The Joe Budden Podcast - Episode 534 | "Leader Of The Pack"
Episode Date: May 14, 2022The guys dive right into Kendrick Lamar's new album (19:15) and other new music (1:01:10). Joe also begs the quesion of the value/worth of going viral (1:09:00), Young Thug and YSL updates (1:37:20), ...and the guys discuss the latest headlines in sports (1:59:05). Become a Patron of The Joe Budden Podcast for additional bonus episodes and visual content for all things J.B.P.: Tap in here www.patreon.com/JoeBudden Sleeper Picks Joe | Nick Hakim - “I Don’t Know” Ice | Ray Vaughn - “Picking Cherries” Parks | Danger Mouse & Black Thought - “No Gold Teeth” Ish | Jeremy Raphael - “Paranoid”
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Just did one of these.
Gentlemen.
You know what?
What's going on, fellas?
I'm going to put my shades on just in case.
Y'all in these fucking shades.
Yeah, I don't know.
But why black men get so mad?
Why we can't just wear shades?
Y'all can.
But why you mad at us about it?
I ain't mad at nothing.
I'm just saying.
Why are you speaking to me so aggressively? That's no aggression. I ain't mad at nothing. I'm just saying. Why are you speaking to me so aggressively?
That's no aggression.
I ain't mad at nothing.
Just seeing y'all.
I'm not.
I'm in a very good mood.
That's good to hear.
Yeah.
I just, y'all look just different.
Rockin' shades indoors.
These are just in case.
In case what?
The takes are too hot.
It's not different.
The Blues Brothers did this.
Mad people did this.
Indoors?
Yes. I ain't cool about it. You ever see The Blues Brothers did this. Man, people did this. Indoors? Yes.
You ever see the Blues Brothers, man?
Yeah, I don't really remember them.
She was in the 70s.
You was there.
You went to the theaters.
You was there.
Tell me about when Good Times debuted.
You don't know Good Times?
I said when Good Times debuted.
You really be acting like you way younger than me. I don't remember when Good Times debuted. I don't know what good times? I said what good times. Yo, you really be acting like you way younger than me.
I don't remember what good times debuted.
I don't know.
You be acting like you 12.
Nah, I'm a little up there.
My baby's 21.
You don't say.
Oh, my Lord.
Round of applause.
Round of applause.
Plus, this guy just gets sound good.
Yeah, my baby's 21
So yeah that was a
Stern reminder
Old head moment
It's like
Getting up there
Yeah
Still kind of the cool dad
Though I was fucking early
Like I got mine out
Right out the way
I know there's nothing to really say to that.
Happy birthday, Trey.
Well, no.
That's what they're saying.
Well, no.
It's people that prefer to do it later.
I did both.
I did both.
I was unsure.
I think you don't know until you know.
Like for the people that did it early, they don't know.
You did both, so you got it better.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Happy birthday to my baby yeah happy birthday Trey
that's dope
you know why we got our shades on
yeah man
I went back and watched the footage
from the last episode
not often I go back
and watch the entire episode
but
I ran right
ran right to it
and
man
I might have watched it twice.
Was that good?
It was great.
It was, for me, bittersweet in a few ways,
but a few things are unanimous across the board.
One, I tried it last pod.
It came across more as a joke.
Now, the GoFundMe money is raised.
There are millions of names on the petition.
We're going to need Ish's hip-hop license and registration.
ASAP.
Immediately from him.
Nah.
I'm telling you what we're going to need, man.
Nah.
Gotcha.
Or, you niggas just got to start coming out and saying, when you don't fuck with a nigga. Well, you kindiggas just gotta start coming out and saying,
when you don't fuck with a nigga.
Well, you kinda do that a little bit.
No, I don't do that.
Even if I don't fuck with you,
if you put something dope out,
I'm still gonna give you that.
There you go.
I always do that.
I'm the first to admit,
yo, I don't fuck with this nigga,
but this is hard.
I think that we get confused
between fandom and fienddom.
And the problem is the opposite.
We're trying to catchphrase your way out of this one.
No, no, no, no, no.
The problem is everybody.
I'm getting a little Wolverine shit.
Kendrick was on beat, man.
The problem is the opposite, though.
Not admitting that you don't fuck with a nigga.
Admitting that a nigga you fucked with.
Did some mediocre shit.
Put some mediocre shit out.
And y'all feel like y'all hating if you do that.
And that's not hate.
That's the problem.
I just did fuck with kendrick no so your example is known void that's not true and that's
not true all right well that's true that's that's far from true that you don't fuck which part
number one i it's not that i don't fuck with him i don't fuck with him like y'all fuck with him
that's one number two i could not fuck with somebody everybody know i don't particularly
care for nas but i'll give nas his props when i feel like they're somebody everybody know i don't particularly care for nas
but i'll give nas his props when i feel like they're due everybody know i like jay-z when y'all came in here and was bigging up that jay-z what's the name song i said that
was blah the jay-z nah song i didn't like that song no that was a jay-z
pusher song i think both i didn't like neither one the jay-z when nas be like cryptocurrency
scarface all that i didn't like that song.
I don't know that song.
You know the song on Khaled's album.
You be trying to trap me in the same song.
You know what I'm talking about?
The song?
You don't know the song I'm talking about?
Not off the top of my head.
You know the song.
I know what you're talking about.
I didn't like that song.
Sorry, not sorry.
It's mad shit that Jay-Z do that be mediocre to me.
But I like Jay-Z.
What is this song?
You know that song.
We talked about it.
We talked about it.
But my point is this.
Yo, I could like somebody and not like everything they do.
I don't got to be a fiend for a motherfucker.
And let me give you a prime example.
Ice-ass jaw.
If it was Ice's hypothetical that if-
Joyner Lucas.
Joyner Lucas or Gay made the song, would y'all like it?
And Park said no, he wouldn't like it.
Which means, is it really genius or you like the person?
Because if it's art, it won't be subjective.
If it's art, it won't be subjective.
If it's art, it wouldn't be subjective.
Listen, if two artists, hear me out out made the same painting and you didn't
know who made them if you liked it you liked it it wouldn't give a fuck who made it if it's art
and you like it you like it it wouldn't be um contingent upon who did it okay that's the bias
piece you get what i'm saying or no i'm following you all right so my point is if a song is made by
kendrick lamar if a song is made by my mother myar, if a song is made by my mother, my nigga, and if I don't like it, I don't like it.
That don't mean I'm hating Kendrick Lamar.
That don't mean I'm dumb.
That don't mean I don't have no music sense and all this other goofy shit that niggas be saying.
I mean, I don't like that particular song.
There it is.
Ta-da.
And I don't gotta ride With the masses
My fucking hip hop car
I know more hip hop
Than most niggas breathing
So what the fucking niggas
Say to me
Nothing
Just cause I don't appeal
To what everybody else
Say is dope
I'm a grown up my nigga
I don't gotta
Sway my opinion
To rock with the masses
Talk your shit ish
Need more people
That's just willing
To like what they like
And don't like
What they don't like
Everybody's so busy
Playing follow the fucking leader
Shit corny
Nobody wanna be themselves
It's niggas now
Waiting to hear what we say
About this album
To determine if they like it
Yeah
I'm never talking
To those people
But it's a lot of them
I say that for years
But it's still a lot of them
No but It's still there.
This is the funny point.
Mad niggas is in my DMs.
Mad niggas was in the comments
like, yo, I didn't really
want to say it,
but you right, my nigga.
Mad niggas.
What percentage of niggas
do you think said that?
I saw a third.
Something like that.
I saw a few of them out there.
It's a lot.
I have a problem
with that statement.
I didn't really want to say it.
Yeah.
But you're right.
Yeah.
Why not?
Because they don't be wanting to.
What's the problem with not liking something?
Because everybody want to rock what everybody else rocks with.
That's it.
In a nutshell, I don't got to do that.
And then the flip side to that is if you are one that just, okay, a thousand of y'all like
that and I'm the only one that don't like it.
You're a hater.
You're a hater.
You're trolling.
You're dumb.
You're being a contrarian.
No, nigga, I have my own mind.
Try it.
It's really dope.
And you don't have to be hating somebody not to like some shit.
Amen.
That's my opinion.
So when is it hating?
That's a good question
I think it's hating
when it's personal
like I think it's hating
when it's personal
if you say
LeBron James ain't shit
it's like alright
word my nigga
like certain stuff
is just
stupidity to me
so
when I
when I talk
about the Kendrick verse
I said it was trash
at first
Of course I'm being
Which to many people is the equivalent of
Wait wait wait
LeBron ain't shit
True
So when I took back what I said
I said yo I like the beat
I said the words was dope
It wasn't a good song
I stand by that today
I'm doubling down on that today
I don't give a fuck what the naysayers
say nigga it wasn't a good song and a good song and good and this is the funny part mad niggas
know it wasn't a good song so you know what they said yo it shouldn't even be classified as music
it's art no it's music my nigga put the words on a fucking piece of paper and they fly and they
dope and I said that it's poetry it's amazing i said i see why he want
to poetry i said that put it with that beat that he put it with and make the song the same way and
compose it the same way i'm still not gonna like it it's not a good song to me and i'm entitled to
my opinion i don't gotta give a fuck of what nobody else say fashion art all that shit is
subjective no you're killing shit right now. No, I'm just saying.
Everybody is.
I just want to make a note to Parks and Ice and Corey that when I be talking about Ish's pod voice and he says, it's just my voice.
I just want to make a note.
Y'all hear him?
Y'all hear him?
It's a little bit more passionate than that.
Stop.
Do y'all hear this?
It's a little bit more passionate.
It's a little bit more passionate than that. Stop. Do y'all hear this? It's a little bit passionate. It's a firm.
Look at that.
It's a little passionate.
Hey, comment more.
Get it right.
Hey.
I see we got a little chemistry going. Sam, you disagree?
It's shit that you don't like that I like, and vice versa.
Of course.
This is funny, because I was watching, they had an exhibit.
And I am going to intro this part.
Go ahead.
They had an exhibit for Basquiat.
No lie.
The other day they had an exhibit for Basquiat.
And I was just looking at the art, right?
The niggas be spending a gazillion dollars for.
And some of that shit look like my daughter could do it.
But because everybody says that it's fly, everybody rolls with what is fly.
Nah.
Based on certain motherfuckers approving it.
So even in the art world, if I could get Jay-Z to buy one of my paintings, nigga, I could go take a bucket and just throw some shit up there and it could be an abstract.
But if the right nigga signs it and stamps it, here come all the sheep following suit.
Now I got biddings on my shit.
it here come all the sheep following suit now i got biddings on my shit i was a starving artist living at my mother basement but the right motherfucker stamp you now everybody else
gonna follow suit and want to buy your shit it's a world full of fucking sheep and dick routers and
i'm not really and the other and the other side of that coin the right motherfucker come in and
say this shit trash everybody else gonna say it's trash that's true you could be really with some
it could have been fly a few minutes ago. Niggas was fucking with you.
I know.
As soon as you come out and say,
the right person say,
nah, that shit is trash.
And that's why Nicki Minaj was mad at you.
Because she said you have a power to influence people.
And when you have that voice,
you gotta use that voice for good.
Hey, Nick.
Prime example.
People will follow what you say.
Niggas don't have their own mind
Go ahead
Do your intro thing
You got it playboy
This also
Confirms my other theory
About when we're quiet
On the car right here
I'm telling you
I might man
I'm pretty good
I choose me
Love they left this be here for y'all. Ayy. The pressure's taking over me, it's beginning to loom.
Mic check, one, two, one, two, mic check.
Better if I spare your feelings and tell you the truth.
Y'all hear what the fuck it said just now?
Word.
That's all word.
Baby, I read your letter, my point of views.
Ayy.
You're longer waiting on me.
I can't live in the middle of nowhere.
I can't live in the middle of nowhere. I can't live in the middle of nowhere. I can't live in the middle of nowhere. I can't live in the middle of nowhere. I won't go away, no me
I can't live in the matrix
Rather fall short of your graces
This time I won't trade places
Not about to try who's wrong
Involved, the only thing known
Actually, when I'm coming home
Blink twice again, I'm gone
I chose me, I'm sorry
I chose me, I'm sorry
I chose me
I popped the paint away
I slide the paint away
I popped the paint away Y'all know what we I pop the paint away, I slide the paint away
Y'all know what we here to do, let's not waste time, man
I was gon' come in here with like a whole bunch of other songs
Play some little psych out game in the front
I ain't know my guys was comin' in hot
But we here now, we got one job to do
And we gon' get to it
Congratulations to Kendrick
Shout out to Hip Hop and Ego
I hope I'm not too late
You set my demons straight
I know I made you wait
But how much can you take?
I hope you see the God in me
I hope you can see
And if it's up, stay down from me
Yeah Show me, show me, cocoa, coffee, soft tea
I may not be happy without you
But I'll trust your ways and trust I feel you deep
Deep, deep, deep
Deep, deep, deep
I know I have nothing written down
It ain't too much else to discuss
Deep, deep, deep
All the rappers cleared out for a reason i understand it
y'all did the right thing man y'all did right
huh they ain't clear out some tried it we'll talk oh yeah no you gotta like me
you gotta tell me yeah they was tucked away and i i ain't seeing them
tell me you in my corner right now hey when i fall short i'm leaning on you to cry out we all I love when he
Kicks like C's groove
You may ride the beat
You may ride the beat
I like that too
Sound dope
I gotta put the sunglasses back on
Yeah not today
Not today
Not today
Not today
Microphone check
One two what
Hey don't do that again
Ish
Alright to what? Hey, don't do that again-ish.
Alright?
Let's go, Blast.
Yeah, let me hit you up.
Hey. Nah, I need this in the car. Who told me Kendrick don't got car music? Who said that? Yeah, let me just chill Ayy
Nah, I need this in the car
Who told me Kendrick don't got car music? Who said that? You?
Who said it?
I'm not fighting with y'all today
I got some
Oh man
No dropper
No for daddy It's Parks No Joe Budden.
Not for daddy.
It's Parks.
It's Parks.
It's Parks.
You're ice-ish.
All right.
Let's get right to it.
This is 534.
Yeah.
Welcome to episode 534 of the Joe Budden Podcast.
I'm your humble, gracious, grateful, and highly favorite host, Budden here With a few of my really, really, really good friends
Parks, Ish, Ice, Corey, Youngboyz in the back
Have y'all heard this album?
Alright, just gotta make sure
I just gotta make sure
You know the Youngboyz are gonna hear the album
We didn't even have to question that
I'm assuming everyone here has heard the project
But before we get to it, how is everyone doing?
Y'all came in hot today
I'm great I'm chillin'all came in hot today. I'm great.
I'm amazing.
I'm in a great mood.
I was at a nice little soiree last night.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Hard Rock Hotel opened up in Times Square, and DJ Cassidy did one of his Pass the Mics
Live with Fat Joe, Busta, Nas.
Damn.
That sounds kind of lit.
John Legend opened up playing the piano.
John Legend will find a piano somewhere.
Man, listen.
He was up there killing shit.
He got John Legend.
He did the Pastor Mike shit and that nigga was live?
Mm-hmm.
He did the same thing in Miami when Ja Rule and them,
when I was down there for the Pegasus shit.
But it was on TV, so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That sounds great.
It was a lot of fun A lot of fun
How was you guys this week?
A slow week
But
Just
Nice and peaceful
Cool
I like that
Sounds like shit was going down over there
When people say it's peaceful
Yeah
Nah nah nah
Downplaying
Yep
Shit
No
Literally sometimes you just want some peace
and you just chill.
Nah, that's the shit.
You got to enjoy that.
I just got to check to make sure
you weren't saying it like sarcastically and shit.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Y'all would know I would have came in here
stressed out, but I don't even fucking feel like talking.
I mean, that's true.
It usually be your entire headache, all that.
I'm straight.
Good.
How was your week, Joe?
Great.
Congratulations on your amp announcement.
Oh, man.
Thank you. Round of applause. your amp announcement. Oh, man.
Thank you.
Round of applause.
I got you.
When you are getting saluted, I'll hit the round of applause.
You feel me?
Well, this is still new to me, you and this soundboard.
I know. I got to get adjusted.
But thank you.
I appreciate it.
We rock out Monday, first show, 5 o'clock.
Are you nervous?
No.
How many hours?
Two.
Five to seven.
You got an iPhone, so you can see.
It's not available in Android yet.
It's not?
No, it's in beta.
Also, on Monday at 5 p.m.,
if you have an Alexa speaker
and you say Alexa play amp
it will take you
to my music lovers only show
round of applause
hey
we battling
that's dope
huh
that's dope and scary
wait why is this
that Alexa show
this is the ad for a deal I did
no it's dope
it's just dope bro it's just dope, bro.
It's just dope.
What the hell is going on
with this guy?
Nah, it's dope, though.
Thank you, Itch.
Ain't it the dopest shit
you ever seen or heard of?
Yeah.
Wow.
Like, come on.
Five o'clock.
Alexa, play my man.
That's dope.
Oh, shit.
Hey, I mean,
can we get our announcements off? Go ahead. What you got? I got a Twitch dope. Oh, shit. Hey, I mean, can we get our announcements off?
Go ahead.
What you got?
I got a Twitch show.
Oh, word.
Hold up, man.
Yeah, I got a Twitch show.
First episode's going to be this Sunday, 6 p.m.
Nice.
What's the name of it?
Cool Out With Ice.
Get on freeze with ice.
I'm going to triple the applause, man. There'm getting triple the applause, man.
I don't know.
There you go.
Come on, man.
Ice and Ish.
Sunday?
Every Sunday?
Every Sunday and every Thursday.
Oh, okay.
That's why it's a week.
Look at you.
Put the work in.
No, that boy ain't playing out there.
And what's up, Ish?
I seen some new developments going up.
My mom.
Cut you off right off quick.
But nothing about my mom.
Not beer, no sheetrock, no two by fours.
I don't know nothing about nothing, my brother.
I'm just leaving this.
I'm not.
I'm living through you, gentlemen.
