The Joe Budden Podcast - Episode 551 | "There's Levels To It"
Episode Date: July 16, 2022Joe and the gang kick things off with Boosie and Styles P's unusual encounters with police officers (14:10). Next, Joe responds to N.O.R.E's cryptic tweets (38:45), the guys discuss new music (56:50),... and Ne-Yo joins the show (1:10:00). The R&B legend addresses his Lucky Daye story (1:18:10), his latest album (1:20:40), his thoughts on Verzuz and shares stories involving Prince (1:35:30) +MORE! Become a Patron of The Joe Budden Podcast for additional bonus episodes and visual content for all things JBP.: Tap in here www.patreon.com/JoeBudden Sleeper Picks Joe | Ne-Yo - “After Party” Ice | Rowdy Rebel - “Master P” (Ft. French Montana) Parks | DJ Premier & Nas - “Beat Breaks” Ish | Phabo - “Luv Me Back”
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I'm lying.
If I say it or I type it, I'm lying.
Gotcha.
So.
Wait, I'm trying to think of when you're not lying.
When you're quiet, you're telling the truth.
There you go.
Genius, genius, genius.
There you go.
I'm going to incorporate that.
Yeah, you got it, fam.
I'm trying to put you, see, trying to get you right.
Thank you.
I appreciate
I appreciate all your
Your generosity
If you're singing
You could be telling the truth
It's a good one
Rapping
But no rappers tell the truth
So
You'd be the first one
I disagree with that
I got about three
That I believe everything they say
To be the truth
No embellishment?
Nah
Yeah name them
Name them?
Yeah
Boosie
I don't believe Boosie's told a lie
Okay
Gucci
I don't think Gucci's told a lie
And Styles P Okay. Gucci. I don't think Gucci's told a lie.
And Styles P.
Okay.
All right.
And if either of them did tell a lie,
I ain't going to be the one to say it was a lie.
So it's the truth.
That's probably the bigger play, really.
Those are my three. You got it, fam.
Exactly.
How y'all doing, man? What's up?
Good, man. I'm chilling. Joe, what's up?
What the fuck are you guys talking about? Got some new shades, man? What the hell is going on?
Another new pair of shades?
You're the shade guy. It's bucket hat day.
I missed out. The bucket boys.
Huh?
Because you're still out here trying tount like an intact hairline.
Yeah, that's what it is.
To appear younger than you are.
You got curls and shit.
You got a pink bucket to go with your suit?
You just survived.
Stupid me, right?
You look nice.
I'm stupid, yo.
Thank you.
You as well.
Thank you.
There you go.
Don't start.
He ain't getting me.
Me getting him. He ain't getting me Me getting him He ain't getting me today
He's always starting
No it's 90 today right
I know
Is it
No it's 80 something
84 I think
I was in the car
It's cool
And it be brick down here
How's everybody doing
Good
Straight
Tired but good
I was up consuming content last night
I had a sick baby
That's what came up
Different kind of content
Word
But aren't you
We straight
What kind of content
What you looking at
I mean it's
Friends and family of the show
Release week here
The JVP
That is true
Everybody we know
Put out an album this week
Or a song
Or something Something So you just ain't getting no sleep No round of blows God damn it everybody we know put out an album this week. Or a song.
Or something.
So you just ain't getting no sleep.
Oh, a round of applause, god damn it.
Want to start there?
We could.
I think it's only right we got to start with Parks then.
Well, we should probably intro the pod first.
Oh, all right.
Yeah, let's get there.
Yeah, shut the fuck up.
I'm paid to talk.
What are you telling me?
Speak it up.
Do you get to say that you're tired around me?
Yeah.
Wake the fuck up.
Mic check, mic check.
One, two, one, two.
I cannot wait for the summer to be over. I gotta tell you
Get these kids back to school
Where the hell all the summer camps when I was a kid
There's summer camps 24 7 Our parents was partying.
I can't find them shit today.
Oh, they defunded summer camps.
I'm glad the kids are home.
I was a menace at the summer camp, yo.
Hell yeah, you know, me in a park.
I've always been an explorer, bitch.
Hope you're feeling good, feeling great out there.
It might be a beach weekend.
Might be a beach weekend. Might be a beach weekend.
I don't know.
Niggas is out there getting ate by sharks.
And chased off the shit by...
Damn, y'all saw what happened to him?
With the big-eyed shark?
No, no, no.
When the fucking...
I forgot the name of the animal.
It was two of them shit.
Chasing the white people.
Sea lions.
The elephant sea lions.
Sea lions. Chasing the animal. It was two of them shit chasing the white people. Sea lions. Elephant sea lions. Sea lions.
Chasing the people.
Where?
Not Jersey.
No, I don't believe that.
Probably somewhere, but yeah.
You just here?
Nah, they turned up.
Yeah, nah, that's it.
Yeah, yeah, got it.
You ain't see the big shit without-
I would fuck a sea lion up, yo.
I don't know if you would.
I know it.
What a sea lion gonna do?
Beat your ass.
Bite the shit out you.
That nigga mouth this big. I know girls out you. That nigga mouth this big.
I know girls like that.
That bite wasn't appealing.
How big is they mouth?
I don't know how big some other animal's mouth is, but how you going to hit them?
They face one.
What do you mean how?
When you hit them, it's going to slip right off them, nigga.
Oh, please.
What's going to happen if I stab that nigga up?
One of these animals is going to fuck you up.
If I stab...
Well, first of all, I love animals,
so this is all a hypothetical.
Of course, keep going.
But if one of them dudes was chasing me off the beach,
well, I wouldn't be on the beach.
You're going to have a knife on the beach.
You know a white...
I ain't never been to a beach
and not seen a white person drinking.
So you're going to keep the bingo on you?
No, I'm going gonna take the bottle from
the white person I'm gonna stab up the sea lion and then might carry him
somewhere depending on how I'm feeling
we are kings
all right y'all try to be funny today let me cut the music or y'all trying to
be funny y'all trying to have a good. Let me cut the music off. Y'all trying to be funny. Y'all trying to have a good, funny pod.
I can feel it in the air.
I can feel it.
Mic check, mic check.
Welcome to episode 551 of the Joe Budden Podcast.
I'm your humble, gracious, grateful, and highly favored host, Joe Budden,
here with a few of my nearest and dearest.
Parks is here.
Ish is here.
Ice is here.
Corey is here.
Young boys in the back.
Yo, yo. All right, how y'all doing? Y'all good?
How are you gentlemen doing?
Y'all don't hear that?
Is it game one?
Why do I sound like this?
For real, the playoffs starting
or some shit?
First game after the break.
Ove did tell me
I had my mixy
my mixy shades on
last night
I had these on
he said I had my
mixy shades on
my bad bitch shades
I like this shit
cool
I'm about to order
the clear ones too
yep see
there you go
even though that shit
is such a scam
I was like
yo why is it clear
they said
nah these are the
blu-ray the blu-ray
the blu-ray frames
you're not supposed
to look at your phone
too much
like nigga
you know how many hours
in I'm into this
looking at my phone game
they hit you with
the blue block and shit
nah that shit
is just the style
blue light filtering
shut up
yeah yeah
but they gotta shut up
don't tell me that
sometimes you walk in
some of these stores
and ask questions
it's like dog yeah make up something Don't tell me that. Sometimes you walk in some of these stores and ask questions.
It's like, dog.
Yeah, make up something.
Don't tell me that. Yeah, come on.
Can you stand it up?
They did.
They made that up.
No, don't tell me.
Put some more effort into your life.
Yeah, I need a little more Pepe Le Pew on that one.
You need a little more Pepe Le Pew.
You got to jazz this up.
So y'all are good?
Yeah, yeah, we good.
Straight.
Anything I need to know about
happened between the last time
I seen you gentlemen and now?
I don't believe so.
Nah.
Not really.
Fuck it.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't know what I was
over here thinking.
Oh, no.
I'm good.
All right.
Any big plans for the weekend
anybody?
Life, man.
It's why you sound so down
yo because
we come in
we be like
yeah but say it
with some oomph
you say it like
it's kicking your ass
I'm outside this weekend
I mean we shooting
a field one
I ain't necessarily
losing but
I'm a little rough
you know what I mean
it depends
he ain't losing
yeah
fighting back
for real
bruh everybody going through something no yeah yeah of course Yeah Oh my Fighting back For real?
Bruh Everybody going through
Something
No?
Yeah
Yeah of course
So you shoot the fair one
I mean
It could be a
Stare off
Yeah
We might not have got
Sometimes it might be
The one hit a quarter
Identifying your opponent
But sometimes
You can look at
Your fair one
And then glance over
And see that nigga fair one
And be like
I ain't mad at my fair one no more.
Absolutely.
Only fighting the little dummy.
Yeah.
See the fight this nigga got?
You handle that.
Only fighting the heavy bag.
That is true.
I just know in the blink of an eye, shit can change.
Yeah.
It often does.
I was walking down the stairs this morning.
What you drop?
I wasn't carrying shit, but I walked down the stairs.
How ginger you said.
And got to my destination floor and almost twist my ankle.
I beat the stairs and almost cracked some shit.
I was like, oh, shit.
You're a little delicate ass.
It's coming.
Look.
Oh, something's going to snap.
No, it's getting worse
No you twist something
It ain't like it used to be
Where you bounce back
And you good
No you gonna feel that shit
For the rest of the day
No I still
I still bounce back
I feel like Wolverine
And your feet start
Yeah nigga it's coming
You seen what my foot just did
We know Wolverine
You seen what my foot
Yeah
Yeah talk about it now
Alright so y'all wanna get
Right to the shits Ice you wanna update me On this boozy right, so y'all want to get right to the shits?
Ice, you want to update me on this boozy shit,
or do y'all want to start with trying to guess
who the two crews are that Atlanta is coming for?
No, I'm not guessing that.
I don't want to put that out there.
Yeah, I'm not guessing that.
No, that's bad energy.
Yeah, that's very bad energy.
All right, did you guess at home?
Yep.
Maybe internally, but I don't want to say it out loud.
You put it in the air, and then you manifest things.
She said that shit.
All right, well, why'd she say it?
Scary times.
Why'd she say it?
Just give me that.
I think she said it because they got a number of people under heavy surveillance,
and I think they just they want to
shake the nest a little bit and see if people start scrambling if they can catch somebody
make a mistake or something like that you know the reports with the icing on the reports i've
seen and read about from the nba young boy trial about some of the shit the prosecutor
is trying to pull off in there what's he he on trial for again? A gun.
A gun.
Gun.
Just a gun possession.
That's it.
Not on him.
In his car.
In the car.
In what state?
That matters a lot.
It does, but...
But what they doing?
Expound on what they doing.
Being nasty?
No, they trying to incorporate his lyrics to songs.
Of course.
They pulling up internet shit.
You got that ruled out right away.
Day one.
Yeah.
They pulling up internet searches and old shit from other cases.
They pulling up guns.
They pulling up guns that he was seen holding on the internet and saying, this is the gun.
holding on the internet and saying,
this is the gun.
The pitch is like,
you can't determine
that this is the gun.
They make toy guns like this.
You can't see the serial on this.
Like, how are you identifying?
What are you doing?
And the judge ain't
with none of this shit anyway.
The judge is like,
why are you wasting my time?
We got shit to get to.
This is a simple
gun case i don't want to hear all this shit but just what's going on speaks to what's going on
is what i'm saying i agree and fam what a clown show i'm reading like just into that case it's
like they got five different sets of fingerprints on it they don't know like it they don't have a
case it look like like it's almost like, when are y'all throwing this out?
What are we doing?
It's that bad.
Just wasting taxpayer money.
That's what it looks like.
That's what it looks like.
That's crazy.
It looks crazy.
One of the tests said we cannot.
We got five sets of fingerprints, but we can't say if he's one of the sets.
It's inconclusive if one of the fingerprints match him.
And this is already known.
This was in court.
It looks ridiculous, bro.
It looks ridiculous. And he got bread.
Right. So now it's not
even an economic thing. It's like, yo,
fam, this is some real...
Pick on me. Yeah.
Send one of these other rapping niggas up.
That's crazy.
Alright, so then let's not start there. Or let's leave there. to pick on me. Send one of these another rapping niggas up. That's crazy. All right,
so then let's not start there.
Or let's leave there.
Yeah, you can leave there.
Let's leave there.
But,
so,
over the last couple days,
a video showed,
a video pops up
of Boosie.
He got pulled over
by,
I believe it was Atlanta police.
Somewhere in Georgia.
Somewhere in Georgia.
Yeah, Georgia police.
Oh, he got pulled over
because they smell weed?
He got pulled over.
They used that one on me before.
And he went off.
He went crazy.
He went...
Like, he's handcuffed,
him and his mans,
and he's...
Like, he's telling the cop,
I'm going to fuck you up.
I can't wait
when y'all take me to jail.
I can't wait.
I'm swinging on the first
white nigga I see.
I'm spitting on the first
Nurse I see
Like he spazzed out
For the cop to come back
And say alright
We found a little bit of weed
We gonna give you a citation
And we letting you go
So
Nah but he was wild
No he was wild
No he
I saw that video
But why they handcuffed him
Or they handcuffed him
Because he was wild
They was checking the car
They was checking the car They They were checking the car.
They were checking the car.
They had him and his man standing there handcuffed.
And he was just.
Yeah, you usually don't handcuff just for a little search.
I don't know.
Shit.
But then.
So the video goes out.
TMZ posted.
And I think he said Shade Room posted it.
And his Instagram ended up getting banned again.
I didn't know it got back.
He'll create it under another name or something.
They keep finding the secret one?
Yeah.
So he got banned again.
Where can we hide safely?
And jumped on Twitter and just lost his mind.
It was one of the wildest.
Dear God, give us Kobe back and take Mark Zuckerberg
and his family and put them
on the plane instead
like the shit he was saying was nuts
going after their wives their kids
like alright well you stop saying it
no I'm just you just started this shit
with the power of words
okay well we'll fix that
but um
where will they
stay tuned tomorrow
yeah
yeah they might not
they might not
y'all left some shit
in another episode
this morning
I was like
ugh
anyway
Jesus
nah it's crazy
when you say
yo you got me
and they say yeah
and then
they don't got you
they don't have you
you gotta have yourself
I think Rob
Rob think he could take you
that's why
but nah he's just been wowing out on They don't have you, yo. You gotta have yourself. I think Rob, Rob think he could take you, that's why.
But nah,
he's just been wowing out
on Instagram
and then says,
alright,
I made a new page,
this is the page,
follow me,
I'm going live.
Which I think happened.
They clipped it?
Yes.
But my thing is,
like,
like,
the last time
He was
You know
Me made the video
Come on
Mr. Zuckerberg
Mr. Zuckerberg man
Like
Hey Boosie
You're not getting your pitch back
This time
Ever
You just make a new one
No no no
You're
Fam
You start talking about
The owner's
Families
You still gonna put a new email
Up somewhere
Sure
It's possible
Okay
Shut that one down too
but the value is in you need to maintain
a page long enough to build a following to where
you can now monetize
off of that they clipping that
like reacting that way
is not going to get your page back
true that's what I'm saying
I agree where's Waldo is successful
though maybe the see now what oh no I was about to say what would happen if I had the Instagram True. That's what I'm saying. I agree. Where's Waldo is successful, though? Maybe the... See, now, what...
Oh, no.
I was about to say what would happen
if I had the Instagram insurance thing
that we talked about a little while ago,
but it doesn't apply.
Yeah, it doesn't apply.
They clip you.
He wasn't hot.
Yeah, he didn't get hot.
Well, it don't apply if it comes from Instagram itself.
And I don't know if y'all heard about the new thing
where Instagram is putting out some subscription shit.
Coming soon. They ran a beta. now they about to put out some subscription shit for celebrities now you can
start monetizing your page directly oh they got that no literally like only fans type of situation
okay because now what they have now like you go live on instagram people can buy badges and all
that type of shit and subscribe directly i mean pay, pay you directly. Tips. So let's say
Joe, right? He wanted to have
borderline Patreonish.
You wanted to have subscribers
that subscribe to your page. You could
get them exclusive content
from just your Instagram.
You know what I'm saying? And it's...
What happened was they saw people
come up with... They said it's for TikTok.
Look, they saw people come up with because They said it's for TikTok. Look, they saw people come up with, because a lot of the girls started doing this, $25 to be added to my close friends.
Which is genius if you ask me.
Sure.
So you add them.
You pay them whichever way they want.
You send your name and then they'll add you.
So I guess Instagram got wind of that coming on and said, all right, now we need a piece of that. where they want you send your name and then they'll add you so i guess instagram saw got
wind of that coming on and said all right now we need a piece of that so now we're going to give
you the option to go ahead and make something where they could subscribe directly to you but
now we get a percentage out of it because every platform is doing it twitter has it
like everybody's letting you set up your your way to have people subscribe directly to you
and give them exclusive content
well the article I read
basically said
it was damn near like
in direct contention
to TikTok
you know I don't know
how TikTok works
I don't know how TikTok works
I don't know how any of those
I only know Patreon
yeah
but basically they said that
like you could get
exclusive reels
you could get exclusive photos
you could get exclusive shit
that nobody else could get
once you subscribe to this particular person.
