Episode 801 | "0-5 Zone"

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Speaker 1 Enjoy the show.

Speaker 1 Happy anniversary. Happy anniversary.
To each of you. Liji.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I made the applause a little louder. For 10 years, good to see everybody.

Speaker 1 Thank you guys for your contributions.

Speaker 1 Thank you guys for the effort shown.

Speaker 1 Thank you guys for the camaraderie.

Speaker 1 The solidarity that you've shown for however long each of you have been here around the clock, you got that applause going, man. Mic check, mic check, mic check.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Oh, thank you to y'all out there. Come on now.

Speaker 1 Best fans in the world and the worst fans in the world all in one room. All in one room.
All in one room. Keep the applause going for the best and worst fans in the whole wide world.
That's a fact.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Thank y'all for letting corporate know when I sleepwalk butt-ass naked to somebody's door.

Speaker 1 Thanks.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 I am mind-blown. And that's tough to do with the way that my mind is structured.

Speaker 1 We were talking about, I don't know, I wasn't even here for the talk. We saw my pod wives is Ian's wife on the network.
Technically, she is because Podwives, the show, new episode out now, huh? Huh?

Speaker 1 Analytics, huh?

Speaker 1 Analytics, lot of ladies, huh?

Speaker 1 Ian's wife is technically on the network, and

Speaker 1 they found her doppelganger on the Dave Chappelle show many, many, many years ago on that, what skit was that?

Speaker 1 Who knows black people? Who knows black people.

Speaker 1 That lady looks exactly like Ian's wife.

Speaker 1 I even told my girl. I was like, look, they found somebody who looks exactly like Jules.
I just texted to you. It is her.
It's just, what up?

Speaker 1 From what I haven't seen it,

Speaker 1 the consensus of the crew is that is her. I would have never said that.

Speaker 2 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?

Speaker 1 I was saying something like that.

Speaker 1 Like, Jules is, I don't even know how old Jules is, but

Speaker 1 I figured 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You're like, I can never really tell with him. Ian is saying that that was Julia, his wife.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 they're

Speaker 1 yeah oh

Speaker 1 you don't no y'all don't y'all crack a lot of jokes up here about niggas and they girls y'all don't think that

Speaker 1 i think that okay i cross all lines and limits i i don't believe that i'd be cracking on you i know not her at the expense

Speaker 1 no her

Speaker 1 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 creepy shit.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 I can see that. I can see that.
Oh, that's interesting. I can see that.
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 It's not personal to her. It's just.
No, it's not a personal shout out. I don't know her.
No, it's not personal at all. I don't like that.
I don't like that. No, it's not.

Speaker 1 You do know she watches as well. So she knows when you're cracking jokes about her or pertaining to her.
I don't crack jokes about her. Your dog.
Like, I don't know her.

Speaker 1 We can progress the conversation. What I'm saying is, everybody up here is stunting.

Speaker 1 I don't think it's right to crack jokes on nobody, girl, or wife. I agree.
If you've been together for more than five years,

Speaker 1 under five years, your bitch do some goofy shit, then

Speaker 1 we're going to talk about it.

Speaker 1 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 them.

Speaker 1 That nigga's sealed tight, though. Crack.
He He don't.

Speaker 1 You know the shit can go around your door. You can crash out over Montreal.

Speaker 1 Big freeze or whatever.

Speaker 1 Big freeze. That's our shit.
I crash out over mine. Yeah, what's up? Freeze, you know what I'm saying? What's up? You know the plastic shit you put around your door when it's cold? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You got all that shit. All of it.
A little sealing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No draft coming through. Yeah.
No, not a draft. Not even a fucking.

Speaker 1 I respect that freeze. Big freeze.
How y'all doing, man?

Speaker 1 What's up? What's up?

Speaker 1 It looks amazing, boy. So I wanna know how you feeling.
I'm feeling real good. I'm feeling real good.
You did it big with the balloons this time.

Speaker 1 Nigga, look like Pepe LaPille.

Speaker 1 Come on, man.

Speaker 1 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 Ish.

Speaker 1 No, he likes a good step and repeat now, though. That boy's 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.

Speaker 1 I'm feeling good. Wife, you woke up, made some eggs with spinach.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. Come on now.

Speaker 1 Eggs with some spinach in it, made some pork bacon, even though she don't eat pork. Yeah, yeah, excuse me.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Then I felt bad because the whole house was smelling like my wife about an hour after that shit smelled good.

Speaker 1 You felt bad? That shit smelled good. I ain't ice cube.
Cook the hog in the morning.

Speaker 1 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, Mitt Flip? Big Flip.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Give it up for yourself.

Speaker 1 You can definitely got tears about me.

Speaker 1 That's not true, though. You got like nine years and 10 months.
That's not true, though. No, your signing is going to take me to 20.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 I couldn't have done it. I couldn't have done it.
Look at free. Big freeze.
Fuck they talk about. Yes, sir.
Listen, man.

Speaker 1 I'm going to take a bean pot.

Speaker 1 Wanna fight a call with that, too?

Speaker 1 I'm gonna buy a couple of them shits

Speaker 1 in exchange for some art. Look like the price is right over there.
I'm selling art up in this place. Look at my man Freeze with the shoes on.
Yeah, that's right. My nigga Mark, fresh from a flight.

Speaker 1 Ain't even have time to stop home. Stopped at Shorthills for the people all over the world.
That's the expensive mall in Jersey. Stopped at the Shorthills.
Cop something real quick.

Speaker 1 Put the roly on, threw it in the sky, wave it side to side, keep your hairs high. I look like the poor version of you.

Speaker 1 You don't look poor. Stop it.
Compared to what you got on, I look like we look like a before and after picture. You know, not really.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I see what you did. It's mad funny because the lady in the store was like, Do you want a bigger size? I said, This is the biggest size I've ever worn in my life.

Speaker 1 I'm like, MC hammer out this bitch. 34? 33.

Speaker 1 My guy, Parks, do on the long sleeve. Throw some color here.
The green polo. The green

Speaker 1 polo. The green polo.
That's dressed up for Parks. 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 bedtime.

Speaker 1 It's almost March. I ain't going home.
No, you can do Valentine's Day. I took it down about a week and a half ago.
Sick of. Wow.
I know. I know.
That's way longer than normal for me.

Speaker 1 If my Christmas tree, I think my girl's Christmas tree is still up. We've been together.
You can't talk about it.

Speaker 1 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 to that shit is still pine gotta be fake gotta be fake yeah gotta be a fake tree a shade pine spray yeah

Speaker 1 it gotta be yeah put the little sticks in there got flip mail looking good Hey, you know, 10 years.

Speaker 2 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?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 2 I thought that was like a crack, but it's okay.

Speaker 1 No, I wasn't trying to be funny. That was like my best instruction.
Okay. Because I feel like a dinner date at 9 p.m.
gives a different look than 6 p.m. Sure.
It does. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 And I didn't want to be caught saying that to a lady. Like, hey, get dressed like it's dinner at 10.

Speaker 1 Like, that's a little flagrant. So, 5-6 p.m.

Speaker 1 as a woman?

Speaker 2 Well, if it's after 10 p.m., I'm not going. It's too late.
Nine.

Speaker 1 The same.

Speaker 1 It's pretty much the same outfit, right? So we're going to start with lies.

Speaker 1 You're talking about happy already.

Speaker 1 Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on.

Speaker 1 Hold up for a minute. Let's give it up for lies.
We couldn't have gotten to 10 years.

Speaker 1 We could not have gotten to 10 years without some lies. That's a fact.
I ain't going to lie to you. Male.
You're right. Yeah.
All right. Yeah, Mel, not going.

Speaker 1 Ish.

Speaker 1 Good day, sir.

Speaker 1 Put some respect on my man's name.

Speaker 1 Here you go. When everybody knows your name,

Speaker 1 he ain't even give us a new that's that-ish sweatsuit colorway. This is no.

Speaker 1 I said a new that's that-ish colorway. I mean,

Speaker 1 Carolina Blue is dressy for light-skinned niggas with nice eyes from the 90s.

Speaker 1 You gotta talk to your uh your management.

Speaker 1 What, what happened? I didn't get the memo.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He might have a point, but I'm not ready to be that level of mature.

Speaker 1 Y'all think Ish should be in the group chat, even though he makes the bubble green? Yes,

Speaker 1 Ish has an iPhone. Now, also, does that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Ish, you got an iPhone from when you was a sports agent. I can't.
You was a sports agent? Oh,

Speaker 1 I just didn't know that. Yes, I just didn't know.
This was a sports agent.

Speaker 1 This is a business. So if it was a personal homies

Speaker 1 group chat, y'all could say that. When it's a group chat pertaining to work, I remember one time we was off.
I came to work.

Speaker 1 Y'all, y'all laughing.

Speaker 1 Nigga, I came here, drove my ass from home, got up early, came to work. Oh, yo, you ain't get the group chat? We off today.
You have an iPhone. I don't use that bullshit.
You use it now.

Speaker 1 It's a wide phone. I'm going to just open up the iPhone and carry two phones just in case I get a You did it when you was a sports agent and you was trying to get LeBron to LA

Speaker 1 and did yo

Speaker 1 get the commission that's that's when they fired him as soon as LeBron signed

Speaker 1 stupid dosha so again I didn't get the the 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 version of the talk we had off there.

Speaker 1 I cursed the niggas out because

Speaker 1 giving me that Joe voice was ish is a fat fuck.

Speaker 1 Joe, why do you keep saying I'm fat? Anyway, you're trying to trigger him.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, I don't trigger it. It ain't gonna work today.
Not today. Not today.
It's not gonna work. Nothing but positive vibes.
I won't trigger y'all.

Speaker 1 And anything y'all have done to trigger me and while we were away from here, I won't let it affect me today.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 well,

Speaker 1 that's the deal. Okay, 10 years.
No triggers on our anniversary.

Speaker 1 Save them for Friday.

Speaker 1 All right? All right. No triggers.
Deal. No triggers.
Deal, everyone.

Speaker 1 Is it a deal? I'll do my best. Yeah.
All right. We got a deal.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's going to be Mark because he don't be here for the Friday, so he gets to come in with that oblivious, hey.

Speaker 1 Hey, I was just, I saw the show.

Speaker 1 That's my favorite thing to do. Don't watch when you're not here.

Speaker 1 All right, I'm going to go get me a little water to celebrate.

Speaker 1 Could you throw me a water, dog? Listen, man, it's 10 years. Please, y'all.
We have to show solidarity.

Speaker 1 True. I don't even know.

Speaker 1 This left-handed nigga. I love y'all, man.

Speaker 1 Likewise. We came here.
Likewise. We had to turn this shit up for this nigga.
If it wasn't for us, this nigga wouldn't be. Oh, he's coming back.

Speaker 1 He wouldn't be as lit. He caught me privately and said, oh, how you going to say that? No more private.
We could get to that part.

Speaker 1 If it wasn't for us, he wouldn't be lit like that. That's true.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He'll be lit as Joe Budden, but we're talking about like

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 we added the

Speaker 1 tomato sauce to the spaghetti, nigga.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 He had the noodles.

Speaker 1 I missed those days.

Speaker 1 My niggas ice and ish came through when shit was turbulent and it was awesome because they didn't know a thing about podcasting or the business.

Speaker 1 It's like, yeah, come on for $500 a month. That's funny, huh?

Speaker 1 Give it up for that. Come on, man.

Speaker 1 Actually, now that I think about it,

Speaker 1 they didn't know shit. It was a minute.

Speaker 1 $250 for the month is pardoning slow. And I'm going to buy you an egg and cheese.

Speaker 1 I got you, Spunny. Oh, man.
Nah, make some noise for exploiting your friendship.

Speaker 1 Make some noise for exploiting your best friends.

Speaker 1 Turn the applause off. Rest in peace, Hobain.
Hovain, man. You fixed all that shit, man.
For freeze, at least.

Speaker 1 You fixed it up for freeze. Rest in peace, Hobane.
Rest in peace, bro. Rest in peace, Hobain.
I miss you. I love you.

Speaker 1 I know you see this fuckery going on down here. I'll talk to you.

Speaker 1 I'll talk to you. I mean, all right.

Speaker 1 Flipping mail, hold up now.

Speaker 1 Hold up now.

Speaker 2 We have been here for over two years and we have no drop.

Speaker 1 But we do it live every time. It's like a okay.

Speaker 2 So why don't we record that and just make it?

Speaker 1 It's more important if we do it live. You was gonna drop, but

Speaker 1 actually, you gotta drop. You gotta drop.
You gotta drop.

Speaker 1 You said it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you made your own drop. Okay.
Like, we didn't ask for a drop. Okay.
Somebody said, I want to drop. You know, I'm down with Mel, man.
We should have a drop by now.

Speaker 1 What you want your drop to be, Flip?

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Big Flip, right? The rapper Duke of Texas. Law of Flip.
Little Texas. Flip.
He's Big Flip, though. Yeah, you Big Flip.
I think we should get dropped. I agree.
So Mel wants a drop and a billboard.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 2 I'm off the billboard thing. You made your point.
I agree. It's fine, but a little drop.

Speaker 1 But the drop. Oopiq? Oobeq? Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, we'll put it in the suggestion box. Put it in the suggestion.

Speaker 1 Big Mel and Flip came.

Speaker 1 When these niggas start to flatline out, make some noise.

Speaker 1 Make some noise, huh? Hey. Huh?

Speaker 1 These niggas start coming in here on some bullshit. Melon flip came, picked it up here, make some noise.

Speaker 1 How did y'all feel when that happened? Personally, I didn't give a shit. My check ain't changed.

Speaker 1 It's supportive.

Speaker 1 Yeah, supportive.

Speaker 2 Very supportive.

Speaker 1 Flip flip is something that I would never be when it terms to the

Speaker 1 watch. Watch your mouth on our anniversary.

Speaker 1 That's not an insult. That's an outfit of energy.
That's not an insult. That ain't a diss.

Speaker 1 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.
I mean, it was.

Speaker 1 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. That's not the same thing.

Speaker 1 They were extremely welcoming.

Speaker 1 He said that.

Speaker 1 I heard you say it in another episode. Yeah, I said that.
They were extremely welcoming. Extremely.
They engaged. I fuck with them for that, man.
You know, some people, they didn't give any bad face.

Speaker 1 I gave bad face. Like, when you first came, I'm like, oh, yeah, you was trash this nigga.
And when Big Mark came, when Flippin' Mel started to flame out, get a little whack.

Speaker 1 Once Flippin' Mail got a little, yeah, I mean, Big Mark Mark came through it

Speaker 1 Talk about it

Speaker 1 Come on now

Speaker 1 What a day What a day none of this possible without my higher power up there

Speaker 1 God I love you I mean we have a great day today so happy to be here big parks huh

Speaker 1 Parks had fuck the dress code, but it's cool. That's still Parks

Speaker 1 in the group chat and by the time I remembered it was like it's too late. Fuck it.
I'm wearing color. This is different.
Fuck it.

Speaker 1 That's a tux. I mean, I've worn tuxes up here before.

Speaker 1 That's true. Absolutely has.
That is true. I would have put it on if I would have known.
That is true. I believe it.

Speaker 1 No, we don't. I believe you're a little bit of a sit back.
You would have done that. I love that.
That's why I ain't even saying nothing, Big Peasy, man. All right, man.

Speaker 1 What y'all ready to talk about today? Y'all ready to talk? I'm ready to talk. I'm ready to talk.

Speaker 1 I'm ready to fucking get some lies off, man. I'm ready to lie about some shit.
Joe, can I thank you for something? And this actually goes into your group chat point.

Speaker 1 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 it out to everybody.

Speaker 1 And y'all all said, fuck that guy. Yeah,

Speaker 1 every last one of them. I was in desperate time.

Speaker 1 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 those spots like that. Well, you said New York too.
I said New York, too.

Speaker 1 But you said preferably Jersey. Yeah, preferably Jersey.
You said it.

Speaker 1 You're the king of New Jersey. Where are you right? You You ain't answered.
Who? You don't want to go where I would be at.

Speaker 1 You can't go there. I hung out with Freeze on Valentine's Day after Valentine's Day in Jersey.
Yeah. You can't even pull up on him.
I meant to come eat up with y'all, but I was in bed to sleep.

Speaker 1 It's all good.

Speaker 1 We had a blast. We sure did.
Well, the spot you took, I ended up going to Caviar.

Speaker 1 And thank you, Mel, for the suggestions as well. I just couldn't get in.
I couldn't get into the spots Mel suggested, but Caviar was dope. They were really nice.
The show loved. Food was

Speaker 1 accommodating, live music. Intimate, like I said, right? It was everything you saw.
So they had live music in the night. They had live music in that.

Speaker 1 She killed it too. The sister killed it.
And then at the end, the brothers were nice. And I mentioned I knew you, and they were real excited.
They told me your whole meal. Name dropped.
At the end,

Speaker 1 at the end, I didn't.

Speaker 1 I think this.

Speaker 1 They were comfortable. They took pictures with me as me on TV.
Yeah, talk to me.

Speaker 1 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 ordered the brunch.
He orders the pork bacon.

Speaker 1 He orders the this to that. It was going to all the shit you ordered.
It was hype. Yeah, it was a great experience.
Thank you, Joe, for being a good friend and colleague. Anytime.
Anytime.

Speaker 1 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, I ordered the grip shrimp and bread.

Speaker 1 I see them 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 blind information.

Speaker 1 I'm glad you pulled with her.

Speaker 1 You don't like that? I don't.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But wait, but they do that unprompted. I don't name drop Ish.

Speaker 1 That's the difference.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You should have. No.
No. From Homeboy that told me you dipped off on him for the house materials.
You should have bought them. Yo, that is kind of real.
I told you the same shit happened to me.

Speaker 1 Every time I'd be in Jersey, niggas be like, Ish took my girl. Itch did this.

Speaker 1 Nah, for real.

Speaker 1 Am I lying? That tried. I was in a barbershop, dude.
Was like, Ish stole my fucking girl, man. The whole Jersey has an ish story.

Speaker 1 Marcus lies. Yo, you pod? Yo,

Speaker 1 stop hanging around him, yo.

Speaker 1 Stop hanging around him. Yo, you poding on a pod? Yeah.
Yeah. Yo, don't pod on no pod.
It's crazy, son, but it's cool.

Speaker 1 He's still mad. I never let him cut my hair again.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 Oh!

Speaker 1 Abubakon. Yo, yo.
Abubaca, not. Alex.

Speaker 1 That's your dress clothes? Come on, man. My man, Alex, up in this field.

Speaker 1 I see you with the swanson on. Alex,

Speaker 1 anywhere I'm at in the world, you welcome, my brother. Anywhere I'm mad, you could come, nigga.
The fuck they talking about? Ain't no 10 years without Alex, man. Let me get a round of applause.

Speaker 1 That's a factual. Me and a round of applause for Screen Man up in his week.

Speaker 1 Hey, Alex,

Speaker 1 since Screen Man left, his business has gone down the toilet, and it's totally not factual. Total factual

Speaker 1 information.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's mad misinformation since you left.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's horrible. It's better.
It's a struggle. It's a struggle.
I just brought his iPad for one week. Facts.
I was told. He bought that iPad one week and then boogie.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna let him get his shit off. We told Ericsson, yo, help us out, look some shit up.
He was just like, get the fuck out of my face, nigga. It's like, all right, cool.

Speaker 1 So we're going to spread lies. I'm cool with spreading lies.
Yeah, fuck. And I got something today for you.

Speaker 1 And there's an audience for lies. Yeah.
It's an audience for lies.

Speaker 1 The precedent.

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 if I told y'all the truth, the price of this shit would change exponentially.

Speaker 1 The truth is good.

Speaker 1 It's some good truth.

Speaker 1 But you can't do that. It's too cheap to give you the truth, man.

Speaker 1 We ain't got nothing else we we need to say at the start. Do we, do we, do we? Anybody, anybody, anybody? Nah.
Let's get to it. Oh,

Speaker 1 nigga, let's get it. Salutation.
Yeah, all right, all right. Yeah, come on, man.
Joe Buddy.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Shut the tone. All right, God.

Speaker 1 Duffy with the banger. Duffy with us.

Speaker 1 Still on your blocker.

Speaker 1 Huh?

Speaker 1 Salutation.

Speaker 1 hear the Rock On shit. Hey, Rock On the shit.

Speaker 1 I don't want to hear the Rock on shit after this weekend. No more.

Speaker 1 Still on your block, nigga. It's the same set every week, nigga.

Speaker 1 That's hate. That's hate.
That's hate.

Speaker 1 That was Hate. That was Hayes.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Rock Online.

Speaker 1 Big jersey, big cherry. Man, we digging it harder.
Okay, dog, I live in the car. Take your time with it.

Speaker 1 Jump off that nigga. Don't let me with it.

Speaker 1 The funny shit is, I think I'm only playing this because Rockon played it, though.

Speaker 1 Alright, damn, that's me. That shit all.

Speaker 1 On the low down

Speaker 1 book, it's about to go down, babies.

Speaker 1 If you focus, man, with your pleasure, with it if you won't stand? No.

Speaker 1 Get focused, man, cause we're the bookty or over, man. We're doing us.

Speaker 1 If you focus, man, would you please rock with it if you won't stand? No.

Speaker 1 Sing the track down, Paul. Stop playing, man.
Bring it back, bring it back, drink it back.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Alright, shout out to all the doorboys and the door girls out there.

Speaker 1 Shout out to all the gangbangers and the gangbangats out there. If you with me, throw the diamond up one time.
Ladies, if you with me, everybody that's contributed over the court, don't be scared.

Speaker 1 You scared, motherfucker, keep it real with me. Keep it real with the fuck they gon' say to me.
Got the clap. Yeah, I mean, stay with me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean. Don't play with me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 Stay with me. Don't lose me, y'all.

Speaker 1 Please don't confuse me with dog. I'm different.
And dog is them.

Speaker 1 All of them. The kennel.
The fucking field.

Speaker 1 Don't confuse me with none of them. Don't confuse me with dog.
I'm different.

Speaker 1 I bought it back for a living. 30 feet old on a bitch back like Pippin.
All over the world, imagine when you asked me.

Speaker 1 South Carolina, I couldn't go here without it.

Speaker 1 What up, what up? Before Mr. Ness did it, I was moving first, they could be your good.

Speaker 1 If you with me, throw the diamond up one time.

Speaker 1 Ladies, if you win us,

Speaker 1 homie, don't be scared to grab it from behind and make a show out. Hub outside, I'll hop outside.

Speaker 1 If you win us, throw the diamond at one time.

Speaker 1 Don't be scared to grab it from behind and make a show. I'll hop outside.

Speaker 1 Such a glorious occasion. Let me get some Raphael to deep break with.
Nigga, hey.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? All the happy couples listening out there, all the miserable couples out there.

Speaker 1 Couldn't have done it without you, couldn't have done it without you. First thing I'll do is run out of the routine.
All the postal workers, the teachers out there.

Speaker 1 Everybody at a corporate job, everybody in the cubicle, shout out to the execs out there.

Speaker 1 The entrepreneurs, the nine-to-fivers, and all that. It's our anniversary.

Speaker 1 Hey.

Speaker 1 Shout out to all the high schoolers out there.

Speaker 1 Shout out to all the pods out there, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah, everybody in the car right now. Fuck y'all talking about?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm smoothed out, smoothed out, nigga.

Speaker 1 Don't pleasure so much, cause we have seen good times. Positive vibes, positive affirmation.
We have a real good day today.

Speaker 1 We have a really good day today.

Speaker 1 What else?

Speaker 1 At the end of of the day, Rob Fiesta Dick Sneak was fucking white bitches.

Speaker 1 Victoria's Secret giveaway. They only sell certain sizes.

Speaker 1 They only sell certain sizes and they wasn't putting black girls on commercials. I remember.

Speaker 1 Y'all remember.

Speaker 1 I remember. It was tough to fuck a big titty black girl back then.
Finding a Fredericks?

Speaker 1 It was tough to find a Fredericks. Being a young nigga, it's a whole Fredericks.

Speaker 1 For real. Yo, shut up.
Told a nigga Fredericks. Man, I'm 24.

Speaker 1 Where's that at? Anniversary.

Speaker 1 Hey!

Speaker 1 I really want to say my barley.

Speaker 1 Today is a special day.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Mom Duke. Everybody, parents that listen to this shit, man.

Speaker 1 All right, we can start, man.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 One question.

Speaker 1 What's up? Just one question for y'all. Let's hear it.

Speaker 1 Do you know what to take?

Speaker 1 All right, man. Let me give some round of applause for the best crew in the entire universe.

Speaker 1 So happy to be here with y'all today. Mike check, mic, check.
Let me make sure the levels, the levels, the levels is good.

Speaker 1 I mean, I pulled out a lint brush for you bastards today.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? Niggas can't never find a lint brush without that girl. Thank you, baby.
Baby, where the limp brush at? Facts.

Speaker 1 They know right where it is. Linty bitches.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Welcome to episode 801

Speaker 1 to the haters.

Speaker 1 I'm not stopping anytime soon. Holest applause for the best podcast in the world doing a monologue real quick.

Speaker 1 To the hate listeners out there,

Speaker 1 I know every month you get a nice little AdSense check with your theories and your hypotheses.

Speaker 1 This is not stopping anytime soon.

Speaker 1 We are far removed

Speaker 1 from that dark Edgewater afternoon where I looked Corey dead in his face and asked him,

Speaker 1 nigga, how the fuck long you think I'm gonna do this shit for free?

Speaker 1 He ain't had nothing to say. I don't know, nigga.

Speaker 1 Hey, I said, oh boy, I ain't gonna 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?

Speaker 1 There was no ecosystem.

Speaker 1 It was no big company throwing a bag around. Different era.
It was nobody to come save the day.

Speaker 1 It was just you,

Speaker 1 a mic,

Speaker 1 passion, and faith.

Speaker 1 I know a lot of you niggas are faking passion and faith today.

Speaker 1 But for those that really have it, it'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.

Speaker 1 Come on, man. Shout out to Ian.
I know he's white. I know it's Black History Month.
Gotta shout out, Ian.

Speaker 1 Every time I think the money ran out, he go find another way.

Speaker 1 He go find another bag.

Speaker 1 And I look him in his face and be like, ain't nobody gonna pay us for that. They do it.

Speaker 1 They do it.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Ian, man. Shout out to Keith, Erickson, Tanner, Savon, all the behind the scenes people, Big Paul.

Speaker 1 And that was Chris Reed, the cameraman that I was talking about back in the day. Shout out to Chris Reed, my guy.

