Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Hour 1: Thunder beat Boston, LeBron to miss the rest of the roadtrip, and Master P joins the show!

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson react to the Thunder beating the Celtics in Boston, LeBron to miss the rest of the road trip! Master P joins the show to talk about his new role at University of New Orleans!06:15 - Show start08:26 - Thunder vs. Celtics16:52 - LeBron set to miss rest of road trip29:34 - Master P joins show(Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.)#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Monster double-double for Chet Hongren, Shay was Shay, right he's leading in the MVP, 23 points for Chet, 15 rebounds, Shay if I'm not mistaken had 33 and 7, yep, no he had 34,7, one steal, four rebounds. They got balanced scoring, don't you know? They got Luke Dore gave him 13, Wallace gave him 14, Kim Williams gave him 10, A'Hartenstein gave him 11, Isaiah Joe gave him 11. It was a very balanced night.

The Celtics made a run late in the third quarter to tie this thing up, but at the start, the fourth, they get out to a lead, OKC does, and then I think over the last stretch, at one point they outscored them 15, went on a 15-4 run, to kind of blew the game open. Celtics had a couple of baskets, but they were never able to reattach themselves

to the Celtics, but man, OKC look really good, Ocho. They look, they don't look good,, Ocho. They don't look good. They look great. They look great. Listen, I think this is the preview of the NBA Finals. Could I be wrong, or do you think I'm right? What do you think? You could be right, but the Cavaliers

are going to have something to say. The problem with the Celtics, Ocho, so much of what they do is based on three-point shooting. They got a 63. Why are they doing that? I have a question. That's their game. That's their game.

That's their game. Even if it is their game, you can't live and die by the three. You're too talented as a team with players that can do much more than just shoot behind the arc. Why are you living and dying by that? What happened when everybody had a half night?

You get jammed deep. You thought you shot 36 damn threes in the first half. 63 for the game. And when you do that, Ocho, you in the first half 63 for the game and When you do that on show you see the difference look at all the thunder they pressure you now They're getting to the free throw line. They got to the free throw line 23 more times So even though they shoot a great percentage I think they were like what 25 or 35 or something like that even though you don't shoot a great percentage Unless you miss three quarters of them. Yeah, the sentence went to the free throw line 12 times they made to you the other thing went to the foul line

35 times What if you go to the fire line 35 times? Let's just say you make 20 of them you already are That's 10 more points from the fire line than the opposing team what it made 23 So I got a question as a coach as a coach if you see the three's not working, at what point do you abandon the three? At what point do you abandon three and have somebody run plays? Now, I know Porzingis didn't play, so you really can't do much of the pain, but you still have players that can get down there and bang and do other stuff besides shoot behind the arc knowing you have an off night. I don't understand.

Because that's their game plan. It's kind of like why you say it's like a team that throws the football you say why you throw the football when you see you not having success because that's what they do. While you're running the football you see they stop you well that's what we do. The Celtics shoot they take more not necessarily make more but they take more threes than anybody and if you look at it, Oh Joe JB did not have a great great game tonight. No, not tonight. No, I mean really with deception I mean he didn't play good but give OKC credit. They got tremendous wing defenders Oh, yeah, Caruso didn't even, but you go look at Isaiah Joe,

you look at Luke Doran, you look at Wiggins, you look at Wallace, you look at Tread Hongren, they can defend. They can defend at the perimeter, and they can defend the paint now that Hongren's is back. And you got Shay that's giving you 30 on the night. And then you got, even though Jalen Williams didn't play. Jalen Williams didn't play, he didn't even play.

He's gonna give you 20 a night. But these other guys are gonna chip in and give you the 13 to 14. They did an outstanding job on JB. They contested everything. They made it very difficult. They fouled him out. He only had what, 10 points?

And that was late in the ball game. But they fouled him out. They fouled Derrick White out because they put pressure on you. They're attacked. Now they'll take threes, but they're looking to attack the basket and get you in foul trouble. But this is a, okay, see, they're gonna be tough.

SGA passed Kevin Durant tonight to become the fastest player in Thunder's supersonic history to reach 10,000 points. That's saying something. Amazing. That's saying something. And we know how prolific KD is at scoring the basketball. Oh yeah.

He got one of the highest scoring averages in NBA history. And for him to get to 63 to get to 10,000 points quicker than KD. That's saying something. You should be very proud of that. Uh, the Celtics took 63 threes tonight. Ocho 63, 63. And, and see that's, this is what makes it an ugly game. That's what people be talking about.

You take it all the big clank, break, clank. Yeah. Well, listen, listen, it's a beautiful thing when they on fire now. Yes, yes. It's a beautiful thing when they hitting and obviously extends the lead and makes it difficult for other teams to come back.

But when you off, they off. This is why you see Celtics get leads and teams track them down because they keep taking threes, they miss it. And now all of a sudden they go down to the other end and other teams, they might make a few or get layups or get fouls and next thing you know they're right back into the ballgame because the Celtics can shoot you out of the gym but they can shoot you back

into the gym with all those missed hurry rush threes and that's what you have to worry about the Thunder now have two fourth quarter wins against Boston SGA the best both times doesn't seem like the Celtics can guard it What you have to worry about the Thunder now have two fourth quarter wins against two wins against Boston SGA the best both times doesn't seem like the Celtics can guard it they can't and the Celtics got good defenders You look at Derek White. They started with holiday on him. You look at JV. Yeah, that man got 34 And he did it on an efficient night. It wasn't like he was 11 or 28 I think he was like a 12 of 20 or something like that. He didn't, he would, I mean, he and Michael Jordan, the only two guards in NBA history to score and to average at least 30 while shooting 50% from the floor.

So that tells you what type of a, Shay was an 11 of 20, a level of 20, Ojo. But he went to the foul line 11 times. He was till 11 for the foul time. So he put pressure on you because his handle, he three level score, he can get to the lane, finish at the rim. He got a mid-range game. Now he's added the three. Now he didn't shoot the three ball well tonight.