So I think it's the OnlyFans wave merged with...
They're all doing...
Like I said, Twitter has super follows.
You pay a certain fee to a person directly per month and you get access to...
You're the only one that can see their tweets or whatever as long as you're subscribed to them.
You're the only one that can see their tweets or whatever, as long as you're subscribed to them.
Every platform is set in their subscription model to where you subscribe directly to the person,
and you can get whatever they decide to give you as a subscriber.
And Facebook and Instagram have been good for going to see what other people are doing and put that shit right on their shit.
Oh, yeah.
They try to buy it. They try to buy it.
Go on Instagram now.
You don't even really see posts.
It's all reels.
They've literally switched the entire model over to reels. I go on Instagram now, you don't even really see posts. It's all reels. They've literally switched the entire model over to reels.
I go on Instagram, I'm looking like, I don't even follow you.
Because you looked at a video from Snoop Dogg, here's three other reels.
I didn't even look at the reel from them.
I scrolled past it.
Right.
So, yeah, Instagram is, oh, TikTok is what's working?
Cool.
We're going to copy everything and put it here.
They did the Snapchat.
TikTok is too big for them to buy.
Yeah, they can't.
They can't.
Do y'all want to talk about Styles P?
Hell yeah.
Absolutely.
Of course.
Absolutely.
Got to salute Styles.
100%.
It was amazing what he did, and I think the follow-up was even better.
Like, I think the follow-up was better.
I think it was amazing.
What follow-up?
When he went on live?
He went on live, and he apologized for his actions, right?
But he also said some important shit like,
I'm not anti-cops, I'm not anti-this.
He said basically, and we all agree,
that the cops that are in our neighborhoods
don't identify with us.
You feel what I'm saying?
And so he's like, yo, I'm encouraging people from the hood
to start trying to be cops,
especially in your neighborhoods or neighborhoods
that you are,
you know,
familiar with because that is better policing.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, so he was like,
yo, I'm not against the cops
or arresting people
or any of that shit.
He said,
I seen him slam a girl.
So that, of course,
you're going to get on high alert.
And he was like,
you know,
I apologize for the stance I took,
but he was like,
yo,
he's encouraging young black men
to start being cops to try and add to the policing of our neighborhoods.
And I think that's dope.
It is dope for it to come from someone like him because the problem there is our community has like, and it's especially the younger mindset, anything remotely related to a cop, they call snitching.
And I think we just got to disdain for the police.
cop they call snitching nothing we just got a disdain for the police no but i'm not just i'm saying for a young black man to go take the police test he will be looked at in his hood like yo you
do you want that both both things are true nah i would agree we haven't so we have to like break
ourselves out of that we can change it we can change the relationship with the police but i
like you said what he said yeah doing what he said. Yeah, doing what he said.
In places where they let you,
like in New York,
you can't police the neighborhood you live in.
But if you've come from,
let's just say Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Uh-huh.
They might put you in New Rochelle,
and they'll bring people from New Rochelle down here.
But you could go to another urban community in the Bronx or somewhere else.
You don't get to pick your community.
No, I'm just saying.
But no, I just think that that would be better.
Yeah, I agree.
Because you identify with that.
I completely agree.
You know what I'm saying?
I think that you should be able to police your own neighborhood.
Like, you should be able to join the police force of your area.
But they, I guess for safety reasons, don't like to do that in New York.
I don't know.
I just knew some of my old neighbors joined the police force.
And he's like, they're going to put me in Forest Hills or some shit.
Like, they won't let me police this area.
Jersey's a little different.
But I just think that's, i've been saying that forever like back in the day um mr johnson knew these kids you know what i'm saying like if they saw joe and joe was fucking 12 getting into some
mischief like no we're not gonna get a permanent stain on his juvenile record i'm gonna take him
home because i know his father could kick his ass because I know his father directly
and I just think that's important.
And there's another problem though.
A lot of these kids,
you can't take them home.
Dad ain't in the house.
That's true.
These kids is raising themselves.
But you can identify with dad as well.
I agree.
I agree.
I agree.
Well, and...
They got a lot of work to do.
They done moved
all the Mr. Johnsons off the block.
They rung the bell
and bought that house
That's true
It's Airbnb now
Or they knocked it down and put some
Luxury apartments
Yeah
Yeah that too
That too
They picked up your old crib and tossed that shit yo
Gone
No
But they
That whole big ass It look like bigfoot came and stepped on that shit
you pointed to it the other day oh that was where y'all used to go yes i didn't know that oh no i
thought that's why you pointed to it no i never i was just showing you the new development going up
i've never been to the old that's park's old little crib and there was a little store on the corner
they got rid of the business
Everybody that lived there
Well the guy owned all of that shit
He owned the restaurant
He owned the 4 houses
And the parking lot behind it
He came up
He had Monopoly
Real life
He owned the whole block
Indiana Avenue
With a whole bunch of money Did anybody win the lotto And he just moved He on the whole block And he just moved Round of applause Indiana Avenue Some fucking way
With a whole bunch of money nigga
Uh huh
Did anybody win the lotto
When it was like
Whatever it was the other day
Something stupid
Not me
Cause I was supposed to run out and play
Nah
I ain't even
I'm glad I ain't know
When it's crazy
That's when I play
See I'm glad I ain't know
Cause I'm gonna spend a hundred
When it's 800 million
They could get this
Yeah no
It was something crazy the other day
I meant to play But anyway Alright where do y'all wanna go Where do y'all wanna Oh wait wait when it's 800 million. They could get this. Yeah, no, it was something crazy the other day.
I meant to play,
but anyway.
All right,
where do y'all want to go?
Where do y'all want to... Oh, wait, wait.
I'm not done with that.
I'm not done with that.
With Styles?
That was scary as shit
watching that.
We didn't touch that part.
See, that comes...
I saluted him, dog,
when I saw that
because he literally
put himself at the hazard
at the entrance. You know what I'm saying? hazard that was dope that is terrifying yeah that was dope it's scary as shit watching it
we've seen this kind of what i touched on before a couple parts ago we've seen so many body like
yeah scary watching it but niggas wasn't even like thinking that this if the cop would have
let's say it would have went all the way left
we've seen that shit
happen so many times
that I think people
are actually jaded
at even seeing
cops shoot
unarmed people now.
Facts.
Disgusting.
It's disgusting bro.
I was scared
watching that.
For him?
Yes.
Yes.
I agree.
Hell yeah.
No no no.
That's why I said
it was super dope
when he was back.
Super dope. Now I understand that's his whole town. I agree. Hell yeah. No, no, no. That's why I said it was super dope when I was back. Super dope.
Now I understand
that's his whole town.
I mean, that's his hometown.
We need more of that too.
I know the normal cops
on this shift.
And I probably know
the cop that hired you.
Like, I've been here my whole life.
So there is some
freedom that comes with that.
I'm legit. There's some freedom that comes with that. I'm legit.
There's some freedom that comes with that.
And there's an adrenaline rush because I just watched you slam a woman to the ground.
With your knee on her back and all that other shit.
That shit is terrible.
And he needed the message.
Maybe not in this delivery, but I don't have an opinion on it.
You got to get your shit off.
Yeah, I was afraid nah it's bad
and then the story broke
not too long after this
or before
my memory is bad right now
of uh
the uh
gas station
at the gas station
guy saw a couple
arguing in the car
went over to the car to try to defend the young lady.
Guy shot him.
Fuck.
He died.
Young lady left with the shooter.
Wow.
I don't play that.
What's y'all stance on that while we're here?
I don't play it.
It depends on the situation.
If you're not related to me, I'm on my business.
It depends on the situation. Y'all ain't going to like't gonna like my stance yo dog i've personally been in these situations
before and what'll happen is dog you you'll fuck around and get in an argument with the dude
so let's just say you and the dude getting a fist fight fist fight is the low end now but you could
even get in a fist fight even if you win yo, yo, you might break your hand. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Yo, he might get some shit off.
You got a black eye.
You got a busted lip, whatever the case may be.
Three days later, he get ahead.
You over here with a broken hand with a cast for six weeks, eight weeks.
He get ahead.
From the same person you was trying to defend.
Yeah.
I would get ahead, too.
With the cast over.
Yeah, just what the fuck is he talking about?
I'm talking about from that girl.
Not neither we getting.
I had a different girl over here.
I didn't think I'm going to have a black eye and no head while he gets up.
Broken head?
I can't even turn it off.
What the fuck is you talking about?
Yo, you stupid.
Take care of me.
No, I'm just saying.
But you defended a girl that literally just going to leave with the same dude that was
whipping her ass.
That shit is different.
Yeah.
I don't really.
It completely depends on the situation.
It depends on how intense it looks.
You know, you can kind of be around and make a presence felt where someone maybe will act right.
Just by seeing another group of people around.
What you looking at, nigga?
Yeah.
Mind your fucking business.
That might be enough time if it's a very serious situation
for her to get away
or whatever it may be.
She gonna get away.
I minds my fucking business.
What's your stance?
Call it what you want.
I'm making a home to my baby.
What's your stance?
I ain't getting involved in that.
I call the cops for you.
Yo, yo,
I need to get over here
to this gas station.
Something going on
as I peel off.
What's your stance, man?
Leave me alone.
Are we trying to get your stance?
You know how many podcasts I be wanting your stance on something?
I'll give it.
Alex, you hear the board?
I'll give it.
I'm trying to think.
I think it completely depends on the situation.
It's a sticky situation, but...
Because I agree with y'all.
I'm on my business bro
but I'm certain that
there's an instance where
I would feel compelled
to say something
it would have to be like
I'm just not racking my brain
to think of that scenario
it would have to be
but I'm certain
a scenario exists
cause then you gotta
pick and choose your words
and do I have a gun on me?
gun or not
shit
gun or not if you got a gun now me? Gun or not.
Gun or not.
If you got a gun,
now what happens?
Yeah.
In Jersey.
Or New York.
You got a gun.
He rush you now over beating up his girl.
That shit ain't worth it, bro.
You can be sitting in that Rikers.
That shit ain't worth it.
That shit crowded.
No thank you.
Over defending yourself.
Like I said,
I can call you some help.
I can say what you want. I can call you some help. Y'all can say what you want.
I can call you some help.
Ice is right.
Down 9-1-1.
I'm going.
Ice going back inside.
This fool says I peel off.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm leaving.
No, no, no.
Oh, shit.
What the fuck going on over there?
They wilding.
Yo, yo, yo, yo.
Bobby, get my card back.
Y'all ever call 9-1-1?
Nah. That's a prank. I don't think I yo, yo. Bobby, get my car back. Y'all ever call 911? Nah.
That's a prank.
That's a prank.
I hadn't called 911 in a really, like, forever.
And then the first time I called 911 is when I learned that that's not somebody locally in the hood that could come help.
What?
They really should update that.
It's a dispatcher. It's a dispatcher, yeah. Oh, yeah. What? They really should update that. To dispatch.
To dispatch, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Man, you know how long that shit took?
I was raised to believe 9-1-1 was like the big red button and they was coming.
Oh, no.
Man, yeah, about another hour.
That shit like AAA.
I had an emergency
going on in the house
niggas was taking
they damn time
you shouldn't be
I ain't never
what area
that's all that matters
but no
what area
nigga you was there
shut up
Ice was always there
when something happened
with the girls
and they took long
in them areas
hell yeah
they took long yeah come here hell yeah they took long
yeah come to think of it
actually I did call
a couple times
but I guess it wasn't
an emergency situation
but they took
it was hours
you were being a Michael
I'm sorry
I don't know what guy
Jordan
Jordan Tyson
I don't know what
I thought you were being a kin
a kin
I don't know what guy
Karen is
I said a kin
is it kin
I don't know I don't know someone stole some shit I said a kin Is it kin?
I don't know I don't know
No someone stole some shit
Outside of my man's car
That was parked in my
Driveway
You snitched?
I called the police
For some stolen shit
Yeah
Yeah I guess I did
Nah I think
The last time I did that
I saw a
Fucked up accident
Like
And I was like yo
Oh yeah I'll do that yeah yo i just i
don't know what area what the police department is in there so i just call 9-1-1 yo on this highway
mile marker boom boom boom y'all need to get out here yeah as i kept going i'm not waiting to figure
out what happened you ain't get out to help no no it was that shit was over that shit flipped over
down the divide no down the um median Uh-uh, I'm cool.
I'm going to call, call you some help.
I can't do nothing.
What am I going to do?
I ain't got no jaws of life on me.
I can't help you.
You might as well pull somebody out the car.
Nigga, please.
I know.
I'm going home.
Get him some water.
I don't have no water in the car.
Going home.
Scott, man.
I mean, you got it
I don't know
where to go from here
what the hell
you want me to do
Isis out of Superhero
yo y'all do that
to me a lot
I didn't say two words
to you
where do I go from
Isis I'm not helping
a soul story
it's not I'm not
helping
that is help
the guy the other day
a car crash
flipped over the divider, fell in some water.
The little young nigga that just happened to be around dove in the water.
Oh, shit.
To open the door, saved the whole family.
That's dope.
Told the cops, stay back.
I got this.
That's some fly shit.
Now, guess what happens if I dive in the water that I can't swim in?
Now, we all down here need help.
Yo, somebody help me too.
No, no, no, no.
Yo, they down there in the water.
You know, bring scuba.
It's water.
And that's where the sea lion would be, me in the water.
But on the land, you're going to walk over here to the land.
What I'm with?
I got Tim's on.
Why you got Tim's on the beach?
Oh, my.
Huh? Why you got Tim's on the beach? Oh, huh?
Why you got Tim's on the beach?
Oh.
And it's you.
You got some botanical slides. Yeah,
hold up now.
Yeah,
come on now.
You got some bullshit on.
I've been on the beach with Tim.
With the thong.
With the thong.
The thong,
the thong slides.
What's up with you,
man?
The thong slides
between the toes.
Don't get thong nothing in me.
Call him shit,
call him shit something.
We call those the toe joints.
Don't ever say thong.
The fucking wrong part, yo.
Don't ever thong nothing in me, yo.
Yo, yo, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Don't try to get me down with your nude beach gang.
Definitely try to ease you in there, too.
Yo, the toe joints.
Thong sandals.
I don't know what it's called.
Ew, get that out of my brain.
The toe joints.
Oh, my Lord.
That's what they call.
I know.
That's the funny part.
Yo, now I know I'm getting old.
I'm mad as hell.
I left the house without my Pepsi.
I might got some Pepto-Bismol upstairs, bro.
I got a little Uncle Salsa for you.
I think his stomach will fire over here.
Is it reflux?
Fuck all y'all.
Yo.
This shit is being tortured.
No, it's not bad.
But Pepsi really, that shit changed my life a little bit.
That shit fly.
I didn't know that existed.
All these years of burping and gargling and shit, you never attempted to?
Oh, man.
An antacid?
A simple Tums?
Nah.
I just been running around burping.
Burping and farting yo
that's funny
but why is that funny yo
you saying you mad as hell
you left your pepsi
nah
I'm tight yo
you can't even be cool
you don't even want to go
to your man house
and be like
yo you got some pepsi
you got some ro? Some gas X?
You got some Rolaids?
Oh, man.
Well, shit, we ain't got nothing else to talk about.
I told y'all I went out that day.
I went to Grand Lux and showed my ass.
Act like I was 24 years old.
Because they got the menu with 9,000 things on it,
and you fall victim to it.
Acting like a big-ass kid ordering things with your eyes.
So here you go now and impatience
you want to try to catch this lady with your shit so they can bring this shit while it's a pack
uh packed establishment yeah you don't want her to get the roaming around missing walking all the way down there she's slow you just you
think about those things here i go yeah let me get an appetizer of uh curry buffalo chicken balls
meatballs and let me get the double potato taco rolls this you're bad already. Oh, yeah, bro. I know your shit was upside down.
That was the app.
Then here I stupid ass go.
And let me get the Sunday night spaghetti.
The Sunday night pasta.
What the Sunday night pasta is, you guys out there, is they take all the meats.
Veal,al rib short rib
beef
sausage
might have been bacon
duck
and red sauce
and linguine
and
they put some peppers in there
I won't lie to you.
It's good.
But those days
have been over for me.
They should have never started.
But I'm 12 years old.
Did you leave the bathroom on? So I eat it.
And then
she come out and say
what they always say. Would you like some dessert?
Would you like some dessert?
Yeah, but sometimes they put the sauce on that hey if you're thinking about the dessert let me know 30 minutes ahead
because such and such a bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad you really gotta try oh my god
the pressure's on now no no no I need that The pressure's on
And you just tested my whole manhood
Like who is you talking to
On gang I want the lava cake
Who you talking to
You know I ordered that first
And let me get a large glass of milk
With my lava cake
And it came with a scoop of ice cream.
You are insane.
What's wrong with me?
Yo, I don't know.
What did you think was going to happen?
