The Joe Budden Podcast - Episode 426 | "Internet Executives"
Episode Date: March 27, 2021On this episode: Joe discusses the internet backlash the pod has received (10:58), what he has tried to respect (12:52), how he talks to people (43:15), and not knowing how to let go (57:02). The guys... review new music releases (1:08:10) including Rod Wave, Vic Mensa, Gallant (1:14:15), and Elhae feat. Masego (1:23:55) and ask if hip hop is unconventional (1:29:32). They recap Cassidy vs. Hitman Holla’s intense battle rap face off (1:40:05), Issa Rae’s new five-year, eight-figure deal with WarnerMedia (1:40:05), and Snowfall **SPOILER ALERT** (2:02:27). DaniLeigh’s mental health updates (2:06:43), women empowerment (2:09:03), Derrick Jaxn (2:12:22), and MORE!  For more exclusive content: become a Patron of the The Joe Budden Podcast at www.patreon.com/JoeBudden
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you have to actually teach people how to pod so that's the mic
if your voice transmits into into this device it will amplify and be recorded right that's the goal
yeah and then they could do mad shit with your voice that they can't
do if it's just your voice.
And once you get that down pat.
Sky's the limit.
Mic check, mic check, one, two, one, two,
mic check, mic check, mic check.
You're successful with the shot.
What are you going to do now? Are you going to kill it?
You're going to make. What are you gonna do now? Are you gonna kill him? You're gonna make him unsuccessful.
Frank, you can be successful in your mind.
You can be unsuccessful too.
You're gonna kill this.
I got this niggas breezy.
I can't speak to it.
Shout out to everybody listening from all over the world.
Let that bitch breathe
I used to give a fuck, now I give a fuck less
Why do I think that's success? It sucks, too much stress
I guess I blew up quick, cause friends I grew up with
See me as a preemie, but I'm not in my nuts big
Don't know what the fuss is, my prayers be lustrous
My rep is impeccable, I'm not to be fucked with
Let that bitch breathe My career's illustrious, my rep is impeccable I'm not to be fucked with, with shit
Let that bitch breathe
I'm way too important to be talking bout this shit
Acting me for a fortune's like asking for a coffee
Raw daylight, I'll off your on switch
You're not too bright, goodnight, long kiss
Blast Burner then than past burner to Tata.
Finish my breakfast.
Why?
I got an appetite for destruction.
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You're a smoke. You're a smoke Reds, y'all know what I did in that. Another era of Joe. Ego talking. Oh boy. Oh boy.
Big predicted all of this, man
Big predicted this
Young as ice grillin' me
Oh, oh, yeah, like everyday struggle
Wait, what?
Well, y'all on me, I'm still
Damn no mans, I'm just trying to do me
If the wreck is two mil, I'm just trying to move three
Get a couple chicks, get them to try to do me
Hopefully they're Minaj before I reach my garage
I don't want much, but I drove every car
I already drove most of their cars
The Hyundais, Camrys, come on man, where is the love?
Where is the love?
In the heart of the city
I said where's the love?
Ain't no love in the heart of town
Yeah
This for the guys man, what you want me to do?
To my hoes, say it for the guys
Rory the mole, salute to the fellas
Rory the half mole, hi, salute to all the highs
Yo
Shout out to the YouTube commenters
I agree with you niggas, thumbs down
Bring back the boys
Bring back the boys
Super Bowl goals
My wife in the crib crib feeding the kids liquid gold
We in a whole different mode, kid that used to pitch bricks can't be pigeonholed
I've cooked up more chicken when the kitchen closed
We gon' reach a Philly first, I told my wife to spill you shit really worth
Hummed to a law, I run through a mall
Hoes home, all these phonies come to a halt
All this old talk
Left me confused
You'd rather be
Old, rich me
Or new you
You can't keep
Bopping your head
After the beat, man
It stopped already, man
It stopped
Talking to him
Yeah, I see
But
You can't say that
You can't say stuff like that
Like what?
You'd rather be old, rich me or new you.
You can't say nothing like that.
How does he get away with this, though?
It's old.
That's it.
We just expect arrogance from certain people, right?
Yeah.
Old, puff, they got to get that.
Kobe.
You.
Joe.
Parks, what's up, man? I know you got some shit to get on. Let me finish this. Old niggas, they got to give that. You, Kobe. You, Joe.
Parks, what's up, man?
I know you got your shit to get on.
Let me finish this. Oh, niggas, we got to stop acting.
I know, I know, I know.
Tupac ain't having no spring, too.
Nobody wins when the family feels.
Nobody wins.
My stache can't fit in the Steve Harvey suit.
I'm clear why I'm here.
How about you?
Ain't no such thing.
This nigga's an idiot, man I'm cute I'm pretty much
If anybody gettin' handsome checks
It should be us Crack cocaine, nah we did that Y'all gotta say something some more Don't talk about the music, don't talk about the music
Yeah, nah, don't talk about the music, don't talk about the music
Crack cocaine, nah we did that
Black-owned things, 100%
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And we merrily, merrily eating off these streams
Y'all still drinking Perrier Duet
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One, two.
What is this?
The JBP boys still on whatever hiatus is happening currently.
Still not current with us at the moment.
Still not present with us in the studio.
But Joe didn't coin the phrase, the show must go on.
I know you guys think I invented that. I did not.
In the studio. No one thinks you invented that. I know you guys think I invented that. I did not. In the studio...
What? No one thinks you invented that.
Zero people think the show
must go on. The show always went on without you.
So they didn't think you invented that.
That says y'all.
Says y'all.
You haven't been reading the comments.
I've been reading the comments.
I read a couple. You haven't been looking at the data.
Comments is crazy.
In here I have friends
filling in for friends.
What a genius
concept this is.
Parks is
here still. Happily.
Not
forced. Not against your will
this is your home still
this is my home
I can't just barge in
and force you to do anything
and have my freedom
Erickson is here
right you signed your happiness
in DA
Corey is here
Corey has not signed
his happiness DNA because
of DNA. His happiness
NDA because his name cannot
have a trail attached to it.
We can't really see his
whereabouts.
What's those cards we used to get? The green go card?
Green card? The green dot
cards. He's still doing that type of vibe. Zay here alex is here ice is here and our special guest for the
day friend filling in for friends is ish let's hit the round of applause for ish the infamous ish
yeah finally you've been on the pod it's on voice. Involuntarily.
Yeah, mostly involuntarily, yeah.
Via phone calls.
Ish is somebody that I've been wanting to get on the pod for a long time.
Now that our hosts aren't here, we got to give like a background check on the people that are on the microphone.
Ish is a Pisces.
He likes to walk on the beach.
Ish loves
playing cards.
Monopoly games. I don't fucking
know what he's into. Do we play?
I don't know. Do we just show up?
Not here for that.
What else?
Ish listens to rap, but
not really. Ish
is not really on the internet. If it's not... Ish is not really on the internet
if it's not
he's not really on the internet
but Ish is a real estate mogul
come on we're not doing that
it's the truth
we gotta give people their flowers
it is the truth
it's not the truth
why can't black men just take compliments?
Ish is a real estate mogul with properties all over the country.
And we will get into some of this.
Even Australia.
Or no, Australia.
Alaska and Hawaii.
All over the country.
We out here, man.
South Dakota.
Big development project plans on the way.
Queens project. Huh? The. South Dakota. Big development project plans on the way. Queens Project.
Huh?
The Queens Shelf Project.
How's everybody doing?
Wait, what episode is this?
425.
Welcome to episode 425
of the Joe Button.
I'm sorry, 426.
426.
Look at you losing your way
without the guys.
Episode 426
of the Joe Budden Podcast.
I'm your humble, gracious, grateful, and highly favored host, Joe Budden,
here with a few of my nearest and dearest people in life.
I introduced everybody.
Hopefully, everybody's feeling good.
Is you good?
Ice, are you good?
I'm great.
Parks, are you good?
I'm great.
We should probably shout out the greatest app in the world.
All right.
We are powered by, empowered by, brought to you by, sponsored by, tolerated by, and put up with by our favorite app in the world, Cash App.
They know the vibes.
They get the vision.
See you guys.
Now, a few things I've confirmed from our little test trial period without our normal function.
This seat does indeed look better.
I don't know if it's because the artwork is behind me
i don't know what camera erickson is using here but he gave me the nice one i always thought that
rory looked better than me on the camera and i never felt like that in real life now that's
negated here i am in all of my essence this is your essence essence? Yes. Okay. How are you doing, Parks?
I'm doing well.
I'm doing well.
It's been an entertaining few days
on the internets.
Tell me more.
If there's one thing
that Joe Button is going to do
is turn the internet upside down.
For real.
And you've done it again.
Two things according to the internet
because that's one.
Well, that's true.
And then the internet says
if it's one thing Joe Button's going to do...
Fumble the bag. Fuck up. Fuck it up. Hey, that's true. And then the internet says if it's one thing Joe Button's going to do... Fumble the bag.
Fuck up.
Fuck it up.
Hey, man, it's not us.
It's the internet.
Okay.
And let's deal with both of those things individually.
We're here to tackle cultural topics.
And unfortunately...
We're the culture today.
I am a cultural topic today.
Boy, I hate when...
I hate when I provide something that proves the ops right, right?
Oh, my God.
You've been hearing it, right?
You've been reading it out there?
Oh, my God.
Do they know I was suicidal before?
They're playing with you?
What the fuck is going on?
Have they been hurting your feelings?
No.
I mean, yes.
Yes.
Yes, they have.
I heard they hurt St. Val's feelings too.
Really?
They've been killing me.
No, they really have.
But how do you feel?
I'm glad they took it off of me.
No, they threw it on me.
I feel good though.
I feel good.
Watching you go through this shit allows me to like, no, I'll be all right.
Why?
What do you mean by that?
Because I've seen you go through like real shit.
So the internet don't really affect me in that space.
But is this real shit to you?
No, it's not.
That's why I said I'm cool.
I'm good.
But they have been killing me.
The entire ordeal that we're going through in real time as a podcast. Is that, what were you just saying?
Real stuff, real shit?
No, it's the internet, bro.
No, he's talking about the situation.
Oh, the situation.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is real.
Yeah, this is real.
Because, you know, hosts aren't here.
So that's real shit.
Okay, good.
Parks, I couldn't have planned this.
They didn't even like my explanation no no yeah they didn't
i saw that like what yeah oh come on it's hard to give the explanation without giving details
about the business which we're not going to do because that's just not who we are i saw a lot
of memes but if you if you're savvy you can kind of what do you explain to the people to people the
fans the listeners the audience
i tried to come in here and respect everyone's position i tried to respect everyone's privacy
uh everyone's business ordeals dealings right and just i tried to tell people what's going on
when i'm really speaking about some of the things that are going on. Because even if I spoke about what was going on, it would be from Joe's perspective.
And that's not selfless.
Like there are other positions.
There are other emotions.
There are other actions that have occurred where you could just view it differently.
So I tried to respect all of that and they killed me.
The problem with that was, which I realized after the fact, after reading the comments and everything, you went on there and said how you
were being transparent, but wasn't being transparent.
That's their
beef. They want us to read the contracts
on there. Yeah, to them, that's
transparency. Okay, Joe's going to be transparent,
but was very vague.
But it wasn't really vague, but
I could see how people would think that it's vague.
If you let Joe tell it, this podcast has been
vague for over a year.
Whose perspective are we taking this from?
Joe's brain says that we've been in here going through the motions for however long we've been going through it.
We ain't hear no albums.
We don't know who's dropping.
We don't have no takes.
Fuck it.
But we're going to joke through this thing.
That's vague.
When I was saying transparent, I was holding it against that bar.
Like, hey, I'm going to divulge more than I probably would if the show were in its normal fashion.
And I thought I did that.
If you ain't get it, you ain't get it.
If you know, you know.
And if you don't know, mind your fucking business in the first place.
Well, there you go, too.
But then that's wrong, too.
mind your fucking business in the first place.
Well, there you go, too.
But then that's wrong, too.
Everything that Joe does and says in this particular moment is off for some reason.
They want us to be messier.
That's all they really want.
They want to see you throwing dirt on their names.
Then they want to see them come and throw dirt on your names.
Correct. The Civil War breakout.
Everybody choose their size.
That's what they want.
But these are all grown men here.
Right.
We don't move like that.
Right.
So they're not going to get it.
So that's why no matter what you say.
But that's the part that I don't get.
Because when I hear that, I say, like there was a clubhouse room.
Somebody started it.
It was, can Joe Budden continue to level up without Rory Moore, without his guys?
And I went in there and I peeked in there from the burner.
Of course,
it was from the burner until I got too mad.
Then I use money.
I'm in here now.
Fuck is you niggas talking about it?
What's happening?
Right.
So I go in there and they thrown all these theories at the wall.
And I finally,
I get on the stage and I say,
yo man,
y'all ain't never had went through none with your friends.
Like to me, that is transparent.
Think about all the things that you could possibly get into with your friends.
Of course.
And then convolute it with all the things that exist here.
And again, that is a fault of Joe's.
Right?
Like, oh, they hate that third person shit.
That is a fault of mine.
Derek Jackson.
Narcissist. Derek Jackson. I saw that word a lot. I hate that word a lot. We're a fault of mine. Derek Jackson. Narcissist.
Derek Jackson.
I saw that word a lot.
I hate that word a lot.
We're going to get
done with that.
All right.
That is a problem.
That is a defect of mine.
I typically assume
that other people
know certain things.
They don't.
No, you can't assume that.
Most of these people
have regular jobs
and have never dealt
with IP kind of battles or any
of the things that we kind of talk about for the most part.
Have people ever gone through anything with their friends?
Now, when you say that,
think of all the things that can go into
that bucket. A lot of people don't do business with their
friends too, though. Bingo. That's true.
Mm-hmm.
A lot of people don't. And if they do,
they go through shit like this. Correct. Or worse.
It was business when my friend borrowed my favorite jeans and i never got them
back i just took the l on the strength of the friendship but that was business there was a
transaction in exchange something i wanted but i know but come on man come on yeah no that's not
business but what i'm saying is there are transactional things that happen in during the course of a friendship
that on the strength of friendship you just chalk up that's what i'm saying so yeah it might not be
business involved but okay throw business in that makes things more difficult way more difficult
absolutely and especially when it's like this like a big, and B, intellectual property business is confusing as a whole.
And then throw in audience.
Throw in tech.
And millions of people.
That's what I was trying to say.
Like, yeah, people go through things with their friends, but it's not in front of a bunch of cameras.
It's not with a following that can watch this play out.
Yeah.
That part matters.
following that can watch this play out yeah that part matters i laughed at some of the people that were uh attempting to prove rory and maul's value to me because i'm still on the friendship side
it's like you don't need to explain my friend's value to me it's priceless right so if there's
some things going on clearly there's some other things going on. It's not a value play for me.
Unfortunately, it just
has to play out with some of the
optics that would appear if it were
a value play.
They say Mullen and Ruer are unionizing.
That's a good one.
They're calling me a strike
breaker.
Yeah, you crossed the
picket line.
Never mind the fact that my business might be straight with you.
You crossed the picket line.
You're a scab.
I'm a scab.
I'm a scab.
A heel.
I got called a scab, too, though, by the way.
It's a one, too.
It was like, yeah.
They were like, oh, so y'all the scabs that they call in when the team go on strike.
That's funny.
They just go pick up some replacements for real quick.
That's funny.
Yeah, yeah.
They was killing us
it's been bad
I haven't been
to the barbershop
and I'm not going
I refuse to walk
into the barbershop
I went this morning
young dude
in the chair
oh shit
but it's 8 in the morning
he said
yo dawg
I got a question
I said
my brother
my brother
my brother it brother my brother
it's not the best
you know what I mean
it's 8 in the morning
let's keep it settled here
some of the things
these people
have been saying
right
like let's take
the thumbs down shit
when I left Complex
I was excited that
everybody was thumbs down
and shit
let them know that shit is trash and that we don't agree with this decision because i was at odds with a
company that didn't really get the value understand my value i think there was a conversation to be
at so yeah thumbs down that shit and let them know boy was it beautiful it doesn't feel to be on the
other side but wait wait slow down and in the thumbs down but it was so beautiful because that fucked with that algorithmic system back there so whatever
complex was trying to present to advertisers i knew the fans were throwing a wrench in
now everybody doesn't have that information but i went and got it so now ask me how i feel
how do you feel i don't care i don't have any business
happening i'm not taking i'm not taking that whatever they're doing and showing it to somebody
to say hey this is what the ad numbers should be based on look at all our thumbs no everything
that i stand for is hey however y'all are basing that is wrong and just go off my word
i'm not pulling it from youtube thumbs down
away hey joe is crazy they're gonna be thumbs down the shit out of your word just so you know
awesome who joe is at his core is i support artistic expression that way right like i'm
never gonna be at the crossroads with the things I'm passionate about
and the things I support and the things I don't.
I support that
freedom.
You shitting me?
And it's pretty cool.
It is dope.
Two gentlemen who we care about
deeply and have had a very
long friendship with
inspire that much reaction from people.
I think that's kind of cool in a way.
Listen, I'll tell you this so they don't say I'm just talking in circles for 20 minutes.
Dan, why do I feel like everything I say is egotistical now?
Because it is.
It's not.
And stop it.
Stop it. Because that's my fucking problem now. I it is. It's not. And stop it. Stop it.
Because that's my
fucking problem now.
I didn't bring you here
for that.
That's not why
I brought you here.
Damn, what was I about to say?
A poignant point.
About something
that was egotistical.
Oh, I think one of my
better qualities
is
that I'm able to
take myself out of a situation. Okay. Like, I know who I am. I is that I'm able to take myself out of a situation.
Okay.
Like, I know who I am.
I know how I'm going to feel about things.
I know how I'm going to react to something.
But I try to take myself out and think of all the ways that anybody else could feel.
Okay.
In a situation.
