Donnell - A Salt with a Deadly Weapon! With Special Guest:Talib Kweli

Episode Date: September 19, 2020

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And I am so... Fall back. Don't shoot me. All right. This is another episode of the Donnell Rawlings Show. The world's greatest place to spend a pandemic summer. Yellow Springs, Ohio. I know you're asking yourself, Donnell, what is all that shit you got on right now?

I'll explain it. I'm a motherfucking river ninja. Okay? What is all that shit you got on right now? I'll explain it. I'm a motherfucking river ninja. Okay? Why your nose so big on that? It's like so spread. So I can smell the bullshit that's coming out of your mouth. It says don't point at people. What the fuck is wrong with you?

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Thanks, MyBookie. If you don't read faster, you're in the fucking face. All right right stop fucking shooting me okay okay did you see this shit it says do not shoot in face or fucking eyes all right I actually have salt in my mouth I know that's not the same thing. Stop it. Okay. So. That was actually funny. All my shit is funny.

Don't do that. Everybody know this is the gear of a river ninja. And also, this is the gear of the person that's selling merchandise. If you look over to my left, that's the hot river ninja shirt. And over there, that's the hot hoodie. And right here, these are masks that we're going to sell. We got a lot of Jews in the house tonight. So, they're going to tell us what's going to be our best price point and how we can make more money don't forget the yellow springs candle the yellow spring candle okay all right you know what i'm giving up a lot of information right uh a lot of Come on. Hello?

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A lot of people. I don't want to give him, but hopefully maybe I can become an ambassador for this product. Cause I really believe in it. My friend Sam said he introduced this to me. It was a white dude. White dudes have guns. Oh yeah. All types guns ak's water guns it's just if it's gun and they can squint their eyes like this they're gonna have it if they can do like this

or anything they'll have it i thought this was the corniest shit ever right it's so addictive first time i got let me explain something this is designed to kill bugs we're in yellow springs they got big assass bugs here. Killer fucking hornets. You know how long the life expectancy of a killer hornet when I'm around? With this, I'm going to show you. That's a killer hornet. Hold on.

Hold on. Safety. Safety first. Fucking jam. Oh, shit. And we didn't mention. We have a special. We have a live audience. We do have a live audience. Fuck them. They're going to get Oh, shit. And we didn't mention, we have a special, we have a live audience. We do have a live audience.

Fuck them. They're going to get assaulted, too. Most of them are off camera. They should come over here. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and it's a lot of white people, and this is doing Black Lives Matter month, so we're not going to give you all the love you need. No, they can stay where they are.

We can pan around. So let me explain something. Killer Hornet comes up to you. Killer Hornet. Yeah. That fucking eats rats and shit we featured on our podcast before yeah they walk up on me they get this oh god you know what that you know what that is right there that's a dead fucking killer hornet all right but this is you're gonna take somebody's

eye out with that thing i'm not gonna take up here's the thing it's salt whoever came up with this idea it's so fucking brilliant it's so it's a fun way to destroy flies like I literally walk around like Frank Ram bro okay nigga version but here here this is the angle That's funny. Who started it? Why are you laughing at that racist ass joke for a fucking crackerhead? Can we shoot the audience? No, we can't shoot the audience. But here, this is an angle. This is an angle that nobody has taken

when it comes to the assault gun. They use it to kill insects and bugs, right? But you know, I like to cook, right? Sometimes, this is my idea of what I'm going to do

with this gun. It's salt in here. I'm going to go to white potlucks and I'm going to ask a simple question, and you got to whistle. I'm going to be like this. I'm like this. Who made the chicken? Karen, fuck your chicken, bitch.

Put some salt on that shit. Who made the devil eggs? Amber, take that fucking salt, bitch. Put some salt on that shit. Who made the devil eggs? Amber? Take that fucking salt, bitch. Who put cottage cheese to the black barbecue? Becky? Take that shit. I think we should get a check.

These people need to be our sponsors. For sure. Yeah. And how did you feel when you first got it you feel see that's the power of a fucking gun that's why I don't need a real gun yeah I felt powerful and in these bugs they have they have no mercy so like I feel like a fucking boss stop pointing at me what all right think about this and look at it it's cute too think about this how powerful you feel with bugs with that shit how powerful you feel how powerful you feel with a real gun with real motherfuckers?

Mm-hmm, you know, this is that this is the gun detector Oh He's in the gun bay oh my god Honestly, thank you Listen I think your voice Gunshot is way better than that. My boy you go fly on stage, but i can't hit you with rapid shit like i can't do that with my voice i can't with my voice it's all you get the other day when you was mad at me all i could think was this i want to say oh why are you mad at me you'd be like down there because that's it but that's the power of a gun and it's so weird i'm in ohio right this is i grew up

everywhere i grew i grew up i grew up where guns were illegal when you thought about a gun you thought about it to commit a crime you know i'm saying i remember the first time i came to ohio i went to a mall and on every store i went to they had a sign said they had like the no smoking sign. It was for guns. I'm like, where the fuck am I where you got to put a sign up to tell people don't bring a gun? Like, where am I with people like this? Fuck. Honey, I got to go back to the car to put my gun in that shit. Hey, were you ever propositioned though back where you're from?

I've been propositioned a lot. I'm giving it to a roller. Oh my God. I'm saying. They propositioned me for these guns all the time. They want to rifle. Okay. That's how my shit is.

I can hit it like this. I'm saying, as a young youth, as a black man, have you ever been propositioned to carry a gun or hold a gun for somebody? No. Back in the day? But I used to, like, I had relatives that used to cook crack in my apartment. They're not my favorite relatives. You know what I'm saying? It was like.

Wow. How stereotypical can you get? Oh my God. No, I'm just saying. People want to know what was my inspiration to move to New York, right? I came to my apartment one night, right? And my fucking, one of my relatives had my apartment a fucking trap house. Yo, it was baking soda.

It was shit boiling. I was like, niggas is cooking eggs or whatever. And I looked at all of this fucking cocaine around. And I saw these guns. I was like, guess who's moving to New York? I was like, I can't do that shit. But I've never been, like, I've been around guns. And I've only, like, I don't know something about like i've touched

in the military i legally handle guns but when i was in the military i've had a gun in my hand but i've never been like you know the nigga like go get the gun out the car that's a charge you go get that gun out the car i'm i'm up i'm all down with that's that bitch ass airplane that stopped my show at the cornfield yesterday. Somebody is fucking... That's like an Orville Wright fucking helicopter. That shit sound like a propeller. Like, you got to start it like...

