Club 520 Podcast - It's 5:20 Somewhere - Starlito Talks Tour, Documentary & Relationships

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

This week on It’s 520 Somewhere, the girls sit down with celebrity guest and rapper Starlito 🔥 From classic songs and stories behind his albums to his recently launched podcast, Starlito opens up like never before. The conversation dives into his upcoming tour, documentary, personal growth, dating, relationships, and the realities of balancing life, music, and success 👀 Of course, it wouldn’t be It’s 520 Somewhere without laughs, real conversations, and moments that go completely left 😂 This episode gives you music talk, relationship talk, and a side of Starlito fans don’t always get to see. Tap in for the vibes, gems, and unfiltered conversation 🎙️See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome back to It is 520 somewhere where the drinks hit. The conversations go left and the chaos is always somewhere in the mix. I am your girl Barbie. And of course, to my left, I got the beautiful trap. How you feeling, Mama? I'm good. You looking real bubbly and pink and cute and fun. Yeah.

You smell like roses and daisies. I do. You want to smell me? I do. You too far. After the show. Ow. And to my right, I got the beautiful.

Why are you shaking your head? Because don't do all that. I'm about to. I'm about to lick you, girl. You're going to. You gay too. Girl. Not today.

I'm not drunk. And a couple drinks you will be. Like drink up. To my right, I got my little lemon drop. Kiki. What flavor lemon drop are you feeling like today? Today it's giving blackberry. A blackberry lemon dried?

I know I got the blacker to berry sweeter to juice. Niggas the darker the berry to sweeter to juice. But we got guests back to back to back. Guess back to back. And let me do my introduction. Today we got a real Nashville legend on the couch. He's currently on the not not your comment. Not the country you know tour.

Excuse me. Not the country you know tour giving us a behind the album documentary that shows the real story of Nashville, not the tourist version. From his PN to his independent grind from building his body, mind, and legacy, he's still showing us what being a work in progress really looks like. Welcome to the couch, Mr. Grindhard himself, Star Lido, and Team It's 520 somewhere. Yeah. I appreciate that intro. I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah.

You're in my heart. And it's not your country tour. Not the country, you know. Not the country, you know. Okay. I'm a little disliked. I like your boots, too. Thank you.

I tried to get real reverse cow grill tonight. You know. Oh. So we might as well just jump straight into. It's spit it. Let's just jump into Fit Check, Fit Check. I'm scared. Okay.

First, Marley. Come on, Fit Check, Fit Check. And it's the Blackberry. Yes, ma'am, with the scrunchy booty, the body and the hair. Quick we. Oh, she ain't got her brush tonight, does she? No crunch, crunch, crunch. That's that Hawaiian.

Oh, I keep doing that. My friend said, you keep calling him Hawaiian. No. Samoan. Yeah. Samoan. Samoan. God damn.

God damn. Looking like a motherfucking A.k.a. Oh, look like a. Blip that. They be real mad. I feel like I was like, yeah. It's giving watermelon. It's giving watermelon.

I was like flowers and things, you know. Springtime. Okay, then, reverse cowboys. All right, yeah. I should have wore my cowboy head, man. Yeah, you should have. And fit check you out. I'm not doing a catwalk.

You know, you got the real big room. The shirt speaks for itself. Yeah. Shout 520.com. There we go. Shop Club 520.com. I'm a friend of the program, you know. How you feeling?

I'm feeling better. It was raining the whole way up here. Yeah, yeah. Rainy, gloomy day, but we got a little sunshine for you. For sure, for sure. Let's get it to our drink, trap. What we feeling like tonight? So this drink was inspired by our guest, Star Lido, a little bit of old, a little bit of new.

A little bit of new. Okay. And tonight, y'all, we on that gray goose. Do I know you? No. Do I know you? No. Do I know you?

No. 5? 05? 04. 04. Oh, 4. Okay. Around there.

04. 0.4. So a little bit of O. Forever. And forever. Yeah. Period. Y'all was outside then?

We better know. We probably shouldn't have been. But we said 04. I was. I was in fourth grade. Yeah, no We went in no clubs back then We was definitely at the

At the parties, you know Yeah Y'all wasn't even at the parties then Don't try to make them feel young He old We were almost at the parties Thank you They ain't that old

They is not that old We went We went Yeah, we weren't Yeah y'all were In middle school But we knew what was up Girl, bitch

Do not do that Like I said We was almost at the party Don't fuck this up for me. Go ahead. Hello, the drink. A little bit O with the gray goose. But then it's got some peach tea.

What else that got in it? We have gray goose, lemon, freshly squeezed lemon. We have an orange liqueur, and then we have peach tea. You know, we're trying to work on our little southern draw. So we drew in the O with the gray goose and then the peach tea, a little country vibe. Not the country you know. Not the country you know. And we called it.

That's how we came up with this. Yeah, what's called what? The last call. Peach lemonade. There we go. Last called peach lemonade. I liked it. What's your favorite?

Welcome to Unhappy Hour. Where you want to take it? What Eric? I don't know. I got the whole girly girl starter pack for you. I like the toxic love songs. But I don't know. I like my love.

My love? thinking of you I thought she was going to say thinking of you I thought she was going to say thinking of you that's number two for me thinking of you when I first ever heard that song

especially with the I know she would love that what's that called the sample I originally thought that it was going to be some real sweet romantic

oh he's toxic nah thinking of you at the end he's like thinking of you used to have me like

like you don't probably save so many niggas from hearing a bitch mouth because I used to be listening and thinking to you like I'm gonna shut up today

you know what I ain't gonna ask him no questions you know what these holes do be messy and they be mad because they miss their blessing I'm gonna just shut up you know

he didn't miss a part when he said I'm stuck with you god damn he ain't going nowhere so I'm about to talk shit all day you know what part she did miss

though that going through the phone shit yeah because she didn't graduate could have been rich who no I didn't but last time

I went through a phone I looked through credit karma everything so I learned a little something. Yeah. So y'all live in my reps is what you're saying. Unfortunately. I can dig it.

The relatability is completely there. You're very toxic. For sure. And your love songs, we love that. Thank you. Yep, yep, yep. Still. Yeah.

You elevate it, but the toxic is still there. It's definitely. I'm telling somebody's story, you know. Oh, somebody's. Hmm. You know, trying to, I'm going to grow up one of these days. That's all right. We love it.

our life. Toxic Lido. Yeah. Always something. It's so many. I could go on and on. Like, it's so many hits.

Yeah, what's yours? You ain't say it. Thinking of you always something and, um, it was you with Trent Brutus and Caesar. Oh, Caesar and Brutus. I swear.

