Transcript of Episode 801 | "0-5 Zone"

The thoughts, views, and opinions expressed by this podcast whose bullets its hosts offer entertainment purposes only. I repeat, it is not serious. It is not real. No one is exposing, revealing, indicting, or telling you anything about themselves. Also, we do not encourage you to try this at home. We are trained professionals who do not have your best interests at heart or our own. Enjoy the show. Happy anniversary. Happy anniversary, each of you. Yeah, I made the applause a little louder for 10 years. Good to see everybody. Thank you guys for your contributions. Thank you guys for the effort shown. Thank you guys for the camaraderie, the solidarity that you've shown forever, long each of you have been here. Round of applause. Keep that applause going, man. Mic check. Mic check, Mic check. All right. Oh, thank you to y'all out there. Come on now. Best fans in the world and the worst fans in the world. All in one room. All in one room. Keep the applause going for the best and worst fans in the whole wide world.

That's a fact.

Boy, do y'all make it hot when I'm in trouble with these corporations. Actually, I only get in trouble with these corporations because the fans are the best and the worst. Thank y'all. Thank y'all for letting corporate know when I sleepwalk butt ass naked to somebody's door. Thanks. Really appreciate the fan base. Couldn't have got here without y'all. Keep the applause going for the best fans in the world. Hey, all right. I am mind blown, and that's tough to do with the way that my mind is structured. We were talking about. I don't. I wasn't even here for the talk. We talking about Pod Wise. Is Ian's wife on the network? Technically, she is, because Pod Wise, the show. New episode out now. Ha ha. Analytics. Huh? Analytics. Lot of ladies. Ian's wife is technically on the network, and they. They found. They found her doppelganger on the Dave Chappelle show many, many, many years ago on that. What skit was that?

Who knows black people?

Who knows black people? That lady looks exactly like Ian's wife. I even told my girl. I was like, look, they found somebody look exactly like Jules.

I just texted to you. It is her.

It's just. What up?

From my. I haven't seen it. The consensus of the crew is that is her.

I would have never said that.

I don't think that that logistically could be Julia, because that was shot 20 years ago, and that would have made Julia, what, 12 at the time?

I was saying something like that. Like, Jules is. I don't even know how old Jules is, but I figured she was 13 when that skit came out, pretty much.

I've not seen the skit. I'm telling you what I've seen the skit. Everybody said.

And then Ian confirms. I don't know if Ian is playing, though, because Ian plays a lot.

Yeah. He'll play into something.

Yeah. He'll lean into some shit. Yeah. Like, I can never really tell with him. Ian is saying that that was Julia, his wife. And because they married, I can't really get my jokes off the way I would like. Because when you marry your girl, then the jokes are off limits, pretty much. Even though when you with your girl long enough, I think the jokes are kind of off limits. Oh, wait, no.

Y'all think that?

Yeah. Oh, you don't?

No, y'all don't. Y'all crack a lot of jokes up here about and they.

Girls, y'all don't think that.

I think that.

Okay, I cross all lines and limits.

I. I don't believe that I'll be cracking on you.

I know.

Not her.

At the expense.

I don't know her. Huh?

At the expense of who? If you're cracking relationship jokes, white jokes pertaining to him, you know, he likes to dip and dip his tip in milk and all that.

Wow.

You talk about him, his wife.

I can see that. I can see that.

Oh, that's interesting.

I can see that.

Yeah, you're right.

It's not personal to her. It's just.

No, it's not a personal shot.

I don't know her.

No, it's not personal at all.

I don't like that. I don't like that.

You do know. She watches as well. So she knows when you're cracking jokes about her or pertaining.

I don't crack jokes about her. Yo, dog, I don't know how we.

Could progress the conversation. What I'm saying is everybody up here is stunting.

I don't think it's right to crack jokes on nobody, girl or wife.

I agree.

If you've been together for more than 5 years under 5 years your do some doofy, then we're gonna talk about it.

Well, I ain't been with mom five years. Y'all crack a joke, we gonna end up squaring up.

I don't crack on freeze. I don't do that.

He don't leave the opening to crack on him. That nigga sealed tight crack.

You know the.

I crash out over mine.

Yeah. Big free or whatever. Freeze free. That's how it should be. I crash that over mine. Yeah. What's up?

Freeze. You know what's up. You know the plastic you put around your door when it's cold?

Yeah.

You got all.

All of it.

A little ceiling.

Yeah.

No draft coming through?

Yeah. No, not a draft. Not even a. I respect that. Freeze. Big freeze. How y'all doing, man? Good. What's up? What's up? How you doing?

They look amazing, boy.

That's what I want to know. How you feeling?

I'm feeling real good. I'm feeling real good.

You did it big with the blues this time.

Nigga look like Pepe Le Peel.

Come on, man. Michelangelo up in this piece, huh? Got some balloons. Covered up the view with a little step and repeat. I like this shit, huh?

It's dope.

Amazing. I've been in enough clubs with Ish. No, he like a good step and repeat. Now that boy gonna get in front of the step and repeat and lick his lips. That's my man. I got a cracker. That's why you're here. I'm feeling good. Wife you woke up, made some eggs with spinach.

Okay, okay.

Come on, now. Eggs with some spinach in it. Made some pork bacon. Even though she don't eat pork. Yeah, yeah. Excuse me. Is that the best? Put yourself to the side and please your nigger.

It's bigger than you.

Yeah, yeah. It ain't about you right now. You don't eat it, but cook it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Then I felt bad. Cause the whole house would smell like for about an hour after. That shit smell good. You smell bad. That shit smell good. I ain't ice cube. Cook the hog in the morning. I ain't cubed, nigga. I ain't trying to have a triple double in the park. Make some bacon Facts. How y'all doing, man? Flip big flip. Hey. Salute. I want each and every one of y'all to know that we couldn't have got the 10 years without y'all, man. Give it up for yourself. Give it up for you. Look at me.

You can definitely got tears about me.

That's not true, though.

You got, like, nine years and 10 months.

That's not true, though. No. Your signing is going to take me to 20.

I appreciate that.

I couldn't have done it. I couldn't have done it. Look at Free Big Freeze. They talk about. Yes, sir.

Listen, man, I'mma take a bean.

I'mma take a bean pot.

Want to find a call with that, too?

I'mma buy. I'mma buy a couple of them chips in exchange for some art.

Look like the price Is right over there.

I'm selling art up in this bitch. Look at my man freeze. Put the shoes on. Yeah, that's right, my nigga Mark. Fresh from a flight, ain't even have time to stop home. Stopped at Short Hills for the people all over the world. That's the expensive mall in Jersey. Stopped at the Short Hills, copped something real quick. Put the rolly on, threw it in the sky. Wave it side to side. Keep your heads high.

I look like the poor version of you.

You don't look poor. Stop it.

Compared to what you got on we get, I look like we look a before and after picture.

Not really. Those are lubes you got on your feet.

No way. No way. And that's an off white tee right there. And the jacket. I see how you're doing it. These jeans are baggy for you. Like, I see what you did.

It's mad funny because the lady in the store is like, do you want a bigger size? I said, this is the biggest size I've ever worn in my life. I fucking see. Hammer out this bitch. 34, 33.

My guy parks through on the long.

Sleeve, the green polo.

Green, green Polo. That's dressed up for parks.

A little something.

Everybody out there that still got a Christmas tree up. It's about time. It's time. It's time.

Now it's bedtime.

It's almost March.

I ain't gonna hold.

No, you can do Valentine's Day.

I took it down about a week and a half ago, Sicko. I know, I know. That's way longer than normal for me.

If my Christmas tree. I think my girl Christmas tree is still up. You've been together. You can't talk about it. If the tree is beautiful. Like, you put a lot of work in the tree and it's just beautiful. And you love the pine smell. I'm not mad at you letting it rock. Tool.

That ain't still pine.

It got to be fake. Yeah, gotta be a fake tree.

Pine spray.

Yeah.

Yeah. Put the little sticks in there.

Guy flip. Male. Looking good.

Hey, you know, 10 years you said come dressed like we were going out on a date at 6:00. I was like, wait for the senior special or something. I don't know. I thought that was like a crack, but it's okay.

No, I wasn't trying to be funny. That was like my best instruction. Okay. Because I feel like a dinner date at 9pm Gives a different look than 6pm sure it does.

Absolutely.

And I didn't want to be caught saying that. To a lady like, hey, get dressed.

Like it's dinner at 10.

Like this.

That's a little flagrant. So 5, 6pM Is the difference for.

You as a woman?

Well, if it's after 10pm I'm not going. It's too late. N the same. It's pretty much the same outfit, right?

We going to start with lies.

Talking about happy hour.

You know what? Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up for me. Let's give it up for lies. We couldn't have gotten it 10 years. No, we could not have gotten it 10 years without some lies.

That's a fact.

I ain't going to lie to you now.

You're right.

Yeah. All right. Yeah, man. Go Ish.

Good day, sir.

Put some respect on my man name. There you go. When everybody knows your name, you ain't.

Even give us a new dat is sweatsuit colorway.

This is new. But it's.

I said a new. That's. That is colorway. I mean, Carolina blue is dressy for light skinned niggas with nice eyes from the 90s.

You gotta talk to your. Your management.

What? What?

I ain't get the memo.

Oh yeah. Ish had the uno reverse card in his pocket, said that he's not in the group chat because he has a green bubble, which is very immature of us. I never looked at it that way until he said it. He might have a point, but I'm not ready to be that level of majority. Y'all think ish should be in the group chat even though his he makes the bu green.

Yes.

Ish has an iPhone now.

Also does that. Yeah, is you got an iPhone from when you was a sports agent.

I kid you was a sports agent.

Oh, I just didn't know.

Yes.

I just didn't know he was a.

Sports for a few weeks. This is a business. So if it was a personal homies group chat, y'all could say that when it's a group chat pertaining to work. I remember one time we was off, I came to work.

Yo, y'all laughing.

Ha ha. N I came here, drove my ass from home, got up early, came to work. Oh, yo, you ain't get the group chat. We we off today.

You have an iPhone.

I don't use that bullshit.

Use it now.

It's a Y phone. I'mma just open up the iPhone and carry two phones just in case I get a group ch.

You did it when you was a sports agent and you was trying to get LeBron to LA.

They did.

Yeah. And he did get the Commission. That's when they fired him. So LeBron signed.

We're good now.

So again, I didn't get the. The memo that we were supposed to come in dapper. So all of you gentlemen and lady, look nice.

Well, that's the PC version of the talk we had. It is.

I cursed the niggas out because we.

Had giving me that Joe voice was issues of Fat Fuck Joe.

Why do you keep saying I'm fat anyway?

You trying to trigger him.

No, no, it ain't gonna work today.

Not today. Not today.

It's not gonna work.

Nothing but positive vibes. I won't trigger y'all. And anything y'all have done to trigger me. And while we were away from here, I won't let it affect me today. That's the deal.

Okay?

10 years, no triggers on our anniversary. Save them for Friday. All right, all right.

No trust.

Deal. No trust. Deal, everyone. Is it a deal?

I'll do my best.

Yeah. All right, we got a deal. Mark. Mark is going to be the one to do it. I had this whole talk with my girl this morning about who was going to be the one to do it. It's gonna be Mark because he don't be here for the Friday. So he get to come in with that oblivious. Hey. Hey. I was just. I saw the show.

That's my favorite thing to do.

Don't watch when you're not here. All right, I'm gonna go get me a little water to celebrate.

Could you throw me a water, dog?

Listen, man, it's 10 years. Please, y'all. We have to show solidarity.

True.

I don't even know this.

Left handed.

I love y'all, man. We came here, we had to turn this up for this. If it wasn't for us, this wouldn't be. Oh, he coming back. He wouldn't be. As he caught me privately and said, oh, why are you gonna say that? No more private.

We could get to that part.

If it wasn't for us, he wouldn't be lit like that next year.

I believe that. I'm hitting around the vlog. He'll be lit. I don't know if you're trying to be funny right now. I truly believe that. Hey, come on.

He'll be lit as Joe Budden. But we talking about, like, the. We added the tomato sauce to the spaghetti. Yeah, he had the noodles.

I missed those days. My ice and is came through when was turbulent and it was awesome. Cuz they didn't know a thing about podcasting or the business. Like, yeah, come on. For 500amonth.

That's. That's funny, huh?

Give it up for that. Come on, man. Actually, now that I think about, they ain't no. It was a minute 250 for the month. It's potting, it's low.

And I'mma buy you a egg and chees winning dog. I got you.

Funny. Oh, man. N. Make some noise for exploiting your friendship. Make some noise for exploiting your best friends.

Turn the applause up.

Rest in peace. H ho, man, you fixed all that, man. For freeze. At least you fixed it up for freeze. Rest in peace. Rest in peace, bro. Rest in peace. Hovain, I miss you. I love you. I know you see this going on down here. I'll talk to you. I'll talk to you. I mean. All right. Flipping Mel, hold up now. Hold up now.

We have been here for over two years and we have no drop, but.

We do it live every time. It's like a.

Okay, so why don't we record that and just make it.

It's more fun if we do it live.

You was getting a drop, but Emma.

Actually, you gotta drop, you gotta drop. You said it.

Yeah.

You made your own drop. Okay, like, we didn't ask for a drop.

Okay?

Somebody did that.

I want to drop it. You know, I'm down with mail, man. We should have a drop by now.

What?

You already dropped to be flip.

I'm from Queens or something like that. Something. Something cool. Something cool. It could be the flip and mail. It could be that. I think we should have separate drops.

What was the rapper? Big Flip, Right? The rapper dude. Law Flip Floor Texas Flip Flip.

He's Big Flip. Flip.

Yeah, you Big Flip.

I think we should get drops.

I agree.

All right, so Mel wants a drop and a billboard.

Yeah, you.

I'm off the billboard thing. You made your point. I agree. It's fine. But a little drop.

But the drop will be cute.

It'll be cute.

Okay, okay.

Well, I'm. Put it in the suggestion box.

Put it in the suggestion.

Big Mel and flip came when these niggas start to flatline out, make some noise. Make some noise, huh? Hey, these niggas started coming in here on some bullshit melon flip game. Picked it up in here. Make some noise.

How did y'all feel when that happened?

Personally? Yeah, I ain't give a shit. My check ain't changed.

They're supportive.

Supportive.

Very supportive.

I think the Internet flip is something that I would never be when it comes to the.

Watch your mouth on our anniversary.

That's not an output of energy.

That's not an insult.

That ain't a diss. I'm repping for everybody today.

No, that's not a diss.

Just different styles. I get it.

Exactly. He just added another ingredient that was missing.

I mean, they were fact to find out that initially that when they said if I came on the show that they were not going to be here, they were going to take the day off. They were extremely welcoming.

He said that? I heard you say another episode.

Yeah, I said that.

They were extremely welcoming. Extremely. They engaged. I fucked with them for that, man. Some people, they didn't give any bad face. I gave bad face. Like when you first came up, like.

Oh, yeah, you was trash to me.

And when Big Mark came, when flipping Mel started to flame out, get a little whack. One flipping mail got a little yummy. Big Mark came through. Hey. Oh, talk about it. Come on now. What a day. What a day. None of this possible without my higher power up there. God, I love you. I mean, we have a great day today. So happy to be here. Big parks. You already know. Parks said the dress code, but it's cool. That's still Parks.

Well, it was a little foggy in the group chat, and by the time I remember, it was like, it's too late.

It.

I'm wearing color. This is different. It.

That's it.

Tux.

I mean, I've worn tuxes up here before. I would have put it on if I would have known.

That's true. I believe it back.

You could have done that.

I love that. That's why I ain't even saying nothing. Big peasy, man. All right, man. What y'all ready to talk about today? Y'all ready to talk? I'm ready to talk.

I'm ready to talk.

I'm ready.

I'm ready to get some lies off, man. I'm ready to lie about some.

Joe, can I thank you for something? And this actually goes a group chat point. Thank you for the. The Valentine's Day recommendation. Hey, it worked out perfectly. I sent a note out to the group. I know you mentioned last episode. I sent a note out to everybody, and y'all all said, that guy, you.

Ain'T hollering every last one of them.

I was in desperate time. I forgot you weren't on the group chat.

I don't know spots in Jersey. I would have helped you out, but I don't know spots like that.

Well, you said New York, too.

I said New York too.

But you said preferably Jersey.

Yeah, preferably Jersey.

You said it you the king of New Jersey. Why you ain't answered who you don't.

Want to go where I would be at? You can't go there.

I hung out with Freeze on Valentine's Day. After Valentine's Day in Jersey.

Yeah.

Came and pulled up on him.

I meant to come meet up with y'all, but I was in bed. Sleep.

It's all good. We had a blast.

We sure did.

Well, the spot you took, I went. Ended up going to Caviar. And thank you, Mel, for the suggestions as well. I just couldn't get in. I couldn't get into the spots Mel suggested. But Caviar was dope. They were really nice. The show, love, food was good. Accommodating, live music, intimate. Like I said, it was everything you said.

Oh, they had live music night. Y.

She killed it too. The sister killed it. And then at the end, the brothers were nice and I mentioned I knew you and they were real excited. They told me your whole meal, name drop. At the end. At the end where the check came.

Right. I think there's a.

They were comfortable. They took pictures with me, as me.

Yeah. Talking.

I came in as me.

I'm him.

But they was like. They was like, how'd you hear about us? I was like, oh, you know, Joe Button is like, oh, he comes in here on Sunday. He orders the brunch. He orders the pork bacon. He orders the this, the that. They was going all the you ordered. It was hype. Yeah. It was a great experience. Thank you, Joe, for being a good friend and colleague.

Anytime, anytime. That's my only problem with name dropping is that sometimes it nets you some info because the person you talking to want to tell you everything. Oh, yeah. Ordered the grip. Shrimp and grip. I see him every Sunday around 1:30. They'll get you killed.

Oh, you don't like that?

They'll get you killed.

That's just what my wife said. She's like, damn, she got up a lot of information.

I'm glad you cool with them.

You don't like that?

I don't. What does that mean, brother? My brother. What does that mean, my brother?

You.

You so welcome it when the spill.

They guts about me to you. I like that. But wait. But they do that unprompted. I don't name drop Ish. That's the difference. I don't name drop you. Them niggas be like, hey, they just start giving it up. You should have bought the house materials from homeboy. You should. No from homeboy that told me you dipped off on him for the house material. You should have bought him.

Yo, Ish. That is kind of real. I told you, the same shit happened to me every time I be in Jersey. Niggas be like, ish took my girl. Ish did not.

For real.

Am I lying?

That's right. I was in a barbershop.

Dude was like, ish stole my girl, man.

The whole Jersey has a ish story, Marcus lie.

Yo, you pie. Yo, stop. Stop hanging around. Stop hanging around.

Yo, you podding on a pod.

Yeah, yeah.

Yo don't pod on no pod. It's crazy, son. But it's cool.

He's still mad.

I never let him come out here again. Oh.

That'S your dress clothes.

My man Alex up in this beat.

I see you. I see you with the Swanson on.

Alex, anywhere I'm at in the world, you welcome, my brother. Anywhere I'm at, you could come the they talking about ain't no 10 years without Alex, man. I need a round of applause.

That's a fact.

In the round of applause for Screen man up in this week, Alex. Since. Since Screen man left, his business has gone down the toilet, and it's totally not factual. Total, no facts.

Misinformation.

Yeah, it's mad misinformation since you left. Yeah, it's horrible.

It's better.

It's a struggle. It's a struggle. I just brought his iPad for one week.

Facts.

I was sold. He bought that iPad one week, and then, boogie, I'll let him get his off. We told Erickson, yo, help us out. Look some up. He's just like, get the out my face. It's like, all right, cool. So we gonna spread lies. I'm cool with spreading lies.

