DISGRACELAND - Bonus Episode: Compton, Conspiracies, and Mercy

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

This week in the After Party, Jake takes a look at the important musical history of Compton. Plus, your voicemails, DMs, and emails on subjects ranging from mercy to Lemmy to Frankie Goes to Hollywood(?). On Tuesday, we're bringing our episode on the late Brian Wilson, and Jake wants to know: Who is the best example from music history of a "tortured genius?" Share your thoughts at 617-906 6638, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or on socials @disgracelandpod. To listen to an extended version of the After Party and hear Jake and Zeth discuss a wild theory about the death of Eazy-E, become a Disgraceland All Access member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠disgracelandpod.com/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠ For more great Disgraceland episodes, dive into our extensive archive, including such episodes as: Episode ⁠37⁠ and ⁠38⁠ - NWA Episode ⁠57⁠ - Nipsey Hussle Episode ⁠27⁠ - Snoop Doggy Dogg To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Just a touch to get you through? Yeah, me too. This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to Disgraceland, the after party. Welcome to the disgrace land bonus episode. A little thing we like to call the after party. This is the show, after the show, the party after the party. The bridge to get you from one full episode of disgrace land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt.

Our mission to uncover the truth, to confront the myth, to reclaim the story. On this bonus episode, we're talking about this week's full episode subject, Kendrick Lom. Marr. And we're rewinding back to our Graham Parsons episode, previewing our upcoming story on Brian Wilson, and we get into your voicemails, text, DMs, and as always, a whole lot of rosy. This is the podcast for the musically obsessed, the outsiders, the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried. Disgraceland is where I tell the stories they didn't want told, the kind you'll end up telling someone else. All right, discos, let's get into it. Compton, the set of

for this week's full episode of disgrace land on Kendrick Lamar, located south of downtown L.A., is regarded by its residents as a tight-knit community, but for music fans, Compton, Compton gives an outsized impression, one that I would say is actually mythic. And that's because Compton, from the 1980s on, has given us some of the most exciting music and culture. Growing up, NWA's straight out of Compton was a view into a world that captivated those of us who were out in the middle of nowhere America. Drugs, beat downs, crooked cops, drive-by shootings. What the hell was this place? Now, I'm certain that as a kid, the first time I even heard the name Compton, it was on that record. And I'm pretty sure it was like that for a lot of people my age who weren't from Los Angeles.

Now imagine being born into that world as Kendrick Lamar was and taking all of that influence as your birthright and using it to turn yourself into one of the biggest and most influential modern musical artists on the planet. It's pretty impressive. And no other modern musician has taken Compton as far as Kendrick Lamar has. I said modern musicians. So slow your role.

I know you're going to come at me with your NWA, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube takes. But again, I said modern, modern musician. What Dr. Dre did in the 90s was incredible, super impressive. Yes, groundbreaking, sure, but that was then, and this is now. But, you know, for people like me, and I suspect people like you, that history is more interesting. So let's look at what Compton and the greater South Central region of Los Angeles has given us for great music, shall we? I already mentioned the shot heard around the world, NWA's straight out of Compton from 1988. It's indisputably one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever, certainly one of the most consequential. And it's bookended on the front side by EasyEase, 1987 single Easy Does It,

and on the backside by Dr. Dre's solo debut The Chronic, which comes a little bit later in 1992. A great record that is also born of this world that doesn't get enough mention in my view is Easy Andreas Bandmate Ice Cube in his sophomore effort, The Predator, Also from 1992. Now rewind back before EasyE and to South Central Los Angeles. Not Compton exactly, but pretty much the same neighborhood, same area of L.A. And we get Ice T's 1987 debut Rhyme Pays with, it's gangster rap, genre-defining track six in the morning. All four of these records, Rhyme Pays by Ice T, EasyE's first solo album,

straight out of Compton, Dr. Drey's Chronic, The Predator by Ice Cube, that's five records actually, all five of these records. They stand up to the scrutiny of time nearly 40 years later. Kendrick Lamar was in diapers when this music was released. and his second album, 2015's to Pimp a Butterfly, it deserves to be on this list, as does Kendrick's fallen contemporary Nipsey Hustles, mailbox money.