Speaker 1 I looked at Ian like he had 10 hands when he said, Hey, we should film this. Like, who the fuck is spending money on that?

Speaker 1 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.
$250 a week. Wow.

Speaker 1 Don't sound like much now. No,

Speaker 1 no, no, no, no, $250 a week to pay for a visual component where you only getting 75 cents back?

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 1 Different days.

Speaker 1 Very different. Different days, man.

Speaker 1 If you keep your head in it long enough, the days will change, man.

Speaker 1 If you just keep going,

Speaker 1 you're not wrong, though. You got to get something, though.
Just keep walking. You're not wrong.

Speaker 1 Just keep walking. Get to California.

Speaker 1 Hey, you got to keep going, man. Hey, extend the journey.

Speaker 1 amen

Speaker 1 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 projects let's get a round of clause projects man

Speaker 1 absolutely

Speaker 1 Products. 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.

Speaker 1 Didn't see it, not a think piece in sight.

Speaker 1 Facts. That's a fact.
There wasn't a think piece in sight. Facts.

Speaker 1 The only black podcast to have a

Speaker 1 podcaster, to have a commercial in the Super Bowl, nobody did a deep dive.

Speaker 1 I don't understand how they picked the deep dives to do. Yeah, you do.
Yes, you do. You know exactly how you do it.
Hating the blood. I do.
I do.

Speaker 1 It's hating the blood.

Speaker 1 It's hating the blood. Go on the hugs.
Go prize picks, man. Couldn't have done it without y'all.

Speaker 1 I am your humble, gracious, grateful, highly favored, and fully dressed co-host, dressed in leather fucking pants. Come on round to applause.
Hold up now.

Speaker 1 Huh?

Speaker 1 When he put the leather pants on, he means business.

Speaker 1 Real leather, too, I think. Right.
I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know.
How much they call?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 How do they make you feel?

Speaker 1 Sweaty. Rich.

Speaker 1 Sweaty and rich. No, these shits is actually pretty comfortable.

Speaker 1 What's the line?

Speaker 1 What's the what? Lining.

Speaker 1 Ish. Don't ask me.
I'm trying. I ain't trying to be funny.
I don't know, nigga.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I gotta play because they're feeling good out there. You know what the Stephanie? Everybody that's feeling good out there.
Stupid, yo.

Speaker 1 Hey.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 just real quick, and then we get to it. Y'all figure out wherever we start.
We can start wherever the fuck y'all want. I don't care today.
That's how I'm on it.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 1 The Nightwinger. Oh, man.
That was nice. What? That was nice.
If you keep playing, I won't feel like Bart no more.

Speaker 1 All right. Big Melissa Ford is in the building.

Speaker 1 Queens Flip is in the building.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Big, big parks is here. Elmira's finest.
Ian is here. Poe is here.
Corey is here. Big Alex.

Speaker 1 I'm about to say.

Speaker 1 See, that's why y'all fired me.

Speaker 1 That right there is exactly how Savon got fired.

Speaker 1 Traffic and flats.

Speaker 1 You got triple-A?

Speaker 1 Three Africans. Yo, 10-year anniversary.

Speaker 1 That's an underrated joke right there. That was crazy.

Speaker 1 Yo, yo.

Speaker 1 That's my view. Yo, yo, yo, I'm live on air.
I'm live on air. What's poppin'?

Speaker 1 Oh, shit. What up, boy? You alright? Skein dollar, my God.
Dollar. It's my 10-year anniversary, Skein.
I'm on these niggas' asses. Dollar.

Speaker 1 And I couldn't have done it without you or your wife, actually. I love you.
I love Gabby. I love your entire family.
I don't know what you're calling me about, but you have to tell me later.

Speaker 1 Yeah, nah, call me later.

Speaker 1 Flip there, tell that nigga I said what up. Yeah, flip there.
What's up, dollar? I love you, nigga. Yeah, we love you, man.
All right, we go. I love you.
Yeah, back to what we was talking about.

Speaker 1 What was we saying?

Speaker 1 Nothing. Nothing.

Speaker 1 Nothing at all. You got your intro off, you know what I'm saying? Introduce everyone.
Y'all got, listen, I'll ISO for y'all to get some shit off to to the haters or the lovers out there.

Speaker 1 I'll ISO for y'all. It's 10 years, man.
We here, man. He's talking to some other real estate nigga.
Nigga, nigga, don't step on my shit for this nigga.

Speaker 1 Yo, we standing straight. We here, nigga.
Something,

Speaker 1 trying to count us out, nigga.

Speaker 1 You can't count us out, nigga. Yeah, huh? Big ice, nigga.
We a team, huh?

Speaker 1 Fuck, you talking about big ish, nigga, library, for real, nigga. Yeah, huh? M-Big, legend, for real, nigga.
Joe, jump off, nigga. Well, we ain't gonna call them out sometimes, nigga.

Speaker 1 They can't play with us. Nigga, Piggity Parks, 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.

Speaker 1 We can't say the C part, but he said at the UN. We saved that nigga.
But we've seen him, nigga.

Speaker 1 He's going to up here, nigga. We don't need them, white niggas.
We don't need him. He don't need the UN, nigga.
He up here with us. The greatest nigga.
Yeah, you got US.

Speaker 1 Why you need the UN? You got US. Yes, you got US, nigga.
I mean, US. But y'all got Africans too in the building, nigga.
Africa, nigga.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. Allison, nigga, what up? I see y'all niggas.
I don't know y'all niggas. But I'll fuck with y'all niggas too, I take this place off the ground, nigga.
What the fuck you talking about, nigga?

Speaker 1 That my guy still got the tag. We don't pop no tag.
We need to tag on our shit now. Tag still, nigga.
Yeah, fuck they talk about that. And I'm not bringing it back.
Just in case.

Speaker 1 10 years.

Speaker 1 Big Corey, nigga. Yeah, Big Core.

Speaker 1 You don't know the story niggas in a Tahoe, nigga, 17 deeps.

Speaker 1 Now, we was in the Tyho like that Kendrick GNX at the fucking Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 merch. 37 niggas in there.
Oh, yeah, and merch. And merch.
And didn't sell it.

Speaker 1 That shit hurt.

Speaker 1 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 even think we brought the merch out the truck.

Speaker 1 We were organized. Yeah, no, it was a mess.
It was a total mess. But hey, but if you if you stay in it long enough, that's right.

Speaker 1 So of course you need a little bit of mess.

Speaker 1 There will be some mess. Nobody said it was going to be a clean sweep.
Actually, nobody said shit about how it would be.

Speaker 1 Just Nikki and Meek saying, you fail a failure ass nigga.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Your little podcast. Shout out to Nikki and Meek.
That's my girl, Nick. I remember that.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, no, that was a tough thing. Once they said that, all right.
It's got to work.

Speaker 1 It's like when you put all your chips to the poker table,

Speaker 1 your hand better win.

Speaker 1 I got an ace on the river. Oh, God damn.

Speaker 1 Thank God.

Speaker 1 Hey, now sometimes when I wake up, I'm relieved.

Speaker 1 There'll be a point in your journey where you don't get to be relieved.

Speaker 1 Shit is stress,

Speaker 1 gray hairs, arguments, sacrifices, gotta skip your family functions, no family reunion. You ain't seen your Aunt Deborah since she was 50.
She 90.

Speaker 1 She 90 now. Talking about it.
Sometimes you'll be booked for the funeral. Now you can't even kiss Aunt Deborah on the forehead.

Speaker 1 You just got to send a card with $20 for Aunt Deborah.

Speaker 1 You'll miss important things. But that's what the sacrifice is about.
I'm not here to preach to y'all. I'm not here to lecture y'all today.

Speaker 1 I'm just feeling good outside of ish, disobedient dress code, but I still feel good. I still feel good.
And that's my man. I can't help it.
And that's my girl. I can't help it.

Speaker 1 Where do you guys want to begin?

Speaker 1 I don't know what's important. I don't know what's unimportant.
Actually, I noticed that when my girl is here, I don't know nothing that happens in the world. Hard to keep up.

Speaker 2 That's nice.

Speaker 1 I don't know anything that happens in the world.

Speaker 1 That's your Valentine's Day.

Speaker 1 What did you do? Went to bed.

Speaker 1 I went to bed. All right, you told you you were going to be able to do it.
I thought about stopping to see.

Speaker 1 Well, I told her I was working, right?

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 was jam-packed with couples in love dressed for the day.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Every place. Yep.

Speaker 1 So we went home,

Speaker 1 threw on some very scary people. Oh, no, it was very scary lovers.

Speaker 1 I didn't even know they had.

Speaker 1 I didn't even know they had that.

Speaker 1 We threw on very scary lovers and went to bed. And Saturday, we were supposed to go see Tank and Fantasia and Trey Songs in Atlantic City, but the weather was looking absolutely nuts.

Speaker 1 And my driver don't know how to drive fast when the roads are clear. So we skipped that.

Speaker 1 You know bad weather going on. So we skipped that.
Yeah, man.

Speaker 1 And that's that.

Speaker 1 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 senses.

Speaker 1 So here's five bags. It's your sight and your hearing.

Speaker 1 What is it? And you smell. Smell, touch, and scent.
So you smell and you touch and you scent. Okay.
Taste and taste.

Speaker 1 So she bought these shits out she bodied the the little 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

Speaker 1 for those wondering

Speaker 1 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 comfortable go ahead get it

Speaker 1 Hey, I ain't going.

Speaker 1 Hello.

Speaker 1 I ain't going to make it sound like I've had a thousand.

Speaker 1 In the event that I miss, go ahead and open up the drawer. More like baseball lovers.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So she got me a sex toy.

Speaker 1 I'm going to bring it here. It's a male sex toy? Yes.
A pocket push.

Speaker 1 What is that? It's like a, it's called a stroker. But it's.

Speaker 1 I think that might be what it is. What is that? Yeah.
The shit that turned. It turned into all that wild shit.
shit. You supposed to.
The shit that Shorty bought.

Speaker 1 Go get it. Go get it.
No, no, no. That's a pocket pussy.
That was a mold of her pussy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's different. I think he's talking about the guac walk shit.

Speaker 1 The guap walk. That's what they call it.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit. All right.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Not the rubber pussy reveal. All right.

Speaker 1 I got

Speaker 1 a lighter

Speaker 1 that you got to scan, and it plays a song that

Speaker 1 means something to you and your girl. I got a lighter.
Okay, okay. Nice.

Speaker 1 You got to scan a song. Nice, nice, nice, thoughtful show.
No, Allegra, find someone like you.

Speaker 1 That was the hearing. That's hearing.
Yeah, I guess. I guess.
A little sense of a little feeling too. He, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah.
Oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 I got some carved car air freshener of her.

Speaker 1 Her. Yeah, this is her.
Straight out the ice bag. Hey, huh? I got some carved air freshener of her.

Speaker 1 Put your car, you know, that's called it. Doesn't smell like her perfume, but you know what? You know what that's for? Let the bitches know.
Yep, let the bitches know.

Speaker 1 He's taking

Speaker 1 it. All right.
I got a really nice t-shirt from Zara. Guess what's on it?

Speaker 1 Guess what's on it?

Speaker 1 Her. Her.
And tits.

Speaker 1 It's her. Yeah.
I got to cover it up.

Speaker 1 It's her.

Speaker 1 I got a t-shirt with her.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I got

Speaker 1 whatever this is.

Speaker 1 The guap guap.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. That's it.
It turns.

Speaker 1 Turn and do all that other wild shit. That's it.
Now,

Speaker 1 I'm from the old school. Yo.
So I like. I'm not a Fifi.
I like to masturbate with my hands.

Speaker 1 So I laughed her out of the room when this little device came out. I did laugh her out there.
And then you turned it on, right?

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 I tried.

Speaker 1 I don't even know. Uh-oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 It's humming? Yeah, it's vibrating. Oh,

Speaker 1 oh, shit. Let me go.

Speaker 1 Let me go. Uh-oh.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 18 speeds like the old bicycle, nigga.

Speaker 1 18 speed. Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 before y'all judge,

Speaker 1 I'm gonna try this thing. Yeah, no judgment.
No judgment, bro. But it's still gone.
My girl got me one of those. I'd fuck it.
Why wouldn't you? This is just like a new age Fifi, right?

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Modern tech.

Speaker 1 I am going to try this thing.

Speaker 1 So I'll be back with my. Pretty glad you didn't bring down a used

Speaker 1 pocket pussy. That would have been weird.

Speaker 1 No, Parks. I've never used this thing.
That would have been weird. So, yeah.
Shout out to Shouts.

Speaker 1 That's my Valentine's Day. Got some freaky shit that I ain't used yet because I'm fucking fat.
But yeah.

Speaker 1 That was it. That's not a bad one.
Mel, did you do anything on Valentine's Day? That was it, man.

Speaker 2 I went on a date.

Speaker 1 It was cool. On Friday night? Mm-hmm.
Oh, nice.

Speaker 2 Mm-hmm. What did you think? It was going to be Saturday?

Speaker 1 Well, because you had said the Saturday thing before, so that didn't be so. Yeah, no.

Speaker 2 It was on Friday night.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I went straight from the pod.

Speaker 1 That's how you dressed.

Speaker 1 That's how you dress like that. It was really nice.

Speaker 1 It was really, really nice. Got to

Speaker 2 check a restaurant off my bucket list.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 Old Michelin star little situation.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. It was a good time.
Classy. Yeah, it was a nice time.
Was it a first date?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but I've known him for a minute. First date on Valentine's Day is a big one.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I would never do that.

Speaker 2 Okay, it's not he wasn't a stranger.

Speaker 1 That's that's the point.

Speaker 2 Fair enough. Is that he wasn't a stranger?

Speaker 1 It just sends us a hell of a signal. Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 I'm not worried about the signal it sends.

Speaker 1 What if that's the signal he wanted to send?

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 1 a better man than me.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Not

Speaker 1 about you, just in general. Like, that's just something.
You just put a lot of pressure on yourself when you make a major date on Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 Well, he works in the high-pressure situations, so I think he's used to it.

Speaker 1 High-pressure situations? Mm-hmm. It's like an interrogation.

Speaker 1 I like to probe my colleagues.

Speaker 1 Hey, yo. I don't think I cleaned anything up.

Speaker 1 That sounded totally different in my head than it did when I said it out loud.

Speaker 1 I don't want to probe y'all. I'm moving on.

Speaker 1 What you did for Valentine's Day Freeze? Well, how we skip like two people. What you do her?

Speaker 1 Let's go to you.

Speaker 1 What you do, go ahead. We work our way around the room.
What you did?

Speaker 1 I didn't do anything for Valentine's Day. I don't celebrate Valentine's Day.
That's not true.

Speaker 1 I got my wife a gift. There you go.
Shout out to J.R. 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.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I saw their comments, too about free Linky. Can I free my body?

Speaker 1 I didn't like that.

Speaker 1 I went on Patreon, 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 a conversation and just had some laughs.

Speaker 1 She appreciated the gifts. Was she happy with her Valentine's Day? She was.
She was. I bought a just some.

Speaker 1 The car, right? Fly shit. No, flowers.
I bought this Montclair hat. She's been one of these.
She don't know about the car yet.

Speaker 1 She don't know about the car yet.

Speaker 1 Some comments? I bought her this perfume.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just bought her some stuff, man. Yeah, you go.
That's good. That's what's up.
Dad just stepped up. That's right.

Speaker 1 I stepped up because, you know, you know, yeah.

Speaker 1 Does Joe put pressure on you? No, because it's important to step up. Sometimes, you know, when we're just busy and you know, things, I don't celebrate Valentine's Day.

Speaker 1 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, oh.

Speaker 1 There's flowers for Mel. And don't act like I ain't put no pressure on nobody.
I went in, Chanel, and sat in the nigger chair that's on the side.

Speaker 1 I went in, Chanel, let her run her mouth to somebody about whatever, and went and sat right down.

Speaker 1 Yeah, gotcha. I mean, you're rich, you don't have pressures.
Um,

Speaker 1 Ish, what did you do for Valentine's Day, bro? Nothing in the crib, right? In the house, she knows what it is: black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.

Speaker 1 I ain't got no blazer.

Speaker 1 Joe, leave them alone.

Speaker 1 That's gone to us.

Speaker 1 It'll be back again.

Speaker 1 All right, so this shit do nothing. Freeze?

Speaker 1 We went out, we had reservations.

Speaker 1 Nice freeze. Where did y'all go? You kept it a secret before.
Nah, nah, honestly. So it was a new restaurant.
I'd never been there before.

Speaker 1 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 a home. So by the time I get home, then we get ready.
Now I'm running late. So

Speaker 1 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 and counted down there and met us. And we shut that shit down.

Speaker 1 Facts.

Speaker 1 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 everybody.

Speaker 1 His name is Freeze. No, we did it.
His name is Freeze. I see.
All right.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was Valentine's weekend.
But when I'm like, yo, I'm telling you, when I get married, I'm not doing none of this shit. Smart.
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 I'm married.

Speaker 1 We're married. We don't got to celebrate Valentine's Day.

Speaker 1 Now, Savon, the Don just walked in this room.

Speaker 1 Nigga, looking like a nigga looking like a little bit of a bigger need to know boys.

Speaker 1 That nigga getting that money.

Speaker 1 That's that money right there. And that's a nice little jacket.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 We shouldn't have done it with that. That ain't no bad jacket either.

Speaker 1 That's a funny thing.

Speaker 1 What is that? Velvet?

Speaker 1 The need to know more.

Speaker 1 They ain't even buy the cheating joint.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He went to the store and got the ace. He was like...
He came back with the ace of hearts? He said,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Sayvon, thank you, man. We couldn't have got to this 10-year mark without you.

Speaker 1 Even though you're doing your own thing, you're still family, you're still gang, and this shit will fall apart without you. So it's like without a moment.

Speaker 1 You're supposed to buy two bottles. It's like 15 people.

Speaker 1 Who? We got to kill her. Oh.

Speaker 1 Don't ever play. You bought the cheap one.
Don't.

Speaker 1 This ain't the cheapest one. This ain't the cheapest either.

Speaker 1 I know. No, that shit ain't not at all.
All right, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah, come on, you got it. You can touch it.

Speaker 1 You know, I want to open it.

Speaker 1 No, not you have to.

Speaker 1 One thing you won't do yet is open this. We have just begun.
We'll get there. That's fine.

Speaker 2 It needs to be chilled anyway.

Speaker 1 There you go. We'll chill it.
Yeah, we'll chill it for you. For a couple hours.
Chill, yeah.

Speaker 1 We'll chill it, and then you chill. We'll chill both of y'all.

Speaker 1 Where was we at? We was on freeze, right? Yeah, yeah, now I'm done. That was it.
That was the three-day Valentine's weekend.

Speaker 1 Big mark. You already know what I did.

Speaker 1 I did that Friday, called it a wrap. I went to Philly on Saturday.

Speaker 1 I was gone. Hey, dog.
I'm not going to lie to you.

Speaker 1 I don't think I could get a five-minute conversation with this nigga. Yo, I'm in the airport running.

Speaker 1 I'm like, yo, dog. Mark, right? That nigga was.
He called me this morning. Was like, yo, I'm coming straight from an appearance.

Speaker 2 It's Black History Month.

Speaker 1 This is his biggest moment. It's a reparations month.

Speaker 1 I didn't know what that meant for him business was. Yeah, that nigga told me where to get per.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I'll be dumb. When that slows down when it's not Black History Month,

Speaker 1 when I split up, it'll 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.

Speaker 1 Blue Miss History Month is March 12th. What about nothing for Juneteenth?

Speaker 1 Yo, that's the new joint. Because, you know, that's some new shit.
Yeah, now, oh, Juneteenth, I'll be booked up.

Speaker 1 Shout out to you. I'm about to get on my pro-black shit.
It's a blessing, man.

Speaker 1 Come on, Bob. Well, it's good that you know you haven't been on that.

Speaker 1 It's good that you know that that's like a new door that you open.

Speaker 1 And no, you're not.

Speaker 1 And no, you're not. Yeah, I'm probably not.

Speaker 1 Where would y'all like to begin today's all-star weekend? We the parks. Let me ask my brother Parks.
What did you do?

Speaker 1 I said earlier, we went to East and then we met Freeze and Miss in Peace.

Speaker 1 Cool little spot. Yeah, it was great.
Actually,

Speaker 1 it was way nicer than I expected. I don't know what I expected.
Because you said a small spot. It ain't really small compared to New York's small.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 1 That's what I was thinking. I didn't know Parks had never been there.
You're not as big. Real DJ? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Very good DJ. Yeah, great music.
And then we left there and went to Last Lap, met Amani, had a little more fun, and then got home about five in the morning. She's nice.
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 Last Lap's still around, huh? Yeah. That shit's still kicking.
Sure is.

Speaker 1 Where that's at?

Speaker 1 Lower inside. In the dirty part of Manhattan.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 A hipster girl? Yeah, don't just be hipsters. Not in there.
Yeah. It'd be thugs.
Y'all would know. I wouldn't know.
I'm just

Speaker 1 off. I've been there for the time.

Speaker 1 We had a time, though. We had a time.
I'm good.

Speaker 1 I'm glad you and Raymond. Great weekend.
Glad you and Raymond had a good time. Yeah, man.
All right. All-star weekend, yes.
Is that our start? It could be. It could be.
I mean, worst one ever. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was pretty bad. Did anybody watch? I watched the dunk contest and three-point contest, and I was actually...

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Homeboy from the Spurs and McClone from the Blackboard.

Speaker 1 Stephen Castle. Yeah, they went crazy.
Didn't you pick him? He's nice enough to be in the dunk contest. No, I picked McClone.
He should have got more points for that dunk. He did where he was.

Speaker 1 He definitely should have went through the rim and then did the through the left. That was insane.
I just said it was great.

Speaker 1 Stephen Castle was nice enough for us to stop referring to him as the guy from the homeboy from the Spurs.

Speaker 1 He's all right. Yeah, he's nice.
He's all right. Shout out to him.
Shout out to McClong.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Yo, All-Star Saturday night used to be the shit. That was the one.
You might have missed the Friday games, the celebrity game.

Speaker 1 It used to be the Rising Stars Challenge, all of that shit. But Saturday night, you was locked.
You was in the house. I didn't give a fuck about none of this shit.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And we was getting ready to bust a move somewhere around nine, but I watch up until I leave. And what a cluster fuck.
Yeah. What a cluster fuck.

Speaker 1 45-minute intros. Right.

Speaker 1 I'm really glad I missed it. I watched the SNL shit, which was great.
I heard that was that one.

Speaker 1 I got a Scottish. Eddie Murphy slides.
Eddie Murphy was on, right? Eddie Murphy was on. Everybody was on.

Speaker 1 Everybody from the whole fucking history of the cast, pretty much, was on. And they did like a music thing on Friday night, which we went back and watched.
That was also actually pretty fire.

Speaker 1 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.
Know the one person I don't want to see?

Speaker 1 I already know that. Dalton Connect.

Speaker 1 Yo, I tweeted. I say, oh, shit, they moved the Rising Stars game to Sunday.
They modified the whole

Speaker 1 tournament shit.

Speaker 1 They modified everything.

Speaker 1 And somehow Dalton Schneck

Speaker 1 was on an all-star floor. And I like him.

Speaker 1 But him and all them other bum niggas that they had out there

Speaker 1 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? Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 And they tried to make it close a little bit. Once I saw the tournament layout shit, I was like, I'm not definitely not watching this.
I'm not even looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 And if the tournament layout wasn't bad enough,

Speaker 1 listen, I love Kevin Hart as much as the next man.

Speaker 1 I know he has some type of deal with the NBA.

Speaker 1 It's over now.

Speaker 1 I don't want to see Kevin Hart, and some of that shit was a little funny just because I wasn't watching basketball.

Speaker 1 Fuck, might as well make a crack a couple jokes. I don't want to hear Kevin Hart that much on a Sunday, Kev.
No disrespect to you.

Speaker 1 And if that wasn't enough, right after the first game or something like that,

Speaker 1 Mr. Beast comes out.

Speaker 1 Why the fuck am I looking at Mr. Beef? Mr.
Beast.

Speaker 1 What shit were you watching?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Mr. Beast doesn't have lips.
He looked 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.

Speaker 1 And if that wasn't bad enough, Mr. Beast walks to the crowd and gets Jaron.

Speaker 1 What's Jaron? Jaron. Oh, Jaron.
Oh. He says, all right, we're doing some three-point shit.
We're going to grab a random fan from the audience.

Speaker 1 He'll have to make one shot versus Dame Lillard, who will have to make three shots to his one. They go to the audience, grabs Jaron.
Jaron comes out. They ask him, Hey, you ever played basketball?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Bricks it up. We got to wait 13 minutes now for Jaron to make a fucking shot on a Sunday.
Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 It was bad. And if that wasn't bad enough,

Speaker 1 during the next break, who do they roll out? You guessed it. Another nigga, I can't.
Let me not say that. DJ Cassidy.

Speaker 1 You're so angry about this.

Speaker 1 I'm angry for Ish.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Spit all over it. Put Mad Flem, germs.
And it took it for the team, too. Like a song.

Speaker 1 They just got spit on by some niggas.

Speaker 1 They're talking about some icebergs just spit that way. No.

Speaker 1 Hey, a three-hour episode.

Speaker 1 DJ Cassidy spit all over ish. But took it for the team.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 with DJ Cassidy. I'm cool just seeing too short.

Speaker 1 Yo, Too Short gonna 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 stetsasonic fucking uh choreographed there.

Speaker 1 I don't need to see it. I don't need to see it.
Just give me E40, yo. I feel that.

Speaker 1 Just give me, tell me when to go.

Speaker 1 I don't care. Y'all quiet.
That's how I feel.

Speaker 1 I wasn't mad at it because he also bought Sweetie out. So,

Speaker 1 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 again.

Speaker 1 I was cool at that point.

Speaker 1 Y'all love that Sweetie. Yes.
And everywhere she shows up, she does look good. So let me not be sounding.

Speaker 1 Let me not try to sound like she don't look good.

Speaker 1 I forgot you rap.

Speaker 1 Me too. I didn't know she ever did.

Speaker 1 I said, oh, shit, she did do the little blow-the-whistle blade. All right, tap in.
Hey.

Speaker 1 Guess what? I don't want to see an all-star Sunday.

Speaker 1 Just ain't guess.

Speaker 1 Sweetie. Sweetie.

Speaker 1 Who he brought out after that? Wait, who was after Sweetie? In Vogue. In Vogue.
Now, I wasn't mad at Invogue. I love Invogue.
I wasn't that mad at Invogue. Well, I see you.
You know what?