He was one for seven. But he has that in his repertoire. I was watching him warm up tonight and the shot they kind of like sealed the game. He got to the top of the key, back down, back down, nice touch, boom, hit the rim, got a great bounce, went in. He worked on that shot pretty much all night. I'm just watching him going round and round and shooting that shot. But he got his ability. He kind of reminds you the way he could like a a left-handed like a right-handed James Harden when James was in his peak And we just yeah, blah blah blah blah blah. Okay. I'm no I'm not I'm going to the rim Okay, you get a hug up on it and he dragged he dragged pulled through file. Yeah

Wait you went to the you went to the game. No, I was watching it Okay You went to the game? No, I was watching it. I was watching on television. No, hell not. Oh, okay. Nah, nah, I didn't go to the game. But you just, you know, why, you know, you kind of, like, if you do go to a game, I kind of like to see the guys warm up, especially when they shoot, where they shooting from. Because I think they're anticipating, because a lot of guys, when they go out and shoot around,

they work on spots, and they, you know, so many. And they're like, okay, this is kind of where I'm going to be. Let's let's let's get this. You see LeBron shooting threes. He go around the horn shooting threes. OK, he gets to his post up. OK, he gets on the right side. He demands the ball. Boom. Oh, OK. I'm a post up. OK, I'm a fake and I'm a go up on up and under.

He does guys do certain things. So I like to watch to kind of see how the game is going to play out. Worked on this. You watch them. Curse. That is one that you watch it because of see how the game is going to play out and work on this. You watch Steph Curry. Steph is one that you watch because you see what he's doing. He's running, getting to a spot. Boom. He's doing certain things.

But Ochoa after watching OKC, man. Boy, the West got their hands full. Oh, yeah. Most definitely. The West got their hands full. Hmm. LeBron has returned to the Los Angeles per medical recommendation

as he continues to progress well from strain left groin. The Lakers have two games remaining on their current four game road trip, back to back Thursday night against the Bucs, Friday against the Nuggets. Ocho? Yeah. What you think?

You think LeBron, I mean, I can see him missing another week Oh, you can't play that you can't play with soft tissue injuries now You cannot play with soft tissue injuries groin Hamstring any soreness with the Achilles any soreness with the ham's quad cap You can't you can't play like that A cab? Man, you can't play like that. You got to make sure you all the way healed. And then when you do come back, you can't come back,

not to play in the game. You got to start in practice. You got to start in practice and see how much energy you can exert. And if you feel anything tug, you feel anything pull, you feel that little pinch. That little catch. But it's such a great feeling though when you have a soft tissue injury like that and you see how far you could push it and you don't feel nothing. You go a little extra harder and all the, and for the groin area, you really can't put no

compression there. You know the hamstring, you can tighten it up, you put the wrap around to keep it tight, to keep it warm. The groin area, there ain't much you can put there, huh? Ain't much you can put there. So I'm kind of nervous for LeBron, especially at his age, because as you get older, you know, you heal a lot slower now. Yeah, you do. Even as advanced as technology is, you heal slower.

I hope you can get back as fast as possible. I hope it's not, I'm sure they have different grades when it comes to groin injury. So I'm hoping it's not that bad of a, I'm hoping it's a grade one and not that serious. So hopefully he gets back soon. But I know one thing, boy, no salt tissue injuries, boy ain't nothing to play with.

Cause they set you back even further if you come back too soon. Yep. I think, yeah, that definitely what happened, Ocho, if you come back too soon, the thing is that trying to push it, because normally salt tissue injury is a sudden movement. Yep.

Now all of a sudden, that thing, because you used to be in it,, oh, I got to get the ball. I just take off. Whoa, why you moving so fast? What was that? Yeah, I just slowed your ass down. Hey, get your attention real quick.

It does. Having dealt with hamstring injuries and had a, I had a groin injury and man, it wasn't that bad. But what happened was I didn't realize I had a groin injury, but it was coming on. And you know, Ocho, we go away for training camp and you know, I'm on the diving board. Right. You know, I'm trying to hit me a one and a half.

I'm hitting me a tight, you know what I'm saying, Ocho? Right, right, right. I feel like Greg Luke and something. I'm like, oh, you know, I'm trying to hit me a one and a half. I'm hitting me up tight You know I'm saying don't choke right right right feel like Greg Luke a little like oh Right Man I woke up the next morning. It hurt was it Well, you ain't feel it. Why you would why you was a couple going nothing. I'm in the war I'll be the water stroke it. Oh, yeah, right, right, right Nothing. I'm in the war. I'm in the war to stroke it. Oh, yeah, right, right It wasn't that bad I missed about I missed like two or three days of practice and I was good to go but uh, No, I don't don't don't don't play with them drawings. Don't play with them drawings. Don't play with any soft tissue

like I said because What happens is the sudden is the sudden movement that will cause it to grab. Yeah. And then you go and your thing is like before you know it, you don't go on harder. You shouldn't. And the one thing you don't want to do, and I've seen people do it, tear that ham off the bone, tear that quadric... A ripper groin.

Yeah. You don't want no prodigal problems. You don't. I know the Lincoln facility, I know they have it, the pool work with the treadmill. Yes. That'll get you going so you're not straining. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the buoyancy and don't put the weight on yet, yes, yes, yes.

Yeah, you still get your conditioning, you don't put much weight on it just to see how much you can actually open up. Yes. But because of the resistance of the water, it won't allow it to grab and pinch like it should if you were not free weight. What's the word I'm looking for?

You were on your own and using your own strength. That water and that resistance tends to hold you back a little bit. The water gives you buoyancy. So basically you're not even a third of what you normally would weigh if you was doing it. So yeah, the Ra Rangers had that in facility. Because my knees, my last year there,

my knees because I had so much fluid on them, Ojo, I couldn't practice. So my condition was getting in that pool, doing that 10, 15 minutes in the morning, and doing it 10, 15 minutes. And that was my conditioning. Because I had to take all the pressure off my knees, knowing I'm gonna get them drained

On Sunday before the game ice them fangs up Then I'm gonna warm them up so I can go and that's what it was But you have to understand because look I got to get conditioned. I mean to just go out there on Sundays. Oh, no Man, that's a tough task. Yes Conditioning is everything. Because when you get tired, all of a sudden you get lazy with your eyes, you get lazy with your arms, you get lazy with your head. All that stuff, you know, you don't want to get out of those brakes, the balls up on you

before you know it. We know it. There ain't no, there is no worse feeling than being exhausted and knowing you still have a task to do playing a sport. Oh yeah. I ain't tell you what somebody told me in chat. I'm tell you what I know. I've been there. And I look back on it, oh, Josh, man, had I not been tired,

the first, I'll never forget, 1995, had I not been tired, that first game of the season against Buffalo, I'd have gone for 250. I went for 180, but I was exhausted. Right. And I dropped like three passes just because I was exhausted right and I dropped I dropped like three passes Just because I was exhausted right just because I was exhausted man. I was like, bro But uh, hopefully LeBron is LeBron is a fast healer. He does a great job