That's what I want to know.
As he burps,
yo, what's wrong with me, girl?
Yo,
fam,
the milk already
mixed with the oink, the fill, the beef, the crab.
We got a call.
We got a call.
Uh-oh.
Nori's calling.
Love and light.
Hello.
What's going on, sir?
How you doing?
Hello, Nori.
This is Joe Budden from the Joe Budden Podcast.
I'm live on the air.
How you doing?
Yo, why do I always call you live?
Because I work on these days.
Okay.
But it's fine because your name was definitely written on my topic list.
What's going on?
I was calling you to ask about the Patreon.
What about it?
Is it a good wave?
Is Patreon a good wave? Most certainly it is it a good way is patreon a good wave most certainly it is okay yes all right i'm about to be down with the family i think oh man that's awesome now you can wait no so now let's
that's that's that's cool but man what what's up with the hate? What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
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What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate?
What was up with the hate? What was up with the hate? What was up with the hate? What was up with the hate? What was up with the hate? So I had to take a little shot, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? No, you didn't. You didn't have to do that at all, actually.
And it was over several hours.
It wasn't just one hate.
Yeah, it was mad hate.
It was mad hate.
But wait, also, Nori, are you still falling for promises from these fucking artists and their managers?
You know how that goes.
I felt whole vain different.
I felt whole vain different.
I was a little mad. I was a little mad.
I was a little mad at whole vain.
I can't lie.
Word, my nigga.
But it was a good interview, man.
It was a good interview.
Thank you, man.
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Thank you. I love you too, man. This is just funny. This is just funny, man. Yeah, I got to come sit down on your couch too.
That's what you need to do.
You keep bouncing in and out of New York.
I see you.
Are you here?
Nah, bro.
Listen, bro, I'll stay on the beach, man.
I got no socks on right now.
You know what I mean?
This is how I want to live.
Yeah, y'all niggas be out there and slides with your wives just eating good
that's nice i might get i'm gonna come out there miami soon man yeah man yeah all right now stop
yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm definitely joining the patreon family well welcome round of applause
let's get this money bro patreon.com backslash
tell everybody I said what's up
tell everybody I said what's up
man it's all love
will do Nori
love you bro
and I hate you
love you too my brother
peace
salute
yeah that's on my list
hey Nansen
you know we gotta stop believing
artist promises yo
Let me ask you something
Who the light skinned mafia
Me you and Parks
Who the light skinned mafia
I think you got it
I didn't hear that
Oh it's right there
Wait
I love
I never saw that
That was mad hate
Oh shit
It was several
Several tweets
It was like spread out
Over hours too
Oh nah he went off
Yeah
Enjoy his jersey interview
Word
That's what you call it
Spicy
Yeah
Good luck Who's the jersey interview You This Enjoy his Jersey interview. Word. That's what he called it. Spicy. Yeah.
Good luck.
Who's the Jersey interview?
You.
This.
The majority of us from Jersey.
You're supposed to sit down with a Queens nigga.
Yo, podcast hate is great, yo.
It really is.
I encourage this.
Why?
No, you don't.
No, man.
No, you don't. No.
I don't like when I'm in it.
But, yeah,
hate on some
niggas.
Just not me.
Yeah,
don't do it to me.
Over there.
But I want to know
who niggas is hating on.
That's fun,
yo.
Nah.
But this was why
he shouldn't have
done that.
This is like,
like hate.
And that's my man.
I love him.
He loves me.
But still.
That was definitely
hate though.
Yeah, that was hate.
Damn, light-skinned mafia.
Come on, anyway.
Oh, shit.
I ain't just happening to call right now.
That's dope.
For some advice.
Or to brag.
Off the hate.
He calls for some advice. Nah, that's hard.
That's hard.
Nah, the hate on the nigga and then brag to him.
No, the hate on the nigga and then be like, yo, nigga, give me your advice on this shit over here.
Right.
Nah, they could be like, yo, I'm coming over there too, nigga.
Ah.
Oh, that's how you took it?
No, I didn't take it that way.
But you could.
No, I couldn't.
I'm calling to have a conversation.
I couldn't and wouldn't.
No. and have a conversation. I couldn't and wouldn't. I welcome all creators
to join Patreon.
Every last one of you.
Especially content creators
and producers such as Nori.
And at some point,
niggas be wanting to get out
of getting the corporate content checks
and figure out how to do it
on their own.
It's expensive.
But you can do it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nah. Later I'll process
hating on a nigga
and then call him
call him and get some advice
would I do that?
I don't think I hate on niggas no more
what?
well not like what the fans say
I'm not talking about that
I mean like in real life
oh
oh okay IRL just album reviews yo Well, not like what the fans say. I'm not talking about that. I mean like in real life. Oh, okay.
IRL.
Just album reviews.
Yo, that's another reason you have to stop fucking the young chicks.
Yo, I don't know nothing they're saying.
Man, I'm stressed for sure.
I can't tell you what they're saying to me.
They say ASL.
Age, sex, location.
Instead of as hell.
As hell.
And I only know ASL to mean age, sex, location.
To mean what? Age, sex, location. To mean what?
Age, sex, location.
That's AOL shit.
That's AOL shit.
A sex.
A sex location.
Age.
Age.
Sex.
Sex.
Location.
That's how you used to be in AOL.
Porn dogs were y'all in AOL.
Nah, that was just regular introduction shit.
You was in the house getting freaky.
You a horny ass nigga.
I was on AOL and I never seen that. It was there on AOL. I believe you the house getting freaky. You a horny ass nigga. I was on AOL and I never
seen that. It was there on AOL.
I believe you. I'm just saying. Yeah, it's
crazy now. Like the shit that they say.
We just old. We old.
We old. Everything is an acronym. F-R-F-R.
Fam, I knew we was
fucked up when they started spelling you.
Why you? That's what
I knew. It took me a while to figure out
that they was misspelling shit purposely.
I'm like, yo, that's longer than the word.
Yo, what you doing?
Shut up, old nigga.
The letter U for you.
Yeah.
Anything you say, they're going to tell you,
shut up, old nigga.
Yeah, pass.
Shut your old ass up.
Old ass nigga. They think we should
Just drop dead already
Like why y'all
Even on earth
Breathing
That's funny
I had to let one of them
Niggas know
When we put our
Picture up
From the bank shit
Yo y'all niggas old
I was like
That's the goal
I'll let one of them know
Not two of them know
No I just let one
That's the goal Two of them You might be two of them know. No, I just let one. That's the goal.
Two of them, you might be pushing your luck.
The odds, the more the number go up, they don't favor you.
These niggas, Broccoli is different.
They Brussels sprouts is different.
Remember Brussels sprouts?
They like them now.
Yeah.
Oh, they jazz them up now.
Brussels sprouts was never the goal.
Anyway, come on.
Where we at?
Some shits now.
NBA Youngboy found not guilty.
Breaking news.
Breaking news.
Look at all the corny hip-hop
journalists with these headlines already.
It's the most
important day in his
life.
Yo, I hate hip-hop blogs
and journalists.
Me.
I hate it.hop blogs and journalists. Me. I hate it.
Look at them.
NBA Youngboy's fate was dropped in the hands of a...
Shut the fuck up, Rolling Stone.
Didn't Rolling Stone just do some other stupid shit recently?
Yeah, they've been out of tariff, stupid shit, for a little while now.
Did they sell some shit?
Did they sell a steak?
They sell an ass.
That's what they sell.
Is there somebody else running it?
Is Benzino running Rolling Stone now?
I'm asking y'all.
He ran the source.
He did.
He did.
I remember.
Benzino did them two days in jail and came home and said,
I'm home.
No, fuck y'all.
Y'all ain't gonna tell me certain shit ain't funny.
I laughed for two weeks when that happened.
I was laughing.
Yeah.
Come on, Benzino know what he did.
That's my man though,
but he know what he did.
Benzino feel that way?
You can't,
even if you feel.
No, I do not.
Yo.
You could've tweeted that Expound
Go on
Yeah you could've did like
A little first day out
Freestyle or something
Word
That's what they do
Yeah
That would've been
Ew yo
That was your debut
You ain't even go
Build a tiny house
You ain't go get
What the Indians do
Is build a pool
Nothing
Nothing
You don't be doing shit yo
Why you ain't build a tiny house
When you came home?
Just on some
first day out house.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was pod.
I was pod.
First day out house.
Stupid.
Stupid, yo.
Boom, boom.
I'm coming home.
Tell the world
I'm coming home.
Let the rain
wash away
Congratulations, didn't be a young boy. No doubt. I'm sure home. Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday. Congratulations to NBA Youngboy.
No doubt.
I'm sure that was annoying.
At least.
Yeah.
At the very least, it was annoying.
That whole fucking...
When there's no case against you, I know that shit got it.
Like, come on, man.
What are y'all doing?
It said they asked juror number six when they were trying to pick the jury.
They said they'd ask juror number six when they were trying to pick the jury.
Is there any possible reason why she would be unable to be objective in this case?
I love that there, young boy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She should have just said, why be better?
That would have did it.
They wouldn't know what that means.
They wouldn't know what that means. I don't know either.
She'd have got it off, though.
She'd have got it off.
They're going to get ice on the Rico.
Nigga.
Go ahead and keep it up.
What else they be saying, Ice?
What else?
No, they're not getting ice.
No.
What's the slang?
I don't know.
And where did you learn it?
What block?
I'm inside.
What block?
Inside block.
Inside block.
You running things from inside.
No, no.
Go ahead and let them go.
Keep playing. Keep playing. You're the from inside. No, no. Go ahead and let him go. Keep playing.
Keep playing.
You're the computer guy.
I have no computer.
How long do you think Ice could do in- Five minutes.
In holding?
I'm not-
Five minutes.
Where?
Where is it for?
County.
He's not going-
Essex?
Stop, stop, stop.
The Tombs.
No.
I don't even know where that's at.
The Tombs.
I don't like the name of it.
Essex or Hudson
No no
No
No
Nah we gotta see him jaywalk or something
We gotta get
We gotta get Ice arrested yo
You hear this nigga yo
On some light
Some light
Soliciting
Something
Soliciting what?
Something
Well that's the thing about soliciting They ain't gotta say what Soliciting. Something. Soliciting what? Something.
Well, that's the thing about soliciting.
They ain't got to say what.
Yo.
They could put soliciting.
Yo.
All right, come on. What else is important?
Weekend.
What weekend?
You might be in there.
What weekend?
What weekend?
If I hear you was crying.
I'm not crying.
I'm talking.
Give me my.
Yo, yo.
You never get into the phone.
You don't get into the phone. You never get into that phone Hey Ice You don't get into the phone
You never get into that phone
New York is different
Why are we in New York
You
You not getting into that phone
New York was different
In Jersey you ain't getting into the phone
Let me tell you
I got to the phone in Jersey
No in New Jersey you get to the phone
He ain't getting into the phone
Immediately
Nigga New York
They process you
And send you upstairs
Before you
Your family won't even know
You gone for two days
Oh god
Ice fuck
Fuck
I promise you That's why you don't break the law right Exactly your family won't even know you gone for two days. Oh, God. Ice, fuck. Fuck.
I promise you. That's why you don't break the law, right?
Exactly.
And if you're going to break the law, don't do it around me,
and don't get me jammed up in your shit.
Y'all niggas don't even got scared straight anymore, yo.
Yes, they do.
It's not the real one.
Nah, it's a little worse.
No, it's not.
Nah, it is, yo.
You must ain't seen it in a while.
What you seen? What, the Beyond Scared Straight shit? Yeah. Yeah, that shit a little... It's a little different. No, it's not. Nah, it is. You must ain't seen it in a while. What you seen?
What, the Beyond Scared Straight shit?
Yeah.
Yeah, that shit a little...
It's a little different than the other one.
The other one was light.
No, y'all talking about that TV show.
You talking about the actual program?
They be throwing them there.
I'm talking about the program.
The program where they was taking the niggas to the real shit.
Not recording.
That program, that specific program did not...
There's not a realer version today.
Y'all talking about something else.
Because that's why Scared Straight stopped being real.
Because it got real?
Because it was too real.
They ain't going to come back realer.
No, I was putting them.
Pull up Beyond Scared Straight.
Yeah, you talking about this.
Yeah, that's different.
I'm not telling nobody to go do this.
Nigga, your parents Used to send you
To Scared Straight
I know
I'm not talking about
No show
Heard of it
The actual program
I'm cool
You were scared straight
Way before Scared Straight
Yeah yeah
I ain't had to go there
To be scared straight
You was already straight
I was straight
And scared
And scared
And inside
Oh man Look at this This is funny They got some good shit On TV There's some good shit On TV I'm already straight. I'm straight. And scared. And scared. And inside. Oh, man.
Look at this.
This is funny.
They got some good shit on TV.
There's some good shit on TV.
And whatever's not is on YouTube.
Yeah.
Did you watch the Bill Burr special yet?
Is it a new Bill Burr special?
I saw the clips, and that shit is hilarious.
Where is it?
Netflix.
Netflix, man.
I saw a couple of them.
I tell you, they keep fucking keeping me in.
I heard it was great. That shit was great. I saw the clips. How long is it? Hour and a half, something, man. I saw a couple of them. I tell you, they keep fucking keeping me in. I heard it was great.
That shit was great.
I saw the clips.
How long is it?
Hour and a half, something like that.
Hour 45.
Oh, it's lit tonight.
Yeah, you know Billy Burr don't play with them.
That's why I was up all night.
After all the 70 albums that our friends drop, I put on Bill Burr.
Oh, yeah, we should get to that.
I haven't got the TV on, really, all week.
I'm still trying to get through that weird.
No, and Ozark. Well, no, I'm actually not trying to get through that weird... No, and Ozark.
Well, no, I'm actually
not trying to get through Ozark.
I know you're not.
That's why I said that.
There's some little weird
doc on Netflix
that I've had on my screen
all week
and just haven't pressed play on.
The one about mushrooms?
No, some weird shit
some dad did to his daughter.
Oh, the Girl in the Picture one?
Yeah.
I watched that.
It was good, right?
Yeah, everybody said that was good.
I need hugs.
I'm a hugger.
And a sleepwalker.
Some shit some dad did to they daughter.
He was...
Yes, I didn't do it.
Can you stop looking at me like that?
Right.
It wasn't me.
I just saw it.
God damn it.
He was a kidnapper.
It wasn't really his daughter.
He was front-legged.
It was his daughter.
Don't tell me.
I won't. Too late. It's still good. That's a kidnapper. It wasn't really his daughter. He was front-legged. It was his daughter. Don't tell me. I won't.
Too late.
It's still good.
It's some fucking little description shit.
It's some twists and turns in this bad boy.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
I'll get to it.
And Bill Burr, I'm on that.
Speaking of Netflix, did y'all see the Chappelle's speech?
Yeah, I tried to tell you about that last week.
I watched it, yeah.
Sorry.
That was great, though.
It was.
I gave some backstory. That was great, though. It was. He, um, well, if you... I gave some backstory, yeah.
No touch on it.
Yeah, the, uh...
My fault?
The theater that got named after him.
He did the acceptance speech about it.
Yeah, it was good.
I didn't know he made it a special.
That's what I'm coming for.
I was like, this nigga's getting it.
Yeah.
It's content.
Well, would you like to explain it to us?
Well, no, he already explained it.
I didn't...
He didn't explain it.
I thought I...
You explained it.
Yeah.
Do I explain it?
Okay, um, they wanted the name
he went to
Duke Ellington
school
and they wanted to name
oh I know that part
I thought you meant
something about the special
well no
in the special
it was actually
his speech
but he just made it
a special
correct
like
and
tied into
believing in yourself
like yeah
I walked
I kind of thought about you a little bit how you walked away from the Spotify shit like he tied into believing in yourself like yeah i walked i kind of thought about you a
little bit how you walked away from the spotify shit like he goes into that like what it takes
to really stand up and believe and just like it was like an inspiring speech but still had its
funnies in it like dave is great talked about turning down a 50 yeah i could have took the
money i could have took i could have took i could have took the easy way. And then what kind of, I saw some backlash from, I'm not even going to say the comedian's
name, but he was like, yo, is Dave Chappelle even a comic now?
Like, he ain't doing standups.
He doing speeches and still, like, it's hate.
That's hate.
Who said that?
I'm curious, too.
Tell you?
Yeah.
Wayans.
Demi Wayans.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, some straight hate.
Yeah, it's hate.
He's transcended comedy,
but still is a comedian at the same time.
When you can do inspiring shit...
Damien Wayans' question was,
is he still a comedian?
Because this isn't...
His last...
He's had a handful of things
that were not typical stand-up comedy.
And that's just...
I still laugh during them shits.
Even when,
even the serious ones,
he would throw in a little joke
somewhere.
Nah,
he's telling stories.
He's,
he's,
but at the same time,
still managing to be inspiring,
still doing his shit
and keeping it funny.
I think that's harder
than standing up telling jokes.
Absolutely.
So I think he gets
more fucking praise for that
and still bucking the system.
Like, I'm still going against what society's saying I got to do.