These albums, more than their great music and influence on culture, to me anyway, they're mile markers that point us toward just some of the wildest true crime stories from music history. It's crazy. The murder of Nipsey Hustle,

the survival of Kenner. Hendrik Lamar. The true story behind I.T.'s' actual life of crime that no one seems to really talk about, except me, I don't know why. And then, of course, the strange death of EZE. EZE's official cause of death was from HIV-AIDS. However, in 2015, his son, young Easey, claimed that his father, Eric Wright, aka E. E.C. got sick after an incident with Shug Knight in the recording studio, which, okay. And then there are these comments from Shugnoyt on Jimmy Kimmel live from 2003. Fresh out of jail, I come to check you out, right? Why does it believe to prove this? Oh, well, it's not, oh no, that's just, it's in a style. You've been in the can for a while.

Should all the talk to your host are wearing. This is a new thing, right? Yeah. See, if somebody going to do somebody, see, technology is so high, right? Right. So if you shoot somebody, you go to jail forever. So the kids, you don't want to go to jail forever, right? So they got this new thing out that people sell them all the time. They got the stuff to call, they get blood from somebody with AIDS, and then they shoot you with it. Oh, that seems bad. That's a slow death. Yeah. That easy-e thing, you know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, no. Okay. Way of light and the move. Wow.

In the exclusive section of this episode that's coming up, Zeth and I are going to dive into the merits behind whatever the fuck it is, that Shug Night is talking about here. And Young Easy's claim that Shug Knight had his father killed via this horrific method that Shug himself is describing on national television. Now, I've heard these rumors before. They came up briefly in the EZE episode that we did. It's something that I've never fully wanted to dive into until now because I just, I got

Compton on my brain. So we're going to dig into this, like I said, in the exclusive section of this afterparty, me and Zeth. We're going to bring it to you. We're going to talk about whether or not we think there's enough here to warrant its own episode of disgrace land. But, you know, if it is or if it isn't, you're going to get more information. To hear it, though, you've got to become a disgrace and all access member on Patreon or Apple subscriptions. Go to disgraceandpod.com to sign up. It's only five bucks a month. You're not only going to get these deeper dives into music history and mythology here in the form of exclusive content every month. You're also going to get ad-free listening on all episodes of Disgraceland and Hollywoodland. That's disgracelandpod.com

slash membership. Just five bucks to become an all-access member to help support the show and our mission of digging out and discussing the wildest stories for music history. I'll be back in just a minute with your voicemails, texts, DMs, and more. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Number one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that, trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends,

Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed I will be his last target.

He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your husband is not who you think he is. Your body is not what you thought it was. Your identity is formed by a secret history.

I'm Danny Shapiro. And these are just a few of the stunning story I'll be exploring the 14th season of family secrets. And just then, we felt the plain turn in the air, so much so that the bags that were under people's seats just kind of flew into the aisle. Each week, we dive head first into the complex power of secrecy, how it shapes our identities and relationships,

and how it ultimately can reveal to us our truest selves. My daughter, she's pretending she doesn't know, but is trying to cook and feed me and keep me alive because I wasn't eating anything and me pretending like everything was fine. He kind of showed me out of the way and said, move. And he went out of the front door and he jumped in a car and drove off. And that was the last time I saw him. Listen to season 14 of Family Secrets, starting May 7th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. This season on Dear Chelsea, with me, Chelsea Handler, we have some fantastic guests like Amelia Clark. When, like, young people come up to me, want to be an actor or whatever. And my first thing is always, can you think of anything else that you can do. Rather be disappointed in. Do that. Dennis Leary.