So when they say these things that they're saying all hurtful horrible things
i get it because i've viewed it through that lens but is it my view necessarily no case in point
everything joe touches turns to shit that's been a popular uh yeah that's popular narrative well
if you understand how mass media works and how programming works, then you wouldn't be shocked at any of this.
Somebody with a huge platform and a loud voice put that into the atmosphere.
Right.
That means that that thinking will be adapted by people who know no better.
Correct.
Ta-da!
The end.
And if that's where the story stops
then that's where
it stops for you
I ain't never ruined
nothing that I ain't make
that's a good point
that's a good one
yeah
I never went to
somebody's house
and started fucking
putting mud all over
the white couch
I've never done that
y'all say something
but they're gonna say
y'all are yes men
and there's nobody here
to challenge me
I was waiting for you
to continue
that's the truth
what the fuck is there
to challenge about that
I went to Def Jam
I had a real tough time
I had a lot of information
I was young
I was depressed
I acted out
I ruined that shit
but it was my deal
it was my deal
no I didn't feel like
all the people
that were participating
in that needed to participate
in those same ways
I ruined it I was the talent I sat behind everything i was fucked up nobody eats if the
creative person is fucked up i fucked that up right awesome i'll take that but i did that
that was a conscious decision made like i don't think people know all the thought that goes into
thinking about fucking something up that's working yeah it's not acting it's not
a it's not an emotional reaction yeah you can't you can't from there what did i fuck up my fucking
amalgam deal but it was fucked up compounding mistake after mistake the deal was fucked up yes
i'm fucking it up i had to fuck it up for you to send it to E1 for them to fix some of the fuck ups.
But that was fucked up, too.
So I'm done here.
First love in hip hop.
It was fucked up.
It's fucked up.
I'm out of here.
Get me out of here.
When it's fucked up, it's fucked up.
What you want me to do for Slot House?
Hey, if it's fucked up, it's fucked up.
They be saying I fuck shit up.
I be saying, hey, by the time I I fuck it up I had two and a half years
Of trying to get this right
Whatever I'm on a tangent
It was an informative tangent
Whatever who cares
It's not important
It's been an interesting week
Please
Joe I got a question
Do you think you've ever fucked anything up?
Ever?
Did you just hear me name it?
No, I'm saying.
Where have you been?
I heard what you said, what you created.
I'm saying in general, something that maybe you didn't create.
Anything.
Do you think you've ever fucked anything up is what I'm asking.
Oh, that I didn't create?
Yeah.
Just anything.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes, Savon.
How do you think we land in this spot i was just asking you know
what else they probably i don't handle people the greatest nor do i communicate in certain situations
the greatest got it i'm also introvert why is anybody surprised at that part hey we could get to a place where we having a
conversation and i've had enough of you and whatever you're saying and now i'm acting that
way i am an introvert i like to stay home i don't even like dealing with the world if we're getting
into joe's bag so yeah i understand how i have fucked people up i have fucked situations up
i understand how my selfishness, my self-centeredness
at times, my lack of perspective
at times
has run
rampant throughout the industry.
I think those things haven't
existed in quite some time.
That's where it gets a little tricky.
I will say this.
Putting myself in the
outsider's shoe, it's usually pretty
entertaining and then not only that on the last episode you never spoke to any
of that so that's why I asked you get I'm saying that's why people say we
were we weren't here to speak about my relationship failures my romantic
relationship failures last episode nor were we here just what romantic. Nor were we here to talk about things
that you may have fucked up. And romantic
relationships are included there.
I've been hearing a lot of Joe fucked up the Spotify
bag.
I'm hearing that a lot.
That's been a narrative for quite some time.
You people are idiots.
Yeah, they don't know anything. That's fine.
Well, that's why I recorded all of Ian's
Spotify calls.
But Joe, you know what else
they be saying?
Because people are idiots.
You know what else?
Your fuck ups
or fucking situations up
causes it to be fucked up
for other people.
And I think that's something
that they also talking about.
Like, you fuck up this deal here
or you fuck up like,
you know, for example, I mean, yeah, everybody landed okay with slaughterhouse but slaughterhouse hasn't been
able to do anything because joe fucked that up so that's what people are saying joe that's a
perspective thing royce is grammy nominated right now again i'm talking about slaughterhouse the
name the group slaughterhouse i don't mean the individual members going their own separate ways
doing something same thing that's because there are people in that
group that actually loved me so when the idea ran across their table of hey let's
sub somebody in they said no I'm what you need somebody that loves you at
these at these confrontations and quarrels and he stands with you yeah so
that's why but I'm just saying that I've seen a lot of that though when people
are talking about Joe fucking something up it's not just necessarily joe fucking it up for him it's joe
fucking it up for the other people that are in it with him oh that's the that is the narrative
right that's what i'm saying i'm a spotify bae he could have made everybody rich right that's what
i'm getting at and then there so people that are guessing of whatever's going on they're like
if i'm putting themselves in shoes that they have no business putting themselves in but if i'm the other two guys joe fucking this deal up i would have a problem with
joe that's what i'm reading like yeah you fuck it up because you don't think it's right you have
your issue with it but you doing that joe you got other deals you your joe is fine the other guys
don't have that this is again i don, I'm not in y'all business.
That's valid.
I'm just going off what I'm reading.
That's a valid concern, I would think, right?
So you doing that is like, damn, dude, you fucked it up for us.
We could have been out of here.
What?
Before we go any further, right, and we're not going to spend all day on this,
but, I mean, there ain't so much other news.
There's not much.
Really not.
Let me give you guys another reason why I brought
Ish here.
Ish is my friend for however many years
and no one has argued
with me in friendship more than
Ish. That is a fact.
I have gotten
my loudest with Ish
yelling
matches back and forth over the
dumbest things in the world.
It's because y'all the same person.
We've done this over Monopoly games.
We've done this over women.
We've been in clubs together
and ignored each other.
Ish and I have,
if there is a friend that exists
that could say,
nah, Joe talks a little crazy.
Have you guys ever fought?
Me and Ish?
Yeah.
No.
That's the point.
That's what he's getting at.
That's just a question.
That's what he's getting at.
Just a question.
Where you going?
That's what he's getting at.
Carry on.
Have we ever fought?
Go ahead, bro.
I already know what you're getting at.
Fight about what?
The decimal of somebody's tone?
Somebody's choice of words?
It's just a question.
I have put this man's life in danger time and time again.
If he wants to speak about that, that's's on him maybe on patreon we'll get into
it but when i see these comments that talk about listen man i couldn't have fucked up a spotify
deal let me let me close this for the idiots real quick we completed our term our spotify deal
maybe that's not known to everyone because i don't just spread business like that. But we completed the term of the entire contract even while disgruntled and didn't take whatever was offered to us.
That's not fucking up a bag.
If you put me anywhere in any time, I'm going to protect the rights of everything.
Slow down, slow down, slow down, Park.
Slow down.
They're going to say I'm interrupting you but I want people
to understand
what these rights mean
because
that's where a lot
of this falls under
Spotify comes
allegedly
because we're just
throwing
throwing shit around
Spotify comes
and says yo
I got
25 million dollars
for you
30 million dollars
for you
over the course
of five years and what's that
issues of math major what's that six a year five or six a year depending on six a year
all of that including your audio rights your tv rights your video digital rights your TV rights, your video digital rights, your
book rights, your advertising
rights. That's just off the top of my
head. That's all your rights. Your pull
up rights, your other
rights to your other entities.
Oh, so they just want to own you.
And this don't have to be Spotify
because some people think I just have it out for them.
This seems to be standard
out there in this industry.
And most people
say yes to that.
Because they see the number.
Because it's $30 million.
It's not even that. It's short-sighted.
Yeah, most people are short-sighted.
Most people don't have enough confidence
in themselves to really
take the long play.
Most people are workers, too.
And most people aren't doing business outside of their main business the most visible business like me this is my
most visible business i mix a lot of records i do a lot of sessions i do a lot of other shit
right it's not really visible in the same way and that's okay but in your instance you do
several different shows here you have have several shows under your wing.
You do shows with networks.
And Rory and Maul have other shit going on, too.
Everyone's got their own shit going on.
So carry on.
So with that $5 or $6 million a year, you want the rights to everything that everyone does,
which is probably not worth $5 or $6.
But again, let's dig it up.
Let's figure it out.
To the average person,
they're looking at you the same way they look at athletes.
Yeah.
Like, right?
Dak, they offered you 30 mil.
You're a dickhead because you didn't take it.
Because to the average motherfucker that's on the internet,
$30 million is more money than them,
their lineage has made.
So when you start talking those numbers,
they don't say, yo, you're valued at 100 million.
They're just looking like, you asshole,
you turned down to 25 million.
The bigger picture never even enters their brain
because they're not thinking on those levels.
All right, but let's play it out, though,
because I'm reading too much from people
that are not playing it out.
Let's play it out.
I feel like just on the strength of me,
if I put a book out right now I can get over
M
I can get over M
I've turned down
book deals from major
publishing houses
because I'm pretty confident that
I could get an M alone so what do you think I
would charge if my guys were
putting a podcast book or something of the sort
out with me it would have to go up right put it to the side somewhere however you value that
what do you think your tv rights are worth some people may not feel like going after that
that's important i tell the story all the time of the division in my house when
sin wanted to do love and hip Hip Hop and I wanted us to start
a Love & Hip Hop.
Hey, that was set up. That was
immediate. That's a plug and play type of thing.
She wanted to do it. I'm your
fiance. Let's do it.
But that's not my makeup.
TV rights? Where do you put it?
You don't even have to answer it.
Erickson, do you put it somewhere?
You put it somewhere. I don't know what the value of it value of figure it out in your head don't tell me just put it
somewhere and now add that to your book rights and i don't think i have to explain what's going
on digitally and out there right digitally you combining that with advertising right right we
already see all the all the uh dsps now layering ads inside the podcast like you can imagine what
those things are worth those are three things right there and then multiply it times four
people on the podcast plus all the people in the background doing work as well we didn't even get
to that yet yeah we didn't get to that part yet yeah like y'all wanted me to say yes to some of those things even if you did i wouldn't i
wouldn't even if you did again that's just people that's not thinking that far ahead they're not
it's a person they just see the number like i said they see the number it's no different than
you see these people get signed into 360 deals and then you look at the deal and it's like how
the fuck would you sign that right but that number changed their life it's more than they ever thought that they would see they they
don't know their own value not it's a difference with that too though because most people when you
first come into the music business even though i don't claim to know a thing about it you're
starving right you're desperate you're broke in your position that you were in you guys were already
established it's a different thing than signing the 360 deal the average motherfucker signing
360 deal literally has is in the projects or whatever the fuck they are no but it's not no
more they got artists signing 360 deals that are pretty much okay that's the thing because you see it can take you to the
next level you just don't realize what you're giving up i was about to say can they really
see that though no they don't because they don't know exactly that's the same thing we're all
saying they don't they just think this is what's going to get me to the next level they don't look
at the value of how much i'm giving up to get there. I might have made a mil, five mil, whatever.
This deal on the table is 50 mil.
Okay, cool.
You just an asshole then.
There's a lot of that.
Like, yo, if I made $5 million by myself,
somebody's telling me they're going to give me $50 million
to sell my life to them.
You don't have any confidence in yourself.
If I made my five already,
why the fuck can't I make my own 50?
But some people don't.
Yeah.
But some people don't.
And that's the point.
And if you bump into some of those people,
you're going to argue with them
if you're on the other side of the fence.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
You got to stop.
Like I lost,
if I'm back to transparency,
and only Ian knows this, of course,
I lost sleep one night
during negotiations.
It was one night and one night only that I beat myself up, didn't sleep, coffee, fucking all types of shit.
If I'm remembering correctly, that deal was, if I'm not violating an NDA somewhere, somewhere in the ballpark of $10 million audio only.
For me, that's cute.
But do I think it's close to fair value for audio only?
No.
I had Joe Budden stand firm in that so i went home cool but when i got past
me standing firm in that i got to what everybody is saying the other thing can i willingly say no
to 10 million dollars audio and ask my guys who i assume to never have seen that I haven't, to just sit back and wait for me to find another viable route to get more.
That would be wrong.
I beat myself up.
I spoke to the people I trusted that I needed to speak to.
And the same thing that God always does, he did it again.
Like right when I was unsure, they came back and included something else
that changed the value of it that I would never do.
And it made the decision really easy.
That was the only night I ever lost sleep.
You can stop me if I say too much, but what's happening right now is we're making the same money that we would have made roughly in the Spotify deal.
And we own the rights to everything.
You own the rights to everything.
Let me interrupt you.
No. What's happening is
everyone's making more.
Than if you would have stayed in the Spotify deal.
Yes.
If I would have took the deal.
The new deal.
Everyone's making more
than if you took that new deal
everyone's making more
okay
everyone's make
everyone's making more
maybe not Alex
wait
Alex is making more
let me add to this
everyone's making
Alex I'm fixing you up
soon man
yo trust me
trust me
everyone's making more
nobody can do shit
if he signs that deal
right
so sit that you see
would not exist
if he does that deal
cause then you're locked in
cause you're locked in
if you're making more
and you have all of your rights
to still be negotiated
I don't think you land
in a better spot than that
I don't want to hear
from the internet executives that's all I'm saying think you land in a better spot than that I don't want to hear from the internet executives
I was about to say
When you said
Yo you lost sleep over the 10 million dollar
Hypothetical
Could you really go to your guys
And ask them yo
Hold out a little longer and trust me
Based on what I know
I mean I probably know a little bit more than the average
But yeah you could You could if your guys trust you trust me based on what I know I mean I probably know a little bit more than the average but yeah
you could
you could if your guys
trust you
but based on
a track record
that has already
presented itself
and this is even
for the outsiders
that are not inside
based on where
you've landed
right
I always say
I know what he's saying
I always say the same thing
why not
like I told you
I told you before
yo let's thug it
we're going to thug it for another six months the same thing why not like I told you I told you before yo let's thug it we're gonna thug it for another
six months
eight months a year
why not
I told you
I can't hear everyone
I can't hear everyone
wait
I told you before
a while ago
I was like yo
you know what
I ain't never doubting you again
like that
but
that's
seeing the path
seeing
not cause you're a dick rider
no
the internet says it
I'm just addressing it.
Listen,
but we've had that talk.
We've had those talks.
I was like, yo,
I'm not doubting you again.
When Joe say it,
even if it take 10 years,
whatever,
he has the plan to get it there.
And not for nothing.
And the willingness.
Right, and not for nothing,
you don't come across many people
that have, because what he's went through in his career, it puts him in the, that's the right person.
I've been fucked by a bunch of contracts.
You get what I'm saying?
I know how to spot the bullshit.
I know what value is.
Shit, people came to me with contracts and I, yo, what you think about this?
I don't know nothing about this.
who came to me with contracts and I,
yo,
what you think about this?
I don't know nothing about this.
See,
now that's the stance
that like my mom
and my dad take.
They don't know nothing
about anything
that ever is happening.
But what they say is,
I trust you.
Who better to trust
than somebody
who's been fucked?
You have a track record
of the shit working
when I don't get it.
It's like when niggas
be doubting Floyd.
I'm not comparing you
to Floyd. Of course you are.
I know you don't think I'm that great at all.
I get it.
But again, like,
every single person,
they'll be like, oh no, he got a recipe to beat
him. You know what I'm saying? So after
a while, somebody just continues
to be successful or continues
to bounce back.
You got to kind of be like, they got it.
Brady.
Right.
Fucking Mahomes.
This year, everybody.
I was like, I'm not putting a dollar against that nigga, man.
I put it all on Tebba Beck.
Yeah.
I wouldn't bet, but I'm like, I'm not betting against that nigga, man.
I'm not betting against that nigga.
Like, I'm cool.
He not playing the Giants he got something
so of course
you know I'm the argue
I'm not the dig rider
but nah
we can thug it
and it's not thugging
if everyone's getting paid
but even if you weren't
true
right
even if you weren't
right
let's thug it
let's thug it
let's hold out for something else
no doubt
I believe in us
you know what I'm saying
alright well now
let's dig into it now that we're here fucker we're here now um okay you're getting
you're getting paid you don't necessarily get along with the people that you uh work with
maybe the people that you work with
y'all don't communicate the way you would like how do you go about that how do you handle that it depends
on the situation you gotta be a little more specific unless everyone's running with this
i just speak foul to people thing they're running with it now um i think that on camera that's easy
to do because i'm i'm pretty theatrical with it on camera i think behind the scenes i ain't just
running around ranting and yelling and screaming and being a lun think behind the scenes i ain't just running around ranting and yelling
and screaming and being a lunatic behind the scenes that hasn't existed for quite some time
we argue monopoly i mean we argue we've argued in life but uh not you can't really do it to me
because i'm a return fire but for somebody else he thinks
no but for somebody else that may not be as
argumentative, as vocal,
as assertive as I am,
you could definitely come off as the bully.
Right? So,
I've never seen you
personally interact with them.
Right? I've never seen you be
disrespectful toward them, but
I've seen you be disrespectful to other people,
right?
So I don't know how you're conduct and you've grown a lot to be honest over the
last four or five years,
you're damn near a whole different person.
So I attribute some of that to growth and maturity.
So I don't know if you still would conduct yourself like you would 10 years
ago today.
I don't,
I,
I haven't seen it in a while.
10 years ago, Joe was high.
No, even without the drugs.
I'm just saying, though, a lot of...
No, I'm just saying, but again,
you've grown a lot to the point,
and you have the bigger picture in mind,
so I don't see you being as abrasive or harsh.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I can't...
You own 60% of our construction business.
I own 40%.
I want to get the tools and the things we need from Lowe's.
You want to get it from Home Depot.
Where are we going to get it?
We have a conversation.
We do.
Nah, we do it for rock.
I'm trying to be politically correct.
All right, all right.
Nah, nah, nah.
This is what I'm saying.
This is what I'm saying.
That is a good.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, okay, you have the conversation. Ultimately, the decision would rock with me.
Right?
But I would ask you why you feel like doing it.
Like why do you think Lowe's is better?