And not for nothing, to me, that's elevating the craft of comedy.
Exactly.
I think anybody can stand up and have somebody write you some jokes and tell you jokes.
Not saying that Damon Wayans don't write his own show, because I don't know.
But anybody could stand up and just tell jokes.
Right.
Not anybody can do it, but there's a difference between.
I got to see it in context, too, to see how he said it.
Because somebody might have took it from the internet and immediately turned it into hate.
And it might not be hate.
And it might be something different.
So I got to read it for myself and see what he's saying myself.
But the specials, both these special specials Burr and Chappelle
are fantastic
I was watching Burr
they are two of the best
yeah
absolutely
the last Bill Burr one
didn't hit the greatest
but this one was
he's back
back in form
oh great
I didn't love the last one
yeah
he's back in form
he's a monster
and he's one of my favorites
yeah he's a monster
I think he is my favorite today
Billy Burr
he might be up there
he might be top there he might be
top five
top three
him and Chappelle
would be my first
two
yeah
today
yeah they wanted two
for me too
um
music
yeah let's do it
let's get to it
it's a lot
let's do it
it's been
it was a lot
this is a
a crowded
little music drop
weekend
or Friday um we're gonna start with giving Parks his flowers I would like this It was a lot This is a Crowded Little music drop Weekend Or Friday
We wanna start with
Giving Parks his flowers
I would like this
Yeah I mixed
I mixed Supreme and Nas
Record man
Come on dog
And the whole EP
But I mean
If it wasn't for
I gave you power
I don't know if I would
Be making music
So for me to have
The opportunity to do this
Shout out to Supreme
Shout out to Nas
And Mass Appeal
That shit like
I'm gonna to be on
the hot cloud here
for a little while.
As you should.
And this shit is banging.
Like the record's dope.
I remember buying
the Scratch magazine
when Preem and Nas
announced their album
in like 2003.
You know what I'm saying?
So to finally
and there hasn't been
a real full record
since then.
Look at that.
So to finally get one.
That shit is amazing to me.
Yeah.
Shout out to Preem.
Shout out to everybody
on this project.
Shout out to you, Parks,
of course.
Thank you.
Remy.
Some good shit on here.
Yeah.
Remy and Rhapsody.
Wayne, Rick.
I love the Wayne and Rick record.
And the Run the Jewels record.
I like the whole EP.
And this is the first
of a series of EPs they're doing.
I think Swiss is doing one.
I think Mustard.
There's a bunch of people doing EPs through Mass Appeal.
That's hard.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is volume one.
Yeah.
Preem's consistency over decades is just brilliant.
Yeah.
And it's nothing I can say because it's recognized each decade as brilliance
from the young people
young artists
older people
white people
across the board
and to do all that with such a
dare I say low profile
but a profile
of a man his age.
That's incredible, yo.
It really is.
And he does his own shit.
You know what I'm saying?
No disrespect to any other producers,
but a lot of people have production teams and stuff.
Once they reach a certain point,
he does everything hands-on.
You know, even mixing.
We sat at the board together.
He would hop up and do some shit.
I would sit down and do some shit.
He would hop back up, do some shit like he's very hands-on it's not
just yo i'll put my name on this and yeah y'all did 17 year olds did it yeah yeah nah and i think
what's dope about prim i know people think i don't fuck with it's not true but what i think
is dope is the ability to be able to almost, I don't want to say reinvent
because he's still being him, but to be able, you know, hip hop has changed God knows how
many times to still be able to coast through here.
Yeah.
You get what I'm saying?
That ain't, a lot of people can't do that.
Nah, no one, I don't know if we've ever seen someone stick to a sound and have it be successful
and still like his style sound changes
yeah you know i'm saying like it's still him it's still him he changed he adapts his sound but still
remains true to self and there's not many that could do that no working on four decades yeah
working with the biggest artists every decade like that shit is crazy shout out to Prem shout out to Prem we love you Prem
you're a legend
yes sir
and thank you
and other drops
we got
Yo Gotti
with the
CMG
oh I didn't get to listen to this yet
how was it
it was a long
it was a long project
so I was already overwhelmed
with all this shit that came out
yo this nigga look like a kid
nigga
I've never seen a smile that big
in my life
from track one
showing us man teeth man teeth man teeth this was this was one of them yeah Kid Nicky. I've never seen a smile that big in my life. This is it. From track one. Showing us, man.
T.
All right.
Mad T.
This was one of them.
Yeah.
Exactly.
When you know who's on CMG, you're like, okay, they got Moneybagg, ESTG, 422, Mozzy, Black
The entire roster, what you would expect is what we got.
And what I liked about this this because i thought he was
going to take a route that some of the other execs do with their compilations where i'll give you
like a couple records but this is really just all of my artists like you're going to get four
records when i saw it was a 27 track um project i didn't expect this many collabs like you getting
everybody on a lot of these songs as a fan of the last yo gadi project
will i be a fan of this project or is this kind of different because i'm not as familiar with all
the artists on here this is different okay as a fan of the gadi project this is definitely different
okay this is i'm okay with different i'm just curious because he let each artist do their own thing. Be them. Yeah.
Even on the collab records, it's like, this is tailored a little bit more for you to kill it, and you kill it.
This one bag, you're going to do what you're going to do.
We're going to let you smoke this. This wasn't him trying to impart the CMG through his sound and vision on all his artist-type lives.
Nope.
This is what I...
I know what we all do. Y'all do your own thing. his sound and vision on all his artists. This is what I, this is,
I know what we all do.
Y'all do.
And I'm gonna tap into it and I'm gonna let everybody shine in the way we
shine as this is the correct way to do a compilation.
When you have a big roster like that.
Yeah.
I didn't hear it.
Me either.
I plan on hearing it,
but I didn't hear it.
And I,
I heard they, some, some, someone from this camp is coming next week, too.
Okay.
Like, they're not playing.
They're not playing.
Also, we had...
Lloyd Banks, friend of the show.
There we go.
Lloyd Banks.
I got to finally listen to the project.
Loved it.
Loved it.
A step up from the first course of Inevitable.
But still consistent
you know what I'm saying
still kind of the same vibe
dark
dark hard beats
he's going crazy
any standouts?
my favorite was
Socialize
on first listen
first listen
my favorite was
Power Steering
okay
just the record with him and Kiss
yeah
you know a little bit.
Murder One get you hype like that, Alex?
But Socialize is my one now.
Murder One was hard too, though.
Murder One is hard.
Yeah.
Socialize is crazy.
Yeah, Socialize is my one.
Off one and a half listens.
I haven't listened to this yet because I was at the Lloyd Banks dinner last night.
They didn't play the album in the background?
I'm sure they were, but I don't think
that's the appropriate place to
soak it in.
Yeah, that ain't really it.
Saw Elliot there. Shout out to Elliot.
Yeah, I saw Elliot yesterday too
at the studio. Shout out to Elliot.
But another one I'll get to.
I got a lot to do this weekend.
This was a little jammed week
and then Rowdy dropped his album
another friend of the show
another friend of the show
and man
that shit sounded dope yo
yo listen
listen
I got to this one
last out of everything
that dropped
you know I had
some of this stuff
a little earlier
but I played this one last
this is
he smoked this album
that shit was hard
he smoked smoked smoked this album that shit was hard he smoked
smoked
smoked this album
like
like
I mean
and it's themed
so this is
this is actually a double disc
yeah it's split
but still not long
which I liked
exactly
yup
when I saw CD1 CD2
I'm like
hold on man
what's going on
17 songs
okay split
48 minutes 9 records 8 records and it's only like you said 48 minutes CD one, CD two. I'm like, hold on, man. What's going on? 17 songs. Okay, split.
48 minutes. Nine records.
Eight records.
And it's only, like you said, 48 minutes.
And this was like, yo, he really, shouts to Rowdy, shouts to everybody over here.
I don't know, Epic, whoever.
They smoked this album.
They did.
Good beats.
Good mixes.
Good features.
Good features.
They smoked this album.
That's not even my bag. I listened really. Good mixes. Good features. Good features. You know, that's not even my bag.
I listened to half of it, and I was so.
Mm-hmm.
I was like, yo.
And then I got up this morning, and I tweeted.
I'm like, yo, this album is so fire.
There's no reason I should be listening to this at 7 in the morning like this.
But I ain't want to say what, because I'm saving my takes for here.
I just bought it.
Fair.
But $7.99.
For real?
That's what I just paid.
I got one gripe.
And it's not even a fair gripe to have.
Let's hear it.
When he was here, he gave me four records that he said was on there.
And my favorite one is not on here.
That's it.
That ain't even a fair gripe to have.
That might have been one of the big samples.
Yeah, it's that one.
It's that one.
But that's it.
And you still have the record.
Yeah.
And you know what?
And look.
And Joe.
So you know how we get Demo-itis?
Yes.
So the New York record,
remember he played,
we had that one.
It's the mixed
master final.
Hold on, hold on.
Demo-itis.
When you hear an early version of a song and then the artist changed the song for the final and you're in love with the early version of the song.
Yes.
So what will happen when in that case, you won't like the final version because you fell in love with what you previously heard.
So it's different.
The final actually sounds better.
Get off his dick. Nah, man man i'm joking you got you got
it because it'd be so much whack shit so when something's dope i just i just bought it i'm
gonna listen to it maybe my algorithm is fucked up i don't be knowing that none of the drops
yeah you gotta do i go i go for a lot of my yo i have to literally when i open because i only go
to the hip-hop category, my algorithm
should show me that.
When I open iTunes, I guess it's maybe because I don't stream as much or something.
Yeah, that's what it is.
I have to go down, I got to click category, then scroll all the way down and click new
in hip-hop to see the hip-hop releases.
They don't pop up on the screen at all for me.
They should put the album in the see all.
When I click see all, looking for albums, that should show all.
Nah.
It says all.
Yeah, but they, you know what the game is.
None of them are there.
I know what it is.
Yeah, you know what the game is.
They're putting up who they want to put up.
Exactly.
That's it.
Who we being paid to?
Oh, Alex, you already know the boy dropped.
You know.
You already know the boy dropped.
And it's he.
The boy alone.
And it's he.
That's the one you was talking about.
He's like, he's coming.
Y'all know who he is, man.
Well, y'all don't know who he is.
Yeah, I don't.
But,
nah,
O'Malley is fine.
Every song I've ever heard from him,
I ain't heard him miss yet.
Oh, his whole album?
Yeah.
Okay.
Man, it's crazy.
I'm gonna check it out.
That's what I got.
Hey, sometimes that's good enough.
Yeah.
Take my word.
Straight to the point.
More friends of the show drop.
Melly.
Yeah.
Melly dropped the EP.
It's fire.
Melly, come visit us.
Word.
Max O'Kream and Benny dropped a single, and it's fire.
Please, man.
And family of the show.
Family of the show.
My brother brother Ars
dropped Big Jersey 2
mad albums
Jesus
I'm telling you
this was a stacked
week right here
it really was
on the low
yeah quiet
god damn
and it's a lot of people
that we fuck with
like yeah
like I spent some money
I was like
alright
can y'all stagger this shit
look at all y'all
getting out of Beyonce way
nah that's a fact
that's what's happening too
smart
push that up push that up make that call quick hey drop y'all getting out of Beyonce way. Nah, that's a fact. That's what's happening too. Smart.
Push that up.
Push that up.
Make that call quick.
Hey, hey, drop.
Y'all getting the fuck on now.
Smart.
Yeah.
Ain't nothing else to do.
Ne-Yo dropped, but Ne-Yo's here.
Another friend of the show.
We can talk to Ne-Yo about his drop.
I just really want to ask about that Lucky Day shit.
Nah, I got something
I want to ask about.
Good, good, good.
Any more for the drops?
Steve Lacey dropped.
Oh yeah, Steve Lacey dropped.
Yes.
Steve Lacey dropped.
I haven't heard it yet,
but I have it.
A lot of fucking music
is pouring.
Damn.
Yo, there's a lot
that came out.
We'll get them dry weeks
where there's nothing.
Where we searching through
to find something.
Oh, Fabo dropped something.
One record.
Lil Lucy.
It's hard.
Yeah, shit did come out.
A lot came out.
Did I buy something else?
Let me just make sure.
This was...
Melly, Melly, Fabo.
And it's impossible
to listen to everything
because it drop at midnight.
We got to come in here.
I will say the good thing about it
is that a lot of it was shorter projects.
This look crazy.
Who's this?
Rex Life Raj.
Rex Life Raj?
Yup.
Fuck with it.
Trust me.
Look at Alex.
Hold up.
Look at Alex.
Hold up.
Let me put this in my phone.
Look at Alex.
You did it right off the album cover?
That's all you needed?
I'm pretty good off of telling what music I need to click sample on.
Hmm.
I never click sample.
I have to try that.
I love that.
When I only type in three letters in it, he be the first name.
That shit pop right, Rex Life, Ronald.
Oh, this nigga got joints.
You got your boy on there, too.
Let me see.
Let me see. Who Ross? Hey, this nigga's a rapper? Nah boy on there too Let me see Let me see
Let me see
Hey this nigga's a rapper
Nah sing it
Oh alright
Wait a second
About to delete
We'll charge that back real quick man
You ain't listening to no rappers
No y'all know I turned in my rapper card
Long long long ago
Long ago
Saw Bado and Say Less last night looking rapper-ish.
He had a nice verse on Bank Shit.
That was a good little time in here last night.
What else is happening here?
Oh, that's it.
That's it for the drops.
And now.
Yeah, yeah.
We have the one and only.
The legendary.
It's the iconic.
One of the best hands and pens of this generation.
Arguably of all time.
Here we go.
Man, oh man.
Fresh off a new release.
Microphone check.
Also one of the biggest
R&B haters in R&B music
boy can this guy hate on a woman in a happy relationship
guess I'm proving it time and time again on these records we have neo in the building
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Tell me you don't think about me.
A lot of me will tell me you don't think about me no more.
A little extra aggression.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're honored to have you here, Neil.
I am honored to be here, brother.
We're honored to have you here, Neil.
I am honored to be here, brother.
Every time I hear your name, I just get proud, brother,
just of what you've accomplished and what you've done, man.
This shit is dope.
It really and truly is.
It's inspiring.
Thank you, man.
Save some of the proud.
I'm going to kick ass in 2023.
Oh, shit.
Come on, man. You got to pour some proud on top of that.
Extra proud?
Give me some extra proud on the side. Extra side extra proud with a side impressed how are you i'm good i'm
good i'm in a good space man the album is out you know i'm saying this is uh this is the first one
in four years slow down oh nobody asked you about your album or none of that shit that's that's what
that's what's currently going on in my life. What? It is.
What do you want me to say?
It's not where we're starting.
Okay, we won't start there.
All right.
You know what, Joe?
I feel great.
I'm in a good space.
You got to watch these megastars
that have seen nothing but huge success for ages.
Because it's like they got that shit in the tuck.
My album is here.
This is my fifth.
I feel really good.
That's not what we on right now.
Okay.
All right. All right. we want to start with levels levels this is ice ice is a music lover music connoisseur
but he is rather new to the media game where he's in it okay copy. Copy that. Nice to meet you, Pimpy. So when your guy came here
and brought your clothes,
he didn't understand what was happening.
He was confused a little bit.
And then we explained it to him.
And he said,
wow, I've never seen no shit like that.
And then I said,
well, yeah,
because it's levels.
Indeed.
So could you explain,
so you're like at,
you want to, yeah, yeah, put me on. It's about four pints over there. You know what I mean? so could you explain so you're like you wanna
yeah yeah
put me on
it's about four months
over there
you know what I mean
next to the label
next to licensed by
is your real name
I think under there
to a degree
no it's there
I searched
I searched it
I checked it
I bought the album
and I checked it
Life Flex
so if you had
shit
so tell him about
the levels
yeah yeah
I need to know.
Well, all right, so everybody...
All right, we want to talk about levels.
Joe, you are at a rather higher level in this media thing than most.
I know that you do the audio as well as the video.
Yeah.
And I know that a lot of people watch your shit.
Yeah.
So I'm not going to come in here and look crazy.
So I made sure that the stylist brought some things for me to wear
To make sure that I represented your show the right way
And represented myself the right way
In front of your incredibly massive audience
Had the budget for that
Indeed
Had it for that
Everybody does not
That is true
Everybody does
Some people are trying to skim the budget
I'll bring my clothes and book back
Yeah
No, no, no
I just stepped off the plane in this
I know what that life is
I've been there
and
not there anymore
and
you're doing a lot of press
yes
very much so
that comes when you got
a lot of press to do
see some niggas show up
in the same outfit
they ain't doing but
two interviews that day
oh no not Ne-Yo
got it
now normally
we hate the niggas
that do a lot of press
but sometimes
it can be a really good thing.
Like in this instance.
Copy that.
Because we've seen you
all week
just saying shit.
Yes.
Word.
All week long.
Hey, on the way over here.
Yeah.
You said some more shit
that he was in the car
agreeing with.
Yep.
What's up?