Yeah.

And I got something today for you. And there's an audience for lies. Yeah. The President listening. If I told y'all the truth, the price of this would change exponentially. The truth is good. It's some good truth, but can't do that. It's too cheap to give you the truth. Now, we ain't got nothing else we need to say at the start, do we? Do we? Do Anybody? Anybody? Anybody?

Nah, let's just.

Let's get it. Salutation. Yeah.

All right.

All right. Yeah. Come on, now. Jump, buddy.

I'll be your host for this evening.

Oh, my God.

Touch the toes.

Oh, my God.

DB with the banger.

Dubb B with us, man.

Still on your block, huh?

Salutation.

I don't want to hear the rock on after this weekend no more.

It's the same set everywhere. Week Dog, I live in the car. Take your time with it.

Jump on that.

The funny is, I think I'm only playing this cuz Rockon played it though.

All right.

Damn, that's me.

That all right, cuz.

On my stay dirty like.

If you focus, man, would you please rock with it? If you overstay.

No, sing the track down.

Paul, stop playing. Right. Bring it back, bring it back, bring.

It back, bring it back.

Oh, yeah. All right. Shout out to all the doughboys and the do out there. Shout out to all the gang bangers and the gang bangin out there with me.

Throw the diamond up one time ladies.

If you with me. Everybody that's contributed over the course of.

10 years.

Got a crew with me.

Get down and lay down and shoot.

With me now how the they going.

To deal with me? I ain't going nowhere.

They gotta deal with me. Got the whole BK ready to kill with me.

You scared?

Keep it real with me. Keep it real.

They gonna say to me gotta clap Y Stay with me. Yeah, me don't play with me.

Y Me stay with me.

Don't lose me.

Y'all, please don't confuse me with dog.

I'm different.

And dog is them. All of them. The kennel, the fucking field. Don't confuse me with none of that.

Don't confuse me with dog.

I'm different.

I bought it back for a living. 33 O's on the bitch back like pippin all over the world.

No matter where you at, South Carolina. I couldn't have gotten the key. You do the addition.

Before Mr. And Ness did it, I was moving.

Birthday.

I'm Cal Ripken Jr. Let's get it if you with me.

Throw the diamond up one time, Ladies, if you win a sports it with a baseline, homie, don't be scared to grab her from behind and make a shoe out. Hop outside.

Hey, okay.

Come on, man. Come on now.

Come on.

Y'all know I'm an R B head at heart. What y'all thought I was coming to do? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, such a glorious occasion. Such a glorious occasion. Let me get some Raphael Sadiq right quick. Here you go. You know what I mean? All the happy couples listening out there, all the miserable couples out there. Couldn't have done it without you. Couldn't have done it without you. All the postal workers, the teachers out there, everybody at a corporate job. Everybody in a cubicle. Shout to the execs out there. The entrepreneur, the 9 to 5 and all that. Hey. Shout out to all the high schoolers out There. Shout to all other pods out there, man. Yeah. Everybody in the car right now. Y'all talking about. Yeah, I'm smoothed out. Smoothed out.

We ready.

Positive vibes, positive affirmation. We have a real good day today. We have a really good day today. What else at the end of the day, Ralph? Yesterday sneak was white. Victoria's Secret giveaway. They only sell certain sizes. They only sell certain sizes. And they wouldn't. Wasn't putting black girls in commercials. I remember. Remember. Oh, y'all remember? I remember. It was tough to a big titty black girl back then finding the Fredericks. It was tough to find Fredericks being a young. What the is Fredericks, you're idiot.

Yo, shut up.

You told a Fredericks.

I'm 24.

Where's that at? You shout out to Mom D. Anybody parents that listen to this, man? All right, we can start, man. Before I get up and hit a little two step. I'm feeling great. Feeling really good. Really good. Really good. God is good. God is good. One question.

What's up?

Just one question for y'all.

Let's hear it.

You God damn right, you are goddamn right.

You good, Bo.

It's our special. It's our special day. All right, man, let me get some round of applause for the best crew in the entire universe. So happy to be here with y'all today. Mic check, mic check. Let me make sure the levels. The levels, the levels is good. I mean, I pulled out a lint brush for you bastards today, you know what I mean? Can't never find a lint brush without that girl. Thank you, baby, baby, where the lip brush at? Fact you know right where they know right where it is. Lengthy. All right, welcome to episode 801 to the Haters.

Uhhuh.

I'm not stopping anytime soon. Holist applause for the best podcast in the world. Doing monolog real quick to the hate listeners out there. I know every month you get a nice little adsense check with your theories and your hypothesis is this is not stopping anytime soon. We are far removed from that dark Edgewater afternoon where I looked Corey dead in his face and asked him, how the long you think I'm gonna do this for free? He ain't had nothing to say. Hey, I said, homeboy, I ain't gonna keep just going to this little studio and running my mouth for no money. You know some of that attitude that you knew podcasters have adopted. There was no ecosystem. It was no big company throwing a bag around.

Different era.

It was nobody to come save the day. It Was just you a mic. Passion and faith. I know a lot of you niggas are faking passion and faith today, but for those that really have it, they'll get you where you need to be. Far removed from those days. Round of applause again for fucking Ian. Bringing some money to this shit. Come on, man. Shout out to Ian. I know he's white. I know it's Black History Month. Got a shout out. Ian. Every time I think the money ran out, he go find another way. You go find another bag. And I look him in his face and be like, nobody gonna pay us for that. They do it. They do it. Shout out to Ems, Shout out to Keeb, Erickson, Tanner, Savon, all the behind the scenes people. Big Paul. Oh, and that was Chris Reed, the cameraman that I was talking about back in the day. Shout out to Chris Reed, my guy. I looked at Ian like he had 10 heads when he said, hey, we should film this. Like, who the is spending money on that podcast means an audio thing. I ain't taking my little 300.

What Chris recalls. That was a lot back in the day. 250 a week.

Wow.

Don't sound like much now.

Times have changed.

250 a week to pay for a visual component where you only getting 75 cent back. Damn. Different days.

Very different.

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

Ain't that right?

If you just keep going. Point.

You're not wrong, though.

You got to get somewhere, though.

Just keep walking. You're not wrong. Just keep walking. Get to California.

You walk long.

Hey, you gotta keep going, man. Hey. Extend the journey. Amen.

Not wrong.

What you want me to do, man? I'm just here to have a good time Today. I'm on total. I feel good. I feel great. I feel blessed. I'm happy to see all y'all. Episode 801 brought to you by Fueled by Power. By project, man. Hold on. Absolutely. Price, please. Go ahead now, huh? National ad campaign. Six months after. Yeah, four months. However long it was. I thought that commercial was gonna stop during the Super Bowl. They put on a Super Bowl. Didn't see it. Not a think piece in sight.

That's a fact.

Fact. There wasn't a fake piece in sight.

Facts.

The only black podcast to have a copy Podcaster. They have a commercial in the Super Bowl. Nobody did a deep dive. I don't understand how they picked the deep dives to do. Yeah, you do. Yes, you do.

Hating the blood.

I do. I do. Yes. It's hating the bloody hugs. Go. Prize picks, man. Couldn't have done it without y'all. I am your humble, gracious, grateful, highly favored and fully dressed co host. Dressed in leather fucking pants. Come on. Round of applause. Hold up. Now, when he put the leather pants.

On, he means business.

Real leather too, I think, right?

I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know how much they cost. I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. It's not about the price of things, man. It's not about the price of things. It's about how it makes you feel, my brother. Brother.

Okay, how do they make you feel?

Sweaty. Rich. Sweaty.

Sweaty and rich.

No, these is actually pretty comfortable.

Oh, what's the line?

What's the what lining is.

Ask him. Ain't trying to be funny.

I don't know. Yeah, I got to play, cuz. They feeling good out there with the Stephanie. Yo, everybody that's feeling good out there. Stupid. Yo, hey. Yeah, I mean, just real quick and then we get into it, y'all figure out wherever we start. We can start wherever the y'all want. I don't care. Today. That's how I'm on it. Oh. Oh, man, that was nice. What? That was nice. If we keep playing, I won't feel like bar no more. All right. Big Melissa Ford is in the building. Queen's Flip is in the building. Yeah, Big issues here. Big bean pie. Freeze. The freeziest of them all is here. I actually look good. My brother Mark, Dr. Mark Lamont Hill is here. Huh huh? Talk about a new addition. Big. Big Parks is here. Elmyra's finest, Ian is here. Poe is here. Corey's here. Big Alex, my man. My man. Right? Where Savon at though? Hold up, I'm about to say. See, and that's why, that's why he.

Got fired from here.

That right there is exactly how Savon got fired. Fire, traffic and flats. You got AAA 3 Africans. Yo. 10 year anniversary.

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

That's my man. Yo, yo, yo. I'm live on air. I'm live on air. What's popping?

Oh, what up, boy?

You all right? Sk$ My God, it's my 10 year anniversary. Sk game. I'm on these asses$ and I couldn't have done it without you or your wife.

Actually.

I love you. I love Gabby, I love your entire family. I don't don't know what you calling me about, but you have to tell me later. Yeah, call me later. Yeah.

What's up, doll? I Love you.

Yeah, we love you, man. All right. We going. I love you. Yeah. Back to what we was talking about. What was he saying? Nothing at all.

You got your intro off. You know what I'm saying? Introduce everyone y'all.

Got you.

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

10 years, man. We here, man. Talk to them Other Real estate. Don't step on my for this. Talk to these Trying to count us out. You can't count us out, huh? Big ice team you talking about. Big ish Library. For real legend. For real. Joe Jump off Sometimes they can't play with us. Piggity box. What's up, white man, huh? But he makes it happen.

Not the mark.

Lamont Hill. Yeah, the seed. I can't say that. We can't say the C part. What he said at the save.

That.

He don't need the U.N. he.

Up here with us.

The greatest. Yeah. You got you US 10 years.

Why you need the UN? You got you US. Yes, you got you US. I mean US.

Africa. Oh, man, I see.

Y. I don't know y.

But I with y'all too.

You talking about still got the tag. We don't pop no tag.

We the tag on our now tag still.

Yeah. They talking about.

And I'm not bringing it back.

Just in case.

Pardon me. Ten years. Big Corey.

Yeah. Big core.

You don't know the stories in a Tahoe. 17 deeps.

Now. We was in the Tahoe like that Kendrick GNX at the Super Bowl. 37 in there. Oh, yeah. And merch. And merch. And didn't sell it. That hurt. When you load up the Suburban with the merch and it don't sell. Yeah. Now you gotta travel to the next spot with the merch. God damn it.

I don't even think we brought the.

Merch out the truck.

We were organized. Yeah, no, it was a mess. It was a total mess. But, hey, but if you. If you stay in it long enough, you need a little bit of mess. There'll be. There will be some mess. Nobody said it was gonna be a clean sweep. Actually. Nobody said about how it would be. Yeah. Just Nikki and Meek saying you fail to fail your ass.

Yeah. Yeah. Your little podcast.

Shout out to Nikki and Meek. My girl Nick. I remember that. Oh, yeah, no, that was. That was a time once they said that. All right, Tits gotta work. When you put all your chips to the poker table, all in your hand, better win.

Caught an ace on the river.

Oh, God damn. Thank God. Hey, now, now. Sometimes when I wake up, I'm relieved.

Yeah.

There'll be a point in your journey where you don't get to be relieved. Shit is stress. Gray hairs, arguments, sacrifices. Gotta skip your family functions. No family reunion. You ain't seen your Aunt Deborah since she was 50. She 90. She 90 now.

Talking about it sometimes.

You'll be booked for the funeral. Now you can't even kiss Aunt Deborah on the forehead. You gotta send a card with $20 for Aunt Deborah. You'll miss important things, but that's what the sacrifice is about. I'm not here to preach to y'all. I'm not here to lecture y'all. Today day. I'm just feeling good. Outside of is disobeying the dress code, but I still feel good. I still feel good. And that's my man.

Can't help it.

And that's my man.

I can't help it.

You know?

Where do you guys want to begin? I don't know what's important. I don't know what's unimportant. Actually, I noticed that when my girl is here, I don't know nothing that happens in the world.

Hard to keep up.

That's nice, though.

I don't know anything that happens.

They recap.

What did you do?

Went to bed. I went to bed. All right.

You told you was working.

I thought about stopping to see. Well, I told her I was working. Right. So on Valentine's Day, I worked. Y'all got out of here. They left early. I stayed a little bit. So by the time I got home, I was beat. And I'm fat. So when you're fat, you don't feel like moving around. So you know what we said? You know what? Let's get dressed. Let's just. Just drive around, find a little spot, go sit at a bar, just talk, reminisce, catch up. So we got dressed. I threw on some sweatpants like some don't you know. Every single place was jam packed with couples in love dressed for the day. Every place.

Yep.

Yep.

So we went home, threw on some very scary people. Oh, no. It was very scary Lovers. I didn't even know they had Valentine's Day. I didn't even know they had that. We threw on Very Scary lovers and went to bed. And Saturday we were supposed to go see Tank and Fantasia and Trey Songz in Atlantic City. But the weather was looking absolutely nuts and my driver don't know how to drive fast when the roads are clear. So bad weather going. Yeah. So we skipped that. Yeah, man. And that's that? That was my Valentine's Day. I ended up buying her some fucking Chanel bag. Holy shit. That's what I forgot got. She did some five senses gift. Gift. Okay, girls. Or do some so here.

Five bags.

And it's your sight and your hearing. He said, what is it? And you smell. Smell, touch and you smell and you touch and you sin.

Okay, taste. Taste.

So she bought these shits out. She bodied the. The hat. She bought me body that. The cologne that she bought out of this world. Some scent that I never smelled. Bottle I never saw. She killed that for the touch part. She got me a sex toy for those wondering little flesh light. I'm not the person that uses sex toys during sex or masturbation. That's like her thing. Go in the drawer and get the little shit. If I make it come. Go ahead, get in. Hey, I ain't going. Hello. I ain't gonna make it sound like I bat a thousand. In the event that I miss. Go ahead and open up the drawer.

More like baseball livers.

Yeah.

So she got me a sex toy. I'm gonna bring it. I want to bring it here.

It's a male sex toy.

Yes.

Well, pocket push you to guac.

Guac? What is that?

It's like a. It's called a stroker, but it's.

I think that might be.

What is that? Yeah, the shit that turned.

It turned into all that wild shit. And you supposed the. The. That shorty bought.

Go get it.

No, no, no.

That's a pocket. That was a mold of her. Yeah, that's. That's different. I think he's talking about the guac. Guac.

The quack guap.

That's what they call it. Oh.

All right. All right.

Not the rubber reveal.

All right. I got a lighter that you got to scan and it plays a song that means something to you and your girl. I light her.

Okay.

Okay.

Nice.

Got light. You got to scan the songs.

Nice, nice, nice.

Thoughtful Snow. Allegra. Find someone like you.

That was. That was the hearing. That's hearing.

Yeah, I guess.

I guess a little sense. Little feeling, too.

Heat.

You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah. Well, no, no, no.

I got some. I got some car. Car air freshener of her.

Yeah, this is her straight out the ice bag.

Hey. Huh? I got some car air freshener of her. Smart for your car.

Does it smell like her perfume?

But you know. You know what that's for.

Let the know. Yep. Let the market territory. He's taken. He's one of these cars. All right. I Got a really nice T shirt from Zara. Guess what's on it. Guess what's on.

It's probably her.

Her. Her and tits.

I.

It's her. Yeah, I got to cover it up. Yeah, it's her. I got a T shirt with her and I got whatever this is. The guap guap.

Oh, wow.

That's it.

It turn it turn and do all that other wild.

That's it.

Now wait, it's gotta.

I'm from the old school, yo. So I like. I like to masturbate with my hands. So I laughed her out of the room. When this little device came out. I did laugh her out the room.

And then you turned it on, right.

Then I tried it.

Yeah, you got two.

I don't even. Uh oh. There you go. Uh oh, oh, oh.

It's humming. Yeah, it's vibrating.

Oh. Oh.

Hey, big dog.

Uhoh. 18 speeds, like the old bicycle. 18 speed. Oh. Ooh. Now, now, before y'all judge, I'm gonna try this thing.

Yeah, no judgment.

No judgment, bro.

It's still going.

If I got my girl, got me one of those, I'd it. Why wouldn't you?

This is just like a new age fifi, right? What?

It's modern tech.

Right here though, it's a little different. I am gonna try this thing. So I'll be back with my pretty.

Glad you didn't bring down a used pocket. That would be weird.

No parts. I've never use this thing.

That would have been weird.

But so yeah.

Shout out to.

That's. That's. That's my Valentine's Day. Got some freaky. Freaky that I ain't used yet because I'm fat. But yeah, that was it.

That's not bad. Mel, did you do anything for Valentine's Day?

That was it, man.

I went on a date. It was cool.

On Friday night. Oh, nice.

What you think it was going to be Saturday?

Well, cuz you had said the Saturday thing before, so I had to.

At least it was on Friday night. Yeah, I went straight from the pod.

How was your date?

That's why you dressed like that.

It was really nice. It was really, really nice. Got to check a restaurant off my bucket list.

Okay.

A little Michelin star little situation.

Okay.

Good time.

Classy.

Yeah, it's a nice time.

It was the first date.

Yeah, but I've known him for a minute.

First date on Valentine's Day is a big deal.

But it wasn't really like a first date because we hung out. But it was like him planning and doing all that stuff. Yeah.

I would never do that.

Okay.

It's not. He wasn't a stranger. That's the point.

Fair enough.

Is that he wasn't a stranger.

It just sends a hell of a signal.

Yeah, I'm not worried about the signal it sends.

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

Better man than me. Not about you, just in general. You just put a lot of pressure on yourself when you make a. A major date on Valentine's Day.

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

High pressure situations?

It's like an interrogation.

I like to probe my colleagues.

Well, hey, yo, I don't think I cleaned anything up.

That sounded totally different in my head than it did when I said it out loud. I don't want to probe y'all. I'm moving on. What.

What you did for Valentine's Day. Freeze.

Well, how we. We skip like two people.

What you do?

Let's go to you.

Ah, go ahead.

We work our way around the room. What you did.

I didn't do anything for Valentine's Day. I don't celebrate Valentine's Day.

That's not true.

I got my. I got my wife a gift.

There you go.

Shout out to Junior. I'm saying for. You know, I got my wife a gift. Told her what I said on the podcast. She started to laugh and curse me out and, you know, just sat down and spent some time with her.

What did you say for the audience that missed that episode?

They didn't miss the episode. Just because I saw their comments, too, about Free Linky to my.

Free.

My Bible. Damn. It was the worst. I didn't like that. I went on Patreon, told them, like, you know, you don't got a father. I started disrespecting them, but it's not about that. But, you know, we just had conversations, just had some laughs, and she appreciated the gifts.

Was she happy with her Valentine's Day?

She was. She was. Bought a. Just some.

A car, right.

Fly.

No flowers. I bought a. This moncler hatch. She been wanted.

She don't know about the car yet.

She don't know about the car yet. I bought her this perfume. Spent. Yeah, I just bought her some stuff, man.

There you go.

That's good.

The dad just stepped up. That's right.

I stepped up because, you know. You know. Yeah.

Just stepped up because Joe put pressure on you.

No. Cause it's important to step up sometimes, you know, when we're just busy and, you know, things. I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I try not. Not to celebrate these holidays or encourage the celebration, but when you want a big broadcast, you have this man saying things and bringing gifts in front of you so you like.

It's flowers for Mel. And don't act like I ain't put no pressure on nobody. I went in Chanel and sat in the chair that's on the side. I went chanel, let her run her mouth to somebody about whatever, and went and sat right down. Yeah, I mean, you're rich.