You know what I mean
y'all greatness
that was great yo
nothing
shut that shit down
uh uh
that was cheap
how you doing
I'm straight yo
alright
come on
let's get into it
let's go
that was funny
now go put your
fucking passionate voice
back on
it's gone
it's gone now bitch I wanna come to that on. It's gone. It's gone.
Now bitch out when it comes to that spanking.
It's gone.
Now bitch out when it comes to that.
All right, come on.
So let's get right to it.
The album is out.
Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers.
Kendrick Lamar.
His final offering with TDE.
Dual stream project.
Yeah, the double disc thing
Is still weird to me
In streaming
But it's cool
What you mean?
I feel like it should be
Two albums
Like they should do it
As two different releases
Or something
I don't know
It's weird
A double album being
So disarming
Don't try to take
A weapon away from the artists
No
Two different releases
And now we gotta fight
With the label
No
What you mean?
Wait I'm kinda lost
If it's a double album
I mean well double disc Or something Right But because there's no disc you're saying yeah this
is weird i don't know why it just it's weird to me but it definitely i'm sure it counts differently
yeah that's what i want to know i guess so i guess that's the the crux of my okay how does
this count if it's yeah is this two albums is it was about to ask. Is it technically two? Joe says, I say yes.
I say no.
I say it's a double disc, like disc one, disc two.
But because it's not discs, they're just calling it a double album.
But a double disc did count as two.
Yeah.
It's two albums.
Yes.
So like Diplomatic Immunity was two albums?
Yeah.
All Eyes on Me, The Biggie Joy.
All Eyes on Me.
Yeah.
Oh, see, okay.
I learned something new. I didn't know that shit is dead. All that shit. Oh, see, okay. I learned something new.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that either.
And that's where some of the fight has always been between artists and label, right?
Like back in the day, it used to take me that long to get a project out.
So, yeah, we want to count two, and that's just a fight.
That's artist leverage.
Like the label used to control the drop.
Right.
So, no, it wouldn't behoove you to separate the release
sometimes circumstantially um what do you think i loved it man i'm not gonna lie i loved it i was
thrown off well i wasn't thrown off it was a lot to digest the first time through listening through
and i was like this might take me a while but then i said you know what let me put it right
back on again that's what i did and second time, that shit is incredible to me.
First listen, I was damn near, skip, skip, skip.
I didn't skip nothing.
No, I didn't press skip, but you just hear something.
I'm listening because Kendrick can give you some shit that you're going to miss.
Yeah.
Like 98% of the time.
Facts.
So when I first pressed play on this album, I did something I never did before.
I had the lyrics up at the same time.
I want to read it as I'm listening to it.
Oh, you're a nerd.
I nerded out.
Yo, you acting bad with your eyes.
Hey, listen.
I want to read anything I can now.
Hey, Alex, he acting bad.
He's showing now.
You see me?
You see me.
But so yeah, I didn't want't gonna miss nothing so first listen through
i had my standout records they already had the lyrics up yeah that's impressive it was pretty
quick that's impressive i was kind of shocked but they were ready so um like i said first listen
through i have my standout records well a lot of it i was to send will not have to but maybe play your project for somebody or send
lyrics in yeah i think but they usually don't be that fast that that they give you lyrics up
usually it'd be a little while i didn't i didn't hit play on exactly midnight oh okay so i was
maybe like one something so yeah i think i was too actually by the time i left the event thing
it was late so but um well no and apple broke for me apple was broke i'm one of those guys that report that
was me oh the apple music uh outage or something yeah whatever the fuck was going on they kept
showing me albums from two weeks ago and last week close it i cut the phone on and off they
would not show me the album i had to literally type it in 30 minutes later,
and it popped up.
Oh, wow.
Literally, my son next to me, it's right on his screen,
new release.
Wow.
The egos were still showing the old shit.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
So, yeah.
After I got through the album, immediately,
there was a few records that stood right out.
Now, I did hear hear i got a phone call
and i'm gonna play you something off this album this was early yesterday and it was like a minute
of we cry together i didn't know what record it was i just heard that and i was like oh shit
he's spazzing like this this the the poetry slam
raps i'm kind of cool off those okay but this album has something for everybody like for the
i think if you love to pimp a butterfly it's some shit on here that you're gonna love. Absolutely. A person like me, I don't particularly like
To Pimp a Butterfly.
So those records,
I move them to the side
and then there's shit
on here that I love.
Like he was very...
This leaned very
To Pimp a Butterfly to me,
so I was already worried
about your take
coming into this.
I just gotta go back
and listen to
To Pimp a Butterfly, yo.
Huh?
I gotta go back and listen to To Pimp a Butterfly. It's i gotta go back and listen to it's a great i didn't like it at first i do not
i do not remember liking this album i don't like this album at all i mean this is this was
what ice is saying about this project about it being too preachy this was too something for me
yeah at first i didn't well i'm not saying this whole project is like that i'm just saying he got
records that sound like they could fit
right on this project
facts
and which
later tell me
which ones
y'all think those are
but anyway
continue
well yeah
so
once I start hearing
a little bit of that
I'm like
okay he's going here
like I was getting
let down a little bit
but it's some bops
can I get the records
where you were
like the points in the project
where you were feeling this way?
Wait, wait, which way?
Not in 95.
No, no, you talking about good or bad?
Preachy and bad.
I think the intro felt a little bit like that.
I've been listening so much,
I don't even remember the names of these records
except the ones I like.
Yeah, yeah, the ones I like is what I know.
But he pulled it through.
And I was shocked to see Kodak on here so much.
Yeah.
I didn't get that at first.
I just saw the feature.
I was like, you got a Kodak feature.
Kodak goes.
So I play in order.
I don't do that jump around.
Me neither.
I want to hear it the way you designed it to be presented.
So I couldn't wait to get to the record, though.
But then i'm
hearing them on something else and i'm like wait a minute yeah i'm like is my shit fucked up or
something but overall i'm not ranking this album at all i just told people on my timeline don't
ask me i'm not ranking it this needs to i have to live with this for a minute before i could even
give a proper ranking on it yeah I don't think
you can give a proper review on it really you can just kind of give what what we have just have a
conversation but I will say I like the album and that's enough for me right now I like the album
it's it's it's quite a few records that I don't like but out of 18 i'm happy with the percentage that i do like and that's my take
on on this project not mad at it i think it's a perfect uh it's like a culmination of the first
five projects with tde or whatever to me it's got a little bit of each one of them it's got
some butterfly shit on there it's got damn shit on there and i think that's impressive and difficult to do and probably i don't know if it
was intentionally done like that like or if that's just where he is right now with him i believe
everything's intentional yeah probably so probably so he's one of the minds where it's it's all
intentional like kendrick is i got kendrick and that kanye bag when it comes to an album oh yeah
whereas i try to not go in with any expectation because i don't know what the fuck i'm gonna get like Kendrick is I got Kendrick and that Kanye bag when it comes to an album oh yeah whereas
I try to not go in
with any expectation
cause I don't know
what the fuck I'm gonna get
facts
and
I also
understand that
this is a great
same thing with Kanye
like I might go in
thinking
it's gonna sound like
the last project
and then that's how
you get let down
right
but he's gonna put some great shit on here if you just give it a chance to be great on it's project and then that's how you get let down right but he's gonna put some
great shit on here if you just give it a chance to be great on its own yeah and that's that's
those two fit in that bag so i don't have any like even going in i didn't know what to expect
outside of that little bit i heard from we cry together and that record is nuts that one there's
a couple that are insane uh what is it, Auntie Diaries?
Oh, yeah, that one.
And, I mean, the highlight to me is Mother I Sobers.
Man.
Man.
Yeah, Auntie Diaries is nuts.
You said Mother I Sober, right?
Yeah, that last verse for me on Mother I Sober is
that's the best verse
I've heard in a long time
yeah
and that's just off
a few listens
see
and again
I have to hear this
I have to hear this project again
I don't I don't have like hear this project again I don't have
like y'all said
I don't have a review
I need to sit
it took him five years
to do it
through writer's block
and all this other shit
that he detailed
and he just been sitting back
watching us
and not motivated
yeah
like I'm watching all you niggas and i get nothing
it seemed like he was taking notes just all the shit that's going on in the world think about
his letter that he wrote you get i'm saying like just taking little notes of all the shit
that has been really transpiring all the shit that's been in the media a lot yeah you know
i'm saying just taking notes and then he just came out and talked about it.
And talk about it.
He did.
All of it.
And all of you.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
This album.
No puzzle.
Y'all.
This album was literally him holding a mirror up there.
Everybody saying, look at yourselves.
Uh-huh.
He was talking to y'all.
That's exactly what he was doing.
I'm telling all of you about yourselves.
Everybody.
For real.
Yeah.
Dumb niggas.
But also about himself.
And about, yes. At the same time. Like, it was very. Vulnerable. Mm-hmm. yourselves. Everybody. For real. Dumb niggas. But also about himself. And about, yes.
At the same time.
Like, it was very.
Vulnerable.
It sounded like therapy.
Like, super vulnerable.
Yeah.
Like, really far down the introspective hallway, he went.
And it amazes me.
The guy's storytelling is just.
You know, when you start out with that great story album,
you would think that at some point
the storytelling ability would lower,
and it don't.
He's ain't a picture.
He started out with a great storytelling album.
Look at there, the last record on there,
how he told that story of his pops
and you know what I'm saying?
And Top.
And Top.
Yeah.
Like,
he got stories
that he just
ain't tapping.
No,
he's like Mr. Story.
Yeah.
This album,
the high,
I'm with Ice,
but I probably,
I probably like a lot more of it.
The songs I don't like,
I don't like. Mm-hmm. songs I don't like I don't like
and I don't know
which songs those are
because I certainly
wasn't looking at the phone
I didn't look at
Twitter
nothing like
no no
I had that shit
sitting over there
and I sat on the couch
listen to none of that
the Father Time record
is another one I love
yeah
that first
the first
the first
what is it the first half of the project or the first disc the first the first what is it
the first half of the project
or
first disc
the first disc
disc one
at the end of it
I was like
alright
go Kendrick
but at the end of disc two
disc
that half is where
he left earth to me
let me ask y'all.
And then this is just
my little takeaway.
Do it almost seem like
because the title is
Mr. Morale and the
Big Steppers, right?
Do it seem like the
disc was switched around
or is it just me?
Maybe.
Like I take the first
nine is more the
Big Stepper shit.
And the second nine
is the Mr. Morale.
There's actually the
track Mr. Morale is in.
I was going to say, is that what makes you think that?
No, it's just listening, like Joe said,
that's where he got deep into the introspective bag.
Right.
Mr. Morale.
He left earth.
He did.
He absolutely left earth.
When we listen on the way here,
and can you go to the second half? I think Savior is the name of the interlude. when we listen on the way here and
can you go to the second half?
I think Savior is the name of the interlude.
Yeah, the Savior interlude.
And that shit was rocking
and he was going crazy
and I'm like,
wait a minute,
don't do that.
Don't cut it off.
Why would you make this interlude?
And then the song came on.
That's Baby Keem on that interlude
that's all Baby Keem
I don't care
I'm just talking about
the rapping
on the interlude
oh and good for Baby Keem
you can definitely hear
Keem's influence
on this album a lot
in a good way
and then that song came on
right
that song
that song is crazy
that music the crazy that music
the music
the music
this is some of the best music
I've heard on a Kendrick album
and it goes without saying
but
it's so different
you know it's the same reason
why I love Donda so much
is like it doesn't sound like
anything else out there
yeah it's a standalone
there's not
the only thing that you could say
would probably fit
in a quote unquote playlist would be the Blast record, I guess.
You know, like the first, what's it called, A-list on Apple or something like that.
You know what I mean?
There's no...
I think it's two.
He got two records.
What's the other one?
The summer one?
That one.
That could fit.
Scroll up, Alex.
Excuse me.
I believe it's
Rich Spirit
that's the other one
Rich Spirit is a bop
that could go on a playlist
okay
but still
that was one thing for me
I guess
I don't know if it's a criticism
because I actually don't
like playlist music
it's hard
it's hard for me on first listen
to decipher the bops
what's going to be a bop
like that you want to play
at a party or function.
But there's a couple on there.
Yeah, they stood out to me.
Yeah.
Because Kendrick usually don't make music that you want to play, not trying to be funny,
but that's not really...
That's not what it's for.
Yeah, it's not his bag.
But he usually has a couple on there.
He has a record here or there.
Yeah.
But that's not his bag.
Except for Dame was almost all more on the pop leading side of things.
But go back.
Good Kid, Mad City had them.
You know what I'm saying?
Timber Butterfly had one or two.
All right, yeah.
So it happens.
But on here, they popped right out to me.
And I'm listening.
Okay, this is a poppy record.
This is made to be played over here.
You got some records you can play at the kickback.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And I didn't expect that.
So it was a nice surprise there.
See, I don't think that's how it is wheelhouse.
So, like, I would have been mad.
That's part of why I was mad to pimp a butterfly.
I'm like, oh, come on, man.
I knew you could get your other shit off.
Like, and, yeah, I'd have be mad if those weren't here.
I left fulfilled.
I cried on this album, I think.
Yeah, I was going to say, he nestled those in between some of the most intense fucking songs we've ever heard in our entire lives.
He was tugging on the heartstrings on this shit.
That shit about the Auntie Diaries record.
Man.
shit about his mouth the auntie diaries record man is like even the way he just tied it all in with the cousin and that's just that was crazy and i haven't heard anything like that ever
this is how we conceptualize human beings.
Monty is a man now.
I think I'm old enough to understand now.
Drinking Parmesan with her hat turned backwards.
Motorola Pager off-white guest jacket.
Blue Air Maxes, gold chains and curl kits.
93 Nissan.
Wax job.
The earliest.
Big social.
Big personality.
Vocal.
Played the underground verbatim and stayed local.
Monty is a man now.
Kendrick is the man, but I'm always laughing at his voice.
See, that was the reason why my first listen, I need voice my first listen I need to hear it cause that's his gear
you know how hard it is
you're a vocalist
to do
to get that clear
yes
and on beat
and still sound
intriguing
while being that laid back
that's a fucking
difficult thing to do yo
no he's like a vocal
he's like Beyonce
in his vocal chords
yeah
he can do anything
him and nicky are the ones to do that now right and that's it they're the leaders of the pack i
would say as far as being able to change vocal tones like fairly uh flawlessly yeah like at the
drop of a dime like it's almost like nicky's monster verse. It's damn near... I put Thug in there too. Huh?
I put Thug in there too.
Yeah, okay.
Thug does that.
His voice is like an instrument.
For sure.
On the record.
But he has...
Even though it's tuned,
but he still...
Well, no, I don't care about that.
Thug is amazing to me.
So I don't want to sound...
What I was going to say...
He has less gears.
I'll put it that way.
Like Kendrick and Nicky have six gears. Thug can go the same speed, but he's only got maybe less gears. I'll put it that way. Kendrick and Nicky have six gears.
Thug can go the same speed, but he's only got maybe four gears.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't know.
I don't want to say disrespectful to Thug.
No, that's not disrespectful.
I get what you mean by that.
But yeah.
I'm like you.
I'm fulfilled with the album.
And I know it's only going to get better as I keep listening.
I got to get this in the car.
This is something that I am going to,
it's not a one and done album for me.
Nah.
I need to hear them instruments.
Yeah.
And like,
yeah.
Dog,
I was playing around with different headphones
saying,
nah,
nah,
nah,
nah.
I need the beats for this.
Tell me who else dropped.
Tori tried to sneak something out there.
Oh,
that's fine
that's the Lucy right
Post Malone dropped
the single
for real
yeah
with Roddy Ricch
is it good
yeah y'all
I didn't hear it
I know you
you slacking on your Mac
yeah
there was one album
that was the point
Kendrick just kept
niggas off their iPhones.
Yes.
That was the whole point.
That's funny.
I saw Tory announce, yo, new music dropping tonight.
I was like, yo, that's dope.
I'm going to listen to it, but it ain't going to be about Saturday, Sunday, though, bro.
Word.
Sorry.
At best.
Man, hip hop froze, yo.
Stop it.
You can feel that shit in your home.
You can feel that shit.
Hip hop froze.
Everybody stopped.
This was a moment.
Everybody was waiting for this people were like
Thursday
ready
you know what I'm saying
like
sitting by their phone
listening to the whole discography
that was me
that was me
I got a whole Kendrick playlist
of about
maybe 120
I was just running records
that's some other shit
just prepping myself
when you get the whole world
on standby
waiting like a that's it's like some old school shit.
Like, if you could preorder it, I would have preordered it.
I talked to one of my peoples in LA.
He was like, yo, this shit's like a holiday out here.
I'm sure.
He was like, yo, everything is stopped.
This is all we waiting for.
Yeah, the impact a certain dude, yo, man.
It's good to see
yeah
it is good to watch
you gotta feel that
it must be a feeling yo
for him
and the team
his team
meanwhile he over in Africa
somewhere
dog for anybody
or he made me wanna go Ghana
I gotta go Ghana
see Kendrick
for real
I gotta see what's going on
nah just to have
the world
on your ass,
like, that's dope.
Like you said,
to go to Ghana
to celebrate
is even
something that you don't see
everyone else be doing.
Finland and, you know,
SNL and whatever else.
It's very Kendrick-y.
Yeah.
Yo, in hindsight, man,
everything about this
was Kendrick-y.
Who put that marketing budget in their pocket?
They ain't market shit.
Not at all.
They didn't need to.
Right to the pocket.
Yo, check this out.
I'm going to announce it all on my website.
Those custom pajamas him and his wife got on out there,
they ain't no cheap shit.
That was the whole marketing budget right there?
No, I'm joking.
But I'm just saying
The power in that
For real
That's when you know you really him
Remember I said
There's a couple
That's a him
That could just
I don't gotta market shit
Give me my deep fake video
I'm gonna drop my heart
That's not gonna be on this album
Let's go before that
Let's go before that
My letter
I'm gonna drop my letter on my website
And then go quiet for months. Talk about
a dream for a label or an exec.
Yeah. We don't have to do anything.
Yeah, look at his wardrobe budget.
Same as mine.
That nigga album release was in Ghana. That's dope.
That's dope dope.