I'm so dyslexic. No, for real. That shit used to have me thinking of this bitch. It's like the ultimate like Bros. Before Hose anthem. Mm-hmm. And like for me,

the Hose was like a metaphor for anything. Like, don't let nothing infiltrate you and your like our sisterhood and we don't fell out like a hundred times so it's been times we get into it and i'll be playing that shit like bro fuck this bitch that's me and my best friend song though for real like you also have it so go ahead but like kill each other or one of them shoots the other one in that song that's a metaphor too that's a you could come back from that not not like not like real life dead just like wait don't get to that point, you know?

Yeah. So, but it's like, this bitch got me fucked up, but yeah, we're not going to let it get that far. But it's like they killed each other, but it's like he realized at the end, like, damn, I killed my nigga for this bitch. For nothing. For nothing. Like, why would I let this bitch come in between what we got going on?

So. I appreciate these think pieces and theses of y'all have about these songs because some of them was simple and, you know, my. immature self, just especially thinking of you and shit. I mean, I live that shit too, to write it, but... Like past tense or you mean still present... No, I'm saying back then when I wrote it, that was what was going on. I done to freestyle into thinking of you song.

It was, that was what was going on in present tense. But, no, I mean, I'm more so reflecting on it. You mentioned I always something. That's out the new album. And, I mean, it's the same story, the same old song, as they say. I think a lot of people's relationships look alike. You know, they take different forms. But we all kind of go through the same things.

Same shit. Literally. I fuck with who I am off of the new album, too. We put in the video up like this week. It's fire. I'll be like, ha, this is how niggas be telling when I leave their ass alone. Yeah, I was going to say I tried to paint the whole picture, though. You know, you said I'm toxic.

But, you know, sometimes we're guilty, too. Or we feel it, you know, we can, from the male side, we can get here where it hurt, too. Because the man ain't going to never let you know that he fumble for real. I mean, he might, some might, but it's like, if you get him to admit that, like, he really fucked up with you. It's like. They do, but then we'd be like, you're just saying that.

You don't mean that, Jody. Right. Like, do you really mean it, though? Like. But what do I mean to y'all to hear it? I'll be like, I know. It strokes my ego. It's validation for sure.

It's confirmation and validation. Or you, I don't believe. I don't believe none of the men say. And it's just like, so like in that song, it's like, oh, you know, basically saying you change, you're not that same. Like, you're not a boy no more. You're growing to a man. But it's like, how can we actually trust that you change and you're actually different now? Just need a chance.

Right. Give your chance. And we get, I'm sure. Us on this couch and gave niggas plenty chances and then they come back and do the same old song. Same old thing. I'll show you out a video before we do.

I'm excited to see it. I have my cowboy head on in the video too. Yeah. Come on, cowboy head. I love it. And also, another lyric that you said that is a favorite of mine. I'm scared.

I need a thick red hose. that I can be myself around and give me head real slow. Amen, amen. That was a bar. Y'all red. I ain't red. I'm brown. I'm red. They red? We're red. Is this red?

They red. Yeah, definitely red. Yeah, like, if I'm going to turn red. Oh, I thought I was yellow. Get that head real slow. And... Okay, we're going to act right. We're going to act right. What's your color? Anyway, yellow girl, Miss Know It All, fucking off with Mr. Throw It All or something like that.

Hey, y'all did some research. No, we really tapped in. You always come to, like, when I was younger, you were always in the city. I think my uncles named me used to bring you down here. I'm not at every. Oh, heavy. Literally. Literally.

Heavy. I don't know the name of that song, but you shot that a video here in Indy, didn't you? That's when y'all was in Country Kitchen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the name of that song? Do what I got to do. Do what I got to do. Yeah, we shot part of it up here.

Yeah. On the karate and the garage tour, like 2017. Yeah, that city, fuck with that street gospel, that love, hate, Lido, all that. Damn, you took it back. That brother's real. Yeah, it's always been a little up here. I mean, this is definitely one of our top markets. And, you know, like, for the 520 weekend, it's just, it's cool.

It's a blessing, like, tapping in with. Like, y'all making it happen. Y'all got your thing going. It's a super cool thing to really be tapping in. Yeah. That's why we're so honored to have you on the couch tonight. We really are. And we're about to have some fun.

I'm so scared. Before, don't be. You should be. Oh, but speaking of which, how did you get cool with the guys? Because, you know, them is our guys. How did y'all link up? I don't know exactly how it happened other than just, you know, like mutual respect, mutual admiration.

Like, I was checking out the pod. And I mean, I'm a sports guy. I used to go by an all-star way back when. We know. Cashville Prince. Come on. Come on. He told me.

Did you all research. We really tapped in. For sure. And I was a fan of the platform and what they were building. And I don't actually know. how the connection was made, but I mean, I guess that speaks to it being organic because Tripp and I came and actually shared our release date for Step Brothers for Life on the pot like a little over a year ago. And we just kept in touch and, you know, we linked out

of town in different events and just stayed in touch even to now. This is everything full circle. Mike been kind of mentoring me and my guys with a podcast. We just started a few months ago to Work in Progress podcast. And all the guys from the jump was like encouraging me to get into this space. That's why I really appreciate what y'all doing. Like seeing something go from like ground zero, seeing something to start from scratch is like one of the biggest like joys or highs that I can get as like a creator. Like I've been at the music. Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. news. What's the news?

Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend.

But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes.

I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. On Humor Me with Robert Smygel and Friends, we help make you funnier on this episode. My guest's Bob, Odin Kirk, and Kids in the Halls, Bruce McCullough, try and help the Kazoo Kid and Tazan Day be famous again. What if there's an alternate universe show where you guys are incredibly popular? Well, and they could travel up the land doing meet and greets. They're constantly needed at malls.

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or wherever you get your podcast. What's up fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano and our podcast Point Game is about defining the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game.

We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive

into some playoff history too. Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the fly. He run running up the court, licking his fingers while he got the ball like, after you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you

going to get the ball. So listen to Point game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Damn for 20 years plus, but like anything to start it from, you know, from scratch. So we're in a similar space, kind of a similar timeline is what y'all doing, me and my guys. So, and those guys have been probably our biggest inspiration for the platform we build. And it's kind of like a boys club kind of thing. It's not sports-centric, but it's some parallels there. It was like homeboy type time.

and then you know y'all got like the equal opposite thing going yeah so y'all are friends because i swear when i like watched some of y'all shows i'm like they all sound alike are y'all from they don't all sound alike but they voices well okay i'm about said their voices is so soothing like watching y'all podcast i just be like soothed y'all all sound similar y'all are southern but no i from national i swear they all sound the same no they sound different but their voices are soothing but i I wanted to ask you, because it's shoot your cousin? Yeah, that's my first cousin. Okay.

And that nigg is a lawyer and a pilot. Man, he's a, he's a renaissance, man. That nigger do everything. So that's your cousin and the other two guys. How are you guys connected? That's just my guys, like, I think, like doing business kind of brought us together, and we just became homeboys along the way. Stephen and I had thrown a bunch of concerts and done business in that regard.