He has a great team around him They say a million dollars when you got a guy on call 24 hours a day. Oh, you eat enough from time He got medical people. He got a chef on call 24 hours a day. Oh, you eat nothing time. He got medical people He got a shelf that's full time He has all this LeBron James is spending more than two thousand two million dollars a year on that body Yeah, cuz I know what I spent when I played and I have nobody full time Yeah, I have nobody full time. I mean Mike Macias travels with the team Mike Macias Mike is that's LeBron's only client. Do you know? Cause, Ocho, I don't know if you ever had a massage, therapy or

anything like that, a masseuse or massage therapist or whatever you call them. But when I would bring mine from Denver and he would stay three or four days, I had to buy the whole book, because I'm calling him to miss appointments. Yeah, you're taking him away from all his works. So I gotta pay, hey, he might have six or seven appointments a day, and you know, $150, $200. I gotta buy that. Yeah.

If I want him for a week or two weeks, I've gotta buy all those appointments. On top of what you gotta get. On top of what I gotta pay them Hey see that you know, it's it's something wrong with me. I always I always players like Tara Lawrence. Yeah. Yeah, Tara Lawrence like you Tara long was like when it came to LeBron really took care of their body

Yes, hyperbaric chamber cold tub eating right doing doing everything Everything necessary to make sure their vitamins on point and then here go my crazy You know eating McDonald's, you know Barely stretching in the in the in the when it's time for practice I'm sitting there talking trash in the stretch line, You know, barely stretching. Get out there and just run. Never got hurt. Ask me how many soliders I got in the 12-year NFL career. How many?

Man, two. I ain't like nobody touching me, man. I'm like, listen, I thought I used to argue with TJ. And when Terrell came to the Bengals, I'm arguing with him like, man, you don't need to do all that, bro. You don't have to do all they doing and breaking up the tissue and it creates scar tissue. And I really think it's a mind thing.

I had my own thing because it worked for me. And because I never got hurt, never got injured, I felt I didn't really need it. And I don't know, I used to argue with some of my teammates back and forth about getting massaged. I got there the two times. One time I was a rookie. I said, you know what, I ain't doing nothing no more.

And the last time I had a, I had a little pinch of a hamstring, just a little pinch and I had, I had a lady, I had the lady massage that little bit, put the acupuncture. Yeah. And what'd you call them? Um, the, it looked like. Cupping? Needling? Cupping?

Yeah. Yeah. They did the cupping after the needling. Ain't nobody ever touched me ever since then. I just, I don't know. It's weird. I felt it was a mind thing. You know, the game of sword and all of a sudden, mentally you think, oh, I feel better.

Nah, not really. I don't think so. Now what I did do when I played the entire time, that cold tub, oh, I love that cold water, boy. I get in the cold tub from the neck down. I do my five minute contrast, five minute hot, five minute cold, and I finish with the hot, hit the shower, and I'm good.

Cold tub, that's what gives you them babies. Cold tub increases your sperm count. Is that what happened? Is that what, is that what, is that what, Wally? It does. So that's what, he, he, he, Say what happened? You putting raw meat on people. That's what happened. But it definitely increases the sperm count.

It definitely increases your sperm count. Well actually, just to be honest, and listen, we family, and I like to share this with the family because we family and the kids that I do have, right? All of them, just blessings, just blessings. God is good, especially when it comes to them. But these were agreements, you hear me? These were agreements. So there's a conversation that's had.

Like listen, you're athletic, I like your background, I've studied your film, anybody I've dated, anybody I had kids from, I asked them, can I see some footage? Were you athletic? Did you play volleyball? Did you softball? Did you run track?

Can you jump? So when we go on our first dates, I'm not going on dates so you can put on clothes and look good. I'm trying to see how athletic you are. Let's go who? Let's go to Dayton buses. Let's go roller skating.

Can you move? Do you roller skating. Can you move? Do you have coordination? Can you dance? Do you have two? If you have two left feet, I can't do nothing with you. Because now if I have a kid with you, now that means my child will have two left feet. I don't want my child getting picked last in PE. I want him picked first.

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All right, joining us right now is good friend of the show. Hey, what's up, baby? We had him in the room as he joined us. He's back. here it is. Master. Pete, Pete, what it do? I'm good, brother, how you doing? Bad, Pete, I'm great, man.

Hey, congratulations, president of basketball operations at the University of New Orleans. How did this position come about and explain your role to our chat, Pete? Yeah, so Coach Tim Floyd, he's one of the greats from the University of New Orleans. Put a lot of guys in the NBA and he didn't got older.

He retired. I mean, a year or something ago, I told him, I said, man, I'm thinking about coaching in college. And then I didn't hear nothing from him. Then a couple months ago, said, man, I got a position for you. You go take over the University of New Orleans and man, the rest was history, it's nothing but God.

Like I said, this is a town where I grew up at, this school, the University of New Orleans, has always been about privateer nation and for a black man to get this, you know, I definitely got to salute Dion Sanders for opening the doors, man, showing us that we could do it. So and I just love me and him got on the phone call. I was saying, coach, how do you think I should go about this?

You're like, man, take this first step. The rest is history. And man, Shannon, it's a blessing, my brother. I'm telling you, it's a blessing because, especially me coming from hip hop, this history to be able to, I'm running a whole basketball operation there, everything. So it's like, now they gotta listen to us, but you know, the program was in Shambas too. So think about it, they ain't gonna give us a brand new car. Da da da da da da. You gotta build it up, E. You ain't gonna start from there.

I can't let you start from the top of the mountain. I gotta make you climb up the mountain. Yeah. So think about it. And you know, it goes with my business model. I always find a problem. And if I find a problem, then I know what the solution is and I could be a part of fixing it. So the game has changed. Look at Rick Pitino. He done turned St. John's all the way around. Everywhere he goes, he turns it around.

Yeah. And think about it, right? This NIL stuff is now like, my thing is catching the billionaires, the millionaires, the alumni from the University of New Orleans and saying look I caught them all yesterday we got in the room you know we need y'all to make some deposits so we can go get the best players. The best players. The best players and I mean the job is easy from there because a lot of guys want to play for me you know I've been doing this for a while I coached DeMar DeRozan, Lance Stevens, Brandon Jennings.

So I come from a program, my P. Melo Ballas of creating dogs. And so I know what that looked like. And I got dogs coming already. They want to be with this program. And so when the portal come, I told them no puppies allowed, all dogs. All dogs, we gotta win man.