No bullshit. That's some fly shit
Look at these guys man
This guy is sick
This guy is sick
And
I hate to break it to you guys
From the sale of this album
We ain't about to hear from this nigga
No
Time soon
Enjoy this
And you thought this five years was long
Hell no
He about to baby Kim
You niggas to death
And he about to get married
He's married
He's married
They said fiance
No that's his wife
I said wife
Well I don't know
I'm just saying but
It's baby time
Baby time though
That's what I was getting ready to say
If you see when he dropped
The album cover
That's how he even said
Yo I have a second child
That's dope
Yeah
Like yo y'all know nothing.
I love an artist
that can just not let you know shit.
I let you know
what's about my life
when I want you to know it.
We don't do the blogs.
We don't do none of that shit.
And it's how you find out.
And it's how you find out.
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It's how of the best covers I've I can't believe you changed that I just wanted a simple cover
That's all
I just made something simple
That's simple
I just changed the cover
Nice
Extra
Job well done
Yeah
Amazing project
Sorry all y'all who was coming to me
Looking for some hate
Sorry
Why they wanted you to hate?
They wanted
Cause I didn't
Cause of my take on the heart So they wanted me to hate this too wanted Because I didn't Because of my take on the heart
So they wanted me to hate this too
Yo you gotta say that was mid
And the album is mid
And all this is mid
I seen it
Two pack of ass
You're not gonna get out of here
Jokes
Fuck it
Out of here
I'm not gonna get out of here
I don't even think I ever did a review
For Tip and Butterfly actually
I avoided that shit like a plague
That was the review
Nah that was too healthy
For me
You might have to go back
And listen to it
There's some shit on there
Man
Every time I try
I be like
Yeah Mortal Man's on there
Mortal Man
Mortal Man's on there
Yeah
That's my record on there
You and I
I like both of them shits too
It's a couple
Like I said it's a few records
Just overall I don't fuck with that album. I love it
Yeah, how much a dollar cost
I hate to be doing this live but it's sad
but it's fine
yeah this is hard
that wasn't one of the preachy ones
I was talking about
any shit he did at the end
of Mortal Man
was crazy.
Yeah.
This is the one that ended with...
Tupac.
With the two of them, right?
No, with the two of them.
Yeah, they was preaching.
Yeah, no.
This is the one.
You cannot make me go back to this.
I'm not going back to this.
There's a certain shit that's just too healthy.
But I don't know if we get this without this.
No, you don't.
You don't.
We don't.
You don't at all.
We don't.
Absolutely don't.
We don't.
And I'm clear I'm the minority in that.
No, well.
I'm very clear I'm the minority in how I feel about Tipping Butterfly.
But it's not a small minority, though.
Oh, I wouldn't know.
Because I don't go around
talking to people
about the things I don't like.
Well, sometimes.
Not in real life.
Oh, right.
Only because I'm paid to do it.
But in real life, I don't do it.
But this album.
Ish, how'd you feel about it?
Chef's kiss.
You've been kind of quiet.
Did you listen to it all?
I didn't hear the whole thing.
I probably heard about
eight,
maybe eight,
nine songs. I'm kind of curious
like as a Kendrick
non-fan
um
you're a mother
I sober
cause I
was throwing my hat
around the car
I heard a song
slam the phone down
through the hat
yeah
if I could
if I could have
gave him a standing
ovation at that moment
I would have
in the car
so
yeah
I feel you
how many times
do you hear an audio
project make you cry
like a song
like what the fuck
are you talking about
it's not a movie
but it is
alright my bad
you were saying
nah it's cool
I like some of the
tracks
and I like most
of the lyrics
actually
I'm never saying
he not lyrically
inclined
he he's a poet yeah a good
poet yeah an exceptional poet i'm talking about musically and sonically sometimes they don't make
a marriage and so i think when you're talking about music it's supposed to make you feel a
certain way you're supposed to be easy listening it's music so this is basically you're saying
this is more of the heart for you because i feel like no no no no no no no that was my review of the heart with this particular um i
heard a bunch of the songs i liked some of them um a couple of them where they wasn't for me but
again i ain't get through the whole thing yet so but musically a lot of the beats be dope i like
the beat on the heart i just don't think the lyrics and the beat matched i like
the lyrics on the heart i didn't think that they made a good marriage so lyrically if you write
the word like i said he looked at the lyrics first right when you look at the lyrics first
or even alex pulling up the lyrics on paper how do you deny what he's saying the nigga is saying
shit that anybody from an inner city urban area experienced. And some of us have experienced it firsthand in our own households.
So you can't deny what he's saying on the songs.
But that don't necessarily mean because he's spitting some dope fly shit
that it makes a good song.
Joe, one of my favorite rappers on paper,
I don't like Joe's beat selection for a lot of songs.
And they don't like you.
No.
But you get what I'm saying?
Yeah.
So I'm not being a hater.
I'm not doing none of that.
I'm just saying
when it comes to music,
how do I...
You said it.
Like Ja Rule.
I'm not comparing
Ja Rule to Kendrick.
What I'm saying is
Ja Rule is good listening.
Niggas love Ja Rule songs.
I'm not saying that Ja
is the same bag as Kendrick,
but what I'm saying is musically,
you could cut on some Ja Rule shit
and really be entertained and be pleased.
You're not going to get the same feeling
that you get when you hear Kendrick,
but everybody not looking for that feeling all the time.
You think Ja could beat Kendrick in a versus?
Never.
Yes, it might.
I'm going to say yes.
It might.
It ain't an easy win. No. I say no it might so that's not a it ain't an easy win no i say no too
it's not an easy one depends on who the audience is it definitely is very very heavily dependent
upon who the audience is because especially if you give a lot of females in that audience
josh i'm just saying It's a horrible matchup.
It's a horrible matchup.
No one wants to see that matchup.
It's fine.
Wait.
What's happening?
Y'all like to say y'all little slick shit
off mic like this.
Y'all like to do that.
Parks was being slick off mic
because he's a coward. I'm not a coward. I don't like to do that. A lot. Parks was being slick off mic because he's a coward.
I'm not a coward.
I don't want to watch
Versus really anymore.
But you've said that before.
It's a Versus this weekend.
You're not going to watch it?
No, and I love
both of those acts.
But Parks has said this before
and watched Versus.
That's true.
That is true.
I'm probably not going
to watch this one.
I haven't watched one
in a very long time.
This one I don't think
is available like the rest of them.
I don't think this is on Insta Live. See one I don't think is available like the rest of them. I don't think this is
on Insta Live.
See look subscribe
to Triller's past fight.
No.
That's probably
part of the problem too.
I get the paywall shit.
Get your bread but
no.
And this isn't
the matchup that
would get me
to do that.
I'm not against paywall.
I pay for everything.
No I was about to say that.
I was about to be like yo this is where he is not really gonna get. But the problem not against paywall. I pay for everything. I was about to say that. I was about to be like, yo, this
is where he is. He's not really going to get...
The problem with the paywall in this particular instance
and this is not a knock-a-triller. I don't want to
offend anybody or anything like that, but you got to give me
more than one thing every six months.
I'm not going to pay a subscription for something that...
Yeah, I'm paying a monthly subscription. I'm here
for the versus and yet you give me a versus
down and another one is until August or something.
Yeah, I get what you're saying.
No.
Got it.
Make it worth it.
Yeah.
Anybody watching this?
No.
No, right?
No.
Versus was amazing for its time and its place.
Saved the world.
You know what I mean?
I still love it.
I think it's still dope if they can get people that people want to see.
Well, there's a problem with that now.
I think it's hard for them to really get to that.
I don't know if it's a monetary thing or what.
I'm pretty sure.
You see what they said when they tried to do 3-6 and Bone.
Yeah.
You know, y'all are asking for headliner money
because people think the money's there now, sure.
Well, the money is there now.
And they're doing, like, arenas.
Not arenas, but you know what the-
Theaters.
Theaters.
They're doing theaters.
Yeah.
So there's money.
So money is there.
Could be.
On both ends.
There's streaming money, and there's concert money, and there's concessions.
There's all that shit.
So yeah.
Y'all talking about a lot of other people's money.
Nah, I was talking about-
You didn't say how much money is where.
I was talking about the art piece.
Nah, I was talking about the... You're just saying how much money is weird.
Yeah, I was talking about the art piece.
Like, I don't know enough of Cypress Hill's catalog
to even want to watch a versus with Cypress...
I'm an Onyx guy, because I grew up in the 90s,
but I don't know enough of Cypress Hill's catalog.
So for me, it wouldn't be something that I would just rush to.
Cypress Hill's got a lot of shit.
They might.
I said, I don't know enough of it.
I wasn't leaving Kendrick to discuss this.
Yeah, fair. Let's get back to Kendrick.
Topic ahead. Why he
take that girl keys in the argument?
Why nigga doing...
I'm probably the last person to talk about it.
Any of y'all ever took the keys?
Everybody took the keys before...
Stop, yo. Everybody took the keys before. Stop, yo.
Everybody took the keys.
And she said, come on, I got to work.
And you said, nigga, fuck your job.
No, everyone hasn't.
I've never done that.
I did it in college.
A lot of people have done it.
That's what I mean, Ice.
Oh, OK.
Words mean things, Joe.
This is fucking guy over here.
So what was the most dramatic of your arguments?
I don't know.
I ain't like storming. No windows, no nothing?
No.
Key to car?
Me? No.
Fuck am I going to key a car for?
Hit her sneakers?
No.
You did that too?
Hit her sneakers?
You don't want to know all that shit.
That's some weirdo shit. I did it though. You did that too? Hit her sneakers You don't want to know All the shit that happened You don't want to know
All the shit I did
That's some weirdo shit
I did it though
I ain't gonna lie
In my toxic days
Hit her sneakers
In my 20s
Yo I did the ignorant shit
I was in college
I took
Like you know
You a sucker ass nigga
If you take the shit
Back that you bought
Oh man
That's corny
So I took some of the
Halfs of the sneakers Bitch you were wrong Wait you took Wait you's corny. So I took some of the halves.
Bitch, you want to rock these?
Wait, you took one of them? Wait, you took one sneaker?
Holy shit.
Bitch, you want to wear these?
No bullshit.
You let her hold one sneaker?
Man, man, did I.
How many?
Some good ones.
Some Air Max and some good shit.
He's still playing about it.
I might have took Some shit back
Little Air Max 95s
And all
You won't
I've definitely done that
Just one of them
Yeah you won't be dating
With my shit
Yo do you know
That men have to learn that
What
Men have to learn
That it's a sucker move
To take back
What you bought
Absolutely
That's corny
Yeah
That's horrible
You don't know that
At the time
Yeah but you have to
Go out and get that information
You being petty No You hurt No we don't got no Mad or whatever You being horrible You don't know that at the time Yeah but you have to go out And get that information You being petty
No
You hurt
No we don't got no
Mad or whatever
You being petty
We don't have no fathers
Your father be like
Boy if you
We don't got no
Give me that shit
For real son
That's real
Look I knew it was
Sucker shit
To take the
The items back
But I was like
I'm gonna learn you one
Real quick
Took them anyway
No I just took one of the
four or five pairs of sneakers. Some
VF Spiegel's. Remember VF Spiegel's was the shit?
I remember.
Corey remembers. No, I remember.
No, I'm in my head down memory lane.
Give me
one VF. Keep Spiegel.
I'm taking these, nigga. You crazy.
This shit was like 200.
I want to say I got a
Is it 90s? I want to say I got a great. Is it 90s?
Oh, no.
I can't say.
Man.
I want to say I got a great.
They'll take it the wrong way.
Oh, man.
See you, Jay.
Oh, man.
Oh, shit.
That's funny, son.
Why niggas was toxic like that?
Crazy.
Anyway.
Come on.
Kendrick said it.
Watch me get in trouble.
He said a lot of shit on there
that people may potentially
cancel.
They're going to act like they hear.
He told y'all on the second record.
Cancel coach ain't real.
He said it.
See why I'm going to Ghana?
If you can come back thinking that.
He's right though. He's thinking that he's right though
he's right
he's right
yes and no
it's an argument
to be had
to the niggas
that they've affected
tell DaBaby that
DaBaby is still
getting a lot of money
I'm just saying
but they put him
in a place
for months
a period of months
where he didn't get
no spanky
based on some shit he said
i don't i argue that he did that i don't i don't think they did anything to him
as an entertainer it is your job to appeal see now you take it elsewhere i'm saying that as a
result of somebody quote-unquote boycotting him that's what we cancel a tribute to cancel culture
so yeah he did what they used to boycott him i'm just saying we definitely have a responsibility
but what i'm saying is they were allowed to take away his ability to feed himself and that's not
true which is why i say that Kendrick is correct because he can still
feed himself
and he's still feeding himself
it may not be
at the same level
as
all of the support
in the universe
they let him off punishment
yeah
they had to go issue
the statement
say alright
he played right with us
he's good now
yeah yeah yeah
I apologize boss
and now you off punishment
you go back outside
they turned this water back on
I don't know enough
about the situation
and what was done
behind the scenes
so I can't speak to that
all I can say is
he clearly is making a
living for himself
I mean we can see
I just told him he dropped some records
no we did
but we had a whole pod about
when the community came out
and said okay
he's acceptable again.
And then roll it out.
Gave the nigga 16 city tour or something.
Eight city tour, whatever it was, after he made amends.
This is the problem.
It's too many departments.
It's too many different departments in cancel culture.
Sure.
That's what my problem is. But I think that what we're talking about is a bad example because the cancel culture that I watched grow was we're digging up old footage and tweets and clips from people no matter when they were.
Whether you were 12 years old, 14 years old.
Yeah, but and then they push those to the forefront.
And wow, we can't support this person.
In this case, it's like in real time
that kind of happened so i mean i guess that's cancel culture but it's different from seeing
people lose a bag might not have lost all man people have lost yo drea lost her bag uh her
fenty bag rihanna drop you quick uh no man people lost they are kevin hart Hart lost his bag when they went back and found some shit for him.
He couldn't host, what was it, the Oscars?
The Grammys, one of them?
Oscars.
Yo, but see, oh my God.
That's part of business.
True.
That's true.
It's also part of business.
Mad people lose bags, lose opportunities, and the shit just don't really be highlighted.
My other problem with cancel culture is that it's like another weapon against us
because we'd be really the only ones highlighted and literally affected by it.
Did y'all see that was Charles Barkley on The Pivot?
Yes, I saw it.
Where he said the same thing that I said about the language and dog whistling and the terms and shock jock and how it's used and who it's used to.
I think some of the white guys say some of the exact same thing that I say, and they're considered experts.
And I'm like, oh, hold on a second now.
Why do you call me controversial, outspoken?
I'm saying the same thing that these
other guys are saying but to me they use those cold words when they're when they're saying stuff
like that and and that that always makes me laugh I says I don't think I'm controversial
like I say I saw somebody say exactly what I said yesterday today but you throw those cold words at me,
but I just laugh about it, because
like I say, I'm going to be a straight
shooter.
That's what's really important.
Because I think television is so
powerful.
The gist of what he was saying throughout the entire clip.
Now, basically, the
question was,
how does he feel about the tag or the label of him
being controversial yeah and he said that he don't really feel that he's controversial he feels that
um he can say the exact same thing as another commentator or another sports analyst they are
looked at as an expert he's looked at as the controversial quote unquote guy. Yeah. Kind of same shit with Stephen A. Smith.
But Stephen A. Smith gets a little more irate in his takes.
So that adds a little bit of a.
It's the Tom Brady.
Stephen A. is not looked at as controversial at all.
It's the same shit.
You don't think so?
At all.
At all.
Stephen A.?
Not at all.
He might be the most controversial.
No.
In public opinion? Right now now i don't know about that
how is he controversial he's loud but i don't know if he's controversial he says a whole bunch of
shit that starts controversy the whole kairi shit he just said that um harden's performance yesterday
or two days ago should be investigated.
That's controversial.
I mean, it's a pain in the ass.
I don't think so.
I do.
When you start saying that I need to be investigated based on my performance,
you are opening up a whole different bag,
almost as if saying I threw the game or I had something invested in potentially performing badly.
See, but that's performative for me.
And I think it's received as him being performative,
which is why there would never be an investigation
opened up on something like that.
I'm not disagreeing with that.
I'm just saying that's a provocative statement.
Charles Barkley is controversial.
For sure.
Fuck yes.
Fuck yes.
Stephen A get up there and speak to the topic at hand
and often comes up with it
charles barkley will totally go off script with something that that that's controversial
charles barkley will have the opinion that the network he got to go have a meeting with
in the back and that's happened before like a lot in a day yeah so that's happened before. Like a lot. Back in the day, yeah. So that's controversial.
I'm controversial.
Like when I get on a mic,
like people might not know what's coming out.
And I disagree with that, but fine.
Stephen A is just great and performative
and it's a lot of other words.
I agree with that.
I don't see controversy from him.
Not too often.
Even with the Kyrie, every broadcaster has their people that they get their point, their person.
They stick to that person.
We on you now.
This is what I'm saying.
Kyrie was that with Stephen A.
Durant was that with Stephen A.
Controversy.
The root word, controversy.
Other outlets are now starting to comment on what you said because it sparked
some horizon a bunch of people that's the root of controversy no i don't i maybe i don't see a
whole bunch of other outlets talking about things that steven a says absolutely tons we talked about
it mad other sports people talked about it they talked about it on like talked about it on D.L. Hughley. Other black platforms would be talking about that shit.
That's not true.
Nothing for me that's original from Stephen A. Smith.
But, I mean, we off here.
Yeah, it's cool.
So, I don't think he will get canceled, Kendrick, for his...
Kendrick's not getting canceled.
No, he's not getting canceled.
He already ain't driving for another eight years.
What y'all about to do?
He's not getting canceled.
No, he will.
Never.
But boy, did he say a lot.
I can't wait to go digest that again, Paul.
Word.
I didn't know that.
Alex, I had no idea that you were a celebrity.
Oh, Alex is not here.
Yeah.
Oh.
That's why he's a celebrity.
Why is this up there?
Fuck you, niggas.
I'm out.