And Lowe's had a, he's all over the place with his ventures and entrepreneurship. We, he had a recording studio and we partnered on that for a while. And when I did the Impostas Syndrome album, like we went in on the spot, the Nashville Black Market Studio and kept that, kept the doors open there for about a year. And, you know, I feel like a lot of my closest peers are people that I did business with. Yeah. Like, they say don't mix business with friendship and otherwise, but I think good business can, like, foster the best friendships.

Definitely. Because you should want your people to come up. So if you can get money with somebody, like, it should be a no-brainer that their best interests of well-being is, you know, in mind. But my cousin, Schu, was one of Losos's teachers in high school, and Jim and Schuett had their own bond outside of us. So it's just kind of, like, full. circle. Everybody got their own, like, and it's one. How y'all know each other? Well, I don't know how

we was born together. One minute apart. And then just connected through the guys, these were like the first females that were on Club 520. I kind of just finagled my way in here, you know, lost the competition, came back, you know, one of those failure stories. Man, stop. These are my girls. It's true. Literally, I lost. And they brought me in one. time and the audience love me and now look at me now exactly so y'all met through the through the show but these are like the it girls of the city so i've always known of them so like y'all always knew her yeah not y'all can get bitch she like i tell a joke but i won't tell a lot like you my name ring bells no no they don't know me from a can of paint now i know you

I did. Yeah. I mean before this. Yeah, they've been It Girls. I kind of just, you know, float it up. But these are my girls now. Like, we locked in. But I was watching y'all pie, and it was funny because, shoot, he was saying how, this is fucking hilarious.

How if a plane was to crash, the back of the plane would be more likely to survive. So I was like, y'all know how I be back there by the bathroom? I said, yeah, fuck you, Jeff. I'm going to make it. I was like, damn, that is crazy. We good. We good. So keep booking our seats in the back of the planes.

We like it back there. We appreciate it. They wrote 28 from 32 is where you can catch me and I'm going to be surviving. What? I'm still alive. I'm still alive. Well, I was like, yeah, but I really, I like y'all podcast. Like I said, your voices is really soothing and it's good to see black men in such a positive light.

But where do you get that, though, from? Where do you get that from? Back in the way. His cousin? Y'all understand because he's a pilot. The pilot said that. Okay. Why do I have a question, though, because you said that the smoke detector battery chart,

that that going off, it warrants bad spirit. Where did you get that from? I mean, it's just something I believe. Oh, okay. Southern niggas and they superstition. Yeah, I mean, anything to make somebody chimes down a battery. That's like. I don't know, people get on me like if I don't buck on my seatbelt and driving.

And to depend, like, if I've been in a car a certain amount of time, like, I can just ignore the shit. Same. And but that smoke detector shit, like, especially walking in somebody else's house, it's like, you don't hear that, bro? Yeah. And we was doing like a live stream and I'm sitting there like, bro, I know you hear this shit. That's really got your nerd to be on live with the, with the detector. Black people can't hear that shit He sent me a picture of like a

Nine-V-O battery today He changed the shit today Today Oh look at you changing lives It was about a month ago Yeah That's what I say That's been a minute ago

But yeah it takes some time It was fate And you just brought it up It was fate It was meant to be So I've never been to Nashville The girls Y'all just

Y'all went about a few months ago But y'all was On the field They was in the white part of Nashville Yeah unfortunately I'm actually really glad he's here because I had some bullshit to eat. I was so pissed.

You could have went with me, but you wanted to. Oh, look. We were on our Caesar and Brutish shit. Yeah. In my defense, I did want to go downtown and let the kids see, like, downtown and stuff. My friend pulled up on us. She lives out there, and she was like, I don't know why you came here. I'm just like, girl, I don't know why either.

But you said on the fifth, is that the Black History Music Month? No, I got a concert with band. LA. Oh, we're there. Speaking of, yeah, yeah, I pull up June 5th. I'll make sure, yeah, I will find some better food. Like that documentary highlights a bunch of spots. Yeah, it did.

A lot of black-owned spots and some quality, quality food. But yeah, June 5th, we're exiting in in Nashville, not the country, no tour. And yeah, pull up on me. Y'all got some PTO? Yeah. Yeah. I got a bunch. You got a bunch of.

I can make some time. Yeah. Yeah, because I really want to go to Nashville. The only place I ever went on the documentary is Slim and Huskies. And I've seen all the different places. I'm like, oh, shoot, I can't wait to go back so I could try these other places. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, Slim and Huskies, those are my guys I grew up with all three of the co-owners, co-founders.

They were on a pod a couple weeks ago, too. Oh, nice. That's what's up. And you said that's the piece of spot. Mm-hmm. I went to Chicago Chicken and Waffles before you had them. It's Nashville. It's not Chicago, baby.

I mean, but are they really like Chicago? But do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I heard of it. I don't think I've eaten there before. It kind of, it's like people get Nashville, hot chicken, and other places other than Nashville. It's probably not going to be, like I tried some Nashville hot chicken and cattle and it was mad as hell. Like this is not, this is a misrepresentation. So I'm not saying that restaurant is not good.

I'm just going to go to Chicago if I want some Chicago or anything. Right. So if we pull up in Nashville, what's the spots that we definitely got to hit? Princess Hot Chicken. That's the originator of the Nashville Hot Chicken. Okay. Breakfast spot, I would say Meridian Street Cafe, that's starting at East Nashville where I'm from. Is fish for a good fish sandwich.

Sound like being here. Yeah, for sure. I got the spot for that. I can't wait to go back now. I like Arnold's Country Kitchen for like a meeting two, meeting three type of time. They've been like on like Food Network quite a few times and it's like family home. I'm trying to think, well you try to slim my huskies. I for sure vouch for them.

It's hell of spots. I'll have a list together for y'all. Yeah, I'm ready. Okay. And we want to go to the club. Yeah, we got an after party after the, because all I know was honky tonk. Nah, it's a good deep. You be line dancing?

I was about to be in your like... It's line dancing in that video. Oh, so you'll be doing it. It's line dancing in the video. You made a line dance for this song? No, shout out my god Justin Lee. He's a real deal line dance instructor. He did the choreography for it.

I'm intruding in the line dance and I'm... I had one too many of these and I'm like falling out in the middle of the line dancing. We feel you. I got two lift feet, but I'm going to try. But my got. get y'all together he taught everybody at the video shoot it was it was dope it was like a all-female choreography thing oh they's probably going crazy i can't wait to see that i was going to ask the girls though do y'all like dancing-ass niggas i do and it be like they don't really dance here but like

in other states and stuff they'd be some dancing-ass niggas like move them hips boy i see you yeah move them hips yeah yeah about to tip your hat tip your hat swing that hat and then together, baby. But it's more than one Nashville, you know. You say it was downtown. You're way more likely to see that. But our club, our hip-hop, urban clubs is probably exactly like y'all. No, yeah, I went to the club, too.

