Drink Champs - Episode 212 “Quarantine Champs Ep.3” w/ Killer Mike, Shannon Briggs & Akinyele

Episode Date: May 22, 2020

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. The Quarantine Champs are back again! In this episode we chop it up with Killer Mike, Shannon Briggs and Akinyele.While rumors are circulating about a possible match between Mike Tyson, Shannon Briggs shares light of the possibility of it happening. Shannon also shares his vision of opening a gym in Brownsville. We’re also joined by Akinyele and the two share their thoughts on the VERZUZ celebration they would like to see.Killer Mike also joins the conversation. The Champs and Mike discuss the current COVID-19 pandemic, Bernie Sanders and politics. Making changes in his community Killer Mike is making those changes at a local level, providing food for his community and being involved in the local politics. Mike also talks about the new Run The Jewels record, Season 2 of Trigger Warning and a dream VERZUZ celebration he would like to see.Follow:Drink Champshttp://www.drinkchamps.comhttp://www.instagram.com/drinkchampshttp://www.twitter.com/drinkchampshttp://www.facebook.com/drinkchampsDJ EFNhttp://www.crazyhood.comhttp://www.instagram.com/whoscrazyhttp://www.twitter.com/djefnhttp://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductionsN.O.R.E.http://www.instagram.com/therealnoreagahttp://www.twitter.com/noreaga--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drinkchamps/support Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I got to tune in to one of my closest friends, man. He's a Santiago just like me, man. Let's make some noise for my good brother, Killer Motherfucker. What up, what up? Now, there's a lot of things I want to discuss with you. The first thing I want to discuss was the actual Georgia. You know what I mean? For it like being the first place that I see that, that country opened up.

Like how was that? Not a good decision in my opinion. And we, as a small business owner, we didn't open up. We're going to wait until June 1 and see what the health officials are saying. And that was the governor's decision, Mike?

Yeah, I mean, it was the governor's, it was the governor's decision, Mike? Yeah, I mean, it was the governor's decision. But to be fair, you know, I feel like there's a lot of national pressure to get America running again because the dollar turns. So if the dollar doesn't turn in the black community, the black community suffers, and we see that. So imagine the whole country operating like that. So now the whole country is kind of operating like a working

class or impoverished community where everyone's being very constrained with their dollar. The dollar's not moving. So it's like that. So my thing is I knew that they were going to try to open up states and get the dollar moving and I knew that smart people were going to stay home. I knew some people were going

to be forced to go back to work. Unfortunately they deserve hazard pay. But I knew the smart people were going to stay home. I knew some people were going to be forced to go back to work Unfortunately, they deserve hazard pay but I knew that some people were just going to be tired of and wanted to get out and have some fun and I feel like Now that people kind of had those bursts like if you look at you know There were there were people out in parks on the north side and south side in in In Atlanta there were people out on the Upper West Side and the Lower East Side of New York. They were treated radically different, but I feel like people got a chance to get out. Now, just get back

in the house and stay safe. I don't think the world is ready to be fully open yet. You know what I mean? Right. Well, I'm going to commend you, man. Let's just pop that bottom. I'm going to commend you. You could have been one of those guys that just opened up and been irresponsible.

I don't want to say irresponsible. But, you know, yeah, because I was going to say, Norrie, the guys are not really responsible. Like, I got other homies who own barbershops. Like my man, Will Stamm, who's an amazing barbershop owner here. You know, my buddies over at Infamous Tattoos who own the Infamous Barbershop. You know what I'm saying? My man, Quick, who got King's Barbershop out of Fort Adele. Like, there's some guys who had to open their shops, but they opened with

first of all, barbers are hygienic because they got to go to school to learn hygiene. There's probably no, as long as your barbershop ain't became a trap. Barbershops are usually very sterile. They make sure that their equipment is clean, but the stuff that's been added to the antibacterial stuff, be it

on using new razors or spraying clippers, has been now barbers are masking up. They're using a different set of gloves every time they cut. They're asking that customers be masked too. And they're doing infrared temperature takers. My man will turn on that. So the shops that are open, I'm not criticizing them as to some shops don't have the ability to do what we do. Like we sell T-shirts and sweatshirts and lighters. So our rent has been under, has been, you know, has been our ability to sell stuff has helped us.

And we are a brand as well as a barbershop. But I don't begrudge any barbershop that has it open because the shops I'm seeing open are handling it in a very responsible way. Now, also, you know, speaking about Georgia, I've seen this documentary which I never saw before. I never even heard about.