Yeah, I saw
where you said,
you don't want to know you don't want
nobody telling you oh shut up and that's been my shit yeah man i don't i don't grasp the concept of
chasing the ugly truth i don't get it like okay when you get the truth the horrible truth the
truth that hurt that hurt the happiness you was feeling before you received the truth what do you
do with it now it's like everything's changed now and then you think back
before you got that truth to what you were and it's like i was happy i was good back here but
what if you're not chasing the truth what if what if what you're doing the wash comes out in the
rinse everything is doing the doctor's out in the light that's a different situation if if the if
the shit finds its way to me all right then I guess I was supposed to learn it
but
I'm not going to go
searching for it
and I feel like
if you are my friend
you will not come to me
with no bullshit
that's going to interrupt
my happy
especially if you can see
that I am genuinely
happy
real shit
don't mess with that
let me
let me live
in my blissful
bubble of ignorance
if that's what it is
to you
it ain't even about you
I'm the person
that's got to deal with it.
And if I'm choosing this truth, then that's my truth.
So you're saying that your friend might not really be your friend if he doesn't believe that your happiness should rest under these false pretenses.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.
I like that.
I like that.
All right.
I like that.
Ish disagrees.
Ish disagrees?
Ish?
You disagree with Neo
What song you wrote
That's a
You ain't write shit
You can't do that
Build a house
That's it
Damn
It's Neo time
No you don't
No please
Please
I want to hear the other side
I'm not going looking for it
At all
I'm not going to look
Through your phone
I don't
Rock out
What you call
Ignorance is bliss
However
If somebody brings it
To my doorstep I definitely want to know.
Now, my stand.
Ain't that what you just said?
No.
No.
He said if somebody knows, don't tell them.
If you my man, don't tell me.
You're saying what?
If you're my man, tell me.
Oh, okay.
Like, you get what I'm saying?
Like, if you was sloppy enough to get seen, caught, whatever, by my man,
or you fumbled the ball and it got through me through the back channels,
I want to know.
I'm not going to go find it, but I definitely want to know.
Because then now I can make my own informed decision.
But your happiness is in the right place.
But I was happy, though.
True.
You don't care?
I was in a happy little bubble, okay?
Yeah.
You just fucked my whole bubble up.
All right, so let me ask you a question.
And we're not staying on this particular question. That's why I said I ain't even ready. But go bubble up Alright so Let me ask you a question And we're not staying
On this particular question
Yeah we don't
That's why I said
I ain't even gonna
But go ahead
I wanna hear it
Alright so let's just say
Hypothetically
Your significant other is
Having
Unprotected sex
She would never
You are there
By putting my life
And our future
In jeopardy
By doing so
I need to know that
But we can move along
I feel you I feel you Nah that. But we can move along.
I feel you.
I feel you.
Nah, fuck that.
But there's, I mean,
there's a lot of conditions on that. I don't know if I don't know.
Take that.
I'll just scrub it off my dick.
You just gonna start getting skinny out of nowhere.
Whatever she did,
I'm scrubbing it off my shit.
Straight away.
But that's not what I wanted to ask about.
All right, let's talk about it.
Why you did that on Lucky Day, man?
What you mean?
No, come on, Ne-Yo.
Come on, real talk.
What did I do to Lucky Day?
Why you did that to Lucky Day?
What did I do to him?
You know what you did to Lucky Day.
No, please, tell me what I did to Lucky Day.
Tell me how I harmed Lucky Day
in any way, shape, form, or fashion.
Oh, you just added a word I never said.
I didn't say harm him.
But you might have harmed him.
I don't know.
Okay, tell me what I did to Lucky Day.
You volunteered that story, that Lucky Day story on album release week.
Yeah.
Why'd you do that?
Why did I do?
Why not?
It wasn't like I had it in the tuck
Like alright today
I'm out lucky
No it wasn't nothing like that
It was
It was a conversation
And it just came up
And it was what it was
I don't think there's anything wrong with it
It is what it is
You know we've
We've talked since then
We've
We've hashed out whatever difference it was
I mean it was
Ten plus years ago
Like I ain't tripping
It is what it is
It was just a funny story
Is he tripping
I don't think so
but you don't know i certainly hope not i mean if so lighten up him it's all good come on you
got grammys now chill what you what no you can't do that no no see here's how it functioned here's
how it functioned had i signed lucky day who's to say that he became lucky day maybe that shit
was supposed to happen. I think,
I look at it like that.
I don't think there's
any such thing as a coincidence
or an accident.
That happened the way
it was supposed to happen
so that he could become
who he is right now.
Not saying that I made him
in any way, shape, form, or fashion.
Of course.
I'm not trying to flip shit,
cut it out.
What I'm saying is,
had that situation
not happened the way it did,
who's to say that he would be
the Grammy Award winning
Lucky Day that we know today?
True.
I understand that. So with that being Award winning lucky day that we know today. True. I understand that.
So with that being said,
you're welcome, Pim.
Also,
hey, if any of y'all out there
got a story like that about me,
I don't agree with that.
Don't add me into it.
Keep that shit out of the...
Nobody got to know that.
Nah, man.
That dude got to know
I don't mean him no harm
That's sexual limitations too
I think
I don't mean the dude no harm
Yeah it's 10 years
Cause my brain goes to
If everybody in the business
Started doing that
And that looks like a purge
That looks like a purge episode
To me
If everybody just started
Oh my god
Anarchy
I am more than certain That there are a few stories floating around the industry that would work in a funny setting.
And I'm more than certain that there are a few stories floating around the industry that just ain't supposed to see a lot of day.
I don't think that that story falls in that category.
I get it.
I'm with you.
Shout out to Lucky Day.
Track, go pick his music up.
Dude's dope.
Back to your music.
Yes, indeed.
I love it. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it's dope back to your music yes indeed I love it thank you sir
appreciate it
you've told me this before
I appreciate it
no but I mean the new project
okay okay
I have heard the new project
last week
I like it
honest opinion
the whole thing
you got favorites
or you got something
that you could do without
what you thinking
I like the Jeremiah
and Trippie Redd records
personally
were the two that
I grabbed yo that really shocked me that i was not mad at trippy red
like that shocked me that that was a joint for me that was one of the more interesting ones that
came to be like i ran into him at record plant in california and uh we just you know walked out of
my room he walked out of his room we met in the hall his room. We met in the hall. And he's like, yo, I'm a fan. And I'm like, oh, okay.
Like, I didn't expect him to say that.
But he told me that, what was the video game?
So it was a video game that he used to play.
Not Grand Theft Auto, but something like that where you could drive around in a car and do hood rat shit with your friends.
But you could play the radio in the car.
And he said he would play my songs on the radio in the car as he rolled around and killed people in the game.
And I was like, that's.
Thanks. That's actually funny thanks i really appreciate you so from there he's like yo we got to do something together and i'm like what what does a neo trippy red song even sound like so i was like yo and does that line
work on neo still right right hey you got to do some shit the street's been waiting i ain't
opposing working with nobody you know what i'm saying? I feel like I could do something dope with anybody.
I'm pretty sure you've had some situations come across where you're like, oh, yeah, we'll do that.
Absolutely, I'm not going to do that.
That's definitely happened before.
And I'm sure you got a list of niggas you think is trash.
I won't deny that.
Yeah.
And I won't ask about it.
But I also don't deny my ability.
I know that I could take a trash and make him hot.
I know I can do that.
I've done it before.
El Nio's that dude.
El Nio's the man.
You understand?
There we go.
There we go.
I say that with zero ego.
I'm speaking facts.
There's no ego.
I like what you and Blue did, both of them.
Yeah, man.
Shout out to the boy, Blue.
I like that.
I fuck with him a lot.
He's dope.
He's dope.
And he got more shit in store.
I don't think people know or really grasp yet just how dope that kid is like like his pen is his pen is
something serious for real for real now i i have i have two that i skipped but i was driving so
i don't know the names of them but love the intro i love the burg record i like it in runs like the
first four five six is dope oh the seven is dope. Yeah,
the two I'm talking about is later.
But then it ended the way I needed it to end.
There was one or two that was like a little poppier towards the end or something.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
I like it in reverse.
And they're just going to be the right place,
right time.
You know,
I got to feed my entire fan base.
Right.
You know,
I have the R&B fan base,
the pop fan base,
the dance fan base.
So I got to make sure that everybody get something.
Can you speak about the difficulty in trying to do that?
Um, well, because your audience is wide.
You're trying to please all of the people all of the time.
And everybody knows that that's somewhat impossible, or at least that's what everybody thinks.
I don't know.
I think I do a pretty good job of it, though, to be honest.
I don't feel like there's any one part of my fan base that doesn't feel like they get
what they need.
Especially when you don't drop for four years, though.
It'd be different if you dropped three projects a year. You could do one
dance album, one whatever.
Split it up. But if you take four
years, you got to cram it all into one project.
Well, I mean, that's kind of always been my M.O.
anyway. I always felt like if I could get my
R&B folks, my pop folks, and my dance folks
to all come to the same concert,
I'm winning. As opposed to, hey, this
week we're doing a dance concert. Alright, this week we're doing an R&B concert. Damn that. Everybody come to the same concert, I'm winning. As opposed to, hey, this week we're doing a dance concert.
All right, this week we're doing
an R&B concert.
Damn that.
Everybody come to the one big show.
How tough is it
being as long tenured as you are
to avoid repetitiveness
or creative boredom?
Creative boredom is harder to avoid
than repetitiveness,
to be honest with you.
I'm not a trend follower.
I've never been a trend follower.
I can recognize and identify
when something has changed
or evolved into something else,
but I'm not the dude trying to become that.
You know what I'm saying?
I know I ain't 25 no more.
I know there's some things
that some of these cats are saying
where if I was to say it or do it,
I would look fucking nuts.
So I don't.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm always going to be who the hell I am.
I'm just going to take what I am and apply it to whatever situation I'm in or whatever song I'm on, whatever song I'm doing.
The first joint, for example, Laying Low with the boy Zay France.
Shout out to Zay France.
New cat doing the R&B thing.
He killed it.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Dude is dope.
You should check out his music.
He's dope.
He's one to watch. But killed it. Oh yeah. Dude is dope. You should check out his music. He's dope. He's one to watch.
But this was his record initially
and it was just one of the ones that I really, really
liked and I'm like, bro,
will you let me put that on the album?
And he was like, yeah. I was like, you know what?
Matter of fact, I'm going to keep your verse
and your hook on it. He's like, oh, alright, cool.
And it just came to be. It wasn't
me trying to
be cooler than I am
or try to be something
that I'm not
I just took the neo
and applied it to what
Zay does
in the realm of his record
and that's how I rock
for this particular project
it does seem like
I'm a fan fan
you know what I'm saying
so
for this particular project it does seem like you went'm a fan fan you know what i'm saying so um for this particular project it does
seem like you went off on a little tangent to incorporate the new sounds like a few of these
songs aren't neo-esque if for lack of a better term production wise you talking about nah just
the sound overall okay like some of the newer some of the newer poppier it just seems
like you might have tried to shit it just seems like you
might have tried to incorporate that into your shit like you say you'll hear what's going on
and you'll move or evolve to or acclimate to what's going on and get out a little bit to the
newer people to a degree to a degree i don't think that you can be a music person and ignore what's
happening in the world i don't think that you could do that i feel like and i feel like you're
comparing my new stuff to my old stuff, and my old stuff is just
that.
It's old stuff.
Everybody has to evolve.
You have to evolve or you evaporate.
Shout out to Usher.
I heard him say that first.
I'm not stealing Usher's lyrics, but that was a dope quote.
It was a dope quote.
But it's true.
It's true.
Time is going to move.
Music is going to change and evolve evolve whether you like that or not.
And you can either hold strong in what you feel and what you like and what era that was as time keeps moving on without you.
Or you could jump on and move with it.
Now, again, don't mean you have to change who you are.
You just have to acknowledge what's going on around you.
You just have to be aware of your surroundings.
That's funny.
The records that sound like that is me being aware of my surroundings that's what it is i had the opposite take from you ish
and that was kind of impressive to me as i was listening i was like oh i can hear neo in
these now you can't like for y'all to me the first few were the newer like the song with the doozy
all of that was kind of newer sounding i I think when I got to like seven down,
that's when Neo came out.
That's when the vibe changed.
Yeah, like from like seven down is when Neo came out.
I understand what you're trying to say.
I get what you're trying to say too.
I understand it.
I think it's more of like a production thing to me.
Snares.
And just snare drums.
The pace of an album.
Well, this is also one of the first albums
where I actually
intentionally
worked with
some younger writers
you know
just trying to
just again
trying to catch
different vibes
different elements
different sounds
and what not
again
I can only be me
I don't know how to be
nobody but me
but I can
I'm versatile
and I can apply me
to whatever
so yeah
I mean I don't
I don't take that as I don't take that as an insult at all.
No, not at all.
I like the project.
It's dope, though.
Thank you, brother.
But that's genuinely me just being aware of my surroundings and going, okay, all right, this is a vibe, that's a vibe, that's a vibe.
I've never tried these before.
Fuck it.
Let's give it a go.
If it works, it works.
If it don't, nobody ever has to know what happened.
These happen to work.
How often do you work with other writers? Being such a prolific writer yourself and how do you work
with other writers it is isn't it's new i'll say so um you should let me love you mario you should
let me love you i wrote that with scott storch and and uh my man cal um we all we all did that
together so that's that's one of the few co-writes that I've done. My You Should Let Me Love You, I wrote that with Sia.
Normally, how it'll happen is, like for Sia, for example, when I came into the session, she had to hook late already.
Let me love you and I will love you until you learn to love yourself.
And I just went in and wrote the verses.
It's a co-write.
We didn't sit down and create the whole idea together and toss ideas back and forth.
That sometimes is difficult for me because my process is internal.
Right, right.
Sitting and watching me write a song is going to be the boringest shit you ever did in the world.
Because I'm going to literally sit still for like 30 minutes, and then I'm going to get in the booth and I'm going to run the joint down.
I've had to learn to take my process and bring it on the outside.
So I'm sitting in a room with these young writers.
Shout out to Corey McHale.
Shout out to the boy Zay.
His pen is dope.
And it's like I'm watching how they do their thing.
And it's external.
It's a melody.
And then a dude will be like, oh, yeah, I like that.
What do you think about this line?
No, no, no, no, no.
And it's like, I've never done it before.
So you don't go in and do the reference melody
and then write the lyrics later?
You go in with it basically done?
Once I go in the booth,
I pretty much got, at the very least,
a verse and a hook done.
First half of the song is finished
before I even touch the booth.
Are you doing that in 30 minutes?
I was about to say,
you wrote that Let Me Love You in 30 minutes?
30 minutes to an hour.
If it takes longer than an hour,
I need to step away and do something else
and come back.
Damn.
The writer in you has to be looking at these catalogs and publishing being sold off for these astronomical numbers.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I see it.
What do you think when you see it?
I don't think anything.
I think congratulations to that writer.
He got some money.
I feel like if you are a writer, then you got more songs in you.
I think Chris might have did it the smartest I've ever seen it done.
I mean, I don't know if that's the reason that he did it, but it makes total sense.
How do you do it?
Sell off your catalog and then create a new one.
One album, 43 records, brand new catalog.
Bang.
You know what I mean?
Like one shot.
That was smart as hell
But I
I feel like
If you're getting what you
If you're getting what you're worth
Then yeah
Why not
Why not
Especially if you are
A writer
You can continue doing it
You can re
You can re-up your catalog
You know
Read that thing up
And sell it again
Especially if you're
Younger
If you're a younger person
Oh yeah yeah
But I mean the cool thing
About songwriting
Is that as long as
You can keep up
With the times You can write songs forever I can be 95 is that as long as you can keep up with the times, you can write songs forever.
I can be 95 and write a record if I'm keeping up with the times.
Sure.
And, again, that speaks to being aware of your surroundings.
Not trying to be something you're not, but just being aware of your surroundings.
You know?
People talk it a little different now.
People do it a little different.
All right.
They TikTok-ing.
You TikTok-ing?
Not really.
Not really.
I ain't mad at somebody taking one of my songs. Has a tick talker yes yes they are yes the whole team i mean
we can't deny the importance of it that's the unfortunate truth you can't deny tick tock is
important it's breaking artists it's breaking records it is what it is i just personally feel
a little silly i personally just feel a little silly with that but i have no issue
with somebody taking one of my songs and creating a little tiktok to it like because of you was
charting again that's for my second damn album and because some little kid decided to go and
create a little dance to it everybody caught on this because he was back up there like all right
cool i have zero problem with that but don't ask me to so much get on there and create.
No, that's super dope.
Erickson, chop up all of these moves he's doing.
And that's going to be your TikTok.
Yeah, Lord.
We'll do it for you.
We did it for you.
Get that shit going on our TikTok, please.
Isolate that.
As long as my percentage hit me, I'm straight.
I'm good.
This guy here is good.