It was lit. I forget what it's called. But it was like a glass club. I don't know. I went to the hookah lounge too, but I don't remember what they was called. All right. I got a question for you guys. So I've seen this on Facebook.

It says plot twist. I ain't lose my man. I gained a girlfriend too. Now it's us laughing together, matching energy, stealing each other's clothes and loving on the same man. Instead of cheating, I told my men to bring home his other girlfriend and now we're taking pictures like this.

Where's the other girlfriend? She's down on the bottom. Oh, okay. That's probably the main bitch right there. Down up under the table. I'm not being under the table, bro. You think that's the main bitch? Y'all don't have to put me up here with the niggas.

I think the main is sitting on the chair. Yeah, she's sitting on the side on the number two. Times is hard now. Is this what we doing? Absolutely. I'm not going. I'm stinking. I can't do it.

Just cheat on you. You adjusting your mic? It's efficient. Three incomes are better than two. I got a bitch that got a bitch. I know that's right. Two for one. Yeah.

Bro, I want to know who sits in the front seat. They take turns. They call the shotgun. I swear I'm going to be arguing. Y'all. Trap wants the front seat. I swear I'm going to call. shotgun is so quick.

I'm sitting in the back. I'm going to let both of them sitting in the front. Well, I'm sitting in the back. Oh, that's a real player. Then they're going to be arguing over the backseat. I'm like, bitch, you ain't sitting with my man. Get up here. Let daddy lay.

Yeah, y'all know I'm dumb anyways. We ain't going to talk about this. For me, yo. What about those Titans? No, you started. You started. How you started a question? How you feel about polygamy?

Yeah, I'm going to get in y'all. You for it? It sounds great. I don't know I'm worried The thing is I could do it I just feel like my family going to be like You don't love yourself no more

Did he make you do this? Like but I think that it makes sense I think it makes sense It'll be fun to me From a financial standpoint or just from like a village Just having that support within the home I'm just in such a weird place in life with like dating and relationships.

I don't know if I just want to be a full-flage lesbian or just, you know, so I can have the best of both worlds. Totally. I'm straight. I'm nothing on that. We share these niggas anyways, Kiki. Yeah, so she on me on your own time. I don't want this bitch in my house.

Don't bring her in the house. What you got to say now? But she could help you wash the dishes. That's what I'm saying. But she would feel like I think that she would feel like my slave and she going to be like, bitch now. What? I think she would feel like my homegirl.

I heard. them situations they'd be like going to the nigger like so am i your favorite and then that's i feel like we could jump this nigga together we don't imagine hearing rumbling in the next room these bids you going to be no domestic no because y'all probably gonna be bumping i'm like what he got you fucked up babe let's go beat his ass then what happened when y'all get to fighting you and her we're not gonna let's go beat his ass we're not gonna fight we're not gonna fight and if we did i'll whip her That's why I was like being in a lesbian relationship. He got to get him a little something sweet petite.

I can beat on. I was going to say, I got to be a guy. You know you can whoop. Yeah. That's a power. Not a big cocky. That's a power. No, hell no.

I don't even want. I like petite bitches anyway. So she's going to be some, I could toss around. Yeah. We don't know who's who. That's why he tricked her into getting him hers. I mean, it's just all about perspective. She could be the leader of the pack.

Like, look at both of my kids. Like, look at both of my. my holes behind me like yeah that's how i take it look at my trophies behind that's the that's the yeah just giving you're beneath me I'm the main you sit on the floor I'm sitting on you dog but also the main might just treat him better and be like his home base and make him feel like better than the better looking what would have been don't look happy though that's the up why do you know nobody they needed this they needed the number two in there abusive they fought before this picture The number two, them there saved their relationship.

Low key. The number two came to say today. My nigga got icy white turtleneck on, man. You got to watch them. I don't know. How do you feel about it? I mean, I'm on the side of, like, it might be a controversial take. This is what we are doing anyway.

I kind of lean into the, man, everybody's shit. sharing everybody to a certain extent. I think understanding is worth gold. But I do think most people don't have a stomach for it. It's like, you said, like, where you at with day right now? Like, it sounds good until you're really in

them trenches. And it's like, you know, you got to share or you, you know, divide your time and interest. And I don't know. I think cohabitating with two women sounds intense. Like a lot.

But just think about it because the fun of it would be like, okay, if one is unavailable, the other one is. But then they period is going to sink and shit. So it's just like not both of y'all getting on my damn nerves. But we're talking like living, like real relationship all three of a day. This house better be spotless. There's two women in here. Dinner better be made promptly. I want snacks.

I want a sandwich at three in the morning. I might need to be the men with two women. We could meet. But we could split that work. Yeah. It's supposed to everybody. supposed to, you know, put in their own work. So that's why polygony work.

I could be like, Barb, I made the sandwich last night. You would be your girlfriend? No, just for example. Oh, maybe. But for example, I could be like, Barb, I'm like, Kiki can come over. She'd be talking about a shit. You make it tonight.

Yeah. I got excited to it. Yeah, it sounds like it's $5.20 somewhere. I would say, good shit. It's just this. Talk to me after the episode without your twin. Okay. Wink, wink.

Y'all have fun with it. I ain't know. You're going to be jealous. You said you like sports, right? So what sport do you think that you could go pro in? It's over with it. It's over. Because you're OG now?

Something like that. I mean, I was basketball is kind of my thing growing up. I played football and I was really young. But I don't think I looked at it like going pro. Like, shit, probably 12 years old, you had people of basketball camps telling you, like, you're not going pro. Oh, damn, really? I mean, the odds, I guess, it's, what, 450 NBA players?

But, I mean, that's not the only way to go pro. So I do kind of feel like they was kind of stunting our growth for shitting on our dreams telling us, dude, because I had, like, two teammates on my high school team that played pro ball. So it wasn't as far away as, like, one might have thought. Right. It would have been bad. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news.

What's the news, new? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts.

We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. And, oh, we were thinking, I'm, or, I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down?

Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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We're not becoming more social and connected. We're becoming more individualized, but we actually meet people in connection. If you've been searching for a soft place to land while doing the work to become whole, this podcast is for you to hear more. Listen to deeply well with Debbie Brown from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm CJ Toledano, and our podcast Point Game is about defining the odds.

Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted. at this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys

like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He run up the court licking his fingers while he got the ball. Like, after you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Oh, yeah. Get your ass up and down. court and you're gonna get the ball so listen to point game on the iHeart radio app appal podcast or wherever you get your podcasts goodbye i guess you sure have played baseball never i never play

it never okay speaking of basketball so they always in the comments they'd be calling us brown way bosh they'd be calling us the 2017 warriors and stuff like if you could like compare you if you could compare you and dine's trip to like maybe A T.A. terms. What duo do you feel like best describes y'all? I think Tripp as far as it as Pippin and Jordan. I think Cobain Shack's a good one. I was going to say, don't be humble.