I wake up and I'm hitting him in the head with a water bomb. And Bruce Jenner is on the aisle in a karate stance like he's about to attack me. Like making karate noises. And his entire the Kardashian family over there, everybody's going. And the air marshal is trying to grab my arms and screaming. And I immediately know that I've been at sleepwalk. David O'Yellowo. I love this podcast, whether it's therapy or relationships or religion or sex or addiction or you just go straight for the guts.

Guy Branham. So anyway, Nicole Kidman broke up with Keith Thurban. Being half of a country couple was always a hat she was going to wear, not like a life she was going to lead. Oh, interesting. I like that. Did you practice that on your way over? Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things. Tena Monsu.

Camilla Marone, Carrie Kenny Silver, and more. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, all right, all right. We are back. Speaking of All right, all right, all right. Has anybody read Matthew McConaughey's book?

I have not. I heard it's great. I heard it's really inspiring. And I want to read it. New True Detective News as well. Nick Cage supposedly involved. All right, getting way off track. Listen, this week, true detective aside, Matthew McConaughey, aside.

All right, all right, all right, all right. Kendrick Lamar in your feed right now. Check that story out if you have not heard it. Coming up next in the feed, we are rewinding to Graham Parsons, our Graham Parsons story. I put my heart and my soul into everything I write for you guys, but it's hard for me to think of another episode. where I lay bare my own emotions as heavily as I did in this grand parsons episode.

And Graham's, I sort of used Graham's dealings with grief as a proxy for my own at the time and what I was going through. I remember distinctly writing that episode and just how helpful it was to have Grand Parsons, the spirit of Grand Parsons and his music with me. during that really, really rough summer. So that is coming out next in our feed. That'll be hitting up next after this episode. And then we're doing something a little bit different. We're going to sneak in Beach Boys Part 1, Beach Boys Part 2 in the coming days after Grand Parsons, because we have a new episode on Brian Wilson, who passed away a couple months ago. And I decided, hey, I want to do a Brian Wilson episode. So I got in there, I wrote this Brian Wilson episode. It's essentially part three of our Beach Boys story. it's uh man brian wilson this was this was tough this was a tough one to write because so much has been said written uh put on film about brian wilson and brian wilson one of the rare artists who he there's a couple things his autobiography is incredible it's really really great he's totally

hard on the sleeve he tells his story in a way than only he can so that makes it hard for somebody like me to come in and write the story or tell a unique story or come in with a unique point of view. But then also the rare thing is, Brian Wilson, unlike most musicians who have biopics, the biopic on Brian Wilson is actually really good, I think anyways, love and mercy. And that just makes it, again, it makes it difficult when the stories that are out there are really good and they cover a lot of the most interesting stuff. And there's not a lot left in the cracks for us to mind out makes it really difficult to tell these stories in a unique way. But I think, you know, I think, I hope we did a good job. I really kind of leaned into the spirit of Brian Wilson here.

And I did not, we, Zeth and I and the rest of us had double all this, we didn't intend to have the Kendrick episode and the Brian Wilson episode hanging on the same theme. Zeth wrote the Kendrick episode. I wrote the Brian Wilson one. But Mercy is part of the, thematically, is part of the thing here with both episodes. So I just worked out that way. But whatever, doesn't really matter. I like when we're hanging on a theme. And I hope you dig this episode that's coming up next Tuesday. It's our next new episode, Disgracing, on Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Question of the week for next week when you're listening to that Brian Wilson episode is going to be, which figure from music history is the best example of a tortured genius? Is it Brian Wilson? Is it someone like

Kirk Cobain or Slice? Stone, who also recently departed. Marvin Gay, or maybe it's someone new, like Youngblood. I don't know, there's a lot of examples to pull from here. And perhaps to help organize your thinking, give me recommendations maybe on subjects that I haven't covered yet. We haven't covered yet in disgrace and that you might want to hear us cover. Okay.

So when you're listening to Brian Wilson for obvious reasons, the question is going to be, what is the best example for music history of a tortured genius? 617-906-66-36-36-3-8 voicemail and text to let me know. Right now, though, you know where I am at. I am in the phone booth, the one across the hall. I am hanging on the telephone. We're answering last week's question of the week spawned from our Kendrick episode, which artists demonstrated the greatest act of mercy?