And if I disagree with what you said.
Because I said it's better nigga.
No it's not enough.
I'm going to give my own deep bullshit.
No no get in the truck and stay there.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah like yo again. Stop. But that's what it is though Joe. No, no, get in the truck and stay there. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, yo, again.
Stop.
But that's what it is, though, Joe.
No, no, that's a joke.
That's a joke.
It could be a joke,
but it...
I think that's hilarious.
I can't even laugh at this shit.
No.
I think it's funny.
No, you can't, bro.
You can't.
You can't.
You can't laugh.
What the shit going on?
You the bad guy.
The bad guy can't laugh, bro.
Yeah, you're the villain now, buddy.
You cannot laugh.
Sorry.
Sorry. Shut up. Shut up. I don't make the rules. You the bad guy The bad guy can't laugh Yeah you the villain now buddy You cannot laugh Sorry Shout out
Shout out
I don't make the rules
Somebody close to me
Was like
Yo you're like me man
And all the breakups
And all the breakups
That you have
People automatically
Root for the other person
Yeah
Yeah I see it
Floyd
Nah don't
Don't say he's Floyd though
No but they always
Floyd
you got my
analogy I understand I get it but what you're saying
we don't have to look at it that way
I want all of the internet warriors
I want all of the
comment executives
to play it out
since I was speaking in such cold
in riddles last podcast
a million dollars
let's take a million dollars
I don't know where that noise is coming from
let's take a million dollars
in whatever respective field
and this one we're talking about podcasting
20% is coming
off the top to management,
brings you down to 800,000, right?
10% is going off to,
let's say your lawyers and accountants, right?
You're down to 700,000.
Do you have an agency involved?
Because if you call the agency to ask any question
that helped you procure the deal
they get a cut they're coming for their standard 15 some smart people would argue them down maybe
to 10 maybe even lower you're down to what six at best right six at best that's just commissions you haven't paid anything else yet right i think
that's some of the math that's missing from people if every million is really 400 000
let's say i'll put 100 to the side for miscellaneous things that you won't even expect
to encounter as a business owner or entrepreneur and let's say you
hire two or three people at bare minimum now your million dollars turns into 450 400 really fast
right and now go bust it down now go bust it down and try your best to deal with whatever expenses
from there happen to happen to you happen to run into right now what does that math look
like sorry yeah so then what the fuck is going on out here ish but again mike please oh pardon
again you just named seven or eight things that the average working person does not understand
when you go to work every day i don't give a fuck if you make 50 grand.
I don't care if you make $400,000 a year.
Right?
You're an employee.
You don't have expenses.
They don't,
when you go work for fucking Goldman Sachs,
they pay you every two weeks
or every month,
however you get paid.
Out of your paycheck,
you don't have to go pay the sound crew.
You don't got to pay the plumber.
You don't got to pay anybody.
That's money that they bring home.
So when you turn down a $50 million deal, they look at it like this asshole turned down a $50 million deal.
They don't look at it like, yo, out of that 50, he might have saw three.
They don't.
Again, you are over their level of comprehension because they are employees.
Even on a grander scale, they could be an employee making a million dollars.
It's still one thing that they do.
They show up and they have no responsibility for anybody other than themselves.
Now, giving people, I totally agree with you, but giving people a little more credit than that even is right.
ish right the trick the trick trickery normally comes where in the music business everything we just said happens and then the funny accounting comes oh you paid a million dollars to store
records over here oh really oh you paid four million dollars in videos i shot two videos
what are you talking about oh really um oh you paid five million
dollars over like what are you talking about that's where the trickery comes in it's not in
the numbers it's what you're attempting to do with numbers and that be kind of my point in whole
to every creator because i'm dealing with plenty of them and what I'm learning is,
boy, they crazy.
The creators are fucking crazy as shit, man.
The creators will argue some shit.
I think you have to be crazy.
No, right?
No, man.
Hey, who understands
that creators are crazy
better than me?
You might be the craziest creator.
You're on Kanye top five.
So when they reach out
to say, to argue things that are standard in the business
world creator joe says okay i get it i probably got like maybe three hard lines that i just have
to have because my attorneys wouldn't have it any other way if i'm investing in something
but whatever creators say oh oh, you got it.
Got you right.
Look at it.
Look in the field.
Karen's on the network.
Karen does 90 million other things.
Jodan, well, I did 90 million other things under the Spotify contract,
but I had carve-outs.
I had things that weren't included in that.
See, because once we get to whatever this breakdown is, we doing all for every million dollars.
Right. Where my brain goes is and this is only my.
Where you name and all these other fields, working fields, but we in podcasting where.
Let's call it twenty nine hours a week.
Uh huh. Tricky, tricky. let's call it 29 hours a week. Uh-huh.
Tricky, tricky.
Tricky, tricky now.
A week?
I mean, not a week, a month.
29 hours a month.
Let's call it 30 for a nice even number.
30 hours a month versus the average person working 60 hours.
Call it 30 hours a month.
Call it whatever you want.
We do three-hour pods at a high twice a week.
We're here longer than the three hours.
Six times four.
What's six times four?
24.
24.
So now add the extra six hours that we're here.
That's 30 hours.
It's 30 hours a month.
I'm not saying nothing more than that.
What else needs to be said what my brain would say is if i'm doing this at this clip
then i could do this at this clip right that's only me what the hell do the
do the executive commenters not understand about any of that
why are they telling me
that this has to be
about money
when everybody has money
this could be about
something else right
it could be
it is
alright I'm done
I'm done
don't get me started over here
I'm done
what else you got for me
look everybody's sitting there
with the dumbfounded face
no
everybody's sitting there
confused
fucking shaking
their fucking heads
we just went to the
emotional love it's simple math you're the best friend i have with math i don't have a friend
better at math than you what are you shaking your head about thank you this is all simple
shit this ain't just me you go through shit in in your field right i do all day so that's why i can
relate what what yeah give me the parallel give me me the parallel. All right. So I get a, I own a construction company, as you know.
Well, I get a $400,000 construction job.
They think that's my money.
The homeowners even think, yo, I paid you for, no, you didn't pay me shit.
Yo, you wanted granite.
You wanted marble.
You wanted fucking shaker door you wanted all this fancy
shit that you see in these stores and that you see on pinterest that shit costs money so when
you give me 400 grand granite you might have given me 400 000 my take home might have been
on a good day 60 if that but000. If that. But again,
then your workers looking at you with the ungrateful face.
Motherfucker,
Berkman's comp insurance
might have been $60,000 last year.
They don't have overhead.
Oh shit,
I forgot about podcast insurance.
So again,
look, they don't have overhead.
So again,
they're thinking from that.
$450 to $350.
Turn that $450 to to 350 just in case
somebody sues us over something that was said on here we should be protected you gotta have that
again back to i've been there where i did business that just wasn't right see i think that's the part
that's taken for granted also and we have minutes. We're not getting past the hour with some of this redundant stuff that may not be so redundant.
This is the part that people neglect to get with.
At this level of business, everything is fact checked.
Hello.
Hello.
Hello.
Living room commenters stupid at this level of business there is no lie
you can't lie even if i want to lie you got accountants i can't lie everything's documented
i can't lie so when they say hey send me over your metrics for this month at this time send me over
some thinking that says that you're worth whatever you're worth and explain it to me walk me through
it so they can take it to their board or their senior executive level they have to go get this
stuff approved this stuff all of this stuff has to be agreed on by like hundreds and hundreds of people hey when the internet starts talking crazy oh joe
button is a piece of shit he's abusive the people in business with joe gotta call and say hey man
is there any truth to this can we go to court and prove what they're saying no you can go to court and prove what they're saying? No. You can go to court and see the exact opposite. All right, just making sure.
Got to check.
That's great.
It's just all fact check is all I'm saying.
So no, there is no hypothesizing.
There is no pulling shit out of thin air at this level of business.
Everybody got to be verified and certified.
And it's not Ian and Joe sitting in a pewter
tower painted gold to look fancy
controlling everything below them.
Man, these niggas
hitting me about my driver driving me around.
I'm just telling y'all
what's going on out here in the
streets, but we can move on. We can move on.
I wish everybody well.
You got the driver? Listen supposed to uber listen i totally understand this the toughest
thing in the world and this is a strength of mine but only only me and a few other people
everybody in the world has trouble letting go
it's tough when you're used to some things when you're accustomed to things when things are
convenient when you have utilized things for a certain amount of time actually fuck all that
that i just said right i went skydiving as part of like an album rollout i wanted to do it i got
to the air the instructor said i'm gonna the door. You got the outfit on.
We're going to pull the thing.
You're going to hold me tight.
But when we count to three, you let go and jump and just let your body go.
And he said, one, two, three.
Yo, man, get off me.
I wanted to skydive.
I drove there to skydive I drove there
to skydive
two hours
but when it was time
to let go
I was afraid
I was afraid
I didn't know
what was coming next
I wasn't prepared
right
and you never did it before
so I was
there was a lot of fear
involved my cousin Michael Paul prepared right and you never did it before so i was there was a lot of fear involved
my cousin michael paul he's a doctor he went out and bought a car he bought the newest and
prettiest tesla he's over at fucking my dad's house he's talking about a tesla he says yo man
i've walked out of home depot me and such and such i pressed the button the car valeted itself to me it pulled up to me
and i got right in when i get on the highway for the long drives when i tell you about the
autopilot feature on the tesla man it is the best you can basically fall asleep and the car will
drive you somewhere all they gotta happen is you gotta keep your hand on the wheel every five minutes
so that the car knows that you're awake and you're watching and you're sensible
and my dad who's 60 plus said and he drives with two feet said well that's got to be really
tough to get accustomed to i would have a hard time you guessed it letting go letting go i would have a hard time
letting go and letting this machinery just lead the way without any implication from me
letting go is hard no matter where you put it when i had to retire from rap the only thing i knew
it was a let go process boy was it tough i had some resentment i didn't think anybody else knew
how tough it was but you let go everybody in here has had a relationship that may have been
difficult to let go of and in a few years you looked back and said man what the fuck was i on
back then the fuck did she have me doing i've
moved cross country a couple times letting go is tough it is letting go is tough i imagine that if
you if you have uh ingratiated us into your system for the last three four years however long it's
been then letting go of that dynamic is tough.
But you can't learn,
you can't do anything new if you don't.
That's it.
And that's not an indictment toward us at all because I want the guys to come back
and us to do what we got to do.
Yeah, me too.
I think they will.
We'll see.
I think nobody wants them to come back more than I do.
Now, music, music. Enough of this tangent. We've been here for an hour. New music. Came out. now music
music
enough of this tangent
we've been here for an hour
new music
came out
new old
new old music
came out too
do y'all want to talk about
the new old music
or no
new old music
Miguel
he
was it just one of them
or did he do all of them
all three
he put out three
old new projects.
Yeah.
Art dealer chick.
Yeah, chic.
Art dealer chic.
Excuse me, I'm sorry.
You're not cultured.
And then got the nerve to say finally on his Instagram post.
Finally is what he says with a period.
Art dealer chic.
One, two, three available on all streaming platforms.
This was for my truest fans.
More to come.
Love you.
This is a lie.
Why?
Yeah, why?
His truest fans have these songs.
Maybe not, though, because they're SoundCloud only, I think.
That's not true.
That's not true.
I don't think his truest fans may have them right now.
They may have had them at one point.
He put out Candle in the Sun,
a different version,
but we have that.
Yeah.
He put out Adore.
Oh, yeah, sure.
He put out Arch and Point.
We have that.
I get what you're saying.
His truest fans have all the songs
that were released.
But there's two other songs on it.
There's six total songs.
I mean, if you're a big Miguel fan,
which I am,
especially this era,
I would like to have those songs. Right. I am a big Miguel fan, which I am, especially this era, I would like to have those songs.
I am a big Miguel fan, too.
So I need more than this.
I need more than these songs that I have.
But this is different versions.
It's a little shit.
Fam, it is 2021.
People are preparing to go outside again.
Music will be, in effect, outside again. Music will be in effect outside again.
I agree.
Not only do you have to deal
with all of the new emerging artists
that are kind of solidified,
her, Meg, whoever else,
you have to deal with the artist
that was ready to emerge last year
before the shit shut down.
You're going to have to deal
with waiting lists from venues
when it's time to perform.
I'm saying if you are artists,
it ain't, now is not the time to re-release things i'm not mad we get into the summer why not though
why not use the re-release as the rollout correct maybe maybe i don't have anything else when does
it work when has that worked recently when has that worked recently well who's the re-release
is the rollout who who else has done the re-release as a rollout no what everyone's doing is they're doing
the deluxe with four new songs
a month maybe two months after
the original project came out
that's very different from
I'm talking about the re-release
you know Weeknd just did it
re-release Drake did it a couple years ago
he did
Care Package and he did So Far Gone.
He re-released.
Yeah.
Like, I'm not mad at the re-release only because...
Drake's re-release was a release.
It sold 300.
It was the number one album.
It sold 375 copies that week.
It was still out.
The label was treating that like a release.
I agree.
That's not what's happening with Miguel releasing three different projects of three song.
I think what Miguel's doing.
Time out.
He's releasing SoundCloud only or wherever they were, wherever they lived.
I don't know where it was, but it wasn't on DSPs.
He's re-releasing them now so people can get them again and not have to go dig through old debt piffs or whatever the fuck.
And make a couple dollars in the process.
I'm not mad at nobody trying to make a couple dollars in the process, but let's call a spade a spade.
That is what it is.
We're trying to make a couple dollars in a time where a couple dollars is hard to come by,
which I'm not going to let Parks say is the same as Drake's label feeling confident
about re-released records being the number one album in the country with 400,000 records.
Not the same as what Miguel's doing.
And don't say it's the same is all I'm saying.
That's it. It's the same concept.
It's the same concept, just different level of
star.
Drake can put out an album of him whispering
and not even make it sense. And even when he did it, I had
all those songs. Yeah.
But you, but you know how many people
I listen to them records
all the time. You know how many people was like,
damn, yo, that's available on streaming?
You don't stream.
No.
There's a lot of people who only get their music from streaming.
And then an entire new generation who knows nothing before streaming.
I saw somebody tweet, what the fuck does burning a CD mean?
And it wasn't a troll.
We are there, though.
There's people that probably don't know what downloading a CD means.
We're there.
That's where I'm from.
Why are you following it?
That's the way social media works.
It gets retweeted.
Why are you following 17-year-olds?
It gets retweeted.
I wasn't following.
You married now.
You don't have to do that no more.
Hey, that's the way it works.
But no, people get all their music From streaming
That's all they know
So anything that existed
I see people tweet
J. Cole all the time
Yo
Put Friday Night Lights
On DSPs
Big Sean's talking about
Putting Detroit on DSPs
They all should
They should
You have to
Oh they would love it
Yeah
I wish we could get
The sessions for them
Motherfuckers
People do say that to me, too.
But it's like, what's the plan?
The plan wouldn't end at, let me put some old music out and reap the benefits.
But like you said, it's...
Let me re-record my first album.
They're half of them ain't re-recording.
They getting it cleared, whatever they got to do, and it's going out.
I love Miguel, so I'm never going to be against anything and it's going out i love miguel so i'm never
gonna be against anything that he's doing i love him i love his uh relationship i love him but
you're not gonna get me to feel better about these types of i like that shit i'm not mad
i was hype when i seen miguel name near three times and i clicked on it and it was the songs
i and then come on man come on man from 2012 though come on i'm cool
it's 2021 i get it i get it but there are fans that would want to hear this and they don't know
how to do i'm a miguel fan and i was outside in this time i don't have them i've sent someone a
zip file i've sent someone a zip file and they said all right how do i get this on my phone
like people don't even know even if you download a zip file,
you cannot just,
like how we used to do back in the day,
import it into your iTunes
and drag it to your phone.
The phone is set to not allow that anymore.
You got to turn some shit off
and play with some settings
in order to be able to do that.
So people don't realize,
oh, so you mean I can just put music on my phone?
I don't have to just stream it from the DSPs?
That's possible?
I didn't know that.
That's where we are now.
But you know I'm not a tech guy.
I definitely didn't know that.
That's where we are now.
I still listen to most of my shit from my library.
Everything I have.
You know, y'all know my library.
It's not to be fucked with.
But that's me.
There's a lot of people, they like the convenience of-
Who determines that your library is not to be fucked with?
Just you? You.
You.
You, when you call me and say,
Yo, Ice, when you-
What is he talking about?
No, no, no.
Yo, I'm talking about books from my library.
Your library is his library, so he's got a lot to stand on here.
Yo, Ice, you got this record?
Can you send this to me?
Yeah, I got you.
You literally be on the podcast like,
Damn, Ice didn't put the shit in my shit.
Yeah.
Yeah, you determine.
Because Ice didn't put the music.
He wins.
So that's who he wins.
He wins.
It sounded like an alligator was dying.
Yo, fucking, no, because you put the music in my computer.
But that don't mean you just reign supreme.
You got 900 Jeezy songs, another 1,800 Wayne songs,
and then your computer lacks substance.
No, he got a lot of shit.
I mean, how much Dua Lipa you got?
I got enough.
Exactly.
You want to check? Exactly. Let's get it. Exactly. He ain't got that Dua Lipa you got? I got enough. Exactly. You want to check?
Exactly.
Let's get it.
Exactly.
You ain't got that Dua Lipa on deck.
He might got the Dua.
I do have the Dua, actually.
Do you?
Yeah, I do.
I tried listening to her music.
I just get shit now.
Now I'm just a hoarder.
Like, honestly, I get shit I ain't going to listen to.
I just get it to have it because somebody might want it.
Somebody might need it.
Russ dropped?
A single.
A single bankrupt.
Bankrupt. Russ isn't bankrupt. Russ dropped? A single. A single. Bankrupt.
Bankrupt.
Russ isn't bankrupt.
No, he's bank-upped.
Yeah, he's up and he's stuck.
The guy should be back in a month.
The guy should be back in a month.
Bank-upped.