You don't have pressures. Is. What did you do for Valentine's Day, bro? Nothing in the crib, right in the house. She know what it is. Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow. Uhhuh.

He could have done. I ain't got no blazer.

Joe, leave him alone.

That's corner.

It'll be back again.

All right, so this ain't do nothing free. Freeze.

We. We went out. We. We had reservations.

Nice.

Freeze. Where did y'all go?

You kept it a secret before?

No, not honestly. So it was a new restaurant. I've never been there before, but because I didn't know what time we were getting out of here, I didn't want to book nothing that was too far away from home. So by the time I get home, then we get ready. Now I'm running late. So I kept it. I kept it close to the crib. But we had an amazing time after that. We left there, we went over to our spot Spot parks and rim. Came down and counted down there and met us. And we shut that down. Facts Saturday. What did we do? Oh, we slept in for a little bit. Then we went out to dinner again.

You did a two day Valentine's Day.

I did a three day.

You're right.

You it up for everybody.

His name is Freeze.

No, we did it.

His name is Freeze. I see.

All right, it was Valentine's weekend.

But when I'm like, yo, I'm telling you, when I get married, I'm not doing none of this shit smart.

That's what I'm saying.

Like when I'm getting. When I get married, I'm married.

Like, we married. We don't gotta celebrate Valentine's Day now.

Savon the don just walked in this. That's that money right there.

And that's a nice little jacket.

What is that, velvet? The need to know boys. They ain't even buy the cheap joint. Yo, I remember one of our first anniversaries, man. I told Savon, man, let's celebrate, man. Go to the store, get some. Get some champagne for the guys. He was like, all right, what kind? I was like some ace. He went to the store and got the ace. He was like.

He came back with the ace of hearts.

He said, monkey. Oh, my God. You spent that on the. Oh, you spent that on the ace. Now look at him. No. Now look at him, though. Jayvon, thank you, man. Man, we couldn't have got to this 10 year mark without you. Even though you're doing your own thing, you still family. You still gang. And this will fall apart without you.

So it's like nine up here, bro. You're supposed to buy two bottles. It's like 15 people.

Oh, don't ever play. You bought the cheap one. Don't. This ain't the cheap. This ain't the cheapest either.

I know. Not at all.

All right, come on. You got. You can tell.

You know I want to open it.

No, not yet. For you. One thing you won't do yet is open this. We have just begun. We'll get there.

It's fine. It needs to be chilled anyway, so.

Yeah, there you go. We'll chill it. Yeah, we'll chill it for you for a couple hours. We'll chill it and then you chill.

We'll chill.

Both of y'all. Where was we at? We was on Freeze, right?

Yeah, yeah. Now I'm done. That was it.

Three day Valentine weekend.

Big Mark, you already know what I did. I did that Friday. Called it a rap. I went to Philly on Saturday. I was gone.

Hey, dog, I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't think I could get a five minute conversation with this. Yo, I'm in the airport running with. I'm like, yo, dog, Mark, right?

That nigga, he called me this morning, was like, yo, I'm coming straight from an appearance.

Yeah.

It's Black History Month. This is his biggest month.

It's our reparations movement.

I didn't know what that meant for him, business wise.

Yeah. That told me where to get per.

Yeah. And that slows down when it's not Black History Month.

Yes.

Get back to its normal cadence.

Yeah. Like, it's like from Martin Luther King Day till March 1. We go to February 28. We good. After that, it's a wrap.

You don't hear.

Women's History Month is March.

Like, nothing for Juneteenth.

That's a yo. That's the new joint, because you know that's some new. Yeah, now. Oh, Juneteenth. I'll be up shout out to you.

I'm about to get on my pro black.

It's a blessing, man.

Well, it's good that, you know, you haven't been on that. It's good that you know that. That's like a new door that you open and no, you're not.

Yeah, I'm probably not.

Where would y'all like to begin today? All Star Weekend.

Parks. They asked my brother Parks.

We did eat.

I said earlier. Yeah, we went to eat and then we went. Met Freeze and, And missing. Peace. So cool little spot. Yeah, it's great, actually. I, I, it was way nicer than I expected. I don't know what I expected because you said small spot. It ain't really. It's small compared to New York small. Oh, that's what I was thinking.

I didn't know Parks had never been there.

Yeah, yeah.

Real very good dj.

Yeah, Great music.

And then we left there, went to the last lap, met Amani, had it, had a little more fun and got home about 5 in the morning.

She's nice.

Go ahead. Last lap. Still around, huh?

Yeah, yeah.

Still kicking.

Sure is.

What is that?

When you in the dirty part of Manhattan? It's in the nasty, stink, dirty part of Manhattan. But it's, it's fine. It's fine. If you want to a hipster girl, you go in there.

A hipster girl.

It don't just be hipsters.

Not in there. Yeah, be, be thugs.

Y'all would know. I would. I wouldn't know. So I'm just.

We had a time, though. We had a time.

I'm good. I'm glad you're great.

Week, weekend.

Glad you a good time.

Yeah, man.

All right. All Star weekend. Yes. Is that our start?

It could be.

I mean, worst one ever.

Yeah, it was pretty bad.

Did anybody watch?

I watched the dunk contest, the three point contest, and I was actually surprised by the dunk contest at first. It was horrible. The first round was absolutely horrible. But then the second two rounds were pretty dope. Homeboy from the spurs and McLaurin, Stephen King, Castle. Yeah, they, they look crazy.

Didn't you pick him?

He's nice enough to be in a dunk contest. I know. I picked McClung.

He should have got more points for.

That dunk he did where he definitely.

Should have went through the rim and then did the through the leg. That was insane.

Stephen Castle was nice enough for us to stop referring to him as the guy from the Spurs. He's all right.

Yeah, he's us.

He's, he's all right. Shout out to him. Shout out to McClung. You know, I'm at the age where I didn't watch any of that Friday.

Me neither.

Yeah.

None of it. Valentine's Day. Nah. Saturday, I was completely free. Didn't watch none of that.

Didn't watch none of it either.

Didn't watch none of it. I was like, damn, I'm at the age where I just don't care.

Yo, All Star Saturday night used to be the.

That was the one you might have.

Missed the Friday games.

The.

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

I was in the house and didn't turn it on.

So Sunday I'm home. Because it's Sunday and I'm home. So you know what? I cut on the tv. I cut on the tv and we was about getting ready to bust a move somewhere around 9. But I watch up until I leave and. What a cluster. Yeah, What a cluster. 45 minute intros, right?

I'm really glad I missed it. I watched the snl, which was great.

I heard that Eddie Murphy.

Eddie Murphy, Ed Murphy was on. Everybody was on. Everybody from the whole history of the cast pretty much was on. And they did like a music thing on Friday night, which we went back and watched. That was also actually pretty fire that. That was way better than the All Star Game.

You know who I don't want to see on a Sunday, which is reserved for All Stars? All Star Sunday. Know the one person I don't want to see Dalton connect. Yo, I tweeted, I said, oh, they moved the Rising Stars game to Sunday.

They modified the whole. Yeah, some tournament.

They modified everything. And somehow Dalton's connect was on an All Star floor. And I like him, but him and all them other bum that they had out there here that they had that they had to face the OG squad, which is James Harden, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry. It's like, yo, what are y'all trying to do to us on a Sunday?

Yeah, right?

And they try to make it close a little bit.

Once I saw the tournament layout, I was like, I'm not. Definitely not watching this. I'm not. I'm not even looking for it.

And if the tournament layout wasn't bad enough, listen, I love Kevin Hart as much as the next man, man. I know he has some type of deal with the NBA. It's over now. I don't want to see Kevin Hart and some of that Shit was a little funny just because I wasn't watching basketball. Fuck. Might as well make crack a couple jokes. I don't want to hear Kevin Hart that much on a Sunday, Kev. No disrespect to you. And if that wasn't enough right after the first game or something like that, that Mr. Beast comes out. Why the am I looking at Mr. Beef? Mr. Beast.

What channel were you watching?

I don't want to look at Mr. Beast on Allstar Sunday. So now I'm sitting there like, oh, I never noticed Mr. Beef doesn't have lips. Mr. Beast doesn't have lips. He look like the skull teeth just talking like. I don't know where he got his veneers or whatever the fuck is going on with his mouth, but it looks weird. And if that wasn't bad enough, Mr. Beast walks to the crowd and gets Jaren.

What's Sharon.

Jaren.

Oh, Jaren. Oh.

He says, all right, we're doing some three point shit. We're gonna grab a random fan from the order. He'll have to make one shot versus Dame Lillard, who will have to make three shots to his one. He goes to the audience, grabs Jaren. Jaren comes out. They ask him, hey, you ever played basketball? Yeah, a little bit when I was a kid. He still looked like a kid. So I'm like, all right, let's see how this goes. He goes out there and does what? You guessed it. Bricks it up. Bricks it up. We gotta wait 13 minutes now for Jaren to make a fucking shot on a Sunday?

Sunday, yeah. That's crazy.

It was bad.

And if that wasn't bad enough, during the next break, who do they roll out? You guessed it. Another. I can't. Let me not say that. DJ Cassidy.

You'Re so angry about this.

I'm angry for Ish. I'm angry for my man. DJ Cassidy is a friend of the show. He's been to the show. Came up here when he was a little under the weather. Spit over ish. Spit all over ish. Put mad flame germs. And it took it for the team too. Like I said, just got spit on by some. Talking about some ice right there. Spit that way. No. Hey, a three hour episode. TJ Cassie spit all over ish, but took it for the team. I don't know why these company. I'm saying this respectfully. I don't know why these companies and corporations feel like the best way to present our black leg legends is with DJ Cassidy. I'm cool. Just seeing too short. Yo, Too short. Gonna come out and give me blow the whistle. I don't need DJ Cassidy, funny hat wearing ass in the back doing some 3, 5, 7, get loose Stetsonic choreographed there. I don't need to see it. I don't need to see it. Just give me E40, yo. I feel that. Just give me. Tell me when to go. I don't care if y'all quiet. That's how I feel.

I wasn't mad at it because he also bought Sweetie out, so. All right, I'm cool now.

Oh, that's the other thing. He found Sweetie.

So I was cool at that point.

How'd she look?

Beautiful.

Oh, here come Parks again.

I was cool at that point.

Y'all love that Sweetie.

Yes.

And everywhere she show up, she do look good. So let me know. Let me not try to sound like she. You don't look good. I forgot she rapped me too.

I didn't know she ever did.

I said, oh, shit, she did do the little blow to whistleblower. All right, tap in.

Hey, guess who.

I don't want to see an All Star Sunday.

Who?

Just say guess.

Sweetie.

Sweetie.

Who he brought out after that?

Wait, who was after Sweetie?

In Vogue.

In Vogue.

Now, I wasn't mad at In Vogue.

I love.

I was not mad at In Vogue.

Well, I see the.

You know what the Bay Area got. They got a lot more legend than the world gives them credit for.

That's true.

They've contributed way more to music than the rest of the world would like to recognize.

That's a fact.

Now, when En Vogue came out, I absolutely loved that. I couldn't figure out if dawn was there.

Why?

Because I don't know if dawn was there. I don't know if the taller, attractive woman that was all the way to the right was dawn, now that she's aged a little bit. Or did they replace Dawn? I know there was the dawn involved. I'm old enough to know there was a little beef for a little minute. So I don't know if dawn was there.

She was.

She made it happen.

Was that Dawn? Yeah. Oh, then awesome. Awesome.

They got all of them back in the same room.

I was happy about Invoke. I was happy about involved.

Nice, nice.

If you could be happy about Sweetie, I could be happy about.

Oh, no. For sure, for sure, for sure. They ain't had to dress this one.

I'd like Invoke's music.

I know. Me too.

Ooh.

What the fuck?

What the hell is that?

What the hell is that?

That. Remember, she held the long note in.

The beginning of the first joint.

Hold on. Yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was my imitation of that. Did they had a dress back to you.

I can't do it now. I can't do it. Yeah, they. They look great. They look great.

Shout that Vogue.

Who? It was a lot of. It was a lot going on that Sunday allstar week.

Then the first time out of the game. I do like the inside. The NBA tribute that they did, that was fire. But. But that was fire. That was the best part of everything I saw.

I didn't wanna see them niggas no more neither.

Nah, nah, you gotta do it right. And that.

I just.

It was the first time out of the game and that shit took like 15 minutes, bro. It was long. But pause. I think that was the best part of everything that I saw from the whole weekend. They went through Craig, they went through Charles. They went through all these niggas when they was young. Like that shit was fire. All the people that we lost. You know what I'm saying? So I think that was dope. I think they went out. Cause that's they last All Star game. The last all. So I think that was fly.

I just hate that the best, like you just said, like the best part of the All Star weekend wasn't the All Star.

Yeah, you're right.

Yeah.

That was the best thing I saw.

And it's like it used to be a thing. Like it used to be an actual good game. I used to be excited to actually watch the players play. And instead of like making the players just play, you know what I mean? They do all these other tricks. Drafting players and doing all. To me, raise the amount.

What happened? It was so lopsided after a while where the west was just so stacked. They had to. It took the excitement out the game. You knew the west was gonna win, so they tried to change it up with the draft. So now you mixing a player pool up where you're not getting everybody on the same squad.

And it's like, that's stupid. Like, to me, what you do is to me, you make a big enough cash reward. Because players make too much money to care about the All Star game. They got too much at stake. You're trying to win a championship. You're not worried about it, but you put real money on. If every player won even a million dollars, right? If every single player won a million dollars, I think players would play a lot harder to win. I'm talking about to win.

I agree with that. But then. But then what happens is you're risking getting injured for a exhibition game. Now. We can't. You know what I'm saying? So they kind of don't want to play hard. They just make too much money that they really don't even give a. I'm gonna keep it a buck. That's also, it's.

I just remember I said they need to do. I said many years ago that they need to do what baseball did. And the winner of the All Star game gets home court advantage during the Finals.

That would also make people play.

Really?

Yeah.

Unless you want to. 10 bum teams ain't got no shot at the finals anyway. But like there's enough play, like for the Knicks, for example. That's a good example. Y'all got two guys on there. Y'all have a legitimate shot at the chance at going to the Finals. So. So Cat and Jalen gonna play hard. Hard. You know what I mean? LeBron is going to play hard. If he had played like, I think, I think it's a great idea.

That ain't a bad idea. You got to incentivize it in some way, shape or form for them to even want to play.

There was barely any basketball played. They showed us players aggravated frustrated from all the TV production. You got us taking 20 and 30 minute breaks and then you want us to go out here and we can't. We don't. We can't do it.

We've cooled off. We've cooled off off. And then you risk an injury.

Yeah. You know what? What I did see that I think will help to change things is Victor Wimbano.

He wanted to play.

Who not only wanted to play, was visibly upset at other people not playing.

Yes.

He's great enough and young enough to make a difference in this.

What'd you think about him and Chris Paul doing that?

Trying to cheat the system.

Skills challenge.

That was fun.

I liked it.

I did too.

I liked it.

That was funny.

I hated that. That's some Chris Paul too. You know that? Chris Paul.

Chris Paul said it was a Victor idea.

Yeah, I would say that too, if I did.

It does smell like Chris Paul, though.

Oh, man.

Come on, man. Like, just do the skills challenge. The fans came to see a skills challenge. Not to watch you try to win by throwing shots. Pretending to throw shots against the wall.

Throw the skills challenge in the garbage.

Agreed. That shit was never that fly.

And give us a one on one matchup with.

That's all I care.

Some of our best one on one players, years in the NBA, never happening. I would love.

Because Players don't want to get cooked.

They don't want to get.

Exactly. They're not doing. That's it. They're never doing that.

But that's the answer. One on one is the one I say get rid of. Slam dunk contest. At this point the shit is uninteresting.

No, I think we've seen all the.

Dunks we can see.

I think next year it'll be better. I don't.

Why?

Why?

Because people like Zach Levine and them are talking about potentially coming back.

Jack Levine is 78 years old, man.

Oh, and I saw what Ja Morant said.

He said that a couple.

Yo, Mac McClung, you inspiring me. Yeah, I know.

I know.

That's inspiring. Not the NBA dropping you as the face of the league for the next 10 years.

Right, bro.

Mack McClung is getting you inspired.

That's how I potentially get some of that back. The dunk contest is done because dunks are done. The excitement is not on the focus of the dunk no more.

The league don't care about.

They don't care about dunks no more.

Right.

It's.

It's not a highlight anymore. They don't give a. No. I think. I think the dunk contest lost his luster. When these start doing corny, there's nothing left to do.

Nah.

Somebody. Bro, that's not true. If you watch some of these creative. Yo. If you watch some of these props now these street Duncan, they kill it. They be doing crazy. Don't do that. So it's some that you can find to do. Drop the. Drop the. Drop the hoop. Two in two feet.

They're not going to do that.

I'm just saying like you put it.

Up 2ft 4 now that's a 11ft.

Maybe might get some. Some interest but.

And I heard them float an idea of the NBA versus the foreign players in the NBA that they don't want that either.

I don't lead them internationally.

That would be women. Yana, Joker, Freak. Freak. Luca L. Shy and Embiid. Embiid. Well he. He'll be injured. He'll be injured.

That's the only game he does play.

Carl Anthony Towns would be on that too.

A joke, bro. Leave that alone.

Yeah.

Don't bark up that tree. That's going to be a real wicked for. For. For the NBA. It's a test.

And, and, and, and listen. You don't even have to do that every year. Do it. Do it every other year. That would fix things. We would want to see that. Cuz Shy was Another one that took the game really seriously.

He took it seriously.

Yeah, he took the game serious.

He want the MVP that.

Want an mvp.

Yeah, he want.

He.

That put the ball in the bucket, bro. I don't give a. He got moves in the elevator that gets.

Oh, he a problem.

He probably gonna win MVP of the league this year. I don't think he deserve it, but he probably get. I think I still want Jokic to get it, but the NBA just ain't.

Black enough no more.

Nah.

That's the. That's the other elephant in the room.

Right?

It's not black enough, you think?

It's definitely not black American enough.

Yeah. That's what I'm. That's what I'm saying.

Victory with Minyama don't count. I want a. Without parents. I want somebody. I'm serious.

Single mom.

Single mom. Yes.

Yeah.

From the trenches. But you can't.

Whoever's in charge, whoever their Jesse Collins is that's in charge of producing this. You could tell it's not like us. You could tell that. You know what? Let me not say that because let me not just rush to the racing background. The NBA is an analytics driven league now.

Yes.

So you could see that they're applying that also to content creation and they're leaning to the. That more so than curation.

I agree.

And the other thing is it's not curated properly.

They're so international now, bro. Like China. All this other. Like the NBA don't. America might not be the big market it was. They're not necessarily got to cater to what we want to see. Nah. I think it's a three day weekend.

Right.

Whereas most events is just one day. So now you got to entertain the fans that are coming from across the country and all around the world for three or four consecutive days. So you got to come up with all these little.

But the other leagues do that shit too, dude.

No. Who.

Baseball has the home run derby on the night before.

Like they do. Yeah.

You know, I mean like Pro bowl is not. They do the. They do their little quarterback. Pro ball is down in the drains too. It is down. All that is trash. So you got a whole.

All that is trash. Thank God the Canada and USA Hockey teams got lit for me. Thank God that they went out there. Them brothers, whoever those brothers were. Where the one brother scrap bong bomb. Bomb. 10 minutes later. Oh yeah. I'm watching this. I'm watching this now. And that game that they play, the next game won't be a ratings problem at all. Won't Be a ratings problem at all. That's what you need. Bring Chris Childs back. Bring somebody back that's just gonna knock one of these out real quick. Rest in peace, Kobe. I don't want to be.