Yeah. I've seen some that way. But I've never, like, committed a crime with a gun. Never walked around with a gun. But the time that I had a gun in my hand it just it just makes you want to say you do like this oh i wish the would and you just wait for that that would you know what i mean like that's why i can have a gun because if i saw a that would i'd be i would just be like this motherfucker just grazed me oh nigga that's what we doing that's why i don't i don't i don't i i could not especially in the city but being in a place like ohio you feel like you just got to have an arsenal just i don't even know what for

just to have i'm interested to hear your thoughts on the gun laws like in the united states um i don't give a fuck you don't the gun laws so yeah okay what are you you're cool with people carrying guns on the streets and stuff like that you're fine with that yeah no i'm cool with motherfuckers uh carrying guns on the street i'm not cool motherfuckers killing people with them okay you know i'm saying like yeah i don't know how to address the gun issue Because people make So many arguments For protection and everything But right now The world that we're in Right now

You know like Motherfucker carrying a gun Might not be a bad idea Yeah but it seems like Anybody that shoots Somebody with a gun Is instantly like I was just

Defending myself It's so easy to say You're defending yourself If you have a gun Because you're just like Oh he came at me You're talking about police No I'm talking about people.

People. Specifically the 17-year-old kid who just shot somebody. Right. For example. What about him? People are claiming he's going to get off because he's saying they ran up on him. The kid tried to hit him with a skateboard. They ran up on him.

He ended up shooting three people. He killed two people. And we don't know if the first one was self-defense. I don't know if any of them were self-defense. And everyone's defending him because he's a white boy he's a white dude oh yeah he needs to go to jail fuck that yeah people are dead he probably does need to go to jail people are dead what's that song i think that was it it's a reggae joint it starts off like that what is it people is that the unbounded killer look into my eye does he start like that

it doesn't matter but i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna tell you one thing that a gun makes you feel like it makes you feel like you could win yeah right yeah anything yeah stop a gun stop you listen you don't know i win. You just said I can win. You should not point a gun at someone. Why? That could really hurt. You just shot me a thousand times.

You can shoot him in the face. Are we pointing shit at people's faces to shoot? In his eyes? Imagine salt in your eyes. I know. I'm about to take this dude for me too, shit. How about I pull my raffle out and shoot you in the face? What I'm saying, with a gun, you feel like you can win.

Right. Some people are born with a winning spirit. Absolutely. I see where this is going. Some people aren'm saying with a gun you feel like you can win right some people are born with a winning spirit absolutely i see where this is going some people aren't born with a winning spirit all right usually the ones i see where this is going no i'm just saying some people and some people talk a lot of shit oh some people are super competitive uh-huh yeah some people challenge you to certain things right so you know we've been in yellow springs for the entire summer and i've been the person to coordinate different activities one activity being a river run we're going to river and we've done a lot of stuff the other day i introduced the idea of having no i didn't even introduce this idea whose idea was it i think it was 40s it wasn't 40s i did

there's a it's a well-known rapper um that just bullied me and his friend supported it okay the friends are always supporting the bully shit it was like this we was talking shit to each other right and then we said uh then somebody popped out of nowhere the devil they popped up and said yeah let's settle this on the kickball field. Oh, shit. Wasn't the most gays and shit I ever heard in my life. But the fucking, the passion that that person had about it, I was like, okay. That person that started it was Talib Kweli and his friend, Nico Hyde. Very popular rapper.

Travels with Talib. Listens to his bullshit. Very diva motherfucker. Very diva. And he's super talented. Heavy on the hair product. No, I wouldn't. Heavy on the hair product.

He's super talented. I play funny games and stuff like that. But when I say, like, super diva. Oh, yeah, he walked on the field asking for a hair tie. Let me get to it. Let me get to it. Yo, let me get to it before I get to that part. Let me get to the part.

So we all been in nature like feeling it we don't give a fuck about certain shit anybody giving a fuck about fashion if you catch a good shirt day you catch a good shirt day you know i'm saying but more importantly how you feel we're starting to get in touch with things that really mean the most no divas you know i'm saying pickup trucks ain't no lambos or nothing out here so nico so one day he was like this you my nigga yo you real nigga you a legend all this type shit i gave him the extra black pounds you know deal all that shit but then we left each other then came back and get black people that's one thing corona's gonna fuck them nightclubs up you know how many fucking daps you gotta do to

get into a black nightclub huh you know how you be dapping the fuck out your chest be already like you have fucking cpr like so we dapping like this i'm like man fuck with this nigga fuck the nigga got long luxurious hair all right you know but he got a dark skin nigga energy i don't know only the light skin oh i know i know he got you dated them all but listen whoa don't know really no I'm saying we want to talk about we want to talk about who he dated yeah no I'm saying I'm just saying what this just say we've experienced life okay yes is that fair he said he said we I'll accept it. I'll take it. So, you know, nobody cares about long, luxurious hair. Nobody cares that, like, when he goes shopping, he shoppers for hair products.

Not just a soap product. And he'll look at it, he's like, this is going to work well with the texture. He knows different products with textures. So, but at the same time, he has real dark-skinned energy, right? So, I was like, really shit. So, you know, we got a 15 a 15 passenger van for my river ninja tours right so i'm like yo let's go to the shack we're gonna be out he was like yo let's go he said how you running i was like i got a passenger van he was i don't give a fuck nigga keep it real right and you know that shit ain't

got no fly shit it ain't no fucking sprinter it's the dad bus you know it shit ain't got no fly shit. It ain't no fucking sprinter. It's the dad bus. It's the camp counselor bus. It come with slow kids in the back like this. I got them out of there when it come with that. So I'm like this. Oh, this is a real nigga right here. He don't even give a fuck. He ain't no nothing Hollywood shit.

So he get in the 15 passenger. He's sitting there like oh shit a suv a xl suv the long joint hold on ma ma yeah uh uh can i call you right back i'm disrespecting these two hip-hop artists right now oh go ahead disrespect them what would you say to a hip-hop artist okay here's the story so here's the story so he's in a 15 passenger van like i'm feeling like he's a regular motherfucker he don't give a how we travel meanwhile suv backs up right one of the xl joints you know the obama shits you know like

the celebrities come out of right this slid out of my car yo and he looked me in my like this part this part of Javanta, the funny thing about it, he knew it was fucking foul, right? He made eye contact with me. He was like this. He was like, yeah, I'm going to go over here. And not only that, you know how it feels for a motherfucker to get in an SUV and slide the tinted window up on you? Like, I just saw his face start to disappear, right? It was like this.

Yeah, change your heart. Damn, that's changing. That's where our relationship started. And then the night we were hanging out at the shack, Mr. Talib right here. How are you doing? Thank you for coming in. All right. So disrespectful.

You know, and we're not even going to do this podcast. We ain't got to talk. Podcast? What you trying to say? This not a podcast? We outside. Nigga. this podcast we ain't got to talk we know what you're trying to say this is not a podcast nigga already off the rip coming out here off the rip fall back son just chill son i did your podcast nigga in the bed and breakfast nigga what the fuck you talking about what are you talking about son you you disrespect this and you tried to make your shit really look like hollywood and shit nigga and not only that nigga i was in the next

room you could have sat there with me yeah you are in the podcast but we want to tell we want to tell the story shout out talented motherfuckers i'm so happy to be able to be in your presence and watch you do the shit that you do for so many years and so many years. But you're gonna stop disrespecting me on the funny shit. You know, so he challenged me. Are you going to focus? Yeah, I was seeing if he was in the shot. I said focus.

So Talib challenged me to a kickball game. You didn't challenge me? Give him the mic. Give him the mic. Yeah. Can you sit right there, please? Um, two, one, get up. Nico, that was Nico's idea.