Way to go, Parks.
All right.
Is that what you want me to do?
You want me to report on the new Vic Mensa tape?
He dropped the tape.
He dropped the tape.
Did anybody hear it?
I did not hear it.
Oh, okay.
All right.
What else?
I like Vic Mensa, but I'm not- Rod Wave dropped the album.
That sounded nice.
Man, Dolph and Key Glock dropped the album, man.
Break it down.
I like that Rod Wave.
Rod Wave is super dope.
That Dumb and Dumber 2 is what you're going to hear everywhere. What did Rod Wave is super dope that Dumb and Dumber 2
is what you're gonna hear
everywhere
what did you say
I said that
Dumb and Dumber 2
y'all just won't talk
in a mic right
I'm talking in a mic
the mic is right here bro
you said Dumb and Dumber what
Dumb and Dumber 2
that's Young Dolph
and Key Glock
which is his artist
on
Paper Route Empire Records
they dropped their second
I don't know if this
mixtape album I don't know how it goes anymore project project They dropped their second, I don't know if this makes tape album,
I don't know how it goes anymore.
Project.
Project.
They dropped their second project.
I'm shocked to see them put a 20 song project out right away,
but you know, whatever.
But it's like half Doff, half Glock,
and then joint records.
Same way they did the last project.
It's, you know, if you into that,
they gave exactly,
they did exactly what did what there was exactly
what they were supposed to do okay and then um i know money bag yo and future money bag yo and
future put out a love song i didn't hear it it's a love song okay sounds like a love song if you're
in love it's cool but with a new chick not like not like your relationship it's toxic or like no they're like
it's two toxic dudes that love her now
oh yeah
and what's the name it's hard for the next
two toxic dudes that are
making it hard for the next man
with the way that they're spending
so they're applying pressure
that's real love cause you know that's the new thing now you have to
apply pressure oh it's come on I'm on that
I don't know what you
pro keys are doing
are you applying pressure
out there Ice
I'm applying pressure
oh
I am actually
I'm having fun with
oh yeah
and a stimmy hit
oh
okay
okay
a stimmy hit
alright
forcing 100 up
I got a baby
oh
oh
3200
he's 3200 up huh what's up what's up Baby. Oh. 20. Oh. 3,200.
He's 3,200 up.
It's what's up.
What's up?
You making it hard for the next?
Nah.
No pressure.
You making it easy?
Yeah.
You're not going to share?
You're not going to tell nothing about it?
Nah, they can follow me.
I make it easy for them.
I'm not fucking with you. They can follow me easy nobody wants to get on the pod and talk about like
the real stuff like what you know no i think that's pretty real he's making it easy
never buy they would follow me bro i got it all right it's easy all right tell them tell
what about you no no they can follow me the niggas can follow me the n got it alright it's easy alright tell them tell them what about you no no follow they can follow me
the niggas can follow me
the niggas can follow you
that's what the song
you say the next
yeah you got it
you got it
the next is all set
is what he's saying
I get it now
I thought he was
saying something else
my bad
it's only me
I said my bad
it's only me
there's a sucker
out here now right
yeah
it's so much fun
man
being a sucker?
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Cash app Joe?
Please not.
Oh, my God.
What?
Cash app Joe?
It's money bag Joe.
You've adopted that?
I'm daddy.
Oh, you late.
I'm daddy.
You've adopted that?
No, I'm daddy.
Watch this.
Actually, the better question is,
how are y'all dealing
not being suckers out here like y'all
are being noble right y'all got your principles i tricked them of course showed me a text exchange
between him and somebody where he was honorable he ain't got no pussy
but boy was wow wow yo what a man move
yo you really told her she can't take up all of your time buddy you drew a line in the sand
now honorable man dick dry as can be but cool now you two gentlemen i won't speak to your statuses
but y'all ain't moving and shaking out here
like the new world order would demand
no
y'all not sending crypto to bitches right
no
you not bitcoin in your hoes
you not building houses for chicks
Birkin bags Chanel even
heels
Michael Kors
Versace robe?
Versace towel.
Why?
All right, my new question.
Why are you guys' girls with you guys?
Because they love it.
Oh, I know what you're talking about.
All right.
Don't worry about it.
The streets.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, the streets.
Yeah, I thought you were talking about the streets.
I do it in the streets, but I mean.
We know.
Yeah, no, we know. Stop, stop what's got that's what has these accounting issues
hey just so we clear i'm spending my own money t double d over there on
strippers my own money and escorts and love and love potential love interests
like i said and i even that's a joke
I'm fucking
I had a girl
in there.
Like I ain't
wilding out there like that.
I'd trick on her.
Ridiculous.
Like a gentleman.
That's what you're supposed to do.
You're supposed to trick on your girl.
You're supposed to do that.
There's nothing wrong with that.
That's not tricking.
That's not tricking.
It's not even tricking.
It's not.
If it's your girl
it don't matter.
It's not tricking.
There's something wrong
with it on Valentine's Day
when all the other girls
you might have been speaking to says hey I saw your Instagram on Valentine's Day., it don't matter. It's not tricky. There's something wrong with it on Valentine's Day when all the other girls you might have been speaking to says, hey, saw your Instagrams on Valentine's Day.
Yeah.
Generous.
Didn't know that was going on.
You're not her.
I didn't even know you.
I didn't even take you for that type of guy.
That's why.
To do all of that.
You're there.
They never bought that out of you.
They never bought the Ronnie romance out of you.
Well, that's their version of that.
I quickly respond and say well hey i had a plan
with that i had a bunch of chicks just like you that i wanted nothing to do with and i was trying
to tell y'all i was trying to say yo dog not the capacity and you wouldn't stop so now i had to go
divulge my fucking love for real like look what you made me do show you my girl when she got it
like come on that's corny shit man that's corny shit anyway uh we done with music are we done
with music galan drops galan no that's not it galan came out r&b one of my favorite acts you
wouldn't know about him because you just listen to dolphin all this other shit damn right galan
came out he says it's an, but it's eight records,
eight amazing songs.
Here's some of the features.
Brandy, Aaron Ray, Van Jess,
you know the vibes.
If you into Galant,
he dropped something
that's in the Galant bag.
Check it out.
Pick it up.
I'll play a sleeper later,
but shout out to him.
There's another R&B act,
Trevor Jackson.
Trevor Jackson dropped an album.
Not many people know about him.
He's still up and coming,
but an R&B act that has dropped fire in the past.
He put a project out.
There's a new gentleman on the screen.
You slow.
You too slow for me, buddy.
Get back to the new guy that you said dropped an album.
Derrick King.
I'm not familiar with Derrick King.
I'm assuming this is a newer act.
He dropped a project as well.
I'm assuming it's important because Scream Man put it up there.
Saigon dropped something
pain, peace, and prosperity
Alchemist and uh
Arm and Hammer
I'm talking about Saigon
right now
just step on him
with Alchemist talk
shout out to Saigon
yeah
shout out to Saigon
I haven't heard this
but I really hope that he has
peace and prosperity
one of my guys
friend of the show
of course
uh
and you were saying about
Alchemist Alchemist and Arm and Mugs, Alchemist, and Arm & Hammer, underground shit.
My bag.
Not Ice's bag.
Definitely not Ice's bag.
It's all right.
It's cool, though.
They killed you last pod for saying that you have a problem with Premiere Beats.
And don't say it again.
Don't double down.
Wow.
All right, I'm not going to double down.
Wow.
I'm not going to ask.
You ever heard Mass Appeal?
I did.
But let me just ask y'all a question.
Why do I have to like Premiere and Alchemist Beats? We don't. That's why I didn not going to ask. You ever heard Mass Appeal? I did. But let me just ask y'all a question. Why do I have to like Premiere and Alchemist beats?
We don't.
That's why I didn't argue with you.
And that's all I'm saying.
I'm not saying whack.
You do.
I'm not saying anything.
Why do you have to have a driver's license?
I have some.
I have some.
I have some.
Why do you have to be 21 before you can get a drink?
Why do you have to be 21 before you can vote?
Those are laws.
And this is a hip hop law.
No, it's not.
It is though.
Hip hop's for everybody. It is though. You can vote. Those are laws. And this is a hip hop law. No, it's not. It is though. Hip hop's for everybody.
It is though.
You can't gatekeep hip hop.
You cannot gatekeep hip hop.
No, you can't.
That word.
I got a pound.
Wow.
Ice.
Ice.
No, you can't gatekeep hip hop.
However, if someone that says they're in the hip hop community says they don't like a premier
beat.
I didn't say, then that's points
on your license.
I didn't say any.
I'm just saying
that sound
is not my favorite.
Of course you can have
that opinion.
You can hate
every Alchemist beat,
the Freddie Gibbs album,
you can hate all that.
Correct.
But that would be points
off of your hip-hop license.
According to who, though?
Who made you
the DMV?
Not me.
Not me.
The DMV would be the
consensus no you don't always got to go with what the consensus says you made a career out of going
against the consensus so don't don't tell me i gotta go with the consensus so they say i totally
disagree with that i made a career based off of the elements that hip-hop was birthed off of
and in 20 and 20 whatever year was 2003 some of those things might have got lost and confused
by the new occupants in the audience and we go through that today too with uh just some of the
codes in hip-hop today some of the things you live by some of the things that are allowed
like yeah so no i didn't go against anything i stood by the principles that hip-hop taught me
which was whatever story is going on
in your neck of the woods because there is no internet and the news is not particularly telling
our story and black people are you know our plight here of course hip-hop was ours that was for us to
communicate with each other i've said this before like the slaves did back in the days that's our
shit that's the hip-hop i came up with that's why my shit was expressive that's why my shit was
about what i was enduring and experiencing and going through.
And it just so happens that when I dropped, hip hop changed and was going in a different direction.
And right before I came in, hip hop was changing and going in a different direction.
So that's how I view it.
And it continues to do that.
Hip hop has never evolved.
So when I come around and say, yo, I want to drop a song about my feelings as my first single because it best describes me as an artist and where I'm at.
That ain't me going against the grain.
What song you wanted for your first single?
I don't remember.
I don't remember.
This was a second album thing.
This was after I conceded and the label said, I hear you, but we need big songs trying to sell records.
So I gave him focus, gave them Pump It Up.
The second album, I was trying to do a Metallica sample.
Okay.
Unforgiven.
Yeah, the one that you eventually released.
Yeah, Unforgiven.
It eventually came out.
Might not even have been the best song, but that's the route that I wanted to go to because I didn't want to spend my career being the Pump It Up guy.
And the label never let me put that out.
But I never viewed that as-
They went against the party. Yeah. Well, they didn't want that they didn't that was working they didn't
do nothing with it but yeah so i don't describe that as going against the grain and i have to
point some of that stuff out especially now because when you just allow people to tell your
story for you or you allow people to live with whatever interpretation they have of your journey
then that's just what they live with whatever interpretation they have of your journey,
then that's just what they live with until you rectify it. Let's not say going against the grain, but for the times where hip-hop was,
we can say that you've been rather unconventional.
Say that. I like that. I like unconventional.
Okay. So unconventional.
There's no negative connotation with unconventional.
Well, that's what it's been for you. You've been unconventional. Do you think where hip-hop is now, do you think it's unconventional there's no negative connotation with unconventional but that's what it's been
for you
you've been unconventional
do you think where
hip hop is now
do you think it's
unconventional
absolutely
why
I think it's
I think it's a lot of things
yeah I was gonna
tell me more
but I'm gonna let Ish
finish his point
because he said yes
there was a video
of Lil Nas X
getting chased
through some
purple woods.
Hammer chase hoes through the woods.
Giving a lap dance to the devil and rubbing the devil's nipples.
Definitely a Rory joke over there.
Hammer chase hoes through the woods.
He did.
I saw the video.
That's what we beefed over, by the way.
That's what I beefed over.
Oh, yeah.
I forgot you had a beef with him.
That is definitely unconventional.
For Lil Nas X to run
through the woods naked with a BBL?
Yes, and give the devil
a lap dance.
That was a metaphor to say,
fuck the devil.
I stand by fuck the devil.
Let me ask you this, Ish. Do you classify
Lil Nas X as a hip-hop artist?
Is there really a definitive line
now
between genres of music
no
it's blurry
it's really blurred
but
he has a hip hop beat
to the song
everything's hip hop beat
he put
he made a country record
with trap beat
yeah
it's not
it wasn't a hip hop record
see and this is where
I have a problem
and it's from Trent Reznor who's that's what I'm saying so I wouldn't even expect him to
make him he's not a hip-hop artist he's black what does that mean whatever ice
is saying because I'm taking it as little Nas X is gay so do you consider
the music that he's making that best represents him now to be hip hop music?
I don't think that's what you're saying.
No, no.
He can't be saying that.
No, no, no.
After just saying, who is the gatekeeper that tells me I have to like a preen beat?
Who are the gatekeepers that say Lil Nas X can't put this video out and it's not hip hop?
I'm asking, is it hip hop?
But why are you asking?
Well, because he came out with a country
because he got his ass poking out i don't care about the video i'm talking about the song i
don't care about the video then why you keep looking at this i just don't think that lil nas
x is particularly a hip-hop that's that that's my question i think that's what he's saying right
i wouldn't even call him a hip-hop artist below the hip-hop artists i don't exactly like that's
my point i'm not this is not a hip hop standard. He's not a hip hop artist.
So it don't matter.
What's the standard?
Rapping.
Gotta be some rap.
One way or another.
You gotta rap over that.
He's rapping and he's a priority at his label.
And he has all the money in the world to.
He's not rapping.
He's not rapping.
What is he doing?
Singing?
He's singing.
He's singing over this record. Oh, look at his face. He's not rapping. What is he doing? Singing? He's singing. He's singing over this record.
Oh, look at his face.
It's beat.
Oh, my God.
His nails are done done.
I see what Joe doing.
He's trying to win him over.
I got you.
Ice, I don't have to win him over.
He's trying to arm the game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He pandering.
What is wrong with these people?
He's just admiring the man's beat.
He's pandering the gaze.
I'm not uncomfortable around gaze.
I'm not uncomfortable.
Listen, homie is swinging down the longest pole in the world with his ass out and beautiful braids.
I love when my girl has those braids.
But I'm not judging him for it.
But what I did think when I heard this was, I wonder who's playing Old Town Road today.
Like, was that his entry song?
Like, did that song not mean anything to who he is?
Because this looks a little more on par with what he wants to do artistically.
Well, like I said, Old Town Road,
was we fucking with it before the gimmick of it?
Before the, hey, they're not letting me in country
that was how it started right but then his like and that started the way to talk about
was more like this where it's kind of like uh emo singing hip-hop kind of almost like a juice world
type thing again like i told y'all when you first put this video on whose dna is all in this
video the same person he was a stan of his entire social media career before he popped off this is
what this is this is nikki minaj nikki minaj it is fairly fairly so this is on brand for him
for the real him who asked better
i just forget so so Parks you gotta sleep
let's just move on
we'll just move on
from that
but shout out
to Lil Nas X
that's my guy man
congrats man
that's my guy
I support him
congratulations
on his new music
whoa whoa whoa
LA and Masego
dropped something
together
hit play
yeah
whoa
let me find that
wow
I don't know
how to find all this new music now because they hide new music.
Nah, you don't know how to find it because you don't.
And this goes back to before.
You don't stream.
You stream.
It's right there.
It's a go.
Where if I stream?
Open your app.
Hit browse.
Hit new music.
All this shit comes right up.
That's not true.
Not necessarily.
There's a lot of shit to be done.
I'm not talking about playlist posting. I'm talking about it's up there. I can find this quick. That's not true. Not necessarily. There's a lot of shit to be done. I'm not talking about playlist posting.
I'm talking about
it's up there.
I can find this quick.
I like it already.
Give me some
backwards pianos.
I love backwards pianos.
They about to go crazy
right now.
Let's go to
Wooshy Wooshy Sound.
Hey.
I've got the cash
in my sandals.
You could.
You could.
I mean, I mean. I love it. This original thing is a shot. Shoot. I got the kids in my city I got the kids in my city They take my song for the ladies
Call her if you need no good
Call her if you need no good
Call her if you need no good
Call her if you need no good
I got the kids in my city
They take my song for the ladies
They take my song for the ladies
Call her if you need no good
Call her if you need no good
Call her if you need no problem Ask about me, ask about me
I got some time to try and spend it
My tank on full, it's never empty
We can tell the truth, know you love the fuel
I got the juice to put it simply
Way too up right now, it's hard to turn me down sliding in the club
that sounds real good yeah shout out to Masego. Shout out to LA.
Of course.
That sounds really, really, really good.
Yeah.
Is there any other music that I missed?
I mean, Parks is, they're the ones finding the hidden records.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, a lot of underground shit.
Crime Apple dropped an EP.
UFO Fee dropped an EP.
Underground shit, more my bag.
Rod Wave shit was probably the bigger, more mainstream shit that dropped this week. Told you.
And it sounded good. Dolph and Key Drop.
I'm going to listen to it, man.
If it's fire, I'll listen to it. Thank you.
I'm trying to force it down. We're going to check it out, dog.
We're going to check it out.
We're going to listen to it, dog. If you tell me it's fire,
I trust the ice stamp.
I ain't listened to all 20 records yet.
I'm not listening to 20 records at any point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was wild. That's the original and the deluxe already. I'm good. Yeah, I didn't listened to all 20 records yet. I'm not listening to 20 records at any point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was wild.
I'll tell you that right now.
That's the original and the deluxe already.
Yeah.
I'm good.
Yeah, I didn't press play on Saigon.
Shit is 20.
And I like Saigon.
It's just a turn off to me at this point.
Yeah, I'm not.
What?
It's only like two artists.
Oh, 20 records.
It's only two artists I can see 20 from,
and I'm like, all right, cool, I'm locked in.
And the first one's Chris Brown.
Okay, well, yeah. Chris Brown gave me a 50 clip. I'm like, alright, cool, I'm locked in. And the first one's Chris Brown. Okay, well, yeah.