So thank you to Shannon, my thing is, we won four games last year. This is a Division I university. Oh no, no, no, that's unacceptable. So you know what I'm gonna do. Like, it's only up from there. And so I'm humble, I'm hungry, I'm letting go, I'm leaving on this journey.

I mean, I just gotta keep climbing from there. Man, listen, that's a beautiful thing, man. To honestly, to get a position like that in your hometown. Yes. Despite your background in being a rapper, because I know about your basketball game. I know about your IQ when it comes to that. So be able to be passionate about something else

that wasn't your main focus, but it was something that. So be able to be passionate about something else that wasn't your main focus, but it was something that you loved, and now you get to actually live that dream. Like I got chills because I have things that I also wanna do where I've never been presented the opportunity to do it, and that's motivating to me. Cause I'm like, man, if P can do it, I know. I want all of us to feel like that.

Because think about it, we already stereotype. Yeah, yeah. So in this position where I'm at, it's not like a lot of us in these positions. Yes, sir. And so the school that I'm at, you not gonna see a lot of us at these positions. And so now it's about me doing the right thing,

being able to do this under the NCAA rules, show them that the same way Deion Sanders did, like he did it. And now we can do it in basketball. And it don't bring, so when you come to our games, I done learned from the go-to already, when you come to these games in New Orleans, we the coaches, it's gonna be turnt all the way up, Shannon. So you know I'm breaking y'all out, man.

It's gonna... It's gonna... Yeah. But you're gonna see some of the best basketball that you can see. And basketball changed my life and saved my life. And I went from Master P to Coach P. I mean, it's a blessing.

CEO P. Yes, yes. And be honest with you, this is a business. And that's what it is right now. Basketball is a blessing. You're CEO, P. Yes. Yes. And to be honest with you, this is a business. Yes, absolutely. And that's what it is right now. Basketball is a business. These kids are making money, and now I've got the right NIL deals that I could match anything.

I could go after the number one players now. You know, we're going to have a spotlight for these kids to where the NBA is going to come to where we are, because we're going gonna put these type of caliber players here and we have them. We are prepared to compete next year and grow and get better. Pete, let me ask you this. Go ahead, Dr. O'Reilly. Listen, I have a question.

Now when it comes to going to get players, will you ever be in a position or ever have to do the part where you go into homes and actually visit the parents and talk to them? Will you ever do that? Yeah. I mean, to be honest with with you like a lot of these parents grew up with me grew up on my music And they know I'm gonna take care of the kids like that's the most important thing and I'm gonna let them understand What hard work is so I say I want dogs you got to be able to be dedicated put the work in I know you're gonna Say oh man Master P. That's my coach. No, it's coach P We want good characters. We want guys that's gonna come in here and work hard.

And we're gonna take it from there. Like, if you got that lead ability, then we're gonna make sure that these NBA scouts come in. And right now, I mean, I'm about to sit down with Steph Curry because we are underoma school. And that's the first thing I said, you know? For us two black men to come together, we're gonna take this thing and blow it out the water.

Like we're gonna take this to the next level. Like you're gonna see even Steph Curry brand. It's like, you know, this is an opportunity that we really can blow this up and we can help each other. D, let me ask you this. How do you get people to see other than what they see? Knowing because a lot of times where you grew up how you grew up. Okay, he a rapper. Man, he ain't nothing but a rapper. But you parlay that says, oh, no, no, no, I can I can sell product.

I can sell cereal. I can sell chips. I can sell soda. Boom, boom, boom. They say, okay, well, no, all you do is rap and all you are a CEO. How can you lead a basketball program? How can you get in the collective, the NIL? How do you get, how did you, P, get somebody to see other than what they saw? Well, you know what? This is not a traditional business anymore. So you're not gonna find the traditional coaches. I mean, the same way they had to believe back in Rick Pitino. Like for me, I haven't been doing music for over 20 years.

So they can't look at me from that perspective. They gotta look and say, I've been giving back to the community for over 25 years. You can look at my track. I've been doing the right thing for a long time. You know what? Nobody's perfect. I'm not perfect, but I know that I'm letting God lead me on this journey and I'm gonna lead my team.

I'm passionate about what I do. I love what I do. This is not about money. This is what I love to do and I'm able to do that. This is what makes me most happy, being able to help young people, especially through education. Think about it, I've always been on a financial literacy journey. So I've always been teaching and helping the next generation, the ones that want to listen. I don't want from NFL

players to NBA players to Major League Baseball. I've been helping showing them like, you know what, we have to understand the importance of financial literacy. And now to be able to help brothers in this sport to be successful, because everybody's not going to the NBA, right? So now I'm going to show these kids why they want to come and play for me because not only that this is a basketball game, but most of these kids are feeding their families right now in college. It's no more time waiting to get to the league. You know, I know what

it is to be hungry. My grandparents sent me to college with $5, like, go it on. I hope you make it, baby. And guess what? I came back and made it and brought her a house, brought my grandmother a house. And so I know what these kids feel, what they've been through. Me and Brandon Jenner talked about this last night. I said, what made you so good? Brandon said, man, look, I know the conditions where I was at. Nobody wasn't going to outwork me, even though they was bigger than me. I was just with a dog on the court.

And then I got a chance to be around you, Pete UP and see mansions and see all these nice things. And then that even motivated me even more. So imagine these kids around me gonna see that I come from the gutter, I come from nothing and look where I'm at now. And now they get a chance to touch me and play for the team that I'm coaching. But I'm going to coach them hard. I'm going to coach them tough because we're not gonna win if we don't create toughness.

And that's what this is about for me, and that's off and on the court. And so I'm not only a coach, I'm gonna be a father to a lot of these kids, the same way Deion Sanders would happen to be a father to a bunch of these kids, because I'm giving some kids opportunity, man, that never had this type of opportunity before.

I'm being honest with you like, because the regular coaches are being afraid of these type of players. Think about it. I had DeMar DeRose and he was out of Compton. Brandon Jennings. Think about all these kids from some tough neighborhoods. Lance Stevenson. But I knew how to talk to them. I didn't talk to a lot of them.

Because think about it. You can't talk to everybody the same way. No, you cannot. A lot of players are players are gonna they gonna they gonna stop on you. They go to get buck up They go buck if you talk to a certain way And so, you know what? My thing is right if I could talk to these players and coach them in love and it's gonna be tough Sometimes I'm gonna have to talk to them tough But guess what they don't know that I'm gonna be there for them through thick and thin.