Speaker 1 The Bay Area got

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 when In Vogue came out, I absolutely loved that. I couldn't figure out if Dawn was there.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 I know there was the Dawn Involved. 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.

Speaker 1 Oh, then awesome. Awesome.
You got all of them back in the same room. I was happy about Invogue.
I was happy about Invogue. Nice, nice.

Speaker 1 Nigga, if you could be happy about Sweetie, I could be happy about Instagram. Oh, no, for sure.
For sure. For sure.
They ain't had a dress as well.

Speaker 1 I'd like Invogue's music. I know, me too.
Ooh.

Speaker 1 What the fuck is up with that? What the hell is that?

Speaker 1 Remember, she held the long note at the beginning of the first joy. Hold on.
Yes. Yeah, yeah, that was my imitation of that.
Did they have a dress?

Speaker 1 I can't do it now. I can't do it.
Yeah, they looked great. They looked great.
Shout out to Invogue. Who else? It was a lot of bullshit.
It was a lot of bullshit. On that Sunday All-Star weekend.

Speaker 1 Then the first time out of the game, I do like the Inside the NBA tribute that they did. That was fire.

Speaker 1 But.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I think that was fly. I just hate that the best, like you just said, like the best part of the all-star weekend wasn't the all-star.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that was the best thing I saw.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And instead of like making the players just play, you know what I mean? They do all these other tricks.

Speaker 1 Drafting players and players.

Speaker 1 What happened? No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 To me, raise the amount. Go ahead.
What happened, it was so lopsided after a while where the West was just so stacked.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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're trying to win a championship.

Speaker 1 You're not worried about it. But you put real money on it.
If every player won even a million dollars, right?

Speaker 1 If every single player won a million dollars, I think players would play a lot harder. To win.
I'm talking about to win.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 just remember the the day.

Speaker 1 They 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.

Speaker 1 That would also make people play hard. Really?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Unless you want to 10 bump teams, they ain't got no shot at the finals anyway.
But like, there's enough players, like for the Knicks, for example, that's a good example.

Speaker 1 Y'all got two guys on there. Y'all have a legitimate shot

Speaker 1 going to the finals.

Speaker 1 So Kat and Jalen are going to play hard. You know what I mean? LeBron is going to play hard

Speaker 1 if he had played. Like, I think it's a great idea.

Speaker 1 That ain't a bad idea. You got to incentivize it in some way, shape, or form for them to even want to play.
There was barely any basketball played.

Speaker 1 They showed us players aggravated, frustrated from all of 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.

Speaker 1 We've cooled off, we've cooled off, and then you risk an injury. Yeah, you know what I mean? Now,

Speaker 1 what I did see that I think will help to change things is Victor Wimbinano.

Speaker 1 He wanted to play. Who not only wanted to play, was visibly upset at other people not playing.
Yep. Yes.

Speaker 1 He's great enough and young enough to make a difference in this. What'd you think about him and Chris Paul doing that shit? Trying to cheat the system skills challenge.
That shit was funny.

Speaker 1 I liked it. I did too.

Speaker 1 I liked it. That joke 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.
Yes, I would say that too if I was.

Speaker 1 It doesn't smell like Chris Paul.

Speaker 1 Come on, man. Like, just do the

Speaker 1 skills challenge. The fans came to see a skills challenge, not to watch you try to win by throwing shots, pretending to throw shots against the wall.
Throw the skills challenge in the garbage. Agreed.

Speaker 1 That shit was over that fly. And give us a one-on-one matchup with

Speaker 1 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 caught. Exactly.
They're not doing that. That's it.

Speaker 1 They're never doing that. But that's the answer.
One-on-one is the one. I'd say get rid of the Slam Dunk contest at this point.
The shit is uninteresting. No, I think.

Speaker 1 We've seen all the dunks we can see. I think next year it'll be better.
I don't. Why? Why? Because

Speaker 1 people like Zach Levine and them are talking about potentially coming back. Jack Levine is 78 years old, man.
Oh, and I saw what Ja Morant said. Cha, he said that a couple of times.

Speaker 1 Yo, Mac 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. Right.
Mac McClung is getting you inspired.

Speaker 1 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 dunking.

Speaker 1 They don't care about dunks no more. Right.

Speaker 1 It's not a highlight anymore. They don't give a fuck.
Nah, I think the dunk contest lost its luster when these niggas started doing corny shit.

Speaker 1 There's nothing left to do. Nah, some of these shit.
Bro, that's not true.

Speaker 1 If you watch some of these,

Speaker 1 yeah, if you watch some of these,

Speaker 1 these street dunking niggas, they're killing it. They be doing crazy shit.

Speaker 1 Dude,

Speaker 1 don't do that shit. So it's some shit that you can find to do.

Speaker 1 Drop the hoop two feet.

Speaker 1 They're not going to do that. I'm just saying, like, you put it up two feet.

Speaker 1 Now, that's a movie. That's 11 feet, maybe.
That might get some interest.

Speaker 1 And I heard them float an idea

Speaker 1 of the NBA versus the foreign players in the NBA. They don't want that either.

Speaker 1 I don't. Lead them internationally.
The international players will beat them. So that will be Women Yana, Joker,

Speaker 1 Dreak Freak, Luca. Luca, Shy, and Embiid.
MB, well, he'll be in the game. He ain't gonna play.
He's gonna be in there. He'll be injured.
That's the only game he does play.

Speaker 1 Carl Anthony Towns would be on that team. That's a lot of joy, bro.
Leave that alone. Yeah, don't bark up that tree.
That's going to be a real

Speaker 1 weakening for the NBA. It's a test.

Speaker 1 And listen, you don't even have to do that every year. Do it every other year.

Speaker 1 That would fix things. We would want to see that.
Because Shai was another one that took the game really seriously. He took it seriously? Yeah.
He took the game seriously. He wanted the MVP.

Speaker 1 That nigga wanted the MVP. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That nigga put the ball in the bucket, bro. I don't give a fuck.

Speaker 1 He He got moved in the elevator. That nigga gets.
Oh, he's a problem. He probably gonna win MVP of the league this year.
I don't think he deserves it, but he probably get it.

Speaker 1 I think I still want Jokic to get it. The MBH is ain't black enough no more.
Nah.

Speaker 1 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. Victor Women Yama don't count.

Speaker 1 I want a nigga without parents. I want somebody who.
I'm serious.

Speaker 1 Single mom, single mind.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah.
From the trenches. But you can't.

Speaker 1 Whoever's in charge, whoever there Jesse Collins is, that's in charge of producing this, you could tell

Speaker 1 it's not like us.

Speaker 1 You could tell that, you know what, let me not say that, because let me not just rush to race and background.

Speaker 1 The NBA is an analytics-driven lead now. Yes.

Speaker 1 So you could see that they're applying that also to content creation

Speaker 1 and they're leaning to that.

Speaker 1 more so than curation. I agree.

Speaker 1 And the other thing is it's not curated do it properly dano international now bro like china all this other like the nba don't it america might not be the big market it was they're not necessarily got to cater to what we want to see now i think it's a three-day weekend right whereas most 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.

Speaker 1 So you got to come up with all these little

Speaker 1 leagues do that shit, too.

Speaker 1 Baseball has the home run derby on the night.

Speaker 1 They do. You know what I mean? Pro Bowl is not, um, they do the little quarterbacks.
Pro Bowl is all that. Pro Bowl is down in the drains, too.
It is down in drains. All that shit is trash.

Speaker 1 So, you got to hold all that shit is trash. You got to enter.
Thank God the fucking Canada and USA hockey teams got shit lit for me. They got shit shaky.
Thank God that they went out there.

Speaker 1 Them brothers, whoever those brothers were,

Speaker 1 where the one brother scraped, bomb, bomb, bong, bomb, bomb. Ten minutes later, the other one, bong, bong, bong.
Oh, yeah, I'm watching this. I'm watching this now.

Speaker 1 And that game that they play, the next game, it won't be a ratings problem at all.

Speaker 1 Won't be a ratings problem at all. That's what you need.
Bring Chris Childs back.

Speaker 1 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 the best.
Rest in peace, Kobe.

Speaker 1 You see what Chris Chowder did. The gold.
Test that 10. Bow.

Speaker 1 We'll watch that one. Hey, put Gervante Tank Davis in

Speaker 1 the skills contest.

Speaker 1 Call me. I'll Jesse Collins this shit right back to where it needs to be.
But yeah, and you know, I know it's bad. I ain't been in a while.

Speaker 1 I don't even hear the baddies talking about going out.

Speaker 1 It was out there now. You got the call?

Speaker 1 Now it's time out. I did.

Speaker 1 Baddies are in San Francisco

Speaker 1 period. The New Yorkers was high.
They went out there.

Speaker 1 The Scarletts was out there.

Speaker 1 I'm going to batter than that now.

Speaker 1 But okay.

Speaker 1 I'm taking your word for it. Yeah, I'm not looking for it.
It's already something at it.

Speaker 1 No, they, they, they. 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.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Those are the good old days.
It was. Back in the day.
You old, nigga. You could put a shot up or two.

Speaker 1 Four, three.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He did.

Speaker 1 Adam Silver, I think you got a shit show on your hands.

Speaker 1 I think that there's some credence to to the inside the NBA team only shitting on the product. There was a lot of that too during the all-star game.

Speaker 1 A lot of commentators just totally shitting on the product. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 There's something to that.

Speaker 1 I mean, I like that he told the truth. He did.
He did.

Speaker 1 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, not make you want to turn it off. I agree.

Speaker 1 Sorry. I think that's a bad job.
I think you can have whatever personal feeling you have, but you're supposed supposed to be selling the product. You're working for the NBA.

Speaker 1 At that level, I think you're supposed to try and jazz it up as much as possible.

Speaker 1 I absolutely love the Rafael Sadiq performance. I love the job that the band did.
I loved all of those Bay Area classics and hits that they were playing.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 in San Francisco?

Speaker 1 He might have pitched it. I'm sure he probably did.
They might have pitched it, yo.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That alive in it up. Put the fucking baggy sequence pants on, nigga.

Speaker 1 That definitely would have been. 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 anymore. They done knew when the song came off.

Speaker 1 They knew the song, though. 25.
They done done known when the song came out oh the kids don't know my daughter

Speaker 2 met in hammer was like who the is that you think the average you think the average go are new in vogue but that's what i'm saying is 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 in the city now so i figure they would know the retro shit they would know the song too they would know

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Wait, you can't touch this. Can't touch this is used in commercials.
They still have kid touches on TV.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Shit, fuck, you can't touch this.
Let him do pumps in the bump and put the bikini on again and go out there like he did, like he did in the video. You gotta bring shorty for the video.

Speaker 1 Video number one. Your first one that we want.

Speaker 1 Hey.

Speaker 1 Freak ass boy.

Speaker 1 Listen, Adam Silva, you got a hell of a problem on your hands, but I'm not paid to fix it.

Speaker 1 Keep it simple. Good luck.
That'll be my advice. Good luck to you and the players.
I feel your frustration.

Speaker 1 I just.

Speaker 1 I feel for them now. Simplify that shit, yo.
Doing too much.

Speaker 1 How could I be alive long enough to wear the all-star week and just don't do it? I never would have thought that would happen.

Speaker 1 Money, bro. NBA All-Star Week.
It's money, bro.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 The best all-star game in the history of all-star games, watching them niggas get away from him.

Speaker 1 Right, you think they don't play defense now?

Speaker 1 Hey, my guy Magic was posting out that nigga Barkley said, You got it.

Speaker 1 No, no, that was Carmelo. Carmalo said, Nah, just score.
We were in a 0-5 zone.

Speaker 1 Bring Magic back.

Speaker 1 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.
I was there in D.C. That shit was amazing.

Speaker 1 That was the best one I've been to. Like, as far as the game,

Speaker 1 but again, you talking about

Speaker 1 a while, you went? Yeah, he was there. That money for a long time.
You talking about Kobe. You talking about Steph.
You talking about AI. Them niggas was going at it.
They wanted to win.

Speaker 1 They jumped the shit out of Kobe.

Speaker 1 AI and Steph was all jumped the dog shit up. 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.

Speaker 1 Too much money. It is, bro.
I don't think that's it. I think these guys are passionate, but whatever.

Speaker 1 That shit was a mess.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's March 1st, I want to say. March 1st.
Okay, say less. Let me check and see what that Sunday is.
I'm about to get get a shit.

Speaker 1 It is March 1st.

Speaker 1 March 1st. I'm going to go to the bathroom.
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.

Speaker 1 Let's see if the opposite effect will

Speaker 1 occur.

Speaker 1 They're going to show up.

Speaker 1 Saturday, March 1st.

Speaker 1 We all go to the gym. What time? Play some taps.
Taps.

Speaker 1 Yo. play some 21 or something ass out playing taps yeah but hey

Speaker 1 me too but hey we'll film it we are out of shape we're gonna be all right

Speaker 1 huh we want uh flip to referee and flip a referee all right what's what time are we doing this keep

Speaker 1 what time do we have the gym till

Speaker 1 come on come on out and say i can't hear through the door 5 to 10 5 p.m to 10 p.m or we go later if you want 5 p.m to 10 p.m

Speaker 1 let's go keep you better hit the treadmill now you gonna play I'm playing. I'm out there, though.
Do something for some cardio.

Speaker 1 Horse

Speaker 1 around the world. Old ass nigga.
We can do horsing around the world. We can do all of them.
Yeah, as long as I ain't got a horse. We can do all of them.

Speaker 1 We can even play. I'm just letting it.
Let's do rise and shine. That's the easiest thing.
Game go to one. You know what I mean? Whoever gets the 21st win.
That way it's a series of one-on-one.

Speaker 1 I just said 20.

Speaker 1 No, but you're not always going to be in the shot.

Speaker 1 We do 11 in Jersey. What the fuck are you talking about? School for Rise and Shine? Okay, King of the Hill, whatever.
And we call that knockout in Jersey. Okay, nigga.
Y'all would. 20.

Speaker 1 That nigga said 20. We're not doing.
We're not. I'm not doing it.
11, 10.

Speaker 1 Yeah, 11.

Speaker 1 I said shit. Give you a little 30-size 32-shitches.

Speaker 1 You just talk about two-pointers. Yo.
What? What happened? No, I don't say head all-star weekend, right? What? I saw a spades tournament out there. They had one up here when it was in New York.

Speaker 1 Saw D-Wade. We did it.
D-Wade together, right? Yeah. D-Wade.
D-Wade already. I'm just telling you what I saw.
D-Wade know about it. I made the championship, man.

Speaker 1 My sources said that you were in a spades tournament and cheated. Oh, shit.
Mark, get new sources.

Speaker 1 I'm not even joking. If your sources told you that, I'm not sure.
What spade tournament? Let me see.

Speaker 1 There's no spade tournament in the world where Joe Button cheated.

Speaker 1 How do you cheat anyway? I'm just really like that.

Speaker 1 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.

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Speaker 1 Yo, what kind of of gene suit is that? That shit is kind of.

Speaker 1 First, don't look so surprised.

Speaker 1 No, I'm saying, I've been hunting for a gene suit. I can't find one.
Oh, this is a theory. Not a blazer.
That's what it is.

Speaker 1 That's why. You've been hunting for a gene suit.
Yeah. Not a blazer.
What kind of gene suit is that? A theory. Theory.

Speaker 1 On a low?

Speaker 1 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, I'm talking about the fire. Theory is shot.
That's fire, nigga. Theory invents

Speaker 1 like some fire cheap shoes.

Speaker 1 Theory and Vince. Theory's not cheap.

Speaker 2 Theory's not cheap.

Speaker 1 Don't stop it.

Speaker 1 Why are you always doing that? That word is relative.

Speaker 2 Theory's not expressed.

Speaker 1 That word is relative. It ain't cheap, nigga.
It's not cheap. It's nice.
I enjoy theory and Vince.

Speaker 1 And Vince Staples balls. I can't fit none of that shit.
Yo, I'll be.

Speaker 1 You was looking for a jean suit since the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 That's so cool. Right? I'm lying.

Speaker 1 I've been looking for it. It's been a whole week.

Speaker 1 I can't find that shit. I can't find shit.

Speaker 1 Kendrick got him one to change his drip up. You see it? Kendrick got him one to theory, my nigga.
Kendrick got a gene, all gene out. At the Grammys.

Speaker 1 But no, asshole.

Speaker 1 No, the Super Bowl. It was the Grammys.
Both. Oh.
Yeah, both. Yeah, Jeff Hamilton on at the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 Oh, well, he did have those fabulous boot cut jeans on, though, from Celine.

Speaker 1 And I think if you found a jean suit, I think it would look like that.

Speaker 2 You should absolutely get some boot cuts.

Speaker 1 I ain't gonna lie. I tried to freak shit up the other day and throw on a little jean shirt.

Speaker 1 I put it back.

Speaker 1 And it was one of them, one of them, what the fuck brims, Gi Vanchi or something that don't make it big.

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 1 I tried

Speaker 1 it. I tried on a little satin varsity jacket in theory.

Speaker 1 She'd be tight with me. Like, I'd be uncomfortable with some of that shit on.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, that's just because you just buy a size too small, though. No.
Yeah, you in good shape. They don't make you're in good shape.
Like, to wear shit, you just wear it. You just, you're sizing.

Speaker 1 I like tight.

Speaker 1 okay hey

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I'm not mad at that. That's solid work.
I think LeBron ain't played for the all-star game because he went to Adam Silver and asked for equity.

Speaker 1 I do the oldest all-star game. Yeah, yo, if this could be mine, I'll play.
I think that's what LeBron did. Rob Norman Pow of his first all-star appearance.
Lamello Ball was out there just celebrating.

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Speaker 1 All right, with that being said, what else we got? What's happening? What's happening out there? What else needs our attention? What else needs our focus right now? Does Kendrick need our focus, man?

Speaker 1 He just put up some big Spotify numbers, man. 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

Speaker 1 shit. And he broke that record.
He also, you know, you talked about all the first living male recording artist to have three albums in the top billboard.

Speaker 1 Top 10. Top 20.
Yeah, 20. Top 10.
Top 10. Top 10.
That's number one, number nine, and number 10. Gotcha.

Speaker 1 That's a stat. GNX went back up to number one.

Speaker 1 Damn made it to number nine. And Good Kid Max City is number 10.

Speaker 1 God damn it. That's super cool.

Speaker 1 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.
Oh, yeah, it worked. It worked.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 about something.

Speaker 1 There's not a day that passes where I don't get something wrong. I wish you guys could see all of them, all the men.

Speaker 1 Y'all seem to get a real thrill out of that one. It was tight, bro.
Do ain't go in there and go in about. Y'all ain't going in there and killed y'all that he was wrong about the settlers.

Speaker 1 What do you say?

Speaker 1 Nigga was wrong. I was wrong.
That's it. Oops.

Speaker 1 Got one bad.

Speaker 1 Fuck. Darn it.
Congratulations to Kendrick. Yeah.
The entire TDE.

Speaker 1 Entire PG Lang. The entire PGE.
Yeah, the entire PG Lang. Say that shit.

Speaker 1 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'm starting to feel it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm starting to feel it.

Speaker 1 I see it. But, I mean,

Speaker 1 the West was ready for it.

Speaker 1 I don't know if Memphis is feeling like that. But I'm just talking about New York and Atlanta.

Speaker 1 We're doing free. Nah, nah.
I don't think so. Memphis art is still cooking.
That's what I said.

Speaker 1 I don't think Memphis is good. But I do see everybody else just getting getting tired of it.
It's like, all right, y'all got a moment. Act like you've been here before, type of shit.

Speaker 1 And the West Coast is not doing that.

Speaker 1 What do you think about act like you've been here before?

Speaker 1 It's their moment. Yeah, when they're in the middle of a moment like this,

Speaker 1 it's their moment, man.

Speaker 1 Shit is not dying down.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I get that. But the sentiment is, dog, y'all acting like y'all have never been

Speaker 1 here before. No, people like, no, people like that.
I don't have to keep reminding everybody, yo, we are, we are, but I don't know if they've ever been here before. 92? Yes, they were.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they were. They were.

Speaker 1 92, 92.

Speaker 1 Early 90s, 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 been so long.

Speaker 1 Like, a lot of the... Hip-hop didn't have the platforms that it has now.
There was no hip-hop in the Super Bowl. It's a different, it's different shit.
It's a different level. It's the same.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's big. in terms of hip-hop, but it's bigger, like being that hip-hop is bigger, it's bigger

Speaker 1 for a while. 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're not.

Speaker 1 That's not what the, I don't think that's what the phrase is about. Right.
It's like, have some class. That's in the middle.
Yeah. Yeah, it just means you ain't got to be on a.

Speaker 1 Act like shit ain't shit is not new to you and that you 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?

Speaker 2 Like, how do you redo how do you celebrate in a classy manner? Like, I don't see what they've done that has been unclassy.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, talk to shit. That's what I'm saying.
Run the score up. Fuck it, because your mom ain't going to leave.
The record is still hot. And the shit that's going on is still going on.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 For a long time, it's like the East Coast. We are hip-hop and all that shit.
And we lend you guys the

Speaker 1 pass you guys the torch.

Speaker 1 So let them celebrate and have fun. They did not like us at the SNL shit.
Exactly. Only skip with Will Farrell Farrow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're not stopping. That's really what the problem is, 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 Farrell do that.

Speaker 1 That shit was funny. I mean,

Speaker 1 I got that level. I had a chuckle.
I had a chuckle. I just didn't want to see him do that.
It's at that level now.

Speaker 1 Are we gatekeepers?

Speaker 1 Yes. We are gatekeepers.
Yes. New York feels like because we started.
Started here, though. It's the we the end all be.
I've said this a million times.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That's dated thinking. I think they're still here, right? I mean, the labels are not off.
The labels are not still here. At one point, they were here.
They were. Right.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 get that national point. Yes.
Now, you would be regional, but if you didn't make it in New York, it was almost like you didn't really count. Exactly.
Yeah. Then that all changed.
That happened.

Speaker 1 So we had all that. We have that cache.

Speaker 1 But it's not that anymore.

Speaker 1 And a lot of New Yorkers still hang their hat on that.

Speaker 1 And a lot of people were like, hey, dog, we don't care about that old shit.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That's Young Money's doing.

Speaker 1 Young Money did that. Do y'all have any thoughts on the Wayne performance from the SNL shit? Anybody see it? I saw it.

Speaker 1 It was dope. The stream that I watched, his mic was not on.

Speaker 1 But they fixed it and the shit that's going around the internet. People say that.
It sounded good.

Speaker 1 I want to watch the whole thing. I didn't see it.
It sounded good.

Speaker 1 I'm going to vacuum them. I like any time a live band is behind a rapper with hits.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because the live band,

Speaker 1 they made it sound like Blue Note. They killed it.

Speaker 1 They made it sound just like a contemporary version. Like the unplugged.
But was he?

Speaker 1 Was he on point? Because I heard he was fire. Yeah, he was good.
He sounded the sharpest I ever heard.

Speaker 1 It's going to make some people had him Super Bowl crowded.

Speaker 1 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 the weekend. Me too.
Me too.

Speaker 1 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 there. I found some cuts on there that didn't hit me the first time.

Speaker 3 Girl, just lied. She makes me cry.
I can't be blamed for anything. I'm fine.

Speaker 1 Don't even call that bull super while you're around me.

Speaker 3 I thought it was good.

Speaker 1 Court documents are black teams, but I'm a lacking.

Speaker 3 And I know I told Party I'ma give him a verse. But then I heard what he said and said, Fuck features.

Speaker 3 Don't you think that's a bit weird considering the album name? Man, fuck that. I'm a rap out how my accent still hate on me.

Speaker 1 No way, that's an eternal issue.

Speaker 3 It's something I'm a teacher on face. I had about 20 teams in the club, and right away they appropriate.

Speaker 1 That's a weird thing to have to clarify. Well, the beats ain't going my way.

Speaker 3 So I'm breaking those opinions up and give you something that you can sing.

Speaker 1 You can sing

Speaker 1 together. I do like singing.

Speaker 3 Everybody likes singing.

Speaker 1 I hate that girl because she hangs to my opps. I'ma name that girl, but none of my options

Speaker 3 that girl together. Cause it's a great song.

Speaker 1 So at the end of the day, we're gonna hate on a girl. Well, none of that was necessary.

Speaker 1 What in the fuck?

Speaker 1 That wasn't on my version.

Speaker 1 I need that version. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I need a deluxe.

Speaker 1 What the fuck, bro?

Speaker 1 Yo, that is hilarious.

Speaker 1 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.
Yep. Holy shit.

Speaker 1 Mark, you weren't here when we did the review. What did you think?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 The only song I like when he raps. So, you know, give me a hug.
I thought it was, you know, had some classic bars in it.

Speaker 1 Oh, interesting. The rest of it.

Speaker 1 Classic bars, huh? Couple, couple.

Speaker 1 Legendary bars. Look, I was just saying.
No, but in general, if I were giving it mics, I'd give it three.

Speaker 1 I'd give it three. T-Payne 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. Half-done shit since they

Speaker 1 finished.

Speaker 1 And it's like that sad. I'm also tired of Drake sounding like that.
I'm tired of that sound from him.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We were actually listening to a drive in

Speaker 1 to Edgewater. So it was our 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.

Speaker 1 It sounds like one long-ass, like, painful emo song. And that's what it felt like to me.
And I'm not going to hold you. I'm glad you said that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I want to let him know.

Speaker 1 I don't want to fuck to the album. It ain't much on there that I'm fucking to.
Yeah. It ain't a whole lot on there that that's the bag.
Yeah. For me.
I think you got Centeled with that, too.

Speaker 1 That post. Yeah.
Okay, maybe. It was a Cintel.
Maybe. But the principal shit.
Shout out to Centel too.

Speaker 1 That's my man. I'm cool with getting Centel.
Yeah, yeah. I like him.
I like it when it's funny. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah. Because the sentiment is still the same, though.
a lot of people are saying that yeah

Speaker 1 it's not yeah who y'all

Speaker 1 who are y'all fucking with that's yeah

Speaker 1 forget it um

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 yeah streams are dropping every day The streams are dropping and they drops a hard code, Vern. The streams are dropping and they lowered the price of the album to like $4.99.

Speaker 1 Shit, I'm not putting that on Drake, even though it does look away for Drake to be attached to something where you lower the price on the album. It is technically a party album.
Yeah, it's $7.99 on

Speaker 1 iTunes right now. Yeah, but them numbers drop every day.

Speaker 1 I heard y'all talking about how many numbers he's going to sell. Some people were saying $150, $2.50, $3,500, $4.50.
It's looking like if he hits $150, he'll be very lucky.