Chris Brown, give me a 50 clip. I'm cool.
Okay.
In other news,
Paisley Park is now
open for fans
and Prince's ashes will be
in attendance.
I know you're going. I thought about it.
You have to go.
You have to go, Joe.
You have to go. I want to see what P take a road trip with you. You have to go, Joe. That's your man.
You have to go. I want to see what Paisley Park looks like.
Like, not for nothing, if one person I'd expect to be there, that's you.
I think the
facility's been opened. It's just now the ashes
are new, right? I don't know if it's
been opened for public
viewing. I feel like it has, but I could be wrong about that.
I'm not certain, but it is now, and his ashes
will be there. Paisley Park to
open its doors to Prince fans, free of charge
on 5th anniversary of his death.
April 21st will mark the 5th anniversary
of Prince's death, and on that day, Paisley Park,
his home studio and creative sanctuary
will invite fans to pay tribute to
the late artist and its atrium, free of
charge. Advanced reservations
are required. That's
what kept me away from wanting to attend
the amount of people that i thought would be in attendance i thought that would just be jam-packed
it is i'm sure i would stay away but what an experience there uh shout out to prince everybody
in minnesota you know the vibes purple rain all day uh and other news uh it's leaked that Escape and SWV will be one of the future versus battles.
Yeah, May.
That was the latest.
Easter, Easter, Easter, Easter.
No, no, no.
Easter is Earth, Wind & Fire and Isley Brothers.
Their battle is May.
I believe it's May 9th.
May something.
What is that?
Mother's Day?
It's something.
Let's see.
Yeah, Mother's Day.
The Mother's Day special.
The Mother's Day special.
I could be wrong. May 9th. That's Day special. The Mother's Day special.
I could be wrong.
May 9th.
That's the one.
I don't know when it is, but SWV versus Escape.
Does anybody have any comments on that?
I have my one question. Any reactions toward that?
I have my one question.
I have the same question you have without knowing.
Without knowing what you're going to say.
How many rounds is this going to be?
Yeah.
I don't think that they have 20 songs, each of them.
I don't either.
I don't either.
And that goes back to my point about verses.
Like, yo, everybody cannot do 20.
That's true.
We've watched some people struggle to get to 20.
Now, slow down.
Now, slow down.
What I will say is that Candy Burris is in escape.
Correct.
And she can push it.
She can get to 20.
I agree with you 100%.
She can take Escape to 20.
What happens on the other side?
What I will say is that one of the ladies on the other side is a writer as well.
I'm not certain about her writing catalog.
Right.
But she has written for other artists as well.
I don't know how many songs that pushes them to.
But if we're just going about Escape versus SWB Catalog only,
I would imagine that to be a 10-song battle.
Yeah.
And there's been a couple of those.
And I went to check just in case I was wrong.
So did I.
I would also be OK with a 10-song battle.
You know what's funny?
I was wrong.
A 10-song battle.
I said, yo, this is like six max. No, it's funny is I was wrong 10 song battle I was I had them I said like yo
this is like 6 max
no
nah it's 10
I was wrong
I looked at SWV
and I said oh shit
I forgot about this
I forgot about this
I forgot about
I was up to 10 records
quick
I got to 10 for both of them
but
to 20
Escape has 3 albums
when I got to the hit single
on each of those albums
it was close
it was close to 10 I just don't see
there's a lot of those escape songs I forgot about
that maybe I never vibed with but
every girl that I was fucking at whatever time
that was vibed with and that's that's what
like understanding wasn't
my favorite who can I run to
uh wasn't my favorite
I didn't forget it but it wasn't my favorite
they have some other records that
my favorite escape record
is Softest Place on Earth
and that's not one of their
biggest records
that's a slow
love ballad
type of joint
you don't think that's in their top 10
that's coming on
that's in their top 10
it's coming on
and SWB better play Rain
or something to beat it
it's 20 records
so yeah it's going to be
in their top 10
that's the point though
you have to
wherever they're reserving
their heaviest songs
I would expect
softest place on earth to be in the vicinity not with the singles but somewhere in the ballpark
in terms of i don't know about remixes they can play collabs of course swv just got a few so it's
gonna be a good battle just on who wins these swv week i, I would think, is a point. No matter what.
SWB rain on me is a tough out.
And that's before you get to their party songs
of I'm so into you, anything.
You're always on my mind.
It's tough.
Right here.
Right here.
They got records.
They got records.
What if the human nature version
of whatever that is comes on?
Let them do the acapella week
oh man
once they get past 10
they in the deep
but that's my point
and don't
it didn't escape
didn't they have some
beef with each other
at one point
one point
last year was the one point
it was recent
two years ago
I didn't know that
I thought this was old beef
whatever album no whatever album they put out recently and this is off It was recent. Recent? Two years ago. I didn't know that. I thought this was old beef. Whatever album, no, no.
Whatever album they put out recently, and this is off the top of their head, they had
to call it a different name because one of the members wasn't going to participate.
And she said, y'all will not escape if I'm not there.
Got it.
So they called it Only Escape or Just Escape or something like that okay so is it going to be four members
of escape or three members is tiny showing up what's her headspace with all the ti stuff uh
and tiny i think has written some records as well i know they both escape can get to 20 her and candy
both wrote escape like they you know oh yeah're going to do all that. Of course. Sorry, Coco.
Listen, I don't know,
but that's going to be
a good battle.
That battle,
Earth, Wind & Fire
versus...
Isley Brothers.
Isley Brothers.
I'm near for that as well.
I'm near for that.
Do you guys feel like
the versus battles
have maybe gone down
in cachet,
but up in urban interest.
I hate using the word urban, but I have to ask you guys.
We've gone from Gladys Knight versus Patti LaBelle to Ghost versus Rey.
No, I don't.
I think they're doing something for everybody.
They're going kind of back and forth.
Because you see them here.
You got the Izy Brothers, Earth, Wind, and Fire.
And then you got Method Man, Red Man right afterwards.
Yeah, I agree.
White boys love Wu-Tang.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't think so.
I'm not sure if Ghost vs. Ray
or Red vs. Meth sees the light.
Oh, sorry.
I wasn't condoning that.
No, but you know.
I'm not sure that both of those battles
see the light of day
if this is still backed by Apple.
I think Apple would say go bigger
like Earth, Wind & Fire.
You saw that Dre turned it down because he don't want to fuck with that sound
quality shit? I did. I saw that.
I feel it. Yeah, I get it.
I'm not mad at that.
Especially with Dre being who Dre is.
All of his records sound great.
The Teddy Riley
rematch is interesting to me because
rematch, I'm assuming that's Babyface
and Teddy Riley. They've already
battled twice. The rematch has already
happened. Everybody already gave it to Babyface.
Babyface is a tough out.
He want more smoke.
Babyface didn't even go on his bag
bag.
Babyface didn't even go on his bag bag.
He's saving that for the re-rematch. Then why won't he leave him alone?
You don't think
some people used to leave alone yes
wouldn't baby
well they both
would be on our list
that's true
Teddy Rodgers
I'm still waiting
to see Jimmy Jam
and Terry Lewis
against who
LA and Babyface
that's not my job
Dallas Austin
people don't pay me
to come up with that
I want to see
Dallas Austin
I want to see
Tony Polk
Trackmasters
where y'all at see I said bring it back to producers I'm tired of this I don't want me to come up with that. I want to see Dallas Austin. I want to see Tone and Poke, Trackmasters. Where y'all at?
See, I said bring it back to producers.
I'm tired of this.
I don't want to see this no more.
I want producers and songwriters back.
That's it.
Me too.
Take it back there.
Get, okay.
Or if you want to do these little groups
and do like you did with the D'Angelo.
You know, do a celebration.
No, no, what I'm saying is.
Never do that again.
Don't do that.
No, no, no, no.
Let me finish. I don't want to see is never do that again don't do that no no no let me finish
I didn't enjoy that
but I'm saying
use it as
not a versus
celebration of
you can have two groups
just celebrating their music
versus
take that back to producers
that's where it started from
producers and songwriters
the first ones
was all producers
then they got into
they songwriting
you know beat maker
whatever you want to call it
well you're saying
the first one was all producers but the first one was song writing you know beat maker whatever you want to call it well you're saying the first one was all producers
but the first one was them
right
right
it was Tim and Swiss
which is the way
to launch something
that's smart
but
who was a producer
that they did after that
they did Scott Storch
and Manny Fresh
Riz and Preem
Riz and Preem
they did Hit Boy
and um
Riz and
wait time out
Riz and Preem
alright I'll give it to you.
Okay.
Who did Scott Storch go against?
Manny Fresh.
I don't count that as producer versus producer.
That's the rematch, actually.
Manny Fresh does need a rematch.
They said they wanted to give him a rematch.
Yeah, he needs to have a rematch.
I'm only saying it's Teddy Riley and Babyface because Teddy Riley highlighted the rematch portion of that flyer.
Gotcha.
And said it might be him.
Gotcha.
But it could be somebody else. Manny does need a rematch portion of that flyer and said it might be him. Gotcha. But it could be somebody else.
Manny does need a rematch, though.
A lot of these actually deserve rematches.
Well, no, they did produce.
Ne-Yo's a producer.
John Tate is a producer.
But that was a songwriter's battle.
That was a songwriter's battle.
That was actually a songwriter's battle.
But they are both producers.
And that was, by the way,
my favorite verses out of all of them.
T-Pain and Lil Jon were both producers and songwriters.
Sure.
Like, take it back to that.
I'm with you.
The problem with producers, there's only but so many producers that line up in this.
Exactly.
That's why I said they're running out of...
Bring it up.
Bring it current.
Stop.
Stay out of the old shit.
Bring it current.
Definitely songwriters, too.
Put Metro on there.
Bring it current.
You have... The current guys make too much money to entertain us right now. Okay. Current. It's definitely songwriters too. You know, take, put Metro on there. Bring it Current. You got,
you have.
The Current guys make too much money
to entertain us right now.
Okay.
The Current guys are not going to do it.
If that's the case,
give me Future up here right now.
Against who?
It doesn't matter.
I know,
you just put it up there.
Future is on vacation
with rose petals
for whoever has a birthday.
That's what Future's doing.
If Swiss calls him to say,
yo, dog, come through, you versus thugger,
he's going to say,
fuck out of here.
You come back next year, okay?
Next year, come talk to me.
I'm Future Vandross.
I have 900 songs that can do that,
and I've already secured probably $100 million.
Why are y'all calling me about this?
What?
I would like to see more producers, though.
I think it depends on the person.
I would love to see more producers and songwriters.
And songwriters.
That's fine.
That is where it started.
Because even before this run of verses, there was Swiss vs. Just.
There was Kanye and Swiss
at the Summer Jam
or whatever that was
that was great
but they did it for the
quote unquote culture
right
now it's for the back
so the new artists
might not be
in the culture
because they don't
necessarily
I feel like producers
are more likely
to want to do it too though
because they just be
in the studio anyway
and just to remind you
niggas who I am
right
honestly
yo let me remind y'all who I am.
Like, Jonte Austin.
Yes.
A lot of people was like, oh, shit, he did this too?
Oh, shit, he did that.
Like, yeah.
He went crazy.
He went nuts.
Still waiting to see Brian Michael Cox.
That's what I'm talking about.
You can't, but you can't.
Who do you put in the room, Brian Michael Cox?
Outside of R. Kelly.
Outside of R. Kelly.
You can put somebody.
That's a hard find.
Rodney Jerkins.
I've been trying to put that together for nine months.
Brian Michael Cox and Rodney Jerkins.
Are they all Rodney Jerkins songs?
He's not necessarily the writer.
Because LeSean was under that Dark Child umbrella,
and he wrote a lot of that shit.
Rodney Jerkins has 20 songs that he wrote
that could go against someone.
And that's all I'm saying. How could you lie to me? Listen, don't get me started on Rodney Jerkins has 20 songs that he wrote that should go against someone. That's all I'm saying.
How could you lie to me?
Listen, don't get me started on Ronnie Jerkins.
I'm just saying, LeSean wrote a bunch of that shit.
Okay.
All of those artists that work with the
legacy acts, like anybody that could
pull from Whitney's catalog, Mariah's
catalog, Janet's catalog,
Michael Jackson.
JD ain't been in there yet. JD ain't been in there yet.
This is the people I'm talking about.
People that can go 20 hits.
I don't want to hear
20 records. I want to hear 20 hits.
That's the thing. Everybody can't give you
20 hits.
Brian Michael Cox can.
Right. And I would love to see him
in the verses.
But I don't want to see SWV in escape.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
And I was hearing rumblings of L.A. Reid somewhere.
Where is he?
Sure.
Where's his name in this mix?
That's who you got to go get for Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
Yeah.
That's who you got to go get.
L.A. Reid would love that.
Them too.
I think Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis would love it too.
Hopefully, Swiss and Timbaland are getting to these things under their new format on Triller.
Again, congratulations to them.
Yeah, for real.
But I think it was dope how they made sure everybody
that was on the earlier battles got a percentage of that.
Yes.
It's always dope to look after the people that put you.
Oh, that was dope?
Yeah, that was very dope.
Yeah, Joe.
I'm joking.
Why are you still here?
We're going to tell the people on Patreon why you're still here.
We're going to Patreon to tell some of the truth.
Okay.
A little bit more.
A little bit more.
Just a little bit more than what's going on here.
All right, listen.
So, big battle coming up.
You know, that's the only time I pay attention to battle rap.
The battle rap community hates me as a result of it.
But, here we are.
RBE, Rare Breed Entertainment presents April 3rd.
Cassidy versus Hitman Holla.
I didn't know about this until people started telling me,
Yo, dawg, you might want to check out that face-off between Hitman, Holla, and Cassidy.
And I was like, why?
And they said, just watch it.
So I went and watched it.
And they looked like they were about to fight each other.
They screamed at each other the whole time.
They dissed each other the whole time.
ARP looked like he didn't want to intervene at all.
And this is how you sell a match.
This is how you sell a ticket.
What an amazing job from two showmen.
With that said, I think Cassidy got the better
of the face-off.
I'm always probably going to roll with
the guy that appears to be less emotional
about some shit. That was Cassidy
in this instance.
Hitman is my guy, friend of the show.
I hope that this battle can happen without anyone choosing violence, without anyone punching somebody in the face,
mushing somebody, without Cruz going to war.
Let's just see the battle.
But Cassidy is hilarious.
He is.
And his last battle, I was saying, I don't know why people continue to pay him for a battle.
He might not get it again. I was saying, I don't know why people continue to pay him for a battle. He might not get it again.
I was wrong.
I totally understand.
I get it.
He got to start translating some of this to the battle stage.
He can't.
It don't matter.
He's selling this.
He's great at this.
So you're saying it don't matter if he translates it?
Yeah, no.
Yeah, it don't matter.
If I can make a quarter million dollars every time I step on the stage to lose, why do I care about losing?
Fair.
And I'm established already at that.
No, you care.
You care a little something.
Why?
Why do I care?
Why?
Why?
Because we're men.
It's competitive.
It's still competitive.
I'm not saying I'm going out there throwing in the towel.
I will say that if you get to win this shit,
and then you lose the battle,
it does kind of even out a little something.
I'm asking if you're ready.
Let your ego come out.
No, no, I'm asking if you're ready for just some,
an opposing point.
I'm ready.
If I'm Cassidy,
I know what Hotels sold with R. Kelly.
I know what that album sold.
I know what the video did. I know what the video did.
I know I was that dude on 106
for a summer or two.
I know what I'm a hustler did.
I have some records that
performed and own
a moment of time to some people
out there. So that's always going to be
my metric. When they start
having a success off
and Cassidy says,
yo, dog,
you're not on my level.
I don't view you like that.
You never did nothing.
I'm much bigger than you.
I'm much more successful.
That's what he's referring to.
Right.
He's talking about his singles,
his record deal,
J Records,
his travels.
No,
Hitman hasn't experienced
anything that's
on par with
those things.
But today,
Hitman's metrics are, hey, I'm the, I'm one of the most viewed battle rappers ever.
I headline.
One of.
One of.
I'm aware of what's going on. I don't know if Arsenal still has that.
Who knows?
I don't know.
I don't keep up with you, nigga.
I do.
I do, damn it.
Hitman, shout out to Arsenal Jersey all day.
Hitman's one of the most viewed battle rappers. He headlines most of the events that he's at he wins a lot of the events he's a clear
headliner let's be clear hitman's on that card that's the headlining battle flat out and i don't
know the last time so you can see the opposing points ish that's that's all i'm pointing out
of course one is successful on today's terms and understanding of battle rap.
Yeah, I'm certain.
One has just did
a few more things.
But you said
if you're Cassidy,
he will not do it, right?
Why do you care?
You said if you're Cassidy,
why would you care?
You would care
because your ego,
you're a man.
It's still competitive.
To a man, thrive on.
We thrive on competition.
That being said,
if you give me
a quarter million dollars
every time,
I'll take it out.
You wouldn't want
to take it, though. You're not just going in there. I'm not going to try. I'm not going to try. I'm going to mail it in. That's my point. But if I take quarter million dollars every time, I'll take L. You wouldn't want to take it though.
You're not just going in there.
I'm not going to mail it in.
That's my point.
But if I take the L,
I'm good.
If I take the L.
If they come back again
with another quarter million
every single time,
I mean, listen,
I'm going to try every time.
But you're going to feel it.
I'm going to try to body him.
I don't think Cassidy's
trying to body anybody
in the battle.
He should be.
Have you watched his last battles?
No.
No. No. If you did, you would not say it. And we're not going to. he should be have you watched his last battles no no no
if you did
you would not say
and we're not going to
yeah
I'm just saying
as a man
as a competitor
you should be going in there
trying to win
not going in there
trying to win
at what point
do you put your ego away
as a man
if I'm him
I don't go in there
alright let me ask you
watch this
we play Monopoly for fun
we're all family every fucking time I sit at that table I'm him, I don't go in there. All right, let me ask you. Watch this. We play Monopoly for fun. We're our family.