Nah, no, I don't think nobody can fuck with us. Like, that's just my, that's my takeaway. So whoever is at the top of the top in times of tandem. two, you know, for y'all's sake, it's three-person. It's a trio kind of thing. But whoever you will put at the top of those lists is who I would compare us to if that's even worth doing. But yeah, I just think, like me and bro, he just dropped the album today with Eddie Valero

called Armageddon. I'm on there, I think track six. Okay. Shout out to create. But yeah, I would say, I would probably go. Penny and Shaq, because that's just my all-time favorite, but they didn't have the accolades that, you know, to support it. So I guess Kobe and Shaq, Jordan and Piping would be the best comparison.

What's our big three? Come on. The real one. The real one. I know that's right. But why are we talking like sports and athleticism? I see you've been in these running clubs. And I, it's just all on my algorithm.

It was saying that like the running clubs is the new spots to meet the love of your life. Okay. The running club part of it, I just for the first time ran with a running club like a week ago. Okay. So I've been running. I've been running in races. The run clubs are like actual clubs. Shout out to six run five.

I joined one of the open runs. They do like some weekly things. Before that I went to a block party that had, there was like after the half marathon that we had. in April in Nashville. And it was just dope to see, like, so many black people in a traditionally, like, white part of time, like, on the same type of time. Because it was, I want to say it was, like, 30,000 people that ran in a half marathon and went night.

But, like, they had, um, basically a block party right in front of the Lula Limin store in the Gulch, which is super, like, commercial. That's how I said like that. And it was just so many of us out there just on some, like, pool, like, kicking it. I mean, the race was like six in the morning. So the block party was probably like 8, 9 a.m. to like 12. It was just such a different vibe.

There's so many of us out there. People that's fit, kicking it, smiling. And so I tapped in a little farther with their club from that. And I see the same, like, memes and all those things. I don't know. I don't have that experience. I've been running. That's, like, kind of.

probably my biggest hobby or just something that I enjoy doing. But the club part, like, we're trying to start something kind of parallel to it with the pod because all of them were running together and I was racist. We've been doing like one, five K a month this whole year. Club 520, y'all ready? To run. I'm sorry, that is just so commendable. And ain't you just have like a new PR?

Like, like with the 5K y'all did and what, April? Yeah, well, the last, I think the last three competitive races I ran in, I set a, I set a PR like each time. That's crazy. And it, because, y'all, running is so hard. It's so hard. So did you ever run track? Yeah, no. So, and did you pick up, like, you just pick running up, like, or you always been fit and you just kind of got into it?

I mean, I was athletic, but running was really never my thing. It was, I picked it up around the time that my daughter was born. I got seven-year-old. And around the time when she was a newborn, it was like kind of my, like, stress relief just to get out the house from a screaming newborn baby. Like, I go, you know, run around a block and just keep myself active. And by the time she started walking, it was like when COVID hit. And so it wasn't shit open.

And so that was like kind of. you know, two birds and one stone. It was kind of the only thing I could do at the time. And I also helped me, like, clear my mind. And I just kind of stuck with it from the, I mean, she started walking and I was like, I would be out of breath and shit picking up, chasing her around the house because she started running when she started walking. And I'm like, then, I need to get in a better shape.

So I started taking it more serious and just fitness journey at large. I got a trainer and was, I was trying to. a book and I'm just I just feel like I'm gonna be slim for ever so just leaving into the cardio and I sure I want to be around for my kid and shit so it's about that as more than anything do you be feeling like the runners high they be talking about I only felt that shit one time you be running no I said I felt it one time like a random high like no like I was I ran three miles that was the longest I ever ran and without stopping right and I was just running and I didn't feel like a random high because I feel no pain and it like kind of felt good and I was like is this the runners how they be talking about and I ain't felt it sense I mean so I just seen all like the memes and stuff about finding the men at the running club that's the only reason I'm interested and I'm just like I don't think I'm that committed I don't want to find them in the regular club let's try it I can't run you can't run you can do anything yeah you go at your own run your own race they're going to be like this get her out of

This makes perfect. I promise they would welcome y'all in any running club in America. I'm going to be like, I'm coming. I'm coming. Y'all ruin. When you first start running, your ass don't hurt, though. Your ass going to be slapping itself and it's going to be hurting. My ass not as big.

Until you get used to it, it's going to be hurting. I've never experienced that, never moved around that much. Do you know? We can do it. When y'all come down on the field, tomorrow's field day. We're going to go for a nice brisk power walk. Brisk. That's how to be.

And we're going to test out this theory of what's slapping in. Okay. Tomorrow? What we doing? We're racing. Oh, I'm running, girl. We're getting in the field. I have a par walk all day.

I'm bushing. I mean, people walk in the 5Ks and the races. I'm going to be with the greenies. If I do a 5K, I'm making myself not stop. I ain't stopping. So is that a requirement for a woman to be like on her fitness journey for you? I mean, I prefer something toned and fit and, you know, well proportioned and all that. I mean, I think health as well.

So you don't got to be a fitness nut or whatever, but it's attractive. Yeah. I mean, I think it all run together, like, mind-body. So, like, I think taking care of yourself is, you know, I've interacted with people that, like, teach me shit about, like, wellness overall. about your diet and like things I ain't know about it. She drinking water now. And I do Pilates twice a week.

Yeah, keep it tight. But yeah, that's I mean, it's definitely attractive. It ain't a requirement. But if you're on the opposite end and you just eating bad and a couch potato and, you know. It's like a disconnection at that point.

If you discourage it or you frown on it, I ain't fucking with that. Like who ain't trying to better They said I saw one of y'all episodes like man black people make fun of people for anybody. They do. Oh you healthy. Yeah you fit they was mad I wanted my electrolytes like we were mad in real life we was you're not mad y'all right we was we was drunk we need some elrond james it's like bitch you've been at practice i'm like damn because i want to drink a body armor like what's what's the problem we we apologize i don't accept it

body armor got a lot of sugar it was zero sugar a lot of sugar a lot of sugar a lot of Pilmsa. Check. Water. I eat this lemon boy. Man, I try a Pilates twice. That shit is intense. It's fun.

I like it, though. Like how you were saying, like, running. A lot of core. Running, like, just, you know, your stress and all that. That hot mat is, like, crazy. It's 90 degrees in there. You're just dripping sweat. It's dark.

You be sweating. I love it. I be, I be. It was like the infrared. The hot one you go to. Yeah, it's like 90 degrees in here. I don't know how they heat it. If it's infrared.

If it's the, thermostat that broke in this motherfucker but it's just like it be hot and I'm not a person that sweats like that but I was like dripping on the mat I'm like oh yeah let's go I like it I really enjoy it I need to get more than twice a week when you get in a groove it do make you want to keep going but when you fall off you just be like a next week Monday oh you said you got one kid but you said you wanted three so you still work He said he wanted three sums in the middle of the week. I want twins.