Speaker 1 I'm predicting, I was predicting like $110, and I'm not even sure he hits that now. My number was $120, and now just looking,

Speaker 1 we get a hundred, maybe. Damn,

Speaker 1 but my number's 120. I don't see it going nowhere near, nowhere higher than that.

Speaker 1 I'm doubling down with that one. If you're Drake and you sell 100,000 records of this,

Speaker 1 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 problem.
You explain shit. It's a party album.
Nothing to explain.

Speaker 1 It has nothing to do with me. Wow.
Right.

Speaker 1 One person. I want to play this clip of

Speaker 1 L.A. Reed talking about the mythical button that you hear talked about so much in the music industry.
The red button? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, that's some drake shit. I'm playing.
I'm playing this. But long before that,

Speaker 1 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.
Reed was on, shout out to L.A. Reed, legend.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Oh, got it. Singles, we put out a single.
Arista, our joint venture partners, put out a single, and it was doing okay. So I went to Clive Davis and I said, Clive,

Speaker 1 like, I need you to push the button on this thing, man. You know, he said, what's the button? I said, you know, like you did for Whitney Houston.
Like, I need you to push the button.

Speaker 1 And we were at a conference when I said this to him. He said, the button, huh?

Speaker 1 He says, sit right here.

Speaker 1 I sat down beside him, right? We were at a conference in,

Speaker 1 I forgot where we were. I thought we were in Florida.
I can't remember, maybe Miami or something.

Speaker 1 Anyway, Whitney Houston comes on stage and Whitney Houston sings.

Speaker 1 And he looks at me and he said, That's the button. That's the button.

Speaker 1 He said, No.

Speaker 1 He said,

Speaker 1 Do they sound like that?

Speaker 1 Shit.

Speaker 1 And I was like,

Speaker 1 oh, so what you're telling me is my shit is not hot. Oh.

Speaker 1 But I thought, I really did think, like, you know, record labels, they take talent,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Sit down right here, young man. Let me teach you something.

Speaker 1 And then I saw it. I was like, oh.

Speaker 1 I completely disagree.

Speaker 1 I don't know if I'll, it's a great story, but there's a button. L.A.
Reid's lying.

Speaker 1 I'm glad that y'all all picked up on the fact that L.A. Reed is lying.
But on the playback,

Speaker 1 I heard it differently.

Speaker 1 Like, I heard him say,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It doesn't work like that. I just thought this was a really nice way of getting out of that button conversation.

Speaker 1 But there is a button, though. Yeah.
There's a lot of bullshit that get a button pulled.

Speaker 2 A prime example of the button.

Speaker 1 Tommy Richmond.

Speaker 2 Millie Vanilli before all that.

Speaker 1 How is that? You know what people say that? Millie Vanilli sold records before that button was pressed. Yeah, and they made good music.
That was a great ass album. Them singing.
That was awful.

Speaker 1 No, but the person's a bad person.

Speaker 2 No, but that's what I'm talking about. The button is putting two people who were frauds to create a whole

Speaker 1 button we're talking about. That's not a button.

Speaker 1 Because the button still was good. The button is putting the power behind it.
Yes. Yes.
Tommy. Richmond.
Marketing dollars. Marketing dollars behind it.

Speaker 1 And after watching the Millie Vanilli doc, I don't think it's fair to call them frauds. Yeah, no.
Because they were talented.

Speaker 1 It just wasn't the talent that they were showing us them singing in America. But that's what I mean.
They were dancers, they were choreographers, they were dude. They were just like everybody else.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but they sung on their first album with it, sold records open air.

Speaker 1 And they had a look. They had all of those things that went into the little Terrence Trent Darby was popping back then.

Speaker 2 They had a look. But the singing that.

Speaker 1 We always.

Speaker 1 You know about all that shit.

Speaker 1 What? Some Terrence Trent.

Speaker 2 You guys know Terrence Trent Darby doesn't go by that name anymore.

Speaker 1 He's well, he's Terrence Trent. He's Terrence Trent Darby, though.
Mama name him Clay. I'm going to call him.

Speaker 1 His name might be Joseph Soise now. What's his new Terrence Trent Darby? What's his new name?

Speaker 2 Sananda.

Speaker 1 All right, we're done. You're done.
Okay. You're done.
Now shout out to you.

Speaker 1 Sananda Matriot. That's exactly why I didn't watch your movie this week.
It goes by.

Speaker 1 That's right. That's why I didn't watch your movie this week.
All the movies out? Yeah, it's out.

Speaker 1 Yes, I have to go to the middle. Make some noise of Big Man.
Let's go, man.

Speaker 1 I didn't watch it, so I don't have a review.

Speaker 1 I will have a review for you. I'm watching it with my lady tonight.
I'm watching it.

Speaker 1 So.

Speaker 1 Oh, you got to do that.

Speaker 1 What you think is going to happen, champ? She's dressed in the movie.

Speaker 1 All right, so

Speaker 1 everything's changed now.

Speaker 1 A lot of changes. I didn't hear what you said, though.
I didn't say anything.

Speaker 1 But seriously, I'm going to watch it. I DVR'd.
I was traveling and didn't have access to cable, but I want to watch it. I appreciate you DVRing.
Yeah, I DVR'd.

Speaker 1 I'm looking forward to watching it tonight. Okay.
Did you watch it?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 1 No, I mean, watch it. I know you were there for it.

Speaker 2 No, I watched it. I watched it with my girlfriend Nicole.

Speaker 1 Okay, what'd you think?

Speaker 2 I really liked it, actually. I was kind of surprised.
I was terrified what the editing was going to look like, but

Speaker 2 I was very happy with it. I was very happy with it.

Speaker 1 That's all that matters. All right, do you want us to come back with our review like you did last time?

Speaker 2 I don't think I have a fucking choice.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, review away. We'll respect you.
No, no, no. Review away.
Come on, Legend. You say say don't.
Come on, Legend.

Speaker 1 I'll watch it, but I just won't say nothing.

Speaker 2 I'm a still soldier. Like you did the last time.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm going to still say something.

Speaker 1 It's fine. It's okay.

Speaker 2 No, please go ahead.

Speaker 2 The floor will be yours when you guys see it and review it for me.

Speaker 1 Okay. You said Terrence Trendarby changed his name to what? Shaniel.
It's a whole woman. It's a whole woman.

Speaker 2 Sananda Matria.

Speaker 1 Show him. Show her look.
A shout out to Terrence Trendarby and Sananda. Everybody.
And Millie Vanilli. And Millie Vanilli.

Speaker 1 And watch that Millie Vanilli dock.

Speaker 1 It's one of the better music docks. 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.

Speaker 1 Like that dude in the South that was doing the background vocals for one of them. Because I was a big Millie Vanilli.
I love that album. I actually love that album.
And when I found out the

Speaker 1 all- Their first American album, Blame It on the Rainbow. Blame it on the Rain.
Yeah, I loved every shot. And everybody, actually, they didn't like that album.
They sold a lot of records for a reason.

Speaker 1 There were slaps.

Speaker 1 Slap absolutely. 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.

Speaker 1 But there was, it is interesting to think about what it means for the industry to put so much energy behind making this a thing.

Speaker 1 I don't think the button works. The button works, but it may not work these days.
Meaning.

Speaker 1 I think it's a little bit more. Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait.
Content creation has taken over.

Speaker 1 Soldier Boy, in the beginning of the ringtone days, when he cranked that, a button wasn't pushed behind that. Yes, you don't think these content creators are not.
No, not initially. Not initially.

Speaker 1 Content creators are under the button. Bobby Smurred a song, a button wasn't initially pushed behind that it happened after that when he re-recorded it.

Speaker 1 I just want to inform you because you my man you're conflating things. Please explain soldier boy popping off organically

Speaker 1 Bobby Smurda popping off organically

Speaker 1 is what incentivized them to push the button. I'm talking about the initial you can tell the difference when it's organic

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 Big. It was right there.
Big there. It was right there.
The song came out.

Speaker 1 It got legs. He gets to jail.
Now he's all super. He had two weeks of organicness.

Speaker 1 Yo, Adam Silver.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He barely know how to breathe while he rap.

Speaker 1 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 comes to performance.
Don't book him no more.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 They're not looking at that either. They're looking at the numbers.
Yeah, that's it. They got somebody that just sit in track analytics.

Speaker 1 It goes back and says, 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.

Speaker 1 Now, that is a great segue to that other L.A. Reed 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

Speaker 1 why the music industry may be lacking currently. Right, and

Speaker 1 I think you and I talked about it.

Speaker 1 How many important boutique labels do we have that are black? Because that's where the community is built from, right? Absolutely. You started at Blackground, right? Yep.
Right. A boutique.

Speaker 1 A boutique, right?

Speaker 1 And the artists I had started at La Face, and there was Uptown artists, and there was Death Row artists, there was Motown artists, there was Stacks artists and there were like and and they and that was where that was where black music was nurtured, curated and

Speaker 1 and and it wasn't no disrespect to anybody, but it wasn't so much

Speaker 1 us asking for permission

Speaker 1 Because people that looked like us were making those decisions. And look how different the industry looked then so the end so the moment we just talked about when we said

Speaker 1 Guy,

Speaker 1 and I'll be sure,

Speaker 1 and Keith Sweat, and Baby Face, and

Speaker 1 Heavy D and the Boys, and I can keep going on and on.

Speaker 1 Guys, those are black people making decisions about the music we heard on a national, international level.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He smoked that. 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.

Speaker 1 The artists are great, by the way. I love Chaperone.
I fucking thought Vincent Boone was incredible. I really did.
I love the artists, right? He was great. I really love Dolce, by the way, because

Speaker 1 she's great as well.

Speaker 1 But even that,

Speaker 1 that's the exception. Doche

Speaker 1 is also

Speaker 1 from a boutique. Thank you.
That's top dog, right? Yep.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Top dog.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Shout out to L.A. Reed.
I think he's

Speaker 1 a thousand percent.

Speaker 1 I think he's not a thousand percent because he said the decisions to be awake made by white men. I think the decisions are being made by green.
They looking at numbers. It's all just numbers now.

Speaker 1 That's all they care about. Now it's let's put these people here because they tracking

Speaker 1 okay because I'm telling y'all what I think

Speaker 1 the green is still being only looked at by white men as opposed to

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So yeah, the numbers are behind it, but the niggas that are able to put out the product is TDE.

Speaker 1 We see it all the time where Scissor is arguing and all of the artists are arguing because they're not dropping frequently enough.

Speaker 1 If the white man was controlling that, they'll be pushing them niggas out the door because it makes more revenue.

Speaker 1 Sometimes they make it obvious when a black person is involved in it at the pop-out show Kendrick's pop-out show being on Amazon I came in here and shouted out Tim Tim at Amazon salute salute salute friend of the show but Tim is a black man from Compton

Speaker 1 going in Amazon and saying hey y'all this look at this this is buzzing look at this it may only be buzzing here

Speaker 1 He also has a situation where, like I said, the show we talk about, the Kendrick show, the amazing show, is Amazon. Which show is that? What are you talking about? it? It's the Paris show.

Speaker 1 Kendrick already has a relationship where I'm doing my shows with Amazon. So now if I'm doing a pop-out show, yeah, I'm going to do it through Amazon.

Speaker 1 That don't necessarily mean that this person, Tim, says, yo, this is the right thing to do to stream it here. The situation.
He says, we got the stream.

Speaker 1 I'm not streaming rights, but we've got the situation over here. Let's work together.

Speaker 1 It could go like that. It don't go like that.
And that's what L.A. Reed is saying.
It could go like that. But that's not what ends up happening.
Even that Kanye, Kanye, whatever that shit was, that

Speaker 1 what was that Kanye?

Speaker 1 Who was that?

Speaker 1 Is that what that was? Yeah, who was that? Kanye Andre? I ain't talking about that. That's that J-Print shit.
I'm not talking about that. Because that was Amazon as well.

Speaker 1 Damn, my mind, I'm getting old. But even to Joe's point, we guessing and we are speculating, but the relationship with the dude Tim at Amazon might be the bridge.
It's Tim at Amazon.

Speaker 1 It's Larry at Apple.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So that's why shit look the way it look. And if you don't see it like that, I'm not trying to change your mind, but it is what it is.

Speaker 1 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 looking at analytics, we need to get her.
No.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 That's wrong. I disagree.

Speaker 1 This broadcast is too big. I can't let you say that.
I disagree. Please let me know.
Nobody nowhere looked at Doshi numbers and said, let's give her a story. She needs to be on the Grammys stage.

Speaker 1 That didn't happen. That didn't happen.
Dog. That did not.
First off, they had all the first, all the nominees for best new artists did a show, did a set. Yeah.
She was one of them.

Speaker 1 So it ain't like we didn't pick people. We just picked Dolchi.
She's one of the best new artist nominees because because she's been everywhere.

Speaker 1 They've 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.

Speaker 1 Yes, she's going to perform.

Speaker 1 I think Tice. You think that's the same thing.

Speaker 1 Hold up, Lila. Let me give this one.

Speaker 1 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 this speech, Homeboy.

Speaker 1 They gave his speech at the Grand East.

Speaker 1 We changed some things around. And while Jesse Collins normally puts the awards together, I'm positive that a black person somewhere had a hand in Doshi

Speaker 1 who didn't have a top 100 record,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But that happened. That was going to be a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 So do you think that her feature would have been a lot smaller if somebody blacks?

Speaker 1 If she got a feature.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, because Ice is right. Every single artist who was nominated for new artist had the shit.

Speaker 1 This year when it was corrective. And I don't know the numbers.

Speaker 1 There was a lot of corrective shit this year. There was a lot of corrective shit.
There was. So we don't know what the numbers were for those artists.
Even in it being corrective shit.

Speaker 1 It's them listening to black people saying, hey, you're getting this wrong.

Speaker 1 Or was it white people at the Grammys protesting saying, hey, this ain't going the way it's supposed to go? No, what I'm saying is,

Speaker 1 I'm solely speaking on the dochi point

Speaker 1 her being able to perform at the grammys

Speaker 1 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 is that true to do that no i just do that

Speaker 1 to do that you would be shortchanging her team Yeah, you would be shortchanging the people that fought every day for years before that Grammy appearance for that to happen.

Speaker 1 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. No, I asked her.

Speaker 1 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 getting highlighted to that magazine.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They look at this shit. But that's her.
But that's

Speaker 1 her boutique label. But that's her boutique label.

Speaker 1 I'm agreeing with that part. Because

Speaker 1 they did the work to get her where she needed to be seen. I was just saying that the Grammys.

Speaker 1 And I'm saying last year, the Grammys did the work. The Grammys, the year before last year, would have never allowed that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That changed this year, and I'm positive. Actually, I know for a fact, a black person had a hand in that.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1 I agree. He said it.

Speaker 1 And congratulations.

Speaker 1 To Dochi. Absolutely.
For sure. Absolutely.
He killed it. Well deserved.
I thought

Speaker 1 that. Like talent got to meet.

Speaker 1 Your talent and your hard work got to meet your team's hard work for sure. That got to meet timing and some white person understanding.
Say that again. Say that louder.
No, that's that's it.

Speaker 1 No, it's true. 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.

Speaker 1 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.
And that's what I'm saying. They might get an album.

Speaker 1 They might get an album

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 buttoned up the body.

Speaker 1 I don't think today the button ain't a button. I don't want to be a leverage.
That's what that was going to say. The button ain't there.
I'm not afraid of longevity no more. L.A.

Speaker 1 Reed, I loved your Whitney Houston point.

Speaker 1 Oh, my bad flip. I loved your Whitney Houston point.

Speaker 1 There is a button. Absolutely.
I begged you to push that button. I was buttoned.

Speaker 1 I went in L.A. Reed office for 52 weeks in a row with mid.

Speaker 1 Ain't talking a shit. Scrunched my face up when they played it on the bigs.
Damn,

Speaker 1 I did whatever I could to feel it. Feel this mid.

Speaker 1 Joe Button,

Speaker 1 get out. Go back out to your stoop with your cigarette.
Actually, we're dropping you now.

Speaker 1 We're dropping you now that I've heard the new slaps you're working on. This is why I feel.
Tad, I love him. Go ahead, Philip.
Even though times have changed, this is why I feel like A and R.

Speaker 1 A and Rs are important and they need to come back, even though times has changed. For the artist's development, I agree.
You know what I mean? There's no more artist development.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So that now they fall under the line of the one-hit wonders or you couldn't do this. And it leads to something

Speaker 1 bigger. Depression.
But that's

Speaker 1 later on. They don't care about that.
They just make the money off of you.

Speaker 1 Instant gratification. Profitability.
Yeah, profitability. So that's why I think A ⁇ Rs is important.
I'm going to spend less

Speaker 1 in a short amount of time. Exactly.
That's the formula now. Just the adjustment, I guess adjusting to the new formula is crazy.
I don't agree with it, but I get it. I just love hearing L.A.
Reed.

Speaker 1 Like I said, anytime a musical genius is talking somewhere, if you're into music, you should probably check it out.

Speaker 1 And read his memoir, by the way. If y'all didn't get checked, it's amazing.
The music stories, the back scenes, how LaFace was formed, how he got through to

Speaker 1 the last stage of his career. It's actually an amazing, amazing book if you want to really hear about L.A.
Reed's life. It's dope.
It's dope as hell. Nigga, Mark.

Speaker 1 I think that's the first book recommendation on the Joe Budden podcast.

Speaker 1 I'm joking. No, I'm about to say it.
It's told niggas to read some Malcolm Gladwell shit.

Speaker 1 What's somebody's name? What's my man's name? Malcolm Gladwell, yeah. Malcolm Gladwell.

Speaker 1 Outliers. Check it out.
I've recommended 77 books up here. Knock your shit off, bro.

Speaker 1 Ish with the books. It's the same as LeBron.

Speaker 1 The same as LeBron. Page one.
Yeah, he coming in with a book, carrying it, trying to be all educational.

Speaker 1 Yo, the hate just be oozing out the leather. But it comes with love.
This shit just oozing out the leather. It's cool.

Speaker 1 But it comes with love. It's cool.
We want to read books, man, but there's so so many words.

Speaker 1 Get an audio book. And then it gets blurry.
The words and sentences get blurred. And I got to start using my finger and shit.

Speaker 1 You can listen to audible. Huh? No.
Looks not in like an audiobook, yeah? Never. While you're in the car.
It depends on the voice and the audiobook. Sometimes it's funny.

Speaker 1 If I'm listening to that, I'm mad. I'm about cracking Superman.
In the car. It matters.
I'll listen if you book me to be the voice for your book. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 That's some artists. Look at somebody.
No, but you could look at, you would do great with voiceovers.

Speaker 2 I'm shocked you don't already do that.

Speaker 1 They don't pay no money. Voice work? No, book voiceovers.
Oh, okay, all right. Book voice work is great.
Voice work is great. Book voice work is voiceover.
I don't feel like doing my own books.

Speaker 1 They pay so little.

Speaker 1 It's very rarely worth it. You only do it for the reader.
But yo, but don't do that, yo.

Speaker 1 At one point, Ian was souping me up. He told me that he was going to try to pitch my voice for Waze,

Speaker 1 and we lost. It must be the Morgan Freeman and them niggas.

Speaker 1 Is James Earl Jones alive? No. No,

Speaker 1 rest in peace, James Earl Jones. He was another thorn in my voiceover side.
Yeah, they had him. I don't know if I want to hear you saying cops up there.
And now, what's my man name?

Speaker 1 The black president from 24. What's my man name? Dennis Haysbury.
Haysburg, yeah. Dennis Haysburg.
Man, that is really annoying that you know all of these people's names.

Speaker 1 Sorry.

Speaker 1 He's the all-state guy.

Speaker 1 The all-stay guy.

Speaker 1 He's another real guy. Yeah, way next L.

Speaker 1 You old as hell. You smell

Speaker 1 as shit.

Speaker 1 He's another thorn in my voiceover side, man. Hey, whenever the new young niggas get in there, I hope I'm still young enough to do it.
No, you gonna be the old nigga like them?

Speaker 1 No, I would be the young nigga in voiceover world. Yeah, but I'm saying, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
Some of these dudes got to let go of the position. Change the guard.

Speaker 1 Morgan Freeman and Morgan Freeman got to go. I'm dying.
I'm dying good.

Speaker 1 I cannot wait to be his chef for you. You could do Lion King Part 4.
Hey, let me make Morgan Freeman soup one day. No, nigga.
Stop. Can't say that, man.
I'll fix this. What's wrong with you?

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. Stop.
What Morgan Freeman. Hey, yo, Blink got wrong with you.

Speaker 1 What is wrong with you? What's your problem with? What more can Freeman like for lunch?

Speaker 1 What is wrong with this guy? Oh, I done found mad new ways to kill people. Watching this very scary people shit.

Speaker 1 Those niggas are creative.

Speaker 1 Yo, people don't realize how much work it takes to kill somebody.

Speaker 2 You know what? It's a fact.

Speaker 1 Because people don't think about killing people.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they do. No, that's not a lie.

Speaker 1 That part is a lie. That's a lie about this.
That part is not true. They don't think it through, but the thought crosses minds.

Speaker 1 Not putting it into action and implementing killing somebody.

Speaker 2 You've never had a fantasy about killing somebody. No, I don't.

Speaker 1 If ever, ever. Yes, you did.
No.

Speaker 1 I don't believe that. You never thought about shooting somebody?

Speaker 1 They got shot. It's like, nah, I'm playing, I'm playing.
I'm joking. I'm shooting.
I'm joining. I'm playing.
I'm planning. I'm playing.
I'm planning.

Speaker 1 Bow. Nah, not really.
Yes, you did.

Speaker 1 We all go through that yellow. I don't believe him.
I've never been shot. I think you lied.
But if I got shot,

Speaker 1 I could tell you my dream, what that my dream that night would be. Shooting a nigga back.
Oh, oh my god

Speaker 1 the whole clip oh my god Jesus reloads these dedicated ass killers be having the suitcase to fit the body right in the closet

Speaker 1 he 350 we need to upsize it them niggas be having the chainsaws

Speaker 1 the shit

Speaker 1 that is work crazy

Speaker 1 plastic wrap hey yo then at the end they showed a lady killer was the angel of death the angel of death she started killing bunch motherfuckers i started getting sexist sexist.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what's she about to do with the body?

Speaker 1 Let's see this bitch track. See you carry this one, nigga.
Oh, man, I'm horrible. Dedicated killers.
Oh, man. Oh, my lord.
And yo, a couple of years ago, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 There was a guy who dressed up as an asidic Jew, right?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They caught him in 2023. He was in T-Neck.
They caught him in T-Neck in his apartment. But even that, when I was watching that, I'm like, that was clever.

Speaker 1 The nigga was, the nigga just came home from prison.

Speaker 1 Nigga from Brooklyn came home from prison, and then he laid on him

Speaker 1 and killed him, dressed up as a Jew. And they caught him two years later.
I just Googled that shit. They caught him.
Yeah. Niggas used to wear the drag wigs.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Niggas used to wear the drag wigs. Pops and dressed up like a Muslim once.
A lot of them niggas, a lot of them OG niggas, man, they do that, man.

Speaker 1 Dressed up as an old lady pushing a shopper car.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they do that right there. The 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.

Speaker 1 He got caught trying to find his ops. Instead of running away, he went to go shoot.
He's like, I'm going to find my ops and shoot him again.

Speaker 1 They caught him with the hijab in the middle of 50, I think, 52nd Street. But yeah, it was crazy.

Speaker 1 Dedication is. That's the dedication.
And for the people that could not tell, I was totally joking about Morgan Freeman's lunch. Please say that.

Speaker 1 I was totally joking about Morgan Freeman's munchie. I would do it for dinner.

Speaker 1 And Joe said

Speaker 1 that way.

Speaker 1 And Joe said that he'll poison me for dinner. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What a man that is

Speaker 1 Fucking Morgan. They got to let go of the voiceovers, man.

Speaker 1 They really tried to get you on that Waze shit. No.

Speaker 1 Ain't nobody getting.

Speaker 1 I can see you doing movies.

Speaker 1 They had. I was not doing it.
No, Waze did it. Waze did it.
They had T-Payne do it.

Speaker 1 I think Snoop did it.

Speaker 1 I don't want none of y'all. I want to see Bikini for lunch.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. I hate to have to do it to my music.
But you got the voice for it, man. You just got to do it.
Not for Waze. Go to Disney, nigga.
Disney gives the bags up.

Speaker 2 Batman does fucking ways. So, Joe could do it.

Speaker 1 Joe could not do it. You said Batman?

Speaker 2 Batman does fucking ways.

Speaker 1 Do you want to hear Joe when you're driving down the hot turn? All right, nigga. Yo, yo.

Speaker 1 The boys is right up there, quarter mile.

Speaker 1 Watch your ass.

Speaker 1 Play with him if you want. He don't know the distance property.

Speaker 1 Play with them if you want. I would get off immediately.

Speaker 1 Exit 17. Now,

Speaker 1 my exit jokes. Now, nigga.
Get off now.

Speaker 1 Joe don't even laugh like that, so he thinks the quarter mile up is a little farther than you got you jammed up. He hasn't no directions in real life, so that would be.

Speaker 1 That's not gonna work. Geography is a turn suit.

Speaker 1 It's not gonna work. Yeah, they never told me when I was dropping out of school that my accountant would do all of that.

Speaker 1 They told me I would need the knowledge. They were wrong.

Speaker 1 Stop saying that.

Speaker 1 Stop playing. Joking is

Speaker 1 joking. What you gonna do when I go back to school? Then our competitive shit is over.

Speaker 1 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're gonna play for the government.
He's gonna go.

Speaker 1 You're gonna pay for the shit. No, he's still there.
No, but if you're gonna be able to do that.

Speaker 1 He gotta graduate before you.

Speaker 1 He's two credits away. The competition heat right back up if you go back.
When I go back to school, pay for your shit neither. You're a dubious.
Don't get no shit.

Speaker 1 You don't pay for your shit because you rich now. Don't get no honorary shit.
Like the artists get? Yeah, don't do that. We don't want that.
That shit is fly, too. And we want to see you right now.

Speaker 1 So then you got to get him niggas some money. They got to be the button gymnasium.

Speaker 1 Or the button. Oh, performing arts building.
Yeah. Oh, that's nice.
That's nice. B-Pack.

Speaker 1 And Albin Ailey. Yes.
B-PAC. There you go.
The B-PAC.

Speaker 1 B-PAC industry.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. Yo, what you saying, Phirton's up?

Speaker 1 My man. Yo.