He said this shit is outside. What's wrong with having the podcast outside? No, I was being facetious. Okay. That was wonderful. Go ahead. Actually, can you sit here? Huh?

Can you sit here? Sit there? Yes. Thank you. Do I need cans? You're going to need a lot of explanation. That's industry parlance for headphones. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we have a full house right now, but we're gonna take a little break.

A break? I just got here. No, we got sponsors, son. You can get a kick out of it. Don't do us hip-hop shit. Sponsors? Who sponsors this bullshit? Leave that shit in Brooklyn, nigga. We know how y'all do. There we go. So everybody knows that I spit hot fire.

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thank you for being in pocket and i even though you insulted my podcast you insulted the the nature background of my podcast this is actually beautiful but why didn't you start by saying that because i you know i was trying to be funny no comedians do you know what i was trying to be funny, dog. No, comedians. Do you know what? I was trying to be funny. I'm sorry. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. You are funny. You're very funny. Don't try to be funny.

Nah, I'll relate this to, uh, what you do, what I do, right? I feel like every fucking, uh, comedian feel like they can be a rapper.

Yes. Until it's time to do your shit. Right. And every rapper think they could be a comedian. Yeah. But I wonder where is, why isn't that level of confidence the same in those two fields you know i'm saying like i feel like oh shit you so nice like i saw you do some work the other day i'm like you so nice think if you get a punchline so you could just kill that shit what separates the confidence um i think it's

just the intention um what you're in it for. You got somebody like a Greg Nice or Old Dirty Bass or even some of these mumble rappers whose songs I might like where they don't have good punchlines, but it's about the energy on the song. Do you remember the first time you disrespected me when I talked to music to you? It was this. The first, is there many?

There's a lot of them. The level of disrespect you had for me over a whole fucking summer, nigga. During the pandemic, you going at me. The first level, it was the first time I went on the river. Okay. Right? And I got inspired by the river. I said to myself, because the reason why I got inspired, because me and Patrick.

Patrick is a river nigga, but he's white. He's a river wigger. Right? He's a wigger lover, too? He's a wigger lover, too. He's a wigger lover. Wait, he's a wigger lover? Yeah. So, okay, let me tell you a story.

That's hilarious. So the first time we going down the river, and we were just talking about the simple things in life. The simple things in life. And he said, this shit reminds me of, he said, it reminds me of like building ramps in the backyard. You know what I'm saying? Building slingshots

like simple and when he said that it just made me i know this sounds crazy he was talking about memories and it made me realize how many memories i didn't create with my dad like that and it made me reflect on the things that were good and i got inspired like most i'm not a songwriter musician it was something that was calling me like i need to write a song about the river remember i told you that yeah i said uh i want to write a uh song about the river and i said um could you do a hook or something what did i say just was it hook a verse and you was like i don't do that i'm a lyricist no no no you say okay no okay no no okay now I remember okay you said you said can you do a hook yeah you said I

could do a hook you and I said I didn't say I don't do that I'm a lyricist what I said was I'm not I'm not that good at it yeah well that you okay that's what you said your face is something your face gave me the look like, this nigga don't know who I am. No, no, no, no, no. He misread that. That's what I felt. He misread that completely. This is what it was.

Okay. What it was was like, I'm the type of dude, like, my main skill that I'm best at is writing lyrics versus. I know. I saw it. But not writing hooks. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's what I was like.

If you want a hook, we might have to go get it right go get some help on the hook i've written good hooks i have a 20-year career i have some good hooks that i've written right but that's not what i'm i don't always come with a good hook okay what's a hook yeah because i'm like i know what a hook is you i know you know the hook go to the. I know, are we doing that right now? Are we doing it right now? Because you know, I could go all the way with this. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I said I'm sorry.

I said I'm sorry. Here, take my gun. All right. Time out. For people that may not know, because I did Joe Rogan podcast, he didn't know what a 16 is, so this is educating people. The hook is the part of the song that's also referred to as the chorus that is meant to draw the listener in and keep the listener engaged in the song.

So the hook of a song of, you know, Hip Hop Hooray, the hook is Hip Hop Hooray. Oh, that's the hook. So Cardi B, so little bitch, you can't, would that be the hook? That's the verse. That's the verse. Now here's what's interesting about what you said about Cardi B. What makes her dope is in hip hop. Them lips.

That too. She got some DSLs. She's proud of them. She wants you to touch that dingley thing in the back. She did say that. I'm quoting her. I'm quoting. Niggas is going deep in that bitch.

You're going to hit the dingley. Cardi B, this is a great rapper to me um no jay-z said when he did a uh give it to me he talked in an interview about how the way that he writes he writes where he's like i want the i want the verses to feel like a hook i want you know jay-z is a lyricist but you know he's trying to write hit records so and drake is very good at this what drake Drake with Jay-z was talking about Is what Drake later on became very good at where the verse is the way that you write them? Sounds so much like hook where people singing along not just to where to not just singing along when hook coming people singing along with

The verses too so who's okay songs yes, yes hook sales on what we do What as pussy what was that look what? Does them holes in this house? That's a hook? There's some hoes in this house. I think that's part of the hook, but the other part. Pussy, that part. But comedians got hooks, too. Jeff Foxworthy got... Oh, so...

Get Her Done is a hook. So, Bebe Kids would be a hook? That's a hook. Who else got hooks? Shucky Ducky, quack, quack. That's a hook. That nigga got a career, but he got a hook. That's a hook. Shucky Ducky's known for that hook. That nigga career's over. Come on, why y'all looking Quack quack That's a hook That nigga got a career But he got a hook That's a hook

Shucky Ducky's known for that hook That nigga career's old Come on Why y'all looking at me But that's a good hook The last time I saw a nigga He was in Ringlem and Brothers And Barman and Billy

No Universal That nigga He's the comedy version Of Jay Kwan Remember Jay Kwan Everybody in the club Get tips

Yeah That's a good hook But he still get royalties And get money for that shit Yeah For the song Shucky Ducky just get Quack quacks at the end of it but he still get royalties and get money for that yeah for the song shucky ducky just get quack quacks at the end of it not even on you don't even get deaf poetry deaf comedy jam royalties nobody get deaf jam royalties that's messed up now this interesting thing you say about that and this is what a lot of people do and i'm not disrespecting

stan layton he's a good friend of mine we work together uh russell said my work with russell but this one this is interesting. When you have a show that's new like that, when they don't know if it's going to succeed or whatever, it's only a platform for people to see you. Yeah, I get it. That's how nobody... I was tripping.

The average motherfucker to Def Jam, this is how white people get you. Yeah. They put them contracts in you, like 50 pages. And they start putting words to make niggas sleepy. Wherewith, herewith. Wherewith, furthermore. Not withstanding.

Withstanding. Further known as. Hereafter from this day, ciao, forward. Motherfucker be like, just give me my motherfucking stuff. But it was one of those things that in hindsight, you look at it, oh, we should have got so-and-so. But again, that show, it was one of those things that like in hindsight, you look at, oh, we should have got so-and-so. But again, like that show, it made stars.