Oh, okay, yeah, that's so one and done. Toxic lido. Rub on his arm a little bit. You want to see some twin vibes. Da-da-da. Lord. I think I'm so funny. You are.

No, I mean, yeah, I don't know if I'm done or not. It'd be like that. We don't know either. Right. Who then? Who? Girl, you don't. I mean, I said that before I had one, so, you know,

fatherhood is like a real thing. Yeah. All yeah, I got children. Yep. Welcome to the hood. Best hood. They call us the Bay Mama Club. Your favorite Baby Mama's.

We got a lot of names. Look at Behan, yeah. Oh, we're actually the third and fourth round pick is what Behan called us. Third and fourth round drafts. What that mean? What that mean? That means our baby daddy's already Have baby mamas.

Don't talk about me. Don't fucking do us. Let him explain. They can't hear him anyways. Let him talk to Lito. Did he say 99th pick or some crazy? He's not talking to me. 190.

Oh, 199. Still hope. I'm not no fourth and fifth pick. I'm the first baby mama. Well, she is. He's talking about it. I am too. Well.

Won it halfway. Yeah. Yes. One of her for the first. I got two babies. I'm not like fifth. I'm not like fifth. I think I'm third.

I don't know if I'm four. I still. Right, right. Jury's still out on that baby. Tumato. For sure. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

Thank you. This thing went viral calling us the third and four. Anyways, anyways. Anyways, we all want to know. So, when did you fall in love with hip hop? Oh, I'm just kidding. I'm going to say, oh. What?

Swir. Yeah. I'm just playing. That's a real question. Yeah. But like, did you know that you always wanted to be like a rap artist and who inspires you? Um. She'd be potty.

Nah, I, I ain't always know when the first part, when I fell in love with hip hop. I would say somewhere between. Between, like, I can remember the first songs that kind of, I guess, gave me that feeling would have been like, nothing but a G thing. It was Dr. Dr. Snoop. Today was a good day. Ice Cube. That actually might have been the one.

Because I can remember like the Ozzy Brother song that he sampled coming on the radio and I like cut the radio up and it wouldn't ice cube and I was mad as hell. And I didn't understand what a sample was or I ain't know the old songs a kid. And that song, and it was like a song, Menace's Society soundtrack. That was like, I think it was a straight-up menace. Like, he was telling a story from the movie. And I had seen the movie, so I understood the song so well. I was like, man, that's cold that he told that story and rap for him.

Like, today was a good day. Like, he told, like, a day in a life. or somebody in the hood, like nothing but a G thing. Like even though it's Cali, it like made sense that like this how they live in. It looked how my big cousins and uncles then was rocking at the time. So it was kind of that like art imitates life thing that drew me in. As far as me wanting to be a rapper and all that, that was that kind of way later. I was probably in high school.

And I actually wanted to make beats first. I wanted to be the manifresh or the clique. I mean, it was no limit. and then cash money and all that probably what was looking up to being from the South. But I never really wanted to be the rapper. I was trying to make beats

and my beats are sorry's hell. But I was writing something the air beat I made and my partners that was rapping was I was like, get on this song with us and, you know, the first few songs. I got so much more feedback from the raps

that it's just, I guess some confidence came with it. I set them beats to the side. and just locked in. By then, I was probably infatuated with, like, the culture of it and I had that. And I wanted what it seemed like came with it. And I just, you know, it was basketball and the gravity of that, like, I might could go to college and play ball. But, shit, I really think I could do something with this, with this music thing. You know, it just kind of turning to a real thing.

I graduated high school and probably, like, two years later, I was signed. I had a record deal. Yeah, that's dope. You know, went from there. Number one hits, millions of records sold, awards, sold out tours. You think that Jonas Brothers are satisfied? Nope, it's podcast time. We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions.

Hey, Jonas is available now, and their first guest is a big one. Paul Rudd. You know, Steve Carell is a great singer. Can you tell you not to audition at the office or something? I told him. Whoa. We were filming Anchorman. Clearly, I was the idiot.

Thank God he didn't listen. Listen to me, right? Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Humor Me with Robert Smygo and Friends, we help make you funnier on this episode. My guest's Bob, Odin Kirk, and Kids in the Halls, Bruce McCullough, try and help the Kazoo Kid and Tayon Day be famous again. What if there's an alternate universe show where you guys are incredibly popular? Well, and they could travel up the land doing meet and greets. They're constantly needed at malls.

Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smygling Friends on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The story I've told myself about love or relationships can then shape my behavior, and that can lead me to sabotage the possibility of connection. This Mental Health Awareness Month, tune into the podcast deeply well with Debbie Brown and explore the journey of healing, self-discovery, and returning to yourself. We explore higher consciousness. emotional well-being, and the practices that help you find clarity, peace, and self-mastery in a world that can feel overwhelming. The world is becoming lonelier. We're not becoming more

social and connected. We're becoming more individualized, but we actually meet people in connection. If you've been searching for a soft place to land while doing the work to become whole, this podcast is for you to hear more. Listen to deeply well with Debbie Brown from the Black Effect Podcast Network. on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast, Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed.

And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows. Without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the play. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid.

He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court licking his fingers why he got the ball. Like, you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah. you figure it out real quick.

Get your ass up and down the court, and you're gonna get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Can you freeze, though? I can. I mean, I'm not saying, like, speak some.

Drop a beat. I definitely would. I was like, I ain't drunk enough to do that. Performing out. Petty Pablo voice. I ain't drunk enough. No, because I had seen you talk about. about with Cassidy.

I was like going back and forth rapping and like the full circle moment that y'all had had or whatever. So I'm like, can he freestyle? I'm always super impressed by people that could freestyle. Yeah, it's, um, I mean, I think that's like a whole separate skill.

I was on. For sure. And I think that was some, some fun shit, some shit we used to do. Like, I mean, there's people that I think are very,

very good at it and that's like cool. But I'm, I'm more, like into the artistry of it. Although you can come, like I said, the thinking of you song was pretty much the freestyle. Like I took from the beat and was like, I don't want to make a lovey-dovey song.

I want to go the opposite direction. And I kind of freestyled that, which I heard. Other than, but that still was like a thought of like, I'm not going to go this direction. I'm like, so I guess technically that's writing or whatever. But I think as far as, it's just more value to me putting my, my thoughts to it and put my pen to work and then actually freestyling.

But it's people that probably freestyle better than they write. You know, that's... I think it's interesting that you said that you were, like, drawn to the artist with the storytelling because I think you, like, have a knack for storytelling and just relatability in general. And I got to... I was just going to say, do you think that that's maybe why you are, like, exploring potting now, like doing a podcast and everything.

Because I feel like, you know, podcast, that's like a former artistry as well. You know, you're being vulnerable. You're telling your stories. Yeah, I think storytelling is part of what drew me to it. Like, that was kind of a premise of it. We wanted to tell Black Nashville story. We wanted to tell stories that haven't been told and, like, who better to tell our own stories than us.