I was like, you ain't.

Rest in peace, Kobe. You see what Chris Charles did? The gold test, that chin bow. We'll watch that one. Hey, put Gervontae Tank Davis in the skills. In the skills contest. Call me, I'll Jesse Collins this shit right back to where it need to be. But. Yeah, and you know, I know it's bad. I ain't been in a while. I don't even hear the baddies talking about going out city for the week.

It was out there, though.

You got the call. Now it's time out.

I did.

They baddies are in San Francisco, period.

New York.

From a. They went out there.

The whole.

The star out there.

I'm wanting better than that now, but. Okay, I'm taking. I'm taking your word for it. Yeah, I'm not looking for. I.

No, they, they, they.

I just want to go to the airport on a Friday, headed somewhere else and see the San Francisco gate lined up with him. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Those are the good old days. It was back in the day, you old. You could put a shot up or two or three. All right, I'll take your word for it.

No, they was out there.

If the baddies are there, cool.

My young boy called me and told me they was out there.

Adam Silver, I think you got a show on your hands. I think that there's some credence to the inside the NBA team only on the product. There was a lot of that, too, during the All Star Game. A lot of commentators just totally on the product.

Yeah, yeah, right.

There's something to that. He was letting. I mean, I like that he told the truth. He did. He did. That's why that. Tell the truth, don't be on tv.

You gotta hype shit up. Your job as the commentator at those things is to make this interesting, not make you want to turn it off.

I agree.

Sorry.

I think that's a bad job. I think you could have whatever personal feeling you have, but you're supposed to be selling the product. You working for the NBA at that level, I think you're supposed to try and jazz it up as much as possible possible.

I absolutely love the Raphael Sadiq performance. I love the job that the band did. I loved all of those Bay Area classics and hits that they were playing. I saw them play you can't touch this for about 8 bars. I saw Gavin make a post about this as well. But where was MC Hammer? And that's what I mean about curation.

That was my question.

That's what I mean about curation.

I thought he was coming out during the Cassidy set.

How could you not bring MC Hammer out? He's the go to in San Francisco.

The All Star pitched it.

I'm sure they probably did.

They might have pitched it. Yo.

He probably. I ain't sure about. MC Hammer would have showed up.

Hammer would have been there.

Maybe, maybe not.

Hammer would have been there. Ain't no maybe not. Hammer would have been there. That'll liven it up. Put the baggy sequence pants on that definitely.

And think about this. The average goer wouldn't even have known who the he was, bro.

I don't care.

I don't care either. KN they know song 25 to know.

When the song came out.

The kids don't know. My daughter. My daughter met MC Hammer. I was like, who the is that?

You think the average. You think the average Goer Newton Vogue.

But that's what I'm saying is like Gen Z. There's like a resurgence with Gen Z. Really. Like kind of trying to figure out what was going on in the 90s and early 2000s. That's why they're all watching Sex in the City now. So I figure they would know the retro shit.

They would know the song too. They would know.

They might know can't touch this. They might know can't touch this.

But even if you just let them do a verse right? Too.

Sure.

It didn't do the whole whole Blow the whistle. You just giving them a verse real quick.

Blow the whistle has never died.

You wait. You can't touch this.

Can't touch this. Is using commercials.

You still have kid touches on tv, you know.

Can't touch this.

And it's the Rick James table. I mean like, they'll know the music. The music will resonate with them.

Okay.

All right. You can't touch this. Let me do pumps in the bump and put the bikini on again and go out there like he did. Like he did in the video.

You got to bring shorty from the video.

Video number one first. All that we want. Hey, freak ass boy. Listen, Adam Silver, you got a hell of a problem on your hands. But I'm not paid to fix it. So keep it simple. Good luck.

That'll be my advice.

Good. Good luck to you and the players. I feel your frustration. I just. I just Yeah, I feel for them.

Simplify that. Yo. Doing too much.

How can I be alive long enough to where the All Star weekend. Just don't do it.

I never would have thought that way happen.

Money, bro. NBA All Star. It's money, bro. Like the players used to look forward to it. I don't think the players look forward to it.

I said it before, I'll say it again.

They don't.

They don't. Right?

Put Magic Johnson in the game again. The best All Star game in the history of All Star games. Watching them get away from him. Right?

You think they don't play defense now?

Hey, my guy Magical posting up that Barkley said you got it. No, no, that was Caro. Caro said now just score.

He ran a 05 zone.

Bring magic back. Bring magic back. Yo, I come from the allstar of Mike Vers. Kobe still no.

The Kobe AI one was the best one.

That was a great All Star.

I was there in D.C. that was amazing. That was the best one I into like as far as the game them. But again, you talk about for a while you went.

Yeah, he was.

You talking about talking about Steph. You talking about AI Them was going at. They wanted to win. They jumped the out of Kobe AI and Steph was all jumped the dog up. But yeah, bro, people wanted to win. Now they don't give a. Yeah, it's just a different mentality in the league today.

Too much money.

Ain't no dogs. Too much money it is, bro.

I don't think that's it. I think these guys are passionate. But man, whatever. That was a mess.

The young is passionate.

Oh, do you know Mark Lamont Hill, that we have our. Our date reserved at the gym for basketball?

What's the date?

Keep. It's March 1st. I want to say March 1st.

Okay, say less.

I mean, let me check and see what that first. March 1st I'm going to get Saturday. The gym is booked. I think we all should go like a team. But when I say that to y'all, that doesn't happen. So I don't want anyone to go. Let's see if the opposite effect will occur. Psychology.

They're gonna show up.

Everybody march 1st. We all go to the gym.

What time?

Play some tack taps.

Taps, yo.

Play some 21 or something.

Pass out, play attacks.

Yeah, but hey, me too. But hey, we'll film it.

We all out of shape. We gonna be all right.

And flip a referee. All right. What. What time are we doing this? Ke what time do we have the gym till? Come on Come on out and say I can't hear through the door.

5 to 10.

5Pm to 10pm we feel like there. 5pm to10pm let's go, kid.

I better hit the treadmill. Now I'm in play.

I'm not playing. Do something for some cardio horse.

Around the world, we can do horsing.

Around the world. We can do all of that. We could even play. I'm just letting.

Just do Rise and Shine. That's the easiest thing. Game go to one, you know, I mean, whoever get to get the 21st win that way it's a series of one on one. One.

No, but. But you're not always on the court. 11. We do 11 in Jersey.

What you talk about shine.

Okay, King of the hill. Whatever.

And we call that knockout in Jersey.

Okay, y'all would.

20 said 20.

We're not doing. We're not. 11. 10. 11.

That's in your little 30.

32 pointers.

Yo. What?

Know what else they had all star weekend, right?

What?

I saw spades tournament out there. They had one up here when it was in New York.

D. Wade already.

I'm just telling you what I saw.

D. Wade know about I made the championship.

My sources said that you were in a space tournament and cheated.

Oh, Mark, get new sources. I'm not even joking if your sources told you that.

What space tournament?

Let me see.

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

How do you cheat any.

Anyway, I'm just really like that. I'm really, really.

I'm telling you what A told me.

It's okay, my brother. It's okay. Go ahead and look in your little phone. Go ahead and look at your little phone for some information while you do that. It's time for my favorite part of the show. Price.

Pace.

Yo. What.

What kind of jean suit is that? That is kind of first.

Don't look so surprised.

No, I'm saying I've been hunting for a jean suit. I can't find one.

Oh, this is a theory.

Not blazer.

That's what it is.

That's why you've been hunting for a jean suit. Yeah. Not a blazer. What kind of jeans is that? A theory on the low. Theory be having some on the low. This is not an ad. I don't know if they pay black people.

That ain't the loan.

No, theory ain't bad.

Fire.

Theory invent like some fire.

Cheap shoes.

Theory invent.

Theory's not cheap.

Don't do that.

Why? Why you always doing it?

That word is Relative. Relative.

Theory's not expressed that word is.

It ain't cheap.

It's not cheap.

It's nice.

I like.

I enjoy theory and Vince and Vince Staples.

Paul, I can't fit none of that.

Yo, you was looking for a jean suit since the super bowl, right? I'm lying.

As I've been looking for.

It's been a whole week. You can't find that?

I can't find.

Kendrick got one to change his drip up. You see it? Kendrick got him one.

Now theory, my Kendrick got a jean.

All jean outfit at the Grammys.

But. No, but it's cool.

No, the Super Bowl.

It was the Grammys.

Both. Oh yeah, he had both.

Jeff Hamilton on at the Super Bowl.

Oh, well, he did have those fabulous boot cut jeans on though, from Seline.

And I think if you found a jean suit, I think it would look.

Like that he should absolutely get some boot cut.

I ain't going to lie. I tried to freak up the other day and throw on a little jean shirt. I put it back and it was one of them. One of them what? The brim, the gaunchi or something that don't make it big. Nope.

I try satin varsity jacket.

In theory, she be tight with me. Like I'd be uncomfortable with some of that on.

Yeah, well, that's just cuz you just.

Buy a size too small though.

No, they don't make. You're in good shape like to wear. You just weird. You just. You're sizing.

I like tight.

Okay.

Hey, pause, man.

How is that a pause you like?

When you hear tight, you think of. You don't think of vagina. When you hear tight, you think of like a man's anus or something. What would make you.

What would make.

What would make tight a pause.

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Does Kendrick need our focus? Man, he just put up some big Spotify numbers, man. I think he's the first rapper to put up over. Was it 100 million listeners in a month?

He did a whole bunch of.

Yeah, he broke a lot of.

And he broke that record. He also, you know, you talk about all.

The first living male recording artist to have three albums in the top Billboard.

Top 10, top 20.

Yeah. Top 10, top 10.

That's number one, number nine and number 10.

Gotcha. That's a stat.

GNX went back up to number one. Damn. Made it to number nine. And good kid Max City is number 10.

God did super.

Clearly he was right about his set list. For the fans out there that would like to hear me say it again, I was wrong about the set list. Oh, yeah.

It worked. It worked.

He had his own plan. And as you can see, it's working.

Yo, and for y'all fans that needed to hear that, I'm wrong every day about something. It's not a day that passes where I don't get something wrong, wrong. I wish you guys could see all of them, all the mistakes. Y'all seem to get a real thrill out of that one it was tight.

You ain't go in there and go.

In about Kill Joe, that he was wrong about the settlers.

What he say was wrong?

I was wrong.

That's it.

Oops. Got one. Bad. Darn it. Congratulations to Kendrick. Yeah, the entire tde.

Entire PG Lane.

Entire. Yeah, the entire PG Lane. Say that. Whole West Coast. Yeah, whole West Coast. I do feel the rest of the country's west coast resentment kicking in. I know the west has been saying that for a while. I'm starting to feel it. Yeah, I'm starting to feel it.

I see it. But, I mean, the west was ready for it.

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

Nah, nah, I don't think so. Memphis art is still cooking.

And that's why I said I don't think. I don't think Memphis is, but I do.

I do see everybody else just getting tired of it. It's like, all right, I got a moment. Act like you've been here before, type of. And the west coast not doing it.

What do you think about. Act like you've been here before.

It's their moment.

Yeah.

When they're in the middle of a moment like this.

Yeah, it's their moment is not dying down.

Yeah, I get that. But the. The sentiment is, dog. Y'all acting like y'all have never been here before.

No people like. No people like.

I don't have to keep reminding everybody. Yo, we are. We are.

But I don't know if they've ever been here before.

92.

Yeah, they were. They were that chronic, that chronicle run, that early 90s. Early 90s.

It was massive. But this is. I mean, it's a. Just a different era, I guess. It's like comparing basketball players from different.

It's been so long, like, a lot.

Of the hip hop didn't have the platforms that it has now. There was no hip hop in the Super Bowl. It's a different. It's different. It's a different level. It's the same. Yeah, it's big in terms of hip hop, but it's bigger. Like, being. The hip hop is bigger. It's bigger.

Yeah. Even though when they say act like you've been here before, I don't think that necessarily means that you had to have been there before.

Right.

No, that's not what the. I don't think that's what the phrase is about. Right.

It's like, have some class.

Yeah. Yeah.

It just means you ain't gotta be.

On a act like shit ain't shit is not new to you and that you just fucking.

Yeah, but how they supposed to act? I mean, what would that look like if you. The west coast right now?

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

I'm like talk. That's what I'm saying. Run the score up it. Cause your moment gonna leave.

The record is still hot and the shit that's going on is still going on is being promoted on big platforms and bigger platforms. And so it's not going anywhere. And they have a right to celebrate that.

Yeah, right.

For a long time it's like the east coast, we. We are hip hop and all that shit. And we lend you guys the. The or pass you guys the torch. Like it's. So let them celebrate and have fun.

They did not like us at the SNL shit with William.

Yeah, they're not stopping.

That's really what the problem is though. It's just New York. I don't even think it's Atlanta that much. It's just New York.

I didn't want to see Will Far Pharaoh do that.

That was funny.

I mean, I got it. I got that level chuckle. I had a chuckle. I just didn't want to see him do that.

It's at that level now.

Are we gatekeepers? Yes, we are gatekeepers, yes.

New York feels like.

Because we started here, though.

It's the we the end all. I've said this a million times. New York thinks that New York is the end all, be all when it comes to hip hop and that it hasn't grown past New York.

I mean, at one point, all the.

Labels and stuff, that's Data thinking.

I think they're still here, right? I mean, the labels not off.

The labels are not still here.

At one point they were here. Right. You had to come to New York to either get signed. There's a lot of things that were.

Happening even for your records to, to. To that national point.

Yes.

Now you would be regional. But if you didn't make it in New York, it was almost like you didn't really count.

Exactly.

Yeah. Then that all changed.

That happened.

So we had all that.

We have that cachet, but it's not that anymore. And a lot of New Yorkers still hang their hat on that. And a lot of people like, hey dog, we don't care about that old. That ain't this ain't 10, 15, 20 years ago. Now we don't have to make it in New York. We don't need New York. We don't give a about New York. It's only New York that keep yelling New York.

That's Young money's doing. Young Money did that.

Y'all have any thoughts on the Wayne performance from the snl? Anybody see it?

I saw it.

It was. It was dope. The stream I watched his mic was like not on but they fixed it. And the shit that's going around the.

Internet, people said I want to watch the whole see it.

I like anytime a live band is behind a rapper with hits.

Yeah, yeah.

Cuz the live band, they made that. They made it sound like Blue Note.

They killed it.

They made it sound just like a contemporary version like that unplug. But was he.

Was he on point? Cuz I heard he was fire.

Yeah, he was good. He sounded the sharpest I ever I ever heard. It's going to make some people had him super bowl. Correct.

You already said it.

That's what I was doing.

They're wrong. But I get why people would feel like that.

I did have a chance to listen to the party album over the weekend.

Me too.

Me too.

I did cuz Friday it didn't really, you know, it hadn't really sat with me. But I heard the album again. I found some, some cuts on there. I found some cuts on there that didn't hit me the first time.

Girl just lied she makes me cry I can't be blank for anything I'm fine.

I didn't catch this first time tried.

To ruin my life but you can't.

Though by the way the beef ain't.

Done a Grammy don't even call that bull super while you round me I thought it was good court documents attracting.

But I'm relaxing and I know I told party I'ma give him a verse.

But then I heard what he sent and said features.

Hey switch the beat.

On him the boys. Don't you think that's a bit weird considering the album name? Man. Dad, I'm a rap out how my ex is still hate on me. No way. That's an internal issue. It's something I'mma keep blaming on B. I had about 20 teams in the club and right away they appropriate. That's a weird thing to have to clarify. So I'm breaking those opinions up and give you something that you can sing.

You can sing.

Together.

I do like singing. Everybody likes singing.

That girl together.

Cause it's a Drake song. So at the end of the day, we're gonna hate on a girl.

Well, none of that was necessary.

What in the.

That was.

No, my version. I need that version deluxe. What the bro? Yo, that is hilarious. Y'all didn't need the Internet. Yo, you Internet people did not need the Internet. The world was fine when I didn't know how creative some of y'all were out there. Yeah, y. Holy Mark, you weren't here when we did the review. What did you think? I.

It was just what I thought it would be. Couple songs that I liked. A lot of stuff didn't feel like well developed concepts musically. I got bored early. The only song I like when he raps. So, you know, give me a hug. I thought it was, you know, had some classic bars in it.

Oh, interesting.

The rest of it.

Classic bars, huh?

Couple.

Couple legendary bars.

Look, I just say no, but in general, if I were giving it mics, I'd give it three. I'd have give it three.

T Pain said it sounded like just old records that they had.

That's exactly what it sounds. That's exactly what it says.

Always and demo have done since they. Yeah, yeah.

And it's like that. I'm also tired of Drake sounding like I'm tired of that sound from him. And I don't love Drake as a singer anyway. I like him when he raps. I love him when he raps. I don't like when he sings. But that sound of his, I don't like it. We were actually listening to it driving to Edgewater. So it was a 45 minute drive. We heard a lot of the album for the first time and my wife was like, yo, I can't take any more of this. It sounds like one long ass like painful emo song. And that's what it felt like to me.

And I'm not gonna hold you. I'm glad you said. Said that. Like I saw a party, made a post about hey, this album wasn't for the deep dives. It's for TO I want to let him know I don't want to. It ain't much on there that I'm to Yeah, yeah. It ain't a whole lot on there. That. That's the. The bag.

Yeah.

For me I think you got sintered.

With that too, that post.

Yeah, okay, maybe it was a Sintel maybe.

But. But the principal shout out to Sintel too. That's my man. Man. I'm cool with getting sent. I like them.

I like it when it's funny.

Yeah, but but.

Yeah, but the sentiment is still the same, though. A lot of people saying that.

Yeah, it's not. Who are y'all with? That's. Yeah, forget it. What is all the hoopla with the. What is it? Bots and suppressing and. Oh, he lowered the price of the album. He better. That's what did it, really. Yeah.

Well, streams are dropping every day.

The streams are dropping and they dress a hardcore. The streams are dropping and they lowered the price of the album to like 4.99. I'm not putting that on Drake, even though it does look away for Drake to be attached to something where you lower the price on the album. But it is a technically a party album.

Yeah, it's 7.99 on iTunes right now.

Yeah, but them numbers dropped every day. We were. I heard y'all talking about how many numbers he was gonna sell. Some people saying 150, 250, 350. It's looking like if he hits 150, he'll be very lucky. I'm predicting. I was predicting like 110 and I'm not even sure he hits that now.

My number was 120 and now I'm just looking. We get a hundred maybe, but my number's 120. I don't see it going nowhere near, nowhere higher than that. I'm doubling down with that one.

If you're Drake and you sell 100,000 records of this, how do you explain that? Do you just say this is a party album? You say my album, 1000%.

You say this is a album.

You don't explain shit. It's a party album.

It's nothing to explain.

Has nothing to do. Do with me.

Wow. Right?

One person.

I want to play this clip of LA Reid talking about the mythical button that you hear talked about so much in the music industry. The red button.

Yeah.

Well, that's Drake. No, I'm playing. I'm playing.

Good.

But long before that, I know there is the belief amongst industry people that there is a button that you press to get an artist popping, like, to get an artist lit. So LA Reid was on Shout out to LA Reid legend. He was on Tank spot. Shout out to Tank as well, was on Tank's podcast and Jay Valentine. And this is what he had to say about that mythical button. Oh, got it.