Yes. So you got, you got, you got this situation. Am I going to be the person like, fuck that. I need more money.

Or am I going to be a person that says, you know what? I'll just suck that up and I'll get people to see what I do. Yeah. Then I'll get my money.

And I have similar, there's no disrespect. When I was doing Chappelle's show, I said, I said i'm rich for two years i wasn't rich you know but i ain't gonna all right i'm not gonna be mad about it because i knew yeah and especially as hard as that show was i knew that was the platform that was going to put me in position for people to see what i do and to make money yeah right all right but back to your competitive spirit and how you tried to shit on me. What did I do? You challenged me.

The game. You challenged me to a kickball game. All right. Yeah, we played kickball. We played kickball. We're doing all this adventurous shit. I need to show pictures of you kayaking down the mad river. Yes.

I had a good time doing that. You had a good time but didn't look good. I look great. You think you look great on the river. I looked amazing. Nigga, you really think. Listen, that joke you do, that joke you do, that's just jokes. Yo, I will find.

But you really be looking like that, though. Because you're honestly up here. I mean, you're serious about it. This nigga look like a turtle in that motherfucking joint. Yo, I will get video of you. Look, this is where you had your life raft. The life raft has been in everybody's armpits. You had your shit.

Somebody give me an Orish looking thing. And you was like this, son. I have places to get to. It's actually cute. And you got there fast. And you came here wearing Jordans with long socks. But I didn't know how competitive you were. We planned this kickball game.

People know, oh, I got a hook from the streets to the creeks. Yeah. Is that a hook? Yeah. From the hoods to the woods. That's a hook. From the whores to whores. That's my hook.

So everybody know right now in my life, I represent. You as a comedian, Donnell, you employ all of it. You got satire. You got hooks. You got slapstick. You falling down and shit. Nah, nigga, don't say slapstick. What am I supposed to say?

Vaudeville? Vaudeville. Don't say schtick. That's the most disrespectful. The most disrespectful thing you can say to a comedian I agree with you though It's schtick It's not schtick

But what I'm saying is You employ every tool that a comedian could have In your arsenal You know what I'm saying So that you understand That part of it You know what I'm saying That's the music of it

Comedy is to a beat It's to a rhythm You understand the music of it. You know what I'm saying? Like that, that, that's the music of it. The comedy is to, to a beat, it's to a rhythm. You understand the music of it and, and, and, and yeah,

man, it's, it's, it's fantastic. I respect that, but that's not what we're talking about. I know, I know,

but I had to get that in. I know, that's unfair. Don't get all smart. Nigga, you got all smart, man. Now,

when I'm talking about this, I'm talking about this motherfucking kickball game, nigga. I'm talking about this. Let's talk about the kickball game. I'm talking about this kickball game. Let's talk about the kickball game. I got some thoughts. I made a flyer.

You was talking shit about this. And then it was like, the streets are the creeks. So I represent Yellow Springs with the creeks. Yes. You represent the streets, right? Yes. So you was talking all this shit. I wasn't talking all this shit.

I was talking a little bit of shit. I miss the shit talking So I like to hear Okay I said that I had a high Baseball IQ Is what I said Which we found out to be untrue No

You guys Okay we need to set We found out really quick To be untrue We found We found out Nigga What sport did you play

Nigga We were at a disadvantage So I was on the team We were Losing team Yes We were on the losing team Whatever But we started off At a disadvantage So I was on the team We were on the losing team We were on the losing team Whatever

But we started off At a disadvantage We did They had double the bases covered So we already started off On the wrong foot How did we have double the bases There was a couple times

When they had more people Within us But that wasn't really the issue This was the issue The issue was That when we chose teams Oh Jesus Christ Go ahead

I chose based on friendship and compassion. Nigga, let me tell you this. He chose based on whose calves was bigger and who he felt like he kicked the ball for. And you know why you telling the truth? My nigga 40, I love this nigga. I couldn't look him in his eyes, son.

He was looking like me when I used to play basketball. Like, oh. It's so sad. I swear. I couldn't look that nigga in his eyes, son. I had, like, kids on my team. I was teaching them how to play.

She was on my team. Lisa was on my team. She was like, okay, what do I do? No. Like, where do I run? No, it's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny.

Because when we were speaking to teams, you was going for friendship in the streets. I was like this. I had one bitch on my team. Yo. Yo. No, she wasn't on my team. I lost her. Who?

The barefoot bitch. Vanessa. She was on my team. Yeah, I was like this. I was like this. This bitch walking around all day with no shoes, right? I don't know how I missed her in the draft. But you got Shannaz, though.

I got Shannaz. Yeah, Shannaz. That's a powerful, powerful. Yeah, we got Shannaz, and Shannaz was our black cheerleader. All right. DJ Trauma was doing very competitive. We should have had Trauma. I wanted to get the people.

Like you said, big calf motherfuckers. You didn't know who was already on softball teams, nigga. Right. I was picking motherfuckers that got jerseys. who was already on softball teams right i was picking up because they got jerseys right you say who got a jersey there but the funny thing we were going because we was like me and patrick we were talking right because we was talking the night before we was hanging out and right and then you started trying to back out of it right and and you was like and me and patrick just looks like we're about to have a bunch of no shows in the morning because y'all was was in there getting it not you but you know patrick sent have a bunch of no-shows in the morning. Because y'all was, motherfuckers was in there getting it. Not you, but you know what we do. Patrick sent me a picture of himself with duck lips.

Around 11, 15 a.m. That's hilarious. Oh, we was ready. We was ready. And I was like, I had got, I was a little hit the night before. I was like, we're going to let them call. We get there early. And I was so happy, son.

Because all the cars kept pulling up was the fucking creeks. The motherfuckers was early. The creek motherfuckers go hard. So we had a cooler filled with Bud Light. Yeah. We had two Gatorades and Bud Light. There's a funny ass video of Donnell in slow motion, like going to first base is actually really dope.

Cause you see your fucking dick ass. Why didn't I see that? Why didn't I see that? Cause it was going to make me look good. Sharnaz posted it. She posted it? Yeah, and I tagged you in it. The bitch to make me look good? Shana posted it. She posted it? Yeah, and I tagged you in it. The bitch ain't tell me.

I tagged you in it. You're like slow-mo. It looks really good. I look athletic. Yeah, you do. Was it Charity Fire Music? We got another one of those. And I know this is going to get me in trouble 20 years from now.

But we have another video of a young lady that was on the posing team in slow motion without a sports bra. Nigga. Jeez, man. Jeez, man. Jeez, man. I love how he pre-canceled himself. He covers all of his bases. We didn't know if she kicked the ball court or whatever.

Nigga, that slow motion. She was all excited like this. And it was just like. It was beautiful. I'm sure it was. We, it was beautiful. I'm sure it was. But we tested you. You was making up your own rules. I wasn't making up my own rules.

Y'all was playing all kinds of, I don't know what you mean. Okay, all right, you know what? Who was there? The five, the, um. Was Talib not making up his own fucking rules? The three fouls out. I didn't make that up. Y'all made that up.