Kind of an esoteric question for us to ask, but I don't know, we went there. And let's check in with Cynthia in the 510. Hey, Jake. It's Cynthia, Colin from California. And a musician with mercy was Joan Jett. I went to go see her in the late 90s. First time I ever got to see her, I've been a fan since I was seven years old. And I had a full-blown panic attack, like third song in.

I didn't know what was happening. My head was totally spinning out. and as they were making me out, because I was in the very front, I was complaining that I've been wanting to see her since I was seven. So I had to spend the rest of the time in the medic tent, probably about, I don't know, 30 minutes. It was a short set. Afterwards, a friend of mine had gotten to some people backstage, and when she was doing autograph signing at the end,

she had me go behind the desk where she was and asked if I wanted to take a picture, and I said, yes, I was still kind of groggy and she put her arm around my shoulder and she would just look at me and she's like, are you okay? And I said, yeah, and she gave me a little squeeze on the arm and then we took the picture. And it was so awesome. She was so cool, just a really cool, genuine person. So that was my story. I hope you guys will. Take care.

Cynthia, this is an incredible story and I thank you for sharing it with us. I love the personal stories. And I always liked Joan Jett. I've never met her. I don't know much about her history other than just the sort of top-level Wikipedia stuff, what everybody knows. And it's just it warmed my heart to hear you tell that story. And for me to learn that Joan Jett is just a great person, it sounds like. Super cool.

Love it. And by the way, you got a great friend there who went and hooked that all off where you went backstage, sought out Joan Jett, got you to connect with her. That's no easy thing to do. All right, let's check in with the 724. Same question here. 724 writes in, hey, as for the topic of next week, it's hard not to think of the most merciful artist

and not think of the Appalachian Queen herself, Dolly Parton, that woman through her park, her reading program, helping wildlife, LBGTQ plus support, and more. Make whatever jokes you want about the woman's chest, but behind is an absolute heart of gold. I wasn't going to say anything about Dolly Parton's chest. I've never said anything about Dolly Parton's chest to you guys or anyone else that I know of. I hear you.

Dolly Parton is the shit. She's amazing. And we should all celebrate Dolly Parton. And she's a great candidate for incredible acts of mercy from music history. 816 writes in, hey, Jake, it's Shane from the 816. My text is in regards both to artists showing mercy and first concerts. My son's first concert at age three was cross-Canadian ragweed, and if you haven't heard of them, they're our music royalty in the red dirt scene, and not only was the show amazing,

when Cody walked out to start the show, he saw my wife standing there front row with a baby and a carrier on her chest, and made the security go get three more barricade fences and box us in on the remaining three sides, so we had our own little corral of front row space so nobody could bump or spilled beer on the baby. true class acts look into CCR and the red dirt scene guys who had the opportunity to blow up but chose not to sell out love that 816 i will certainly check that out and uh i must have made you guys feel pretty pretty badass pretty special let's hear from armin in calgary hey this is armin in the four a three five eight seven i just wanted to find out if you knew about lenny appearing on stage with frankie goes to hollywood on German TV. If you've not seen it, you need to watch it. Once again, Armin, in the 403-587, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Love the show. Listen every week faithfully. Armin from Calgary, this is exactly why I love this gig. I have never once in my life heard of Lemmy

performing with Frankie goes to Hollywood. And I'm so happy for it. I'm so excited. I'm going to watch. I hope everybody else watches, and I hope we come back next week and we talk about it. 617-906-66-6-6-3-8. I want everybody's take on Lemmy from Motorhead collaborating with Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Okay? And don't bring up Dolly Parton's chest when you give me your lemmy takes regarding Frankie goes to Hollywood. Okay. Now, let's do a couple of emails because I've been neglecting the emails lately.