Every fucking time I sit at that table, I'm trying to win.
Okay.
Pardon me?
Listen, your record is trash, bro.
You get my point.
Okay, let me ask you a question.
No, but my point is, off of battle rap, men know when to tuck their ego away a little bit.
Let me ask you a question.
Hold on.
Let me double back to that.
Do you really think he feels that way?
Not talking like that?
Ish.
He's talking some big dick shit, Paul.
He's selling the battle.
That's his job.
He's doing his job.
He's doing his job.
He is.
I think he feels that way.
Let me ask you a question, though.
Shoot.
I'm Cassidy.
I'm not eating off hotels or none of that shit right now.
True indeed.
Okay?
I don't have any albums out.
I don't have any records out.
I don't have anything out right now.
You giving me a quarter million dollars.
I'm coming.
Okay?
Win or lose, I'm there.
I'll be there.
I'm there.
I'm there.
Dressed to impress. D'll be there. I'm there. I'm there.
Dressed to impress.
Dressed to impress.
With a brown tuxedo on if I had to be.
All right.
I'm going to get on here
and do whatever I got to do
to sell it.
Right?
I'm going to get all in your face.
I'm going to pop my shit,
whatever, whatever.
I'm not as seasoned in this
as you are.
It's my track record
which even got me here.
Right now, today, 2021. Cass he's been battle rapping for 20 years right there's a battle rap is not the same as it
was then okay and that's a mistake a lot of them make they come in there jumping in with these
niggas and realize oh shit these niggas are different battle rappers okay but i'm getting
a quarter million a battle alright I'm gonna take that
if I take that L
that's an L I could take
because you can't take away from my accomplishments
and I'm still getting a bag
let's say he does two battles a year
that's half a million a year
let's say that that's overpricing it
let's say he does 400,000 a year off two battles
if he does three
well then you gotta factor in the insurance
and the manager fee
you beat me to it
you beat me to it you mother
no but he's an employee so he's good and the insurance and the manager fee. You beat me to it. You beat me to it. You beat me to it, you mother. No,
but he's an employee
so he's good.
New Joe Biden.
Yeah,
I'm not doing this.
That was a good one.
That was still a good year.
It was a happy stumble.
I had you.
I was going here too.
Hey,
even with those commissions,
Cass would be happy.
It's still a good year.
Of course.
But that's my point.
If you give me $500,000
for two days of work
a year
off two battles.
I agree.
Three rounds.
Three minutes each.
Do you know if you make
$500,000 in this country, you're in
the 1%?
Top 1% of the country.
Do you think all men know this as they
journey through their travels no
america doesn't know this and that's why everybody hates kevin samuels because he's pointing facts
out to people that they are totally unaware of especially women like yo you want oh you want
to make more than you you want to make 180 you know you're talking to the top five percent in
the country that's regardless of color that's regardless of gender that's regardless of any other criteria y'all put on a man you want them to make over 150 you talk
about 5% of America make 150 so Asian Hispanic white black girl boy 60 30 yeah
whatever and you want the top 1% but he says and you 5'44", and you weigh 180, but you still shooting for the top 1%.
That's unrealistic, and they look at him like a dickhead when he says it, but it's so true.
I get in trouble for coming on here and saying I agree with some of that stuff.
No, again, he's speaking factual stuff.
Is this your phone?
Are they both your phones?
My bad, Kevin Gage.
Damn. But again, they look at him like an asshole. That makes total sense. are they both get phones but again my bad Kevin Gates damn but again
they look at him
like an asshole
that makes total sense
you make a half a million
dollars a year
you're a female
you saying yo
I want a nigga
to make more money than me
good luck finding the unicorn
well the internet
adds a very bad perception
of income levels
everything
you know what too
we live in the eastern states too
like people in LA
make money
people in New York Philly, DC they make money go to Ohio Like people in LA make money. People in New York, Philly, D.C., they make money.
Go to Ohio.
Go to fucking Minnesota.
Even go to upstate New York.
Yeah, go to Binghamton and get a $600 apartment.
So again, I think we kind of lose sight of that.
You know what I'm saying?
Like when we start talking about money,
like the internet makes you think everybody walking around with Chanel shit on
and they're not.
Yeah, facts.
When I go down south and my family be like, oh, those are nice.
How much they cost?
And you say $500.
They look like they about to swallow their tongue.
Mm-hmm.
Because that's a nigga's rent.
Or that's a nigga's trailer mortgage.
Mm-hmm.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, we have $500.
You tell him?
That's $500.
You ain't got that.
You see that light, right?
Yeah, you ain't got that.
That ain't nothing.
That's a little.
No, you got to downplay it.
You got to downplay it.
When I'm done with these, you can have them.
Right.
No.
That ain't nothing.
That's a lot.
You got to downplay it.
When I'm done with these, you can have them.
Right.
No.
So again, if this boy goes and does two battles a year for $500,000, there's a shitload of doctors and lawyers that do not make $500,000 a year.
They work 80 hours a week.
Especially in the time.
And then spent 16 years in college and don't make what he's making to spit a couple bars.
But that's where this perspective stuff is so
important and it has to be brought
up. Like, we got him
at two battles, half a ticket
a year, right? Like,
at the end of my rap
career, however many years,
they told me it wasn't worth half
a ticket.
250 all in.
So, yeah, where are you getting your numbers from?
Where are you getting your perspective from?
Where are you getting your worth,
your sense of worth from,
your sense of value?
Where are you getting your work ethic from?
Where are you getting any of these things from?
Cassidy can roll over,
write a few raps,
and go make a half a ticket
because of things like this.
Because he can sell this fight
even if we think
he's going to lose.
I don't know how he
wins a round against Hitman.
Especially after you pissed him off this way.
But listen, I've had
Cassidy maybe losing
all the battles, but that doesn't matter.
Has he been entertaining? Has it been
a spectacle?
Has the entire battle rap community came up and showed out whenever his name was on the ticket?
Niggas tell me I did horrible on my battle rap.
Hey, I don't want to argue with that.
Hey, for three to four months leading up to it, it was the biggest thing you ever seen in battle rap.
Yeah.
The conversations from the places they were coming from, I never seen nothing like it. dope to me so i mean again it's about perspective this is april 3rd
i will check this out shout out to arp rbe i really love when they get two people together
that really don't like each other honestly i don't think they don't really like each other
oh please they didn't look friendly just now isa ray ink's eight figure uh film deal with uh film
and television deal with warner media some uh they are saying yeah hold on round of applause
round of applause for black queens huh doing what they gotta do out here
i read a report that said this deal was worth upwards of 40 million dollars gunshot
this story says isa ray sticking with hbo ray has re-upped her commitment inking a new five-year
overall deal that brings her hooray media Media label in partnership with Warner Media.
The pack gives HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Bros. Television exclusive rights to Ray's work in TV,
plus a first-look film deal that spans Warner Media brands,
including Warner Bros., Pictures Group, New Line, and HBO Max.
Ray previously signed a two-year overall deal with HBO in 2016, Warner Brothers, Pictures Group, New Line, and HBO Max.
Ray previously signed a two-year overall deal with HBO in 2016 ahead of the debut of Insecure,
renewing the pact in 2018 for three more years.
Let's break this down some.
The story says she netted something around $40 million and up.
That was what she netted?
The deal is worth, Not that she netted,
but the deal is worth overall.
Issa Rae is a friend of the show.
I am a huge fan of her.
Likewise.
I am a huge supporter of her,
everything she does,
her writing rooms,
her sense of humor,
her dry humor,
her blackness.
Aesthetics.
What she represents
when she goes to the awards
and says,
I'm rooting for everybody black.
I'm just a big fan of all of that Isa ratio soon as this was announced she announced something right behind it and she said yo dogs i would never tell you niggas how much money i make
i would never tell any of you fucking idiots
i would never tell any of you fucking idiots what any deal is worth.
I think it's tacky.
It's not classy.
It isn't.
So with that said, any rumor or report that is out there, I deny it.
I didn't make it, and it's not true.
It's definitely true.
I was about to say, they hit you with the Joe Rogan number. It's definitely true i was about to say they hit you with the joe rogan number definitely true not denied it's definitely true isa ray we only know that because some of us are trying to get to
that bag too and if you have a hit show like she did and sign a bum contract like we can assume
she did when you first get somewhere and don't know if a show was a hit.
Yeah, rookie deal.
That's right.
Rookie deal.
Not a bum contract.
You're right, Park.
Rookie deal.
A rookie deal.
But that understanding be lost out there.
So when you outperform your rookie deal, this is what should happen.
You should get paid.
That's right.
$40 million.
It sounds like her deal was supposed to go to 2021.
So it sounds like she bargained up before the deal was up.
Yes. That's exactly what she did. up before the deal was up. Yes.
That's exactly what she did.
Same way Dak and everybody else
in any sports league does.
That's exactly what she did.
For three out of the five years
I'm signed for.
She did that for a hefty number.
Here's where it gets tricky.
Let me explain it.
She did not get whatever she got
based off the success of Insecure.
I'm going to lean back.
I'm going to give everybody a minute to sit with that.
Rookie deal. She put out Insecure.
It was a hit.
Every season it aired, it was a hit.
That still
don't get you your $40 million.
Why not?
She had 15 other projects that you're working on
read it nigga get loud put some treble in your voice explain it why you got glasses on try to understand this in real time so everybody that says joe is a psycho lunatic that does bad business
could just get a better understand i'm not yelling because i'm angry off mic i'm as calm as can be
all right i'm gonna read it uh explaining why she stuck with hbo rather than jumping ship to one of
the many other platforms that made her offers she she said, I have so much respect for the executives
in various departments. When people
believe in you and build with you, I tend
to want to further that relationship, she said.
What do you know? Can I get a gunshot?
When people believe
in you and build with you,
it's instinctual
of me to want to further the
relationship.
You were saying? You were saying.
You were saying.
You were saying something.
That's just been a staple of mine
with so many other people
that I work with on various projects.
So I'm looking forward to see
what this marriage looks like.
So even with her hit show,
Insecure,
that's been running five seasons,
she still had to leverage other shows to get the $40 million that she, air quotes, allegedly received.
That she can never tell somebody she received.
She shouldn't.
Because what would happen if you knew that she received that?
Pocket watching.
Of course.
Oh, Lawrence is quitting Best Buy.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Lawrence is at her house
every day.
Stupid, yo.
Hey, not only that,
you got that much.
How much do you think
I deserve from that?
You can't make Insecure
without me.
Know what Issa Rae says? Well, you're well you're absolutely right but insecure didn't get this done the insecure people say what do you mean it's a smash you can't have the smash without me
you ain't shit isa says i did this 90 other times without you.
I can't get to $40 million without them.
It don't matter how great we think Insecure is.
It just can't happen.
Hello, the room says what?
Quiet, nothing, internet commenters, executives going crazy.
I know.
I know how it go.
I'll shut up.
Go ahead.
Congratulations to Issa. Yeah, congratulations. And I get what Joe was saying. I do too it go. I'll shut up. Go ahead. Congratulations to Issa Rae.
Yeah, congratulations.
And I get what Joe was saying.
I do too.
I get it.
Of course, congratulations to Issa Rae.
That's the game.
You want to thank anybody that came before you that's giving you the game.
I speak on Issa Rae a lot.
I speak on 50 Cent a lot.
Not because I love PIMP so much.
I love it so much. I feel like I like it.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know what you heard.
It wasn't my thing when it came out.
But what he's doing in film and television,
Hollywood, small, big screen, acting,
they clowned him when he lost all the weight
for that role for the movie we never saw,
but he did it.
He tried it.
Yes, it didn't work when you lost 200 pounds you looked stupid and we clowned you but you tried it you had that level of commitment i support these
people man even uh kenya uh kenya who i had to say some things about when i found out his name
was attached to coming to america part two kenya barris uh love him it's just too many of us that
i love out here it's too many of us that I love out here.
It's too many of us
that I love out here
that's doing amazing things.
I hope to follow in these
amazing footsteps, man,
because this is great shit.
Great shit,
and it wasn't such
a viable path
for,
not at this level,
for black creators,
especially women, right?
Yeah.
Especially women.
Dark-skinned women. Last yeah but she only got not only but mother's head not to say but even a 40 million right it's over a five-year stint you
know what I'm saying like yo I'm thinking she's more deserving of a
hundred like I'm looking at a different number
we happy she got 40
40 over 5 long ass years
I'm looking at her body of work like she might be
more deserving of a buck
and if we're prophesizing
right now I agree with you
you get what I'm saying
like 40 is dope like I don't want shit on your 40
cause 40 mil is 40 mil but i also think she agrees with us yeah yeah this assessment right yeah so i'm
not gonna be shocked if we see a movie a isa ray produced or directed film correct to come soon
because that would be the level up she's already acting well you figure i mean she's already acting
this is the final season of insecure and what has happened with a bunch of those HBO shows
we know why already
we know why already
yeah
read the fucking
tea leaves
yup
why do you think
you fucking
internet executives
why do you think
she announced
the last season
of her hit show
that would probably continue to be a hit for five more seasons?
Why?
Sounds like other business dealings are in effect.
Absolutely.
Sounds like I might have to dismantle this writing room.
So that writing room can make seven other writing rooms so that I could bring
in the economy that I need to get all of this shit
where it needs to be.
Does it sound crazy when it's her plan?
Stupid, yo.
Yeah, I'm not.
Hello?
You got it, bro.
Hello?
Congratulations to Issa Rae.
No, no, no.
Congratulate me, nigga.
You want a fly swatter
to keep patting yourself on the back, nigga?
No, it's tough for me knowing that some lessons in hip hop we just skip because we're hip hop and we're not viewed in a certain light.
Right?
where it seems things only happen when you're privileged to the information you get dudes like me so passionate that your entire life's existence and body of work is to relay information i get it
it's to give it to people and if people don't know how to fucking disseminate through it then
you feel like i'll die just everybody stay stupid and that'll be the end like if everybody continues to do this then we get the five heartbeats in 2050 that's why i act like this
that's why it's a big deal for me that isa ray only allegedly got 40 million dollars i don't
know what kenya barrett's got i don't know what fucking all the people i fucking ava yeah sean
yeah that's another one shonda yeah i don't know i don't know but this all the people I fucking Ava. Yeah. Sean. Yeah.
That's another one.
Shonda.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But this is a step in the right direction.
Congratulations to everybody on,
on this road,
Tyler Perry,
50 cent,
whoever it is.
It's an inspiration for niggas like me.
I tell you to keep going.
Makes sense.
I get it.
I love it.
Gives you the blueprint.
Um,
snowfall. Huh? I the blueprint. Snowfall.
I don't know what
huh means.
I don't know.
That's how you feel?
That's how I feel.
You feel huh?
Well, do I have to say
spoiler alert right now?
Yes, we do.
Potential spoiler alert.
If you're wearing two outfits,
God damn it.
Potential spoiler alert,
et cetera.
Okay.
Did everybody see Snowfall?
Yes.
Yes?
We did.
I just have a couple questions.
Shoot.
Shoot.
Question one.
How much do y'all think that dude fat back weighed?
Yo.
I'm going to give you-
325.
325.
What you got?
Yeah, just throwing them out.
About 350.
I'm going to give you that.
Okay.
Definitely close to 400 pounds.
Close to 400 pounds close to 400 pounds
okay okay
now she knocked him out
so that's dead weight
who knocked him out
Shorty
she put the shit around his feet
that's not knocking him out
that is knocking him out
he didn't knock
he was unconscious
he was unconscious
she knocked him out
she made him unconscious
she knocked him out
but not by force
she knocked him out
she did him unconscious
she was cooking some shit
that wasn't the spaghetti.
I got you.
Okay, cool.
How did they put him
in front of Franklin's bar?
How did they get him
in the warehouse?
They rolled in the warehouse.
A hand truck.
How did they get him
against the pole?
A hand truck.
Nice Adidas tracksuit
she got on, right?
How many times
she stabbed him?
A bunch.
Several.
Not a speck of blood nowhere?
Nowhere.
Nowhere.
It's flat.
How do you know?
You can't see the blood.
You nipped it.
I am nipped it.
I'm not a fucking idiot.
They never showed her again
after she poked him.
It wasn't even blood on her face
while she stabbed.
She was stabbing the shit out of him.
They showed her stabbing him
from the back.
Because she's beautiful.
You didn't see a splat of blood
you didn't see her
from the back
my nigga
how Wanda get her hair done
look
how Wanda get her hair done
answer that one
she did it herself
nigga
okay I got it
okay I got it
you know what I don't like
about people like you
no bro
I'm not an idiot
are you a Game of Throning
I was
until the last season
okay
so you are a Game of Throning hold I was until the last season. Okay.
So you are a Game of Thronie. Hold up, hold up, hold up.
And when they put the fucking applesauce
Mott's can in the-
The Starbucks cup.
Episode five.
I was pissed.
I was pissed.
You wasn't going crazy like this.
Leave us alone.
It's just like everybody else was.
Leave us alone over here at Snowfall.
Where's the blood at?
Where's the blood at?
You don't see her anywhere.
You see her right there.
She's about to start poking them up.
Yo, y'all can't continue to tell the show
the show just aired
give people time to watch it
I thought Snowfall was great
I did too
I did too
how many episodes
are in the season
should be like 10 I think
10
oh so this is over soon
yeah we roll into the end
we're in the middle
we roll into the end
we're in the middle
I feel like they just
these network TV shows
yeah now it's quick
well they have 10 episodes and we out.
And they're having commercials.
They announced that they're picking this up for the fifth season.
Congratulations.
Fifth season as we all knew already.
All the creators of the show.
Congrats.
Round of applause.
Yeah, let me hear the round of applause.
Recipes, Johnson.
That's good for them.
While Leon get his hair braided to have a stroke.
Ice.
All right, my bad.
All right, I'm done.
How do you know?
No, I had a different-
I thought you were going to come with a better one. You asking, my bad. All right, I'm done. How do you know? No, I had a different. I thought you were going to come with a better question.