Word. He had to go get some Arby's
Is there any more music
We need to get to
No right
I don't
I didn't get anything else
No
There's no
You ain't
You ain't heard
Nobody heard the single
What single
Post Malone
Post Malone
No
Roddy Ricch
I'll play it
I can give it a shot
Go ahead
Let's see
Let's see what some posties
Sound like
His album is dropping
I wonder if the Featuring Roddy Ricch Is not making me rush On that project right Go ahead. Yeah. Let's see what some posties sound like. His album is dropping.
I wonder if the- Featuring Roddy Ricch is not making me rush to this.
On that album?
Yeah.
I'm guessing that single that dropped is going to be on there.
This one's called-
He's supposed to do that thing where he go get with the dope niggas, but-
Oh, yeah.
It's on the track list.
They have the whole album with the track tracksiggas but it's on the track list they have the whole album like tracks spoke
too soon All right, he's got me.
Yeah, sounds good.
Came on.
Yeah, sounds like post.
Yeah, it does.
I'll take it.
Furthering my belief that something's going on back there yep
14 14 song album 12 carry toothache yeah all right it's the last joint right what
his last album on it with the label right well we don't know i don't know yeah might not be
i i don't know and they won't tell us yeah i think that's the crux of the beef i hate
when they let me know there's something going on back there and then they don't update me
word don't tell me nothing yeah god damn it uh all right so what else what else we got um like
i said the baby dropped two records one featuring push ice t1 featuring uh money bag yo i don't know
what he's doing i don't know if this is a a hair themed project or something
because one record is called bonnet and the other record is called the wig so it could be nothing
it could be something you know these artists they always try to connect their shit all together or
something so i have no clue but he dropped two records i didn't particularly like him too much
but it could be because kendrick dropped and i really just didn't particularly like him too much.
But it could be because Kendrick dropped,
and I really just don't want to hear anything else right now.
That's where I'm at.
I did give him a listen this morning,
and I just went right back to the Kendrick album.
I'm not pressing play on anything else for a good week.
Well, that's my next statement, right? How hard is it for the next guy to come out now?
Next week, people will be ready for something else, I think.
And not for nothing, everybody's not going to fuck with this Kendrick album.
I think next week's going to be quiet, too.
These rappers ain't got that much control.
This is the label saying, yo, it's this many people going in their phone next week, too, to get that album.
Yeah.
If you want the time to yourself, just wait a second.
From a business perspective.
Yeah,
these ain't the artists
in control.
Yeah,
I don't think a bunch of niggas
get froggy next week.
Yeah,
normally I've made the argument
of it's a good time
to drop with a superstar
because your shit
is on the same page.
This is one of those times
where I don't think it is.
Just because of the amount
of digestion
people have to do with a Kendrick project.
Well, that's why I think part of that is flawed
because, yeah, a lot of people...
It depends on who's on it.
Yeah, but most of them that have that type of demand,
well, a lot of them anyway, not most,
they are going to retain the attention for a while.
Yeah.
So, yeah, they might go in there
and see your shit and even cop
it but are they gonna listen to it thoroughly like they would if this megastar didn't drop
probably not not just the megastardom i think it's just he's so introspective and again a lot
of that shit be a deeper level of poetry that you really got to listen to a bunch of times to really
grasp and then just what he's trying to say or the message that he's trying to convey.
I think it'd take a little longer to get it.
You got to listen to the shit more.
Also, he checks a lot of boxes too.
Like if you're an underground rap fan, you like Kendrick Lamar.
If you are a pop music fan, you like Kendrick Lamar.
If you are an R&B fan, you probably like Kendrick Lamar.
Like it's too many boxes to check on top of the complexity of the music
and the lyrics that it's difficult to beat anybody else in these couple weeks around him.
I agree with that.
Yeah, I just checked the release calendar.
Whereas if it's a pop record, say Post Malone.
We'll use him as an example.
If he drops, there's a lot of people that are going to be like,
that's not really for me, but oh, so-and-so dropped.
I'm going to get that, though.
I just checked the release calendar for the next month just to see.
And Post Malone is June 3rd
and there's nobody
before that.
That's him and Rod Wave
were dropping that day.
Oh, Rod's dropping?
Yes.
Damn.
Pushed.
Pushed it.
Oh, okay.
He did?
Yeah, he pushed it.
Here's a silly question
for you guys.
Who has more influence,
Kodak or Lil Baby?
Influence?
Lil Baby, I think. I would say Kodak. I'm influence Kodak or Lil Baby influence Lil Baby I think I would say Kodak
I'm saying Kodak
in terms of influence
and I'm saying Kodak too
yeah
influence on whom though
just culture
yeah
he's
he's always in the media
for something good
or something bad
this Kendrick project
was the
he completed the
oh I'm bad with my shapes but For something good or something bad. This Kendrick project was the, he completed the,
oh, I'm bad with my shapes, but Kendrick now has put him on a pedestal.
There's Future that's put him on a pedestal.
Cole has put him on a pedestal.
True.
And Drake puts him on a pedestal.
And Wayne.
Not bad niggas to be putting you up there.
It's a nice five
Yeah
A lot of them have also put Baby on
Outside of
Outside of Kendrick
They've all done the same with
Lil Baby
Kendrick's edition is a huge one for me
And his presence on this album
His presence on this album
Is felt
He almost felt necessary and it really made me
stop and appreciate kodak in a greater way and i was already on that because he almost lost his
life so i didn't want to take that for granted so those things are what i say he has a bigger impact
because like one week you'll see him giving out mad food and turkeys at christmas to mad people
in miami he was going
door to door dog you know i'm saying like going door to door with mad shit giving out shit and
then a month later he in the shootout you get what i'm saying so i think the impact that he has
versus little baby who kind of be relatively quiet socially that i know of i don't see him all over
the place like i see kodak i'm'm putting Cardi with Kodak influence.
Playboy Cardi?
No.
Cardi B.
Cardi B.
She blew up off her...
I'm just asking.
Hey, B.
I'm just asking.
Could be...
No, Cardi B.
Okay.
All right, Kodak.
Yeah, I agree with that.
Oh, you're saying
that Kodak influence.
Yes.
Gotcha.
Or Meg with the boat.
Gotcha.
Yes, with the driving the boat.
And that's the question... That's why I asked the question, to whom?
Because I feel like Lil Baby is probably more impactful in terms of people listening to it.
To the fans, maybe, has a bigger impact.
But Kodak is probably more impactful to other artists.
Socially, too.
I think it's impact socially is bigger.
Yeah, I think so, too.
I do.
I think Lil Baby is just more popular. Yeah. Yeah. Music-less, probably. Yeah. I think so too. I knew. I think Lil Baby's just more popular.
Yeah, yeah.
Music-less probably.
I think he's just more popular.
And I don't want to say just like that's a slight
because he's that just.
No, he's him.
Yeah, but when I hear the word just,
it's like, don't put just with.
Like Lil.
Yeah, don't just.
I'm not just anything.
Yeah, that's all I had for that.
I'm just getting my random thoughts out from this album.
That was a good question, though.
That's it.
Yeah, I was shocked to hear Kodak that much on the project.
I think you said the same thing?
Yeah.
I saw the feature.
But then you got to respect it.
And then you start hearing him on his interludes and shit he's not credited on.
I'm like, oh, he really was a part of this.
Yeah, you got to respect it.
All right.
What else y'all want to talk about?
Well, Alex is back now, so we can get into his...
Alex, you're a star-a.
Celebrity.
Who would have known mozzarella sticks would have done all that?
You him.
I'm not him.
I'm Alex.
Yeah.
Slash him. I'm not him. I'm Alex. Yeah. Slash him.
I'm informed that you went viral so we can let our audience know instead of just making personal jokes to you that no one gets.
What happened?
Break it down for us.
Yeah, man.
Me and Devon Sorrell, my podcast host on the Need to Know podcast, we did a callback from a Patreon episode.
And, you know, we're doing a running joke on Arby's.
We were joking that, to be honest with you,
I ain't never seen nobody in there.
Arby's don't be looking lit.
No, I don't. It's a legit.
It was a callback to, you know what, let's
try it. Let's see what happens.
I didn't know this many people felt
this way about Arby's.
You up there eating like an African
savage. I used to go to Arby's for breakfast
when I used to work at Sears or something.
Because that was the only thing that they had probably right there.
They had Arby's in Jersey City?
Yes.
In Newport Mall.
I'm not trying to be funny.
I didn't know that.
I've never seen an Arby's.
You think Jersey City is like a third world country, right?
I mean, they got an Arby's.
I don't know what that means.
I'm not familiar with Arby's history.
Yeah, exactly.
Nobody is.
That's why I didn't think they had one in Jersey City. All right, so you went viral talking about Arby's. I don't know what that means. I'm not familiar with Arby's history. Yeah, exactly. Nobody is. That's why I didn't think
they had one in Jersey City.
All right, so you went viral
talking about Arby's.
Yeah.
For free.
Yeah.
Like we're doing now.
We can bleep this out, though.
We can bleep Arby's.
We were on Patreon.
You feel me?
So we didn't...
Yo, that's over with, dog.
I've told y'all before, bro.
There's no such thing
as a paywall
and it's going to stay
behind the paywall.
Yeah.
If it's on the internet,
it's out. And y'all them dudes not on the dark web it's yes it is they down there doing all
types of sheisty shit facts you can access it and still see you know yo how do you know
i don't know you over there selling pumping up mfts
don't know you over there selling pumping up mfts
yeah what y'all think about uh homeboy drawing up uh maryland and bro and selling it for 175 million dollars that's what you did one time for the scammers listen you you can't warhol you can't
knock her oh see you issue came in with a bang you said bosky out and shit i didn't say any of
that no expound on that i was letting you get your shit off earlier no but that's a good if you started i might set it off
with you i might follow up with you run them niggas gonna jump the shit have i ever run in
that situation see what i mean with the things you take to a microphone i had the knife you started
the shit i told you get behind me you started the shit no i didn't i just walked in
and my mere presence sometimes it just be mere presence and aura that's not what happened but
it's cool but this is a funny thing warhol did it if he didn't do that it never sells for that
amount nigga won't pay 50 grand for that shit if he didn't do it. Well, who does it does matter.
That's my point.
If it's really you liking the art, it didn't matter who did it.
Nah, Bosque might be a scammer.
He don't want to just jump out there with it, so I'll just go.
Bosque, who's the nigga running around putting up the big doll everywhere?
That's not... Oz?
Yeah, another one.
Yo, another one.
And he from Jersey, too, I think.
Oh, man.
Find out where he's from,
because if he's from Jersey,
I'm going to big him up.
Jersey?
It is Jersey, right?
Yeah, no, he's the man.
He's the man.
But, boy, is he just running around
putting up the same thing
in different sizes.
Getting that money, too.
And getting it off.
Niggas is getting it for their houses.
I think that's to be applauded and congratulated, though.
Of course it is.
But you got to be stamped by somebody.
That's what I'm saying.
It depends on who stamps you.
And then once the right motherfucker stamps you, then everybody else follows suit and
rides dick.
That's life.
That's not life.
I mean, yeah, it is life.
That's life.
That's life.
For sure. That's true. That is life. That's life. I'm not i'm not disagreeing but when it comes to you can't be mad at life and be a
capitalist i'm not knocking that but when it comes to art you can't knock somebody else's opinion
because it's subjective that's what i'm saying like you can't say that somebody else is less
knowledgeable or they dumb or their opinion don't matter because they don't like something that you
like i say that all the time about people.
I know, you wrong.
I don't think that.
We know that.
You never think that. I don't think that.
That's not true, but I don't think that here.
That's what I'm saying though with regards to art.
That's why people, influencers, quote unquote,
get paid so much money because they're popular
and they have the ability to influence
somebody else's fucking decision.
You've just taken our conversation elsewhere.
That's that new culture that I won't even acknowledge.
Because somebody is popular and has gained an audience in one thing
don't necessarily mean that I'm fucking with whatever.
They're knowledgeable in the field.
True.
And there's a lot of brands out here that are just going to people
because they have an audience.
They just care about the numbers.
I don't be talking about the influencers or the people that have these real novicey opinions
uh that are hip-hop based like i like to talk to the people that are experts in a craft or very
knowledgeable about uh whatever we're talking about but that's the same in sports like i know
some people that are adamant like really into sports and can have the conversation, know all the roster, it's fun to speak to those people,
not just the fan that's in the living room watching that.
Like, some people just watch different.
Casual fans.
Yeah, I don't ever want to talk to those people.
I'm just saying, but with regards to the art,
you brought up the Marilyn Monroe that sold for $195 million.
Whew.
That's fly to you.
I mean, the painting is fly.
You're asking me if this is fly?
I'm not going to knock nobody getting their money.
Never. I want them to get all of these spanky.
Yeah, but the estate gets the money.
That's fly.
Or whoever owns the painting previously.
Because he might have sold that.
The person that sold it sold it.
Somebody got some money. And he might have sold that. That's true. The person that sold it, sold it. 20 years ago for.
Somebody got some money.
Facts. And I think that's blocked.
That's a fact.
There it is.
Do I think that painting is worth that?
Of course not.
You know what I mean?
I ain't got that money.
The thing is, whoever bought it thinks it is worth it.
Indeed.
That's all.
And that goes back to our.
That is subjective.
To our worth value conversation.
True.
That is true.
That's all.
Whoever paid $195 million for that, that's the worth to them.
What do y'all think about Nike versus StockX?
Nike is saying that StockX is producing fake sneakers because they're hating.
They're not producing them.
Is it StockX's third party vendor?
It's a resale market.
Yeah.
It's a resale market.
My take is very simple.
Are they selling fake sneakers?
They may be selling them unbeknownst to them, though.
What happens is they're supposed to be going through this authentication process where
they have an expert inspect it to determine is this an authentic product or a knockoff,
whatever.
And there's been sneakers that have passed authentication that Nike got their hands on.
And said, hey, these is fakes.
But y'all okaying them as authentic.
My man, one of my young boys, he a hustler.
He get to it.
Got his hands in a whole bunch of shit.
This is what he told me.
I don't know if you
want to cut it out he said um nike made a deal with the warehouses and so you can't stop the
warehouses from really bootlegging your shit because the warehouses are over in other countries
so let's say nice nike licenses them to make a million pairs of sneakers what stops them from
making 1.2?
Nothing.
They already on a conveyor belt.
They already on an assembly line.
Nobody can stop them from making 1.2, 1.3 million pairs of sneakers.
So they are technically authentic sneakers made on the same press that Nike is putting them out on or making them on.
But they may not be getting stamped by Nike because it was was the excess of their 1.2 1.3 mil but i heard nike made the deal behind closed doors to do so to lower the prices down that's
what i heard well that makes a lot of sense it's just friend who i can't authenticate in any way
shape or form but no but that's what he told me like they said that that that a lot of the um
the bootleg market it'd be bootleg but the sneakers really come from the same exact factories, same assembly lines, same materials, same everything.
I know a lot of people that buy from StockX.
I've never, so I mean, I can't speak to it.
But Ice, you were saying that you think you're on the side of who in this?
I'm on the side of the consumer.
You're on the side of who in this?
I'm on the side of the consumer.
And basically, if Nike releasing, any of these sneaker companies releasing product with a short, with such a small supply, you're going to create a resale market in doing so.
A demand.
A demand is up here.
Exactly.
You're doing this on purpose.
If demand is up here. But they're doing it on purpose to drive people
to their shit.
Not somewhere else.
Look, Joe.
If I only make
10 pair,
the demand is going
to be high as hell.
True.
I sold my Nike.
Sold my 10 pair.
But niggas still want it.
You can't buy anymore
from Nike.
I only made 10.
So yeah, now the bootleggers is like wolves.
Not even a bootlegger.
The resale market.
I bought a PlayStation 5, prime example.
You still can't walk in the store and buy a PS5 today.
That shit came out over a year and a half ago.
But the resale market is eating with PS5s.
If you want one, you're going to pay at least $300 over sticker today to get one.
But even with what Ice is saying, the demand.
Once the demand is there, the resellers are going to sell them.
Yeah.
But, nigga, it opens up the door for the bootleggers, too.
And the bootleggers.
Because you have a demand for something.
When the Salehi Crocs dropped, everybody wanted some.
Damn, that Croc went from $80.
It was $85.
Ice came in here and said he tried to buy something for his girl.
It was $400.
On StockX, it was $450,
I believe.
He did.
And StockX is people.
It's not just bootleg.
It's, hey, I was lucky
enough to get a pair,
but I don't want it.
This is a flip.
Yeah.
I saw him in the store.
I bought this.
You can only get them
through raffle,
those particular crocks.
But I bought this
with the sole intention
of selling it.
Because if I pay $85 for it and I can sell it for $450, ta-da.
That's the resale market.
So I say I'm on the side of the consumer.
Hey, Nike, if y'all want people to buy the shit from y'all, make it where they can buy it from y'all.
Stop these stupid-ass raffles where nobody wins.
Y'all have the capability to make a ton of these shits.
But y'all want to keep supply
very low because let me let me let me offer some resistance here which you think i know it's good
for nike it's great business thank you thank you but what i'm saying is you can't now complain
about what you you created the reason i've said i i don't think they created it they did nike did
not i think this is a i think they were ignorant to
just how fruitful the resale market was and that's kind of what i'm about to say right like
there's too many companies now and men that we have watched go from zero to billion
right before our eyes with this very model So something that they're seeing with this model
is working
for the company.
True.
Yeah.
It's not very consumer friendly.
It's not.
It's not designed
to be consumer friendly.
I said I'm on the side
of the consumer.
I knew that
when they started
putting these stupid ass
raffle things
in the sneaker store.
I'm like,
all right,
y'all don't want me
to come in.
But it keeps the buzz.
It keeps the buzz.
And not only that,
that was there
when your niggas was getting killed
niggas was fighting
in DC they was killing people
yeah so that was
to keep that low
that was their way
of trying to
and you gotta fight
with the bots
and you got high fashion now
that has come
and merged in
with urban
casual brands
and people
like there's a lot
to combat against
so if I'm a company
yeah I maybe wanna keep my shit kind
of tight with some exclusivity and especially if i'm seeing something on the back end that's
supporting that i would be mad at what the retail market what the resale market is doing with my
shit uh let's see nike said that stock x is diluting its trademarks while using them to
heavily market NFTs,
drawing consumers who know the brand
and then benefit financially.