Not on purpose. It just happens. Claire Bifford or Biford. I'm not sure how to pronounce her last name. I said, hey, greetings from beautiful Cornwall, England. I'm a longtime listener of disgrace land and Hollywoodland and love the interaction between Jake and Zeth and the new rap parties.

She goes on to say, can I recommend a Western read, The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt? I'm not especially a Western fan, but this book blew me away. It is set during the Gold Rush and has some of the true life grit that is often missing from stories and films of that period. Yes, Claire.

This is exactly what I'm looking for. Claire goes on to say, The book has been made into a film with some big names in it, but I haven't watched it as it won't match my imagination, which was set alive by the pros. I loved your episode about the cramps, which explained how the hell they were on the same bill as the police with my brother and I saw them at our school's leisure center back in the day.

It was around about the time the police released their first album, probably before you were born. My brother Simon followed the cramps around a few more of their gigs in the UK and bumped into Brian Gregory in the bar on one occasion, and he bumped a cigarette off, Brian. That's Brian Gregory from the cramps, hoping for an exotically flavored one, but it turned out to be a good old-fashioned

Lambert and Butler. Claire, email us every week. I love your writing. This is great. Claire goes on to say, favorite band, thin lizzie, favorite male artist, Bowie, favorite female artist, Gladys Knight,

top three albums, Diamond Dogs, Bowie, Chorus, Stone Temple Pilots, didn't see that coming, Claire. Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys, that makes sense. Really love your work, Rocka Rolla, Claire.

Claire, you even spelled out rockerola correct. write us back anytime. Damn, hanging out with the cramps, recommending great westerns. Claire, you're the best. I'm going to read the Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. I'm looking forward to it. I got one book coming. I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I hate this, this, this, this like, period where the book's not, I finished the last book. The new book's not here. Like, what am I going to do? I need to be reading something, always. Right now I'm going to read this email from John

McNeely, K.A. Johnny Vinyl, who writes saying, hey, Jake, your motorhead lemmy episode was awesome. You had so much detail in there. What a cool story about you meeting him back in the 90s. I can't say I met him, but when I lived in the early 2000s, I saw him a few times, playing the one-arm bandit. And one of those times I got a head nod. One of my favorite rock docs is aptly titled Lemmy that I own on DVD and I've watched a few times. And to think he lived in a small rent-controlled apartment is so rock and roll. Like Ozzy, they just don't make them like that anymore. And we were lucky to be alive at the same. time as those legends. John McNeely. John, you're absolutely right. Complete legend. And we are lucky to you have breathed the same air, the same time in place as these dudes. Pretty, pretty awesome. Disgrace-lam pod at gmail.com. You guys want to send me an email 617-90666-6-6-3-8. You want to hit me up on voicemail or leave me a text at Disgracelam pod on the socials. I'm going to take a quick break. I'll be back in a flash. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl.

You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends, Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me?

The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcast. Your husband is not who you think he is. Your body is not what you thought it was. Your identity is formed by a secret history. I'm Danny Shapiro. And these are just a few of the stunning stories I'll be exploring the 14th season of family secrets. And just then, we felt the plain turn in the air,

so much so that the bags that were under people's seats just kind of flew into the aisle. Each week, we dive head first into the complex power of secrecy, how it shapes our identities and relationships, and how it ultimately can reveal to us our truest selves. My daughter, she's pretending she doesn't know, but is trying to cook and feed me and keep me alive because I wasn't eating anything and me pretending like everything was fine.

He kind of shoved me out of the way and said, move. And he went out the front door and he jumped in a car and drove off. And that was the last time I saw him. Listen to season 14 of Family Secrets, starting May 7th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This season on Dear Chelsea, with me, Chelsea Handler, we have some fantastic guests like Amelia Clark. When like young people come up to me,

and they want to be an act or whatever. My first thing is always, can you think of anything else that you can do? Rather be disappointed in. Do that. Dennis Leary. I wake up and I'm hitting him in the head with a water bomb. And Bruce Jenner is on the aisle in a karate stance.