Speaker 1 B-side.

Speaker 1 Yo, oh,

Speaker 1 that's funny. You be donating to colleges and shit like that, right? You be donating to organizations.
You still donate to that. You You'd donate to organizations.
I ain't never donated to nobody.

Speaker 1 You send it like in a checkbook or you just like zealot and shit. How you donate? It depends.

Speaker 1 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 interest?

Speaker 1 I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 1 Direct deposit? Oh, direct deposit.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. You can sign up through direct deposit and monthly that comes out of your account.

Speaker 1 Oh, so you know that and just still carry the checkbook.

Speaker 2 Yes, I do. Yes, I do.
And I donate to

Speaker 1 cause it. Mark, help your girl out with a checkbook.
Oh, you don't have to? I heard that last episode. You carry a checkbook because you said you like to be old school, right? I am.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I don't have it on me right now. But you donate to the niggas on Channel 11 at 2 o'clock in the morning with the stray dog.
Yeah, Lisa Evers and them. No, with the stray dogs.
Lisa and Lisa.

Speaker 1 Lisa Evers. The Stray Dog and Cats.
No, no, no, no, no. The North Shore Animal.
What are the niggas' names? That shit. What's that commercial? You said you got a dog for me.

Speaker 1 The North Shore Animal Lisa. You do not donate the North Shore Animal.

Speaker 2 ASPCA, Toronto Wildlife Fund,

Speaker 2 the SPCA in Toronto. Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 God,

Speaker 1 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. Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 First time you said, what? Donate that shit to Daisy so you're going to eat that dry ass rice. I didn't hear my man.
What? I just did.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to overtalk it. You ate the shit.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to overtalk you. I'm watching.
I ain't saying nothing. Now that you fucked up.

Speaker 1 Girl. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
All right, moving on.

Speaker 1 Moving on.

Speaker 1 Speaking about Toronto, there was a plane crash in Toronto, you know? There was.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, the Delta plane. Yes.
That shit looks good. And there's footage of it.
What the fuck is going on? Somebody say, first of all, flights are cheap.

Speaker 1 $30.

Speaker 2 Trump has gutted the fucking FAA. That's what's happening.

Speaker 1 For real? What's the FAA?

Speaker 1 That's what Florida is. The Florida Aviation Association.

Speaker 1 The Florida Association.

Speaker 1 You think that's what caused it, man?

Speaker 1 I think that there's... I think it was the weather.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit. Look, she just went to the middle.

Speaker 2 How many plane crashes have we had in the last like two to three weeks ever since he started to like?

Speaker 2 I'm disagreeing.

Speaker 1 Because she's doing the same shit. Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 My lie to disagree. Hold up, y'all.
Let him disagree. She's doing the same shit my mother do.
Some shit go bad and they want to blame Trump, nigga. Come on, sorry.
She's a woman to blame Trump.

Speaker 1 Oh, she's going to be mad. You're right.
Trump isn't even the president.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They said it's bad luck,

Speaker 1 air conditions,

Speaker 1 poor piloting, but it's not actually Trump. I get why people think that, but that's not the case.
Okay, so what's the problem? So we're going to blame Trump for everything in the next four months.

Speaker 2 What about the DC crash?

Speaker 1 The DC crash is actually the one where the pilots, the experts came out and said that it's not like there was. It wasn't about FAA.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there couldn't have been, there's nothing else they could have done.

Speaker 2 No, not the plane. The plane was doing the right thing.
It was the helicopter. Right.

Speaker 1 It has nothing to do with Trump. They're saying even had there been, there's nothing the FAA could have done differently that would have stopped that from happening.
The DC crash man.

Speaker 1 You got to go do your research. So, so

Speaker 1 they're saying bad training. Bad training.
For training.

Speaker 1 For the big crash, they said it's also just bad luck. Like a, what do they call it? Like a perfect storm.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Well, y'all the ones keep wanting to fly everywhere. I've sat my ass grounded in the living room.
True.

Speaker 1 They ain't going to perfect storm me out together. Some people got to fly for work.
Oh, yeah, I got to pay money for the family. Some people got to travel to see family.
People got.

Speaker 1 I'm just making sure my pilot's white and I'm comfortable. Oh, my God.
Well, you know what? It's funny that you asked that.

Speaker 1 It's funny you asked that. I'm just joking.

Speaker 1 You a sellout. Hold on.
Let's find that, yo. It was a black pilot recently that when he landed, he took a picture.
He had dredge. He had a grill.
He had a front.

Speaker 1 And, yeah, and he caught a lot of heat because they were saying we don't want our pilots to do this.

Speaker 1 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 like sit, you know, like tatted knuckles. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It would make me. 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.

Speaker 1 I'd stay awake the whole flight. But that's the problem.
You want equality for black men, and you talk about all the black struggles, and we finally get it. And then now,

Speaker 1 we

Speaker 1 you stay on the other side. I don't stay on that 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.

Speaker 1 I don't think, well, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. Hold on.
Mark is a doctor, so maybe he can't be ignorant on recording, on recorded broadcasts.

Speaker 1 So I'll do it for him. Thank you.
Let me tell you. I think that there are some gigs where profiling is okay.
Captain America.

Speaker 1 Name me something.

Speaker 1 We are going to talk about that.

Speaker 1 I went to see Blackton America.

Speaker 1 It was good. I went to see it.
It was good. Did you watch the whole movie? You said Blackton America.
Blacked in America. Got it.

Speaker 1 I went, I saw the whole movie on Sunday or some type of Valentine's Day date. My girl paid.
Hey,

Speaker 1 she didn't have to call her Amex. She paid.
Hey, nice. So I saw that movie.
I will get to my review on the Black Captain America.

Speaker 1 But you said name the gigs. A pilot is one.
Bro. A pilot is one.

Speaker 1 I'm profile. Listen, I'm of the belief I don't want to know what the fucking pilot looked like because that little door should be closed when I'm walking it.

Speaker 2 Well, a lot of times pilots will greet everybody that's coming on

Speaker 1 the way out. On the way out,

Speaker 1 you see them if you're waiting at the gate. they walk by you with their little fucking

Speaker 1 stripper bag. Yo.

Speaker 1 Wait a minute. You don't need to

Speaker 1 fuck tipping. No, nigga, when they come in to get board the plane, sometimes they walk right by you.
That's not true.

Speaker 1 And hold up real quick. Them niggas be late.
Real quick.

Speaker 1 They'd be late a lot. They'd be late.

Speaker 1 There was a stewardess standing on the wing of the plane taking pictures. Flight attendant.
Flight attendant.

Speaker 1 with a fucking taking pictures while people were waiting to um what held the plane up right Because they were supposed to go.

Speaker 1 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, Klaus.

Speaker 1 We should be able to profile any job where it's life or death.

Speaker 1 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.
No profile. I mean just profile.

Speaker 1 Not really racial, right? Profiling has a

Speaker 1 negative undertone because that's what white people be doing to us. but i'm using it the black way

Speaker 1 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 you just do because those people working the the machines and the roller coasters be niggas homeless off route three that they give a job to for three weeks and now me and my kid are gonna plunge No, I'm profiling these niggas.

Speaker 1 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 by that dirty ass funnel cake. Exactly.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, I eat the funnel cake. Funky stuff.
With

Speaker 1 extra pound of sugar. And if you're asking, funnel cake is not my go-to.
I do the Italian sausage. Oh, man.
Jesus. Mexican street corn.
His stomach must hurt all the time.

Speaker 1 You got a lot of energy in his head. I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 Mexican street corn.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Mexican streets. I'm big for you.
I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 Elote. I'm trying to tell you something, bro.
Nasty. You hit us with this shit.
A Dutch name for. That's what it's called.
Elote. A doctor or a nurse.
We're profiling them.

Speaker 1 What do you want them not to look like? I'm on the Asian doctor. Yo, this could be.

Speaker 1 Y'all got a story. Or.

Speaker 1 My man from Pakistan or Dubai. One of the niggas.

Speaker 1 I'm on a doctor. Sorry.
I want him to have a last name that I can't really pronounce. Ramish Kalashish.

Speaker 1 It's not funny, son. Wait, it's bad to be saying this? Yes, nasty.

Speaker 1 I mean, I ain't going to hold you. I'm here for the truth, my friend.
My godfather had a stroke a couple months back.

Speaker 1 And I went to the doctor and his nurse had the fattest ass. It was fake.
Bruh.

Speaker 1 I was looking at her type of way, like, yo, uh. Made you not want her to be a nurse.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Because you think she's a stripper.

Speaker 2 Or her priorities might be kind of fucked up.

Speaker 1 I know what he's thinking.

Speaker 1 Or she might have got a lot. You know, they all said they paying for school.

Speaker 1 School girl.

Speaker 1 So I think she was telling the truth. Her ass was was so fat.

Speaker 1 Them scrubs. I was like, damn.
Let me ask you something.

Speaker 1 Your children's school, you don't profile the teachers? Yes. Absolutely.
We do. A thousand percent.
You do. Yep.

Speaker 1 It's still bad. Every chance I get.
But there's some good black teachers, though. Excellent black teachers.

Speaker 1 I don't racial. Nobody said nothing about it.

Speaker 1 We know. That was the setup.

Speaker 1 That was the setup. I'm talking about racial.
Yeah, stand up for blacks, nigga. You said I cannot make mesh.
Yeah, no, no, because I'll be your doctor.

Speaker 1 Because I do want to be a doctor because they take it.

Speaker 1 Why not Johnson? Johnson, I had a good black.

Speaker 1 You take Johnson. I'll take it.
Paul. No.
Yo.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to set a ball.

Speaker 1 What I'm saying is that.

Speaker 1 Danny's black people. That's what he wrote.
It took black teachers. I ain't going to say that because y'all make fun of me, but I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 Shit, rest in peace, the homeboy,

Speaker 1 the young football player that... was too big for the roller coaster ride or that the freeball drop and some some

Speaker 1 could bleep that word out i want that word to come back by the way i wish

Speaker 1 we need to do something like yeah we need that cause what's the word that would we need back what's the word again that would have came back in a 10-year anniversary i thought he brought paper straws back i mean it's gonna be plastic straws back we should be able to get back but anyway that young man that the derelict that was working came over and

Speaker 1 shoved the fucking seatbelt thing closed, had a total disregard for the weight requirements on this ride and all types of shit. That That was horrific.
That was horrific. Bring back profiling.

Speaker 1 Not racial profiling. Just profiling.
But if your normal profiling don't, it fails you and you hit the advanced button,

Speaker 1 then race can come in. You know what it is? And some of it be, yo, yo, you in the spot and you see a homeboy walk in.

Speaker 1 What's the problem? Yo, you know what else I profile a lot?

Speaker 1 Elevators. Profiling.
Who? Elevators. Well, you can't do nothing in that one.
No. You can't do nothing.
That's not true. What'd you say? That little dirt in them corners and them cracks.

Speaker 1 That shit shit will have you feeling a little uneasy. Oh, no, I thought you were going to be able to do that.
No, you meant people on elevators. I thought you were saying that.

Speaker 1 He talked about people on elevators. No, I'm talking about the elevators.

Speaker 1 Because that elevator, we in this closed space with the potential of it getting stuck for, and now we're just in here for a few hours. I'm profiling everybody that gets on the elevator.
I am. Sorry.

Speaker 1 Like, size up to see if you're going to be stuck on the left. And I noted.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, how's this going to go in the event that this

Speaker 1 you watch too much murder, death kill, so you wondering that if this nigga turned around with the knife, could you beat his ass? I mean, that's one way to look at it. That's my first time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's not the first time. No, that's what you look at

Speaker 1 it so what you do or I mean

Speaker 1 my childhood best friend Julian rest in peace lost his life

Speaker 1 nobody want to hear that lost his life play fighting and 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

Speaker 1 like elevators be faulty because buildings when they want to skip certain permits budget cuts and shit, it'd be the elevator be the first thing. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 I know my mind is warped by nobody's thinking about it. You gonna do when the sketchy nigga on the elevator with you, though?

Speaker 1 I'm getting off. That's all I'm asking.

Speaker 2 He's clutching his merc closer to that.

Speaker 1 Can I beat him? I don't know. Can you?

Speaker 1 Can I take the weapon from him?

Speaker 1 Are these the judgments you make?

Speaker 1 If the elevator gets stuck, is he going to follow my rules and regulations? Well, will I have to show him?

Speaker 1 No, he's not going to follow nothing. You got to show him.

Speaker 1 I don't don't get off. Who gets stuck on the elevator and starts stabbing niggas?

Speaker 1 Niggas doing the shit that he watches

Speaker 1 on them docks.

Speaker 1 Better start stabbing niggas.

Speaker 1 It's your fault.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna have to eat him. Like, what the fuck? Like, why you start cutting a nigga when you stuck on the elevator for 10 minutes? He might have told me.

Speaker 1 He might have made it stick. Yeah, he hit the button.
Yo, last time I was in LA, or one of the last times I went to LA, when me, Ian, and gang was at Katana enjoying a meal, right?

Speaker 1 8, 9 p.m.

Speaker 1 The elevator across the street in the Mondreon got stuck.

Speaker 1 Actually, there was no electricity in the Mondreon. So, naturally, the elevator is stuck for about four hours.
Oh, fuck. Oh, no, that's it.
That's a little-ass elevator, too. That's different, bro.

Speaker 1 Who I'm stuck in the elevator with. That's a little elevator.
I don't care if I'm in there with Hallie. Barry, I'm nah, that's different.
Classified.

Speaker 1 And what floor? Hold up, what floor? Oh, I don't know. Right.

Speaker 1 Yo, no, no, no. I don't want to be with Halle on 32.
I want to be with Halley on like two or three. I could survive two or three.
You think you still bag Halley? Of course. Okay.
That was the end.

Speaker 1 Why was playing with him like that? See, now they're making it a thing. Why do you do that?

Speaker 1 Because you made it a thing by asking the question. He knows.
No, that's not true. You asked it with incredulity.

Speaker 1 You still bag? I don't think there's anyone in the world that he thinks you're a bad person. I just wanted to hear what my man would say.
I'm with him. The baddies be the easiest to bag.

Speaker 1 He could bag anything, nigga.

Speaker 1 Why'd you ask? Yeah, why'd you ask? Because I wanted to hear my man say. She's the human path mark, nigga.

Speaker 1 You setting him up. Is it somebody that you think you can't bag? Is it somebody? No.
Not in that. No.
See? Another alley up to the rim. I put my niggas in a position to win.
I get my chance.

Speaker 1 You can bag anything, nigga. Human path mark, human key foot.
I'll buy Holly in a psych ward. You would?

Speaker 1 Walking barefoot, right, right out that career. I would have her in a nursing home.
Let's go. Flip, how do you feel about that? What? Like, do you think it feels

Speaker 1 horrible?

Speaker 1 Do Do you have that same attitude? Like, I could bag anything under the right circumstance. Of course.
How about you, Ice? Oh, yeah, if they're down for a skit.

Speaker 1 I don't do skits anymore. Nah, that's your end.
That's your content.

Speaker 1 Short form content. When that boy.

Speaker 1 Short form content. That's your end right here.

Speaker 1 Short form content. Come on in this room.
That's what he called it. Come on in this room, girl.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you now. This is short form content.
And yo. When that nigga blow up, that nigga will have J-Lo in the real room.

Speaker 1 That's when he would introduce the 48-hour.

Speaker 1 You shitting me?

Speaker 1 I got a surprise for y'all, but what I'm saying is that we all have our tactics. True.
We all of us have our tactics and our way in. It's just how you handle it.

Speaker 1 And if you put the work in where it won't expose you later. Do y'all believe that whatever our tactics are is like riding a bike? Yes.

Speaker 1 Or do you think you need to freshen up on it, sharpen it somewhere? No, you got to sharpen the tools. But you have to sharpen it if people catch on to your tactics.
Yes. How do they catch on?

Speaker 1 Because if you do it too much, on social media, you ain't doing it to the same motherfucker all the time.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. If you post a girl,

Speaker 1 if you post a girl and say, yo, he said her safety 50 times. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 I'm going to give you an example where

Speaker 1 a person I know got caught up.

Speaker 1 You find a girl, you post her. Shout her shit out.
Yo, now you just, you click the link. I remember your man did that.
See what? Yeah, my man did that. He still do that sometimes.

Speaker 1 He still does that. No, he doesn't.
No, no, no, now he's a bad man. That's what he go-to.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. I know what he does.

Speaker 1 I saw your man do that. You see what she's into.
The happy birthday to you. Shout it out.
The free shout-out. Now they appreciate the shout-out.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 My man, I had to tell him, yo, stop doing that. You look cordy.

Speaker 1 But it worked.

Speaker 1 The nigga batting average was, give me a good batting average. You told him, though.
360. 500.

Speaker 1 It worked. Shit, 290.

Speaker 1 Every time, oh, what? Shout out to the ball.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 one of those

Speaker 1 intros, one of those segments that they had. The Ghosts.
It was Barry Bonds. Nice.

Speaker 1 It was, and two other Ghosts, two other Bay Area. Was it Willie Mays? But up.
Not Willie Mays. White or Black.
Black. Willie Mays did.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Back to sharpening our skills. Like, why niggas' girls be so so mad when you're just trying to sharpen the skills? It wasn't nothing, yo.

Speaker 1 Y'all just had to,

Speaker 1 yo. It wasn't nothing for real, ma.
They don't respect the practice. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 Hey, I wasn't going to take it. If you take a DF, take it a further.
It wasn't that. It wasn't that, nigga.
I was just sharpening it up a little bit. She go, block her.
Oh.

Speaker 1 She wants me to block everybody. I'm sharpening the skills.
Yo, shadow boxer? Oh, my lord, yo. Sport fishing.
Sport fishing. Sport fishing.
That's it. Catch a release.

Speaker 1 They don't don't be liking that shit. Why are you following her?

Speaker 1 Look. Did you see her?

Speaker 1 You see her, right?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'm just frozen in love.

Speaker 1 You got to be careful with that, man. You got to be careful trying to sharpen your skills because you sharpen your skills on real skills.

Speaker 1 Nah, you sharpen. You sharpening your skills on some practice.
Yo, listen, yo, I just had an opportunity. I'm trying to cut it.
Nah,

Speaker 1 bitch, rung the doorbell. I'm going to be vulnerable.

Speaker 1 I'm going to be vulnerable, yo. I walked to Targo with my wife yesterday or the day before, I forgot.
That's where you got the Valentine's Day gift from? No, hell no. Watch your fucking mouth.

Speaker 1 I got no shit in Target.

Speaker 1 I didn't get it. I looked to the right.
There was

Speaker 1 a girl. And she was looking.
I said, yo,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I can't give her a green card. And we walking and walking.
I couldn't even even look that direction because now I'm looking at that. And the girl was, she heard me, she thought it was funny.

Speaker 1 So, you know, my little heard it? Yeah, my little corny line worked. So now I look the direction.
I'm not even looking that way. I'm looking the direction, man.
But boy, when I got home,

Speaker 1 it was a big argument. No, it was a big argument.
I'm like, she tried to crack a joke before the JR on them. I'm like, yo, man.
I got mad at my wife telling her, like, yo, listen,

Speaker 1 put a little more respect on my name. I'm too smooth for that.
Like, that's, I, like, nobody paying attention to that. Like, if you was really trying to hide.

Speaker 1 And she got offended by that. I'm too smooth.
I'm too playing. Like, I almost gave her my phone.

Speaker 1 And she said, she almost killed me. My ego got in the way.

Speaker 1 You shouldn't try to prove to your wife how player you are. No, what I'm saying is that

Speaker 1 I don't need to sit here looking at you. No, listen, listen, no.
That's a joke, Paul. What I'm saying is that I wouldn't go outside and disrespect you like that.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 2 What do you want to know?

Speaker 1 No, I'm just, I lied about that. I'm not going to talk about that.

Speaker 1 I just lied 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.

Speaker 1 I respect you enough not to even play like that. Who the fuck is that? Somebody that works at Target.
Yes, I looked initially. Yeah, I cracked the joke, but then later on, I have to exit.

Speaker 1 When I'm exiting with the stuff, I thought they take the receipt at Target. Oh, you slowed down.
Like, wait, what? I didn't slow down. So I went through it this weekend, man.
This week.

Speaker 1 It's a weird, weird, weird. And she listens 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?

Speaker 1 But we throw me

Speaker 1 on this topic.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 my girl's got, and I'm not, this is the last time I'm saying something about my girl. Like,

Speaker 1 she's got me to a place, our trust level is at a place now. I came here and told y'all, where I'll send her a girl

Speaker 1 or pro Instagram profile and say,

Speaker 1 I want her for my birthday,

Speaker 1 or

Speaker 1 we need her.

Speaker 1 Fire. My girl has opened my eyes to just how many squiggly lines are on behind these girls' pictures.

Speaker 1 She has totally ruined the fantasy for me.

Speaker 1 They are terrible. No,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's bent.

Speaker 1 We stupid

Speaker 1 looking at that because niggas will start sending a 500 in that cash app off the pictures. Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 Not me, but they ruined it.

Speaker 1 You don't see the doorknob going like that.

Speaker 1 What doorknob? They ruined it. It looked like some Harry Potter shit, nigga.

Speaker 1 They ruined it for me. I'm cool.
Now I got my sex toy, too. It's cool.

Speaker 1 He got the dog going seven thou. For real, because we run around talking about fucking before we had to deal with catfish.
Then it was AI. But now the real bitches is AI.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The catfish shit was a little bit like cyborgs.
The catfish. Yes.
The catfish era, Joe. That was nasty.
You got to just love one nigga.

Speaker 1 That was a nasty era. The catfish era.
What?

Speaker 1 Dude, you just got to love your girl, be faithful.

Speaker 1 Not cheap. Not to eat cold.

Speaker 1 Or you know that. Not 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. No, there was a phase from 2010 to 2015 where you asked Shorty her name and she told you her Instagram name.
Facts.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 He's right.

Speaker 1 You've been married a long time. Don't worry about that.

Speaker 1 Catfish era is a real thing. You think I'm not coming to your wedding? It's real.
Disgusting, bro. You think I'm not coming? Who said that? I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 1 All right. I'll be there.
You're going to go no matter where in the world it is. Okay.

Speaker 1 Giving 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.

Speaker 1 You know, you're going to be somewhere opulent. I'm coming.
Yeah, nigga. Cool.
You have a speech? Yeah, I need time to write it.

Speaker 1 I need time to write it. You don't do you just freestyle?

Speaker 1 No, not for my man. I love him too much.
I love him too much. I wouldn't do that.
I wouldn't forget that. So you'll write something now for him? Have to.

Speaker 1 Do you want him to give a speech? And just so y'all.

Speaker 1 I feel like the place is to start.

Speaker 1 Gotta look 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.

Speaker 1 I'll write a little something for y'all. This is how you get into the

Speaker 1 voice.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. They can start at the wedding.
That's funny. Like a wedding bed.

Speaker 1 What else needs our attention?

Speaker 1 Where were we? On a crash in Toronto? I don't know. We just talking shit.
We're on a crash in Toronto. We're just talking shit.
Just vibing. Mark, just.
Tell me about this Roots picnic, man.

Speaker 1 I seem a little excited about about it. Dyla Blackman is going to be there.

Speaker 1 She's performing. Everybody's silenced right now.
Yeah. It was there.

Speaker 1 No, I'm just saying she's performing. I just saw it.
And I'm a support.

Speaker 1 That's what's up. I thought you said that.
No, Mark.

Speaker 1 Dr. Mark Lamont Hill.

Speaker 1 The Roots Picnic, the annual Roots Picnic is coming out again. It's going to be dope.

Speaker 1 Girls Love Karaoke is going to be there.

Speaker 1 I saw that. I thought that was fly.

Speaker 1 That was Fly.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 What's the other one?

Speaker 1 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 Kravis headlining.

Speaker 1 You got Meek Mill headlining.

Speaker 1 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 TM 101.

Speaker 1 That's all. Yep.
Miguel, Ketronada, Jagged Edge, Jeezy.

Speaker 1 Black Dot, Pusher, and Two Chains in the little freestyle. No,

Speaker 1 in the freestyle shit they do every year. It's going to be crazy.
Live mixtape. I'm in there.
Tims.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And Glow Rilla is going to be their lotto.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have to go. Oh, Tim's and the Wagon is coming.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 It's going to be crazy. I like water.
Tim's bringing that Volkswagen. I mean, Volkswagen.
World Series of Spades. It's right there for you, Joe.

Speaker 2 He don't want to go. Crystal Waters and Cece Penniston.

Speaker 1 Wait, what?

Speaker 2 Yes, there's Rich Medina Black House Set. Crystal Watson.

Speaker 1 Rich Medina is doing a black house set. With Crystal Waters and Cece Penniston.
Probably Saturday. It's probably going to be a Saturday, Junior.
I don't want to go deal. I can't say that.

Speaker 1 You know, Roost Picker put out a schedule like two weeks before he's died. That shit got to hit niggas directly.
Like, yo, what day are you on?

Speaker 1 Yo, y'all Philly bitches that smell like grass, use some soap that day, man.

Speaker 1 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. Hey, yo, dog.
Bam, I went down there. No.

Speaker 1 Lauren Hill headline. Yo.

Speaker 1 All that shit. What does Chanel be wearing? Free people? Yo, you're Dutch free people.
I do not wear free people.

Speaker 2 Oh, my clothes. You do wear free people.

Speaker 1 Okay, the clothes, yes. If I interact with fragrance, you still a legend.

Speaker 2 My fragrances are not from free people. My dress, absolutely.

Speaker 2 My skirt, absolutely.

Speaker 1 Well, the dress got to get the person close enough to smell your fragrances. Right.
And that's where I smell expensive. You look like that.

Speaker 1 That niggas is stupid.

Speaker 1 Free people.

Speaker 1 That shit don't be... Yo,

Speaker 1 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.
Why? Use Dr. Bronas, nigga.

Speaker 1 So I tried, I think that might be it that I tried. Some peppermint shit? Peppermint soap.

Speaker 1 That shit will burn your.

Speaker 1 My nigga. So I got sunburn on my chest and on my arms.
Well, you need pubes to use that.

Speaker 1 You got sunburned because you lasered everything off, nigga. You know,

Speaker 1 it leaves the wound fresh. Dog, that shit ate my skin up.
You have to die Ludux.

Speaker 1 That shit is caca.

Speaker 1 No, it's not caca. You got to die.
That shit is Vasura, my nigga. You have to die Ludu, you Haitian man.
That shit worked good.

Speaker 2 You can't. It's amazing.
I got you.