So listen here uh a group of us right get together sometimes and play monopoly okay one of my techniques in monopoly um and not techniques but just what we do in the game
is we'll change a rule we'll invent a rule and attack a rule the wording of the rule like we'll change a rule. We'll invent a rule and attack a rule.
The wording of the rules,
like we'll get to the bottom of a rule,
right?
In the event to change some shit or misdirect one of the results.
I bring it up to say this to you versus yes.
When you did it,
it wasn't what it is now at all.
True.
There was no performance aspect.
Actually, that versus you did with John, they might not even let John to touch the stage.
We wasn't even in the same.
I don't even know if we were in the same city when we did that.
Yeah, no.
It was straight off the IG situation. But I'm saying today, I don't think they would allow a writer to get up there and do what he did that night.
That's a damn shame.
I think it might depend on the writer, though.
Because Jontae is a writer, but Jontae can sing.
Like, Jontae can get up there and sing the records that he wrote.
But they might not hit, like, the actual performer.
Who's going to?
If you play something by an Aaliyah record, come on.
They can't promote that.
Yeah. They can't promote that. Yeah.
They can't promote that.
I don't know.
I mean, they did once.
I don't know.
I feel like if they did it once, they could figure it out.
For that reason, if I were Neo, I'd say that should be stricken from the record.
And that match doesn't even count today.
And I need a new battle.
We have actually had that conversation.
But the stump is...
Wait, who won it?
The stump is who?
Who would you put me up against?
Who would you put me up against?
Who would I?
See, they got this thing
where they try to keep the talents
in the same era.
And that would be tough.
I actually do know
who I'd put you against.
Who?
Trey.
Trey Songz?
Yeah.
Okay.
I see it.
I mean, who else from that era
could stand there?
And we could never figure out
an opponent for him
because who else
could stand there in that era?
And the reason for that is because it was them two niggas in the era.
Of course, you had Lloyd, Chris.
You know who else was there.
But just with a strong-ass 20, yeah, that would be tough.
That would be tough.
I'm not opposed.
Honestly, I'm not opposed to anybody.
Whoever it is
they figure out
it's gonna be
the same spanking right
it's 20 records
it's 20 records
look
where you hear him
y'all don't hear this shit
that's what you hear
he's talking this shit
he let you know
who he is
that's a little
understand me
my flex is light
okay
I'm not gonna point out
all of y'all
the diamonds
but when you see them
goddamn
you know what I'm saying?
It's a light flex.
I don't got to do that.
He said what he said.
I've been here almost 20 years.
I ain't got to do that.
I ain't got to do that.
Your favorite album of yours?
Oh, you know what?
It's my favorite, but it's not my favorite because I feel like it was my best.
but it's not my favorite because I feel like it was my best.
It's my favorite because one of my idols basically helped me not feel the way I felt about it initially.
So Libra Scale was my fourth album.
It was right after Year of the Gentleman.
And at the time, it was my worst performing album.
I mean, there's a multitude of reasons why it didn't work.
I was trying to do shit that I didn't know what I was doing.
I told the label I wanted to do like a little mini movie and have the album be the soundtrack to the
movie i didn't know that in the world of writing scripts a page equates to a minute so i said a
30 minute movie i i gave them a script with four or like 147 pages in it oh shit because i'm just
writing i have no idea i'm just writing a story right and they're
like uh yeah this is not a mini movie this is this is a feature film and we're not paying for this
so i had to take that 140 some odd pages bust it down to 30 by the time i did that
time is clicking we ain't we ain't got time to cast it film it none of that so then it turned
into what was supposed to be six long form videos we got the three videos dev jam pulled a plug like
that's too much money we can give you you no more money for this and it was done
so the album came out
didn't do
didn't do real real well
but I got invited to
Prince's Grammy party
that year
oh yeah
so
I'm floating
because of that
Prince is
Prince is
one of my guys
I got five guys
and Prince is one of my guys
who's the other four
Michael Jackson
Prince
Stevie Wonder
Sammy Davis Jr.
Marvin Gaye.
If I could take these five people and meld them into one person, that is who I've always aspired Neo to be.
You can hear it.
You know what I mean?
I hear a little shit boing, boing, boing in here.
A little bit.
I grew up in Vegas.
You can definitely hear Prince.
You can definitely hear Michael, especially in the earlier stuff.
Yeah, man.
You can definitely hear them, too.
So we go to the party.
We're in the earlier stuff. Yeah, man. You can definitely hear them too. So we go to the party. We're in the pool house.
And I thought it was just the coolest shit ever
because we're literally standing on top of the pool.
It's like a plexiglass see-through shit on top of the pool.
So we're standing on the pool.
He's on stage with his band just rocking out.
He sees me, puts his guitar down,
beelines straight to me,
gets right up on my ear and says,
Leroy Scale was a good album
and don't let anybody
tell you different.
Shut the fuck up.
And walked off.
You're a liar.
Didn't say shit else to me
for the rest of the night.
Didn't say nothing else.
Prince can read your mind,
yo.
Yo, Prince is a mind reader.
Tell me shit about Libra Scale
after that.
He's the greatest.
Oh, please.
He heard the thought
in your brain.
Double blast.
I don't give a damn.
Prince said,
this is a good album.
If Prince has a good album, I don't care.
I don't care what y'all say after that.
So that's my favorite for that reason.
I'm not mad at that.
That's a hell of a reason.
Word.
Wow.
Yeah, man.
Any more stunt stories you can drop like that?
Stunt stories.
Oh, man.
That was awesome.
Light flex stories.
Get your shit off.
So Prince don't talk a whole lot.
Well, at least he didn't talk to me a whole lot.
Like, every time I saw him, he had, like, a phrase for me, and that was it.
We threw a Grammy party one year, and Prince and Stevie Wonder showed up to the party.
So my assistant comes to me and me And like yo Prince and Stevie Wonder
Is at the door
And I'm like
Did you let them in?
Why are they still at the door?
I came to ask you
If you don't let them in
What the hell is your door?
Yes let them in
So they come in
Prince is sitting on one side of me
Stevie Wonder is sitting
On the other side of me
I'm sitting there like
What the hell do I say?
That was a nigga
Trying to get a raise
To these people Word Or get fired Yo What you want me hell do I say? That was a nigga trying to get a raise. To these people.
Or get fired.
Yo, what you want me
to do with them?
You want me to do
something with them?
No, but thanks
for your devotion.
Pink slip.
No, but...
Straight away.
No, so at the time,
I'm drinking vodka cranberry.
So I take a sip of my drink
and I set it back down
and I look over and I catch Prince's eyes.
It's like he was looking at me, and it's like one of those, right?
So he says, what's that?
Vodka cranberry?
I love that everybody has this voice reference.
I'm sitting this close to him.
He says, come here.
So I lean over, and he gets right here, and he says, vodka's bad for you.
Prince was right, yo.
That was it.
That was it for the night.
That was it.
He said nothing else for the rest of the night.
Did you switch your drink?
Yeah, of course.
You know what?
Don't pour me this shit.
Take this shit.
Yo, that's great.
I'll have whatever Prince is drinking.
How dare you bring me vodka in front of this man?
Get this out of here.
That's awesome.
Make me another one, Hila.
Yeah.
Make me another one.
That's fucking nuts.
That's crazy.
That was a moment.
I bet.
That was a moment.
Yeah.
Man, I've had some moments.
I can honestly say, if I just sit down and think about just the last damn near 20 years,
I've had some amazing moments
to the point where if it ended tomorrow, I might be all right.
I would ask about all of them, but you're married.
Duh.
I would ask about all the moments.
I wouldn't even talk about those moments.
Oh.
Man, you ain't finna get me in trouble with my wife.
Never.
Hey, baby.
Never.
Hey, he's married.
I'm married.
I know the game.
Congratulations, brother. We're also birthday twins. Really? Yeah. October 18th. Hey, baby. Never. Hey, he's married. I'm married. I know the game. Congratulations.
We're also birthday twins.
Really?
Yeah.
October 18th. Yes, sir.
See, Libra's running the world on the low.
We don't tell people.
Libra's.
We don't tell people because, you know, people do their feelings.
Just because you had a bad experience with a Libra.
I did not.
I had a beautiful king with a Libra.
Oh, well, there we go.
I just know about Libras.
You be spicy with the Libras sometimes.
I don't like that shit.
Because I know about Libras a little bit.
What's wrong with us? Nothing. Exactly. Exactly. Nothing. Nothing at all. I don't like that shit. Because I know about Libras a little bit. What's wrong with us?
Nothing. Exactly.
Nothing at all. I love you guys.
Glad we're on the same page. Are you still playing
video games? Yes. Yes. I'm waiting on
Street Fighter 6. Come on.
Street Fighter up to number 6?
Street Fighter is up to number 6. I thought they'd be higher than that,
but no. Nah, they take their time.
Street Fighter, Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2
Ultra, Street Fighter 2 Extra Alpha
then you get three
then three Ultra Extra
it's like the iPhone
so they had six
yeah
and I'm anxiously awaiting
that one
is that what you did
for the last four years
I want all the small
you play video games
um
uh yeah
I played a lot of video games
no with my kids
you know
you know what
the quarantine
and the whole pandemic thing
sitting in the house you know me know what the quarantine and the whole pandemic thing sitting in the house
you know
me and wife
just not
liking each other
in the moment
but it's like
we in the house
in this quarantine
this COVID thing is happening
and they ain't really
giving us no information
so I was like
alright if I'ma die
I'ma die here
if that's what it is
again I have no idea
what's going on
we did the last season
of the World of Dance
TV show
with no audience which was just the weirdest shit in the world at the time.
Like, there's not going to be nobody here.
I forgot about that check when I was pocket watching.
Oh, yeah.
Forgot about that one.
Oh, yeah.
Forgot about that World of Dance.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who else is on there?
Me, J-Lo, and Derek Hough.
Oh, okay.
Got it.
Got it.
All right, so you understand?
Got it.
It's levels.
Levels and degrees.
Levels and degrees.
Hot and cold.
Up and down.
Why you did that to us just now, man?
Why you did that?
Why you did that to us just now?
You asked me a question.
All right, let me ask you.
You in the crypto?
Let me just try to get this out of here, man.
Light flex.
Hey, when these niggas come around, Starfire, I got to work harder. I got to work harder. You in the crypto? Let me just Let me try to get this Out of here man Light flex Hey when these niggas
Come around Starfire
I gotta work harder
I gotta work harder
You in the crypto
Any of that shit?
A little bit
A little bit
I don't know enough about it
To say that I'm in it
You ain't getting too much money
You know what I mean?
It's a lot
And then
Just recently
Didn't all that shit
Just like dip
Yeah
Like ridiculously
I'm in it
But I don't even know
What happened with that
One mil two mil
Didn't it dip? Yeah Other niggas is about to kill himself he's like yo
didn't it dip little something this guy nfts all right man what are your real thoughts about
christianity and its origin uh nfts uh i'm in it a little bit same thing same shit in it a little bit i don't know enough
about it to be like yeah i'm i'm in it you know i know cast this it's retired at 20 something off
that off that situation if you do it right it's some money to be made i just i i still don't
completely grasp the concept of spending that much money on something that i literally can't
touch with my hand you know that that kind of don't make no sense to me. But I can tell people what to do with their money.
Do you see what your contemporaries, Sean Stockman and Tank,
have been saying about the current state of R&B,
some of the hurdles that an R&B act has to go through today
to get a song played.
He even got into the label, bless you, some of the label views on R&B and the content in R&B.
He said something like, oh, he was speaking about him singing Sam Smith's song, Stay With Me.
And he said if he were to sing that song, it wouldn't be played the way that it was played
because he's a black
man singing about keeping the family together and today in r&b that's not the message that
is pushed to the mainstream at least by a black r&b artist but he said a lot sean is saying
everybody sucks sean is saying what the fuck has gotten into you guys where's the heart
the soul
the spirit
the feeling
the merit
all of that shit
like
what do you say about that
I know you don't
necessarily feel like that
cause you work with
a lot of the younger acts
and you adapt to the new sound
but what do you think
just about that messaging
today
in R&B
um
I gotta
I have the utmost respect
for Sean Stockman and tank let me start
by saying that so it's coming no no no no no i would need to read what sean was saying before
before i commented on it because i don't even completely know what it is that got it got it
got it got it uh tank has has you know constantly let let his voice be heard about how he feels
about the state of r&b today and just always championing R&B.
And I dig him for that.
I don't know, man.
You know what?
I agree in the realm of the Sam Smith situation.
I feel like had a black artist sang that same song, it might have not got the look.
That's the truth.
I think taking nothing from Sam Smith because he's amazing.
nothing from Sam Smith because he's amazing but I think that the reason it happened the way it did and the reason it happens like that when it's a you know quote-unquote white artist or whatever
is because it's kind of the the systemic anomaly like Sam Smith is a really soulful white dude
so you know it's it's not it's not the norm so to speak whereas a really soulful black dude
singing a really soulful song all right well we we we know
what that is we see that we get that but here comes this white dude this british white dude
yeah i think he's british sam is british this british white dude singing with all this soul
this is this is this is a an oddity to people to a degree it's like this is something to look at
this is this is a car on fire on the side of the street you're gonna slow down for that you're not
gonna slow down for kids playing in a park.
You see that.
I've seen that before.
It's just kind of how it's built.
You know what I mean?
It's the same situation with Adele.
Taking nothing from Adele because she's amazing.
She is exceptional.
She's the exceptional, quote unquote, white girl with all this soul.
And it's not a normal thing so yeah people
are going to pay attention but if jill scott were to sing the same song it might not get as big a
look just because okay a black woman singing a soulful song like we know what that is we've seen
that so i i feel like i feel like you have to kind of factor that in but then at the same time man a
hit is a hit is a hit and and you know it's to a degree it's
undeniable like once once it go it go and and you just gotta keep shooting your shot bro like i i
don't really i don't want to get caught up in the the excuses as to why things aren't what they
aren't or or whatever the case may be i'm gonna just keep pushing and try to figure out what's
gonna work as opposed to complaining about what's not working
because we'll sit up and have that conversation all day
and it won't nothing change
alright now that we've all discussed what doesn't work
what now damn it
I'm more about the what now
don't present problems without solutions
I guess a more direct question for you
because I agree with everything you're saying
why bother with that
why not work on solutions and being forward thinkers
but do you think the ballot is dead i don't think the ballot is dead i think the right
ballot is going to come around and remind people why we need ballots i don't think i think that
for a long time we haven't been reminded as to why we need ballots the ballot was the tool of the
vulnerable r&b singer and that was a
thing at one point it was it was a thing to be vulnerable it meant something to
be vulnerable it was the bet you were better as an R&B artist the more
vulnerable you were it was baby baby please and singing and crying in the
rain or whatever you know I'm saying that's that's what it was for 50 years
for for a long ass time and then all of a sudden, hip hop becomes the most popular music genre in the world.
And then all music gets a hip hop makeover.
Now we got trap country records.
Now we got, you know what I'm saying?
Everything kind of has that heavy drum or that cadence on it inspired by hip hop, including R&B.
So now we got this new generation of R&B cats coming up.
They not looking up to R&B dudes.
No. Because it ain't none're not looking up to r&b dudes no
because it because it ain't none it's they looking up to the rappers because the rappers is the one
getting all the attention getting all the girls getting all the money you know to apparently
visually visually yeah so all right and and mind you and mind you all the rappers are singing too
so yeah as an r&b dude i'm if i'm growing up and I'm looking up to Drake, if I'm growing up and I'm looking up to Lil Baby, as opposed to, you know, when it was me, I had Boyz II Men.
I had Jodeci.
I had Jagged Edge.
I had so many different outlets to get to, like, feed my R&B soul.
But it's like nowadays, or at least I'll say the generation, like, right after me, they didn't so much have as much R&B to feed their soul.
It was a lot of hip-hop and hip-hop-inspired stuff,
and that's why the music kind of took the turn that it did.
I think that's the reason that R&B is so macho right now.
Everybody's so damn tough.
You know what I'm saying?
Except for the alternative, kind of more Frank Ocean,
Brett Fias, Steve Lacey.
That's this whole other thing.
But as far as quote unquote
mainstream R&B.
Traditional.
Traditional is,
I don't even know if that's the word no more.
Because what's traditional
if it's supposed to change and evolve?
What is traditional?
That's just how it was done then.
You know what I mean?
And your granddaddy's music
ain't your daddy's music,
ain't your uncle's music,
ain't your music.
It's always changed and evolved.
That's not new.
Right, right.
You know?
We're just,
we're our uncles now.
Like, man, that ain't real music.
We them now.
I tell the fellas that all the time.
I say,
we turned into our parents
and I'm like,
yo, this shit is noise.
What is this?
This ain't real music.
In my day, we had this.