And that's why they wanna come be on this program with me. And plus we got a great city. We got a great atmosphere. This is a big city. And so, you know, my next thing is getting a lot of television time to where we get that time now at the University of New Orleans. It's gonna be all about, you know, the privateers

and our privateer nations. So getting all these, you know, the privateers, not privateer nations. So getting all these, you know, major channels to zoom in on us because I got some of the top entertainers in the world coming. We starting off, man, like, we starting off, the culture has been built right now. It's built. Yeah, Pete, one of the things that I tell kids,

I said, for me growing up, if I see it, I can be it. I can growing up. Yeah, if I see it I can be it Yeah, I can get it. Yes. Yeah, all I needed to do was see I saw my brother go to college Well, he's with the college. He lived with me. He lived like I did. He was poor as I was. I'm doing He went to the NFL. So if you see it, you should want to you can be it. Yeah, you can get it Let me ask you this when you go and so what's gonna be your sales pitch because there are a lot of people That's watching this and they like okay Let me see what Pete talking about when you go into something let's just say for the sake of argument Ocho and I we the number one and two recruits in the nation and we from New Orleans

Let's just say Ocho from New Orleans. I'm from I'm from California Yes, you can come sit down on my grandma's couch. You go go sit down Ocho's couch. What's your pitch? How you gonna get me and Ocho to team up after the number one and number two basketball players in the country? I ain't just from New Orleans, I'm from uptown, man. So, guess what, Ocho, you from uptown, I know you a dog, and if I'm coming to your house,

I'm coming to let your parents know that I'm gonna be a coach that's gonna guide your son all the way through this process, because this is a journey. It's not gonna be easy, I'm gonna be a coach that's gonna guide your son all the way through his process. Cause this is a journey. It's not gonna be easy. I'm gonna be on him, I'm gonna be tough, but I'm also gonna reward him. And I'm gonna put him in a great situation

to where he could get the right NIL money, then he could be happy. And also I'm gonna make sure he gets his education because I know one thing for me, education has changed my life and saved my life. So if I put you on that right journey, so even if you get hurt or you go through something now, you can still take care of yourself as a man. I'm creating men.

I want you to come here to play for me, but I also want you to love what you're doing and you got to want to be here too. So if you don't see this the place for you, then it's not the place for you. But it is that I'm not trying to sell nobody because I've been through it all. And I know that I could be there for these kids and show them the right way. And then they could learn from my mistakes. But also I could teach them business. I could show them how to create their own products and brands.

Also, because even the NIL money is nothing to what once you once you make a name for yourself in this college system, you're going to be worth way more than this. And then the end goal, if you want to get to the NBA, then guess what? I've got people that, that now that's going to bring NBA scouts to our arena to come see you. And so, and this is a great city. And if you're from here, you know that. But you also have to be able to police yourself because you grown.

So I'm going to also be, be looking for your son to be able to police his self, be able to be accountable. And he got to want this because if he don't want this, I can't do nothing else for him. But I could definitely show him everything that I've been through and I could put the right team around him to get to where he need to be at. And that's just going to be my self-picture because it's not a self-picture, it's just reality because I'm a black man that's been through what these black kids and young men are going through and I know they're not going to be

able to play games with me because I haven't seen it all. And so when they get on this campus, you know, they're going to be held accountable like anybody else, but we're going to win, we're going to get better, we're going to grow together and that's what it's going to be about. And we're not going to play games with get better, we're gonna grow together. And that's what it's gonna be about. And we're not gonna play games with them because a lot of these other coaches are playing games with our kids, because this a business.

I'm gonna let them know. And guess what? If you get yourself to a position to where you need to go to the league, I'm not making kids say they need to stay here. Because I know I can get other kids if I need to. And, but if you come here and this is where you wanna be and you wanna be in college

for right now, until you get an opportunity to go to the NBA, this is the spot for you, because we're going to take care of our kids. And that's what I've been doing all my life. And you can check my record on that. So DeMarja Rosen, I had him since seventh grade. Lance Stevens, I had him since seventh grade. Brandon Jennings, I had him since seventh grade. I had all these kids all the way to college. So go check my resume. Yeah that's live. I have my college coach Bill

Davis rest his soul. You know what he told me? He said son it's after four years you're not in a better position than you are right now. You don't need to come here. Yeah. Because if what we have to offer you here is not better than what you have where you are right now, this ain't the place for you. Yeah. I'm coming. Think about this.

Why go play for them when you can play for us, somebody that really cares about you? Because once you came to this system, you were part of my family. Think about it. All these other kids you know, if you go ask them about me, they still know me today. Think about, look at my track record. My track record right now, right? I didn't stop Snoop's career. I let him blossom and grow.

Go look at everybody that I didn't create it. I didn't create it guys that they don't, because I tell people all the time, it's like finding a used car. And so that's why I say I want't create it. I didn't create it guys that they don't because I tell people all the time it's like finding a used car and so that's why I say I want to find dogs because most of the dogs nobody really want them because they probably think they attitude too bad or maybe they've been through something. No, I know one thing that we're gonna help you get through this if you're serious about being successful and those are type of people I want around me. I don't care about what you've been through in life, right?

Now, if you come in here to put that behind you and you're gonna do the schoolwork and you're gonna put the work in on the court to get better, you're gonna put the work in in the summer to get stronger. We're gonna make sure you got the right nutrition. We're gonna make sure you got the right trainers around you. Then it's gonna be on you. You got to have some accountability when you come in here.

And if you really don't want it, this ain't the place for you, cause we's gonna be on you. You got to have some accountability when you come in here. And if you really don't want it, this ain't the place for you, cause we're gonna push you. I got a good question. I got a good question, especially when it comes to the young kids, especially today's era, the NIA era, where everything is really a business style.

The kids are focused on the money. They focus on, I wanna build my brand. I wanna look a certain way. I want a certain amount of money. But how do you keep the kids focused, P? Especially them dogs, you know? That influence by hip hop, by some of the things that they see. How do you keep them focused on strictly basketball

and trying to get to that next level? If your dreams are to be an NBA, how do you keep them locked in when they're getting the money early? Well, guess what? If you get the money early, then you need to invest that money into something, because that money won't come and go. So if you take that money invested in something, then guess what? You need more money.