Speaker 1 I got you. You got a gentle skin, my nigga.

Speaker 1 I don't use lotion.

Speaker 1 That's your problem. That's why I be rubbing you up.

Speaker 1 That's why you 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.
No, I know you don't.

Speaker 1 He knows, man. If he got court, he could throw something more.
He knows. If he got court,

Speaker 1 he smelled a little good.

Speaker 1 I spent like 40, 50. Make more than that.
I'm probably spending like damn near $100 yesterday

Speaker 1 on trying to buy new deodorants and trying them out. So you bought

Speaker 1 soap.

Speaker 1 You bought mad soap.

Speaker 1 I bought like six bars of soap yesterday. Sweat to God.
He bought mad deodorants. He's just the most interesting person.

Speaker 1 What you did with the remaining deodorants that didn't work, nigga? No, that peppermint shit was trash. I'm telling y'all shit.
The peppermint shit is not trash. You didn't

Speaker 1 give it to that YouTube review bag. That's all.

Speaker 1 I see the play, my nigga. You ain't got a lot of me.

Speaker 1 All spice.

Speaker 1 No. This right here is.

Speaker 1 Why you don't just use black soap? Are you against it?

Speaker 1 No, black soap. Black soap.

Speaker 1 I like the smell. Black soap will pick up.

Speaker 1 Raw black soap will pill your skin. Yo, yeah, that black soap.
Raw black soap will pill your skin as well.

Speaker 1 I try to use that for.

Speaker 1 I try to use that.

Speaker 1 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 attacking.
They start talking about it.

Speaker 1 That shit wasn't that funny. Zach is not funny.
Me and Freeze thought it was funny. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Me and Freeze thought it was funny. Y'all can't tell us what we thought.
Black soap will peel your skin off. And you try to be funny, double a tall drug because this girl stop.

Speaker 1 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 that Rich Medina, Cece Penniston, and Crystal Waters.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Saturday, I might take a, I might, I might,

Speaker 1 I might do that. I might do that.

Speaker 1 We should all go down there, man. I might do that.
I would. Group trip

Speaker 1 tickets. Group trip then.
Yeah. Yeah, hook it up, Mark.
Y'all get that. Yeah,

Speaker 1 Mark can't get us in. You think he could? I think he could.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait.

Speaker 1 Can you? That's the setup. He just, that's the same shit he did to you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not sure.
That's not, but. But I don't mean like just, all right, niggas need, like, the pass.

Speaker 1 Pauls, not, not the, not, are y'all in. You could get us in with like a wait.
Like if we wait by the. Yo, stand right here by the gate.
I'm going to go see what I can do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 That's one of those things. Come around to the side.
One of those. And I'm on.
I'm not trying to be. I'm cool with that, though.

Speaker 1 You said Quest Love 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.
We back. Shout out to Quest Love.

Speaker 1 We be in the VIP. We be in the VIP.
I get it, everybody. Nice.
That was a part of the 10-year journey, man. Roots Picnic.
Yeah, it was a good time. Good times.
Good times. Y'all don't want to do it?

Speaker 1 Why don't we live podcast again?

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 No. No, no, no.
If you would like to ask me. I asked him what his is.

Speaker 1 You asked him. What's your fee for a live podcast?

Speaker 1 Honestly, I would definitely charge, but I didn't even think about money for it. I just thought it would be such a good look.
Big Mark.

Speaker 1 Big Mark. You'd have told me what the podcast is.
Big Mark.

Speaker 1 I miss my honest mark. I'm not selling y'all out.
I mean, I would charge. I'm just saying, but I wouldn't even, that wasn't my first time.
Ask them now.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Freeze team is my team.

Speaker 1 All right, all right. Good answer.
Doing it for the love. All right, for the love.
All right.

Speaker 1 We're recording this. Fuck that shit.
Definitely not love. For the love of Monday.

Speaker 1 For the love of bread, nigga. You know my favorite nation.
Mel.

Speaker 2 Favored nations.

Speaker 1 Meldy, has your rate going up?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Lots of things are happening.

Speaker 1 Lots of things are happening.

Speaker 1 We're just ordinary people.

Speaker 1 Maybe we should take it slow.

Speaker 1 Take it slow.

Speaker 1 This time we'll take it slow.

Speaker 1 Hey, yo, I hope.

Speaker 1 Hey, yo.

Speaker 1 Y'all fried me up, though. Y'all niggas just be all.
All right.

Speaker 1 They ain't chicken me.

Speaker 1 They ain't chicken me at all.

Speaker 1 Moving on. All right, Mark.
Hey, you got your answer? Yes. Got it.
We're not going to the roost pick. Yeah, I don't know.
That's the answer.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 When is this? Do shit like that. Late 31st and June 1st.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm doing that, Rich Medina shit. I ain't going.
When is the GZ part?

Speaker 1 They really schedule.

Speaker 1 They don't ever release the schedule. It's probably going to be Saturday, too.
I'll find out, though. Yeah.
Let's go hype. Yeah, please.

Speaker 1 That Rich Medina shit just got me. That's going to be crazy.
That got me hype. And Cece still sells it.
Seriously. I'm not joking.

Speaker 1 I'm not joking. Oh, you talk about? I stop.
I ain't moving on.

Speaker 1 Yo. But how much is it? Hey, yo, nigga.
Oh, yo, nigga.

Speaker 1 Niggas had a meeting. Yo, look.

Speaker 1 So you call, so you. Everybody's chopped.
Let's be respectful. Hey, listen.

Speaker 1 Sometimes we have to take advantage of opportunities that is presented to us. We have to know that's on the board.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I told you before. I'm talking to the people.
I told you to the fuck. You did?

Speaker 1 The people, nigga. Yo, you know.
The people, nigga. The people.
They pulled me to the side this morning.

Speaker 1 He do what he wanted to do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You motherfucker, stop playing. Now I'm deadass.
I saw that shit. I don't like that shit.

Speaker 1 Kendrick, what is this? Drake throws the Rosen 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 DeRosen jersey.

Speaker 1 He did. Balls it up, throws it to the crowd, throws it on the floor or whatever.
And I guess my question, and I get he don't fuck with DeRosen.

Speaker 1 I actually don't think he's wrong about his issue with the Rosen. But at some point, the shit just gets corny to me.
Like, at some point. It's taking childish shit.
Yeah, and you're playing yourself.

Speaker 1 I think he thinks it's working because it's playing to these Australian crowds, these white crowds. But I feel like at home, it's looking crazy.
You can't ahoy made it your way out of this one, buddy.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. I don't know.
It looks crazy, but I feel like it is detrimental that you're just dragging the shit out of it. That's the part I agree with.

Speaker 1 You reminded people that you got the shit. He's singing the song now.
Huh? He sung the song. What's up?

Speaker 1 Not like us.

Speaker 1 What are you talking about? Drake sung the song, my nigga.

Speaker 1 When did I hear this? When did you see this? He's singing the song. Did you like it when he sang it, his version? Man, cites the sources.
Bro. I feel like that would be all over the news.

Speaker 1 Drake is singing.

Speaker 1 That's where I got it from. He's singing the song.
Since how? Was it AI?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I ain't going to hold you. Amani and Ish with these new barbers.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they always switch their shit up. Amani 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 barber?

Speaker 1 He got a new blade. You got a blitz.

Speaker 1 He went to bliss.com, got some new shit. He got the new bliss.
Wait, wait, hold on, wait, wait. Your barber's not black? He got the new Andes.
Andes?

Speaker 1 I don't know what he got, nigga. I go to sleep.
Well, your barber's not black neither. You go to sleep in a barber's jail? Not all black shit.
You got a white barber? Nah, he's Asian. Oh.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Bitch, I never. No.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 you don't want an Asian doctor, doctor, but you want an Asian barber, nigga? Everybody just stop right now. He got the spectacles? We got to mute up.

Speaker 1 Yo, for the 10th anniversary, I ain't going to lie to you. This is my honest opinion.

Speaker 1 I really feel like you hold the keys

Speaker 1 to taking us really where we need to go, and we just got to kind of

Speaker 1 unearth it.

Speaker 1 Antoine,

Speaker 1 you've been working here long enough to know

Speaker 1 you having an Asian barber is like, it's like a drink drop.

Speaker 1 I've mentioned this before, fan.

Speaker 1 I never heard you say your barber. A barber Filipino.
Is she a girl? He's Filipino, man. Nice, nice.

Speaker 1 That's different. This would have a girl barber.
That's different.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Easier. Filipino ain't Asian.

Speaker 1 You have a Filipino barber? Yo, this is not different, yo.

Speaker 1 That's black, Asian.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is a different kind of Asian.

Speaker 1 That's like Cambodia.

Speaker 1 I thought you was just so ignorant. Do they work in a black barber shop? Nah, he dolo.
He got

Speaker 1 a shop. He got one of the sweets.
He used to work right up the street.

Speaker 1 But now he got one of the sweets. Fort Lee.
The whole everybody go to him.

Speaker 1 He don't push your line. He's black Asian.
That's what I'm saying. All of the crew go to him.
He don't push your line. Who's the crew? I ain't getting into the name game.
Danny. Our crew.

Speaker 1 Nobody in my crew has a Filipino barber.

Speaker 1 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 if you're Ish real quick.

Speaker 1 Naj is bald, nigga. Don't Naj me to death.
I didn't even say Naj's name, but the rest.

Speaker 1 Echo don't go to a Filipino barber. I got the barber from Echo.
Echo does not go to a Filipino barber. I got the barber from Echo.
I swear to God, I will call Echo. I got the barber from Echo.

Speaker 1 But is Echo you? But he don't go there. Yep.

Speaker 1 He just said, I know somebody that. No, nigga.
I know somebody for you.

Speaker 1 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.
brain that's why

Speaker 1 wait till Umar finds out that you got a Filipino

Speaker 1 hairline I got it I'm looking at it when Umar hit his couch pat on your barber

Speaker 1 he used a blade and shit he was a barless oh oh when No, when you started getting the hoodies made over there.

Speaker 1 You can't say that, nigga.

Speaker 1 Yo. I know we make it cheap over there, but you can't say that.
This don't get his hoodies for me. So that's the plug to get it for

Speaker 1 my mom. Try to start some hoodie smoke between me and you.
Stop calling my mom. Shout them his face.
Don't call my mom no more. Solid.

Speaker 1 Because I did another beef just laying on my plate that I didn't know I had. My mom been asking me for three and four X hoodies for months.

Speaker 1 I don't have them. I didn't have them.
Stupid ass in.

Speaker 1 Here she goes. Yo, you could just.
You know who got

Speaker 1 three, four, and five X hoodies?

Speaker 1 Yo, mom's your

Speaker 1 mom's. They say whatever they want.

Speaker 1 Ish.

Speaker 1 Thanks. Thanks, mom.

Speaker 1 Shout out to us from Division. That's all right, bro.
Give me the hookup to the 5x hoodies, nigga. I got you.
No, you always got me and never get me.

Speaker 1 You always got me and never get me. I'm still waiting on the fucking hundred doors.

Speaker 1 Oh, man, yo. Yo, what's wrong with you? My money's just sitting in the bank, waiting.
You don't call. Oh, you got to just sit in there.
Oh, you got to sit in there, huh?

Speaker 1 No, I moved moved it to the money market.

Speaker 1 What percent? I can't say. But

Speaker 1 you did it. Ain't bad.
I took your advice. You never took my advice.
No, this time I took your advice. You don't never take my advice.
No, the money market, I took your advice.

Speaker 1 Remember, I was stubborn a few months ago. I was on my black shit.
I want to look at the money.

Speaker 1 Oh, I remember. Remember?

Speaker 1 Yeah, 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.
But

Speaker 1 I'm still black.

Speaker 1 I get it. That's me.
I want to see that shit. That's true, bro.
I just don't trust. If the world were to get into some type of apocalyptic,

Speaker 1 it's the end, and you need something fast.

Speaker 1 You got something fast. Yeah, but you don't want to be able to get it.
You know, it's fully insured, yada, yada. And you ain't give them all you got.
Right. That was the whole point.

Speaker 1 They come in every month for you.

Speaker 1 You're doing that shit that you did last part. That I did.
Bro. It don't come in every month.

Speaker 1 Huh? Net 90.

Speaker 1 Yo, stop doing that. Net 90, because you lying.
You fucking got one of these pillows.

Speaker 1 Stop doing that, Joe.

Speaker 1 We couldn't have got to 10 years without lies.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Why would they do that? Because that's how banks run. Yeah, but they want to keep

Speaker 1 it. But they want to keep the small people small.

Speaker 1 What are you talking about? I just don't think it's right.

Speaker 1 I just don't think it's right. All banks should operate that way.
No, they shouldn't. I feel like they should.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because you ain't get enough money yet. Not that I did.
I just know some niggas that got it.

Speaker 1 But then 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They purposely keep you at a certain level, nigga, so they can eat off of you. No, I got that part, but do you think.

Speaker 1 So we're not going to open up all of the instruments that you have at your level to them?

Speaker 1 What percentage of people that are at that level, whatever level you're talking about, do you think adopt that thinking?

Speaker 1 That's my question to the room. Do y'all think

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 what level are we talking about? Let's just say 30 million a year. No, say.
40 million a year. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do y'all think that all of the people that are at 30 40 50 60 million a year have adopted the thinking that that issue is referring to or do y'all think that some people keep their soul i think i think most do i think it's you know i shouldn't word it like that because that's no i don't say keep their soul yeah i think what happens is i think what happens is your day-to-day living

Speaker 1 you forget those people even exist

Speaker 1 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 my nigga.

Speaker 1 The people that are making the laws forget that the little people exist.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Same thing.

Speaker 1 Same thing.

Speaker 1 And them people know that if the little people.

Speaker 1 If the little people down there get smart enough, it threatens them. 50 million a year.
Would y'all adopt that thinking? Yes.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't. Because I remember that.
A no from Ish, a no from Mark, Parks. No.
A no from Parks.

Speaker 1 Everybody say it until they get it. A no from Flip, Mel.
No.

Speaker 1 I hear you.

Speaker 1 I hear you. What is circumstantial? What you said, man? It may change.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 everybody's saying no except for Freeze. I believe I.
I ain't telling the truth. I believe I believe Parks and I believe Mark.

Speaker 1 I believe y'all. You don't believe us over here.
I believe y'all.

Speaker 1 I believe this side of the room. But it may change.
Depends. I just do.
I believe this side of the room. I think I'm going to be.
You don't believe your boy? Who? Y'all. Me.

Speaker 1 I think a lot of people go in with that mindset, and then when they get to that level, it may change though.

Speaker 1 All of that shit, yeah. Like, I think you learn more, though.

Speaker 1 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 polly with niggas today that are way beneath my level that I'm on, and I still try to pull them up.

Speaker 1 But you're just a people's person, and

Speaker 1 you're trying to have the patience to do so.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 If Ish made 30 million a year, I don't think he'd be in America. He wouldn't.

Speaker 1 I don't think he would live in America.

Speaker 1 I think him and his family would move to the same 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.

Speaker 1 Who'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 an outlier, so that's not fair. I think.

Speaker 1 Why do you

Speaker 1 think? Name somebody else besides 50. See, I think this is what happens.
I think that we're looking at the entertainment sphere.

Speaker 1 And in the entertainment sphere, it may not be that many people because they can't go back home.

Speaker 1 But I think there are people that are doing well, significantly well, and they still go back and try to help people bring them up.

Speaker 1 I think that that happens. It's just you think they're at that $50, $60 million a year level doing that?

Speaker 1 I think it's sparingly because once you get to that level, your time is limited. And that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 Once you get up there, everything changes for you. You don't even have the but then if you say

Speaker 1 if you up and you 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 seen situations happen like oh break those yo you see i've seen break those no no you don't break those i've seen the situation

Speaker 1 no you're stopping joe no sorry when you you gotta stop acting like you're like that for the you're not you you it's just you and 50 are the same type of niggas it's just oh it's just for the camera you the same type of nigga you see somebody like oh yeah

Speaker 1 i said that i remember that no i'm one of the most giving people in the world. Yeah, come on, Joe.
Stop.

Speaker 1 I'm front for the camera.

Speaker 1 I give and give and give and give and give. You only give to the Jersey City niggas?

Speaker 1 Oh, I was just asking. Which one the girl?

Speaker 1 That chased him.

Speaker 1 Kakish me and them that chased him.

Speaker 1 Yo. He baited them niggas up.
I'm about your gas station. Hey.
Yo, holy shit. Flipping.
Damn. Can't say that.
Yo, that way for you. Hey.
Dunkin' Dang for you. Anybody, the clock is is ticking for me.

Speaker 1 I'm going out with a bang. Yo, this guy is.

Speaker 1 I'm going out with a bang.

Speaker 1 No, we're talking with me. I'm going out.
Going out with

Speaker 1 clock is ticking.

Speaker 1 On your exit? On my exit. The clock is ticking.
It's very soon. It's too many meetings I'm having.
Don't shake your head. You don't know what I've been going through this whole fucking week.

Speaker 1 I got to come here and be a fucking professional because that's what they use against me. Be a professional.
But this shit's real.

Speaker 1 I'm pissed. I'm sitting here with a lot of anger.
Not talking with anyone, but I have to put on a face to perform. My time is almost up.
The word you're looking for is professionalism.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what they master. That's the word.

Speaker 1 You got to be a professional. This is what they master.
It don't feel good up here when, like, you got to be professional, right? I don't like professionalism.

Speaker 1 I don't, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 Let me think. You might be honest.
Was this thing built with professionalism? It wasn't.

Speaker 1 I got rid of the nick. All right.
No dude.

Speaker 1 I'm not. I'm not.
And shout out to them 10 years. I'm shouting out everybody.
Everybody that's contributed, everybody that didn't contribute. They played a significant, very, very, very significant.

Speaker 1 And then Ice School of Chess.

Speaker 1 Yes. You got to.
It's no joke for me. I'm not even lying.
I'm very serious about it. I'm not serious as well.
I'm very serious about it. They're fucking sweat equity

Speaker 1 when shit wasn't where it needed to be.

Speaker 1 Not only did it get us where we need to go, but today that very same work ethic, it angers me. It's like, man, these niggas will go, won't it?

Speaker 1 These niggas will not die.

Speaker 1 You gotta work. They gotta work.
Salute to them. That's a joke.
That's a joke. Shout out to everybody.
Mighty to body. No, yes, it is.
Yes, it is. Yes, it is.
I don't want.

Speaker 1 Yo, yo, yo, yo, for 10 years,

Speaker 1 95% of the shots that I've said up here have only been for play play.

Speaker 1 It's just on air, theatrics. It's part of what makes me the greatest in the world at this.
When I go home,

Speaker 1 I have real like thoughts about some of the shit.

Speaker 1 You got it, bro. Just leave me alone.
Yeah, what Jay-Z did. Now, listen, yeah, no, listen, that's great.
Great segue. Great segue.

Speaker 1 Turn my music high. High, high, high.

Speaker 1 Sure, I do. I'm from the streets with a bullet.

Speaker 1 There's so much coke that you can run to slot them.

Speaker 5 The cops comb the shit top to bottom. They say that we are prone.

Speaker 1 What's on the blueprint, man? It's home, sweet home. Oh, I know.

Speaker 1 I got y'all. I know exactly.
I was in

Speaker 2 chaos when this shit fucking drops.

Speaker 1 Well, you was what?

Speaker 2 I was in chaos when this shit dropped.

Speaker 1 A legend now blown all over that brown bro.

Speaker 1 Welcome to hell where you are. Welcome to cell.
But when them shells come, you better return them. All scars,

Speaker 1 all cars, we learn them like the back of my hand. Watch the cops hopping out the back of an wear a G on my chest, I don't need that for damn, but damn,

Speaker 1 Now listen, listen,

Speaker 1 the fucking allegations are always loud and the exoneration is always quiet.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, disrespected. No matter the magnitude of the superstar we speak of, in this instance, it happens to be Sean Carter, Jay-Z,

Speaker 1 all of that,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's out the window. All charges dismissed,

Speaker 1 dropped, countersuit. 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

Speaker 1 deals.

Speaker 1 I absolutely love this.

Speaker 1 I do not see enough of the media loud, loud. Y'all are not loud enough for me.
I hear me, my fucking girl. Y'all are not loud enough for me right now.

Speaker 1 Let me get the round of applause real quick.

Speaker 1 Congratulations to Holes.

Speaker 1 I don't know if it's irony. You have laid the blueprint.

Speaker 1 You have laid the blueprint for how black men should handle these things when they are false.

Speaker 1 That's important to know. When it's a false allegation,

Speaker 1 too many times for too many years in recent years

Speaker 1 There's just been shakedowns of sorts

Speaker 1 But he came out With conviction from negate

Speaker 1 that don't mean that you're not about to lose deals Because just the sheer announcement is gonna make you lose deals But he came out said I didn't do it. It was a lot of the internet was loud

Speaker 1 Boy, y'all were loud almost like y'all was waiting on another black great

Speaker 1 to fall for shit like this.

Speaker 1 I think that's nasty of the internet. Disgusting.
I get it. I get it.
Y'all on some today. Nasty, grimy shit.

Speaker 1 But I was really excited about this. I would love for more media outlets to report on this in caps.

Speaker 1 In caps. Write it in big, bold font.
It's too quiet out there for me. And Hove ain't going to say nothing because he's Hove.

Speaker 1 He's just going to speak through the countersuit and crack, crack Homeboy's Muffle. Again, I hope he rip him down to his socks.

Speaker 2 i hope he take everything he got i promise you i hope he take everything he got he filed yeah he filed 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 yeah which you put in the in the suit as as part of his reason why hove is countersuing like i hope he strips him down to his socks money

Speaker 1 like i want

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's obvious the court because it was dismissed with prejudice, so they can't refile. That usually happens when a case is so obviously

Speaker 1 fake, you know, that the court doesn't even 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.

Speaker 1 Oh, that person didn't appear.

Speaker 1 you know bro have you heard the statement the statement didn't even make sense yeah anybody that knows new york city like at one point um the girl was like yo i just remember this really big circle driveway that we pulled up to this house right and it's like that's barely exists in

Speaker 1 the trusted area

Speaker 1 but none of it made sense what's interesting is puff also issued a statement Puff charges have been dropped to a case because the case was dropped against Puff and against Jay and on this particular case.

Speaker 1 and and and puff is basically like see people be lying this is another example of these cases coming out used against me to lie so 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

Speaker 1 but they were grouped together that but i i think it's important to note that that this is why this 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.

Speaker 1 I said that. I think some of the ones against Puff, by the way, for going to are going to come out.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I don't know his lawyers, but I'm assuming that he has some of the best lawyers, Money Kaby.

Speaker 1 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 to fare better for Puff to have more than less.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And also jurors don't trust that. I remember there was a case in

Speaker 1 Georgia, Dr. York.
I don't know if y'all remember Dr. York from back in the day, but I do.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And, you know, there were thousands of cases of

Speaker 1 child molestation.

Speaker 1 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 going to come everybody chasing the bad like the busby dude that was the same attorney that prosecuted um

Speaker 1 um the sean

Speaker 1 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, shout out to her, ambulance chaser

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 What's the charge? It depends on it's not worth the headlines. Well, that's where the shit is.
You feel what I'm saying? And so that's the shakedown. That's what the shakedown is.

Speaker 1 You might be Trump and you just made a fortune in doing this type of disgusting shit.

Speaker 1 Now I get you for 2 million. I get you for a mil.
I get this person for a mil. Nigga, you talking.
As Jane Doe.

Speaker 1 Bruh, Jane Doe. As Jane Doe.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 meat.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Because the allegation was they both did it at the same time. They both did it.
They attacked me together.

Speaker 1 So, by saying that,

Speaker 1 the average celebrities are gonna be like, I don't want nothing to do. I won't be nowhere near him.
I don't even want my name on the same sentence as him. Here's a million dollars take it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Yo, listen, I got puff and this girl here.

Speaker 1 Come through. I just, he's never been that.
Like, he didn't, he doesn't move that way yeah

Speaker 1 yeah congratulations congratulations

Speaker 1 for old man

Speaker 1 we get the round of applause job well done about nature

Speaker 1 job well done you have laid the blueprint for how men black men especially should handle false allegations a thousand percent from jane does yes

Speaker 1 it happened to me again i'm calling a lawyer i'm calling him get his lawyer

Speaker 1 Jay-Z lawyer? Yeah. And I'll start a GoFundMe to pay.
I don't know what I'm saying. I ain't taking no cuts.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're not taking no cuts.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Hoarding.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm not taking any charges.

Speaker 1 Masturbation trafficking.

Speaker 1 You move this girl from state to state

Speaker 1 your mind. To masturbate.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. Yo, congratulations to Hove and his entire family.

Speaker 1 That shit came out around with the Super Bowl announcement. That shit muddied a lot of waters.

Speaker 1 Or it was the potential. Was to muddy a lot of waters.
So, again, just congratulations to Hove. Job well done.
Tony Busby. Well, I don't know what the future looks like for him.

Speaker 1 It's going to be rough. I hope it's bleak.
I got him losing that. I got him losing whatever.
The country. He's going to settle.

Speaker 1 Hope may not want to settle. Yeah.
That's for him.

Speaker 1 I hope he doesn't settle.

Speaker 1 I am. I hope he don't settle.
That initial statement didn't speak like

Speaker 2 that.

Speaker 1 I'm going to show you that I'm different.

Speaker 1 And then came back and rewrote some shit. I'm from Marcy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We ain't doing nothing, nigga.
Yeah, no. Hove just opening up the notes.
He did the notes tab.

Speaker 1 He went crazy.

Speaker 1 Sent for something. 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

Speaker 1 for that nasty ass move tony fucking busby uh let's see let's see let's see what does that say right there has your girl ever seen your group chat uh i'll answer it first because mine's is fast my girl has seen anything that has to do with my phone

Speaker 1 with your phone yeah it's ours 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.

Speaker 1 Even the bitches that I was texting it, I didn't mean that shit. Like, it don't matter.
It's all on the record.

Speaker 1 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 the shit in there, really.

Speaker 1 At least in my experience, it's usually just talking shit. Their group chat be like that.
Yeah, they got messy group chats. Our shit don't really be.

Speaker 1 That's why.

Speaker 1 Men's shit, we just catching the vibe. That's a projecting.
Talking shit about each other. It's like listen to this podcast, damn near, like ripping on somebody.
Yep. Fucking an occasional fat ass.

Speaker 1 Occasionally, I guess.

Speaker 1 You're right. That's projection, and that's one of the fucking double standards

Speaker 1 that exists out there. Because you know what girls do? Girls be showing dicks and all that.
Real niggas ain't sending the girls. They ain't doing that.