The sound can evolve,
but the message
can still be traditional like you're talking about the vulnerability that's been since before any of
us in here been born true you get what i'm saying true so now but today why is it not the thing now
because of the messengers yo i just think society not to be all db but i just think
the young black dudes growing up doing r&b they growing up
looking at some shit yeah you know what i'm saying like they just growing up looking at some shit
and yeah they've changed coming across in the music the women have changed to a degree you
know what i'm saying this is now it's vulnerability now it ain't even so much the dudes that you got
to worry about talking about just the women too like girls are nuts like it's it's tough now they're tough and and i i feel like
women don't understand the power that they have in the realm of this whole music thing
like don't you know ladies don't you know if y'all decided that y'all was only gonna listen to that
how many cats would flip around and start doing that because that's where y'all are
like you like you want to talk you you you want to complain about a man singing the word bitch
or whatever the case may be but when the song come on and you and all your girls jump up and
start twerking that's not telling that dude that you don't want to hear that that's telling them
the exact opposite so what makes you think that more of that isn't going to happen if the other
cast is looking to see all right well when when the a bitch fuck you song came on everybody got
up and started twerking all right well well hey bitch fuck you too hey me too part
two part three yeah that's that's that's how that happens now if y'all decided you know what we don't
like this word we don't like this this music we don't like being called this or treated like this
and stuck on it dudes would have no choice but to switch up give the ladies what they want well
what what we give y'all is what y'all are kind of showing us y'all want to start a revolt i'm hey listen i'm one man with
an opinion i'm entitled to it it's not special everybody got one this is mine do you think music
benefits if we were genreless i don't know if we could ever be genreless it's kind of what humans
do we compartmentalize.
We put things in boxes.
It's how we compare and contrast.
I don't know if there could ever be a genre-less music.
Everything is based off of something.
Let me not say music.
Radio and the corporate entities attached to music if they were genreless?
Not music, because you're right.
We would need to identify shit.
Yeah.
Like, what if Hot 97 could play country for an hour?
Oh, okay.
I get what you're saying.
Without ramifications.
Well, without ramifications kind of blankets the whole thing.
If there's no ramifications, then what difference does difference does it make yeah just do what you want to do
nothing's going to happen that's what no ramification means means nothing happens
so if nothing happens then yeah play whatever the hell you want i think the fear is that something
will happen if hot 97 decided one day you know let's play country for an hour like what would
what would that hour of programming look like as far as viewers?
How many people would click to another station?
Everybody would have to start relying on their music and how good it is.
True.
True, to a degree.
Instead of, hey, there's only such and such amount of country
songs dropping next quarter here.
Let me drop this country song. Instead of pandering to
different, it would just be the quality of
the sound of the music.
Yes.
But who's the gatekeeper but but who's oh who's
the gatekeeper then who's the one that says i want to get that term out of hip-hop i swear i do and
this ain't like i'm just saying who who's the person that does them niggas ain't gatekeepers
because they play a song they're not no then how does the song get played that's not true who
decides what song gets played all right well what's a gatekeeper now we start there that's not
true whoever it is that's whoever Yeah, that's not true.
Whoever it is that's programming the radio, whoever it is that's saying, all right, this song is getting played, this song isn't.
And that person's opinion, that's what radio is. It's one person's or one group of people's opinion of what they feel like music should sound like based on their radio station.
Those are the gatekeepers.
If they say no, it's no.
sound like based on their radio station if they were those are the gatekeepers if they say no it's no if that if they were gatekeepers then you wouldn't have entire communities of rappers
birthed from other places there are soundcloud rappers there are youtube rappers it was mixtape
rappers just any way to get your start going around radio so what is gatekeeper? You act like there's only one restaurant.
There's so many
different restaurants.
Yeah, okay.
Over here,
this restaurant got gatekeepers.
This restaurant,
it's a person in here
telling you what you can
and can't eat.
That's just what that is.
Now that ain't to say
that you can't go over there
and try to make your own plate
and, you know,
by the grace of God,
you get some success
and all right,
now you can make
whatever the hell you want.
You can eat whatever
the hell you want.
But if you want to eat over here, you can make whatever the hell you want you can eat whatever the hell you want but if you want to
eat over here
you gotta listen to them
not just that
if you go over there
but that's not a
that's one place
why are we tiling that
one place called
radio
true
that's a big ass place
forever
cause you're talking
about SoundCloud
the reason that the
Joker's gotta go to
SoundCloud
to circumvent
not getting played on the radio.
Now, mind you,
I'm not saying that this is right.
I couldn't disagree more.
I'm not saying this is right,
but this is what it is.
Okay, so if there's no gatekeepers
in radio,
then how come everybody's shit
don't get played?
But I didn't say
there's no gatekeepers in radio.
I said that that's not a gatekeeper.
That should be called something else.
Let me ask you this.
So he said, yo...
Because when you say gatekeeperkeeper that leads me to think that you are either letting people in or out or stopping
shit right yeah yes i get what you're saying you're doing it at the radio that don't stop
nothing to me but you'll be a radio gatekeeper that don't stop nothing to me in fact it's the
opposite they're now playing catch up to digital. Yes, they're still there.
But they cannot exist today without a digital arm.
Know why that is?
Because for a long time, they thought they was gatekeepers.
And they was the only thing moving and shaking.
No, they were gatekeepers.
They were gatekeepers.
And what happened is they made people find another way around them.
You know what they are?
Yeah, I'm talking about today.
Y'all are right.
They're doormen.
They still are.
Even today, it's still gatekeepers.
It's the doormen at the club that take his job way too serious.
Yes.
Yeah, you can come in.
You can't come in.
He ain't got no real power, but he going to abuse this right here.
Right.
Like, I could choose to just not go to this goddamn club.
To hell with you.
Now all your power is gone.
Now what?
Fuck you.
That's the quote unquote gatekeepers of radio.
Two decades.
Two decades ago, you couldn't get a career without radio.
True.
Very true.
To piggyback on your point.
So now that same club doorman who won't let nobody in.
Now we go find another club.
This club popping now.
We don't even care if we can't get in your club.
We came over here up the street to this club.
We made this club popping.
I totally agree.
That's why we don't call that guy the gatekeeper.
We call him the doorman at that club.
But he still was the gatekeeper.
It's different with radio, though.
I'm open to the information.
I don't want to sound closed-minded.
Door, gate is something standing in the way of you getting in or out.
And there's a person preventing that from happening.
That person is the keeper of that door or that gate.
They're the person that's deciding
whether you get in or not.
You can hear a song
on the radio
over and over.
You can hate the song
when you first hear it.
But because they are
blasting it in your head
every 15 minutes,
you start loving the song.
So somebody else's song
that didn't get that same...
Thank you for explaining
this to me.
No. Yo, dawg. Somebody else that didn't get that thank you for explaining this to me no yo dog somebody
else that didn't get that same level of access now gets shut off to the world hearing that song
every 15 minutes so they don't reap the benefits of that so today all of you say that the radio is
a gatekeeper still yeah i say that there are gatekeepers in radio i i've never said that that
the importance of radio hasn't dwindled a little bit based on digital and all of that.
But the truth of the matter is
there's still cats in radio
that decide who gets played
and who doesn't.
And that person,
that person's...
How is that decided?
Can you speak to that?
I mean, I honestly can't.
I'm assuming it's the program director.
Okay.
Right?
The program director decides...
Well, yeah, it's the program director.
...directs the program.
I think they do... What's a call when you get
focus groups
I think they do a lot of that kind of thing
or at least they say they do
I'm not even 100% that they do
it may still just be payola
that's disguised through
that's a better label
that's a form of gatekeeping
it's like alright yeah
I'll let you in
you know
that's the thing too
so by that theory or by that definition It's like, all right, yeah, I'll let you in. That's the thing, too.
So by that theory or by that definition, do you believe that it's even possible for an artist to be blackballed today?
I don't know about all that.
I feel like, well, I mean, in order for an artist to be blackballed, somebody with some power has to be like, no, not that person.
Right.
And at one point in time, that was the gatekeeper at radio no we're not playing that no right but now we have digital now we have
soundcloud now we have all of these other places that this person could potentially go to get their
song played can reach an audience on their own an audience find them so now this cat is selling
out concerts and he never had a song on
the radio can you blackball him it is possible if the radio might not because what happened now
what happened now is all these other avenues and outlets the labels got in bed with them too
your sound clouds and everything the labels say okay it's popping over there we're gonna go over
there and now they working with us they just did what they did at radio the labels are playing catch up okay y'all found a way around y'all found a hole in
the fence okay guess what now we over there by that hole in the fence you still gonna have to
play with us that's how their labels are treating it so they can still blackball you to an extent
to an extent they just make it harder they'll make it hard it's not impossible because now it's not
just that one avenue you needed before if you couldn't get it in radio, you wasn't getting it. Right.
Now, it's so many different lanes that, yeah, we blocked you at radio, we might have made it harder.
Okay, or we blocked you over here.
You can't get on no playlist now over here at the DSPs without playing with us.
We made it harder.
You can still navigate.
We just made it a little harder for you.
But to completely cut somebody off, no, I don't think they can do that today.
I don't know if that's a thing. I don't think they can do that i don't know if that's the thing i don't think you can do that today because now you have direct you have direct
yeah consumers is literally going out and finding their own figuring out figuring out what they want
to listen to they sell but is that the average nobody can come in and say don't listen to that
and and you listen to them like that's that's not i don't i don't know who has that power anymore
but like like you said i don't think that's the average consumer. And I think that's where streaming came in.
And I think that's where the labels ran and got embedded with the streaming DSPs.
Like, you know what?
Yeah, that small percentage that's going to go out and find their own, cool.
But for the masses, we're going to tell you, you pay me $9.99 and we give you all of this right here.
And we'll show you these playlists and show you what's hot, show you what's new, show you what you should like.
We got algorithms that's going to make it for you.
And we're going to put who we want you to listen to.
So thus, we're still gatekeeping.
You said that you've done some wild things in the past.
And I'm a great guy, so I don't care about any of that.
But I do care about the future.
So I will ask you, what is the wildest thing remaining on your bucket list?
Remaining on my bucket list.
Damn, because I can genuinely say I've checked off a lot of my bucket lists.
Oh, I thought you were about to say, I can literally say, I've done everything on my bucket list.
I've done a lot of it.
Jesus, Neil. I've done a lot of it Jesus
I've done a lot of it
it ain't a whole lot
of checks to be
to do no more
do you need to add
to your bucket list
I do actually
I do actually
yeah
cause my bucket list
initially was
win a Grammy
sell a million records
be on BET106
in park
like this is my bucket list
initially
and then once you do all that
it's like okay
climb a mountain jump out of an airplane,
you know, spend the night at one of the big castles in Dubai, the Sheik or the Sheik or
whatever.
It changes as time progresses and as you level up, your bucket list levels up.
So where I'm at right now, I would really have to sit and think about something that I just really wanted to do that I haven't.
I would have to really sit and think about it.
I'm blessed, brother.
It's a blessing.
I'm blessed.
It's a blessing.
This guy's great.
I don't have anything else for you.
No, nor do I.
Congratulations on the new album.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate it.
Appreciate the love.
Yeah, for a quick stop by to stunt and go. Yeah. Appreciate the love. Quick stop by to stunt and go.
Yeah, that's it.
Just a quick little stunt and go.
A quick reminder, I'm still him.
I have done nothing but answer your questions with absolute honesty.
And if that seems a little flexity off, pardon my flex.
I'm sorry.
Pardon me for flexing in front of you bum ass niggas.
Ladies and gentlemen, the amazing.
Hey.
Hey.
Nice joints on here.
It is.
Brand new album in your phones right this very second.
And if it's not, search for it.
You know what they be doing in there stack life on the banks act right i never can act like my biggest fan baby i'm the man and you know
i am trap life she used to dance if she act right, I'ma put it in her hands
Money like you don't even understand
Got a booty like I don't even understand
Shawty let me know something
I'm tryna beat it like it's stone
Cause she ain't tryna fuck until she see something
I know what to do to make her keep coming
That shit wet enough to drain from it
All you gotta do is call me You know the deal, sugar Thank you.
Appreciate the love, brother.
Always.
Thank you, bro.
Oh, man.
That was great.
It really was.
Artists.
I can't wait till more of you come by here to tell you that you don't sound like you used to.
Nah, that's fire, man.
That's his guy.
That's what I said.
And that wasn't what he said.
That's what I said.
When you offend somebody, you let it go straight up.
Yeah, if you're asking. That's not what I said. Don't fan of somebody you better know straight up yeah
if you're asking
that's not what I said
don't get styped
sorry moving on
come on come on
I can come on
with y'all shit
yo
yeah when y'all get all
visibly spicy mayonnaise
where you wanna go
you were telling us
about the euro
and dollar being the same
it's the same
the euro and the dollar
it's the same now
explain that to me
what that mean
it means you don't have to send your London bitches extra money when you're tricking on them.
Oh.
I don't have any London joints.
Do you have joints anywhere?
Where y'all send y'all London joints?
Skip my question.
Well, I asked one first.
Oh.
Okay.
This nigga stupid.
Nah, for the first time in 20 years, the euro and the dollar is the same.
Might be time for a little euro trip
typically
the euro used to always be
well in the last
probably decade
it's been like a dollar
and a half
so what they're saying
is
they're saying
it's
the
looks like
a worldwide recession
as opposed to just
a United States recession
okay
so something to keep your eye on well I've seen a lot of people like you just a United States recession. Okay.
Something to keep your eye on. Well, I've seen a lot of people
like you just said, Park,
saying like,
yo, that means it's time
to take a European trip.
Mm-hmm.
Like, why?
Because you used to cost
a double, not double,
but I'm not trying to be funny.
If you go to the United States
with $150,
U.S. money.
No, if you go over there,
you're saying.
Yeah, if you go,
I mean, that's what I meant.
You go to Europe with $150 U.S. dollars. No, if you go over there, you're saying. Yeah, if you go, I mean, that's what I meant. You go to Europe with $150 U.S. dollars.
Yeah.
It's $100 for their money.
Okay.
So your dollar didn't stretch over there.
Your dollar's a peso.
Not quite.
I mean.
But, no, you wouldn't, you know what I'm saying?
Like, you wouldn't get as much bang for your buck part.
Tell me about it.
Let me ask, is there a place where if I take my-
I thought he was well-traveled, yo.
Who said that?
I thought he was trip take a seat.
Trip take a ice.
He's been to Patterson.
Patterson for sure.
They don't take Euros over there.
Yeah, Jersey City.
They don't take Euros? Well, maybe they do.
They'll take whatever.
They take pesos.
But look,
Ish,
so just,
we can get off this,
but just,
I don't know.
Just asking.
Is there any place that
if I took my 100 US,
it would equal more
than 100?
Yeah.
Damn near everywhere
in the world.
Except London.
Except for Europe.
Europe.
Okay.
London's a different currency
also.
Oh,
shit.
And you can't bring, don't you? This don't apply for your Liberty card. What the London's a different currency also. Oh, shit. And you can't bring,
this don't apply for your Liberty card.
What the fuck is a Liberty card?
What's a Liberty card?
What's that?
What the fuck is you talking about?
A Liberty card is,
that's a...
Like the Rush card?
That was a Rush card.
That was the shit that,
what's my man's name?
Russell Simmons.
Russell Simmons.
No.
Take a nigga's head,
take a Liberty card.
Liberty's a real company it's just
one of them
it's like Spirit
I ain't never heard of that one
Spirit Airlines
yeah but for cards
like when you wanna
get your credit up
they give you $200
on the card
hey
go stress this out
go stress this out
for the month
nigga come back
get your shit right
we gonna increase
your limit
after seven good payments.
I went in the store
one time
and they looked
oh my God.
The girl looked at you?
She started laughing?
Maybe I am down with you.
I might be down with you.
I don't even know
what that means, fam.
That would mean
whatever.
It don't matter.
It don't matter.
You going to tell them
what happened in the store?
I asked y'all to play GM before, and we did that.
But with the Knicks jazz story heating up, I'm going to ask you gentlemen again,
who do you side on?
Who do you side with here?
And how do you think this will play out?
For those that don't know, jazz are asking new york for me
y'all statue of liberty they asking for everything it's reported you know you never
can trust these sources but it's reported that they're asking for six first round picks
that's crazy topping quickly grimes and mBride, and allegedly Pickswap.
That's crazy.
That's a little rich.
Six picks?
The draft picks are what made it insane.
Six first round picks?
With all those players?
That is insane, fam.
I would have gave them to players.
I would have gave them picks.
You would have gave them six picks? In the RB. Never. Take the fam. I would have gave them the players. I would have gave them the picks. You would have gave them six picks?
In the RB.
Never.
Take the picks.
You're not getting.
Yeah.
Take the six picks.
You're not going to get six future first round picks.
We got picks.
We got picks.
I would have gave them the players, not the picks.
I'm not giving you my whole bench.
No.
That's my whole bench.
And the picks.
You can't.
You can get one of Quickly or Grimes because those are my two shooters. And the picks. You can get one of
Quickly or Grimes
because those are my
two shooters.
And one of them is a
3 and D guy that we're
grooming in Grimes.
And he's kicking ass
in summer league.
And you can get one of
Toppin or McBride.
And then I'm throwing
Fournier in here.
But you're not getting
my four.
Those are my two last
draft classes.