You're asking questions, man.
No, I thought you were going to come with a better question.
I'm just saying, this is the same shit I saw with Power
when I said, how'd 50 get out this fucking burning room?
Nah.
And nobody had a problem with it.
That was a little bit more dramatic than not being bloody.
No, I was mad that Ghost went around shooting everybody in the head,
but with 50, he just left them unconscious in the room.
We ain't got to get back into it.
It's TV.
I'm off.
I'm off.
They got to make it more realistic again.
I was rolling with the show, but I'm not an idiot.
Don't show me this bullshit and put it in my face.
I'm supposed to go with it.
That's all.
All right.
Well, on this platform, Snowfall is amazing.
We support Damson uh and everybody
else involved with the show i'm sure i just fucked his name up but we support snowfall
here enough of you coming on here utilizing the platform to shit on things we support like
snowfall and premiere and alchemist sorry i've had enough We're not going to take it.
No,
we ain't going to.
It's not just Mauling Roy.
All right,
well look,
speaking of.
I'm not going to take it anymore either.
Yo,
speaking of Snowfall though,
did you see Danny Lay
and what,
what's his name?
Corey.
I call him Corey too.
I always call him Corey.
Danny Lay said,
am I the only one
that can't get in a snowfall?
And Corey said,
Corey said, it's a black thing
you wouldn't understand. Hashtag snowfall
FX. That is a hilarious
exchange, but
what do you want me to do with this?
Well, she, you know. I gave him a
ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.
Ha ha. He got her there.
That was a good one.
She's not black. It's her,
it's what happened after that though then you know of course
she gets clowned a lot she deletes the tweet
then she puts this little statement out
you know typing on the black page
or whatever saying that
she's been clowned every day and she don't
want to be here anymore all that
type of stuff just you know she's suicidal
now
rollout I'm not gonna call
it a rollout because I'm sensitive when people get suicidal.
And I can understand how internet comments can affect your mental health.
You said you can understand?
Yeah, I can definitely understand.
I've had a week of this.
I've had a week of this saying, man, thank God I did this inner work.
Oh, wait.
Are you telling me she deleted?
That's what I wanted to do this week.
So that's two. I wanted to
delete all of my socials.
YouTube, Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter.
That would make people say,
hey man, maybe Joe's not
alright through all this. And I
would have been home saying,
duh, the fuck?
This is my thing with Danny Lay.
And I was championing Danny Lay and all of this, the baby shit.
Because if you're sleeping with somebody's baby daddy
or seeing somebody's baby daddy
for two years, three years in secrecy,
I can see how as a young woman you would feel like that's your man.
I can see that, though.
Not only that, I can see how you might feel like you have authority to speak.
Entitlement.
Yeah.
I can see how you might feel like degrading the other woman, the baby mama.
I can see how you might feel like degrading the other woman, the baby mama. I can see how you get into all that.
Women don't really stick to the women empowerment rules when it comes to judging how women deal with cheating.
No, they fuck with the women empowerment shit when it's convenient for them.
Yeah.
Whatever their...
Careful, buddy.
I know.
I know. I don't want to fuck. You're not a podcast but I gotta tell you
you say stuff like this
and you can't just go get gas tomorrow
nah but again
yo ain't you the nigga that said
nah again
just hypothetically
take it to
traditional values, right?
So women will be like, yo, I want a traditional man like my grandfather.
He paid all the bills.
He did this.
He was a man's man, and that's what I grew up under, so that's what I want to do.
Cool.
You have to do what your grandmother did.
In today's time.
Yeah.
And they are not willing to do that because they want to, again, champion off into being the executive and it is.
And there's nothing wrong with it.
Either one of them.
But you can't pick and choose when it's convenient.
I'm a rock on this side and take this stance.
And then when the other side is convenient, I want to be on a total new world, new woman.
I'm an independent today's woman stance.
And it's not fair.
You know what I'm an independent today's woman stance and it's not fair you know what I'm saying like so they they they fuck with the women empowerment shit when it's beneficial but then they want to
be traditional when it's beneficial and you can't take both stances my only issue with Danny Lay
when I was in support of her was hey even if you got the dude why are you shitting on the baby moms
why do you make a song with the colorist statements? Why do you seem to lean into it such?
That was my only issue with her, and I couldn't ever confirm those things.
Insecurity.
Hey, I don't live her life.
It's not my business.
I don't care.
But those were just questions that I had.
Then when she lost the guy, you go through this.
I'm suicidal.
Yo, the internet, y'all on my back like a lot of that whole a lot of that
just nasty messy type of stuff you got if you dish it you got to be able to take it exactly that's my
thing enough of this passive aggressive stuff that the kids like to do say how you feel say
what's going on and deal with the repercussions because the
baby mom was just like girl i've been through a hundred of you like i'm not paying you know i'm
not paying you any mind because we go through this every other month he'll be back he'll come home
he'll be back he's gonna come home that's my baby daddy that's family he going out getting the
chicken bringing it back and then he's fucking a few chicks i don't care like that's her statement
danny lay says i feel like i cry every other day i just want my life to change already broken heart
emojis i don't want to be here no more i got no real love around me i feel her i feel her i don't
want her to feel like that and i hope she gets the necessary help away from music in the music
industry so she doesn't have to go through that because nobody should.
But there were some things that led up to this.
Yeah, that's where I was at.
I was waiting to see if you was going to say that.
I acknowledge it.
I acknowledge it.
Okay, as long as you acknowledge it, I'm cool.
Because a lot of this you brought on yourself.
You can't be suicidal after you make a nigga want to kill you.
No, after you went trying to kill someone.
That's fucked up.
They're going to kill me.
Yeah, you tried to kill somebody else
you ain't give a fuck if she was suicidal
when you was doing what you was doing
that's my example
staying in this dating relationship
world this story has taken over the headlines
for the past however many
maybe two weeks now feels like two weeks
Derek Jackson
I don't know him
I wasn't familiar with him.
Apparently, he's a relationship expert and life coach who is famous on the Internet.
And that's where people know him from, from the Internet. Because I keep asking, hey, where do y'all know this guy from that makes this so funny?
And they're like, oh, everybody knows him.
And I'm like, yeah, but from where?
Oh, the Shade Room.
Oh, Jasmine Brand.
So the internet.
Yeah, the internet.
I never knew this guy.
Apparently, he's a relationship coach, life coach that cheated on his significant other.
And now the internet is killing him for it.
And he did a video explaining his transgressions with his significant other, wife.
Wait, he's married.
With his wife. He was holding her hand, wait, he's married, with his wife.
He was holding her hand,
but it looked like the grip of death.
You were saying wife.
It looked like a captive situation.
You were saying wife.
I was going to say hostage,
but I don't want any attacks.
He wouldn't let her go.
She looked like she wasn't happy about this vid,
didn't want to be there,
didn't support him.
We've all seen this before.
We've been there.
And the two of them have been getting killed
on the internet ever since. Wait, wait, Joe been there we haven't been holding anyone and like tight against
their will it looks like we all haven't been there just let's just clear that up the holding
someone against their will thing no a lot of men have been there where the side chick tried to bust a move, but we kept our girl through the move, even though our girl didn't want to really be kept through the move.
That's what I'm saying.
I relate to that aspect of this.
She blamed it on Jesus Christ, all the cheating he did.
Oh, you know how it goes.
You're lying.
What else you supposed to do? Yes. What else you supposed to do?
Yes!
What else you supposed to do?
Jesus never made you cheat?
No.
Pardon me.
Yes, he did.
No, he didn't.
Yes, he did.
He did, son.
He did.
No, he didn't.
Never could have made it come on without you
I bet
Ishi was just cheating
on his strength
he wasn't no reason
Jesus
God
cheated
because it's Saturday
he hadn't been to church
in a year
when he cheated
Jesus never made you cheat
well Ishi
you don't believe
that cheating
we can say that
for Patreon
don't worry about it
you don't believe
monogamy is a
natural thing right
no
does anybody
believe that
uh oh
see
don't Patreon
Patreon
that sounds like
a Patreon
we about to
end this
they hate me
they hate me
so they don't
need to hear me
for three hours
you did three
hours without
four and more
that's funny
only my job
sorry
sorry I got a lot to say that day nah they was dissing the girl because they said more. That's funny. Sorry.
I got a lot to say that day.
They was dissing the girl because they said,
if you know, your man just cheated.
They had pictures of the side chicks
that looked like some
IG jump offs.
Then she gets up there with the
taking out the garbage clothes.
They like, no wonder he cheated cheated bitch like women was killing her i'm not taking their stance because you're looking at me with
the face like i'm the heartless bastard i i've heard this third person i mean third no i'm not
looking at you with the face i'm going back to my my history my relationship history rolodex
and i'm just thinking of some of the conversations that had that had been had
in regards to cheating
and I've cheated
so let me be clear on that
you don't say
yeah
wow
shocker
always with you
it was me and you
yo no
you need to stop telling
your listeners
that I'm
yo
I think tonight is the night
tonight's the night
I'ma cheat
and I was like let's ride are you free to hang out and cheat with me tonight I'm a cheat and I was like
let's ride
are you free to hang out
and cheat with me tonight
no
we out
and you would be like
yeah for sake
I'm there at 11
we'll talk about it
don't worry about it
don't worry about it
it's fine
I don't even remember
what I was saying now
something about cheating right
yeah
no the lady
they've been crucifying the lady
even other women
listen I have been crucified for
cheating this is gonna sound bad but my response to that in a few different situations was yeah
but why they do that like you didn't suck my dick in five years i just heard look i heard
what gaslighting was i didn't know what it was that's's gaslighting. That is gaslighting. If I'm explaining why cheating made sense
with you, it's gaslighting.
Maya Angelou
came up with that shit. You can't flip it.
No, look, I used to just call it the flip.
One of our favorite women came up with
this bullshit gaslighting. It was the flip.
I used to call it the flip.
If I'm in a relationship
with you, and the flip sounds better anyway.
I'm the master gymnast. I used to be a flipper in my day,
but again,
I want my dick sucked.
If you want me to not cheat on you,
I want a lot of things.
If you want me to not cheat on head is one of them though.
And if I'm not receiving that,
I'm cool.
I'm not the biggest head guy,
but in year five,
if I don't receive that and I bump into the wettest mouth't receive that, and I bump into the wettest mouth in the world.
If I bump into the wettest mouth by chance, I didn't even know she would be at barcode that day.
And it's just super wet and I can't get enough.
What's your beef?
What's your issue?
Tanisha Kittles.
You mad at me and Tanisha Kittles you mad at me
and Tanisha
I'm not saying that today
I'm not saying that today
I'm just explaining
my thinking in the past
that's a woman's stance
men don't usually
take that stance
or society doesn't
take that stance
for us
they say that
never would've made it
I don't want to
go ahead and say
no they say that
we cheat
cause we ain't shit
and men are dogs.
Women cheat because something is lacking, quote unquote.
We've all heard that, right?
And that society has accepted that bullshit.
We all cheat for the same reasons.
Because we want to cheat.
That's the reason.
We greedy.
To be honest.
If you're cheating, you're cheating out of greed.
I'm not cheating.
I'm just saying if you're cheating, you're cheating for the same reason, greed.
No, not greed. You don't saying if you're cheating, you're cheating for the same reason. Greed. No.
Not greed.
You don't touch me like she does.
No.
If you're not happy, you leave.
I felt your hand on my body.
If you're not happy, you leave.
I have felt your...
You are greedy.
You want to keep this and that.
But I don't want to keep that.
No.
So leave.
No, no, no, no, no.
What if she lives with you?
Put her out. He's a pro that's more you are you furthering a narrative do you know
that when I lived with somebody that I didn't
want to live with anymore I approached
them and said hey why don't I get you your own crib
and they say no yeah
then you trapped and then you got to figure out a different
way to break up with this person where they're going to be angrier
but I tried the nice way
I tried to get you your own crib
so I could fuck the girls I wanted to fuck
in this house you said no because you know I tried to get you your own crib so I could fuck the girls I wanted to fuck in this house.
You said no because you
know I want to fuck other girls.
Like that's going to stop. Now I got to go
get another crib. Maybe they just wanted
to hold on to see if they could fix the
relationship. You can fix it. You just got to
fix it through me fucking other girls.
So either way the other girls are getting
fucked.
That's what you're saying.
How is that a corrective action?
Wait, who said it was corrective?
You said you could fix it.
You said you can fix it.
That fixes it for me.
Hey, I didn't get my dick sucked for five years.
Now I get my dick sucked every week.
That is a problem solved.
Hey, that's a life I didn't know I'd be able to live right now
what do you want me to do
there's some headbusters
out there that women don't necessarily
know about
they don't know what she do to my skin
alright man
I hate podcast
I hate podcast alright You're a stupid I hate podcasting
Alright don't worry about it
Escape is coming back
SWV is the battle
The versus
Thriller
Yeah
All of that
It's hand buses
Versus dry mouth
Cause it's the dry mouth chicks with all the demands
bitch if you don't go suck a lollipop
put some type of lubricant in your mouth oh my god yo all right forget it man
i'm telling you don't forget it you're to lick my ass? Don't worry about it.
I'm cheating.
I'm cheating on you.
I like my ass licked, and that seems to be a boundary that you don't want to get into.
And Shorty over at Starlet's does it without even asking.
That's her thing.
She gets right to my ass.
That's the go-to.
Yeah, it's no kissing.
She gets right to her tongue on my ass.
And I love it.
I continue to text her.
I continue to communicate with her.
What time do we get on, man?
Yeah, yeah, no.
We troubleshoot problems.
We have great conflict resolution.
I get mad.
She licks my ass.
No more conflict.
You're good after that.
Oh, God.
Huh?
The best. So she ain't going nowhere Oh, so she ain't going nowhere.
No,
she ain't going nowhere.
She ain't going nowhere.
That mean you don't have no game?
Wait,
what?
Nothing.
Go ahead,
you got it.
It's what you said,
man.
What you said?
Nothing,
man.
You said you ain't have no game.
It should seem my game,
though.
It should seem me in action.
You won't say it
because we're on the podcast.
No,
no,
no,
your go-to was early. He started rubbing we're on a podcast no no no your go to was early
he started rubbing that thumb
on a bitch in about
five minutes
that nigga won't know you
you look up that nigga
be like
thumbing the bitch like
oh damn he got her.
Yo, we made bets on bitches.
No lie.
Women.
Pardon me.
We made bets on women.
I'll kill you, Ish.
I just want you to know.
Don't kill me.
We made bets on bitches.
What is this, a fucking roller derby?
What the fuck is this, a horse race?
Pardon me.
This guy's not a podcaster.
Women, Ish. Women.
You are right.
Women.
Women.
You'll be like, yo.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Shoot.
How much you want bet?
Two minutes later, boy.
Hey, me and this girl.
Two minutes later, I see that thumb massaging her neck.
Here you go yo
That's my finishing move
No yeah
That's your opening
That's your opening
That's your opening
Yeah but it's finished
When I open it like that
Grand opening
Grand closing
Yeah
Me and H.E. Go
On the spot
He'll say
Yo who that
She's cute
I'll say I don't know
But she is
He'll say I want her
I'll say me too
He'll say I'm going to get her I'll say, I don't know, but she is. He'll say, I want her. I'll say, me too.
He'll say, I'm going to get her.
I'll say, all right, me too.
All right, well, get away from me, nigga.
We can't keep talking to each other. I don't know you.
No, that's funny.
He wins, of course, because I don't holler.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
We're not doing that here.
All right, OK.
Why I win.
This is the most intriguing part to me
that Ish never knows
why I win
versus him
in a strip club
I know why
I know
that's easy
me too
it's easy
alright
back in our day
alright so let me tell the people
Ish don't drink
one
he drinks water
that's one
the bartenders
are bad as fuck
you just started drinking.
Trying to make money.
Even if I don't drink, I'm ordering her a drink, her friend a drink.
Order everybody bottles.
You and your pretty eyes and your Fiji's is going to be in for an uphill battle.
You don't think so?
Nah.
You think it's a thumb move?
Yeah, that thumb.
You think you a little cooler than me.
You cooler.
You more reserved than me.
Yeah, of course.
And the other part of this is.
Thank you, Ice.
We all been out together.
Thank you, Ice.
Ice will tell you what it is.
That's it.
The other part of this is.
And we won't get into that because we can end this podcast.
I'm Ish's wingman.
Ish gets to play shy brother.
I am shy.
It's not me playing.
It works for him.
Because of me.
He gets to point something out
and say, yo, I'm shy.
Go tell her I got hazel eyes.
And I go over there
and say, yo, my friend like. Go tell her I got hazel eyes. And I go over there and say, yo,
my friend like you, who?
Hazel eyes. And then it works.
It works.
This guy is a nut.
Has he ever
thrown? Yeah.
Yeah, a few.
A couple.
Yo, don't just act like you Chris Paul, nigga.
You've thrown at something.
Yo, that's what it is none of my friends
will ever
I'm trash
no you have
definitely thrown
some assists to me
I agree
yeah of course
I'm Chris Paul
on the suns
this year
not for me
to other niggas
I've thrown a few
you've thrown some
nice
and I run the lane
like Sean Merriman
back in the day
I didn't even want to throw.
Yo, me and you have chemistry.
I think me and you got a connection, but I mean, if you want this nigga...
No.
Look, this nigga...
Look, his hairline is intact still.
Yo, this guy is nuts, yo.
Fuck out of here.
No.
What else is important to talk about?
Anything?
Nah. Derek Jackson. Was that What else is important to talk about? Anything? Nah.
Nah.
Derrick Jackson.
Was that his name?
The relationship coach guy?
You guys have any thoughts on this?
No, right?
Y'all don't care.
We don't care about that.
Y'all don't care.
No, we don't.
I don't care either.
We really don't.
Ah.
Hey, contrary to popular belief, I love when you niggas get busted cheating.
Nah.
Yo, fuck.
Oh, man. Y'all don't? I love when they niggas get busted cheating. Nah, that's fucked. Oh, man.