Right, right. Because a lot of times when you let other people tell your story for you, some things get lost in translation. So, yeah, that for sure is a part of it. I think I'm a writer first more than anything. So I'm trying to use this space to push me in a direction of be able to tell my story in, like, text form and book form. Like, that's the next venture I want to get into is putting my story together as, like, a memoir or something. that people can hold on, can have carry it with them. So I think

the pod, these vulnerable conversations that we have is like one, it's almost like a group therapy session that we get to have. Yeah, for sure. That's how I feel so. We love. We love. Yeah. And the one is. So it's a mix of that. The storytelling

part and just is kind of like healthy. We need balance. And also like, I think as a hip-hop artist, I've given more than half of my life to this shit. And it's like, It's a lot of shit that's not that I don't think is cool. That's like made to be cool.

And I'm, that I just outgrown. And I'm like, man, that's shit really cool. Like, people need to be told. Like, you can do something else. Like, you don't have to be, you don't have to try to be the man. You know what I'm saying? You can survive by being part of a whole or, you know, the team building aspect. Like, for as cool, somebody might think I am as the rapper on the pod.

It's like, this niggas is a pilot, a lawyer, got this and that going on. This nigga runs four and five business. It's like, I think they're as cool as y'all probably think I am. Right. And so it's like sharing that space and telling those stories is like important. Like we got to highlight more than just the bells and whistles, the, you know, what the algorithm tells us to like, right? Like, and the versatility, even the versatility of not just like your podcast mates,

but also like just the versatility of like not the country, you know and just like, stepping out into a different space musically within your artistry and just exposing like your fans to a whole different genre really like that's versatility in itself as well I had a surface level ask question

y'all just went real deep and and great and I appreciate that but I have seen you say like the not the country you know my baby are you thinking go ahead and then he was like yeah we're on there Are you buffering? No, I know exactly what I'm saying.

Because, you know, obviously when you think of like country, you think of like, you know, the regular country song. Them white people. Yeah. And then you like, yeah, so we're just on there. We're just on their rapping sounding like ourselves. And I'm like, I don't know. That's right. You know, like when you think a country, you think of like one thing.

And then it's just like, hold on. But we're country too. And you was like, I seen on one interview, you was like, it's country because of where we're from. And it's like we can't be forgotten. I mean, a lot of country music artists aren't even from Nashville. Like one of the most talented artists I met in the last year really exploring that space was from Canada. And like I'm not saying like he's cosplaying or faking or anything,

but it was like I was impressed at how well he like sounds like all the country artists that y'all might have heard of. And I was like, damn, that's, that's, cool, that's interesting. It's just like the, okay, think about like Idris Elba or what's his name, Damson, whatever, they're doing on Snowfire. They're from England and can play hood niggins. Yeah, right. You know, American eyes, like, and they do it well. It's like nobody complaining about it. Like, they're doing what they're supposed to do. But, okay, a better example, the other dude that's on Snowfire that was Stacy from the wood. He from there. Like, it doesn't get

much realer than somebody that from the turf. He didn't really damn to even acting. You know what I'm saying? And so that's really what I'm saying is like I mean you can't invalidate like this

this is, this ain't that but this is like authentically like this is as Nashville as it gets. Homegrown. It's just not the postcard that you used to get. I like it. It's a statement. When y'all talking about country,

I'm just thinking the cowboys and it just made me think I wanted to ask the girls about this too like Lido why do you think that women have always been crazy about bad boys Oh yeah because you got that sound bad for you

Good question Yeah we're talking about You know you like to play that Toxic Lido No that was That was autobiographical Yeah that was Bad boys good

For years women have loved bad boys I think it go both ways. Like, I think we always want what we can't have. We always want what we shouldn't have. Like, I know I grew up like that. If somebody told me like, don't do that, I'm that much more curious about it. I want to figure out why. You know, I want to explore.

I want to figure it out. And sometimes it's like the lure of stuff. That's really probably my only explanation about. for you song. It's like, shit, it's just kind of just being honest. Like, I ain't, I ain't perfect. I ain't, I'm not probably your prototype, whatever, but I ain't the worst either, you know, so. That's real. That's how I feel. For y'all ladies, why do you think that women want bad, bad boys? Start with you. Girl, why we got to start with me? Because you, well, you, you start. Forbid and fruit. Forbidden fruit. Is it a forbidden thing or it's like a comfort? Well,

Maybe because I'm ghetto. I'm from, like, maybe it's just like a comfort thing. I'm not ghetto. I'm not ghetto. Let me not say that. It's not that I'm ghetto. I was raised in the hood and it was just like a comfort thing. So like even if I want a reformed, you know, bad guy, I still want that to be there.

You know, like. I don't know. Is it because it's forbidden? Is it like? Nah, I don't think that. You just like it. I just think that a square nigger can't really handle me for real. Like, I don't know.

You want somebody like, shut the fuck up. Say it, Kiki. No, we're not doing that. We're not doing that today. You say it. What about for you, Trow? I don't like bad boys. Girl.

You said, forbidden fruit. Yeah. I'm just fucking with y'all. So what? Yeah, forbidden. It's just because it's forbidden. It's just like, I don't know. It's just who I don't want no straight up and down.

Like, I don't know. I need a masculine figure, somebody who's. A square can be masculine? Possibly, maybe. I need someone territorial. I need someone who's stand on business because I will. Yeah. So you got to bet.

And y'all know, I'm like the nigger of the crew. Like, I'm the Miss niggas. So you got to be more niggerish than me. Damn. Oh, here you go. Oh, my gosh. I mean, I think it's, words is words man people

he's so philosophical man I'm saying like no two days I like no two people like somebody might can take that and it be a time of endearment somebody else might be offended by it like no I'm saying from a woman's standpoint you know like her

oh okay okay like yeah you gotta kind of know who and what you're dealing with because it for show could be offensive on one end and then it's just it's just words it's just casual like you know I was talking to somebody was like man I don't think it's crazy to curse when I pray kind of thing you know I'm a other belief that like God knows my heart I'm like I'm this is just how I express myself like and the sign could be said in a relationship was like you know what I'm I'm not calling you like I'm not putting you down calling you a female dog

and derogatory sense of it's possessive in the sense like you mine like call you my whatever my boo my babe my girl whatever somebody can say I'm not a girl I'm a woman you know so but at the same time like I said you gotta know where they're at with it and just probably read the room Lido said I'm a pimp to a hoe and a dog to a bitch you know who you know a man to a woman yeah so

There we go. Man, I fuck with that. Yeah, so. We didn't even do words on the rocks or that thing. We didn't do words on the rocks. That's cool. That we get enough. You want to do words on the rocks?

