don't say it in jest.

Keep us in your prayers. Lord knows each and every one of us Individually and as a collective Need to be there Until the next time We bid you adieu Farewell Adios Arrivederci Hasta la vista Au revoir So long goodbye Our simple head now will suffice Ego Going to a show tonight Do a new heart Remember life is a series of moments and moments past.
So let's make this one last as if it's all we have. I hope the 800s and the 900s are even more lit than the 600s and the 700s.
Eight.

And lastly.

Lastly.

The baddies are insecure.

The stagnant women want to travel.

And the closed minded women want you to teach them things.

Grab you a Tylenol.

You might need it.