Y'all don't?
I like seeing that dude get caught.
Them type of dudes, yeah, I love that.
Because I just feel like, why y'all fuck?
Who the fuck is a relationship expert?
Word.
No, but you can be a relationship expert if you have a ton of-
No, you can't.
Yes, you can.
Because what works in your relationship ain't going to work in mine.
So you can't be a relationship expert.
But there are some
general rules of thumb
thumb
what common sense
there are some
general rules
fuck you
there are some
general rules though
that are applicable
no
what common sense rules
everybody's common sense
level is relative
I know this
the shit Kevin Samuels
who's the godfather
says
other people
look at him like
he's a dick for when he says it.
To us, it makes sense.
To them, it doesn't.
Kevin Hart was allegedly cheating, and his man hit him the next morning like, yo, I'm sending this tape.
I'm sending this footage out.
Yo, I need a new Range Rover and a Lambo or this goes out.
I like to see our dudes get caught with the cheating.
Like, I have got caught in the stupidest ways that exist.
Like, the chick was still there when Shorty was coming.
She seen the other chick car pull off.
Who was that?
No one.
You're a liar, and I'm leaving.
I'm leaving you forever.
This guy, how did he get caught?
Oh, the side chick spoke?
Two of them. Nice ones, how did he get caught? Oh, the side chick spoke. Two of them.
Nice ones, too, that I saw pictures of.
And he said that.
But why would you do that?
I have an issue with women that believe the side chick when they talk.
You're supposed to believe your man.
I'm with that.
Careful.
I'm with that.
Careful, though.
Just be careful, bro.
You're supposed to believe your partner all right okay good come on I'm
listening no that was the end no what did I have to prove it you know forget it man yeah look at
it they're gonna tell you up forget it so who's that oh I understand She looks like a nice lady. All right.
Y'all got sleepers.
I got sleepers. This is a brand new tune.
Yo, this tune just came out.
I get it.
I get it.
Yo, you never heard.
Yo, this tune right here.
No, I get it.
You can't say stuff like that, man.
I just said I can.
All right.
I can play a sleeper.
Oh, we going to sleep.
You want to continue to talk about understanding why she got cheated on.
I'm trying to get these podcasts a little shorter.
Just a little shorter.
Y'all don't need to hear from me for a whole three hours.
I'm with y'all. It's a rinse and repeat The best thing that glow in black Open the door, we'll clear up first
Brand new galah, this one is called Chemical Romance
Album in your phone right now, right now
From the clay shop
And your brain starts From the glaciers, and the plain stones
You won't let no feather go to save ya
So we're gonna leave you brokenhearted
Butterflies are just a flower
We're loving all you need day to wear you scarlet All the love you lose
Keep you up when you're toast
And all the love you lose
And all the love you lose
Can you see me like you're so alone
And leave me your broken heart
Say no more
Twisting common logic into folklore
Oh, you've stuck to your guns until that blue flowers
Left you wounded and itbed on the turf wall
Now you're on shore
You even see that glowing path
Oh, just the bottom of that flat
Next time the lightning pulls you back
From the glaciers
And your brainstorms
You wanna know
Damn it, what a savior
If it's all gonna leave you brokenhearted
If it's all about to leave you brokenhearted
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star
I'm not just a star I'm not sorry, I'm so sorry I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry This is brand new music from Galun.
One of my favorite acts, man.
Shout out to him.
This one is called Chemical Romance.
EP in your phones right now.
If you want to call it an EP, I call it an album.
Letting us rock for the last 20 so y'all know the vibes.
Ayy.
Ayy. Hey Hey Hey
Shout out to Golan, man, friend of the show.
Me?
Yeah.
Where we at?
Where we at?
What we got?
I got one.
I had something else I was going to play, but this weather, this is just that good weather.
What Jeezy did.
Nah, man.
I'm going with Wale.
Good vibes.
Zah. good vibes All my niggas dyin', and that president be lyin' I got Zarp in this raw, I wanna fly
Put this outside in the sky
Shit ain't right on this side
All my niggas dyin', and that president be lyin'
I got Zarp in this raw, I wanna fly
Losing my cool, I'm losing my patience
You using your stimulus just to lose it in Vegas
I see a lot of APs, I see a lot of Rolexes
I'ma buy them off of these niggas right after
the pandemic I can show you a style, I can show you a rapping
After all this shit that happened, no, we gotta be brothers
Kyle Williams said we good, then we better than that
But we get shot and nothing happens, how we settle for that?
You see my culture expensive, that's why they painted to us
It be you Terry Crews niggas tap dancing for that
I never let nobody less, lesser treat me lesser than them
You can't handle Mr. Chow's eating Panda Express
I'm burnin' the stage in the studio before I let niggas near
I leave my weapon by the speaker so they hearin' me clear
I mean the money be cold, I did amazing this year
I mean I'm famous but I'm drained, I need some prayer for real
I'm so tired, all I need is good vibes
Shit ain't right on this side
All my niggas dyin' and that president be lyin' I got Zarp in this raw, I wanna fly
Put this outside in the sky Shit ain't right on this side
All my niggas dyin' and that president be lyin' I got Zarp in this raw, I wanna fly
You know, slick as El Gato Don't worry bout the kicks, nah, Slimmy, you ain't got those Rest in peace, Hermias, and Pop Smoke
I pray you keep some fire and some Palo Santo The capital of the city was made of chocolate
I seen the capital built and full of a bunch of rioters
Losers and super white people, that was gettin' too rowdy
You do that and you black, they gon' clap, you gon' hug your mommy like
Cool story, whole country been cold-blooded Tell Tammy Lawrence and Kenneth O'Neal it's nothing
And patriotic energy, iffy in 21
Cause 2020 show me my vision was truly blurry
I'm tired, I'm fried, we all need a reset
A kata or naja, I always been a reject
I always been a lot of things, but none of them a weak link
But everything I lied, I hope you sparkin' when you sing it like
And I'm so tired, all I need is good vibes
Shit ain't right on this side
All my niggas dyin' and the president be lyin'
I got Zarp and it's raw, I wanna fly
Put this outside in the sky
Shit ain't right on this side
All my niggas dyin' and the president be lyin'
I got Zarp and it this raw, I wanna fly sum up this uh flea lord and dj muggs album this is wallabies and gucci loafers with ghosts
yeah uh-huh
the fragrance i'm soaked in this like barry white snake
is flocking wanna me awful like sweat Tom Selleck joints, hairy chest tone
Even when I'm getting my dick sucked, I still get the phone
Blankets, big robes, gold pots on the big stove
Cocaine, Max Julian, full limbs, cause I've been cold
Quiet storm, Lenny Green and my BLS voice
VSO, shootout, Lenny Green and my BLS voice VSO, Shootout Platinum, Fatwaz and Friends
And the Chop Royce
Gettin' chauffeured in Gucci loafers, my name's written in script
In bedroom pillows, worldwide chefs tellin' who can whip the best brick
It's Tone, T-O to the N-E
Killed the game from the moment he sent me
Me and my girl, Pam Grant and Goldieoke up to a hundred thousand, Link on the neck piece
Bad bitches catcall, that's backwards dog
Can't imagine me in black ball Shots go back and forth like we playing paddle break Help me, Van Gogh. Bad bitches catcall. That's backwards, dawg.
Can't imagine me in black ball.
Shots go back and forth like we playing paddle ball.
Long for a nigga, haven't had a song.
I was adding to the catalog.
Made a splash in the game.
I ain't even yell, can't a ball.
I had the Patagon.
It's a motherfucking waterfall.
I'm in a four-door with the 44.
Listen in the 444. You get what your head called for, for the 40 hit the floor, I was off
Probably up in club 40-40 with a whore, the break costs like 40 when it's soft
To make a long story short, I don't even talk, I just put numbers on the board
I can make the raw somersault, I can make you a corpse, I can make you throw a gutter ball
Either way you gettin' fucked
Let my heater spray to get a buck
Even as a teenage I was buck
Wild as fuck with the gun
Me and my son, we was lookin' like five and buck
Could've been point guard for the bucks
Thank God when it rung I had my guard up
The pump made him flip like a fish outta water
Your body washed up somewhere down in Florida
Marcy
That's Wallabies and Gucci Loafers
DJ Muggs
Flea Lord
What up Flea
Featuring Ghosts
And Rock Marcy
Off their album Ramble Z
Rest in Peace Ramble Z
The Legend
Ish got a record
Ish you gotta bring the record in though
Yeah you at least gotta say Yo this is I don't know any of this stuff Oh okay and Ish got a record. Ish, you got to bring the record in, though.
Yeah, you at least got to say,
yo, this is, you know what I mean? Yeah, I don't know any of this stuff.
Oh, okay.
I just got 7,000 zillion songs on that song.
Ish wanted me to play this joint.
I'm 45, too.
It's Jay-Z, Melissa Morgan's
Can't Knock the Hustle,
Fool's Paradise remix.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because you can't knock the hustle Oh yeah
Oh no
Oh
Jay-Z
Uh-huh
Melissa Martin
Paradise
Rockafella, y'all
It don't stop
Broke up
We about to change this game, dear
Check my pockets, ain't nothing but game there
I remain without fear, keep the lanes clear
And the cast is all about scratch, remain here
On top of this metropolis, my name's like a swift
Dropped off every tear, now y'all persuade a J
Heard it the other day, knew to miss it, B-Body scripted
We gotta hear you every night, before we hit the lights
It's type addiction, need cash to live with
The beat goes on, every day is a hustle
The heat grows on, funny thing happens
For years of chasing money and polls
And the only thing worse than getting old
Is not getting old, niggas stay low
Like six balls with shit and goals
And watch for hoes with form-fitting clothes
And I hope you shine, see many wrinkles
And enough memories to last you two lifetimes
Can't knock the hustle
I'm taking out this time I've seen many wrinkles and enough memories to last you two lifetimes Can't knock the hustle
I'm taking out this time
You're not there just to give you a piece of my life
Can't knock the hustle
Who do you think you are?
Maybe one of your beasts
Check this
In a man's world need a girl to touch something
Pull an 80 out of incline, purse or bust something
If you skating through the night to the light, then trust something
When I get home, then it's on
Girl, just crackin' shaved legs like grade A eggs
Love the way you behave and beg
Moans, turns to hollers and screams
As we zone like a college team
They'll make you hear you from Hollis, Queens
Life with me consists of a lot of things
Chicks in your ear kicking dirt
Cause you got how to ring
But you know how to scream
Friends talking dizziness
Remind them freak chicks to stay out my busyness
Know they can't love it
Trips to LA with no luggage
Came back with six bags struggling
In first class if my ass should crash
Champagne spilled on me
Steak still warm
What are you doing baby, I'm almost crazy
Cause if I'm with you, make it real, you know that you can't stop
I don't want some romance, I just can't
Can't not love love so closely to you
Ever since I retired, workin' alongside the live wires
See this rap biz with fake niggas, you know liars
I guess I'm biased, what I talk about, I live
These rap dudes done flipped, and some of them ain't even rappin' for chips
Well, part of the game is this, seems brainless
On tours like whores, guess what I'm sayin', I miss
Cats that go aloft for they gold plaques
Started with four jacks, ended up with gold axes
Bet your lungs collapsed if my buns get trapped
on their way to me through you Screw you, gun blew you out of one to two
shoes Run through you like, excuse you
But that's my cash, I understand you hustler That's my cash, you don't understand
Let my dope pass, you can show it love Like a rap star in front of the club
But don't knock the hustle
I'm taking out this time
To give you peace and love
But you can't knock the hustle
Do you think you are?
Maybe I'll take your feeling
Yeah, that was Isha Sleeper, which was Jay-Z, Melissa Moore, Can't Knock the Hustle.
Of course Ish was playing some Jay-Z.
Not like he knows any other rappers.
I don't know these new jokers.
These new jokers is terrible.
These new jokers, you can tell he's 50, right?
We ain't touch on weed's legal in New York State now. Well, why would I touch on that? I'm from New Jersey. Oh, man. These new jokers. You can tell he's 50, right? We ain't touch on weeds legal in New York State, though.
Well, why would I touch on that?
Is that right?
I'm from New Jersey.
Oh, right.
So you already had that from New Jersey.
We're not surprised.
We don't care about that.
That's old news.
You're right.
You're right.
My bad.
My bad.
Oh, but I'm good for y'all.
Round of applause.
How nice of y'all to join the party.
Is there shit popping up over there yet or not?
No, no.
Is what?
Like dispensaries and shit like that?
Are they popping up yet?
Not yet.
Not legal.
Not like recreational?
But no, they're open.
Oh, medical been around.
A couple of my people just opened.
Yeah, medical been around.
Jersey shot themselves in the foot, by the way.
What you mean?
Slow rolling this out.
Yeah, they did.
You're supposed to have this rolled out before New York did their shit.
That's true.
Now you're fucking up
because New York gonna beat you to the punch
and actually get shit in motion.
Get that shit done.
Right.
Maybe.
It might be slow over here in New York.
New York's trying to rush.
From what I've been reading,
they probably already had it lined up.
So once they did it,
it was like,
yeah, they ready to go.
I'm hyped.
I'm smoked.
You hype. You just cross theoker. I'm a smoker.
You hype.
You can just cross the George Washington Bridge and be hype.
Yeah, but I can do... Don't worry.
I'd rather just cross the street.
Parks, when are we getting the Parks cooking show on as a Patreon exclusive?
It's starting to get next hour.
I'm seeing you back there looking at the grill.
I know.
I'm looking at it like it's almost time.
You was looking at the grill like it wanted smoke. Think about that. Think about... I'm looking at it like it's almost time. You was looking at the grill
like it wanted smoke.
Think about that.
Think about it.
I'm coming back to the game, y'all.
You was looking at the grill.
Smoke.
No, we got it.
Smoke grill.
I got it.
I got it.
That's why.
I'm clear why I'm here.
How about you?
I'm clear why I'm here.
How about you?
I'm here.
Pretty much.
If anybody gets in.
Yo, real quick before we get out of here.
Under the three-hour mark for the first time in ages.
I'm hearing rumblings.
I'm seeing little internet clips of fans expressing their opinion on what Trina versus Lil' Kim would look like.
I love Trina, but...
Stick to the lakes that you're used to
The rivers and lakes you're used to
Don't go chasing waterfalls
You think that's a waterfall?
Absolutely
No, that's Niagara Falls
Yeah
Hey, while we're in this transparent transitioning moment
Let's hear from Parks on why it's not a waterfall
What do you mean?
Why do you think it wouldn't be considered that?
I think Trina's got a bunch of records.
I just think that Lil' Kim's got a lot of records.
She has more than 10?
Versus his 20 records.
10-ish.
Against Lil' Kim.
Lil' Kim's got a lot of records.
Lil' Kim has a 20.
No, I said from the rip that I think that Trina's got a 20.
Lil' Kim can put up a 20.
So I want to know why Parks is saying.
And you said Trina can do 10-ish.
I was laughing at the waterfalls joke.
I think that Lil' Kim is going to win that battle.
Oh, okay.
I'm just laughing.
I don't know 10.
I thought you were saying something else.
That's why I was glad to hear that.
I'm just laughing.
And Trina we love, so we're just going to leave it at Lil' Kim would win.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I understand why Carisha, the City Girls, and any other Miami person would pick Trina.
Trina's got a lot of pops.
That's fine.
If you're from Miami, you would pick Trina.
Listen, it's okay to be wrong. Listen, I'm picking
Naughty by Nature in anything that they do.
I'm picking Redman in anything that he do,
even though y'all might know how I really feel about
the red versus
meth behind the scenes thing, but guess what?
I'm picking Redman. I'm from New Jersey.
If you're from America,
you have to pick
Lil' Kim over Trina
Lil' Kim just has
More bigger records
Come on
If you're younger
And you grew up on Trina
I can understand
But do not get it fucked up
She can't hold a candle
To Kimberly Jones
Alright
Stop
Stop
Just stop
If that can't be top seven,
stop.
Trina,
Trina,
Trina Kaya's right there.
All right.
No,
no,
no,
no,
no,
no,
no.
No,
no,
no,
no.
I do feel like we need
Ice Energy
on whatever
this ends up being.
This should be pissing me off, man.
I'm not trying to, like, stop.
That's not your battle.
Stop.
Who's her battle?
Let me just end it, Bob.
All right, yo, yo, yo.
This has been great.
This is B.O.
You guys are amazing.
Give it up for yourselves.
Yo, we getting out of here, man.
Hopefully everybody enjoyed themselves.
Enjoy the weekend.
We should be getting beautiful weather in New York, man.
If you a podcaster, work through the issues.
Get your shit together, especially if you podcast with friends.
With all that being said Keep us in your prayers
Lord knows we need to be there
Until the next time
I bid you adieu
Farewell
Adios
Arrivederci
Hasta la vista
So long
Goodbye
Talk to you later
What you doing tomorrow?
Life is a series of moments
And moments pass
So let's make this one last
As if it's all we have
This is it
Couldn't work
Definitely it's all we have
That's it
Do remember The baddies are insecure The stagnant women Want to travel all we have. Definitely it's all we have.
Do remember the baddies are insecure.
The stagnant women want to travel.
And the closed minded women want you to teach them things.
Grab an ibuprofen.
Enjoy your headache. We'll be back to you same time
same place Wednesday morning.
You know the vibes.
Salute to Rory Maul, Rory Hive, Maul Hive.
But the show goes on.
I'll talk to y'all later. You heard?
One.
Guys, please come back.
Please come back.
Please come back.
Shut up, man.
You come back.
I want to thank Ish Ice
for joining me for this podcast.
I appreciate y'all for taking time out of your very busy days and schedules.
Thank you.
Hopefully y'all had a good time.
I want to thank the fans for tuning in.
Shout out to the day ones and the last days.
Last day listeners.
Shout out to the advertisers.
Shout out to the business.
Shout out to God.
None of this is possible without him, man.
And shout out to Friendship. nobody wins when the family feuds.
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