Speaker 1 Like, a real nigga's not sending the nudes to their whole crew. Never.
Like, that's not happening.

Speaker 1 Girls do that. Niggas talking about trips and shit.
Girls will send a nigga whole whole monkey to everybody else in the team. That's crazy.
Yes. Yeah, I'm not.
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 Look at this guy. Damn.
I really didn't know. You lying.
I don't send my pictures out, so I never thought. I never, yeah, they never said I thought about it working.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They do.

Speaker 1 Girls do? That's crazy. On my Instagram algorithm, I bumped into

Speaker 1 an older.

Speaker 1 Yes. Go ahead.
I'll clear up. You're a part of the conversation?

Speaker 2 Well, I think you guys have the assumption that there's all just like dicks in our group chat.

Speaker 1 They didn't say that. That's not what he said.
That's not what I said.

Speaker 1 You have their

Speaker 1 gender war. It's not that gender wars.

Speaker 1 You wouldn't have made it in 10 years without gender wars. Let's give it up a gender war.

Speaker 1 Now, come on. Come on.

Speaker 1 What's in your group chat? Oh, shit. He didn't say that.

Speaker 2 Furniture.

Speaker 2 Sorry to disappoint. It's not a bunch of dicks.
I've been there.

Speaker 1 Girl, he laid me down on this chase lounge and took me. He folded me like this chair right here.
He folded me like this.

Speaker 2 No, no, Wayfair is having a President's Day sale.

Speaker 2 that is what's happening in my group chat i know maybe in my 20s it was different but right now it's furniture it's i have a wife she tells me what goes on in girls group chat

Speaker 1 mal talk about she do up here is love

Speaker 1 that she does up here is i will show you my i'm gonna be all that i don't want to see it i don't want to see it it's but so you ain't got no spicy group chat do you do other women you know have spicy group chats oh absolutely and she done removed some holes from the group chat too now

Speaker 2 green bubbles probably green bubbles will get a bit more.

Speaker 1 Because it gets sending dicks. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Sometimes it gets a little. I'm a little vanilla sometimes.
You know, 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.

Speaker 1 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 way fair.

Speaker 2 It can be conversation. My current group chat right now is like furniture and candles and shit like that.
Yes. Okay.
It's not.

Speaker 1 This podcast would have got nowhere without lies, Joe. You already heard that, right? Right, give it up for lies.
Yeah, lies. It would have been over a year one.

Speaker 1 Fuck.

Speaker 1 I got some gender war shit here, real quick. Oh.
Oh, yeah. Call me up.
I was looking at. No,

Speaker 1 you're going to jump in this one.

Speaker 1 This one, you'll jump in. You're never coming in this one.
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 were talking.

Speaker 1 And the black man took exception to the term

Speaker 1 happy wife, happy life.

Speaker 1 I do too

Speaker 1 you follow me right yeah once he spoke about it I totally agreed with what he was saying

Speaker 1 he was saying

Speaker 1 why does that phrase exist actually I'm just playing

Speaker 1 because I'm gonna fuck it up

Speaker 4 kids don't respect a man who sacrifices his own purpose they cold

Speaker 1 neither do women have you have

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 I fell into that trap too, where I stopped working as much. I made it my priority, my wife and my kid, and I lost sight of the goal.

Speaker 4 And one day I looked up and their lives were worse because I couldn't provide. They were getting more of my time.

Speaker 1 They were getting more of my quote-unquote love, but their lives weren't any better.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Have you you ever heard the phrase happy wife, happy life?

Speaker 1 All the time.

Speaker 4 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, kids miserable.

Speaker 4 There's no such thing as happy family, miserable dad.

Speaker 1 Dad must suffer, but he must enjoy the suffering. God

Speaker 1 damn is what I said when I heard that.

Speaker 1 I never

Speaker 1 put that in a vacuum that way. Remind me to tell you something off camera.
Okay.

Speaker 1 But why? But why does why yeah, why he got to be miserable if she if she's step up was exactly what I was going to ask. I think that's not what he said.
I think the idea is

Speaker 2 that's the assumption

Speaker 2 that people would be led to think because me and him just had the same question.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Like both of us.

Speaker 1 That's what I definitely agree.

Speaker 1 But men are not that. It's not that.
Men are discarded. Men are discarded.

Speaker 1 It's often like, okay, you got to do whatever you got to 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.

Speaker 1 We accept that role. We almost say, fuck ourselves.

Speaker 1 So hold up this house. Yeah.
To make sure she's not going to be able to do that. Some people like that.

Speaker 1 Some people like that. Some people are proud of that.
That makes them happy. Yeah.
But no, I don't know if it necessarily makes them happy. We forego our happiness.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Our happiness is an afterthought. Secondary.
Dog. You got to listen to.
Cut it out. Yeah.
That nigga.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's like, what I'm a bitch for?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We got to do the work. We first came.
You like, yo, we're going to put our heads down. We're going to do the work.
And I think benefits are going to be at the end of it. And that's what happens.

Speaker 1 And as a man, that's how you kind of carry through life. But your happiness stay your priority.

Speaker 1 Society makes that normal.

Speaker 1 That's why patriarchy is unhealthy for men, too.

Speaker 1 If your wife is happy and your children is happy, you know what I mean? That's all you're doing. You're succeeding as a man, no matter if your body is killing you or any of that.

Speaker 1 And a lot of times you can't be happy. You can't even complain about it.
A lot of times, because you'll be looked at a certain way.

Speaker 1 A lot of times you go through internal turmoil, but you have to put on a happy face when you walk into the house.

Speaker 1 That applies to men.

Speaker 1 When they say leave that shit outside, yeah but a lot of times you're bringing it inside you just have to put a mask on yep so it won't affect them it says something i'm sorry to interrupt you it's okay no it's okay no it says something uh last episode i was listening he said if i only had twenty dollars in my account i would never they would never know my lady would never know

Speaker 1 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 you know what i mean but i'm gonna borrow it to make this thing happen because my idea of a of manhood is partly about being able to take care of everybody and to be in control and everything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I'm like literally not sleeping at night trying to figure out how to put these things together.

Speaker 1 And that's a fact. And because I don't, I don't stress or fuck you up.
Exactly. You can die from stress.
And we do every day.

Speaker 1 You spend your last money to make sure your kids have and all that shit. Make sure your wife have, and shit is different.
And

Speaker 1 you just got to eat that.

Speaker 1 A lot of male voices. Let's give Mel a chance to process and reply to this or speak to this.

Speaker 2 It just sounds like from.

Speaker 1 We're not gender warring.

Speaker 2 No, it just sounds like from what you guys are, you know, saying collectively collectively that

Speaker 2 you fall victim to

Speaker 2 um you fall victim to like a kind of like the idea of what a man is supposed to be you know i'm saying like provision and leave your you know non-emotional leave your stuff at the door like you're all of that stuff the hum your humanity is inconsequential and that doesn't

Speaker 2 I don't really, I just don't see it that way. Maybe it's because I'm not married.
Maybe it's it's because of that.

Speaker 1 That's what happy wife, happy life is saying.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 I never took it as that person either. I never took it as that person.
And also,

Speaker 2 and also to Ice's point,

Speaker 2 like a couple of seconds ago, some people actually like that. Sometimes the source of their happiness is to see

Speaker 2 their wife and their their family thriving. And so I don't think that it's a blanket statement that can be applied to all men, you know?

Speaker 1 It's a bad thing when you think that.

Speaker 2 And so hold on. The other thing is, and so hold on.

Speaker 2 The other thing is, 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 And that is what they're not finding.

Speaker 1 But that's part of the

Speaker 1 same problem.

Speaker 2 Patriarchy. Exactly.

Speaker 1 Because we're not trained to do that. We're trained to pay these bills and make sure that the lights are on and

Speaker 1 we get judged on that.

Speaker 2 No, and so, but wait, hold on one second. To further that point.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 What about all the other ways that you can develop yourselves? You guys have been left at, left,

Speaker 2 there's been a grave disservice done to you because of that way of thinking.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 What if the people are disagree with what she said? What if the people that's receiving it? I think that's true. I think that's true.

Speaker 1 What if the people that's receiving it, receiving the perks, don't think about your happiness at all?

Speaker 2 Oh, well, then that's a fucked-up mate.

Speaker 1 Let me ask you a question. That's just that, that's a fucking mate.

Speaker 1 Hold on, wait, wait, wait, let me. Hold on.
My bad, my my bad. Because that's not intentional, right? Because everybody has issues, man.

Speaker 1 But what if they also think that you're the man, suck it up, figure it out, because the role that you

Speaker 1 not took, I guess, because the role that is, I guess, assigned to you, right? So she's not thinking that,

Speaker 1 because I'm going to be careful. She's not thinking that, Yo, I wonder if he's a...
She's going to check on you, but she's not going to go out her way.

Speaker 1 Some people are not going to go out their way to find out

Speaker 1 what are you going through at work or the father of the finances because men, we shut down.

Speaker 1 We shut down when you try to ask certain questions. We're not communicative a lot of the times.
We don't wanna get into that. Yo, forget about that.
We don't wanna, because a lot of times

Speaker 1 not to.

Speaker 1 You're not worse than a complaining man. They know worse than a crying man.

Speaker 1 Get rich, get fit shit is some modern shit.

Speaker 1 That's some new age shit. Yeah, that's new.

Speaker 1 Most of the motivational speakers I follow, they don't live by that motto.

Speaker 1 Like, I think that the motivational speakers I follow, they find it insulting that we only relegate it to protect and provide.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 That wasn't my argument. I just, the expectation put on her because of your argument is what I was basically saying.
I was just like, why should she?

Speaker 2 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 date anybody, bus driver, post office worker, or, you know, a CEO of a Fortune 500, that's her choice.

Speaker 2 But it's, it's based, the whole argument was around.

Speaker 2 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 light in life.

Speaker 2 That was what that was what that conversation was.

Speaker 1 That wasn't that.

Speaker 1 Because it was if the bus driver was basically doing everything that you wanted. Yes.
So, so in that it was based on the ordinary K.

Speaker 1 Williams shit about her saying she shouldn't have to date the bus driver.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But back to what we're talking about now, today 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.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm saying. Provide and protect.
Provide and protect. Provide and protect.
And that's being beat into men's head.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 was about season one.

Speaker 1 In closing for me,

Speaker 1 when, and this is, I don't, 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 as well.

Speaker 1 I think it's two things.

Speaker 1 It's a lot with that.

Speaker 1 Because I don't want to open that gate, but my homegirls say that the man feels less there, right? And so he has an insecurity because he's not the breadwinner. I don't want to say breadwinner.

Speaker 1 He's not the primary financial provider of his home. But then I had a conversation with one of my pupils, and this was a couple of months ago, actually.
She an advocate of the pot.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 And that's your daily life.

Speaker 1 And I said, yo, a lot of times women can't check that at the door.

Speaker 1 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 10 hours at work to your man.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that I'd be talking to my man like that. And he said it and I looked at it the way he said, like, yo, you just jealous of me because I make more money, whatever the case may be.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 I have a brain freeze right now, it was on Shannon Sharp, the black comedian, the lady, not Cheryl Underwood,

Speaker 1 Leslie Jones, no, not Leslie Jones.

Speaker 1 No, she was like, yo, I'm not the breadwinner. Just because I make the most money, I'm not the breadwinner.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I didn't see that clip go around enough.

Speaker 1 It wasn't Monique. She said something like that.
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 breadwinner.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That's a hard thing to get to, I think. I think that's a really hard thing.

Speaker 1 I think it comes down to finding a good, compatible partner. I agree with you.
You figure out who you want to be. Like,

Speaker 1 I don't want to be the head of my household.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 I still want that relationship.

Speaker 1 And I know some people take pride in, like Ice was saying, some people take pride. It was Cheryl on the way.
It's Cheryl.

Speaker 1 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, right? But I think the issue is

Speaker 1 how society treats us or makes us think that that's who we're supposed to be and what our role is. And so that's what I'm always trying to work out.
I let it be known in mine.

Speaker 1 If my depression gets to kicking in high gear, this whole shit is kaput.

Speaker 1 The kids, you, the house, the bills, the mortgage, 401, savings, future plans, all this shit is kaput.

Speaker 1 That's facts. So, yeah, happy house, happy spouse.
I like that.

Speaker 1 You can't, though. You can't what? That's just talk.
It's not true. What do you mean? It's just talk.

Speaker 1 Because reality kicks in. So, regardless of your depression,

Speaker 1 your bills still got to get paid.

Speaker 1 It don't matter what you're going through, my nigga. Wait, Lex got to eat.
But this is the part.

Speaker 1 In this part, I'm I'm gonna 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 the work not getting done.

Speaker 1 It's about

Speaker 1 that's unique to this job too. Okay, well, it's unique to the job.
No, I'm just saying

Speaker 1 no, it's unique to this job. Because in corporate, you know what I'm saying? It's a little, you sell your personality to make a living, right? So if you having a fucked up day, we see it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And that still could happen. And if you worked in corporate, it still could happen.
Your team got to eat it.

Speaker 1 You could miss some shit. That fucking team got to cost y'all some money because you distracted.
You're not focused on your job.

Speaker 1 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 look taken aback by that.

Speaker 1 Me, I've never heard someone be.

Speaker 1 He looked pissed at that. Yeah, I've never heard someone break that down like that.

Speaker 1 I see where they're coming from. I don't think that that phrase necessarily means that, though.
Me neither. Okay.

Speaker 1 I do have a part of the show.

Speaker 1 This part of the show is from a name I can't pronounce, but I'm going to go back to school and ish will lose our life competition for good.

Speaker 1 This says

Speaker 1 on December 20th, the Discord community lost a beloved member of the JBP community, Jason Blayton Abrew.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Well, if you put your dick in your fucking pen, anyway, during our time with Blayton, he was critical of the pod, following Joe for many years. To us, Blayton was family.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We all wondered if Blayton was finally taking a break from writing in his Discord diary. After a little investigating and after 15 and 15 days later, we found his obituary.
God damn.

Speaker 1 The news was shocking to us, and we're still trying to process it as a family. So I ask,

Speaker 1 have any of you lost an online fan or friend you've never met but built a relationship with?

Speaker 1 Was it difficult to explain to your real-life family/slash friends who may not understand online relationships? Rest in peace, Jason Blayton Abru.

Speaker 1 Damn, rest in peace.

Speaker 1 Great question, Abreu. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 Great question. And rest in peace to Jason Abreu.
Yeah. And yes.
Distinguished panel. I've had that experience.

Speaker 1 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. And it was when blogs were still new in online communities.

Speaker 1 People didn't really understand it. But these were people who I engaged every day.
Now people kind of know to be in spaces or on Twitter or whatever.

Speaker 1 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 Amodiende.

Speaker 1 Glenn Wright's is his real name. And I had never met him before.
And he eventually died. Two people, he died.

Speaker 1 He is very openly HIV positive and actually had AIDS.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he was working on his PhD, and he was doing all this cool stuff. And he was so excited.
And he was working. Then suddenly he took a turn for the worse.
And he just was gone for three weeks.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And it was the first time we 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.

Speaker 1 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 communities how you build it.

Speaker 1 It does not have to do with physical walls or material space. It's about who is in your world.
And so grieve and experience. That's so sad.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 that was great.

Speaker 1 And to answer the question, this has happened to me many times.

Speaker 1 My lawyer. Over the years.
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.

Speaker 1 He was doing all my trademark shit. And,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 it's timed. You know, 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

Speaker 1 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.
It was an attorney from Florida, young.

Speaker 1 He was 26, I think, 25, 26, pod watcher, and he had passed away. And

Speaker 1 I felt away because he used to be calling, yo, I got caught cheating, yo, my girl.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I think his father's a congressman, I believe.

Speaker 1 And yeah, he had passed away.

Speaker 1 He was a fan a few years ago that had made the news for something.

Speaker 1 and then he passed like

Speaker 1 in like a year or a couple years after that, but he was a huge podcast fan. Like, I'm always appreciative to the person that lets me know that the person passed.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 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 sad. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I think the dude that you just mentioned. Shit, the Botham Gene dude.
Rest in peace. It was a podcast? Botham Gene.
Both.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Rest in peace. Rest in peace to

Speaker 1 Jason Abreu. For sure.

Speaker 1 Rest in peace, bro. Prayers for those inside the pod, outside the pod, anybody out there going through a silent battle.

Speaker 1 Our prayers go out to you. And shout out to Jason Breux's family.
For sure. Family and friends who may be dealing with the loss.
But great, great question. And thank you to whoever sent this in.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Queue it up. Good idea.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And for the 10-year anniversary, I mean, it makes sense. We can't

Speaker 1 episode come and go and not let outstanding. Couldn't have got here without outstanding.
We need No the Ledge, too, man.

Speaker 1 Oh, no the Ledge at all.

Speaker 1 No the Ledge got to come back, but

Speaker 1 don't be too pussy.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 Wait, what circumstances does that get played?

Speaker 1 When are you about to say some shit? A hot take. When you're gonna say some shit.
When you're about to stand on the ledge and say some shit that people are scared to say. I like that.

Speaker 1 And say it with your chest. Bring it back.
Bold.

Speaker 1 You like that.

Speaker 2 I do. It's one of them.
I love that song.

Speaker 1 I'll cue it up for you if you got something.

Speaker 2 No, I'm keeping it cute today.

Speaker 2 King go

Speaker 2 back by five.

Speaker 1 Huh?

Speaker 1 Yo, also, I'm now all the way hip to my white people news, but uh

Speaker 1 white people seem pissed at whatever joke Ryan Reynolds told at the fucking, what's the name? Oh, yeah, yeah, I see, at the SNL shit. Yeah, that's shit.

Speaker 2 Shorty, um, Blake Lively is in a lawsuit with Justin Bell Doni from the movie that they did together. Correct.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But that's his ex, right? Who? No, it's Ryan Reynolds.
That's what he's doing. No, Reynolds.
No, that's his current wife, Blake Lively.

Speaker 2 So they're being sued for $400 million by Justin Bell Doni.

Speaker 1 For what? God?

Speaker 2 For like defamation.

Speaker 1 She said that he made it uncomfortable on the

Speaker 1 set of

Speaker 2 It Ends With Us. Yes.
So she started.

Speaker 2 She started it. The lawsuit, she filed the first lawsuit.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 And he clapbacked. Yeah.
And Ryan's got a lot of money. And it's fucking ugly.
That bag.

Speaker 2 Super bags.

Speaker 1 He got super, super bags. Like, even that's a disservice.
He got all the bags. Yeah.
That Mint Mobile, soccer. That Mint Mobile shit was so cool.

Speaker 2 Football, whatever you call it.

Speaker 1 Football. And I think he did a tequila or some liquor and sold it for

Speaker 1 the other figures. Well, thank y'all for hipping me to that.

Speaker 1 Yo, let's get up. I couldn't keep up.
Let's get a button whiskey.

Speaker 1 Nah. Ryan Reynolds is also Deadpool.
Oh, exactly.

Speaker 1 That's the luxury.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, that's the

Speaker 1 playplay money. I'm just saying.
No, that's playplay money.

Speaker 1 That is not playplay money. That is not that.

Speaker 1 To Marvel?

Speaker 1 He's a billionaire. No, I know.
He's a multi-billionaire. That ain't Marvel.
Deadpool money is my sneaker money. That's my PlayPlay money.
That's my sneaker money, man. Mel.
No, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 1 He holds. No, hold on one second.

Speaker 2 He is not just Deadpool.

Speaker 1 He's the one that's

Speaker 1 just

Speaker 1 played.

Speaker 1 No, no,

Speaker 2 I'm not talking about the characters. He has equity fucking stake.

Speaker 5 He EPs those fucking movies, yes.

Speaker 1 She's right, she's right.

Speaker 2 I'm not talking about his character. I'm talking about he EP.

Speaker 1 You know what we need to start doing? He's still behind on this show.

Speaker 1 I'm telling y'all, moving forward for the 800s, ChatGPT needs to be the new screen man.

Speaker 1 We be saying too much bullshit up here. My mom used ChatGPT for everything and get the straight facts.

Speaker 1 She'd be doing new

Speaker 1 accounting. Does Ryan Reynolds have equity in his company? Yada, yada, yada, yada.

Speaker 2 His production company, if you look at the credits, his production company, it's

Speaker 2 maximum effort. That's what it's called.
His production company is called Maximum Effort. And it is a maximum effort production.

Speaker 1 What you would do if Ryan Reynolds called you a legend from the six? What do you do that week? Put it on the profile. Who would have done that?

Speaker 1 It's a trick. Don't skip it.

Speaker 1 She's so doofy. She's going to walk right into the trick.

Speaker 1 Chat GPT just said he don't have equity. Of course he does not have epidemic.

Speaker 2 He produces the movies.

Speaker 1 If you look at the credits. Ryan Reynolds has equity in Deadpool.
While exact details of the deal is not

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 2 At Google Maximum Effort Productions, it's his.

Speaker 1 And that is.

Speaker 1 They said it is equity. Yes, he has equity in Deadpool.

Speaker 1 Me getting back in money don't mean I have equity.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 I'm not pretending to know Ryan Reynolds' business.

Speaker 1 Because he does not have equity, but it did say

Speaker 1 his production company, Maxima Effort, has been involved in Deadpool-related projects furthering

Speaker 1 trying his financial interests to the franchise.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm not, I don't know. No, this has no chat game.
I don't pretend to say that.

Speaker 1 That's just Google. They say he's not a billionaire either.

Speaker 1 Oh, you got a six-year-old. I keep telling y'all, niggas be throwing the

Speaker 1 the billionaire word around too much. It's hard out here for a pimp.
It's hard to get $20. Okay,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It says right here, he sold his aviation, his stake of aviation gin to Diago for $6.10. $6.10.
That's one venture. That's one venture.
Mitt Mobile. Ryan Reynolds around $300.

Speaker 1 Ryan Reynolds is lying to the government. Mitt Mobile for $300.
Nigga, that's $960. Ryan Reynolds is lying to the IRS, and something should be done about it.
Well, salute. Salute.
That's it. Salute.

Speaker 1 Keep it low. That's about me.
I'm ratting on Ryan. I'm just saying, come on now.
Keep it low, Kimmy. Mint Mobile.

Speaker 1 I do agree that we throw the beard around a lot. We do think this one is justified.
This one is correct. Ryan Reynolds might have it for real.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But from that Mint Mobile deal, he made $300 million from his steak, from the liquor. $600 out of you.
Aviation Gin.

Speaker 1 And he's dating who?

Speaker 2 Blake Lively. He's married to Blake Lively.
They got four kids.

Speaker 1 You know her. Who's

Speaker 1 faithful?

Speaker 1 No. No, I'm just joking.
I don't know what that's. You can't do that.

Speaker 1 When I was out there playing them by games, I was aiming low. All right.

Speaker 1 Come on, bro.

Speaker 1 You shit him with the Ryan Reynolds. I was aiming way too.

Speaker 1 You shit me.

Speaker 1 Ryan Reynolds.

Speaker 1 Young nigga, too. Anyway, go ahead.
Go ahead, Ryan Reynolds. Good for him.
A Billy just sound nice. He's your age, Ish.

Speaker 1 Yo, to be a billionaire at 49 is y'all. That's ridiculous.
For sure.

Speaker 1 That's absolutely ridiculous. I'm slacking on my Macca.
Well, we told you that when you was 25.

Speaker 1 Slipping on your pimping, right? Look at Ish Reynolds, man. Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 he's waiting for that raspberry Ross connect to come through them doors. He's waiting on that little luxury high rise in Newark.

Speaker 1 I'm coming to vandalize the luxury high rise. The cleaners, right? Ish? Nigga.
You see, they're 21. It's going to build a little cleaners underneath his high rise.

Speaker 1 No, they're going to take him to the shoes. Filipino barbershop.
They're going to put some shit there, too.

Speaker 1 A little Asian barbershop.

Speaker 1 One day this shit got pushed back. That's how.

Speaker 1 All real black men know the exact moment that their hairline got all the way twisted. I know mine.

Speaker 1 We was on tour, Slaughterhouse.

Speaker 1 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's saying, shit.

Speaker 1 He said, wait, yo, dog, that ain't how it's supposed to feel. Now, why you move?

Speaker 1 I've been getting here because a long time.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Shout out to him.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Orlando.

Speaker 1 And, and, listen, shout out to the Orlando barber. Who else be fucking up black men's hairlines from early since young?

Speaker 1 Baby moms.

Speaker 1 Mothers.

Speaker 1 Mothers.

Speaker 1 All over the country. All over the world.
Yep. And don't give a fuck.

Speaker 1 They don't know. Hold still.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they have no idea.

Speaker 1 They have no idea. And you're not even moving.
And anything to not call the dad. Hold still.
They don't use no guards. They use that.
Anything to not have to communicate with the dad.

Speaker 1 Not supposed to shape the hair up there, y'all. At all.

Speaker 1 Ain't supposed to be at the barbershop, but fuck, fuck, she know. She won't talk to the dad.
Exactly.

Speaker 1 And when dad take you to some fly shit, the mom get mad. And when you come back with this shit crispy, start hating this shit.

Speaker 1 I remember the moment that fucking Lex showed up with a fresh shape up at one and a half.

Speaker 1 I was like, yeah, what are you doing? He was like, no,

Speaker 1 he loves his barber. She does everything amazing.
I was like, wait, what? He says she.

Speaker 1 Some job. Is it okay to be sexist in some jobs? Yes.
Yes.

Speaker 1 This is some good female ball business. Mail.
You think it's okay for us to be sexist with some jobs? Sure. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 She fucking just learned the gig.

Speaker 1 She doesn't know the gig now. She just go along with it.
No, to just get us the fuck out of here.

Speaker 1 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 Scizor.

Speaker 1 For my sleeper, I am going with Scissor. This record is called Babylon.

Speaker 1 Some old scissors. Some of y'all don't even remember how old scissors sound.
Some of y'all never even heard old scissors.

Speaker 1 And Kendrick smoked this.

Speaker 1 Crucify.

Speaker 1 Crucify.

Speaker 1 Crucify.

Speaker 1 I can't recall the last time I took advice from anyone.

Speaker 1 Sick like a figure wave

Speaker 1 who trusts pretty girls anyway.

Speaker 1 And I can't recall the last time I took advice from anyone.

Speaker 1 Are you sure I'll be the death of me?

Speaker 1 And I can recall the last time I said love for my one.

Speaker 1 I call tidies.

Speaker 1 We scarce one anyway.

Speaker 1 Not me.