Can't be mad at StockX for doing what y'all doing.
Yeah, but I don't want you to do it with my shit.
You can't control that.
I can try to, it's mine.
No, it's not yours.
Once you sell it, it's not yours.
So once I bought it, hold up so once i bought it hold up once i
bought it for a hundred dollars i can jump on a platform that allows me to sell it for three hundred
dollars to get to your point you totally skipping mine i'm talking about long before it gets to
the customer that purchased it that wants to do the flip i'm not knocking before it gets there
as nike i'm trying to control this i have the deals with the warehouses i have the
deals with the stores i already put foot action or whoever out of business don't misquote me but
they put a lot of you sneaker stores out of business they pulled they pulled their accounts
stopped servicing y'all clearly they've switched up how they were doing things in the recent years
and that's just for my me being an onlooker like i'm not really a sneaker right head guy but then
what was the point I was making?
I'm agreeing with everything you're saying.
What I'm saying is this.
But what I'm saying is this.
Cool.
Nike has the pulse of the market.
Y'all saying there's nothing you can do.
And I'm saying if you're done, you're going to try.
Right?
As a consumer, I think that they should try.
Because even with concert tickets, they're doing the same kind of similar thing.
You kind of did it.
You kind of did what?
You got to take the good
with the bad so as we say the gig is the gig so nike is putting a stop limit on how many
pieces they are creating of something thereby trying to yeah thereby increasing the demand
because everybody can't get them so when everybody can't get them same thing in the real estate
market you now your shit gonna sell at a premium because nobody could get them so if i got up here and i paid 100 uh 220
box price if somebody that really really want them want to give me 500 i'm gonna sell them
now there's a market for that there's a value worth and that's where amazon and all these
companies they basically bought buyer to seller and made a marriage and they take a piece out the
middle so that's what stock x is doing yo somebody got sneakers over here i'm gonna sell them at a bought buyer to seller and made a marriage and they take a piece out the middle.
So that's what StockX is doing.
Yo, somebody got sneakers over here.
I'm going to sell them
at a premium
and I'm going to take a piece
out the middle.
It's the same shit.
If Nike didn't do
the limited supply,
there would be no reason
for a StockX.
And that was my point.
And the way StockX
market themselves
is saying,
you can guarantee
that it's authentic
through us.
I understand what
y'all were saying. Oh. I'm on the side of us. I understand what y'all was saying.
Oh.
I'm on the side of both.
I'm on the side of the.
I'm positive that Nike would like to do what I think Mercedes did.
Like Mercedes saw what was going on and what y'all was doing out there with them G wagons and what y'all was paying in that market. I think they learned about that in real time and quickly put a caboodle on it.
With what they were producing and how I think Mercedes that is at the top of everybody having to go and put extra money to go get a Mercedes.
You think that one thousand percent?
I don't think that I think this is my.
No, no, no.
That's your opinion.
I think that the supply. Mercedes ain't no no no that's your opinion i think
that the the supply mercedes ain't gonna keep watching you niggas run out there and pay 200
grand for some shit that we make so now we're just gonna make less of them and we upping the price
but they don't help you long term in the financial standpoint if i'm putting an extra 60 and 80 grand
on on these factory cars how is it it help me because you're selling a less
a million less cars hold up if i could sell a million cars at 150 grand it's not gonna benefit
me if i could sell 200 000 at 200 grand you they thinking in a macro sense i don't know that
because you have to go produce a million cars to sell them. If I only have to produce 200 cars and I could charge 20x on each car,
why wouldn't I do that?
Why wouldn't I do that?
But even with that being said,
Mercedes ain't really marking up the bump on all of them cars.
A lot of them is third party too.
My man and them bought Mercedes brand new G wagons and they paid sticker.
They ordered them a year ago, but they paid sticker.
I'm not talking about those.
I know.
I'm saying. I'm not talking about anybody that ordered their car because you'll pay the regular price and you're gonna sit on the waiting list it's the material
the raw material coming from all over the countries i mean all over the world is in scarce
scarce scarce supply i.e the chips and all that shit that's why they put the stop on that they
didn't make no 2022s if you ain't order order a 2022 last year, you didn't get one.
But that's my point.
And with the chip shortage, no, y'all not going to produce a million cars.
No, you can't.
That's what I'm saying.
And I'm saying that I'm sure Nike would like to be in that same spot to where as it's too many niggas out here that can just make the sneaker.
They could just make they can just fake this sneaker.
Mad people can make a sneaker
way faster than you can fake a G-Wag.
Of course.
So they're going to have
a harder time putting a
kapush on it.
I think they just limit them
on purpose to create the buzz.
Yeah, they want the buzz.
And so the next one dropping,
I'm going to be first.
I'm going to get that one.
I remember it was a Jordan
coming out damn near
every other week for a while.
And the line was down the fucking block.
It would be Jordan 1s in this color, then Jordan 3s in this color, then Jordan 5s in this color.
And the line was down the street.
Well, the line is just online now.
It's still dropping like that.
Now they just got them with these raffles, with the sneakers app, shit like that.
You see people posting their L they l's oh you didn't
get them didn't get them oh i got them every weekend every time i knew nike jordan or something
your cousin every time he missed one he cursed nike out on instagram but that's advertisement
for nike i agree that's people wanting to say yo let me try to get a pair i'm gonna get the next
one i'm gonna get the next one so yeah they going to get the next one. So yeah, they are. You know they're serious about it. They sued Lil Nas X's ass.
Hey, get that little devil Jordan out of here, boy.
Hey, the fuck you think you're doing?
You're not dropping.
Is that a bundle package?
Yeah.
Yeah, no, they mean business.
All that shit is terrible for the consumer.
The reseller market.
But I'm on the side of both of them.
I don't even think the reseller market is terrible for the consumer because i can't get it nowhere else
if i if i want it that bad and i have the money to get it even if i'm paying a markup
yeah i got what i wanted and honestly speaking on the psychology side what i really even wanted
if it wasn't this rare niggas be trying to wag they dick. Like, I got some shit that
nobody else could get.
Like a PS5, I don't think that's the case.
We saying this, but I ran around
in about nine stores looking for some
Air Force Ones the other day, and that was a headache.
That was a hassle.
So I'm on the phone with Joe. He like, yo, I'm trying to
get on some Air Force Ones. I said, yo,
give me a nine.
He's like, alright. Dog, they... I mean, I went to to the mall by me and they had them, but a couple days later, but
it was a minute to get to them shits.
And that's the thing.
They used to do these with Air Force Ones a couple summers ago, maybe eight, nine years
ago.
This is real bad, Elliot, now.
Yeah, this shit was crazy.
So then I get to the store to get the Air Force Ones.
Of course, they got a nine because what adult wears a size nine?
So they have issues nine. what adult wears a size nine?
So they have issues nine.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Can we take a minute to think about that?
Fuck you wearing a nine for? You're a grown ass man.
As an adult.
What's your point?
You should at least just get a 10.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, you should just wear extra socks.
This is crazy.
First off, Air Force Ones run big.
I wear a nine and a half
Ten in most sneakers
Fam I don't give a fuck
What y'all niggas talking about
You heard me
Put the half on it
This is crazy
Yo this is nuts
Yo you need to be
I never knew this about you
You do yo
I never knew that about you
That won't hold you
Why would you
Nine sneakers
Why would you know
What type of sneakers
Yeah
Just don't try
Hey yo
He gives that false impression
Cause he runs around
Talking about he's 6'3 and shit
But we don't think You wear a size 9 as a nigga that's 6'3.
I'm 6'3 and wear a 9.
Tip right over.
You can't even support yourself, dummy.
Stand up straight, man.
Yo.
What was we getting to?
I was getting to something
Stupid yo
Oh man
Oh so when I finally get to the store
Yeah
They don't have the 11
But the 11 that they do have
Is a Supreme Air Force 1
Markup
Bang them
Markup markup markup
Know the difference on this one?
Little red
Little Supreme right on the hill
In the tiniest little square
It was the tiniest little square.
It was the tiniest little square Supreme.
I've never purchased
Supreme anything on my feet.
Yeah.
But I bought them.
Got to.
And now I look like
some type of
hype beast.
Yeah.
Like a hype beast.
When the truth of it is
they have regular
Nike Air Force 1s.
I just was
I fell victim to the trap
that they designed.
They designed it.
Bullshit.
Stock X, too.
That's some bullshit.
It's fine.
It's fine.
What else we got that's important?
They let Trump back on Twitter and he's gone crazy already?
They did?
He is lying.
He spilled all the beans.
Yeah, you're lying.
Please say you're lying.
Here it is right here.
Donald Trump says,
There's no way Elon Musk is going to buy Twitter at such a ridiculous price,
especially since realizing it is a company largely based on bots or spam accounts.
Fake anyone?
By the time you get rid of them, if that can even be done, what do you have?
Not much.
If it weren't for the ridiculous billion dollar breakup fee, Elon would have already been long gone.
Just my opinion.
But truth social, I won't promote this shit.
I think that's from Truth, actually, not from Twitter.
Oh.
It looks like Twitter, though. I've seen a couple
tweets. Truths.
I saw a couple Truths. What is Truth?
His Twitter.
I'm promoting everybody's shit today.
Nasty.
Yeah, we'll tell you later.
Truth and Arby's?
Come on, man. Yeah, niggas with size nine.
Size nine.
What do y'all think about that?
Elon said he's pausing the deal until he can verify some things.
Who didn't know that there was bots on Twitter?
Yeah.
You wouldn't know that they were.
I thought that was part of his spiel was we're going to get rid of bots. You wouldn't know that they weren't I thought that was part of his spiel was we're gonna get rid of bots
you wouldn't know how many
bots on Twitter
bots on Facebook
bots on Instagram
bots are on all the places
that was part of his pitch
he was like
I'm gonna get rid of
all the spam bots
and make every human
have to be verified
or something
and now he's saying
he's waiting to buy it
until they figure out
how many bots it is
you might not have known to what degree they were there.
That's possible.
Which would drive up the price.
Or it also could be some other shit happening and they're using that shit as a...
They said spam and fake pages make up less than 5% of all users on Twitter.
That's what Twitter said.
And so he said he needs to verify that.
You know that's a lie.
Yeah.
It's definitely more than 5%. It's definitely a lie. So give me some needs to verify that. You know that's a lie. Yeah, it's definitely more than a lie.
It's definitely a lie.
So give me some of my billions back.
It's a negotiation.
You get what I'm saying?
If that's the case, then your valuation may not be as high as I thought.
I feel like there's more shit behind this than just that.
It's possible.
There's some political shit happening.
It's a type of money.
We'll never know. This is a type of money we don't even know.
There's a power play.
So we'll never know.
There's money we ain't even sniffing.
Did you guys watch
the finale of Winning Time?
Of course I did.
What'd you think?
I think that's one of the best
new shows we've got
in a really long time.
I agree.
I really like the show.
I like the finale too.
I liked it so much
I really went back
and looked at the
The real Magic Johnson
That's your basketball cards
From that season
I wish
I bet
I wish nigga
Nah I went back
And looked at the real
Magic Johnson interview
And he gave it
And they paraphrased it
But
It was dope
Cause I wanted to see
Like if he really gave
Props to Kareem
And all that shit
Because it was
Controversial at the time
So I wanted to see How he Big up Kareem, and he did.
So I like the show.
I think this is, again, you know how I feel about the miniseries.
I don't want it to keep going.
I think it takes away from the greatness, because once it stops,
all of the dope shows we've seen, they come to a corny-ass point
where the writers run out of shit to write about,
and they kind of fade off
into some goofy shit.
A couple things on that. One, HBO is usually good
at writing shit off before it starts
going too far left. And two,
there's a fairly endless
amount of shit to pull from with the Lakers
and the bus dynasty alone.
But the writers.
True. You get what I'm saying?
We saw it with Snowfall
We saw it with fucking
Game of Thrones
That's not fair
That's not fair to Snowfall though
That last season was trash
Yeah but they also lost
John Singleton
It's not fair to
I don't want to put that on there
That's all I'm saying
Writers
Writers right
Cause they came up with that
Brilliance on the last scene
They could have came up with
Brilliance throughout the season
Yeah
Writers right It sounds like they had Three episodes and had to Stretch that mouth Power was fucking amazing If they came up with that brilliance on the last scene, they could have came up with brilliance throughout the season. Yeah.
Writers write.
It sounds like they had three episodes and had to stretch them off.
Power was fucking amazing.
Until the last season, it started to get a little bit lackluster.
Yeah, the last couple.
Man, they know we on the way out the door.
That's all I'm saying. So when you give a miniseries and it stops, it can still be great and revered as a dope-ass miniseries.
That's all I'm saying.
But I want more of this,
Paul, if applicable.
There's a lot more story to be told.
Oh, yeah, this could keep going.
Yeah.
At least for another couple years,
couple seasons.
Yeah, this could definitely keep going.
I'm on episode four of Ozark.
Okay.
Yes.
The new season.
So you got ten more.
Yes. Oh, okay. This is amazing. Split. Yeah, it was split. Yes The new season So you got 10 more Yes Oh
This is amazing
Yeah it was split
Yeah
It's great
It's really good
No it's really good
Alex it's fine
You don't need to pull up
The Ozark trailer
We saved it
And then he got the
Part 2 show
You on his job
Episode 4
Yeah then he pulled up
Some other shit
Are you under duress back there
Yo that Arby shit got you acting up.
That's what you're doing?
You're acting bad?
We'll get you some curly fries, man.
Don't worry about it.
Yo, you wanted to get dangerous?
Not wanted to get dangerous.
Oh, man.
I'm asking.
Important questions.
I can't wait for you to finish Ozark.
If I'm a DJ, I don't know what song
to play next
if somebody's asking me that
oh you wanna get dangerous
yeah
yeah yeah no no no
I wanna get out of here
that's what I wanna do
no I don't wanna get dangerous
I wanna leave
yo I got a stomach ache
yeah you gonna have to
get DJ do it all
come on in here
take care of my set
I'm gone
that's some bullshit
Instagram bans,
Texas bans Instagram filters.
I think Illinois too.
And Illinois.
Why they do that?
Well, that affects Illinois
different than Texas.
Why?
You seeing the way
they shaped in Texas?
I knew it.
I knew where you was going, yo.
I knew it.
It's the facial band.
Yeah, who cares?
She got a banging facial body.
Who's looking at her face
in Texas?
Shit.
I knew where you was going
as soon as you said that shit.
Anyway.
Nah, they shouldn't do that
to Texas.
I don't like that.
Nah, they said that
they're fucking with
the facial recognition. That's so scary, dog. That just lets you know they coming to get like that. Nah, they said that they're fucking with the facial recognition.
That's so scary, dog.
That just lets you know they coming to get you off the fucking social media.
Bro, that's what it is.
That's why I'm sitting here laughing.
Ah, you want to appear old?
Yeah.
Locking your dumb ass up on social media.
And they selling all our shit to the feds.
Filter or not, they're still stealing your face and recognizing your face.
Like, it's too late.
Yeah, you want to pay your bills with face ID?
Come on.
Nah, but some of these girls be giving
you just the
blank. They shit don't have
no cheekbones, no
nothing. They just be blank face.
I see how it could kind of, you know,
they look powdery.
No.
Man, you know what I'm...
I have no idea.
No clue. I know. El'm I don't I don't I have no idea No clue I know
Elaborate
Tell us please
Man
Play Puss-O-Lonemus drop
Or something yo
We took that drop
Out of here three years ago
Yeah unfortunately
The Puss-O-Lonemus drop
Fuck
I got it
We are
Liars
That one worked
I'm glad you know
That's fine
Alright come on
What do y'all wanna get to now
Young Thug denied bond In Rico case Was that just him Or Gunna as well Gunna as well That one worked. I'm glad you know. That's fine. All right, come on. What do y'all want to get to now?
Young Thug denied bond in Rico case.
Was that just him or Gunna as well?
Gunna as well.
They both were denied bond at a hearing on Wednesday following a Monday indictment that charged him
as well as Gunna and 26 other alleged members
of the YSL crew with felony conspiracy
to violate the record to Rico.
I've been getting a shit ton of uh messages dms etc saying that we on our last pot
wish these gentlemen well which i think they do deserve well wishes but we we maybe mistakenly
left out the well wishes to all other families and people that were affected by some of the potential or alleged
stuff that was going on with these
gentlemen
so people were hitting me saying basically
because we're in a hip hop
community I don't think that's why
we did it but that's why they feel we did it
that we just like
throw out thoughts and prayers to them
and say that they were targeted
and that they were almost getting picked on.
Yeah, kind of. You know what I'm saying?
And people are saying like people that are down in Georgia area saying that they ran a nice little operation for double digit years and some of the alleged charges are in fact warranted.
So if we're going to give them thoughts and prayers then we need
to give thoughts and prayers to all other families that were potentially affected into that you say
what i agree if if other people's families were affected by somebody's um disdain negligence
whatever the case may be then thoughts and prayers need to go out to those families as well well
that's why me and parks always say thoughts and prayers to all parties involved.
We cover the board.
It's to everybody affected by this on either side of the coin.
And maybe we didn't say that in this particular instance,
and I apologize if that's not clear.
Of course, we never want to overlook what victims and victims' families may have went through.
Yeah, but that's also
not public information.
Yeah, I was like,
we don't know that.
None of that is public information.
And this is a public platform
with millions of people listening.
When you start to read about it,
it is.
When you start to read about it.
Because I ain't jumping to it.
Like, when they start telling me,
I was like, really?
Oh, damn.
And I looked up,
and it's right there.
But where are you,
you read this from where?
Again, it's all allegations, so I don't even want to put the allegations out. But that's right there. But where are you you read this from where? Again it's all allegations
so I don't even want
to put the allegations out
but that's our point.
But hear me out.
If you wanted to find them
they are there.
That's what I'm saying.
If you want to find
the allegations they're there.
They listed the boys charges.
They got a list
of all their charges.