Yeah, I want to do it all. Oh, well, did you have a words on the rocks? Words on the rocks is growing hard, baby. No, I know that. That's words from the block. Oh, words from the blocks. That's what we're talking about. That's what I thought we said about.

I don't know. Yeah, we do got words from the block today. And it is, you know, in honor of your main event. I ain't going to hold you. That was a fire ass play on words. heard you say it in the album. I'm like, that's cute because your real name is Jermaine. Did, okay, obviously. What's your real name?

It's Hawaiian. It's Keona with a long O. But, okay, we do our homework a little bit. Did y'all see, do y'all know his middle name already? He don't want his middle name on here? I'm not trying to be, I'm not trying to be fed. However, I'm just trying to see something. Do y'all know his middle name yet?

No, I just know. He don't. You don't know what either? Keanu, you know my middle name? I do know your middle name. But listen, hold on. If I say that his middle name is a common-ass middle name for when black moms have a little boy. Oh.

I bet you I can get him in three guesses. No. It's not Lamont. Lamar. No. DeWine. Girl. Deontay.

Malique. It's over with him. No, it's over. What is it? Anthony? You're getting close to. Antoine. No.

But it ain't an A. Antonio. No. It's not a. We'll let it start it. Give us letter. Y'all got nothing else? Give us the letter.

What's the last? With an E. Event. Period. How is it? It's not that, though. It's not event. Okay.

So if I tell you, I'll tell you all start with an E, then y'all still can't get it. It's Evan. It's Eric, but it's a common-ass middle name. That's not a common middle name. That's a first name. Yes, it is.

Okay, well, anyway. In honor of Germanyi. What's your middle of Nant Keanu with the Longo? It's, I can't even do that. She won't tell us. I'm not on Google. You can't Google me yet. So we're going to hoard that.

Man, what? We could have left at that event. He got a normal middle name, though. Mine is like eccentric. I want to hear it. Your middle name is eccentric. It starts with the E on. Long.

That's really pretty. Why are you ashamed of it? I'm not. I just don't like to share. I'm not Googled. What that means, sunshine? It means like white snow or something. White snow.

No, no, no. No. So my first name means God's gracious gift. It also means Snowy White Hills. However, it means God gracious gifts. That's why I think I'm dead. My daughter's name is Hawaiian and it means a gift from God. I love that.

Look, I'm not going to expose her and ask her maybe off camera. But, okay, work? You say what? She's on a couple of my albums. It ain't really a secret. Okay, well, what is it? Her name's Alani. Oh, my gosh.

That's cute. I love that. For sure. But, yeah. A girl dad. our words from the block is growing hard obviously the name of your label and your brand so initially at the beginning of the episode we were going to say tell us about what that means to you and why you went with that it's from the block like you said it's starting east nashville and it's been giving

more life and more of a meaning as an acronym giving reality inspired new direction toward having a real dream But originally it was like, you know, we were trying to come up. We was trying to get off the block. We was, you know, doing all kinds of things, just trying to make it happen. And kind of snowballed that into this music thing. Otherwise, like even you mentioned Great Goose, them same guys that was around me day one. You know, I got Ed, Gene E, E, Bill, Roy, etc., etc., etc., etc. Like, I, you know, I could go on, but, like, the Great Goose song was like an inside joke.

And I don't think we had named the company by then. But it's just, growing up, it was, like, a real thing. Like, we was kind of in the space where, like, we would sell anything if it meant profit or men making some money. And so, like, the dream part of it was, like, if we can do that, then we can shift that energy into this music thing and try to turn in something else. I thought of my guy Jean selling some t-shirts. It said, growing hard. Then we put out a mixtape. And, you know, from that first tape, which was like, I think the beginning of 2006,

it just made sense to brand it. And now, you know, we're taking it nationwide and beyond. I mean, I guess globally. Global. Yeah. Pop it. But, you know, that's, it's really, it's funny. I say words from a lot because it started on block.

I love it growth. I love the extension and the longevity. We can't really hear you. Oh, shoot. Sorry. No, I was saying I love it. I love the like longevity in it and how it's grown into it. Because you can come up with something like years ago and you might not identify with that anymore.

You know, once you like grown and matured a little bit and it's very like universal, relatable at all, you know, times in your life. For sure. Like, I mean, the biggest joy or the big. biggest reward I can say from my artist is like seeing people embrace it as a motto as a mantra. I've probably met hundreds of people with grind hard and they flesh, you know, tattoos and otherwise the actual logo or just, you know, in whatever sense. And it's just for it to connect with them and people that are probably not from the same walk

of life that we kind of from. And it's just like, damn, this shit is bigger than, bigger than I could have ever. thought or dream to imagine. I mean, that's the kind of thing that, like, keep me going, keep me at it, trying to figure out a way to pivot and do more with it. And I just love that, like, as a mantra and as, like, a motto, it's timeless and it can grow with you. Like, I seen an interview one time where you was, like, the streets is more of a

mentality than, like, a physical place. And you kind of, like, outgrew it a little bit. You have, like, a business mentality and a dad. bad mentality like you know um and obviously it's just like grind hard transcends just that street like where it originated from you could take that with you anywhere that mentality yeah it's a lifestyle brand I mean the the fitness journey the all of that like at all the plus like whatever you're doing like go hard at it like day to day if you're going to clocking in if you're working for yourself you're working for whoever like it's a growing

Got no job. Grine hard, baby growing hard. Not to grind even harder with that. Got to grind even harder. That's why look. I'm so glad that you on this couch with us tonight. For sure. We really appreciate you.

We do. You're on tour right now. You said the next stop is Nashville. Memphis. Memphis. My 29th in Nashville, June 5th. Okay. Dallas, June 13th.

And Louisville, Kentucky, July 3rd. But we're here for 520. day first. Oh, yes. We're turning up. We want to thank you so much for coming out and being with us today. We know that you are Team 520. And if you could, shout out your platforms for anybody that might be living up under

a rock. Where can we find you? Grandhard.com. Yeah. That's a shortcut. You can find the tour dates, ticket links, the music, merchandise, whatever, you know. The podcast, work in progress podcast. It's on you.

YouTube and everywhere their podcasts are accessible. You can find me here anytime I'm in time. Period. With the fam. With the 5-2-0. And we're going to see them June 5th. We're going to hold them to that. We're going to be.

We're in a mix. I love Nashville so much, y'all. I've never been. I can't wait to go. Girl, you're going to have a ball. I can't wait. Says the one who would sleep last time, but we ain't going to time. Oh, I wasn't sleep.

That wasn't last time. The last time. You know, talk about last time. She stayed in a big of the album. And shout out your album before these twins start arguing. Last time I was about to be her friend up. But go ahead. Okay, come on.

Show your album, sir. We got- Not the country you know. Not the country you know. Starletos only five coming soon. Number one hits, millions of records sold. Awards, sold-out tours. You think that Jonas brothers are satisfied? Nope.

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