So you're going to come here and work. You're going to have a solid focus. You're going to keep your mind right, because we're going to show you that. So think about it. Right now, a lot of kids go in college. They don't even have the NIL money in a business name. And in my place, I'm going to show them that. I don't want to control them. So if you got your money in a business name, then you can hold on to it. Create your LLC, create your

incorporation, right? And so now you have a business. So you could go to the bank and invest that money and put it away. Because my whole thing is, put this money into escrow, put this money into something where you don't have to touch it right now Unless you need it to help your family or whatever, right? My thing is once we show them that so by the time next year they go double they money And we're gonna show them how to do that And I think nobody else cares as much as me and doing that for my players because I do it anyway Look at my master P master classes. I do that anyway And so for me to be able to do that for my players

is only gonna be 12 or 15 players on my team. And to be able to be that close, to have a family bond with the people on my team that I wanna see successful. Like I said, everybody is not gonna make it to the NBA. But if somebody come up with something, create a business or something, why are we in college?

If you look at it, the guy that created Tesla, Elon Musk, he created PayPal while he was in college. I wanna be able to show the athletes on my team. We could do this while we're in college, if we stay focused. But you gotta come here, it's not about the money. You know, everybody wanna make some money, but this little money right now, I'm gonna show my players, this the little money.

The end game is where the real money come in at once you get to the league. This money is nothing but to keep yourself going, keep your family going, because we know most of these players are gonna come from hard times. I got players from New York hit me up, from Chicago, from Philly, from Maryland.

I got players hit me up because guess what? They want their spotlight. They want their spotlight knowing that this year, if you play for Master P, if you play for Percy Miller, Coach P, that spotlight is gonna be on you. You're a real dog and you can play. I wouldn't even care about getting our money right now.

If I'm a real NBA player and you come here with me, you're gonna make it because all eyes are gonna be on us Right. You mentioned something like the people that reached out for you. They come from hard times You know what create tough men hard times. Yes hard times create tough men. Yes tough men create easy times Yes, easy me create easy men. Yeah easy men create hard times Yeah, you see that psycho high gold thing? You see what you did is that P came from an impoverished situation, a very hard time.

It created a very tough-minded and sound, hard individual. Then P created easy times. Now, in that easy time in which you created, what are those under you in that time, what are they gonna do? You said something very interesting that, set up an LLC, set up a court, set up a trust, because what you can do when you have money,

you can borrow money against what you have in that account. You don't have to spend money. That's where they get ahead, F.E. They don't spend their money. They spend other people's money while their money grows. And we're building credit. I ain't telling you what somebody told me. I'm building credit at the same time. Yeah, grow. And we building credit. I ain't telling you what somebody told me. We building credit at the same time.

Yeah, China, we building credit. We also understanding that, okay, if you got somebody look like us that care about you and wanna see you win, why not go play for us? Because guess what the main thing is, if you really can play the NBA, we'll find you. No matter where you're at. Think about it. No matter where you at.

So look at Scottie Pippen right back in Scottie Pippen was on a team that nobody knew what way was that but guess what he made it to the league Steph Curry was in in Davidson. Dennis Rodman. Yep Dennis Rodman look at right now Damon Little like all those people that you see right now, even John Monrent. Like, you just need to be on a Division I basketball team and they're gonna find you. If you're good, Pete, they went way to Serbia and got Luca. I mean, they got Luca from Slovenia. They got Yannis from Greece. They got Guimbe from France. They got Jokic from Serbia.

If you're good at anything and they think you can make money off it, they can find you. Every time. I'm going to tell y'all, we got a great arena, we got a great atmosphere, and we're going to put the best product on the floor. And we're going to put the best characters. We want to build character at the same time. We want people to come here to, you know, we want to have those testimonies. Where now a kid could say, man, I went out there with Coach P and my whole life changed because

he stayed on me. He held me accountable. And now, you know, I'm one of the top players in the NBA right now. Like I want to create those testimonies. And so I want any kid out there that's watching this right now, if you, if you're a real basketball player and you're a real dog and you want an opportunity to get to the NBA, you also want an opportunity to graduate from a great university and also have a great staff of people around you because you know, that's what it takes to, you want to have a good team, a good team around you, people that really care about you. And that's what it takes too. You wanna have a good team, a good team around you, people that really care about you. And that's what this is about. Once you're a part of this family,

you're a part of our family for life. So everybody that been around me, we still family forever. It's not like, oh, you coming. Cause think about it, y'all know, y'all have played professional sports. A lot of these people forget about us. But now you have some people, you know, that you really know that this is your family.

You could call them anytime, cause you know, man, look, I've been around that person. This is bigger than basketball. It's bigger than football. Like, and that's what this is for me. This is bigger than that. Like, we're going to make history together. And that's what this is going to be about. And we're going to show the world that we could do something positive. We could grow because you think they want us to be successful in this? Yeah, they don't want us to be successful in this because think about it now They don't realize that Wow, not only they come from entertainment because even sports now entertainment is for together

Think about it. It goes in here And we business people and we know how to create something from from nothing I got told y'all I always find me a used car put some wheels and some paint on and then fix it up and that's what I'm doing right now I'm fixing up and taking it to the next level you talk about entertainment What are they doing the biggest the biggest event in North America is what the Super Bowl? What do they have to have time Pete you go to the RB all-star game? What do they have Pete? They have entertainment so it goes hand in hand. Let me ask you this, Pete. I'm gonna get you out of here on this one.

When it's all said and done, what do you want people to say about Pete? Well, you know what? My whole thing is, I don't want us to wait till it's too late, till it's done. And like, I'm not looking at Junior Bridgman life, right? Me and him was gonna do a lot of things together. And I did a lot of work in Louisville, so.

But we gotta stop saying, I'm gonna get together tomorrow. I'm gonna do it later You know, we got to do it now and so I procrastinate Yeah, so so my thing is the most talent and the most wealth is in the graveyard Think about it. And once we go somebody else else gonna do what they gotta do with our wealth. I want people to know that Pete did what he need to do for his people now. Like, we're not waiting. And that's why this is so important, what I'm doing now. This is bigger than student athletes in a basketball game, y'all.