If you wanted to find
what they were accused of
you could
and as a platform
we could potentially
look it up.
Ish we see what
they're accused of
i know that don't say anything of course of course uh prayers to anybody who's lost a family member
there you go that's all but that is but that's not all because that's separate from this until
that's proven to be associated with this and i'm never coming on my platform to do that to niggas i'm not doing that
i'm not just putting bodies on people who said that nobody said that i didn't say that i said
potentially was one of the main words i used i said allegedly was another one of the main words
i used and i said if these gentlemen had any hand in some people's did i know that when you say i know that when you say
allegedly for a large part of people reading
that word don't exist
it's just there
so again
yes thoughts and prayers
to anybody that has lost a family member
related to this
or related to anything else
but the conversation I was having
is the same conversation that i've
been consistently having here which is hip-hop artists are being targeted that don't exonerate
them from whatever they do in their private personal time i don't know i often come in here
and say i don't speak to the street shit so i'm gonna have a different perspective and a different
angle but watching that da if you don't think that their name was attached for reasons outside of their own behavior, then I mean, I don't know what to tell nobody.
It's possible.
Could be.
Again, I just.
That DA look very happy to announce.
Of course you would be.
Why wouldn't you read these acts?
I mean, if anytime they bring down somebody and organize crime,
again, we from the same hood,
when them niggas be infiltrating quote-unquote sex
in areas where you start giving your crew a name,
it be public enemy 101.
They want to bring down the group.
In our hoods, they brought down mad niggas when we was young,
and they publicly announced that they was happy as fuck to do so.
I think the real culture shock is going to come from whatever her next five moves are.
I don't think we've seen the worst of it.
I don't think that at all.
She up there like she just getting started.
that at all she she up there like she just gets started and what i will change my stance on though is uh and not really but kind of sort of a little bit while i don't think that lyrics should be used
in court if you niggas are just writing it all in the verse that's what i've been saying that's
what i've been saying the entire time i still don't think they should use the coin.
So my thing is you saying that it looked like she happy and she just getting started.
I said that.
I mean.
Well, I said she's just getting started.
To some citizens, they might be happy.
It's two sides to all these coins.
You get what I'm saying? Like to some citizens, they may be happy that this is happening and they hope she just getting started.
To certain citizens
depending on what side
of the spectrum
you looking from
or what lens you looking from
explain I don't understand
what you mean
if you're a
potential victim of
activities that these men
are being accused of
and you know
if it comes true
or if you're just in that
certain area that they've been
allegedly like terrorizing
yeah
certain things that are happening
we all know a nigga from the hood or something
where it's like, or people
from the hood. Niggas off the street. Yeah.
Communities. Is everybody
in this room on the side of
crime should be
eliminated as a business?
Yeah.
I don't understand your question. You gotta elaborate a little bit.
Persecution more so than crime, I think is...
Because crime is gonna be a business.
Like, there's people going to be stealing and scamming and hustling.
I think you're talking about prosecution.
That's not what you mean.
No.
Oh, no.
I mean the business of crime.
Like, Ish keeps saying...
Jails and shit.
No.
See, I don't know what you mean.
That's not ours.
That's not our business.
I'm talking about what they deem to be crimes, what many people in the hoods make a living doing.
Whatever that is.
Crime.
Oh, it depends.
And the business of underworld crime.
I think it's me personally.
I think it's a case-by-case basis.
I think it depends on what acts you're committing.
Because, you know, I don't fuck with that.
Like, somebody selling somebody fentanyl is a crime.
But somebody selling oxys making mad money and fucking niggas up is not a crime.
So I don't, it depends.
I think it's a case by case basis.
You got it.
You hear what I'm saying?
Like, I think certain things that are being done in the underworld could be crime.
But then I think other shit that's being done in the underworld.
That somebody else is doing.
Just because they got a license to do it.
Or just because they got billions of dollars backing them.
I think it's bullshit.
Weed is a prime example of how many motherfuckers.
Throughout the duration of time have been locked up for weed.
You taking fathers out of households.
For weed.
That had an exponential effect.
Negative effect on their kids.
Now all of a sudden y'all want to put a license on it. Now y'all could tax it. Now y their kids. Now all of a sudden.
Y'all want to put a license on it.
Now y'all could tax it.
Now y'all could do all these other things.
And now it magically poof.
It's fucking legal.
Same shit happen with alcohol.
Exactly.
But they used to tell us.
We fuck up your brain cells.
Now magically it don't fuck up your brain cells. When some white people put a stamp on it.
And can make some tax money off of it.
I think that's bullshit.
So it depends on which crime
you're talking about
if I think it's legal or illegal.
Crime has supported you
throughout parts of your life,
yes or no?
Absolutely.
1,000%.
Wholeheartedly.
How cognizant of you
were the people
on the flip side of that coin?
It's a few things
I just don't fuck with.
Like, I don't really
fuck with thievery.
I think that when you
steal something from somebody,
their kids could potentially
suffer from you
stealing from it.
Their family could potentially
suffer from you stealing.
I don't like some of your takes.
Do you know that?
I don't like some of yours
neither, nigga.
What's your point?
Yours are nastier.
That's definitely subjective you best be fucking clear that's a double entendre oh please i come here to say what
k-pop isn't the greatest like what are you talking about that you are saying that have said that i
was like yeah that's not true but my thoughts on the thievery shit and then you can go back you ask me a question but I say it all the time
if you stole my car
you stole some shit out my car
yeah well I'm gonna be mad
I take the emotions out
I'm assuming that guy
needed it a little more than me
so my thoughts on thievery
is just different
from yours I guess
it depends on thievery
that's fine
it's some niggas
that steal for sport
it's some niggas
that's up up
that still be stealing
they may not need it
more than me it's niggas that make a up that still be stealing. They may not need it more than me.
It's niggas that make
a living off of thievery
that are multi,
multi-millionaires.
But what?
So they may not need
my shit more than me.
It's niggas that steal cars
and ship them overseas.
My man in them was doing.
Stealing cars,
shipping them overseas,
killing them.
Living a great life.
That's a talent
and a skill.
I need my car more than them.
I might can't get to work
for the next three months and lose my job.
I might not have had insurance on my car and couldn't do that.
Don't take away from the skill set involved.
You said they needed it more than me.
Stay at this goalpost.
Well, no, you moved the goalpost.
But those rich niggas that stealing and now you're there.
No, I'm talking about the majority and the majority.
Well, I can't speak to that.
But I was speaking about the people that needed it more.
So don't try to say
I moved the gold
and I'm telling you
there are instances
where there are thieves
that make a living
off of stealing
that may not need their shit
more than the somebody
they stole it from
these Ponzi scheme ass niggas
out here
they may not need their shit
no we gonna stay on
something real small
a nigga got his car stolen
the nigga's doing bad
he might not have car insurance
his car got stolen by
somebody that has more money than him now he has to find a new car somehow because he don't have
insurance so he don't have no insurance to fall back on to get a new car now what what do you
mean now what the nigga that stole his car i feel bad for that guy i know but the nigga that stole
it don't he got a bag from it And that's the happenings on earth.
And that's what happens here.
Yo.
What?
You've been the best field goal kicker in the world.
Because you're saying now what?
Because you said they needed it more than me.
You better be prepared to encounter everybody.
You're going to encounter the thief, the liar, the murderer.
You're going to encounter them all.
That's not what we're talking about. On our on our subject we talking about people doing shit for crime and i said i've never
been big on thievery you said you didn't like my stance and you said the nigga might have needed
it more than me i gave you an example of your fucking multi-million dollar car ring and i'm
just talking about the nigga that's walking up blocks stealing vehicles. Yes, those two people
are in different positions.
Go ahead.
What's the one that's just walking up and down a block
stealing a car for?
Because he needs a car.
No, because he might need to joyride in my shit.
You think
most niggas are stealing cars to joyride?
I'm from Newark, New Jersey.
And I'm from Jersey City.
Exactly, and so we had a fucking pandemic where niggas were stealing cars to joyride i'm from newark new jersey jersey city exactly so we had a
fucking pandemic where niggas were stealing cars to joyride and get chased by the cops on purpose
okay but that's not the majority that was the majority in our neighborhood the majority new
is home with a fucking chop shop stop it yo stop it stop it y'all invented the chop shop y'all
didn't invent stolen car racetracks most of the niggas that were stealing cars in our neighborhood were not taking them to the chop shops to chop them up.
Okay, today, current time, what do you think is happening?
I don't know.
You do know.
Yes, you do.
I don't.
Yes, you do.
They're going in a container now.
That's why I don't fuck with you.
I don't know.
No, they're going in a container now.
I don't know.
It's no.
You're from Newark.
But that's what I'm saying.
He said today was happening.
What's that little song you had?
I'm from Newark. Newark. Corey, you can't But that's what I'm saying. He said today was happening. What's that little song you had? I'm from Newark.
Newark.
Corey, you can't attest to what I'm saying?
Corey doesn't have a microphone, and Corey...
He's my age.
Please don't get me started on Corey.
But look, even back to your point where they getting them chopped up.
They getting them chopped up.
They got more money than the nigga they potentially stole them from.
He needs his car more than they fucking needed it that was your original point you'd be
playing both sides of a coin and i don't like it i don't like it in one breath you tell me about all
the crime that you have potentially allegedly committed you tell me about all the things that
your network has done in their past in their lives all of your friends you're talking about
the environment you grew up in the neighborhood how you endorse some of these things and then
you come on here with all this fucking
law-abiding citizen bullshit.
One, you wrong, and you wrong
again. You asked me a question,
my nigga. I answered your question.
Because you don't like my fucking answer,
that don't make me wrong.
Okay.
That's it.
Fuck is you talking about?
So, yeah, I've
committed crimes in my life
for the benefit of some capital gain.
Yes, I have.
I think we all have.
Speak for yourself.
Nigga.
I'm stealing honey buns and shit,
nigga.
I was hungry.
What the fuck are you talking about?
I'm stealing out the little Asian store.
Oh, speaking of Asians.
Oh. Oh, man.
That's not the extent.
I don't even like, yeah, that's not the segway that I'm looking for.
Go ahead, pull your shit up, because that's not the extent of your crime past.
I segway better than you.
That's not the extent of your crime past.
The extent, don't.
Don't do that.
This nigga could come here and put my fucking resume on camera.
No, you do that.
This nigga's a monster, bro.
New York City started to count down for the business community to tear away the veil that can obscure pay practices
when Eric Adams signed a controversial new law that will require salary ranges to be posted for every new job ad.
It is the first big U.S. city to do so.
I like that law.
I love that.
It is the first big U.S. city to do so.
I like that law.
I love that.
And I only said speaking of Asians because this article ends with the pay gap between white women and white men remains stubbornly fixed around 83 cent on the dollar with an even higher gap for Hispanic and black women.
Only Asian men and women and women outarn white men in the U.S. according to data from the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I thought that was important
to share.
Interesting statistic. I don't know what to make of it.
Now they're going to show you
how much you ain't shit.
I don't know if it's going to change much.
I better not walk in and see Sally making 70 grand more doing the same shit I'm doing.
I better not be able to Google that one.
You better stay outside.
Fuck you talking about, nigga.
You better stay outside.
Well, I stay outside.
You better not walk in.
I don't play them little corporate games.
There you go.
I don't play them games.
We know.
They got a saying for that on my side.
What's that?
MFN?
What's MFN?
Yeah.
You ain't going to tell us what it mean?
Nope.
I'm over here thinking.
I don't know what the shit.
MFN.
Yeah.
What, is he looking it up?
Of course not.
He's just doing his own shit.
MFN is some shit you throw out there when you need to be matched
at whatever the highest paid person is.
MFN clause.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it's new here.
Yeah.
Not here.
Most favored nation clause.
Oh, shit.
As it's commonly known,
protects an investor by giving them
the same rights and benefits
received by later investors if those rights and benefits received by later investors
if those rights
and benefits
are more favorable
than those originally
agreed upon
oh yeah
that's niggas favorite letters
in the heart
oh yeah
yeah
that's what I'm saying
like we don't
we don't kinda
so I don't
that's new for me
over there
like on this side
I have fought for that
in the past
like it's different on this side i have fought for that in the past like it's different
on creator side like and creator land if everybody know what everybody getting paid
oh that's a mess that's a mess it's i think that's just business across the board
i just think it is is with everything if all the secretaries know what all the secretaries make
it's going to be a problem.
I disagree.
Because in secretary land
we both could be doing
the same task.
You're not really valued for who you
are. You're valued as
what you do. In my
field you're valued
for who you are and what you do in my field you're valued for who you are and both what you do so that's why i think
it's different but no but this is the same because what i'm doing for one company or what she's doing
for one company the other person might be doing at a very very very steep discount well that's my
that's that's and that's the beef we're doing the same thing and these these wages are all over the place whereas over here when the wage is different
like you can account for it you could say hey uh kevin hart gets this and this is why he gets
this versus whoever the next best is in this field or whatever like you could just
you quantify it same way no I still don't see it.
Look, once you find out that this executive assistant makes this,
you like, ho, ho, ho, fam.
Shirley upstairs on the third floor is making way more bread than me.
How do you do that?
HR don't want you to know what Shirley makes.
Shirley uncle might be a VP somewhere and got her that bond.
You get what I'm saying?
It's all.
And them games is way nastier y'all doing in them corporate
offices. Y'all snitch. Hey,
Debra smells like weed.
No, Debra
got... Debra
by.
It's legal now. You can say it.
I ain't even talking about that.
Debra was puffing on something more than weed.
Have you seen Debra's
Instagram?
They do that What do y'all think about that?
You will get fired
What do y'all think about your coworkers
Your coworkers having your Instagram?
No, I don't agree with that
I follow y'all, shut up
I'm talking about in the corporate place
I'm not following you
And they get fired for that, don't
If HR finds your Instagram or your Facebook
And this shit that's unfavorable there
You can get fired
I think that's bullshit
That is crazy See, I always keptavorable there, you can get fired. Yep. I think that's bullshit. That is crazy.
See, I always kept
all my shit separate.
You can get fired.
But wait,
this is the kicker
because you're right.
But I think
you can still get fired
if you make a whole
separate private account
and they still find out.
If they find you,
it don't got to be
Joseph Button.
It could be
Lil' J.J.
And if your picture's
up there with Lil' J.J.
and he got some motherfucking ratchets out
and he talking a whole bunch of crazy shit,
you are getting fired.
See, that's in corporate world.
On the other side of town,
they want you to use your Instagram as a tool.
So whatever you did there that attracted the people,
please continue to do so.
Just when we ask you to post.
If it's beneficial for them.
Because you could be an NFL dude or you could be an NBA
dude and you say something not favorable to the league
and they will...
In the NFL, listen, I have
a totally different feeling about the NFL.
I can't speak to that as an example
as a whole. That should be the easiest stick
up in American
history. That's what that
should be. The NFL.
So I want to stay away from using that
as an example.
Damn, I was about to say something.
Look, NBA, when they started speaking out
about China, what happened?
Was one man from
Houston.
The second you say something...
I don't like that example either because China
is responsible for the large influx of TV dollars that's getting us all paid.
That's the point.
So that was a sticky situation.
That's what I said.
That's the point though.
When it's beneficial to the company, then your voice is taken away from you.
You said.
I'm saying if you're beneficial enough, no it ain't.
I have a great example I want to give you all, but I can't do that to my good folk out there.
To my good artist buddy.
But we're seeing it out there.
I'm trying to think of it but i can't actually here's a way to do it cardi b did baby shark
and did the video in the bronx the drill shit in the bronx and then highlighted them both
together to show her range and her versatility dope while i think that's dope in hip-hop that's totally
allowable if your audience is big enough like you you can just get away with shit totally agree i
can't speak to that side because i don't know that side no watch this if cardi b says the wrong thing
about the wrong group of people it will be highlighted and potentially she has to take that down. She can't just get on her platform
and say whatever she wants to say.
There's leeway there.
Especially in hip-hop.
You're right-ish,
but just from a moral standpoint,
at some point,
people just don't be wanting to say certain things.
True, true, true.
It's not that they're not trying to say it
to not get canceled or to not get... Some people do not wanting to say certain things. True, true, true. It's not that they're not trying to say it to not get canceled or to not get...
Some people do not want to say those things at all.
A thousand percent.
That's really what I came in here
was killing a baby for.
Yeah, I get it.
You had a show,
but who the fuck even says that?
Nobody says that.
True.
Depending on what it is, that's true.
Yeah.
So that's my response to that.
We off on a tangent, but it's fine.
Always happens. Yeah, it's fine. It always happens.
Yeah, it's fine.
What else y'all got?
Oh, I read my little article.
Whatever y'all want to do for me.
I just went up to the Sixers, man.
They lost.
I hate fans like him.
I hate fans like him.
Fam, y'all want me upset?
No.
Who said that?
Don't go to a different-
I'm asking.
I'm asking what do you want.
You said fans want me upset.
Actually.
I don't want to be upset.
I want details as to how you felt about the game, the outcome, the future.
I want to hear from the fans.
I go to you because you a fan of the people.
I'm a sixer fan.
I can talk about the Yankees right now.
Boy, they got a foot up their ass.
Good for y'all.
Fucking good for y'all.
I thought they was winning.
They are winning.
Good for them.
Best team in the league.
And they didn't pay the man.
They didn't pay the man.
They did not pay the man. They offered him some shit
like for five years, $270
million, homegrown. Everybody
loves him. And y'all
didn't pay him. Well, y'all offered him some bullshit.
He said, nah, I'm cool. And now
he is kicking ass. He kicking up.
And boy, is that going to be expensive.
So now how do I feel?
Back to this MFN shit.
Now how do I feel watching Stanton from that other team come over here and get $400 million?
That's nasty.
I want to hear your perspective on Ben Simmons and all this Philly shit going on
because I'm not a Philly fan and you are.
That's all, Ice.
Well, he said, what happened to the Sixers?
I was like, they lost.
That's what happened to the Sixers.
It was answering his question.
Y'all were asking me before, how do I feel about the Ben Simmons trade?
I'm still happy.
I don't care what James Harden did.
It's more than what we were going to get from Ben Simmons.
That is true.
You can't lose there.