Singles, we put out a single. Arista, our joint venture partners, put out a single. And it was doing okay. So I went to Clive Davis and I said, clive, like, I need you to push the button on this thing, man. You know, he said, what's the button? I said, you know, like you did for Whitney Houston. Like, I need you to push the button. And we were at a conference when I said this to him, he said, the button, huh? He said, sit right here. I sat down beside him, right? We had a conference and I forgot where we were. I thought we were in Florida. I can't remember. Maybe Miami or something. Anyway, Whitney Houston comes on stage and Whitney Houston sings. And he looks at me, he said, that's the button. That's the button. Button. He said. He said, do they sound like that? I was like, oh, so what you're telling me is my is not hot? Oh, I really did think, like, you know, record labels, they take talent, good, bad or indifferent, and they push the button and goes. Right. That's what I thought. So, cly, push the button.

This button that we've all heard about.

Sit down right here, young man. Teach you something.

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

I completely disagree.

I about to say. I don't know if I. It's a great story, but there's a button.

It's LA Reid's line.

It's glad that y'all all picked up on the fact that LA Reid is lying. But on the playback, I heard it different, differently. I heard him say, we think is a button that can be pressed good, bad or indifferent.

Yeah, that's the key part of that.

And that was the important part there. So when he sits him down and says, hey, look at Whitney Houston sing this song. It's like, yeah, anybody with ears can say you would press a button for that level of talent.

Yes.

Everybody thinks they're on at that level, talent wise. And we all go up there saying, hey, press the button. Press the button. Press the button for this I just made in the basement last night. It don't. It doesn't work like that. I just thought this was a really nice way of getting out of that button conversation.

But there is a button, though.

Yeah, a lot of that.

Get a button.

A prime example of the button. Tommy Richmond, Millie Vanill, Millie Vanilli before all that.

How is. You know what people say that Millie Vanilli sold records before that button was pressed.

Yeah. And they made good music. Him singing.

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

All right. Still was good.

But in the power behind it.

Yes, yes.

Tommy Richmond.

Marketing dollars.

Marketing dollars behind.

And after watching the Milli Vanilli Doc, I don't think it's fair to call them frauds. Yeah. Because they were talented. It just wasn't the talent that they were showing us in America.

But that's what I mean, they were dancers.

They were choreogr like everybody else.

Yeah, but they sung on their first album where they sold records over there somewhere.

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

But the singing, that.

You know about all that.

What?

Some Terence Trent.

You guys know Terence Trent? Darby doesn't go by that name anymore. He's.

Well, he's Terence Strip.

He's Terence Trit. Darby dog. Mama name him Clay. I'mma call word is all. His name might be Joseph Su now.

Terence. What's his new name?

Sananda.

All right, we done? You're done?

Okay.

You done? Exactly why I didn't watch your movie this week.

It goes.

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

Oh, the movie's out.

Came out.

Make some noise for big man.

Let's go.

Hey, I didn't watch it, so I don't have a review. I will have a review for. I'm watching it with my lady tonight.

I'm watching it, so.

Oh, you. I do that.

Think going to happen, champ.

She's dressed in the movie.

All right, so everything's changed now. A lot of changes.

I didn't hear what you said, though.

I didn't say anything. But seriously, I'm going to watch it, too. I dvr. I just. I was traveling, didn't have access to cable.

But I want.

I want to watch it.

I appreciate you DVRing it.

Yeah, DVR. I'm looking forward to watching it tonight.

Okay.

Did you watch it?

Yes.

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

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

Okay. What'd you think?

I. I really liked it, actually. I was kind of surprised. I just. I was terrified what the editing was going to look like. But I was. I was very happy with it. I was very happy with it.

That's all that matters.

All right. Do you want us to come back with our review like you did last time?

I don't think I have a fucking choice. Choice. Review away.

If you say don't.

Come on, Legend.

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

I'm still like you did the last time.

Yeah.

I'mma still say something.

It's fine.

It's okay. No, please go Ahead. The floor is. The floor will be yours when you guys see it and review it for me. Okay?

Terence Trent Darby changed his name to what a whole woman.

The Sananda Maitreya show him.

Shout out to Terrence Darby and Sananda, everybody.

And Milli Vanilli and Millie Vanilla.

And watch that Milli Vanilli doc. It's one of. It's one of the better music docs.

It's wonderful. It's great.

And sad.

It's super sad when you realize how they got exploited.

Yeah.

And you hear the real story. Like that dude in the south that was doing the background vocals for one of them.

I.

Because I was a big. Millie Vanilla. I love that album. I actually love that album. And when I found out the all.

Their first American album. Blame it on the Radio.

Blame it on. Yeah. I loved every and everybody. Actually, they didn't like that album. They sold a lot of records for a reason.

There was slaps.

Slap at the slaps.

We was kids.

That's why I said, like. I wouldn't say the button got pushed for them because the music was dope.

Right. But it is interesting to think about what it means for the industry to put so much energy behind making this a thing.

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

Days meaning.

Wait, wait, hold on, hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Content creation has taken over Soulja Boy. In the beginning of the ringtone days when he cranked that, a button wasn't pushed behind that.

You don't think these.

Not initially. Not initially.

Content creators are under the button.

Bobby Smurda song. A button wasn't initially pushed behind that. It happened after that when he recorded it.

I. I just want to inform you, cuz, you my man, you're conflating things.

Please explain. Explain.

Soulja Boy popping off organically. Bobby Schmurda popping off organically. That's what I'm talking about is what incentivized them to push. You can tell the difference when it's organic.

Got it.

And it's just bubbling out there. You and your friends is playing it in the car and a couple clubs. Got it.

We can look at it right today with Jello. It's right there.

Bingo.

It's right there. The song came out. It got it got lit legs. He gets the deal now. He's all.

To be yo, Adam Silver. Jello is why the Detroit Lions lost. I don't want to see him perform no more.

He's terrible at performing.

He don't know how to perform. He barely know how to rap. He barely know how to breathe while he rap. I'm not. I'm no longer talking about what you think of the song. The song could be something they not either. Him. He don't know a lick about shit when it come to performance comments. Don't book him no more.

That's crazy.

They not looking at that either. They looking at the numbers.

Yeah, that's it.

They got somebody that just sit and track analytics and say, oh, shit, everybody's talking about this. Go get him. We don't care how good he is and we gonna give him a bag.

Oh, actually, now that, that, that. Now that is a great segue to that other LA Reid clip that I had. Anytime a musical genius is talking, if you're into music, you should probably check it out for sure. This is L A Reid on why the music industry may be lacking currently.

Right. And I think you and I talked about it. How many. How many important boutique labels do we have that are black? Because that's where the community is built from. Right? You started at Black Ground, right?

Yep.

Right. Boutique. A boutique. Right. And an artist I had started at Lafay's. And there was uptown artists and there was Death Row artists, there was Motown artists, stacks artists. And they were like.

And.

And. And that was where. That's where black music was nurtured, curated and developed.

And.

And it wasn't no disrespect to anybody, but it wasn't so much us asking for permission because people that look like us were making those decisions.

Decisions.

And look how different the industry looked then. So the end. So the moment we just talked about when we said, guy and I'll be sure and keep Sweat.

Yeah.

And Baby Face and. And all. And Heavy D and the Boys and. And I could keep going on and on, guys. Those are black people making decisions about the music we heard on a national, international level that is all but dead. Dead. So if you look at the Grammy stage, what you see missing is people that look like us making decisions, deciding that's what's missing. He smoked and it's changed music. He smoked it. Because all the music decisions are now being made by mostly white men. So look at the stage. The artists are great. By the way, I love Chaperone. I thought Vincent Boone was incredible. I really did. I love the artist. Right.

He was great. I really love.

Love Dolce, by the way.

She's great as well. But even that.

That's black.

It's also boutique. From a boutique. Thank you that's top dog, right? Yep. Thank you.

Thank you. Shout out to LA Reid.

I think he's, I, I, I think he's not a thousand percent because he said the decision to be a weight made by white men, I think the decisions are being made by green. They looking at. No, it's all just numbers now. That's all they care about is now is let's put these people here because they tracking. Okay. Because I'm telling you what I think the green is still being only looked at by men as opposed, as opposed to the artistry or as opposed to the actual quality of the music that's being judged by tde. They are a prime example of the point that he's making. So yeah, the numbers are behind it, but the that are able to put out the product is tde. We see it all the time where SZA is arguing and all of the artists are arguing because they not dropping frequently enough. If the white man was controlling that, they'll be pushing them out the door because it makes more revenue.

Sometimes they make it obvious when a black person is involved in it. The Pop out show, Kendrick's Pop out show being on Amazon. I came in here and shouted out 10 Tim, Tim, Amazon Salute. Salute. Salute. Friend of the show. But Tim is a black man from Compton going in Amazon and saying, hey, y'all, look at this, this is buzzing. Look at this. It may only be buzzing here.

He also has a situation where, like I said, the show we talk about the Kendrick show, the amazing show is Amazon.

Which show? Is that what you're talking about?

It's the Paris show that I'm saying.

Got it, got it, got it.

Kendrick already has a relationship where I'm doing my did my shows with Amazon. So now if I'm doing a Pop out show, yeah, I'm gonna do it through Amazon. That don't necessarily mean that this person Tim says, yo, this is the right thing to do to stream it here. This situation. We got your stream. I'm not streaming rights, but we got the situation over here. Let's work together.

It could go, it could go like that. It don't go like that. And that's what LA Reid is saying. It could go like that, but that's not what ends up happening. Even at Kanye, whatever that shit was that. What was that? Kanye? Is that what that was?

Yeah, Kanye, Andre.

I ain't talking about that. That's that J Prince. I'm not, I'm not talking about that.

Because I was Amazon as well.

Damn, my mind.

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

It's Tim at Amazon. It's Larry at Apple. Is. And unfortunately, a lot of these music labels have gotten rid of. We had this talk here where Universal consolidated, and now you got rid of all the boutiques, all the black people that curate and develop and pick a song and dress an artist, and you just got rid of it now. So that's why shit looked the way it looked. And if you don't see it like that, I'm not trying to change your mind, but it is what it is.

Yeah. Because I want to say, even to the dochi point, Dolce, she's been everywhere this year. So if you're the Grammys again, you looking at numbers, you looking at analytics. We need to get her.

No, no. Why? That's wrong.

I disagree.

That's. This broadcast is too big. I can't let you say that.

I disagree. Please.

Nobody nowhere looked at Doshi numbers and said, let's give her.

She needs to be on the Grammy.

That didn't happen. That didn't happen, dog. That did not.

First off, they. They had all the first. All the nominees for best no artists did a show, did a set. Yeah, she was one of them. So it ain't like we. We didn't pick people. We just picked doi. She's one of the best new artist nominees because she's been everywhere. They've put her in front of everything she needed to be in front of. So she's going to get the nomination. You get the nomination. All the other best new artist nominees perform. Yes, she's going to perform.

Let me get this one. Be one way.

All right.

This show year.

I'm talking about this year.

As am I. Because we all came in here and said, hey, they got some things right this year.

Yes.

Right. Like they came and they gave their speech. Homeboy gave a speech at the Grammys to say, we changed some things around. And while Jesse Collins normally puts the awards together, I'm positive that a black person somewhere had a hand in Doshi. Who don't. Who didn't have a top 100 records, who. Who's never had a top 100 record to say, hey, we need eyes on this. A black person did that. If you don't see that, I'm not trying to make you see that. But that happened.

That was gonna be my.

So do you think that her feature would have been a lot smaller if somebody Blacked it out if she got a feature. No, I mean, because Ice is right. Every single artist who was nominated for new artists had this year when it.

Was corrective and I don't know the numbers.

So there was a lot of corrective shit.

Yeah, it was a lot of corrective shit.

There was.

We don't know what the numbers were for those even in it being corrective.

Shit is them listening to black people saying, hey, you getting this wrong. It wasn't white people at the Grammys protesting, saying, hey, this ain't going the way it's supposed to go.

No, what I'm saying is I'm solely speaking on the Dolce point. Her being able to perform at the grammar Grammys, I don't put that on a black person saying she needs to be able to perform at the Grammys because they opened up and said all of the best new artists are performing and all of them wasn't black. Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question.

To do that.

Is that true?

To do that. I'm asking you to do that. You would be short changing her team.

Yeah.

You would be short changing the people that fought every day for years before that Grammy appearance for that to happen. It did not go the way you say, but go ahead. Have your. Have your.

I was just about to ask you, do we know what her numbers were? No, I don't know her numbers.

No ash number.

That's what I was about to say. I don't know if her numbers were through the roof to the point where numbers dictated her being up there getting highlighted to that magazine. When I said numbers, I wasn't talking sales. I'm talking about analytics. Everything that's been going on, doi's name has been up there. All the publications are mentioning her. She had.

They.

Look at this. She. But that's. But that's. But that's.

Her boutique label team did that.

I'm agree.

I thought top did that.

I'm agreeing with that part. Because when they did the work to get her where she needed to be seen, I was just saying that the Grammys that.

And I'm saying last year, the Grammys, the year before last year would have never allowed that. They would have had that very small stage before the commercial break where they give the new artists 15 seconds going into the commercial. That's what I'm saying. Yes. Yeah, that changed this year. And I'm positive, actually, I know for a fact a black person had a hand in that.

Okay, Okay.

I agree.

He said it. And congratulations.

To Dolce. Absolutely.

Sure.

Absolutely killed it.

Well deserved.

I think the team had more like talent.

Gotta meet talent. Your talent and your hard work. Gotta meet your team's hard work.

For sure.

That gotta meat timing and some white person understanding.

Say that again. Say that louder.

No, that's, that's true. That's the argument me and Ice had the other day when I was just like, yo. And again, I don't. We ain't gonna beat this horse. But yo, it has to be a marriage, fam. You can't just go pull Joe Blow off the street and just make him a star. I don't see that especially over a duration of time.

And that's.

They might get an. They might get an album that goes crazy. They might get an album that sell 4 or 5 million records. But give him a 15 year career. Give him a 10 year career. I don't think, I don't think that button is that powerful to make. These have longevity of a decade of quality. I agree with that.

And I don't think today.

No more.

I loved your Whitney Houston point. Oh, my bad Flip. I loved your Whitney Houston point. There is a button.

Absolutely.

I begged you to push that button. I was buttoned. I went in La Reid office for 52 weeks in a row with mid.

You talking to scrunched my face up.

When they played it on the bigs. Damn. I did whatever I could to feel it. Feel this mid Joe button. Get out.

Go back out to your stoop with your cigarette.

Actually, we're dropping you now. We're dropping you now that I've heard the new slapchip working on. This is why I love him. Go ahead.

Even though times has changed, this is why I feel like A and R A RS are important and they need to come back. Even though times has changed for the artist development.

I agree.

You know what I mean? There's no more artist development. They're throwing these characters out there and they're just saying sink or swim. And then when they do press the button, it's just for a short term. So then now they fall under the line of the one hit wonders or you couldn't do this. And then leads to something bigger than bigger. Depression and. But that's. They don't care later on.

They don't care about that.

They just make the money off of you.

That's all they get.

Instant gratification. Yeah. Profitability. So that's why I think A and R is important to spend less in.

A short amount of time.

Exactly.

That's the formula now, just the adjustment.

I guess, adjusting to the new formula is, you know, it's crazy. I don't agree with it, but I get it.

I just loved hearing LA Reid. Like I said, anytime musical genius is talking somewhere where. If you're into music, you should probably check it out.

Read his memoir, by the way. If y'all didn't get a chance, read his. It's amazing. The music stories, the back scenes, how he. How LaFace was formed, how he got through to the. The last stage of his career. It's actually amazing. Amazing book. If you want to really hear about L. A Reid's life, it's dope. It's dope as hell, nigga.

Mark, I think that's the first book recommendation on the Joe Button podcast.

Yeah. In 10 years.

I'm joking.

No, I'm about to say he told niggas to read some Malcolm Gladwell shit. What's my name? What? My man name.

Malcolm Gladwell.

Yeah, check it out.

I recommended 77 books up here.

Knock your off, bro. Issue with the books is the same as LeBron. The same as LeBron. Page one. Yeah. He coming here with a book, carrying it, trying to be all edumacational.

Yo, the hate just be oozing out.

The leather, but it comes with love. This just oozing out the leather, but it comes with love.

It's cool.

I want to read books, man, but there's so many words. Get an audiobook and then it'll blur. The word sentences get blurry. Then I gotta start using my finger and.

Yeah, you could listen to Audible.

Huh?

An audiobook? Yeah. Never while you're in the car.

It depends on the voice of the audiobook.

Sometimes it's fine if I'm listening to that. I'm gonna cry super mad in the car. It matters.

I'll listen if you book me to be the voice for your book.

Look into it.

That's some.

No, but you can look at. You would do great with voiceovers. I'm shocked you don't already do that.

They don't pay no money.

Voice work.

No.

Book voice work.

Okay, all right.

Book voice work is ass. Voice work is great.

Book voice work is great.

I don't even like doing my own books. They pay so little. It's not. It's very rarely worth it. You only do it for the reader. But, yo, but don't do that. Yo, I.

At one point, Ian was souping me up. He told me that we was gonna try to pitch my voice for Waze, and we lost. Must be The Morgan Freeman and them niggas. Is James Earl Jones live?

No, no, last year, rest in peace.

James Earl Jones. He was another thorn in my voiceover side.

They had him way off.

I want to hear you saying cops up there. And now what's my man name? The. The Black president from 24. What's my man name?

Dennis Hay.

Hazer.

Yeah, Dennis Hay. Man that is really annoying that you know all of these people's names.

Sorry. He's the all state guy.

The all state guy. He's another. He's another real. Wait, next up you old as hell. He's another thorn in my voice over side man. Hey, whenever the D young get in there, I hope I'm still young enough to do it.

No, you going to be the old like them.

No, I would be the young in voiceover world.

Yeah, but I'm saying but.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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

Morgan Freeman in them.

Morgan Freeman got to go.

I'm dying.

I'm dying. I can't wait to be his chef for you.

Could do LION KING Port A4.

Hey, let me make Morgan Freeman soup one day. No, stop.

Can't say that man.

I'll fix this. What's wrong with you?

Hell no. Stop.

What is wrong with you?

What Morgan Freeman like for lunch?

Yo, what is wrong with this guy?

Oh, I done found mad new ways to kill people. Watching this very scary people are created live. Yo, people don't realize how much work it takes to kill somebody.

You know what?

It's a fact cuz.

People don't think about killing people.

Yeah they do.

No, that's not true.

That's not true. Hold on. That part is a lie. That part is they don't think it through.

But the thought crosses mind my not putting it into action and implementing killing somebody.

You've never had a fantasy about killing somebody if ever, ever.

Yes you did. No, I don't believe you.

You never thought about shooting somebody.

Somebody they got shot like.

I'm joking.

I'm joking.

I'm playing.

I'm playing crazy bow. Nah, not really. Yes you did.

Is we all go through that.

Yo, I don't believe him. I never been shot.

I think he lied.

But if I got shot my I could tell you my dream. What? That my dream that night would be shooting the back. Oh my God. The whole clip. Oh my God. Jesus.

Couple reloads.

These dedicated ass killers be happy having the suitcase to fit the body right in the closet.

He 350.

We need to upsize it. Them be having the chainsaw. The. That is work.

It's crazy Plastic wrap.

Hey, yo.

Then at the end, they show the lady killer was the angel of death. The angel of death. She start killing, I start getting sexist. Yeah. What's she about to do with the body?

See this one?

Oh, man. I'm horrible. Dedicated killers.

Oh, man.

Oh, my Lord.

Hey, a couple of years ago, you know, I mean, there was a guy who dressed up as a acidic Jew, right? And he killed the guy in the middle of the street. And they caught him.

I thought that was extremely clever as well.

And they caught him. And they caught him in 2023 from. He was in Teaneck. They caught him in Teaneck in his apartment. But even that, when I was watching that, I'm like, that was the. Was the. Just came home from prison, from Brooklyn. Came home from prison and then he. He laid on him and killed him dressed up as a Jew. And they caught him two years later. I just googled that they called him.