This is about changing lives and saving lives at the same time. Because a lot of these kids that come from here, they never would get these type of chances or some of these kids getting second chances. You know, like basketball, college basketball is getting older now. When you go in that transport portal, a lot of these kids been in college a long time. So now for some of these players, if they're really good, this is going to be the last step of feeding their families, getting on a winning organization to be able to get the real NIL money that they can get. My thing is, I want people to remember me for creating future leaders,

putting our people in a position to win. And that's what this is about with me. Well, yeah. Big congratulations on the opportunity, man. I know you're going to do great things because everything you seemingly have touched, it's turned to gold. You pull your heart, you pull your heart and you pull your soul into it But I understand this is what I know about you

You love what you do and it resonates in the kids because once somebody find that that you care about them There isn't much they won't do for you for you. Yeah, once a kid know is anything once a person know that you care Once I knew that teacher cared about me, my coach cared about me, I would move heaven and earth. Because I never wanted to let that person down. Congratulations on this opportunity. I know you will make the best of this opportunity. Go ahead, Arthur.

Before you leave, you in New Orleans right now? Yes. Man, I'm gonna be there for Super Sunday, man. I'm gonna be second line and all. Meet me at the park, man. Come on, man. I'm gonna be at Super, I'm gonna be there. I ain, man. I'm gonna be second line and all. Meet me at the park, man. Come on, man. I'm gonna be at Super Sunday. I'm gonna be there.

I ain't playing. I'm going from New York. I'm going to New York to New Orleans. I'm for the march all the way. I'm a second. You're gonna see me. All right. I'm gonna have him on the in line now.

Let's go, man. I gotta get you some of this power to give, man. You know what I'm saying? Talk to me now. I'll be there. All right. All right, P. I'm gonna hit you up. I need to run something by you anyway, but I'll hit you up. I'm gonna get you some of this power. We give man. You know what I'm saying? Talk to me now. I'll be there. All right. All right. I'll hit you up.

I need to run some by you anyway, but I'll hit you up tomorrow. Okay. All right. I'll bet. All right. Master P. It's Julie Stewart Banks.

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That's dope. Man, he a great dude. One of the first guys that I had on club shake shit, Ocho, I didn't really know who I was gonna get. And CJ said, hey, you got anybody, hey, whoever you got on your phone that's famous, call him. Oh, I got a flyer man over here. Oh, damn, Rick Ross, Master P.

Oh, I asked you. Hey, bro, I need a solid, man. I just started a podcast. Hey, bro, we got you. Just let me know when. Boom, boom, boom, boom. That's how it started. And I appreciate it.

Haven't met P only a handful of times. I had never met Rick Ross. Hey, I did mess. Hey, Pee only a handful of times. I had never met Rick Ross. Hey, I did mess. Hey man, let me get your number. Hey, I have my phone in my hand. Just hope he see this. Oh, he came and he tried to jump it. Hey bro, man, check this out, man.

I just started a podcast, man. I was wondering if I could get you on. I mean, hey, cause he had gone to an HBCU for a minute too. I think he went to Albany State for a minute. Albany State's in the SIAC just like we were. Boom, it worked. So it's great to when he said to hear him say how, OK, do things and how we support one another and be there for one another.

Hey, they know. So that's why, hey, when he reaches out, him, Snoop, Cube, I'm there, I'm there. I'm there, because they were there for me when I didn't have, hey, just starting this thing up, it gave us credibility because we had not a whole lot of podcasts when they start out was able to trot out the lineup that I trotted out.

I knew the first guest was gonna be my brother, but after that, I was like, man, who the hell am I gonna get? And hey, from Master P to Floyd Mayweather, like I said, to Ross. Wait, you been on fire, boy. You been on fire. Hey, that Andrew Schultz is real good.

Hey, man, dude. Just sit down and talk, because there are some questions I want to ask where I say, bro, you know, people in our communities are like, bro, you trying to make fun of somebody? And I go, what's really going on? I understand you're a comedian, but sometimes comedians can go too far. And you know, I don't want to censor anybody,

but I'm just trying to get a thought process of where you trying to go with this, what you really trying to say. But he's right, it used to be a time where comedians, there was nothing off limits. If you have a disability, they talked about that. Whatever the case was, you talked about it. And over time, you know, like, well, you know,

and people, but I think now, Ocho, we're kind of starting to go, because I think the pendulum, people thought the pendulum had swung too far to the left and people have become overly sensitive. Can we get it somewhere back to the middle? This is the thing, the funny thing, when you talk about comedians, right,

and understanding the era that we're in, we're in an era where everybody, like you just said, everybody's oversensitive, but there are a few comedians who give no you know what. No. Andrew Schoen is one of them. Yep, Shane, get jealous. Listen, they gonna let it fly like we in the goddamn 80s.

Dave Chappelle is another one. Oh yeah. He gonna talk about any and everybody. He don't care. You ever heard, you ever listen to Bill Burr? I love Bill Burr. Man, listen. Don't, don't care. There's a few of them, despite the time that we're in now, they're going to talk about their material Regards to who would have fans burning back and get oh Funny that's about funny And listen this comedy is comedy some people have to learn to Take a joke at times and it just listen. Oh, it's very difficult to be a comic I'm glad I'm not a comic because there's only so much you can say and any time you say anything you make a joke You're gonna offend somebody. Yeah every single time

But the thing was comedy is that they took real events and made them funny Yeah, now some people take their own real events make those stories. Yes. But other times they take about what they see and they make it funny. Yeah. But you know, sometimes people, you know, we, I remember, oh, chill, I grew up in the 80s, or late 70s, I mean the 70s and 60s and early 80s. Those roasts, those roasts.

Man, listen. The Tom Brady roast was the closest thing that I had seen to those Dean Martin original roasts. Boy, you saw the Dean Martin roast too? Yes. With Don Rickles and all them boys? Don Rickles and all, they were cutting people up. I have a question. Can you imagine Don Rickles doing the presidential, what do you call it? Correspondence dinner.

Correspondence dinner. Do you remember the stuff he was saying? Mm-hmm. Hey, the watermelon jokes with Sammy David Jr. and there's no way anything from the Dean Martin Rose will last a day. They'd be outside picketing. They'd be shutting down the hotel,

but it's so funny. They were cut, they, It was so funny. Yes, but if you go back and look, Ocho, you look at the sitcoms, they said the N word. Oh yeah. With the E R. With the E R.

It wasn't no A. Go back and look at All in the Family. Go back and look at George Jefferson. Go back and look at the Jefferson's. Go back and watch. Hey, did you see the All in the Family. Go back and look at George Jefferson. Go back and look at the Jefferson's. Go back and look. Hey, did you see the All in the Family with, not Richie, what was the pop name? What was the dad name?

Archie, Archie Bunker. Archie. When they had Sammy David Jr. on there? Yes, absolutely. Oh, yes. That episode was so funny, but cringe at the same time. I'm like, wait, they actually hearing this? Oh Joe, but see that was back, that was now.