Y'all came from y'all team. Yeah, y'all came. That came from y'all made that up y'all came yeah y'all came that came for y'all team making up new rules and stuff and then if you catch the foul ball then it's out like y'all said that y'all was making up rules okay but this is what i knew but this is when i this is kickball this is oh yeah the. Man, fuck them kids. They need to see this. He was, yeah, you was really awesome. Like, fuck these kids. What?

What'd I do? You was awesome. You know, I'll tell you what I did. I taught that little motherfucker a lesson in life. That's what I taught. You don't be no pussy motherfucker when you playing with us. Yo. Yeah.

Yo, Donnell. No, let's answer and tell a story. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then we can share. So, I found out what an immense asshole Donnell really is, and he's competitive. That's too much information. Let's get to the story.

I found out what a pure gentleman Donnell really is. Thank you. Okay, so I was at first base. Just the kid, the poor kid, barely got up. We showed him how to play kickball. He kicks the ball. It doesn't go very far. It goes right to Donnell.

I'm on first base. Donnell's maybe three feet from me. I'm sitting here like, okay, throw it to me. I'll tag him out. No. Donnell decides to beam the shit out of this kid. He almost knocked the kid off of his feet. The kid starts crying because I'm going,

oh my god, he's an asshole. He's such an asshole. And the kid thought I was talking about him. So he's crying. He's like, Mom, they're calling me an asshole. And Dono comes and he's like, listen here. There's no fucking crying, so suck it up, alright? And I was like,

is Dono betting on the game? There's no crying in kickball. Here's what I did for that little kid. Here's what I did. I fucking helped that little motherfucker. Shout out to Logan. This is what I told him. This is what I told him.

I was concerned because he was crying. I'm like, first off, what the fuck was he crying for? You know what I mean? You're a kid. You can't take. But see, I grew up on dodgeball, too, so I was just having flashbacks. I tried to fucking rip your head off when you ran the first. I knew he did.

And I wanted to cry, too, because I hate losing. And I'm so competitive. You heard me. Like, I really fucking hate it. But here's the lesson for that kid. You tagged me in the fucking... This was the lesson for that kid. This was the lesson for the kid.

The lesson for the kid was I had to find out what he was crying for. And his mom was like, she was like, oh, no, he's okay. He thought they were making fun of him. And I said, so? I said, you think you're going to build courage for this motherfucker if he's going to cry? If somebody make fun of him? I said, it's like 15 comedians out here, nigga. We can write some shit for your little ass.

Because you can be easy all you want. But, man, if a kid is going to be picked on, he has to figure out a way to defend himself different ways. One way is physically and one way is verbally. And that's me and my background. I was a little skinny motherfucker. I had to learn how to roast. I was skinny. I grew up skinny.

And a big head. I had a big head. I had a ring around the motherfucking lip, nigga. That crusty joint. Yo, I had this shit. I couldn't laugh. If I my shit started bleeding nigga i was like this listen this is the true shit i had ray i had every sign that my future was gonna be in comedy i had to be able to defend myself and i was trying i was trying to be i was being hard on him but it's

with an explanation on it. And I guarantee he's going to remember me talking to him about that morning, like, oh, are you okay? Yeah, he got in the game, you know, but this is when I knew that your team didn't have a chance of beating my team, the Creeks, the streets. When your star athlete shows up, it's certain things that you ask for

when you come on the field. One thing is like, do we got water? Do we got beer? You know, you ask that shit. Nobody in the history of sports have I ever seen a tough nigga run on the field and say, does anybody have a hair tie? No.

That's all I know. That's some diva shit. Listen, with shades on. Look at this shit. When was the last time I seen a hair tie? 1977. The last time I seen a hair tie was when Becky Berry get it popping, because that's when you... Do you know who got the smoke in this motherfucking head in the game?

Look at the bitch wrist. If she got three hair ties, she bought that life. But not only that, you know, you got video of me in slow motion. This nigga runs in slow motion. But he's also a great cat. You were catching, like, almost all the balls. Thank you. Pause, but you're welcome.

All right, so when did you know, Nico, when did you know that you were about to be annihilated in kickball? Oh, man. The night before. Why? You hung out? No, I mean, listen, you guys set the game up really early. Okay.

11 a.m. Listen. Well, Donnell wakes up at 6 a.m. I didn't set the game up that day. I set the game up a week before. I had flyers, nigga. I'm printing the billboard in Yellow Spring. You can get that for a dollar for a whole week right and we we knew it was gonna happen and i said and this is what i because i tried me as a camp counselor whatever what i try to do is what

what i want to do it's easy for us to plan activities at two or three o'clock the whole day is ruined and i had a lot of things i've ah that's not that's the b it's safe save the bees all right but what i wanted to do I was like this is gonna be a test this is gonna be the test of who's about this shit you can't have kickball at three o'clock four o'clock I said let's plan it at 11 and 11 is fair where we have to have a sense of responsibility to prepare so this is fucking war bro this is not no bullshit yo we fucking y'all showed up we was stretching nigga we was grabbing our tippy toes y'all just came in i saw y'all mother grabbing groins and shit later but it was going to be 11 o'clock that's a fair that's a fair kickball time but even when you were late you were late and i thought you was going to forfeit i asked you i said i had to

taunt you i was like this because i know I asked you, I said, I had to taunt you. I was like this, because I know how much everybody appreciates social media. I had to go live and say, where these niggas at? And then y'all was like, I was watching it all live. I know you was watching it live. And I said, I know they're going to show up. I was getting inspiration.

But how did it feel to be slaughtered? Were we slaughtered, though? Yeah, I don't know about that. We lost by a lot. A lot. But like I said, and I stand high on that hill, we started off at a disadvantage. So I don't know.

I think we had the most memorable plays, though. Yeah. Like, y'all won, but you're forgettable. But our highlight video is great. Our shit, you'll never forget our plays, bro, you'll never forget what we did right am I lying I will Federico catching the ball glasses falling catching the glasses smile Nico catching all of them now you kick it me kick it. Yeah like a maniac. Yeah, you didn't kick him. Me kicking. Yeah. Like a maniac. Yeah. You know what? I get to say, y'all have, but guess what? ESPN?

ESPN wasn't here, nigga. Even Issa. Issa's was great. Yeah. Only reason Issa caught this shit, because we had a ball. That was by proxy. He caught it by proxy. Issa also struck out.

And he didn't strike out with foul balls. He struck out like how you traditionally struck it out. He straight missed the ball. He missed the ball. Hey, guess, okay. Guess who was pitching that shit? Me. Hey, can I just say I called it that I was going to hit it off 40's chest in left field

and I smacked. That was good. You were talking a lot of shit, dude. That was tight. I said, I'm kicking it right to 40. 40, it's bouncing off your chest. But 40 wasn't. Booyah.

Booyah. Hit him right on his chest. He went flying. Oh, it was beautiful. That's the same story you said five times. That alternative foot. He's very proud of that one.

Yeah, yeah. It was a good moment. That alternative foot. That vaporwave foot. But it was. You know what I like about it? It's so weird because people are like,

what are these grown motherfuckers doing playing kickball? But guess what? It enforced what fucking teamwork is. Coming together. How many people do we have out there fucking teamwork is. Coming together. How many people do we have out there? A lot.