Yeah.

Used to wear the dread wigs. Yeah, yeah, they used to wear the dread wig.

Popping.

Dressed up like a Muslim woman.

A lot of them. A lot of them OG, man, they do that, man. Dress up as an old lady pushing.

A shopping right there. Do.

Dude, that was jello with my brother last year. Broke out of the CFCF and was walking through West Philly where he jab on. Yeah, yeah, that's how you do it. He got caught trying to find his ops. Instead of running away, he went to go shoot. He's like, I want to find my ops and shoot him again. They caught him with the hijab in the middle of 50, I think 52nd Street. But yeah, it was crazy.

The dedication is.

That's the dedication.

And for the people that could not tell I was totally joking about Morgan Freeman. Please say that I was totally joking about Morgan. Morgan Freeman's. I would do it for dinner.

And Joe says.

And Joe said that he'll poison me for dinner.

Yeah.

What a man that is Morgan.

They gotta let go of the voiceovers, man.

They tried. They really tried to get you on that way.

Ain't nobody getting see you. I can see you doing movies.

No waves did it.

Waze did it. They had T Pain do it. They had. I think. Think Snoop did it. I don't want none.

I don't want none of y'all.

I want for lunch. Oh, man, I hate to have to do it to my music, but you got.

You got the voice for it, man.

You just Got not for ways go to Disney. Disney gives the bags up.

Batman does ways. So Joe could do it.

Joe could not do.

You said Batman.

Batman does.

Do you want to hear Joe when you driving down the highway, turn right.

The boys is right up there.

Quarterback mouth right. Watch your ass.

Play with him if you want.

He don't know the distance.

Play. Play with them if you want. I would get off immediately. Exit 17 now my exit jokes now get off now.

Joe don't math like that. So he think the quarter mile up is a little farther than you got you jammed up.

He doesn't know directions in real life. So that would be.

Yeah, that's not going to work.

Geography is up there.

Turn suit.

It's not going to work.

Yeah. They never told me when I was dropping out of school that my accountant would do all of that. They told me I would need the knowledge. They were wrong.

Stop saying stop playing.

Joking is I'm joking. What you going to do when I go back to school Then our competitive is over. You do know that when I go back to school our compete bromance whatever.

They call on it.

It's a rap for you.

He's going to really go. You going to pay for the.

He going to go.

No, he's still there. No, but if you got to graduate before you what are you two credits.

Away the competition heat right back up if you.

When I go back to school don't.

Pay for your ne cuz you rich.

Now get no honorary like like the artist get.

Yeah, yeah.

Don't do that.

We don't want that.

That is fly too.

We want to see you right.

Then you got to get them some money. They got to be the button Gymnasium, museum or the button. Oh, performing arts building.

Yeah.

Oh, that's.

That's nice.

And Alvin Ailey. Yes.

B pack. There you go.

The B pack.

B packing district.

Oh, wow.

Yo, what you say my man? B side stupid.

Yo, that's be donating to colleges and like that, right? You be donating to organizations you still don't like?

To organizations I ain't never donate to.

No, you send it like in a checkbook or you just like zeal it and how you doing?

It depends.

Now, what's some of your favorite causes to donate to?

Yeah, not causes, but how do you send the money?

What's her name?

Direct deposit.

Direct.

So why think about medical school? Oh, direct deposit.

Yeah.

You could sign up through direct deposit and monthly that comes out of your account.

So you know that and just still carries checkbook.

Yes, I do Yes, I do. And I donate to causes.

Mark, help your girl out with a check.

Oh, you doing.

I heard that last episode. You, you carry a checkbook, cuz you said you like to be old school, right?

I am, yes. I don't have it on me right now, but you know, you donate to.

The on channel 11 that 2 o'clock in the morning with the.

The straight Lisa Evers and them.

No, with the the straight dog.

Cat two in the morning, the North Shore Animal. What are the names that. What's that commercial you said you got.

A dog from here? Do not donate.

The North Shore Animal, ASPCA, Toronto Wildlife Fund, the SPCA in Toronto. Yes, I do.

I 100 believe that.

I believe it too.

I believe that too.

First time I even heard you say the word Daisy out here starving.

Oh, oh.

First time he said what?

Donate that.

I didn't hear my man.

What?

I'm trying to over talk you.

I'm trying to over talk you.

I'm watching.

I a say nothing.

Girl. Whoa, whoa, whoa. All right, moving on, moving on.

Speaking about Toronto, was a plane crash in Toronto.

You know there was. Oh yeah, the Delta plane. Yes, that look, there's footage of it.

What the is going on, cuz? Somebody say first of all, flights are cheap.

Trump.

$30 dollars.

Trump has gutted the FAA. That's what's happening.

For real. What's the FAA? That's what federal Aviation Association, Florida Association.

You think that's what caused it?

Man, I think that there's the weather.

Oh look, she just be up here.

Lying about how many crashes have we had in the last like two to three weeks ever since he started to.

Like, I'm disagreeing because you doing the same.

Oh, I'm sorry, am I allowed to say, Am I allowed to disagree?

Y'all let him disagree.

She do say my mother do some shit go bad and they want to blame Trump. Come on. Sorry.

You'Re right. Trump isn't even the president.

A lot of people, a lot of people blaming the FAA and saying it's because Trump gutted the agency. But a lot of the pilots are saying, in fact all the pilots are saying no, that's not the case. That, that is just like that crazy said it's bad luck, air conditions, poor piloting. But it's not actually Trump. I get why people think that, but that's not the case.

Okay, so we're going to blame Trump.

For everything in the next four weeks.

What about the D.C. congress crash?

The D.C. crash is actually the one where the pilots, the experts Came out, said it's not like it wasn't about faa. Yeah. There couldn't have been. There's nothing else they could have done.

No, not the plane. The plane was doing the right thing. It was the helicopter.

Right.

Has nothing to do with Trump.

They're saying even had there been. There's nothing the FAA could have done differently that would have stopped that from happening. The D.C. crash.

You got to go do your research. So.

So. So they said. They said bad training. Bad training.

I've heard training for the big crash. They said it's also just bad. Like bad luck. Like a. What do they call it? Like a perfect storm. Like, a lot of things happened that went wrong, but it wasn't from a lack of infrastructure in the faa.

What the people's thing is, it's been a bunch of perfect storms in the last two months.

Well, y'all. The ones keep wanting to fly everywhere. I've sat my ass grounded in the living room. True.

I'm.

They ain't gonna perfect storm me out the game.

Some people gotta fly for work.

Yeah.

I got people.

Some people gotta travel to see family. Like people got.

I just make sure my pilot's white and I'm comfortable.

Oh, my God.

Well, you know what? It's funny that you asked that.

There you go.

It's funny you asked that.

I'm just joking.

A black.

You a sellout.

Hold on.

Let's find that.

Yo.

It was a black pilot recently that when he landed, he took a picture. He had dreads. He had a real. And. Yeah. And he caught a lot of heat because they were saying, we don't want our pilots to do this and to look like that.

I don't want my pilot to look like that. I also don't want my pilot to be a white boy with long hair and like, you know, like, tattoo tatted knuckles. You know what I mean? It would make me.

I'm about to say if the pilot got up there looking like fucking jelly roll. Yeah.

I'd be uneasy. I'm not saying it's fair, but it would make me question the flight. I'd stay awake the whole flight.

But that's the problem. You want equality for black men and you talking about all the black struggles and we finally get it, and then now, you know, we. You stay on the other side.

I don't stay on the other side. I'm saying I have biases I gotta work through. I'm not saying I'm right.

I'm saying acknowledge the wrong.

Yeah.

I don't think Wait, hold up, hold up, hold up. Hold up. Up. Hold up, hold on. Mark is a doctor. So maybe he can't be ignorant when recording on recorded broadcasts. So I'll do it for him.

Thank you.

Let me tell you, I think that there are some gigs where profiling is.

Okay, Captain America.

Name me something.

We are going to talk about that because I went to see Black in America. I went to see it.

It was good.

Did you watch In America?

Black in America.

Got it.

I went. I saw the whole movie off on Sunday. It was some type of Valentine's Day date. My girl paid. Hey, salute. She have to call amx. She paid.

Hey, nice.

So I saw that movie. I will get to my review on the black Captain America. But you said name the gigs. A pilot is one. A pilot is one. I'm pro. I'm profile. Listen, I'm of the belief I don't want to know what the pilot look like. Cuz that little door should be closed when I'm walking it.

Well, a lot of times pilots will greet everybody that's coming on the way out.

You see them, if you're waiting at the gate, they walk by you with their little stripper bag. Yo.

Wait a minute.

No.

When they come in to get board the plane, sometimes they walk right by you. That's not true.

And hold up real quick.

Them be late.

Real quick.

They be late a lot.

They be late.

There would have.

They would.

Was a stewardess standing on the wing of the plane, taking pictures.

Flight attendant.

Flight attendant. With. With a. Taking pictures while people were waiting. What held the plane up?

Right?

Because they were supposed to go and it was while it was delayed. Stood on the wing and took a picture. It's a lot of bullshit going on. I wonder if she's black.

We should be able to profile any job where it's life or death. Any job where if this goes wrong, we should profile. Now I know that sounds bad, but.

You don't mean racial profiling. You mean like behavioral profile?

I mean just profile. Not really racial. Right. Profiling has a negative. A negative undertone because that's what white people be doing to us. But I'm using it the black way. Yo, I came in here years ago and said every year that they do the Meadowlands Fair, I go and profile people. You do? Yeah, because those people working the machine and the roller coasters be niggas homeless off Route 3 that they give a job to for three weeks. And now me and my kid are gonna plunge. No, I'm profiling these niggas I don't want the dude in the dirty overalls to have a say in whether I live or die today.

No, it still don't stop you from going buying a dirty ass funnel cake.

Exactly.

Oh, yeah. I'll eat a funnel cake with extra. Extra pound of sugar. And if you're asking, funnel cake is not my go to. I do the Italian sausage.

Oh, man. Mexican street.

Your stomach must hurt all the time. You got a lot of energy.

Mexican street corn.

Yeah.

I'm trying to tell you something, bro.

Nasty.

You hit us with this name for.

That's what it's called.

A doctor or nurse. We're profiling them.

What do you want them not to look like?

I want an Asian doctor.

Doctor.

Yo, this going to be I got a story or.

Or my man from Pakistan or Dubai. One of. I'm a doctor. Sorry.

I want him to have a last name that I can't really pronounce.

Ramish Kalashish.

It's not funny, son.

Wait, it's bad to be saying this. Yes.

I ain't going to hold you.

I'm here for the truth, My brother. My.

My godfather had a stroke a couple months back and I went to the doctor and his nurse had the fattest ass. It was fake, bro. I was looking at her type of way like.

Yo, made you not want her to be a nurse. Yeah, because you think she's a stripper or.

Her priorities might be kind of.

I know what he think.

He think she's a stripper or. She might have got a lot. You know, they all said they paying for school.

What's school, girl? So I think she was telling the truth.

Her ass was so fat. Them scrubs. I was like, y.

Damn.

Let me ask you something. Your. Your children's. Your children's school. You don't profile the teachers.

Yes, absolutely we do.

Percent you do.

Yep. It's still.

It's still bad every.

Every chance I get.

But there's some good black teachers, though. Excellent.

Black teachers.

Said nothing about.

Racial.

Yeah, stand up for blacks.

You said your doctor.

Because I do want to be a doctor. Because they take it.

Why not Johnson.

Johnson. I had a good black.

You take Johnson.

I'll take Paul. No.

I was trying to set.

What I'm saying is that Stand up for black people. It took black teachers. I ain't gonna say that, cuz y'all make fun of me.

But I'm just saying rest in peace to homeboy. The. The young. The young football player that was too big for the roller coaster ride or.

That The Florida ball drop.

And some. Some could bleep that word out.

I want that word to come back, by the way.

I wish.

We need to do something like.

We need that back. That one. We need back.

What's the word again?

That would have came back in the 10 year anniversary.

I thought he brought paper straws back. I mean, excuse me, plastic straws back.

We should be able to get. But anyway, that young man, the derelict that was working came over, over and shoved the seat belt thing closed. Had total disregard for the weight requirements on this ride and all types of. That was horrific. That was horrific. Bring back profiling. Not racial profiling, just profiling. But if your normal profiling don't it fails you and you hit the advanced button. But you then race can come in. You know what it is.

You in the spot and you see. See a homeboy walk in with the hood.

Yo, you know what else I profile a lot? Elevators. Profiling. Who Elevators.

Well, you can't do nothing in that one.

Can't do nothing.

That's not true what you say.

That little dirt in them corners and them cracks that will have you feeling a little uneasy.

Oh, no. I thought you meant people on elevators. I thought you saying people.

He talking about people on elevators.

I'm talking about because elevator we in.

This closed space with the potential of it getting stuck. Stuck for. And now we just in here for a few hours. I'm profiling. Everybody gets on the elevator. I am sorry.

Like size them to see if you want to be stuck on.

And I know. Yeah. And like how's this gonna go in the event that this. My mind is.

You watch too much. Murder, death, kill. So you wondering that if this turn around with the knife, could you beat his ass?

I mean, that's one way to look. Yeah. That's what you look at. That's one way to look at it.

So what you do?

You hit the little button.

My childhood best friend Julian and rest in peace. Lost his life.

Yo, nobody want to hear that.

Lost his life. Play fighting. And an elevator shaft open and he fell down. When I got on the elevator a few weeks ago and these two white gentlemen got on with me, the door closed halfway and then tried to go up. Like elevators be faulty because buildings when they want to skip certain permits and budget cuts. And it'd be the elevator. Be the first.

Yeah, okay.

I know my mind is warped. Nobody's thinking about doing a sketchy on.

The elevator with you though.

Yeah, I'm getting off.

That's what I'm asking.

He's clutching his merse closer to him.

Can I beat him?

I don't.

Can you?

Is that.

Can I say? Can I take the weapon from him? Are these the judgments you make if the elevator gets stuck? Is he gonna follow my rules and regulations? What will I have to show him?

No, he's not gonna follow nothing you gotta show.

I don't get off.

Who gets stuck on the elevator. Start stabbing on the.

That he watch on them docks.

Better start stabbing.

It's your fault.

Yeah, I might have to eat him. Like, what the. Like, why you start cutting the. When you stuck in the elevator for 10 minutes?

He might. He might have made it stick. Yeah, he hit the button.

Yo. Last time I was in la, or one of the last times I went to la la, when me, Ian and gang was at Katana enjoying a meal, right? 8, 9pm the elevator across the street in the Mondrian got stuck. It was. No, it was actually. There was no electricity in the Mondrian. So naturally the elevator is stuck, right? For about four hours. Oh, no.

That's a little ass elevator too.

That's different, bro. Who I'm stuck in the elevator with.

That's a little.

I don't care if I'm in there with Halle Berry. I'm. Nah, that's different.

Claustrophobic.

Right?

And what floor. Hold up. What floor?

I don't know.

Right.

Yo. No, no, no. I don't want to be with Halle on 32. I want to be with Halle on like two or three. I can survive two or three.

You think you still back Halle?

Of course.

Okay. That was the end.

Playing with him like that.

See, now they making it a thing.

Why you do that?

Because you. You made it a thing by asking the question he know.

No, that's not true.

You asked it with incredulity.

I don't think there's anyone in the world that he think he.

I just want to hear what my man was saying. I'm. I'm with him. The baddies be the easiest to bag.

He could bag anything.

Then why'd you ask?

Yeah, Because I wanted to hear my.

Man say he's the human path mark.

You setting him up is somebody that.

You think you can't bag.

Is it somebody I. No, not that. No.

See, another alley up to the ring. I put my in position to win.

Is you can bag anything. Human path mark.

Human ken in a psych ward, you would walking barefoot.

Right? Right out that career.

Right. I would have her in a nursing home. Let's go, flip.

How do you feel about that.

What?

Like do you feel, do you, do you had that same attitude, like I could bag anything under the right circumstance, of course. And how about you, Ice?

Yeah. If they down for a skit.

I don't do skits anymore.

That's your end.

Short form content.

When that boy.

Short form content.

Content. That's your end right here. Come on in this room.

That's what he call it.

Come get this room, girl.

I'm telling you now, this is short form content.

Yo, when that blow up, that have.

JLo, that's when he would introduce the 48 hours. You, me, I got a surprise.

I got a surprise for y'all. But what I'm saying is that we all have our tactics.

True.

We all of us have our tactics and our way in. It's just how you handle it.

And that's true.

And if you put the work in where it won't expose you later.

Do y'all believe that whatever our tactics are is like riding a bike?

Yes.

Or do you think you need to freshen up on it, sharpen it sometimes? No.

You got to sharpen the tools, but.

You have to sharpen it. If people catch on to your tactics.

Yes.

How do they catch on?

Cuz if you do it too much, if you on social media, you ain't.

Doing it to the same.

If you post a girl and say.

Yo, sit in the same deal 50 times.

No, no, no, no, that's not that. I'm going give you an example. I'm going give you an example where, where one a person I know got caught up. Find a girl, you post her, shout her out. Yo, now you just, you click the link.

I remember your man did that.

See what? Yeah, my man did that.

Your man still do that sometimes.

No, no, no. Go to.

No, no, I know what he do now.

Your man do that.

You see what she's into.

The happy birthday, shout it out.

The free shout out now. They appreciate the shout. Shout out now. If you do that to two or three women within a two month span, people catch on like, yo, I know your game. They don't shout me out. You know I'm saying, my man. I had to tell them, yo, stop doing that. You look hy. But it worked. The batting average was give me a good batting average.

You told him though. 360.

It worked. 290 every time post.

290 ain't bad.

Oh, I do want to big up the NBA. I'm coming back to this topic of this Real funny. I want to big up the NBA for bringing Out Barry Bonds on one of those. One of those intros, one of those segments that they had. The ghost. It was Barry Bonds. It was. And two other ghosts. Two other Bay Area.

Was it Willie Mays, but not Willie Maze.

Why the block?

Black Maze did who Black.

But I'm just saying for the city to recognize who the Barry Barnes is, and we're gonna. We're gonna respect them no matter what they're doing over there. I absolutely love, love that. Back to sharpening our skills. Like, why girls be so mad when you just trying to sharpen the skills? It wasn't nothing, yo.

Yeah, y'all just had that.

It wasn't nothing. For real, Ma.

Yeah, they don't respect the practice.

That's what I'm saying. Hey, I wasn't gonna take it. If you take a D. I'm taking a. It wasn't that.

It wasn't that.

I was just sharpening it up a little bit. Here she go. Block her. Yeah, she want me to block everybody.

I'm sharp shadow boxer.

Oh, my Lord.

Sport fishing.

Sport fishing.

That's it.

Catch a release they don't be liking.

Why you following her? Look, did you see her? You see? All right.

That was big. Freeze, baby.

No, no, no.

That was not me.

That's what I overheard.

I'm just frozen in love. I'm just frozen.

You got to be careful with that, man. You got to be careful trying to sharpen your skin skills because you sharpen your skills in real time, and it works.

You sharpening your skills on some practice. Rung the doorbell.

I'm gonna be vulnerable. I'm gonna be vulnerable, yo. Walked to Target with my wife yesterday or the day before.

I forgot that's who got the Valentine's Day gift from.

No. Hell no. Watch your mouth now. I didn't get it. I looked to the right. There was a me get. I mean, a girl, and she was looking. I said, yo, I'm already married. I can't give you your green card. I cracked a joke. My wife was right there to the left. I said it to my. I looked, said to my wife, I told that girl, I'm already married. I can't give her a green card. And we walking and walking. I couldn't even look that direction. Cause now I'm looking at that. And the girl was. She heard me. She thought it was funny. So, you know, my little.