Yeah. And the next six. But you're not getting my four. Those are my two last draft classes. Yeah.
And the next six.
All picks.
And the next six.
I would have gave him them.
Fuck Danny Ainge.
I just, yeah.
I looked at this and I thought this was just the effects of the Rudy Gobert shit.
I mean, he did up that market though.
Yeah.
If you see, okay, that's what's happening out here
alright I'm gonna say something
he did this in 2012
this is Danny Ainge
yeah
my thing is
listen
this is how I feel
I know Danny Ainge's reputation
but I don't feel like the Jazz
have leverage in this situation at all
I'm glad the Knicks hung up
that phone on him
Donovan Mitchell was signed
for four more years
you are clearly in the middle of a rebuild.
You don't want him.
Now, you had the element of surprise with Rudy.
But the whole league know that you don't want Donovan Mitchell on your team.
You gave away Royce O'Neal.
You're giving away people.
There's a fire sale in Utah.
We've been tracking this for a little second now.
And that's cool.
But on the flip side of that, there's nobody
else for you to negotiate with.
Not a one.
It's Miami out there that you're
talking about. Are you leaking the reports? I love
Hero. They leaking a bunch of reports to try
to raise this up. Yeah.
You don't love Hero and them picks.
You're not going to come over here
and Minnesota, try to get seven and eight picks,
and then go to Miami and take Hero, Duncan Robinson, and two other picks.
That's one.
Two, them Miami draft picks ain't worth nothing.
They're going to be good.
The Heat going to keep being good.
Them draft picks ain't going to get that deal done.
And if they won draft picks, you know who Pat Riley got a call?
Because I'll never doubt Pat Riley.
He got a call, OKC.
And normally you'd be afraid of that.
But guess who's on the other end of that line?
Sam Presti.
This is the Sam Presti and Danny Ainge rule.
I don't see it.
I don't see it.
And I'm super glad that the Knicks are not negotiating against themselves.
Fuck y'all.
Six picks you could have.
And three players.
But only one of them players is going to be one of my young boys.
Yeah.
I'll give you Derrick Rose, Eric Fournier, one of my young guns.
They make too much money.
No.
I said they make too much money.
Oh, no.
Jazz would have to throw in Jordan Clark.
Jordan Clarkson.
You're right.
You're right.
There's a fire sale.
There's no such thing as you're right.
I don't see it the way you
see it, but because I think
I think the Rudy Gobert
pick letting him go for
them was great.
The kid that they picked
up is going to fit right
in where he left off.
Not a problem.
They picked up the boy
from Auburn.
He's going to fit in right
where Rudy Gobert left off
right there.
Three-time defensive player
of the year.
Yep.
You'll see. The boy from Auburn. You're going to see. You're going to fit in right where Rudy Gobert left off. Right there. Three-time defensive player of the year. Yep. You'll see. The boy from Auburn.
You're going to see.
You're going to see. I'm going to see and you don't even know his name. I don't got to know
his name. I know what he did. Walker Kessler.
He gets busy.
He punches shit and he's better offensively
than Rudy Gobert by far.
So, I think that they got that
off with the Rudy Gobert trade.
I just...
I don't see where they're going to go if they give away Donovan Mitchell
because now you don't have a floor general or a floor leader,
so I don't even see where Quigley and none of them wouldn't have did it for me either.
Like, I would have gotten.
You don't know where they're going to go
and they're actively trying to lose games in front of your face.
Who was actively trying to lose games?
Last season?
The Jazz.
What do you mean now?
Right now.
We'll see.
They could go out there with the painter as the floor general.
They don't give a fuck.
We'll see.
If they win one game, they don't care.
And they got picks.
And their own picks.
I mean, again, we disagree.
I have faith in Danny Ainge rebuilding the Jazz.
For sure.
But certainly not on Leon Rose's accord
But I do like
The Knicks new strategy
Of wanting players
And going to hire their dads
That's absolutely fire
Yo you wanna work at the Mets yo
It's tampering Joe
Yo you wanna work at the Mets
It's tampering man
Yo what you think about DeAndre?
He got paid,
boy.
No,
he didn't.
He signed the biggest deal in history.
Oh,
yeah,
he signed it.
He got 133 over four or something,
right?
He signed it,
yeah.
No,
whatchamacallit,
Indiana offered.
I know,
they matched it.
Phoenix matched it in three minutes.
In history.
That's crazy.
Why do I care about this?
Because I thought Indiana was one of the places
that Donovan Mitchell would end up.
They just got rid of their point guard.
So him over there makes a ton of sense.
You saying nobody won't take him.
Indiana takes him in a heartbeat.
I'm not saying nobody will take him. Indiana takes him in a heartbeat. I'm not saying nobody will take him.
I'm saying that no one has the draft capital and young prospect to take him.
And I don't know what Indiana is doing.
Brogdon left.
They've been trying to trade Miles Turner for sardines for about a year and a half now.
I don't know what they got going on over there. I trade Miles Turner for sardines for about a year and a half now.
I don't know what they got going on over there.
But I'll never believe in the Pacers.
It's been a while. Even though they've been at the fate of many of the Knicks' demises.
They've had a couple good squads, a couple good runs.
They just got beat out by some of the greatest teams in history.
Whatever, fuck them.
Hold that grudge. Yeah, Mm-hmm. Whatever. Fuck them. Hold that grudge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel you.
Real sports fanatic.
And I'm staying with Neal.
After Party.
Off his brand new album,
Shout Out to Berg.
Get back.
Brand new album, shout out to Berg Said your man got you stressed, well let's get away
Bet I'm for the night, wanna impress you babe
I won't stop till we hit final destination
Said your eyes said it all, I gotta say a word
Too deep in your spine, touching all your nerves
Got a way to pussy talk, you don't need no word
Oh, oh, oh
This drug got you clutching your stomach
Feeling in the morning, ain't this what you wanted?
If I'm warning, ain't this what you wanted? Your whole gut tryna fuck
But it's you that I want
Tryna give you this stuck passion, baby
The way you watch your back
When you tilt it all like that
So you can get stuck
Passion, baby
Oh, oh
Gonna press me, show you ain't wasting time
Love the way that you gripping me when we grind
You ain't gotta tell me I already know it's mine
Oh, oh, oh
Got your legs spinning round like a ceiling fan
Your body speak a language I understand
Going deeper and deeper till you say when
Oh, oh, oh
This stroke got you clutching your stomach
Feeling in the morning
Ain't this what you wanted?
You're hung up, trying to fuck
But it's you that I want
Trying to give you this good passion, baby
Ooh, when you watch your back When you tilt it up like that
Tryna get it stuck Passion, baby, oh, I
Slow and easy is the way I wanna take my time
Slow and easy is the way I wanna love you now
Slow and easy
I'ma take it slow
And easy
Slow and easy is the way I wanna love you now Brand new music, that's some Ne-Yo I'm crazy I'm crazy I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy
I'm crazy I'm crazy And bye, of course. Absolutely. Get the project. Let's go.
Got some shit on there.
All right, what up, what up, what up, what up?
Where that, where that?
It's over here.
It's over here.
Man, there's so much shit dropped.
I ain't know what to play.
But I'm going to play the record off this Rowdy album.
This is Master P featuring French.
You know what it is.
When you hear that.
That's your head.
Hey, tell that nigga to spin the car back real quick.
Let me holla at him.
I'm going to ask him a question real quick.
Hey.
Should I walk with my gun today?
Hold on.
Let me think about it.
I put my gun on my motherfucking hip.
Knowing damn well I can't leave without it. 2022 Master P. What do you say to that? I feel I'm bad about it I put my gun on my motherfuckin' hip Knowin' damn well I can't leave without it 2022 masterpiece I feel I'm bout it, bout it They say Roddy back up in his bag
And no, I ain't comin' out of it I made the bro hit the club first
I'm tryna see if it's chill I make the plug eat the perk first
I'm tryna see if it's real She gotta shake on her ass and titties
She said go pay her her bills We got the drop on the ice with the cops at the block
Shoot, we gon' lay on the stairs I can't go on the man in my city
So my Audemars came with a busy Don't reach for her bag, that shit got my
city This Louis Vuitton scarf got me itchy
Got a million dollar worth of jewels Can't swim but I got a pool
I can turn one into a two And I can turn two into a four
I took my Air Maxes to the earth We had air mattress on the floor We had 30 chops up on the porch
Took my old friends to a cart Came a long way from being poor
Came a long way from being broke Came a long way from being lost
So out of a shot, niggas call me to go Should I work on my gun today?
Let me think about it I put my gun on my motherfuckin' hip
Knowin' damn well I can't leave without it 2022 masterpiece, I feel I'm bout about it
They say Roddy back up in his bag, and know I ain't climbin' out it
I make the bro hit the club first, I'm tryna see if it's chill
I make the puck eat the perk first, I'm tryna see if it's real
She gotta shake her ass and titties, she said go pay her her bills
We got the drop on our opps, but the cops cops at the block Shit, we gon' lay on the stairs
My heart be racin' like Usain Mixin' the Perk and the Evans
My block be jumpin' like Ukraine Hop out with 21 Savage
Smokin' that line, turnin' New Leaf Niggas 14 days, two weeks
She shakin' that titty, boy, 2 Chainz This devil got it on Moussaint
He killed that boy first day home He told her that boy came back for him
Livin' the fire Whippin' and scrapin'' the pot Ready to live but they ain't ready to die
Chippin' for bodies, ride through the trenches with Roddy Mixin' that lean with the molly
Ain't tryna pally, blow off your chest with the shotty Frenchie a problem, eh
Should I walk with my gun today? Let me think about it
I put my gun on my motherfuckin' hip Knowin' damn well I can't leave without it
2022 masterpiece I feel I'm bout it, bout it They say Roddy back up the perk first I'm tryna see if it's real She gotta shake on her ass and titties She said go pay her her bills We got the drop on her ass with the cops on
the block Shit we gon with the cops on the block Shoot, we gon' lay on the stairs That's Master P, Rowdy Rebel featuring French Montana
Off of that Rebel vs. Rowdy project
Another dope project
For real
Y'all know good and goddamn well where I'm going
Let's go
DJ Premier and Niles
You know what I'm gonna do?
Let's take it back to a classic
Breakbeat joint, get busy on that Shout out to Breakbeat Lenny and Breakbeat Lou Come on DJ Premier and Nas. Throw my niggas in the bridge Throw my niggas in the bridge First off, I wanna thank the pioneers for making this possible
Fake humbleness, snake dummy shit is intolerable
Living by principle
Staying honorable, women in swimming suits by the pool
I'mma slide with a few, every chance is spoiled
No enhancement pill, no dead antler oil
And they pennies be soiled
I know some niggas that are damage squad
You amateurs play with a man, I send savages charge
It ain't no sit-down downs, too late to fix it
You bout to take a visit to your maker
Ass kissing don't make a difference
Cash giving might give you a pass, you can pay me
But I'm too rich now, so all that money you can save it
So get down on the pavement
Hang it with 9, sell your homies how your day went
Rocking with preem is nothing short of amazing
Feel me, I boosted this street rap
The truth of a beats rap
The earth been here over a billion years, deep rap
That new S-class ride of music, with your seat back
I'm the student who grew up to teach rap, these specs
This that Nas with his teeth cracked, I sparked their retreats back
The smooth women who want beef breaks
Baha'i hip hop, yo
Throw my niggas in the bridge, yo
Throw my niggas in the bridge, yo Throw my niggas in the bridge, yo
Throw my niggas in the bridge, yo
My niggas in the bridge
When I'm quiet they all fine
I'm out of sight out of mind
As soon as I'm back on they ass they bitchin' and cryin'
Or how they hatin' one that caused me damage
Just cause the rose is all black
Like the space between the stars and the planets
I might just pause a minute
Check the vibe old school style's been augmented You heard everything to Nas' vocal chords
hit it Good lord now is it me or is they hard headed
Primo beats of water let your thoughts dissolve in it
Remember Nas like a father to the fatherless We take the pain, smile and mix it with street
knowledge in Hopped the turnstile back when I was a problem
in Avia hot tops I should've been modeling
Model citizen They say I'm crime victim
Just cause I'm spittin' lines and get me some ends
212 hunnids a mixer Plug my mic in
Holdin' my mics like I'm huggin' lightnin' the concrete bricks
You're slapped by the sound waves from the early days
Feel it in your vertebrae Go DJ DJ, this ain't the criminal on beat breaks
But how I hip hop
Throw my niggas in the bridge
Throw my niggas in the bridge
Throw my niggas in the bridge
Throw my niggas in the bridge
That is Beat Breaks by DJ Premier and Nas.
Wow.
That shit was loud.
You hear the mix on that?
Wow, yo.
Y'all hear the mix on that though? Everything sounded so clean. That shit was loud. You hear the mix on that? Wow, yo. Y'all hear the mix on that though?
Everything sounded so clean.
That shit was pristine.
It's like I could hear
every noise in there.
I thought I was in a sound cabin
for a minute.
That's what it felt like.
Yeah, you heard that, right?
Records don't even sound
that crispy today.
Now, who did that?
Who could they have gotten
that got tip-tapped
tap that one?
Yeah, somebody put
their foot in that one.
Yeah, I don't know.
Shouts to whoever mixed that one. Wow. True indeed. And I Somebody put their foot in that one. Yeah, I don't know. Shouts to whoever mixed that one.
Wow.
True indeed.
And I'd want to work with him one day.
Same.
That shit make you want to rap.
So lucky.
Yeah.
Hey, what you playing, man?
Fabo.
Song is called Love Me Back.
Love Me Back. She go to bed, dang
Stay in the projects
Shooting in broad day
Rubella, no change
Baby, you know me
I leave at random, no trace
Cause I couldn't be yours
And you couldn't be mine
But I still put you to sleep
Pretty round, brown OD
Hittin' them bases, same for me
Slidin' in home plate, MLB
Lucky I give you all this game
Runnin' it back six rounds, you not ashamed
Those who let you down shall not be named
B&B in Oakland, come and play
Throw it back, throw it, throw it back, oh
Love me back, love me, love me back, oh
Fuck me back, fuck me, fuck me back, oh
Throw it back, love me back, fuck me back Throw it, love me back
Shake all the bad dangers Stay in the projects
Shooting in broad day Club El Norte
Submissive Anytime I say Grant permission For me to ruin your life
You never run from me You welcome me with ease
Submission
Catch me up to speed I've been going with you been on
Before you go home
Brought you through all your dreams
Wake up, it's been too long
I highly recommend the dick
I highly recommend 10 out of 10
So good you'll probably try to pay the rent
Come back and get stroked in it, ooh-wee
Throw it back, throw it, throw it back, oh
Love me back, love me, love me back, oh
Fuck me back, fuck me, fuck me back, oh
Throw it back, love me back, oh
Brand new old music Sysfabo, love me back
Hey
Hey
Alright, gentlemen
Great pod today All right, gentlemen.
Great pod today.
For our part of the show members listening,
I don't know what the fuck is going on with my thingamajiggy where I read your questions.
Yeah, that was weird.
It's been acting up.
Can't seem to access it.
Gonna send it over to IT.
Ice.
Or Ice-T. That is Ice-T. can't seem to access it gonna send it over to IT ice or ice tea
that is ice tea
ice why you ice tea
hope everybody's feeling good
feeling great
hope you enjoyed this
as much as we enjoyed doing it
keep us in your prayers High school junior and senior, senior Shawty had a badass demeanor, I mean it
I say I need a bed cause my nigga, I need it
Keep us in your prayers, Lord knows we need to be there
Until the next time, I bid you adieu, farewell
Adios, arrivederci, hasta la vista, au revoir, so long, goodbye
Do remember life is a series of moments
And moments pass
So let's make this one last
As if it's all we have
And last but certainly not least
The baddies are insecure
The stagnant women wanna travel
The closed-minded women want you to teach them things
And the young girls have fake IDs
Card them and make them put their phone in a little box
Before they come inside the hotel.
Let's go to Slim. Hey. Any fun weekend plans, anybody? Hey
Any fun weekend plans anybody?
I got a couple things
I got a couple things going on
Where you going?
Martha's Vineyard
Hey
That boy getting money
You hear that Ish?
It's the man
You hear him right?
It's the man
I've never been
Yeah
I heard it's amazing
I've never been either I can't afford it Rem's people got a place up there I heard it's amazing We you hear him right it's the man I've never been yeah I heard it's amazing I've never been either
I can't afford it
Rem's people got a place up there
I heard it's amazing
we should take a class
on what should be
our one topics
we should have been
got that one
I don't understand
I'm so lost
money money
anyone else
want to close out
with something
amazing
that we could have
unpacked for mad long
no I'm just
anyone else I'm going concert hopping oh yeah I'm going to go fuck with the show today too going to the bank show Something amazing that we could unpack for Matt Long. Anyone else?
I'm going concert hopping.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to go fuck with the show today, too.
Going to the bank show.
I'm going to the Chris Brown little baby show.
Going outside listening to some records.
Yo, peace.
Peace, y'all.
Peace.
Peace out.
Bye.