A lot. I don't know what a lot is. Because they're 13. 13 to like. Not enough. I'll tell you that. A sizable amount. Over 20 people.

And guess what? I got requests right now. People like. Who's. Dave's wife came. Elaine showed up. In Chanel sneakers. She played for an inning and a half in Chanel sneakers.

Yeah, exactly. No, she paid for a selfie and a half. She got her shot. And this was it. And you guys later. She came for the photo op. She was like, I can't ruin these fucking sneakers. Did she strike out?

Did she strike out? No, she made it to first. And then she quit. And then she went home. She said, how's somebody run the bases for her up there? She got a pinch runner. But it was fun. And that,

you know, I think that that, that, that kickball game kind of represented what our whole summer has been here. What our whole summer has been here. Because it's people that never knew each other. They're coming together. And you got to understand how fucking tough it is to be around motherfuckers every fucking day.

Eventually, it's going to be some motherfuckers like this. In that line. Yeah, they're going to be around motherfuckers every fucking day Eventually, it's gonna be some motherfuckers like this in that line. Yeah, they're gonna be like this. Yeah I think I'm gonna skip one of those days. Oh, yeah Niko how's your experience? This is you've been here for how long a while how explained Your first experience here and the reason why you came back My first experience during summer summer camp or in Yellow Springs? Give me both.

The first time I came to Yellow Springs, I came with Kweli. Well, I met Kweli here. I met Dave and his beautiful family at the Calypso. That's why I made that record, the Rift Night at the Calypso joint with Issa. That was a very symbolic moment for me. I got to Yellow Springs in Ohio, and we go to a Caribbean restaurant. That's it. Everywhere it goes, the only Caribbean restaurant.

Right. I don't know how Caribbean it is. I'm not here to talk about that. I support their business. I made us talk about them. I love them. And that was just a very impactful moment for me. So that's why I made that record.

And then I found some magic here, you know? Kwas been telling me, he's like, yeah, there's something special there. And then, boom, you know? Quarantine happens, and then the summer camp happened, right? Diamond D was actually live on his Instagram, playing the album from the shack. His new album, Kwali, got them. Yep.

And I was watching live, and I was like, damn, that whole squad there looks great, you know? And then he played I'll tell you later which is like number 10 or whatever 11 like far in the album was one of the last ones right and then dave went crazy you know and then the room went crazy and he played it like five times the next day quality text me he's like yo you gotta come you know and i came and it was like wow this is incredible it's so magic you know it's interesting it's something special it's rare it's definitely something special but that's even uh more intense during a pandemic where you don't have a lot of options to do a lot of other stuff right because a lot of people that come here for the first time it's like people are coming from a

place like new york people come in place like atlanta chicago where the quarantine is tight you know it's tight. Nothing is open or whatever. So when you first come here for the first time and you take the precautions that we take in regard to getting the COVID test, you feel great. It's addictive. So many people I know come here. Like, I'm just going to stay here. It's very addictive.

Very addictive. So many people that come here is like this. I'm going to be here for three days. And I think we probably, the people that we draw here, we probably have the most people that have changed their flights. In the history of the airlines. I'm telling you, it's like, yeah! People don't leave to already think about coming back, right?

Static selected, legend, right? He was here, he was already like, yo, I'm coming back this. He didn't even leave yet. Yeah, and the only reason he left, the only reason he left, and the only reason similar to to the reason why I left he want to go see his daughter Yeah, he was like he wanted to stay but you know, he going through it like we all go through absolutely Absolutely, and I gave him I don't know if it's words of encouragement because I know like he was stuck He's like man. This it was a good vibe. Did he say he got to go see his daughter?

He got to do some shit and I'm kind of in a situation where a nigga got to make some choices. You know what I'm saying? Like, everybody, there's a lot of people here that are separated from their families, but you also realize, I think that we realize it, and this is what I said to Dave and I said to a lot of people, that the things that we're doing right now is setting our 2021 up and our 2022 up you know i'm saying for the most part the live performance and shit is dead we get to perform every night we get to perform every night and it's also the only thing happening in the world and it's absolutely

incredible yeah it is you know it's a powerful right like every night like last night uh show was going good. But I was just like, we need certain energy. That's why whenever y'all bless the fucking stage, it just seems like the show goes to the next level. I've heard people say thoughts of the block party. You know what I mean? But you getting a live show in the middle of a motherfucking cornfield. During a pandemic yeah and then

for the most part here's safe here's the kicker kicker kicker ain't nobody making no money and when i say that yo and i'm not being disrespectful we all got our fees and everything but that with this what we're doing it has not been the incentive to want to be a part of this brotherhood it hasn't been incentive to want to be a part of this brotherhood. It hasn't been the incentive to want to perform. You know what I'm saying? It's about the vibe. It's about the vibe. And some of the things that you guys are working on, we know that's going to be planting the seed for the fucking shit to sprout the next day.

But how can you get that? Because the personalities and the people that we fuck with, it's all good. It's no fucked up people around us. Nowhere. And if you fucked up, guess what? You get out of here pretty quick. That's exactly right. Dave's an incredible curator.

No lies detected. Right? I think it was you that said curator community. Yeah, yeah. About him, I was like, wow, that's a great term. He really knows how to pick the room. He knows how to put a room together. Right.

Like the room, and it's diverse. It's not something you expect, bro. You too. You're chilling in the shack. All of a sudden, Darius Rocker pulls out an acoustic guitar and, you know, playing covers. Like, oh. Yo, we've had some fucking moments. You can never write that, you know.

I mean, we've had moments where we've just recorded what I think is going to be one of the dopest summer anthems of all time. Oh, talk more about it. And we fresh out the studio. And we just gave this motherfucker song to DJ Trauma. And this nigga played an instrumental It was a TV track to it wasn't an instrument ad libs in it is instrumental with little Adams Yeah, I have a TV track to a song that does not even done mixed nothing. Yeah, like we got the TV track That's a Federico case week in case we gotta go on the ed sullivan show yeah but here's the deal yeah i'll give you a tv track i was like

tv track i was like you know and i love trauma and all that but it didn't really but to his defense he was sleeping his defense he was sleeping he could work two hours a day but i would tell you we've had some moments this is something uh brother ali right he came one night and it was weird because that's a really good friend of moham right and brother ali is a dope artist right he's a bad i didn't know too much about him but i was introducing when he's tore this up and um one of his songs he gave it to trauma and i don't know like it was the wrong song or whatever right and it was like mo he going like this because he know what he can do but the is not resonating with the audience because track is off whatever

and mo is over there looking like what the and i sit back i was like the true artist is about to kick in you've been in situations like hold up i said something the true artist is about to kick in you've been in situations like hold on I said something the true artist is about to kick in okay no look shooter on deck I said the true artist is about to just keep your eye on the fly and I was like true and didn't, he said, that's the dopest shit I think a fucking rapper. Stop the track. Stop the track. He said, give me any beat.

He said, give me any beat. Then Trama woke up out of his fucking yellow springs nap. And he just kept giving it to him. He kept giving it to him. And he murdered that cornfield. Those are the moments. Gotta be able to improvise. Improvise.