Speaker 1 Are you hating yourself

Speaker 1 to what I hate?

Speaker 1 Are you hating yourself?

Speaker 1 Was it worth it?

Speaker 1 Would you do it again?

Speaker 1 Aren't you tired?

Speaker 1 Always making amends, or

Speaker 1 I know you hate me now.

Speaker 1 I bet you hate me now.

Speaker 1 Bring on the thorny ground.

Speaker 1 Lost my heart, then I hope to die with a peace of mind.

Speaker 1 Peace together, my brain soon as this beat rewind.

Speaker 1 Nitrogen and propane, I spike your drinking times.

Speaker 6 Let me the heart to swallow this game, you throw up every line.

Speaker 6 I know there's people got Napoleon complexes, that's my confession.

Speaker 6 You said that we're equal, but I know you're beyond guessing, that I beyond desperate.

Speaker 6 6 a.m. on a Friday morning, my darkest hours.
Them heartless hours. My apartment is lost in the coffin.
I'm dead to the world like a pop me, a couple downers.

Speaker 1 Down and out of my nooks, hot water hard on my tucks. And I call she don't pick up.
Then I fall with some rescendin'.

Speaker 6 I mean, this no pretending. I'm stuck in my ways, and you're her future.

Speaker 1 That's life, that's true, that's me, that vice. You're wrong, I'm right, that's right.
I belong somewhere on ice. I'm colder, my new blood type.
Even colder, cold shoulder.

Speaker 1 Born silly, you know, cold shoulders. I have nothing to lose.

Speaker 6 My dark side been well and tuned.

Speaker 1 A gym and I go shaving faces. And this here, just one of my moves.
Baba.

Speaker 1 Was it worth it?

Speaker 1 Would you do it again?

Speaker 1 Aren't you tired?

Speaker 1 always

Speaker 1 making amends, or

Speaker 1 I know you hate me now?

Speaker 1 I bet you hate me now.

Speaker 1 Bring on the thorny ground.

Speaker 1 Crucify me.

Speaker 1 Crucify.

Speaker 1 That is the record that introduced me to Scissor, actually.

Speaker 1 Off the project that introduced me to Scissor.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Scissor Kendrick, Fiji Lane, the old TDE.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Punch. Problem on my West Coast heads out there.

Speaker 1 Brand new old music. That is Scissor, and that record is called Babylon off of her project Z.

Speaker 1 For the people out there with Shazam.

Speaker 1 I'm going to play some new old music as well.

Speaker 1 Not as old, but

Speaker 1 last year.

Speaker 1 Turn it up on.

Speaker 1 Full light on the date.

Speaker 1 Big chopper. Big bird, fog leg horn.
Walk a flocker. Drip score.
Women pay me cause I pimp

Speaker 1 I be giving daddy, she know this ain't lil' boy.

Speaker 1 Really puttin' it down around these parts. You a guppy lil' nigga, you drown around these shorts.
Sauce of King, blackjack, can't fold down around these hearts.

Speaker 1 If she drippin' with some pimpin', got no clowns around, she smart. Blowin' pounds around these norths, we ain't stressing, sellin' hard.

Speaker 1 All these bitches selling pictures to these different credit cards. Woke up sipping in the belly, but I ain't living in a car.
Y'all didn't really hurt my feelings, niggas really sipping par.

Speaker 1 Splash, get on superstars.

Speaker 1 Popper, popper.

Speaker 1 Born top dropper. Got them hoes singing when they see me.
It's a opera. Pull a lot.
Pull a lot. Harley Davidson.

Speaker 1 Big bird fog leg horn. Walk up.

Speaker 1 Drip score. Women pay me cause I pimp hard.

Speaker 1 It's Lord. Drop my rose Rush through Field Ward.

Speaker 1 She gave me that pussy free. I heard you toy.

Speaker 1 I be giving daddy, she know this ain't little boy.

Speaker 1 And that's fifth ward, Sauce Walker. Something a little different.
I like it. I like it.
I fucks with Sauce man. Me too.
He's really nice. He's super fine.

Speaker 1 I'm going to. I'm going to Detroit.
What up, though? This is Elderberry by Black Milk and Fat Ray.

Speaker 1 This shit cold as hell, flying.

Speaker 1 Rogers

Speaker 1 Stone Island military coat, literary goat. Fam died, what you think I'm at that cemetery for? Outside, what you think I took that elderberry for? Topside, what you think I'm really legendary for?

Speaker 1 Ray coat in the January snow, nigga.

Speaker 1 Breaks over, we run it to the door. All this work, you gotta be something on the floor.
Don't get hurt, plugging Derek for real with the blow.

Speaker 1 Bro, we was really trained to go. Verbal combat, nigga, I'm getting on with the smoke.
Show your contract, nigga, the whole world will be woke.

Speaker 1 Jokes, feel like everybody got them when you on the bottom, even though they gross is a hoax. Ghost,

Speaker 1 paranormal activities, niggas stay scared, play dead like shivery.

Speaker 1 No dignity, boy, if you can write like me, a bitch will tie you to the bed like misery. You shoe visually, we shoe literally.
All that murder, Captain Lee, you messed up spiritually.

Speaker 1 Too cold lyrically.

Speaker 1 Swallow my soliloquy. It's for the barsmiths to honor their abilities.
Cut bold, isn't it?

Speaker 1 It never ceased to amaze me. Niggas know the realest is still against the Fougaze.
Crazy.

Speaker 1 Ain't no trick or treat. Niggas try and trick you off the street.
Tricky ass niggas can't fuck with trick trick and me. Bitch, this the D, all gold, real Mr.

Speaker 1 T, he'll lift his T, draw heat, lift you off your feet. We gon' play the streets.
Hard rock, nigga, Chris and Neath. Let you keep it beep, keep it brief.

Speaker 1 When you speak to me, all to beats, murder all your beats. May they rest in peace, niggas sleep.
All that you can eat when you rap the beat. She gon' pop that P for a G, cause she love the D.

Speaker 1 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 sweet, learn and grow. All I wanna know is how to sow and reap.

Speaker 1 Run it up and keep your mouth shut, all that talking cheap. I don't give a damn unless it's fam, keep it short and sweet.
Niggas really don't support their beats, but a place for keeps.

Speaker 1 Niggas better wake up out they sleep. If they gon' compete, eat.

Speaker 1 It never ceased to amaze me. Niggas know the realest and still get the fugas.

Speaker 1 Crazy.

Speaker 1 That's elderberry, black milk, and fat ray.

Speaker 1 Salute.

Speaker 1 I'm going to

Speaker 1 young lady by the name of Savannah Christina, and the song is worthy of love.

Speaker 1 I don't know what it is about ya.

Speaker 1 So in the morning, calling me up, and I'm there to answer.

Speaker 1 Blood on my hands for

Speaker 1 you.

Speaker 1 I've got a soft spot for you.

Speaker 2 Like every time I get back up, find myself falling for you.

Speaker 1 You let me be myself around you.

Speaker 1 You close the door and leave the world outside.

Speaker 1 Don't judge me for my past.

Speaker 1 You tell me, take off the mask and just

Speaker 1 play with you.

Speaker 1 No, I ain't got no plans. I just wanna stay with you.

Speaker 1 How do you know just what to say?

Speaker 1 Never let you go get in the way.

Speaker 1 Keeping it real, letting me hear. I need you, baby.

Speaker 1 Making me feel like I

Speaker 1 am worthy of love.

Speaker 1 Like I,

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 am.

Speaker 1 The best of me

Speaker 1 feels like

Speaker 1 you got the best of me.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 and it feels right where I'm supposed to be.

Speaker 1 Cause I need you close to me.

Speaker 1 When the nights get cold,

Speaker 1 when the days get long,

Speaker 1 and emotions take a stall,

Speaker 1 cause I always see the wrong.

Speaker 1 When the sun don't shine through,

Speaker 1 and I just can't can't find the light when I'm good all by myself.

Speaker 1 That's when I need you by my side.

Speaker 1 How do you know just what to say?

Speaker 1 Never let you ego get in the way.

Speaker 1 Keeping it real, letting me heal. I need you, baby.
You're making me feel like I

Speaker 1 am worthy of a love

Speaker 1 like I.

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 am more than needed love

Speaker 1 like I'm never

Speaker 1 some word

Speaker 1 like I

Speaker 1 like I'm

Speaker 1 worthy of love

Speaker 1 like I

Speaker 1 like I

Speaker 1 worthy of love

Speaker 1 like I

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 finally

Speaker 1 found

Speaker 1 That is Savannah Christina worthy of love. That was fire.

Speaker 1 That was fire.

Speaker 1 Big Mad, what you got?

Speaker 1 Hold up.

Speaker 1 I ain't going to hold you, boy.

Speaker 1 I bought that nigga's shit. Nah.
That's what you just said. Hold up.
Get away from me, man.

Speaker 1 Yo, hold up for a second. Hold up for a second.

Speaker 1 We just did a little investigation about this shit, man.

Speaker 1 First of all, every time this nigga say I got a sleeper,

Speaker 1 it's a young lady from such and such.

Speaker 1 I was skeptical, so we started looking at the IG to see what she looked like.

Speaker 1 And we asked, no, no, 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.

Speaker 1 That's what the man said. Okay, I did the deeper science.
Oh, what's the deeper science?

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, I got to hear it. I feel like that's some surface-level science.
Good-looking lady, ish founder. I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 1 Let me start with love. There we go.

Speaker 1 Ish deservedly, that's a word, right? Deservedly won.

Speaker 1 And who knew that cantaloupe was spelt with a U?

Speaker 2 A lot of people.

Speaker 1 I had no idea.

Speaker 1 I'm going back to school.

Speaker 1 I'm going back to school. Yeah, I know.
Y'all left me in a group chat.

Speaker 1 Once they left me in a group chat, I was like, oh, shit, they knew how to spell it.

Speaker 1 Ish deservedly won the sleeper award last year.

Speaker 1 I'm back there just trying trying to take a smoke and vibe. Man, this nigga sleeper came on, man.
Hard. You ain't, you just don't play nothing.

Speaker 2 You're right, I'm not going to.

Speaker 1 You ain't got to play nothing.

Speaker 2 Got it. Don't play my shit.

Speaker 1 However,

Speaker 1 I did hear the rumor.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 shit. No.

Speaker 1 Now, since this is the 10-year anniversary and Alex is here,

Speaker 1 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 and Jay-Z PSA.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And his switch to being the sleeper god

Speaker 1 happened too fast.

Speaker 1 Word on the street

Speaker 1 is that Alex has been feeding you songs?

Speaker 1 Well, that happened. Ghost 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. Oh, but now.

Speaker 1 I never mentioned it, but since it's the 10-year anniversary and Alex is here, I'm not saying I believe it. I'm saying

Speaker 1 that would explain

Speaker 1 how Ish has turned. No, I didn't make that up.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 waiting on that need to know, Mixer. And let me shout my guys out for taking over Mandy's business.

Speaker 1 Let me shout my guys out for taking over Mandy's business. Doing with it what couldn't be done without y'all.

Speaker 1 Shout my guys out. Took that.

Speaker 1 Get out. Go to Atlanta.

Speaker 1 Hello.

Speaker 1 Anyway, yeah. Now, I don't know if

Speaker 1 there's any truth to it, but that would explain how you have quickly turned into the sleeper God. Because that boy know music, Alex.
He do. That boy Alex knows some music.
Especially R ⁇ B.

Speaker 1 And you don't. And yo, when the last time I saw you.
And you don't. When the last time I talked to you.
At the mixer when you were talking to the plus one.

Speaker 1 When you was making this plus one.

Speaker 1 Oh!

Speaker 1 Wake it up, Alex! Why we got to speak?

Speaker 1 Why we got to speak for you to steal my sleep? Because every Friday I drop the new new. Or he probably got a little playlist somewhere.
Every Friday, Alex drops the new new.

Speaker 1 You send it over to all the hate. Hey, it's okay, bro.
That's my man. That's my man.

Speaker 1 So it's untrue. He's never given you a sleep.
So the rumors are false. He's never given you a sleep.

Speaker 1 Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let's address the words mean things.
He probably gave me a sleeper back in the day. Back in the day, meaning years ago.
Yeah. Okay.
Not really 2024. What year?

Speaker 1 22. When we came on the pop? 21? Yes.
I don't know. Did you sign your shit? I don't know.

Speaker 1 You signed your contract. Yo, what did I got to do with when we came? I don't know.
I don't know. 21, I think.

Speaker 1 This nigga's so stupid, bro.

Speaker 1 Don't try that. A little tricky, dude, too.
Retroactive tape no, nigga. Sign it.

Speaker 1 Yo, whoever you just played,

Speaker 1 I'm buying it. You found him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When we did our research, I said.

Speaker 1 They said followed by Joe Button. Yeah, yeah, we did our research.
We found the IG. We was like, okay, then first name.
What's her name? Savannah. Savannah Christina.
Savannah Calcrina.

Speaker 1 All right. I know.
I may not know how to spell Candelo, but I know how to spell Savannah. S, A.
And Christina. A.

Speaker 1 Savannah Christina. Oh, Christina, here she go.
Oh, I do follow her. No, we don't.
We know. We know.
We looked. We went to look to see if Ish followed her.
And the first thing it said was you.

Speaker 1 And the first thing it said was you. And of course, his competitor.

Speaker 1 I do follow her. She don't be popping up on my algorithm, but whatever song that was right there,

Speaker 1 ish.

Speaker 1 Hat tip to you, my brother.

Speaker 1 Nah, that shit was fire, nigga. That shit was fire.
I ain't heard JEP since it dropped, nigga. Don't hate it.
Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 Don't hate it. You did all that all hip-hop interviews.

Speaker 1 All hip-hop ain't push it. That's a lot.
All hip-hop ain't push it. You have her.
Of course, nigga, that shit came on and girls love karaoke. Fuck they talking about? Fuck, they talking about it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, nigga. That was a trap, nigga.
I'm supporting my man. It came on the girls love karaoke.
And I sung every word. He requested.
I sung every word.

Speaker 1 Imani requested it? No. Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 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 a vibe, they was like, all right.

Speaker 1 Nah, this shit is all right, right? All right, see, that's it. I wasn't trying to shoot.
That shit is a bibe. It's a bop.
I swear y'all.

Speaker 1 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 seen the allhiphop.com interview, nigga.

Speaker 1 Nessa, you and Nessa.

Speaker 1 Nessa, shout out to Nessa. Love you.
Shout out to Cap. Love him.

Speaker 1 Some people you know where they get together and it's just like, oh, that couple makes sense. Yeah, it's Nessa and Cap all the way.

Speaker 1 Mel. Yeah.
Give me a hug. Let's go.
Nope.

Speaker 1 Nope. Come on, we know.
Don't play it. I'm not playing shit.

Speaker 2 Don't play nothing. I'm not.

Speaker 1 Play your bio. Come on.
Nope. Nope.
Nope. Don't play your bio.
Play your bio.

Speaker 2 Nope. Nope.

Speaker 1 Nope. So you're not going to play nothing.
No, I'm not playing fuck off. You ain't going to play New Krain, nothing.

Speaker 2 No, I'm not playing nothing.

Speaker 1 Who else Mel be playing?

Speaker 1 You ain't gonna play

Speaker 1 fucking Impala, Tame Impala? Nope, nope.

Speaker 1 Who made

Speaker 1 Sex on Fire? Who made that? Who made...

Speaker 1 And nothing I could beat something about. Kings and Leon, come on.
Kings and Leon.

Speaker 1 No sleeper. Nope.

Speaker 1 Nope. But a 10-year? No.

Speaker 1 Right after the shout out, you don't even need to play sleepers no more. No.
Mm-mm. Nope.

Speaker 2 You told me not to, so I'm not going to.

Speaker 1 We should wrap this up. Did you send one to Parks? Yeah, I did.

Speaker 2 Don't play it.

Speaker 1 Could it? Was it fired? Was it fired?

Speaker 2 Why the fuck does he know? He don't know the song. Oh,

Speaker 1 okay. A little sassy.
Okay, I'll find some

Speaker 1 alchemy. Mark, right there?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, Mark. Big Mark.
I've been traveling, haven't heard any music this week. Don't have anything.
Come on, play some more for that. What's that soundtrack you keep playing shit from?

Speaker 1 I played one song from one soundtrack. You got goddamn asshole.

Speaker 1 That nigga heard one little.

Speaker 1 The dame dash on man.

Speaker 1 Good soundtrack.

Speaker 1 That nigga heard one little soundtrack. And every week we got to hear some.
Come on, drop some freeway shit for Philly.

Speaker 1 No?

Speaker 1 Oh, man. All right.
All right. Fine.
We had a good pod. It was a great pod.
It's a great pod. It was an amazing pod.
Great anniversary. Words.
I love it. It's a great anniversary pod.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'm not trying to be funny. I wasn't trying to be funny.
There you go. I I wasn't trying to be funny.

Speaker 1 Oh, we got to pop a little bit of a sound. I should have played Rory's song as a sleeper, as a nodding.
That would have been fire, right? We got to do a toast.

Speaker 1 Before we get out of here, Rory's going to take off with me.

Speaker 1 Oh, all right, getting free advice.

Speaker 1 Next week, Rory, I got you.

Speaker 1 I'll play the sleeper, man.

Speaker 1 All right, Mel is done and Mark is done.

Speaker 1 Yeah, do a toast. A toast would be good at that.
Toast? Yeah, we should do a toast.

Speaker 1 We should do a toast.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Oh, all right. The culture up here.

Speaker 1 The culture. It's never beaten allegation.
The culture is sexist.

Speaker 1 Oh, we trying to be.

Speaker 1 Not trying.

Speaker 1 I mean, I mean, it's just. Some of my eyes.
Yeah, that shit is a blast, man. Sometimes.

Speaker 1 Don't try to spray it on me and flip neither.

Speaker 1 Don't try to get the shit off. I'll get up.
I'll move.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. Don't shoot it this way, lady.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you,

Speaker 1 lady. Mel, stop.
Lady. Don't call me.

Speaker 1 Nah, for real, because she's going to try to do some funny shit right now. I'm not.
I promise. Oh, you're just going to do it properly?

Speaker 2 I'm a consummate professional.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Even that's a shot. She's shot at us.

Speaker 1 You are. She's about to poke my whole eye out.
I'm not.

Speaker 2 That's how you do it.

Speaker 1 Oh, she did that shit. That's how you do it.
Shout out to you.

Speaker 2 Silently. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Boom.

Speaker 1 Hell, damn. That's right.
A lot of shots, girl.

Speaker 1 She had enough of you niggas. Didn't she did? John Will.

Speaker 1 Acting like John Wick.

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we are, nigga. 10 years.
Oh, let me guess. The cup in the middle is yours, right? Weirdo? No, I don't drink who don't drink.
I don't drink neither.

Speaker 1 You don't drink flip? No, we drink. You should have got, yeah,

Speaker 1 apple cider, champagne.

Speaker 1 Little kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Little Martinelli's. You do the kids with new.
Oh, man, you're not lazy. Look, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Mark drinks, yes. Drinking the face.
Hell, 10 years, y'all. Come on, man.
Let's have a toast. Give me a water, blood.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got to get some more cups.
Everybody in the room toast, man.

Speaker 1 Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Everybody, come in the middle.

Speaker 1 Everybody in the back, come out. Come out.
Where my niggas at, man. Come in the middle, man.
Come out, man. We got to do this right.
Hey, Sayball, Alex, get your ass out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we got to do this right. 10 years, dog.
10 years. Let's go, man.
Flip don't you bring it? Nah, I need to know.

Speaker 1 I'm not making that shit.

Speaker 1 Flip scared after what happened with that fucking. What you you gave me.
We might need to know, boy. Parks, who's actually going to be talking about the money?

Speaker 1 Come on, go through, go through, go through. Flip ain't taking nothing.
We in the middle. We in the middle with it.
We don't need nothing. Yeah, Ericson definitely needs it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, Ericsson gotta come out, man.

Speaker 1 He gotta come out, too.

Speaker 1 Get another one. Get another one.

Speaker 1 Let's go.

Speaker 1 Wait, Ethan.

Speaker 1 I'll pass it on. I'll pass it on.

Speaker 1 They thought we have another one for ten years free, nigga. They thought we have another one for ten years.
Nigga, touch the camera, y'all. It's concert, man.
Hold up, man.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 She gave me a shit. Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 That's y'all winning.

Speaker 1 That's y'all winning.

Speaker 1 She skidded the shit out of me. Oh, she scared my baby.

Speaker 1 She skittish shit. All right, come on, let's get it toast.
I feel like I need to be at least on the mic because it's an audio production. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's cool.

Speaker 1 It's cool. Let me wait till Amoni gets his.

Speaker 1 We got my baby. Ain't no bitches here, baby.

Speaker 1 All right, we wait. Let Amani.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all right. E used to be a bottle girl.
All right.

Speaker 1 My nigga E used to be a bottle dude.

Speaker 1 Bottle boy.

Speaker 1 Wait, what was our, what's the name of Raw shit, Belair?

Speaker 1 All right, so we got the whole crew up in here. Everybody got a little something.
Come on, Bern, you can do it too, man. You done snuffed enough niggas.
Come on. Come on.

Speaker 1 You done beat enough niggas up behind the scenes. Come on, you can join us.

Speaker 1 You could join us, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah, give issure water.

Speaker 1 Nigga with a Filipino barber, don't need no ace.

Speaker 1 He got a Filipino barber. He don't need no ace.

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 we are making this toast

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 the constant dedication,

Speaker 1 to the fucking effort,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 the Daisy, the new Rory's dog.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 We shouting out the pets.

Speaker 1 We are making this toast to people that have altered their lives

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 toast for Flip, who moved to Jersey, got a crib with an elevator in it.

Speaker 1 We making this toast for the people that have made real life sacrifices to make this thing go down so we could provide some of the best content in the entire world, not in urban, not in urban,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We making this toast to M's.

Speaker 1 Hey, we again, we making this toast.

Speaker 1 We making this toast because 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.

Speaker 1 And we are standing still. So thank God for that.
Thank you guys for that. Let's put glasses in the air.

Speaker 1 Let's put glasses in the air.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Come on, yeah, no, I'm with you. 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.

Speaker 1 Make a toast for my baby before I get in trouble.

Speaker 1 Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 Yes, sir. Ten more years.

Speaker 1 Hey.

Speaker 1 Mighty to body, I see you, I love you out there.

Speaker 1 Hey, Peter Rosenberg, I love you too, nigga.

Speaker 1 I told you we was gonna get shit lit.

Speaker 1 I know you thought you'd be a part of the weed, but you was.

Speaker 1 You was, man.

Speaker 1 Amazing, amazing, amazing. Always for the ladies, always for the ladies out there.

Speaker 1 Back to part of the show. We made that toast for the fans that are no longer with us today.
Rest in peace.

Speaker 1 You know, we do this prayer at the end, and we don't say it in jest.

Speaker 1 Keep us in your prayers. Lord knows each and every one of us, individually and as a collective, need to be there.

Speaker 1 Until the next time, we bid you a due farewell. Adios are dirty, hasta, la vista, arbois.
So long goodbye, one simple head now will suffice.

Speaker 1 Ego.

Speaker 1 Going to a show tonight.

Speaker 1 Doing me home. Remember, life is a series of moments

Speaker 1 and moments pass. So let's make this one last

Speaker 1 as if it's all we have. I hope the 800s and the 900s are even more lit than the six and the seven hundreds.

Speaker 1 And lastly,

Speaker 1 lastly,

Speaker 1 the baddies are insecure, the stagnant women want to travel,

Speaker 1 and the closed-minded women want you to teach them things, grab you a Tylenol,

Speaker 1 you might need it,

Speaker 1 or a muscle relaxer. I mean, whatever your bag is, Adderall, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Great 800th episode, y'all.

Speaker 1 Really good time.

Speaker 1 I look forward to doing this with y'all forever and ever and ever and ever. Yo, shout out to you, Think Peace niggas out there.

Speaker 1 Shout out to all the content niggas out there.

Speaker 1 You make it sound good, brother.

Speaker 1 You make it sound good?

Speaker 1 You make this shit sound like gold on a platter, nigga.

Speaker 1 You make it sound good.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 1 Blessings on blessings on blessings on blessings.

Speaker 1 We got to shout you out, man. We got to shout you out for having the vision, for believing in us.
We got to shout you out for when things were sometimes we're not on the same page.

Speaker 1 You go outside and come back and get it together.

Speaker 1 We have to shout you out for being a visionary, for being a leader, and for actually, regardless of how we make you look, sometimes for looking out for your friends because a lot of companies are not successful like how you are for putting their friends on.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? So salute to you for being an innovator and moving it forward. And we love you, yo.

Speaker 1 We love you. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 Thank you, you thank you for that flip i appreciate it and what a full circle moment back to what lay reed was talking about with just like the black curation of things

Speaker 1 who would have thought that this wonderful wonderful band of fucking just misfits

Speaker 1 would come together and give y'all something enjoyable to listen to two times a week man actually four times a week i don't want to shortchange us sometimes five yeah shout out to patronies out there shout out to jack conti again shout out to case shout out to prospects shout out to cash app who else was there the spotify spotify shout out to spotify

Speaker 1 meundies huh meundies

Speaker 1 meundi bevel

Speaker 1 self-help the self-help lots the talk

Speaker 1 space the best ad we've ever done

Speaker 1 talkspace ad oh my god that was an absolute mess

Speaker 1 that was a mess bro you're so proud of me

Speaker 1 yo it's been good times man. Hopefully, we'll have many, many, many, many, many, many more good times in the future.

Speaker 1 Again, hopefully, y'all have enjoyed this broadcast as much as we have enjoyed delivering it to you.

Speaker 1 We're going home to be with our families that love us.

Speaker 1 Or we're going to the hoodie store. We got to see how we feel.

Speaker 1 Got to see how we feel after the broadcast. Yo, again, actually, shout out to each and everybody's significant other in here, wife or girlfriend.

Speaker 1 It doesn't fall on deaf ears or blind eyes that y'all are part of what makes this thing go around.

Speaker 1 Y'all are a part of keeping the mental health high, the people that get on these microphones. And they be content.

Speaker 1 And they be content. And all of our bullshit.
Shout out to them for being good sports. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, you are absolutely right about that. Until next time, man, y'all hold it down out there.

Speaker 1 We'll be back for 801.

Speaker 1 I mean, 802.

Speaker 1 Well, some things will never change.

Speaker 1 JVP, J, JBP, JB, JB, JJ, JB, J, JB, JB, JB, JB, JBP, JBP, where would you be without the JVP?

Speaker 1 You've never heard of Joe Bun?