What about long term? Ben Simmons. So you can't lose there.
What about long term?
Ben Simmons was never playing for us again, period.
There was no mending that.
It was over.
I'm just, as a Sixer fan, I just wanted that shit.
Let's turn the page.
Whatever we got to deal with now, let's deal with it.
But let's turn the page.
And we did it.
This is my issue with what you're saying. This is ugly.
This is my issue with what you're saying. This is ugly. This is my issue with what you're saying.
What's ugly there?
A big part of why he would never play for them again is how he felt he was alienated
after the playoff loss by his teammates and coach in particular, right?
Good.
And know what happened this year?
Did the same exact thing to James Harden.
Just not the coach. For Joel Embiid to get on the mic and say,
he's just not who he was publicly.
It means the team is still plagued.
Yes.
It means the team is still plagued with some of that same and same internal
shit that started the Ben Simmons riff.
Right.
So now what if James Harden get mad now?
And I don't think he will cause he's paid too much and he has a player opt-in.
But what if he did like Ben Simmons did?
Now you just have caused the same shit.
That's my only problem with what I saw after the loss.
I didn't know he said that.
I didn't either.
On the mic.
That's crazy.
Post-game.
And he tried to clean it up.
He said, oh, he's more of a playmaker now.
We just need more effort from everybody.
Like, he did that.
Quote itself.
And that's what happened last year.
So it's like, damn, why the fuck would you do the same exact thing?
So James Harden's probably out of there.
I doubt it.
I doubt it.
I still say Maxim.
Y'all was killing me for it.
I still say Maxim.
Maxim.
After that game, I don't want to see No more James Harden
And Lil Baby
And Meek Mill
Pictures together
I gotta keep it a bean
That shit was cool
When you was doing
What you was doing in Houston
But now
After that shit
Nah you can't just be
Hanging out with rappers
And shit
And then doing that
Shit
Nah you gotta do that
You can't do that
You can't do that
You think you're not
About to see that
So look
He can't wait for the season
This is one of
No this is one of the funniest things
That we
We champion
All of the basketball players
All the athletes
Getting to they bags
And getting they money right
Cause it's do them
It is do them
Yeah
They make these
Business owners
A shit ton of money
Thanks
There has to be some accountability
For them also
As a fan
I'm a fan of the sport.
When you are paying top dollars.
Alex, can you get this off the screen, please?
When you're paying top dollar to go see niggas perform,
you're a fan of the team, et cetera, et cetera.
Fam, you want to come there and see the peak performers
that you come to see play at a high level.
Just as a fan.
I don't want to go to the Laker game And see LeBron On some bullshit
As a fan
Now they don't owe us shit
But
They do
I think for a lot of
Highly paid athletes
It ain't there no more
I agree with you
I agree with you
And I've said the same
I've said the same
The hunger
Yeah the hunger
The care about winning
Some motherfuckers don't care about winning.
Some do.
I say the same thing about football.
When you watch certain players just out there on TikTok and all this other shit.
I'm getting money.
I don't care if we win or lose this game.
I'm showing up.
This is okay, cool.
I'm seeing so much money right now.
I don't care no more.
I don't think you can avoid that.
It's a handful of players that are still
killers that just want to win like it ain't like it used to be niggas is killing russell westbrook
russell westbrook living down the basketball court and you got to appreciate that um colby
used to alan ivison like alan ivison will dive in the stands at the rucker nigga for a loose ball
you got to appreciate somebody that just love the game like that you know i'm saying like some dudes these motherfuckers is really charles barkley and them hate these jokers
because they say they make too much money they said once the money came it killed the hunger
that's anything though we see that happen in hip-hop rappers get a certain level of money
facts and then the product becomes watered down because now my heart not in it because now i got
so much money from all these different angles.
I'm worried more about making money
than the craft.
Whatever the craft is,
football, basketball,
rapping, anything.
I care more about the money.
Why is that a bad thing?
It's not.
It ain't to me.
I want to get the money too.
It is and it's not.
It depends on
from a fan's perspective
if you got a big check in basketball
and now you don't really give a fuck because your contract is guaranteed,
what are we talking about?
How many times have we seen a football player in a contract year?
Nothing when you start with, from a fan's perspective.
Look, how many times have we seen a football player in a contract year
have a monster season?
Go get that huge guaranteed extension.
Now I'm back on chill mode, and it's chilling. Now I'm back on chill mode.
And it's chilling.
Now I'm back on chill mode.
Like, I'm paid now.
My goal is to now preserve my body.
I'm not going out here to kill myself no more.
I'm getting paid.
That's the mindset.
And I got so much money coming from over here.
I got an endorsement due here.
I got investment here.
Like, fam, this is just a job.
I'm just showing up.
And that's how a lot of them take it.
And that's how a lot of them and
that's how a lot of the game is today because it's so much money in there and you just said yo you
can't hang with little baby you can't hang with meek mill why not think he not that's why i said
no that's joe said you can't hang with him so from his perspective why not
because the passes and perks that came along with his stellar play in Houston
will no longer be provided to him.
Like the perks of, hey, after the game, you can take your own plane and go somewhere,
just be back by the next game.
No, that's not normal protocol.
No, he won't be able to do that performing like this.
No, you won't be able to just show these pictures that you show all year long
of fucking partying
and perform like this
without that other type
of scrutiny that comes.
So, of course, you can do it.
But, boy, is it going to come
with a different level
of scrutiny.
And they don't give a fuck.
I'm about to say,
these niggas don't care about that.
It's the same thing we saying.
They don't care about
none of that scrutiny.
I disagree.
Some players do.
I see more and more players
responding to that level. It's a handful because those are the ones that really want to scrutiny. I disagree. Some players do. I see more and more players responding to that level.
It's a handful because those are the ones that really want to win.
Kevin Durant cares.
Yeah.
He really wants to win.
Yeah.
Which is why you see him clapping back when somebody says something.
He cares.
But a lot of these niggas don't give a fuck what y'all talking about.
James Harden ain't even on social media like that.
He don't care.
Say whatever y'all want. Get all y'all shit off. I'men ain't even on social media like that. He don't care. Say whatever y'all want.
Get all y'all shit off.
I'm laughing all the way
to the bank.
Even in the last episode
of The Winning Time.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
damn near had a broken ankle, dog.
He wanted to win
and he said,
yo, I ain't give a fuck
about the game
until Magic got there.
Now I'm playing for something
other than checks.
Put me back out there. That nigga played damn near on a broken ankle in one game five that that hunger is damn near gone kobe out there like y'all i'm gonna shoot left-handed i want to play it's hard
to be it's hard to be hungry when i ain't hungry no more that's a good one yeah you're a rapper
i'm just saying like these niggas is...
Dr. Buss was real happy
at the end of that shit.
That was a great show.
He said,
we won a chip
and we spent $80 million
and I have like
a couple hundred dollars.
A couple grand in my...
He said,
I got a couple grand in the bank.
But I own the Lakers
and...
But that's owning a business.
And it's up.
But that's owning a business
and running a business.
And he bet every fucking dollar
he had.
Actually, he bet money he didn't have.
And he offered homegirl the raise.
And yeah, she said the right thing.
But I'm sick of her being sassy and spicy.
I have to talk about a promotion, a raising salary.
No shit.
I just offered you.
I'm sick of her spicy ass.
I like her, yeah.
Because you like that white girl spice.
spicy ass.
I like her, yeah.
Because you like that white girl spice.
I like the fact
that the chick
was loyal as fuck
and was riding
for the nigga
and instead of him
hiring one of his sons,
he hired her.
And she had to keep
her little tough mantra
in a male-dominated industry.
And so instead of
crying on the nigga desk,
which she probably
felt like doing.
Every time I throw a joke,
you're where you respond
with like wisdom.
Because I'm like, I don't want to hear that shit. I don't a joke your way you respond with like wisdom. Cause I'm like,
I don't wanna hear that shit.
I don't wanna hear that shit,
you asshole.
I don't wanna hear that wisdom.
But I'm just saying like,
I think that shit was dope.
How would y'all feel
if y'all parents gave
the business to y'all sister?
Greg,
be my size, mister.
Yeah,
that depends on how much
she did
yo y'all are fucking
I'm trying to
bitch ass
oh my god
yo I'm trying to dance
but
no no no
that's what I'm saying
it depends on how involved
she was
yo
fuck you
if when your parents
if when your parents
I don't care
if when your parents passed
I might have asked y'all this before
but I'll just throw it in there anyway
if when your parents passed you didn't like asked y'all this before, but I'll just throw it in there anyway. If when your parents passed, you didn't like
the split up of
things between you and your brothers
or siblings, would you take
them to court?
No. I mean, I guess it would depend
on how much you... See, look, just say yes.
Enough. No. You just said it depends
on how... You just said that.
You said that. I didn't say that.
It depends. It depends. So that I didn't say that it depends it depends
so that means yes
no it doesn't
if they got 20
if they got 80%
and you got 20
you taking them to court
you're fucking right
he's going to court
you gotta make it sound
so clear
80% of what
my parents don't have
a fucking shit load of money
so I'm not
I hate when he does that
so the answer should be no
but if I'm a Laker,
if I was the Lakers kids
and this shit is worth billions of dollars,
the answer is yes.
So your answer is yes.
Your answer is yes.
No, I'm not doing that.
I'm just not a fan of fighting for money.
I think that's some goofball shit.
I'm going to cut you off and move on my way.
How much money are we talking about?
Exactly. I'm going to fight you for this money, bro. You have to say how much money. Hey, Lars, I'm going to cut you off and move on my way. How much money are we talking about? Exactly.
I'm going to fight you
for this money, bro.
You have to say how much money
the answer is yes.
The answer is yes.
Yeah, the answer is hell yes, man.
What the fuck
y'all talking about?
You're right.
But if you...
I'm going to answer Corey.
Corey said,
why would you cut him off
for staying here?
Why would you cut him off?
The person didn't do
nothing to you.
The person that passed away left it accordingly if i know like if it's you
and me you and our brothers and mom and dad left us a million a billion dollars and i got 85 and
you got 15 i would give you some more bread and you think i'm gonna rely on you to do that
you wouldn't even get the court i would give you more you my brother come on right now you're my brother and and if you wasn't a human
fuck up i'm gonna give you 50 so now we've got a caveat we do just that fast because let me tell
you why i can explain it you might be into some shit if you got 85, and I'm your brother, and mom's left me $15. How much you giving me with my fuck-up-ness?
You could really ruin a bunch of the money that our parents left us.
But it's mine to ruin.
No, $15 was yours.
Nigga, the $35 is mine that I'm giving you.
You're going to court.
I'm taking you to court.
What the fuck are you talking to?
You're not talking to me like that after mom passed.
No, the fuck you.
And I'm distraught and fucking, oh, buddy.
Yeah, all right.
What are you talking about?
What you want to do?
You want to go to court,
you're going to lose.
But see how niggas lie.
You want to go to court,
you're going to lose.
You're going to lose.
So will.
So you better shut your fucking mouth
and take this free money, nigga.
So either you take what I give you
or you go there and get nothing else.
You're going to go to court and lose.
I do not know that you lose
and these cases have occurred
and they didn't always pop up
with a loss.
No, they occur when it's cloudy.
They occur when there was no will left.
Well, that's what the law is.
Making a cloud out of some shit they wrote down.
Yo, moms had dementia when she wrote that.
Yo, moms was fucked up when she wrote that.
I don't even think moms wrote that.
I can say mad shit in court.
You ain't going to win.
I just want to highlight that you started with I would give my sibling some
and just that fast
you changed it to
you said how much
and I said
now I brought a contingency
into it
if you was an up and up nigga
I'm going to give you half
we both should get half
dad might not have liked you
you might have came from
a separate marriage
whatever the case may be
I'm going to give you
half of the money
but mom didn't leave you
the money for you to be
the fucking judge and jury
on how you think my character is.
No, she left 85 to me, nigga.
She was sick.
No, she wasn't.
Yes, she was.
And you was there kissing ass on a fucking deathbed.
You made her sick.
You made her sick, nigga.
No, you made her sick.
Dumbass dick.
Look, now you're hitting black traumas.
They're going to fuck you up.
They're going to fuck.
Now you're hitting black traumas.
Yo, stupid ass nigga. You know what used to be stealing the money out the places how we were 12 this is how this is how the murder docs get me that's
true what y'all think I'm doing oh and I'm putting life insurance on I came to him and tried to talk like a man
Yo dawg
You know mom was tripping
Nah she was on some bullshit
My bad huh
And you was like
You're not a stand up guy
She didn't trust you to do the right thing
That's why she liked me
That's what I should do
Let me give you an example
I shouldn't try to kill him
No you shouldn't try to kill him
Let's say
Let's say the person had a really
Really bad
Gambling habit
Or a really bad drug habit Or a really bad habit that could potentially...
That's a bad habit.
Don't get your trick on a little bit.
Then he get to squander his money away.
I feel like I'm missing out on premium content by not hanging out with you two.
I feel like y'all two have been hanging out more and I've been missing it.
Like, y'all getting good stuff
you getting your first tattoo soon right what's wrong we're gonna come up with some ideas for
that like there's a group effort and ice what's up you stupid yeah i can't even go your ice anymore
like you might you turn it into your real name yeah that's true you're turning into that no i'm turning i'm ice no i'm full form don't make me say you're turning into that final form
final form i'm a work in progress why you ain't tell me about all these great changes you've been
making your life you should have seen them once the glasses left did you get a bbl i think if you
could you would by the no i'm not getting i wish shit is a little fatter, yo. Yo, if you come here with some calves... This shit is a little fatter.
It's fair.
Yo, fair.
Why is Melissa looking at your ass?
Oh, man.
Ish is telling me...
He went to Melina.
Ish is telling me...
Come on, Ish.
Now you get quiet
when the mic is on.
You talking, asshole. He's a big shot guy, man. Yeah, but you told me the story give it to me i'm talking to my guy ice the other day
he says he he's at the dentist he gonna call me back yeah so when he's a flex already but go ahead
so when he left i'm like yo what happened everything good he said no no no you know
i gotta get the little invisalign real quick first no take let me take it back i said yo
what you doing Getting veneers
I was just shooting
Playing
He said yeah not yet
Not yet
I said huh
He said yeah I gotta get the Invisalign first
Then the veneers come right after that
Then you know
Trick my shit out a little bit
It's on on motherfucking Friday
Yo
You getting the veneers
This nigga is different
Yo money change you motherfucker boy I told y'all I was gonna change This nigga different I don Yo, money changing, motherfucker, boy.
I told y'all I was going to change.
This nigga different.
I don't know why anybody act surprised.
I am going to change.
Yo, what is Twitch paying you?
When you come in here with that.
What am I paying you?
This nigga did win the little negotiations.
Hey, yo, dawg.
When this nigga come in with a rollie,
why don't you come with a rollie and you lose your little Apple watch?
No, no, Veneers is above a rollie. No, Veneers is above a rollie, yo come with a rollie and you lose your no no veneers is no that's a veneers is above the rollie yo apple guy i'm so you said i lose the apple watch but
wait what you doing what like how many veneers nigga top and bottom 40 grand worth shut the
fuck up yeah oh you about to tongue kiss you about to do some tongue kissing I do that anyway Round of applause yo
Ice is changing before our very eyes
Seriously
I love to see it yo
That's why I do this yo
That's part of why I do this
That's part of why
That's not part of why I do this yo
Nah
No
It's giving back.
Why, y'all?
Why, y'all?
This nigga's getting veneer.
He got eyes.
Yeah, man.
Got the eyes.
What's next?
What other changes you about to make?
I might holler at Safari and Tiger and see what they doctor was talking about.
Shut up.
You ain't talking about the car, though.
No, he's coming here with a fade, man.
You gonna do the shit
I might
I'll go to a consultation
And see what he's hitting on
Ice is exploring
All of the new opportunities
That exist out there
Yeah
I'm not mad at him man
I'm not mad at him
I ain't had hair in years
I would love to just wake up
And be able to have some hair
If my metabolism
Wasn't so great
Like if on a quick workout
I didn't bounce back
In the shape I go Suck this shit right out of workout I didn't bounce back in the shape I'd go
suck this shit right out of here
I don't know why you don't
no cause he gonna
he gonna work on the peloton
you need to do the lipo
I don't need to do that
no he gonna get on the peloton
it's just not true
first of all
now I'm not body shaming my man
shut your ass up
I don't think you fat
you ass ass not
come on, yo.
Yo, this guy's nuts.
Ice, I'm happy for you.
Thank you, sir.
I'm happy for you.
My man getting jibs.
Why not?
Why not?
YOLO.
YOLO.
YOLO.
What else is important that we have to discuss?
I don't think so.
We was on sports.
Oh, yeah, we were.
Yeah.
Golden State got their ass whipped by 90. They sure did. If you look at it that way. Took was on sports. Oh, yeah, we were. Golden State got their ass whooped by 90.
They sure did.
If you look at it that way.
Took a night off.
If you...
1,000%.
1,000%.
It took off.
It was looking like after the first quarter.
Yo, Memphis, y'all going to be so mad y'all played whoop that trick.
Y'all going to be so angry that y'all played that little song.
It was disrespectful.
It's going to be bad.
It was disrespectful.
They're going to get whooped.
They're going to lose bad. It was disrespectful. It was disrespectful. It was disrespectful. They're going to lose bad.
That's what I like about Memphis.
And the game is over
by the time this podcast
is published.
So that's my guess.
The Warriors,
when you're of that pedigree,
went up there,
took a night off
so they could go back home
and get it done.
And in the small chance
that they don't get it done,
I still have faith
that they go to Memphis
and just do what they need
to do up there. Now, Phoenix, all y'all niggas that was screaming Phoenix in my ear, I don't know that they don't get it done. I still have faith that they go to Memphis and just do what they need to do up there.
Now, Phoenix, all y'all niggas that was screaming Phoenix in my ear, I don't know that they making it.
Nigga, you was one of the people screaming Phoenix in your ear.
I was the same person that said I'm rooting for Dallas, but I think Phoenix will win.
I said that.
You did.
But you said you-
And I stand on that.
Oh, all right.
I want Dallas to win.