As an artist, we see motherfuckers walk through their shit, phone it in like he's about to hit this, he's about to hit that. But not too often we see a motherfucker's like, I call it a defining moment when you do something that the next person can't do i talk shit i respect both y'all man i've seen y'all it's mutual brother i'm telling y'all man i see what y'all do and i'm like i don't consider i'm not a recording artist every once in a while i'll have a song i fuck around with but it's so hard for me to go on and record and like when you did we came up with this song i didn't come with the song this is the beauty of how she comes together you text me and you invited me you never

invite me anywhere you got your number but I was like this I was flattered when you said yo we in the studio I was like old studio which I want me to do, studio, bring weed? Whatever, that was part of it. But he was like, and I was like, should I go, whatever? And I went, and I was just so excited about being in the process of somebody having an idea and saying, oh, we gonna do this, we gonna do that.

And I was practicing, I had one bar. I was in the car like this. I was like this, took a heel, yo, I in super prepared I don't know cuz that's all I had that little bit of shit but you know what I did I said I'm not a I'm not a rapper anything I said but I think I know what will work for me you know I'm saying it's like and I just do you though you know like you're a legend bro you're amazing at what you do and I didn't know what I'm saying It's like And I can't It's just do you though You know like You're a legend bro You're amazing at what you do And I didn't know What we were gonna do

To be honest I had a We had an end goal Me and Narcy Right Right But I didn't know What was gonna happen

Because everybody I wanted people to improvise Adapt That's why we put the studio In the dome And it was like Yo let's get people stoned And just walk in there

And be free Cause people be overthinking it You know Dave as well Was overthinking Dave overthinking Dave And I appreciate you You A&R the record You A&R the record Can I get that credit If we blow up people be overthinking it you know dave as well was over there oh come on dave and i appreciate you yeah you a and r the record you ain't another record can i get that credit if we blow up i give

you three percent all right when you've uh no because first off dave has a karaoke voice right dave wants to sing but he know that voice but i try to tell him he won't listen to me i'm like go ahead and do it but as soon as i guess as soon as people start seeing him as not a comic and as a singer that he'll back up and in this situation we knew like his voice is like a voice as soon as it hits the track it's stamped yeah you know it's iconic it's iconic you know it's james earl jones you know it's morgan freeman you know what i'm saying and like i guess because i kept on saying we in there spitting right this thing was in there pacing this shit yeah he was like no I'm not all enough of red I said we don't need bars he was like

mom mom spaghetti yeah yeah like this we don't need bars we just need to talk but he was looking like this nigga I gotta come with bars right he kept on walking away from me yeah I was like this come on man and it was like and I was like cuz when I work with it every so often every three months I'm like okay this is a conversation gonna get me fired mm-hmm because sometimes I don't give a fuck I say it's got to be true and honestly what are you talking to people and I was like we need you on this to be dope he was all right all right no right and then I left I was all deflated i came back and everybody's looking at

like he's right there right and then i went again he said okay i'll do it and exactly as we thought it was going to be he did one take it was an intro but it was it was a bar it was so dope because we could have did the record but it was like this oh He's got a bootleg version Dave not even on his own song Right, but we can't you had to start it. But for me as an artist being around like you seen some you know Somebody that's at the top of their game like y'all it could be intimidating because I was like, you know I'd be trying to bully situations But the other day is for the best and we were talking about we had this song and we was like, you know, I be trying to bully situations, but at the end of the day, it's for the best. And when we were talking about it, we had this song, and we was like, yo, Talib got to jump on this shit, right?

So we said, this hot and wicked I know you are. I was talking about the song, and then next thing I know, you know, it used to be the pin shit. This motherfucker grabbed his phone. Yo, his phone started doing like this. And that nigga was fucking texting harder than a Twitter beef, right? Oh, man. RIP. Yo, his phone started doing like this. And that nigga was fucking texting Harley

in a Twitter beef, right? Oh, man. RIP. Yo, that nigga, I was like, he's beefing with somebody on Twitter? No, he writing verses, right? That motherfucker was like this. And looking at me like, we going to the studio?

I was like, nigga, let's get the fuck out of here right now. Right. Because you know what I thought about? I thought about how like Tupac and certain artists have such a big catalog because anytime they get inspired, they go to the studio. Can you imagine if everybody did that? When you get inspired by something, you go there. And I saw it.

That's my life. I know. I could feel it. I could feel it. Nigga, you writing songs every goddamn day. All the time. That's what I'm here for, bro. I'm like this.

How long these niggas been working this all day? It's like, oh, about 35 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I come in this, how long these niggas been working this all day? He's like, oh, about 35 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I come in here with my one bar stuttering and shit. And then when I saw you in there, I was like, yeah, I'm about to act like I'm a studio nigga. I was like, let's go to the studio right now. Then you looked at me like, let's go, nigga. Then I was like, we got to get out of here.

I was yelling at people. Remember? I was like, just come on, let's get everybody the fuck out of here. We got to go to the studio right now We going let's go I appreciate that effort man No but I knew it Thank you

Cause like man To get somebody to record After a show at night Drinking partying Especially Kwa Like you know Some people are specific About when they wanna record

I know Not everybody I was You know me and Federico Have a very good Working relationship As you've seen From how we record

You got a studio all the time Yeah and I was In my mind I'm like, we're going to go to Shaq. We're going to drink. I was like, I'm going to wake up fresh with a fresh voice, fresh energy. I'm going to have Federico come over to the spot. Nobody's around. I'll lay my verse, be precise with it. But then it was like, I don't know who.

It was you. Me. Yeah. Me, nigga. Do it right now That was the but that was the right energy and when you said it my whole energy switch like a vibe thing Okay, I need to do it right now. I Davis because the vibe is right right now Davis hit me with that type of situation where you feel like oh he's trying to pull my card right now

He did it to me at ready to the musical. I just came to ready to the musical one night just to say What's up see the show. 6,500 people, one of the greatest stages in the world. And I'm in the green room and he said, you want to do five? Right. I said, oh, no, I'm just going to chill. And he looked at me like, OK, nigga. Right. And he had to say, I said, I went back to I said, did you just call me a bitch? Like with your eyes, like who the fuck turns turns that down i paced for a second i was like i think he just called me a and i went up there and slaughtered it and i'm not saying you thought i called your but you he was like hold up this what the i do to the tune of literally sitting in the green room go to the and i'm stealing the way he does because i go over

there try to do one shot i gotta do say like this bring that back right bring it back uh double up and um I can't hear my shit right here I can hear it right there but man I was so impressed I was like god damn like we did a song like I don't even I mean that was just fucking crazy and then to hear it to play back you know a song is dope we be like bring that shit back but this is disrespectful I don't like, I don't even, I mean, that was just fucking crazy. And then to hear it, the playback. You know a song is dope. We be like, bring that shit back. But this is the disrespectful part. Every time my lyrics, every time my part came out, Nico hit stop.