Like he's about to attack me. Like, making karate noises. And his entire, the Kardashians family over there, everybody's going, and the air marshal is trying to grab my arms and screaming. I immediately know that I've been at sleepwalk. David O'Yello. I love this podcast, whether it's therapy or relationships or religion or sex or addiction or you just go straight for the guts. Guy Branham.

So anyway, Nicole Kidman broke up with Keith Thurban. Being half of a country couple was always a hat she was going to wear, not like a life she was going to lead. Oh, interesting. I like that. Did you practice that on your way over? Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things. Tena, Mongeau, Camilla Morone, Carrie Kenny Silver, and more.

Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, welcome back to the disgrace land afterparty. Listen, you might be one of those people who's just sitting around. You're going through your business and you're like, look, I'm just so sick of these podcasts

that I'm listening to. I got like four or five podcasts that I'm subscribed to, that I'm following. I'm really in on like two of them. The others, they just kind of build up in my feed, and I don't really check in on them enough to really justify having them still be subscribed to. And, you know, I'm never going to listen to.

So, you know, I know, there's only so much time, but I just want to tell you something. If you need to swap one out and swap a new podcast in, I would highly recommend a podcast called Hollywood Land by yours truly. And here, me and the fine folks at Double Elvis, we put this together for you. We created this massive archive of Hollywood and True Crime Stories. And you can get an archive episode every week plus a new episode, helmed by none other than the great Zeth Lundy,

where Zeth will bring you through that week's subject in an engaging and compelling way. I'm in there as well, talking to Zeth, giving you our, recommendations talking about whatever that week's subject is this week's subject was lindsay lohan now we do this bit where i've got to do music recommendations based on the hollywood land subject and uh matt want you give give to find people a taste of hollywood land book jake what music wrecks inspired by lindsay lohan do you have for us today oh this was uh this was a weird way into music recommendations i'm not going to lie Lindsay Lohan to the canyons to the canyon soundtrack.

Not a lot of great stuff on there, but a great band, The Dumb Dumb Girls from the late Otts. Yep, you're nodding along. You remember the Dumb Dumb Girls. Dumb Girls, I could just recommend them, and that would be fine. However, I'm going to recommend an entryway song for you guys. Smith's cover,

the Dumb Dumb Girls cover of There's a Light that Never Goes Out by the Smith's. Incredible Smith song. And their version is amazing. And it's cool to hear this song. From a female perspective, it's from EP, they put out in 2011 called He Gets Me High. Dumb, Dumb Girls, there's a light that never goes out. Lindsay Lohan, I thought, Lindsay, I could go Lindsay, Buckingham. I could go Buckingham, Knicks, because they're all in the news lately.

But that, no, I'm not doing that. I thought, Lohan, Han, Han, Han, Han, Hancock, Herbie Hancock, okay? A lot of people, if they're going to, if they're going to recommend a Herbie Hancock, album, they're going to recommend headhunters, and they should because it's a fantastic album. It's amazing. However, I'm going to recommend the album that my father once pulled out of a stack of records in my living room about 15 years ago and gave me a look like, what the fuck is wrong with you? And that is the Herbie Hancock album, 1969 Fat Albert Rotunda.

Okay. I love that album. Yes, you do. And your dad hates it because I brought it up to your dad once because I, was it your dad? It's got to be. He has a special loathing for it. Yes, because I mentioned, I was thinking of doing the sound design for an episode along the lines of that. And I mentioned it to him.

And he was like, ugh. Guys, subscribe to Hollywoodland, wherever you get your podcasts, get more content from Double Elvis on the reg. And if you become an All Access member here in Discraceland, you're going to get those Hollywoodland episodes ad free as well. All right. So listen. you know what time it is it's that time it's time it's time for the 60 second sports rant in under 30 seconds once again sponsored by the fine folks at five hour energy in their new confetti craze flavor it tastes just like birthday cake with a vanilla and buttery flavor to let you be unapologetically