So the Warriors could get Luka ass the fuck on out of here where he need to be.
Nobody thought they was going to game seven.
Nobody.
I didn't.
Well, if y'all would have told me Reggie Bullock was going to die that one dread in the front.
That's my man.
If you told me he putting in a super dread, I'm like, all right, he about to clamp down now.
I turned the game on, they got the orange dread.
I was like, that's different from the Knicks.
Memphis is a threat, dog.
And I wasn't standing by them.
They're a threat to you if you're in traffic on your way home after the game.
Because they'll be there too.
Nah.
They'll be right there.
I don't think they're going to beat them.
Just off of.
BBO, shoot, look.
Nah, I don't think they're going to beat them off of just veteran leadership.
But, dog, two of them games in the fourth quarter, Memphis could have won.
Wardell.
What's his name?
Wardell III.
Yo, when I subscribe to somebody, I subscribe to them.
I've seen enough.
I've seen enough.
If he just get mad, then he's going to go in there and do it.
And there's nothing they can do about it.
Nothing they can do about that.
Same way as nothing y'all could have done about whatever Kendrick just did. There's nothing you can do about it. Nothing they can do about that. Same way as nothing y'all could have done about whatever Kendrick just did.
There's nothing you can do about some of these guys.
Some of these guys is different.
Do y'all think Charles Barkley was the second best player on the Dream Team?
No.
What?
You know who's on the Dream Team?
Yeah.
Was it another Dream Team that I don't know about?
Charles Barkley might not have been the fifth best player on the Dream Team.
So you're not going to think about the question at all?
I've thought about it.
Charles Barkley was definitely better than that Larry Bird.
Charles Barkley was definitely better than that Magic Johnson.
Both plagued by injuries at the tail end of their career.
They both retired shortly after that.
He led the team in scoring, rebounding, and something else.
What team? The Dream Team?, and something else. What team?
The Dream Team?
He was definitely better.
Yeah.
He was definitely better than Karl Malone at that time.
I disagree.
No, he was better than Karl Malone.
From 90 to 93?
He was.
No.
From 90 to 93?
Keep going.
Scottie.
There's nobody else to talk about.
That's not true.
Scottie Pippen was not fucking Charles.
All right. I said that. I'm just. Scotty Pippen was not fucking Charles. All right.
I said that.
I'm just.
Oh, no, no.
Read the names on here.
Oh, I'm not.
There's no other name to even be talked about in that case.
But at this time, you don't think that?
Yeah, he was second best at that time.
Yeah.
Not at all.
Because he said it on that Pivot interview.
And then I was like, eh, he's right.
What is that based on, yo? Before we argue, I don't feel like he's right what is that based on
yo
before we argue
I don't feel like arguing
but what is it based on
what's that
that's what I'm about to do
so that's why I want to
clarify first
what it's based on
cause I don't think
it's based on where
they were at that point
in their career
I'm not ever arguing
that Charles Barkley
is better than
Prime Magic Johnson
of course not
I'm only saying at that point,
that's it.
Gotcha.
And from 90 to 93.
Yeah,
I'm rolling with him.
Carmelone's a problem,
dog.
Charles Barkley is 25 and 12.
Sheesh.
Damn.
He was bugging back then.
That's different.
We'll see
92
No we're going to you to see
I'm looking it up right now
Oh
Yeah that's all
I just heard him mention it
And it sounded outlandish at first
I gotta watch that episode
I love it
They've done a really good job
Yeah they are
They've done a really good job
They're doing a good job
With guests
With the interviews
They're doing a really good job I think That's a good job. With guests, with the interviews. They're doing a really good job.
I think...
That's a Zion athlete.
They both kill.
They both kill.
But with the sports...
I think the sports podcasters are all killing.
And I think a lot of them...
I think it's a cheat code.
It is.
I think it's a cheat code, yo.
In sports, locker room talk or that type of honesty was so forbidden for so long we
didn't get to hear from these people yeah so now they got stories for ages and they people that we
we grew up watching idolizing and now when they could come give you a little bit of because they
kind of had a mysticism this is pre-instagram this is pre-facebook yeah pre-social media he
does this on purpose so these niggas was like gods to us.
You know what I'm saying?
They was like gods to us.
We didn't hear the stories of them throwing motherfuckers through windows.
That was happening.
And all of the stupid shit that they was doing.
Today, it's a camera everywhere.
So anytime somebody does something outlandish, it hits the media in one day.
They got stories for days.
It's like how we kind of like watching Nori.
Nori interviews with some of hip-hop's greats,
pull out the old shit that nobody was around for.
And when he starts interviewing Irv,
or when he starts interviewing older hip-hop acts,
nobody was around for that shit.
So the stories are mad, funny, entertaining,
et cetera, et cetera.
With them, they go on to some of the sports greats.
We're going to see how it happens, though,
when the Barclays and all of them have been interviewed out.
I don't know if these new guys are going to be able to give it up like them.
You got it.
All right, I don't have anything else, gentlemen.
No, me neither.
Sleep.
All right.
All righty then. Sleep Alright Alrighty then
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And over there, there's an air that tastes differently
Where did you go, Where did you go?
I've known you
I've known you
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
It might be something we already played
Then it isn't
I know
I know you're watching over me
You help us through the good
And through the pain we breathe
One day we'll wake up from this crazy dream
We'll meet again after my lights dim out and I'll be wondering
I'll be wondering Where will we go?
Where will we go?
I don't know
Where will we go?
Where will we go?
I don't know
Where will we go?
Where will we go?
I don't know
Where will we go?
Where will we go?
Where will we go? Where will we go?
I don't know
I don't know I know
I know Thank you. Where will we go?
Where will we go?
I don't know
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Don't forget that music lovers only this Monday 5 to 7.
Y'all know what time it is.
The fuck.
Fuck.
No, no, y'all know what the fuck.
I'm just kidding.
This is a good dirt.
Fuck, you talking about lame-ass boy?
Hey, wait.
I like when the new kids do that.
You need help?
Icy.
You have ice.
That's my fault. That's my fault. Icy. That's my need help? Ice. That's my fault.
That's my fault.
That's my fault.
It's a joke, man.
I don't know why Corey took me
to see this stupid-ass condo this morning.
Fucking, I'm sick still.
Fire?
Where, bro?
Where?
The hood?
By me, yeah.
Her?
How many square feet?
3,000.
Sheice.
Upstairs, downstairs or no?
Penthouse.
They ain't skip a beat or nothing in there.
They want like 5 million for it.
Way right.
They bugging.
That was Nick Hakeem, I Don't Know.
Beautiful music.
Shout out to Nick Hakeem.
In your phone right this second.
Oh yeah, what?
Nigga, that shit's been fire.
No, no, no.
You don't understand it.
All right, I'm up.
He flipped everything in there.
Everything in there.
Floor, ceiling.
The footage in them shits was crazy for that area.
Yeah, I'm just talking about what he did in there.
He went crazy.
We done, we done, we done.
This record is called Picking Cherries by Ray Vaughan.
But I was dead for a while.
We could live and breathe.
And it's all the way back.
I was gone, man.
3.5?
No.
I appreciate it.
It's such a good thing.
I need that much gymnast everything. I appreciate everything. I ain't that much
gymnast in the world, nigga.
What's in here?
Ew.
It's disgusting.
This ain't Miami.
Uh.
Before I had the cake, they deserted me
But now the Porsche's 9-11, it's an emergency
I do not accept apologies, you did it purposely
If I say fuck you, it's fuck you for all eternity
I used to shop at Angel Fuels, living with a broken wing
Sleeping at a minimum, cause all I had was broken dreams
Used to sell work and hit different, when you know the fiends
Growing up we never did ballet, but we was holding beans
I stopped at St. Porch porch I used to wait for my dad
Sad and hope nobody see through the mask
So trying to forgive that nigga is a difficult task
Can't follow in his footsteps cause we on two different paths
Damn Maya can't believe that you passed
Love your people while they here the streets taking them fast
Water off and I can even give my baby a bath
I got 15 minutes of fame, so I'm making it last
I used to eat the ramen noodles out the butter bowl
Heating up the house, don't let that oven close
I put on my grown man shoes
And I still can never trust a soul
I'm a working double while I'm trying to taste the mother load
Had close to you and tried to cross me
They born fake, I grew up with them
Watch the red wax on the orange tape
Looking back, nobody showed up
Till my court dates, they eyes on the brand
See biscuits like a horse race
We vouchers used to pay for kicks in the cornflakes
Strong people break too
We just rebuild quietly
It's probably cause we scared of being judged by society
EDD scams brought my niggas out of poverty
And battling yourself ain't a fair fight
In my darkest days
With nobody that'll shed light
Work the corner, baking soda, beating like it's egg whites
Now it's W's like the beginning of a website
I just lost my grandpa, I know he in the sky
Man, that nigga like my daddy, glad I got to say goodbye
Had deep convos with him, right before he fucking died
And I know I fucked him up, cause I ain't never seen him cry
He ain't wanna go to sleep, cause he knew death was still nearby
He knew death was in the air, and that's something you can't deny
He said, you finna go to Hollywood and I said I'ma try now
I'm feeling crossed over cuz he on the other side they use crates for entertainment
Might as well hold up the bed and gotta tell you why I cut you off
You know what you said and if you focus on your past then you won't get ahead
They found LeAndre with a hole in his head. I'm James Harden of my family nigga. Look at all the shit
I carry now I'm finally buzzing like a haircut in the military standing on my words
I put my foot on top of dictionaries
When I lived on cherry
It was easier than picking cherries
I never asked him for nothing
Lord knows I'm bad with a compass
Find myself on the path of the cheese
And my craft got adjusted
Blew up in they face
Our master deruptures
We throwing hints
I'm passing discussion
Fuck my act
She the last one I trusted
Used to live baggy and busted
Chain was ashy and rusted
Now it's like a family reunion
I got so many cousins
From nasty as hummus I gotta wave like the taxi is coming
Wait, hold up, that's the taxi that's coming
King Garth is strong as hell, but I ain't carrying no damn weight
I can't let nobody live rent-free inside my headspace
It's hard to digest, see my nigga lose a fag case
Padded 10 when we was robbing houses with the bad face
Yeah, the house is burning, can't believe I went on tour
Yeah, my feelings might be tainted but my energy is pure
Second picture on the street when we were sleeping on the floor
Lost some battles with myself but in the end I won the war, it's mine
I should've stayed strangers to a lot of motherfuckers
They just taught me anybody can switch up no matter the history of bond
Shit I even switched up on myself, I had to catch myself
Fuck is you doing yeah
well that was awesome now y'all picking cherries
that beat the shit out of um that la lica shit yeah oh my gosh that's what introduced me to him
I saw that I said oh my god
I just started listening to music
he went nuts
this thing is amazing
yeah it was hard
when y'all gonna go to LA Lakers
and really let them know
who some of the best
podcast rappers
I'm not a podcast rapper
I'm not a podcast rapper
Twitch rappers then
I'm not a Twitch rapper
I'm a Twitch podcaster
get your shit off man
alright Black Dog is back he found Danger Mouse this is No Gold Teeth I'm not a Twitch rapper. I'm a Twitch podcaster. Get your shit off, man.
All right, Black Dog is back.
He found Danger Mouse.
This is No Gold Teeth. Wind up my face, how that my heels At the end I'm winning this race Only thinking I'm chill with children Don't ever try to stagnate the magne
When it's money on the line never make the bag wait
I just add weight to the bag until the bag break
That holy swag make the cash get the gas face In the first place I got no mother fucker
business coming in last place My birth place taught me not to stop
I'm more advanced than my classmates
I came into the game on a fast break
And I'm gang gang like Billy Baffin
The protagonist and I narrate
In the same slang that Billy has
I can't stop
If I don't work then I won't eat
Time keeps runnin' like a river in no seats
In the mind of a super nigger it's no peace
Can't stop runnin' like I'm duckin' from cold beats
Stop Who the hell they tryin to do me like cold cheese?
The flow so obese, it's ringin' a slow lead
I keep my crowd satisfied, bringin' up cold heat
I'm gratified, grinnin', bling-blingin', no gold teeth
Yo, stop, you know them cameras is gon' see
My hammers ain't for brandin', shit if Cannons is on me
Please, you ain't fuckin' with no amateurs, homie
Philly ain't known for cheesesteak sandwiches only
Stop, yo, I'm at the top of it slowly
I got everybody lean, muggin' like Nick Nolte
But now, I won't stop, hold up, won't retire
I am my own supplier, sellin' goods to the buyer
The torch to the eye of the storm, it's on fire
The data translator, each journal chart higher
They requested my IG, I replied, denied
Tell me I'm in the top three they ain't never lied
stop doing that pay can't the parents would arrive
the cost two to five the door suicide tested and thought to be your suicide
no matter which corner of the globe you reside
215 dumb shit aside when it comes to the job getting done
for the mind the god of the microphone, praise the Lord
Anybody disagree with me, the rage is swore
I'm Agent Orange, poisonous amazin' pawns
And the band keeps ragin' on
Listen to me, I won't, don't stop
No, I don't quit, yup, I don't stop
Yup, I don't quit, stop
There's no gold teeth
Danger Mouse and Black Thought
They got an album coming
I guess in August
Or something like that
Really?
Yeah I'm excited for that
Danger Mouse has been
Too quiet for too long
What you got for us Ish?
Um artist name is
Jeremy Raphael
Song is called Paranoid
Alright
Official beats one
Truth beats one
I'll give you that I've been having dreams
That you were done and gonna leave me, yeah And I've been seeing things
I don't know if it's true Lost my mind, I can't lose you
Can't live like this, I'm so insecure inside I can't let it go, my pride will always show
Deflecting conversations, we will never grow And now you're wondering what you are supposed
to do Cause this ain't your fault, saving pain in your heart
You fall out, we fall out, this the resort now
I've been having dreams
That you were done and gonna leave me
And I've been seeing things
I don't know if it's true
Lost my mind, I can't lose you
And do you know what today is?
It's the first time we kissed
Time we spent
Memories, just can't commit
But you dismissed it, felt so resented
Know I was living really, I guess I'd admit it
I just don't get it, girl I just don't get it
Said we make it through the hard times but now you're quitting
I've been having dreams
I've been having crazy dreams
That you were done and gone and leaving me
That you were done, that you were done
I've been seeing things
I've been seeing so many things I don't know if it's true
I lost my mind, I can't reach you Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Girl, I've been dreaming about you. Girl, I've been dreaming about you.
Girl, I've been dreaming about you.
Not the dreams that I am used to.
Girl, I've been dreaming about you.
Girl, I've been dreaming about you.
Girl, I've been dreaming about you.
Not the dreams that I am used to. That's Paranoid by Jeremy Raphael.
Hey, I can end it.
I can end it.
I can end it.
I can end it.
It's fine.
Hold up.
Hold up.
Hold up.
Hold up.
Hold up.
The fuck time y'all thought it was.
It's still this time.
Yo, this makes me laugh a lot too when he does this. Fuck time y'all thought it was. It's still this time. All the boys and girls. I got some true stories to tell.
Yo, this makes me laugh a lot too when he does this.
Look at Ish's face.
But he has to do it.
I didn't say a thing.
I said your face.
Ish haven't heard the album yet.
I just said your face.
This is consistent throughout the album.
It helps to piece it together.
It helps with the story he's trying to tell. But I do laugh when I hear it.
I don't know why, because it is dope.
It's funny.
It's funny.
Hello, new world.
Look.
All the boys and girls.
I got some true stories.
But when this happened, he about to do something stupid.
Get back outside.
Yeah, the hardest piece of the world coming up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whoa.
Listen to this nigga, man.
Take off the foo-foo. Fine. Take off the clout. Take off the Wi-Fi. I will. Take off the money phone. All right. Take off the car loan. Listen to this nigga, man Fine
Okay
I will
Alright
Wait, the money phone?
Fuck
Come on, I love jewelry
Oh, fake streams gotta go too
Yo, he just telling y'all
Stop it all
Yeah, stop all that bullshit.
Whatever y'all doing, knock it off.
Listen, man, thank y'all for listening.
Continue to enjoy this Kendrick project.
If you do, continue to hate it if you do.
I don't have a horse in the race.
Oh, when that beat do that.
Any beat that does this, I'm in.
Take it off. Take it'm in Take it off Take it off
And the Birkin's gotta go too
Oh, bitch is about to be mad
Ugh, you ugly as fuck
You out of pop
Two ATMs, you stepping to what?
You out of pop
Alright, man, keep us in your prayers
Lord knows we need to be there
Until the next time, I bid you adieu
Adios, arrivederci, hasta la vista Au revoir, so long, goodbye us in your prayers lord knows we need to be there until the next time i bid you adieu adios
so long goodbye also
life is a series of moments and moments past so let's make this one last as if it's all we have.
And do remember the baddies are insecure,
the stagnant women want to travel,
and the closed-minded people want you to teach them things.
Grab a Tylenol.
Ugh, you ugly as fuck.
Enjoy your night.
Two ATMs, you stacking up what?
And we gone.
What y'all on this weekend?
We outside, huh?
What's up?
Might be outside.
Y'all feeling dangerous?
Who feeling dangerous?
No, not me.
No, I'm safe.
I'm very safe.
Very safe.
Oh, okay.
Hope y'all enjoyed this pod.
Same time, same place next week.
This is so ignorant to start an album this way. I got nothing to lose, I got problems and fools I can swim with my fate Camera's moving whenever I'm moving, the family's suing whenever I make Murder is stuck in the-
This is so ignorant to start an album this way.
This is really ignorant to start a project this way.
That's track two.
Hey!
Hey!
See, I need this in the strip club.
I do.
Hey, where the hypocrites at?
Put a hand in the air.
He talking to y'all niggas.
All right, we gone, man.
Shout out to my fellow podcasters.
Shout out to TDE.
I want to thank y'all, man.
What a run.
What a run.
I know y'all are still on it.
Shout out to Soundwave.
Shout out to Punch, Kendrick, Dane.
Say what I want about you niggas I'm like I want about you niggas fuck you gonna do lame-ass
boy
That was hard.
Yeah, that was crazy. That was crazy.
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