Back then I ain't even think nothing about it. Because that's how people talk. Right, right, right, right, right. It didn't even dawn on me. But I'm like, dang, that white dude, that white man just said N word with the R on it. Like, oh, okay, yeah, you kept it moving. Now we go in like, oh Joe, I go back and I listen,

and sometimes I see these clips on social media, and I'm like, ooh, damn, they said, they said. I'll send my sister. I have Jordan to clip it and put it in a text form, and I send it to my sister. My sister send me a emoji back like this, because you can't believe some of the things they were saying

Yeah on television. Thank you. If you go to a comedy show you pay for that. Oh, I cut my TV Oh damn this what I gotta listen to. Oh, yeah, it's funny. Hey chat chat Hey chat If y'all I don't know what type of cable provider or service you have if you can just it you might laugh You might not the show is called all in the family You have to find the episode with Sammy David, Jr. Mm-hmm. I laughed it was funny I'm not sure what you'll do But if you get a chance just just watch it tonight they have to have to after we get off man

I mean and let me know if in it let me know tweet me tomorrow Let me know what you think about it. It's just Never been hey, they was well, they were It's just, Richard Pryor could have never been. Hey, they was wild. The jokes that Richard Pryor told. Oh. Please. When Dean Martin, when Dean Martin did the Sammy Davis roast

and when they got, they got Will Chamberlain together too. Yeah. They were cutting, man, they were, oh man, they were cutting people up back then. But you know what, I think the thing is not like, we're more exposed people. And people, like if I feel, look, if I feel a certain type of way about something,

I'm not gonna try to solicit you to feel some type of way about the same thing. Because what you notice, Ocho, like this, I did the Amber Rose interview. Everybody, I gotta unfollow Unc. Okay, just unfollow. See, when you say I've got to unfollow Unc. Okay, just unfollow. See, when you say I've got to unfollow Unc and put it in the comments, you're hoping somebody would join

along with you. All the hate. If I'm going to do something, I ain't telling nobody I'm doing it. I just did it. I ain't going to tell you I'm logging out social media for a while. I ain't telling you I'm doing this for a while. I just do it. And by the way, all y'all talking about, ain't nobody watched Amber Rose Venadu, five million views on YouTube. So somebody watched it. You know what's funny? And listen, you got a huge, you don't want to fire back no more. I'm done with it. You say you're not, when people talk to me, when people say they gonna unfollow me on Twitter, I'm talking about Twitter, on X, I be like, listen, this is not the airport. There's no need to announce your departure.

Just go on here. This ain't the airport. If you unfollow, unfollow. I'm gonna be fine with you or without you. This ain't the airport. Oh, I'm finna unfollow you. Okay? Yes!

I promise you. Bye! Your life, no my life will change. I'm gonna be all right, either way. Who, let me ask you a question, Ocho. If you unfollow me, who life changes? I don't know. It definitely ain't mine. For me, there's just, I just come to the realization and you know, it's just too, I got too much involved. I got too much going on now. I've got too much at stake. I've got you to think about, because I can't just think about me now. Right. I gotta think about what you doing. Yeah. I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta think, I gotta I can't just think about me now Right. I gotta think about what you doing. Yeah I got Jordan. I got CJ. I got 17 employees. Yeah, I got a family everything I do now for me. Oh, she go kick his feet some shame because

Yeah, be damn good, but I got so many other people that's counting on me I said I'm done with it cuz know somebody, a lot of these people, they trying to trick me out of this position. They trying to trick you more, Ocho. They trying to trick you more out of this. Because they know, if you notice, Ocho, everybody that's come on my pod, say in the last two months, the first thing they say,

oh, you doing good. Oh, don't think we don't know, we pocket watching. Right, right, right, right, right. And they don't mean it in a disrespectful way. But they know we're doing good, Oh, don't think we don't know. We pocket watching. Right, right, right, right, right. They don't mean it in a disrespectful way. Right. But they know we're doing good, Ocho. Right. We built something special. It's clumpshade shit with the foundational piece, CJ and I, now with Nightcap with Ash doing what she does and her team, just you, me, what we've been able to do, Jordan capturing the content. Look, everybody, I can't mess this up for them.

My sister, go ahead. We not gonna mess it up now. Now listen, you don't have to say none, but I told you now, I still got to be in the force. Just a little bit. I ain't gonna go too far with it. I ain't gonna go too far with it. At some time, Jesus had 12 disciples.

Yes. You hear me? Right. And some time when the disciples got a line, Jesus had to disciples. You hear me? Sometimes when the disciples got in line, Jesus had to get them in line again. So just stay with me a little bit. You know, we ain't gonna probably have no problems for a while, but if anything happened to Papa, we can't just let him talk this any kind of way.

That's okay, Ocho. Okay, no, it ain't okay. It's okay. Ocho, we gonna be okay, Ocho. Cause guess what? I know we gonna be okay. I'm just I'm just saying we just came You know, I look everybody because everybody's trying to get a reaction on Joe Everybody want to say because guess what if I tweet if I somebody say something and I say man why you say this, bro You don't know me like that

I say I've never disrespected you and I put it in a DM or if some female say woman says something and I put it In the deal. What are they gonna do, Ocho? Look what auntie did me in the DM. So they won't, see, and that's the thing. That's what I learned. See, the problem that I have with people is that they say whatever they wanna say to me. But they look at me, and because of who I am,

when I fire back and light their ass up, now they the victim. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They, they, they. They, everybody quick to me. So you mean to tell me, so show me where I responded to something you said. Now pull up the times you responded to something that I said, this was the first time that I lit your ass up.

Right. So that's what they do. So I learned that. So I say, I'm done with it. Y'all can say whatever y'all want to say. I'm going to get, do what I need to do. Cause I got people that's counting on me. Maybe my family, I got a responsibility.

On my grandmother's death bed, I said, I got this. You go rest. You and Papa have done your job here now. Yeah. Everything that you guys instilled in me, I got it. Spanky, Libby, mama, the kids, I got this. Ocho, Ash, Jordan, CJ, the team, I got this. That is my responsibility now. I got you. I got you. I got you. But if you want to find somebody

up, go ahead. But I got you. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. No, no, not too much. Not too much. I love everybody. The Volume. Not too much. Not too much. I love everybody. The Volume What's up everyone? It's Greg Rosenthal and I'm teaming up with the King of Spring, Daniel Jeremiah. He requires me to say that.

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