extra and unstoppably energized head to your local retailer wwww hour energy dot com or amazon to order yours today okay matt give me the buzzer beater there was a time when i was younger. And I would listen to sports talk radio in Boston. And I would hear these dudes speaking and I would listen to their ridiculous old guy takes and feel so self-satisfied with my youthful perspective, my whatever modern point of view on whatever the hell it was that they were talking about. Their disdain for baseball's saber metrics. And I was just like, whatever, man, whatever helps Red Sox win. I don't care. I don't care what you do to win, just win. Or how they couldn't deal with Randy Moss's diva attitude. And I'd just be like, who cares? Have you seen

what that dude is doing on the field with Tom Brady? Whatever gets us to another Super Bowl. Whatever the argument was, I found myself disagreeing with the old guy take. Fast forward to now, and I am filled with old guy takes. My son is playing flag football. He's on the Raiders. So I decided to go on YouTube and show him some clips from Raider football in the 70s and 80s. And my son is seven years old, by the way. As soon as the highlights start, defensive highlights, that's all I'm showing. As soon as they start, footage of Jack Tatum, Howie Long, Ted Hendrix, just wrecking people on the hard astro turf, pulling them down, horse collar and dudes, almost every single hit was head-to-head contact, just violent. And literally, from the jump, every single hit, every single highlight, my son starts going, that's illegal, that's illegal.

Dad, you can't do that. And I'm laughing because he's not wrong. Because now, yes, all those hits are illegal. But then they were all legal, every single one of them. And of course, sadly today, this type of physical play in the NFL, it won't just get the rest to pull their flags. It'll get the offending players thrown out of the game suspended in some cases. Now, of course, being a proud member of Generation X, I love this style of football.

and I miss this style of football. And this was going to be the topic of my rant today. But then I thought, damn, man, what an old guy take? I'm the old guy. So I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to complain about how things were better back in the day because, man, oh man, do I detest being that guy yet here I am, that guy. All right, Matt, how'd I do?

Two minutes and 18 seconds, Jake. Damn, man. I think I got to get Howie Long to put me into some training regimen here. to get up to snuff and get in under 30 seconds. All right, that was the sports fan sponsored by Five Hour Energy's new confetti craze flavor. Unleash your party vibes and as much caffeine as your favorite 12 ounce fancy coffee. But with zero sugar and zero crash available in stores on Amazon or at www.5hourenergy.com. All right.

Speaking of football, you know who once played football? Not for the Raiders, but for the Rams, Shug Night. And in the upcoming exclusive section of this here after party coming up in seconds, we will be looking into the insane story about Shug Knight allegedly injecting EZE with HIV AIDS. Once again, here's Shug giving his best OJ Simpson, if I did it, to Jimmy Kimmel. Technology is so high, right? So if you shoot somebody, you go to jail forever. So the kids, you don't want to go to jail forever, right?

So they got this new thing out there. People sell them all the time. They got the stuff to call they get blood from somebody with AIDS, and then they shoot you with it. Oh, that seems bad. That's a slow death. Yeah. Yeah. The Easy E thing, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Oh, no. Okay. Way to light in the mood. Wow. Wild. All right. We're going to get into this as well as comments from EZE's son on this subject as well, coming

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Then we get two Beach Boys episodes. We're rewinding as we get into our new Part 3 episode on Brian Wilson. Right now in the Hollywood land feed, this is number four. I think we have Lindsay Lohan. You can check that out. Number 5, 617-90666-6-6-3-8. Your voice keeps us digging into the dark corners of music history. So keep calling, keep texting with your answers

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All right. Kendrick Lamar. You've heard of him before. This week's full episode subject was born on June 17, 1987. And this is what America was listening to on that day, according to the Billboard charts. Number one, I want to dance with somebody, Whitney Houston. Last week, three. Peak position, one.

Weeks on chart, seven. Number two, head to toe. Lisa, Lisa and cult jam. Last week. One, peak position, one, weeks on churn, 12. Number three, into deep, Genesis. Last week, four, peak position, three, weeks on churn, 10. Number four, alone, heart.

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