Yo, the nigga's so disrespectful. Why'd you do that? No, because I went a little too long. You got to give him context, bro. You be calling me out of context. No, this is what he fucking said. No, this is what he told me, son. It was a good, I did a little bit of hot shit, right? He told me, we're going to give you the other shit.

Like the extra shit. He was like, what's your email address? We're just going to send you that. Yeah, you can look or listen to it on your own time. You can make an asset with it, a meme with it. Yeah, assets. Your assets. But I was excited to see the result.

I mean, you know, again, I'm not a rapper, but just to be around some motherfuckers that do it and do it at that level, I was like, oh shit, and I can say that I fucking work with y'all. Yeah, man. I can say I work with you, man.

It's an honor. A beautiful thing. Come on. And that record, bro, is the record. Like, what an incredible experience, you know, to be able to put that in music form, you know, because. Yeah, it feels like what we've been doing. Because everybody sees it and they want and they live vicariously through it.

Right. But they're not here. They can't come here. Mo's on the record. Elaine's on the record. Michelle Wolf's on the record. You know what I'm saying? It's like.

It's dope. Yeah. It's dope. It's like summertime. Yeah. It's like summer summer yeah it's a little bit more busy and more noisy to summertime no but what I'm saying a lot going on in that so there's a lot brings version yeah it's chaotic it's chaotic it's chaotic it's but chaotic in the in the in the best way possible man that shit is fucking fire yeah i understand because just like if a person hasn't been here

if a person is trying to escape i'm escaping i'm sorry you don't say focus if it's like i know it's all good but it's just like if you weren't at summer camp over here it makes you want it makes you want to buy a ticket for next year to be quite honest hold on is that get my my jam give me back up down it's gone the only thing about this that yes you got to have a broom with one of these because it's going to be salt everywhere. For me, this shit seems kind of inefficient.

Why you being disrespectful? It works. Have you had a chance to use it? Not on an insect, no. Do you have hella flies where you live? Have you shot it? No. You haven't shot it? I shot one the other day, but? Have you shot it? No. I'm shot.

You haven't shot it. No, I did shoot one. I shot one the other day, but I haven't shot it at an insect. Oh, you got to shoot a fly. You want to practice? I mean, all right. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Tlaib is the shit in the studio, but put a salt gun in his face, he doesn't know what the fuck to do with it.

It's reminiscing of how he kayaks down the river. Everybody knows that if you kayak, it's supposed to be left, right. He does both of them at the same time. I just got to get there. I got to get there. I want to thank him. You got to get by. Get it?

Did he just turn the music up when I was talking? Yeah, he always does that. Can I at least get laughs on my joke? That was a good joke. Yo, do y'all own the rights to that music? Yeah, it comes with the Rokas. Oh, really? Yeah.

I need to get me one of those. You got to get this. This is the best thing ever. You can load up the sound deck where you can do crazy shit. So it's like, it's free use, free life. I don't mean to be giving away the tech secrets. Man, why don't I hear that goddamn music talk? Nigga, we tell jokes.

Stop snitching. Nigga likes to abscaff and all that type of stuff. What is that called? A Rokas? I'm going to get me one of them. Talk nigga we tell jokes and stop snitching What's that called a road caster give me one That's the jazzy I'm gonna start walking around one of those all the time Yo, we all before the did you get did you get them? Did I get what? These nuts. How'd you walk right into that? Got him. That's a terrible machine. It's terrible.

That machine is terrible. Why would they make that? They just made this one specifically. Why would they make that? They made that for me to get you at the end of this show. I was like, this is the Talib Nuts one right here. We can have it wrapped for you if you want. Yo man, I'll just say this man, this summer has been an amazing experience. Everybody that's in here, people that's been here, they've made it great.

The thing about I love our Yellow Springs, it's like we live in places, you lived in places, you live in places in Brooklyn where when you go outside the door, you might not even talk to, you didn't talk to a motherfucker for years. Motherfuckers are skyscrapers. And one F, niggas in one D don't even know each other. There's no sister community. You know you live amongst them people, but they're not sister community. And one thing I can say about Yellow Springs,

and I'm not trying to sell it to anybody, but what I feel here, it's definitely a sister community. Are you speaking your truth? I'm speaking my truth. I want to thank everybody that's been tuning in to... Nico, you want to say something disrespectful to me

before we go? You got to look on your face like you want to say something disrespectful. It's all over your face. Wait, can we do a freestyle, please? I love when you freestyle. These nuts.

I love when Nico freestyles Oh something we don't got a beat son. You're gonna have to beatbox for me. Don't know Come on improvise I can't take the pressure We got a white dude with um with rhythm come on Sam come over here you can do this shit Samson. Come on. You beatbox?

He does. See, they can do everything. They think he's Michael Jackson out here. He got a beautiful karaoke voice, too. These nuts. Okay. Sorry. Raspberry.

Nico Wiz on the porch about to run to the moon. Donnell Rollins on the podcast with a gun in the broom. Gotta let it marinate because they're really good lines. That's the gun, nigga. I got you. Look. Peace. I'm in Yellow Springs doing ghetto things.

I'm meditating. The beatbox rocking. I be levitating. What you doing tomorrow? The same thing I've been doing today. Greatness. Peace. Real God body in the dashiki.

He get whizzing from the tree like a Rafiki. That's a fraudulent beatbox. What's a Nike to a Reebok? Hey, come on, man. Samson. I got long hair don't care like Samson. Sorry I put you

on the spot because I hate when people are like, dance, dance, dance, dance. I'm a jukebox, you know. I really enjoy what you do. You want to talk about on the spot? I went on Drink Champs with Kali, right? I had the honor of Kali bringing me on Drink Champs with Noriega. You did it live before the pandemic? DJFN, yeah, it was like two years ago.

And Dead Prez. Yeah, it was absolutely incredible, right? And Drink Champs, they get you smacked. I know. They get you. You did it. I'd right? And Drink Champs, they get you smacked. I know. They get you. You did it. I'd get drunk watching it. Yeah, they get you smacked.

You know, and they got me. I didn't even know what was going on there, bro. I'm chilling. I'm enjoying it. I'm like, wow, they're talking some shit. And in one hour and a half in a podcast, Norian brings me up, gets me stoned, and makes me freestyle, right, on the spot.

No beat. With Dead Prez and them giving me words. Like, talk about nerve wracking, you know? Like, my idols and shit shit and it's awkward cuz there's no bead and it was just like alright rap You know like stick man look at me as a kung fu and then you're right I'm like damn, you know, what about acapella to take us out? I got it in this episode I don't know how to find a contest I got one for you to take us out. I got to end this episode. I don't know how to fuck it. Out of context. I live. I don't have anything like that. Okay.

I got one for you to take you out, all right? You ready? To offer. Nico is best hair in the biz. Look, one thing we can talk about Yellow Springs,

ready? If you got a drink, put it up and get a black ash candle and light it because the smell is incredible, right?

Look, there are ships made of wood. There are ships made of steel. The best ships are friendship because those are real.

Peace. We're done here on the show. Live from Yellow Springs, running backwards. Thank you, Nico. Thank you, Nico. Everybody's been listening to our podcast. We love you. We're not going to do anything but grow. A joke can be too soon, but it never can be too soon

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