She heard it.

Yeah, my little corny line worked. So now I look the direction. I'm not even looking that way. I'm looking the direction, man. Boy, boy, when I got home, that.

Was a big argument.

No, it was a big argument. I'm like, she tried to crack a joke in front of Junior on them. I'm like, yo, man, I got mad at my wife telling her like, yo, listen, put a little more respect on my name. I get. I'm too smooth for that. Like, that's.

I.

Like, nobody paying attention to that.

Like, if you was really trying to.

Hire, you could even beat me. And she got offended by that. I'm too smooth. I'm too playing. Like, I almost gave her my phone, and she said she almost killed me. My ego got in the way. Ask you a question.

You shouldn't try to prove to your wife how player you are.

No, what I'm saying is that. What I'm saying is that I don't need to sit here looking at you. Listen, listen. That's a joke, Paul. What I'm saying is that I wouldn't go outside and disrespect you like that. What I'm saying is, like, respect me. No, for real. Put some respect on my name, especially in front of my children.

But you almost gave her your phone. For what? What'd you want to say?

No, I lied about that. I'm not giving up my phone. I just lied to make it sound compelling. But my point to her was. And she was offended. But my point to her was, like, have a little more respect for me than that. I respect you enough not to even play like that. Who the fuck is that? Somebody that work at Target. Yes, I looked initially, yeah, I cracked a joke. But then later on, I have to exit. When I'm exiting with the stuff. I thought they'd take the receipt at Target.

Oh, you slowed down.

Like, Wait, what? I didn't slow down. So I went through it this weekend, man, this week. And she listens to the podcast. Y'all be throwing me under the bus.

Parks Never.

Yes.

Never.

Y'all be throwing me under the bus. So chill. You know what I mean?

But we don't have to stay on this topic. I mean, my girl's got. And I'm not. This is the last time I'm saying something about my girl. Like, she's got me to a place. Our trust level is at a place. Now, I came here and told y'all where. I'll send her a Girl like or pro Instagram profile and say, I want her for my birthday or we need her. Fire. My girl has opened my eyes to just how many squiggly lines are on behind these girls. Pictures. She is totally ruined the fantasy for me.

They.

They are terrible.

No, it's. It's so bad. Now I'm wondering why these women even take the pics with anything where it could be a squiggly line.

Because we stupid.

The bathroom door is bent. It's bent.

It's like this, dog. Cause you done looking at attack. Cuz will start sending a 500 in that cash app off the pictures.

Yes.

Yes. Not me.

But they ruined it.

You don't see the door knob going like that.

What door knob?

It look like some Harry Potter. Like this look.

Crazy for me. I'm cool now. I got my sex toy, too. It's cool.

He got the go 7000.

For real. Cause we running around talking about, before we had to deal with catfish. Then it was AI, but now the real is a. AI.

Yeah, the catfish was a little bit like cyborgs. The catfish.

Yes.

The catfish era, Joe. That was a nasty. That was a nasty era. The catfish era.

What? Dude, you just got to love your girl, be faithful. Or you got to bump into something in real life and see it in real life. But we don't see people in real life no more. So it's like, oh, it's bad.

That's what. With me in the catfish era, I met the real person in real life. I said, you. You know me. She said, what? I don't know. Look, the message. She said, that's not me.

It's crazy. No. There was a phase from 2010 to 2015 where you asked Shorty her name and she told you her Instagram name.

Facts.

Really?

Yes.

He's right.

Yeah. You've been married a long time. Don't worry about it.

Catfish.

You think I'm not coming your way? Real disgusting, bro. You think I'm not coming?

Who said that?

I'm just letting you know. All right? I'll be there.

You're gonna go no matter where in.

The world it is. Okay.

Give it a speech.

Don't think he could lose me on a destination wedding. I didn't even say I'm coming to Italy. Wherever you gonna be at, you know you're gonna be somewhere opulent. I'm coming. Yeah.

Cool. You have a speech?

Yeah, I got. I need time to write it. I need time to write.

You don't think you can just freestyle stock?

No, not for my man. I love him too much. I love him too much. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't.

So you'll write something down for him?

Have to.

Do you want him to give A speech.

And just so y'all, I feel like.

The place to start, but I'm looking at your face.

For the unmarried people in the room, whoever in here is unmarried, don't think that my love for Ish is just special. I write a little. I write a little something for y'all.

This is how you get into the. The Voice.

Oh, my God.

They can start at the wedding.

That's funny.

Like a wedding bed.

What else needs our attention? Where were we?

On a crash in Toronto.

I don't know. We just talking.

Tell me about this Roots picnic, man. I think he's a little excited about it.

Nyla Blackman gonna be there. She's performing.

Everybody's silence right now.

Yeah, it's there, but no, I'm just saying she's performing. I just saw it. And I'mma support Port.

That's what's up.

I thought you said that.

Dr. Dr. Mark Lamont Hill. The Roost Picnic.

The annual Roost picnic is coming out again. It's gonna be dope.

Girls love karaoke. Gonna be there.

I saw that.

I thought that was fly.

Yeah, it's gonna be.

That was fly. It's gonna be.

It's gonna be a lot. It's the 15th anniversary of a couple major albums. Roots. Do you want more? As well as. What's the other one? I just want to sing music. So Child, for the Roots, it's 30 years. For music, it's 25 years. Which is crazy that both of those albums are that old. But you got Lenny Kravitz headlining, you got Meek Mill headlining. And who's the third headline? Yeah, and D'Angelo is headlining. Oh, my God, you can't miss that. I know I'm gonna get dragged out to that joint.

And Jeezy's 20 year anniversary of TM101.

Really? Yep.

Miguel Kaytranada, Jagged Edge, Jeezy Black Thought, Pusha, and two chains in the little freestyle. Little in the freestyle. They do every year.

It's going to be crazy.

Live mixtape.

I'm in there.

Tim's.

Yeah.

And Glorill is going to be there.

Lotto.

I'm have to go.

Oh, Tim's in the Wagon is coming.

It's. It's going to be good.

I like water.

Tim's bringing that Volkswagen. I mean, Volkswagen World Series of Spades.

Is right there for you, Joe.

Crystal Waters and C.C. peniston.

Wait, what? Yes.

There's Rich Medina black house set. Crystal Waters.

Rich Medina is doing a black house.

Set with Crystal Waters.

Probably Saturday. That's probably Gonna be a Saturday joint.

I don't want to go deal. I can't say that.

You know, Roost. Go put out the schedule like two weeks before.

Exactly.

You gotta hit directly, like, what day are you on?

Yo, y'all Philly, that smell like grass. Use some soap that day, man. I ain't gonna hold you. I know y'all be doing all that eclectic, but some of y'all stink. Philly bitch get right for that day. This sounds sexy.

Hey, yo, dog fam. I went down there. No, that Lauren Hill headline.

Yo. All that. What the Chanel be wearing free people.

Yo, you thought you.

I do not wear free people.

Parkway.

Oh, my clothes. The clothes, Yes. I thought you were talking about fragrance.

You still a legend.

My fragrances are not from free people. My dress. Absolutely. My skirt. Absolutely.

Well, the dress got. Get the person close enough to smell you.

Right. And that's why I smell expensive.

That is stupid.

Free people. That don't be. Yo, so I've been reading this. They said that dove is some.

It is soap.

Yes. They saying dove is. Don't use it.

Why use Dr. Bronner's?

So I tried. I think that might be it. That I tried some peppermint that will burn your.

I feel like I got sunburn on.

My chest and on my arms.

Well, you. You need pubes to use that.

You got chest. You got sunburn because you lazing everything off. You know, it leaves. It leaves the. It leaves the wound fresh.

Dog, that ate my skin up. Yeah, that is kaka you got.

No, it's not kaka you got to do to you Haitian man, that worked good.

You can't be amazing.

I got clean like a gentle skin.

My gentle skin out of here.

I don't use lotion. That's your problem.

You do be sm. That's why you be smelling like white people mashed potatoes.

You know I smell good.

My. You know I smell that be smelling like the most seasonless mash. If he got caught, he throw something more. He know you smell a little good.

Nah, boy. I spent like 40, 50. Make more than that. I'm probably spending like damn near 100 yesterday brand on trying to buy new deodorants and trying them out. I bought like six bars of soap yesterday.

Swear to God.

He bought mad deodorants. Most interesting person deodorants that didn't work.

No, that peppermint was trash. I'm telling Y was not trash. That YouTube review bag.

That's all I see the play.

My.

Got a lot. I mean, spice.

No this right here.

Why you don't just use black soap or you against it?

No, black. I like the way it smells.

Black soap, raw black soap will peel your skin, yo.

Yeah, that Black.

Raw black soap will peel your skin as well. I try. I try to use that for. I try to use that.

Yeah. Sometimes I'm funny.

Y.

You don't get to 10 years. Years without being funny sometimes. Y. Why you don't use black soap? Or are you against it? They start. They start talking.

That wasn't that funny.

Exactly. It's not funny.

Me and Freeze thought it was funny.

We took.

Me and Freeze thought it was funny. Y'all can't tell us what we.

Black soap will peel your skin off, and you try to be funny. Double Aandra.

Cuz this girl.

Stop.

I didn't say nothing about his girl.

Don't do that. And I told you about playing like that with our families.

Yo. I still can't believe that. Rich Medina, Cece Peniston, and Crystal Waters.

Yeah.

Saturday. I might take. I might. I might. I might do that. I might do that.

We should all go down there, man.

I might do that. I would.

Group trip.

Group trip, then. Yeah.

Yeah. Hook it up, Mark.

Yeah, I get that.

Yeah. Mark can't get us in. You think he could?

I think he could.

Oh, wait, he must. Can you.

That's the setup. He just. That's the same he did to you. Yeah, yeah. I'm not.

But not. I don't mean, like, just. All right, need, like, the pass, not the. Not all right. Y'all in.

You could get us in with, like, a wait. Like, if we wait by the. Yo, stand right here by the gate.

I'm gonna go see what I could do.

Yeah, yeah. It's one of those.

Come around to the side. One of those.

And I'm not trying to.

I'm cool with that, though.

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

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

I said, okay, so you back.

We good.

We, in fact, shout out to Quest love.

We be back.

We be in the vip. We be in the vip. I get it. Everybody in.

Nice.

That was a part of the ten year journey, man. Roots Picnic.

Yeah, it was a good time.

Good times.

Good times.

Y'all don't want. Why don't we live podcast again?

Why don't we what?

Do a live podcast from the. From the Roots Picnic.

Were you here when I asked everybody what their fee would be for a live podcast? No, no, no, no. If you would like, ask him what his is. You ask him.

What's your fee for a live podcast?

I honestly, I'm not. I was definitely charged, but I didn't even think about money for it. I just thought it would be such a good look.

Big Mark.

Such a good place.

Big Mark, you done told me with the big.

I miss. I'm not sell y'all out. I mean, I would charge. I'm just saying, but I wouldn't even. That wasn't my first thumbnail.

This should be a one minute go around, and then we close.

What would yours be?

I don't know. I don't have to talk to my team.

Good answer. Freeze.

Freeze. Team is my team.

All right, all right. Good answer.

Is doing it for the love.

All right. For the love. All right.

That definitely not for the love of money.

For the love of bread, you know, favored nations.

Melody has your rate going up.

Yeah. Lots of things are happening. Lots of things are happening.

We're just ordinary people. Maybe we should take it slow, yo.

Taking slow.

This time we'll take it slow.

Hey, hey, yo, I hope. I hope.

Hey, yo, I need them.

Y'all fried me up.

Y. They can just be. All right. It ain't chicken meat. It ain't chicken meat at all. Moving on. All right, Mark. Hey, you got your answer?

Yes, Got it.

We're not going to the roost, Pink.

Yeah, not at all.

We'll go to hang out, right? Yo, if y'all really want. Y'all want me, get a sprinter.

Let's do it.

Yeah, it. Let's go.

Yeah, that'd be dope.

When is this?

Do, like, May 31 and June 1.

Yeah, I'm doing that. Rich Medina. When is the Jeezy part?

They release schedule.

They don't ever release this. It's probably gonna be Saturday, too.

But I'll find out, though.

Yeah, let's go. Yeah, please.

I'll find out.

That Rich Medina just got me.

That's gonna be crazy.

That got me, me, Hype and cc. Still sounds good. I'm not joking. I'm not joking. Oh, you talking about. All right, stop. All right, moving on. Yo, but how much is it?

Hey, Y had a meeting. Y.

So you call. So you.

Everybody's chopped. Let's be respectful. Hey, listen, sometimes we have to take advantage of opportunities that is presented to us. We have to know it's on the board. And when the opportunity comes knocking on your door, it's not up to you guys to step on somebody's moment. You all right? I want to say that to you out there. Let have fun to do what they do. It's their moment. How dare you guys play around, chastise, try to make fun of somebody's moment when they're being praised and highlighted. Who gives a. I wore the socks. I told you before, I'm talking to the people.

You did.

The people.

Yo, you know the people.

The people. They pulled me to the side this morning.

He do what he want to do.

Yeah.

You stop playing. I'm dead ass. I saw that. I don't like that.

The Kendrick. What is this? Drake throws the Rosen jersey.

So at his show last night, I guess maybe night before last now, you know, he's performing, he's doing his thing. He pulled up the Rosen jersey.

He did.

Balls it up, throws it to the ground, threw it on the floor, whatever. And I guess my. My question and I get he don't fuck with Drozen. I actually don't think he's wrong about his issue with Derozan. But at some point the shit just gets corny to me.

Like at some point, some childish.

Yeah, and you playing yourself. I think he thinks it's working because it's playing to these Australian crowds, these white crowds. But I feel like at home. It's looking crazy.

You can't. Ahoy, matey. Your way out of this one, buddy. Right?

That's what I'm saying.

I don't know, it looks crazy, but I feel like it is Detroit instrumental that you're just dragging the out.

That's the part. I agree.

You reminded people that you.

He's singing the song now.

Huh?

He sung the song.

What song?

Not like us.

What are you talking about?

Drake sung the song my.

When?

I didn't hear this.

When did you see this?

He's singing the song.

Did you like it when he's singing his version?

Man.

Cite your sources, bro.

I feel like that would be all over the news.

Drake is singing.

That's where I got it from. He's singing the song. Cintel was it.

AI like.

Yeah, I ain't going to hold you. Ammani and Ish with these new barbers.

Yeah, they always switch they up.

Ammani and is with the new barbers. I don't know how y'all freaking the game for 20, 25.

My barbers have been the same for three years.

You got a black barber, you got.

A new blade, you got a blitz. He went to bliss.com, got some new. He got the new Bliss.

Wait, wait, hold on, wait, wait. Your blob is not black.

He got the new Andis Andy's.

I don't know what he got. I go to sleep.

Well, your barber's not black neither. You go to sleep black.

You got a white bar barber.

No, he Asian.

Oh, okay.

Oh, you don't want an Asian doctor, but you want an Asian barber?

Everybody just stop right now.

He got the spectacles.

We gotta mute up, yo. For the 10th anniversary. I ain't gonna lie to you. This is my honest opinion. I really feel like you hold the keys.

Yes.

You know, to taking us. That's really where we need to go, and we just kind of. Kind of find a Unearth it. Antoine, you've been working here long enough to know you having an Asian barber is like. It's like a Drake drop.

I've mentioned this before, fam.

I never heard you say your barber is a barber.

Filipino.

Is she a girl?

He's Filipino, man.

Nice. Nice. That's different.

This would have a girl barber.

That's different. Filipino ain't Asian.

You have a Filipino barber, yo.

What? It's not different, yo. That's black Asian.

Yeah, that is a different kind of Asian.

Yeah, that's like Cambodian.

I thought you was just so ignorant.

Do they work in a black barber shop?

Nah, he dola. He got.

He don't have a shop.

He got one of the sweets. He used to work right up street, all right. But now he got one of the sweet. The whole everybody go to him.

He black, Asian. That's what I'm saying.

All of the crew go to him.

He don't push your line.

Who's the crew?

I ain't getting into the name game.

But, Danny, our crew. Nobody in my crew has a Filipino barber. Nobody in my crew has a Filipino barber except for you. You and my crew. I count you.

I'll tell you.

Turn around, let me see your is real quick.

Naj is bald. Nigga, don't nudge me to death.

I didn't even say Naj nigga name. But the rest.

Ekko don't go to a Filipino bar.

I got the barber from E. Ekko.

Does not go to a Filipino barber.

I got the barber from.

I swear to God, I will call Echo.

I got the barber from.

But it's Echo.

You don't go there.

Yeah, he just said, I know somebody that.

No, I know somebody for you.

That's our barber.

Why can I not believe this? That Ish has a Filipino barber. Even though he's telling me, yo, something's wrong with your brain.

That's why.

Wait till Umar find out that you got a Filipino bar.

It's just. It's just diverse.

When I tell know.

I got it.

I'm looking at your hairline. I got it.

I'm looking at it. When Umar hit his couch pat on your barber. Yeah, you.

He used the blade and he was like, oh, oh, when?

No, when you started getting the hoodies made over there.

You can't say that. Yo, I know it make it cheap over there, but you can't say that.

Just don't get his hoodies from.

So he. That's the plug to get it from. Can't say that.

My mom tried to start some hoodie smoke between me and you. Stop calling my mom.

Shout him his face.

Don't call my mom no more. Solid. Cause I did another beef just laying on my plate that I didn't know I had. My mom been asking me for 3 and 4x hoodies for months. I don't have them. I didn't have them. Stupid. As in, here she go, yo, you could just. You know who got. You know who got 3, 4, and 5x hoodies? Yo, Mom's. Yo, your mom, they say whatever they want. Ish. Thanks. Thanks, mom. Shout starts from division.

It's all right, bro.

Give me the hookup to the 5x of these.

I got you.

No, you always got me and never get me. You always got me and never get me. I'm still waiting on the hundred doors. Oh, man, that money just sitting in the bank waiting. You don't call.

Oh, you got to just sit in there.

Oh, yeah, you got to sit in there.

It. Huh? No, I moved it to the money market.

What percent?

I can't say. But you did.

It ain't bad.

I took your advice. You ain't never take my advice. No, this time I took your advice.

You don't ever take my advice.

No, the money market. I took your advice, Remember? I was stubborn. A few months ago, I was on my black. I want to look at the money. Oh, I remember. Remember talking about. Yeah, he was like, I do that. I did that. I did it. I moved it.

Nice.

I don't feel all the way great about it yet, but I'm still black.

I get it.

That's me. I want to see this.

Yeah, that's true.

I just don't trust. If the world were to get into some type of apocalyptic, it's the end, and you need something bad, you got something fast. Yeah, but the.

The.

I know it's fully insured, yada, yada.

And you ain't give them all you got.

Right. That was.

That was the whole point. They come in every month for you.

You're doing that. That you did. Last part that I did, bro. It don't come in every month.

Huh?

Net 90.

Yo, stop. Stop doing 90, cuz.

You li one of these pillows.

Stop doing that.

We couldn't have got to 10 years without lies. We couldn't have gotten to 10 years without some lies.

That's crazy, bro. This was lying on me before I even got up here.

I don't think the money market give you a enough for what they asked you to give them. But that's a talk for another day.

It is.

You just got to be thankful. And why don't all banks do that?

Why would they do that?

Because that's how banks run.

Yeah, but they want to.

But people are stupid.

But they want to keep the small people small. What are you talking about?

I just don't think it's right. I just don't think it's right. All banks should operate that way.

No, they shouldn't.

I feel like they should.

Yeah, because you ain't get enough money yet. Not that I did. I just know some niggas that got it.

But then tell me about it. If I got more money, what would my thinking be?

You're thinking what? Understand your position that you play in the world and the people under you in the position that they play in the world haves and have not. So the powers that be. The powers that be don't want other people to excel. They purposely keep you at a certain level so they can eat off of you.

No, I got that part. But do you think so?

We're not going to open up all of the instruments that you have at your level to them.

What percentage of people that are at that level, whatever level you're talking about, do you think. Adopt that thinking. That's my question to the room. Do y'all think. Do y'all think that. What level we talking about?

30 million a year?

40 million a year?

Yeah.

Do y'all think that all of the people that are at 30, 40, 50, 60 million a year have adopted the thinking that that is referring to? Or do y'all think that some people keep their soul? I think, I think, I think most do.

I think I shouldn't word it like that, cuz that's.

I think what happens is.

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

I think that them people know that the little people exist. They just don't give a about them people.

Same thing. Yeah, same same thing. And then people know that if the little. If the little people down there get smart enough, it threatens them.

50 million a year. Would y'all adopt that thinking?

Yes. I wouldn't because I would remember.

No from Mark Parks. No. A no from Parks.

Everybody say it until they get it.

A no from Flip Mel.

No, I hear you, I hear you.

But it's circumstantial.

What you said.

Change.

Yeah.

Everybody's saying no. Except for freeze.

I believe I'm telling the truth. I believe Ice. I believe. And I believe Mark.

You don't believe us over here.

I believe y believe, but it may change. Depends.

I just do. I believe this side of the room.

I think you don't believe your boy.

Who yo me real talk. I think a lot of people go in with that mindset and then when they get to that level.

It may change, though.

All that. All of that.

Yes.

Like, I think. I think it's levels in life. And I still. Even where I am today, which ain't a high level, I still really, really, really go to the ground and Polly with today that are way beneath my level that I'm on and I still try to pull them up.

But you're just a people's person and you have the patience to do so.

Yeah.

When you have. When you get burned by doing that or going down and speaking to people that don't appreciate those things, it will sort of leave a bad taste in your mouth.

If ish made 30 million a year, I don't think he'd be in America.

He wouldn't.

I don't think he would live in America. I think him and his family would move the same bar.

I'd be six months on six.

So what do you say about that's rich that go back to the hood and poly in the hood, even though they go, you know what's rich rich like 50 rich. He'll still go back to the hood and see and check and have conversations with them.

I think 50 is outlaw says not fear.

I think.

Why do you.

I don't think that name somebody else besides 50.

See, I think this is what happens. I think that we looking at the entertainment sphere and in the entertainment sphere. Yeah. It may not be that many people, because they can't go back home. But I think there are people that are doing well, significantly well, and they still go back and try to help people bring them up. I think that that happens. It just. You think they have that 50, 60 million dollars a year level doing that? I think. I think it's sparingly because once you get to that level, your time is. Is limited. And that's what I'm saying. Once you get up there, everything changes for you. You don't even have the.

But then if you say if you're up and you. You just so happen to go back to the neighborhood to go check a family member, you see somebody that you made a promise years ago when you wasn't up. I seen situations happen like, oh, break those.

Yeah, you.

I break those.

No, no, you don't break those. I've seen the situation.

I break them.

Stop it, Joe.

When you.

You gotta stop acting like you're like that for the. You're not. You and 50 are the same type of.

Just. Oh, it's just for the camera. You.

The same type of. You see somebody like, oh, yeah, I said that. I remember that.

I'm one of the most giving people in the world.

Yeah, come on, Joe, stop.

Like, I'm front. I'm front for the came. I give and give and give and give and give.

You only get to the Jersey City.

No. Try be funny.

See?

Oh, I was just asking which one.

Taste them. Yo, he paid them up. I'mma buy you a gas station.

Hey, yo. Holy damn. Can't say that. Subway for you.

Hey, for me, I'm going out with a bang.

Yeah, this guy's.

I'm going out with a bang.

Going that way. Before what? Before what?

Clock is ticking on.

On your exit.

On my exit. The clock is ticking. It's very soon. There's too many meetings I'm having. No, don't shake your head. You don't know what I've been going through this whole fucking week. I gotta come here and put be a fucking professional. Because that's what they use against being professional. I'm pissed. I'm sitting here with a lot of anger, not talking about anyone, but I have to put on a face to perform. My time is almost up.

The word you're looking for is professionalism.

Yeah, that's what they gotta be. Yeah, you got to be a professional. This is what they master.

It don't feel good up here when like, you have be professional.

I don't like professionalism. I don't. But I think.

Let me think, you might be honest. Was this thing built with professionalism?

It wasn't.

No. But I got rid of the nick. All right.

Don't do that.

I'm not. I'm not. And shout out to them. Ten years, I'm shouting out everybody. Everybody that's contributed. Everybody that didn't.

They played a significant. Very, very, very significant.

Yes. You got. It's no joke for me. No, I'm not a. I'm very serious.

About it as well.

Very serious about it. Their fucking sweat equity when. When shit wasn't where it needed to be. Not only did it get us where we need to go, but today, that very same work ethic, it angers me, man.

Will go, won't it?

These will not die. You gotta work.

They gotta work. Salute to them.

That's a joke. That's a joke. Shout out to everybody. Marty, the body. No. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. This I don't want. Yo. And yo, yo, yo. For 10 years, mo, 95% of the shots that I've sent up here have only been for play. Play. It's just on air. Theatrics is part of what makes me the greatest in the world at this. When I go home, I have real, like, thoughts about some of this.

You got it, bro.

Just leave me alone.

Yeah, What Jay Z did.

Now, listen. Yeah, no, listen. That's great. Great segment. Segue. Great segue.

Sure I do. I'm from the streets with a hood.

Swallowing bullets are following me there's so much coke that you can run the slaughter the cops comb this top to.

Bottom they say that we are prone.

It'S on the blueprint, man.

It's home sweet home.

Oh, I'm home. I got you.

I'm exactly. I was in when this dropped.

Well, you was what?

I was in chaos when this dropped.

But when the shells come, you better return them.

All scars, all cars, we learn them.

Like the back of our hand.

Out the back of van.

Wear a G on my chest. I don't need that.

But then.

Now, listen, listen. The, the. The allegations are always loud and the exoneration is always quiet.

Disrespect.

No matter the magnitude of the superstar we speak of, in this instance, it happens to be Sean Carter, Jay Z, all of that. Whatever was going on with him, I don't even know because I didn't really read. Read up on it or take it seriously. It's out the window. It's out the window. All charges dismissed. Dropped countersuit. Now we are suing You, Tony Busby, for the stress, the duress, the heartache, the pain that you caused me and my family. You have caused me to lose $20 million deals. Yeah. I absolutely love this.

I hope he.

I do not see enough of the media laughing loud, loud. Y'all are not loud enough for me. My gird. Y'all are not loud enough for me right now.

Thousand percent.

Here's a round of applause real quick.

Thousand percent.

Congratulations to whole. I don't know if it's irony. You have laid the blueprint. You have laid the blueprint for how black men should handle these things when they are false. That's important to know when it's a false allegation. Too many times for too many years. In recent years, there's just been shakedowns of sorts. But he came out with conviction from the gate. That don't mean that you're not about to lose deals, because just the sheer announcement is going to make you lose deals. But he came out, said, I didn't do it. It was a lot of the Internet was loud. Boy, y'all were loud. Almost like y'all was waiting on another black great to fall for shit like this. I think that's nasty of the Internet, but I get it. I get it. Y'all on some Today nasty, grimy shit. But I was really excited about this. I would love for more media outlets to report on this in case caps. In caps. Write it in big bold font. It's too quiet out there for me. And hov ain't gonna say nothing. Cause he's Hov. He's just gonna speak through the countersuit and crack homeboy's muffin again.

I hope he ripped him down to his socks. I hope he take everything he got. I promise you. I hope he take everything he got.

He fi.

Yeah.

He filed the lawsuit like, a day before Blue Ivy's premiere for Lion King. So he was forced to make a choice to go see his daughter water or stay away because of the negative press, which is what he ended up having to do.

Disgusting.

Yeah.

Which he put in the suit as part of his reason why Hovis countersuing.

I hope he strips him down to his socks like I want.

Take the socks.

Not for nothing, and I ain't even on that. I want your family to feel what my family potentially felt or what you tried to make my family feel.

Yeah.

You get what I'm saying? Like you don't. We don't think about the losses that could potentially occur from people being falsely accused of shit. I want. Want you to strip them dead ass.

Yeah. It's obvious. The court, because it was dismissed with prejudice, so they can't refile. That usually happens when a case is so obviously fake. Fake, you know, that the court doesn't even want to entertain it anymore. I mean, all the evidence that came out, I was at this person. This person was in another part of the country. I was here. Oh, that person didn't appear.

Oh, you know, have you heard the statement? The statement didn't even make sense. Anybody that knows New York City, like at one point the girl was like, yo, I just remember this really big circle driveway that we pulled up to this house.

Right.

It's like that's barely exists in Manhattan in the tri state area.

Right.

But none of it made sense. What's interesting is Puff also issued a statement.

Puff charges have been dropped too, because.

The case was dropped against Puff and against Jay and on this particular case. And. And Puff is basically like, see people be lying. This is another example of these cases coming out used against me to lie. So while this case is false, it seems Puffy is using it as an excuse to kind of say, look, everybody's after me. This is wrong.

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

But they were grouped together. But I think it's important to note that this is why it's interesting because Jay is innocent of this and I believe Puff is innocent of this one. But it's interesting to see how that plays into the rest of his cases in terms of the court of public opinion.

I said that I think some of the ones against Puff, by the way, for gold, are going to come out.

I've been saying for a long time, I think that the people that are coming out against Puff and I think Puff has lawyers that are great. I don't know his lawyers, but I'm assuming that he has some of the best lawyers. Money. I think what's going to happen is some of these people are going to start recanting their stories and start getting their ass whooped on the stand. And it's going. It's going to fare better for Puff to have more than less. I think the more people that come forward for Puff, I think it's going to fare better for him to have more people than less because we're going to start proving some of these people to be liars. And it's going to play into the reasonable doubt.

And also jurors don't trust. I remember there was a case in Georgia, Dr. York, I don't know if I remember Dr. Dr. York from back in the day, but I do. Yeah. And you know, there were thousands of cases of child molestation. At some point, the jury, the prosecution said, we don't want to present thousands because it will seem so unbelievable that the jury may throw it all away because we don't believe this. So to your point, I think a small group of credible cases is better than throwing a bunch of stuff against the wall and making people doubt the whole thing.

And because some settlements are going to come, everybody chasing the bat. Like the Busby dude. That was the same attorney that prosecuted Deshawn.

I think stuff like that is important to know because Busby wasn't chump. It wasn't like some. I don't want to say Lisa Bloom, shout out ambulance chaser, like, this was somebody who has done this with a resume.

But you might have been chump. You might have been taking advantage of these black people that were ignorant to. To the law or their rights and that had a whole bunch of money. And typically, when you have a whole bunch. Somebody sued you today for a million dollars. You right, you give it to him.

What's the charge?

It depends on. It's not worth the headlines.

Well, that's where the.

You see what I'm saying?

And so that's the shakedown. You might be chumped. And you just made a fortune in doing this type of disgusting. Now, I get you for 2 million. I get you for a mil. I get this person for a million mill.

You talking as Jane Doe, bro.

With no nothing.

There's nothing to lose. There's nothing for me to lose in this instance, bro.

Until you go up against that one that's gonna fight. Until you go against the one that got a platform big enough to be like, suck my dick, and now I'm gonna sue you.

And.

And you can take some meat. Because that's why the puffy thing is important, too. Because part of the shakedown was I'm tying your name to this person that everybody hates right now. Because the allegation was they both did it at the same time.

They both did. They attack.

Attack me together. So by saying that, the average celebrity's gonna be like, I don't want nothing to do. I won't be nowhere near him. I don't even my name on the same sentence as him. Here's a million dollars.

Take it. I don't know hov well enough to say this. I just don't think that that's the text that's getting him to the threesome. Hey, man, I got puffing. This girl here come through. I just. He's never been that like. He didn't. He doesn't move that way.

Way.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

Congratulations, man. We hit the round of applause. Job well done. Job well done. You have laid the blueprint for how men, black men especially, should handle false allegations. 1,000% from Jane Do. Yes. It happened to me again. I'm calling lawyer. I'm calling him. Get his lawyer.

Jay Z lawyer.

Yeah. And I'll start a GoFundMe to. To pay.

I was about to say I ain't taking no cuts.

Yeah, we not taking no cuts.

Y'all wouldn't take. Y'all wouldn't take a cut so I could beat my charges? Nah, not at all. Right. We good? Not for a second.

What are the charges?

No, I would.

Hoarding.

Yeah. I'm not taking.

Masturbation, trafficking. You move this girl from state to state your mind to master. It's crazy. Yo, congratulations to HOV and his entire family that came out around with the Super Bowl. Now, that moneyed a lot of waters.

Or it was the attempt potential was.

To muddy a lot of waters. So, again, just congratulations, hov. Job well done. Tony Buck Busby. Well, I don't know what the future looks like, man. It's going to be rough.

I hope it's bleak.

I got him losing that. We got him losing whatever the count.

He gonna settle.

Hope may not want to settle.

Yeah, I hope he don't settle. I hope he don't settle. That initial statement didn't speak like I'm.

Accept any type of settlement submission.

I'm gonna show you that I'm different. And. And then came back and rewrote some. I'm from Marcy. We ain't doing that, nigga.

Yeah, no. HOV just opened up the notes. The notes tab.

He went crazy.

I show you.

Okay, he did his thing.

Now. All the way fire. All the way fire. Again, congratulations. Can't congratulate him enough for that nasty ass move. Tony Busby. Let's see, let's see, let's see. What does that say right there? Has your girl ever seen your group chat? I'll answer it first because mine's is fast. My girl has seen anything that has to do with my phone.

With your phone?

Yeah, it's ours now. She's seen it all, read it all, sent it all to her best girlfriend, gossiped about it, every last drop, all of it. Even the bitches that I was texting that I didn't mean that shit like it don't matter. It's all on the record.

This is a weird question because first of all, yes, she's seen some of my group chats certainly. But group chats don't really be like in there really. At least in my experience. It's usually just talking their group chat be like that. Yeah, they got messy group chats. Our don't really be.

That's why.

Yeah, we just catching a vibe.

That's a projecting talking about each other. It's like listen to this podcast. Damn near like ripping on somebody.

Yep. An occasional fat ass. No.

Occasionally.

I guess you're right. That that's projection and that's one of the double standards exists out there cuz.

You know what girls do? Girls be showing dicks and all that real ain't sending the girls ain't doing that. Like a real nigga's not sending the nudes to they whole crew. Like that's not happening.

Girls do that talking about trips and.

Girls will send a whole monkey to everybody else in the team. That's crazy.

Yes.

I'm not.

I didn't know.

Girl, look at this guy.

Damn.

I really didn't.

You lying.

I don't send my pictures out, so I don't. I never thought. I never never time I thought about it.

Word. They do though, Doc.

Girls do.

That's crazy.

On my Instagram algorithm I bumped into old. I'll clear up.

You're a part of the conversation.

I I. Well, I think you guys have the assumption that there's all just like dicks in our group chat.

That's not what he said. That's not what I said.

You have their gender wars.

This is not that gender wars. We wouldn't have made it in 10 years without gender wars.

We. Let's give it up for gender war. You got to give it up to General no. Come on, come on.

What's in your group chat?

Oh.

Furniture. Sorry to disappoint. It's not a bunch of dicks. I'm sorry, girl.

He laid me down in this Chase lounge and told.

He folded me like this chair right here.

He folded me like this.

No, no.

Wayfair is having a President's Day sale. That is what's happening in my group chat. I know Maybe in my 20s it was different, but right now it's furniture. It's.

I have a wife. She tells me what goes on in.

Girls talk about she do up here is love. All that she does up here is love.

I will show you my eyeball.

I don't want to see it. Don't want to see it, but.

So you ain't got no spicy group chat, do you? Do other women, you know, have spicy group chats?

Oh, absolutely. And she done removed some hoes from the group chat too. Now.

Green bubbles probably.

Green bubbles, Will. Yeah, sometimes it gets a little. I'm a little vanilla sometimes. You know, when they talk about, like, you know, dicks in their ear and like that, I'm like, okay, I'm exiting stage left. This is not my.

Okay, so it's not like there are dicks in the group chat. You're just not a sender of them.

Yeah. What are you doing?

You just said it was all wayfair.

It can be conversation. My current group chat right now is like. Is furniture and candles and like that. Yes. It's not.

This podcast would have got nowhere with about lies, Joe.

Right? Give it up for lies.

It has been over year one.

I got some gender war here real quick.

Oh.

Oh, yeah, count me out.

I was looking at. No, you gonna jump. You're gonna jump in this one. This one you'll jump in.

You're never coming out.

I was looking at a post from a gentleman named Jeff Fargo. It was a black man and a white man on a podcast on Instagram. They were talking and the black man took exception to the term term happy wife, happy life.

I do too.

You follow me, right?

Yeah.

Once he spoke about it, I totally agreed with what he was saying. He was saying, why does that phrase exist? Actually, I'll just play because I'm a it up.

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

They call. Neither do women.

Have you mistake where you kind of lost sight of your purpose because you thought that that was the best way to be a father or be a man. I fell into that trap too, where I. I stopped working as much. I made my priority my wife and my kid, and I lost sight of the goal. And one day I looked up and their lives were worse because I couldn't provide. They were getting more of my time. They were getting more of my quote unquote love. But their lives weren't any better. They need to see you hustle your wife, your kids need to see you win. Your children don't want a miserable dad. They want to see you crush it in life. That's what they want to see. Have you ever heard the phrase happy wife, happy life?

All the time.

Does it piss you off? Like it pisses me off? Yeah, it's annoying because there's no situation with happy wife, miserable dad. If dad's miserable, wife, miserable, kids miserable. There's no such thing as happy family, miserable dad. Dad must suffer, but he. He must enjoy the suffering.

God damn. Is what I said when I heard that. I never put that in a vacuum that way.

Remind me to tell you something off camera. Okay.

Yeah, but why.

But why does. Why?

Why?

Yeah, why he gotta be miserable if she. If she's.

That.

That was exactly what I was gonna ask.

I think that's not what he said.

I think the idea is that's the.

Assumption that people would be led to think, because me and him just had the same question.

You know why? Because when you say happy wife, happy life, it seems as if the only priority is the people outside of you.

Exactly.

Like if you said it should be happy spouse, happy house. Right. Like. Like both of us agree.

Both of us.

But. But. But men are.

It's not that.

It's not that men are discarded. Men are discarded. It's often like, okay, you got to do whatever you got to do to make sure the house. To make sure the kids are fed, to make sure everybody's happy.

And not for nothing, it's a role that we accept. Accept. We accept that we almost say ourselves.

To hold up this house.

Yeah.

To make sure some people like that, some people are proud of that. That makes them happy. Yeah, but no, I. I don't know if it necessarily makes them happy. We forego our happiness.

Yes.

Our happiness is an afterthought, secondary. Dog. You gotta listen to. Cut it out. Yeah, that. He. He be saying a bunch of fly. He a dick sometimes. But. But I'm telling you, he basically says that, yo, as a man, when you start ascending in age, you kind of put your happiness. It's not what I'm a bitch for. Ain't nobody coming to save you. Ain't nobody going to listen. You got to make it happen regardless. And you kind of live by that. Yo, we got to do the work. We got to do the work. We got to do the work. We first came. You like, yo, we're going to put our heads down. We're going to do the work. And I think benefit's going to be at the end of it. And that's what happens. And that as a man, that's how you kind of carry through life. But you're having to change your priority.