What's it called? You're talking about Atlanta's missing and murdered children. Wayne Williams is a man convicted. Even though he was convicted of killing two adults, he wasn't's missing and murdered children. Wayne Williams is a man convicted of, even though he was convicted of killing two adults, he wasn't convicted of killing any children. But so if you're adding around,

if you're, sorry, that's one of my old teachers calling me crazy. But if you're, if you're adding around, say, I would say late thirties to mid fifties, you remember a time in atlanta where it was like when the street lights came on if you weren't in the house your mother was on the on she was up and down the

street looking for you to beat your ass because what time did this happen what time did this because because i had never heard of this it was late 70s early 80s late 70s i'm born in 77 so i mean like but it happened for a stretch didn't it it happened it happened from the late 70s, early 80s. I'm born in 77. But it happened for a stretch, didn't it? It happened from the late 70s through up until 83, I think he's arrested. But the thing is, and people

who are on the ground who's organizing on behalf of poor people, period, will tell you that it never has really stopped because there is a huge, when you talk about, you know, the sex trade, there's been a huge, for years, people known as prostitutes, people who

are addicted to drugs have disappeared, have been dying. So I'm not trying to take anything from that story, but we have people getting missing in this country still. But with this, man, it was a black city, it was a black mayor trying to grow the economy, trying to make sure blacks had a fair shake here.

And at the same time, what you had was these horrible murders that were happening. This man Wayne Williams was convicted of it. But many people believe he's not the killer and or not alone if he was. Many of us as kids have had strange experiences on that look in Atlanta I remember walking home school and me and my cousin were approached by two men um to an axe to come or give them directions we literally ran off screen and we were taught make as much noise as you could you know know all your neighbors it was a very scary time in Atlanta you know and that's never really kind of left our consciousness if you listen out as good, like that, you've heard it in the music.

And it'll probably always be a part of a certain age demographic's memory. Then that went over my head because, like, you know, like in cases of New York with the Tawana Brawley case. Yeah. You know, like the Central Park Five. Like, you would think it would have that type of statue. Well, in the black community, it did, but the deal is, it's not like we still got Ebony and Jet.

You know what I'm saying? And the North Star. In the black community, it absolutely did. It was like, I got people who got... My buddy G got sent to Connecticut to live with his grandmother because of my cousin Antoine. He got sent to our great-grandmother out of East Los Angeles.

You know what I'm saying? So it's like it was a national thing. But you being a couple of years younger, it's just like people wanted to quiet it because, you know, quiet is kept. They found a black athlete in South Georgia. What was it, six, seven years ago? The kid was buried. They exhumed his body because they were saying he was murdered. When they opened his body up, he had no organs in his body. And that's a real case.

That's not a conspiracy theory to me. That's something Dick Gregory often brought up. And we have to at some point we're going to have to start saying, well, when these black bodies are popping up, where do the kidneys go? Where do the lungs go? Where do the hearts go? You know what I'm saying? Or why is there why are there more black women on the streets as prostitutes and drug addicts being killed or murdered? Why don't we hear about it? You know what I'm saying? So there's something of value to the black body. The black body is of value, too. And there's something that's always valuable about us, whether it's just, you know, what people appears to be a serial killer or what appears to be medical experiment, what appears to be other things. There's something that I'm always suspicious about in regards to when we start popping up missing. Right. And so like, how did you feel? Cause you being a proud Bernie supporter and how did you feel? I guess it's a two part question One when Bernie dropped out

And two what do We demand from Joe Biden You know what I'm saying I'm not demanding shit from Joe Biden I don't give a fuck about I give a fuck about What we demand of ourselves So if Joe Biden wants our vote

These are our Demands of anybody Not just Joe Biden This is vote, you know, these are our demands of anybody, not just Joe Biden. This is our demand of a local prosecutor. This is our demand of a mayor, of a governor. So you know, it's not of Joe Biden. These are our demands, period. You know, and so it begins to say to me, like, what are we demanding?

Like, and the policy of Bernie Sanders, what's the policy I believe in? It's not just Bernie, the personality that I was fond of. His policy, his policy is reflective of Martin Luther King, right? Exactly. In the Poor People's Campaign, but not even just Dr. King. The campaign, that's where Reverend Barber going around

now. He's pushing the agenda of the Poor People's Campaign. Well, what's the Poor People's Campaign? What are people saying now? I need two grand a month. I need rent adjustments. I need these securities in terms of health care to make sure I have those. Those are my demands. Mike, how do you ensure, like once you make those demands for the vote, how do you ensure that they follow through after they're voted in? Because I'm sure that's what a lot of people are worried about. You beat their ass up locally.

And this is what we have to learn. You helping a party elect a president is a very simple thing, to be honest with you. It comes along every four years. All they got to do is sing around and dance and promise you some shit. But if you don't get what you want, attack their party locally.

Run other people against their candidates. Flood their primaries with 15 different people. Have a local agenda that stylized to wherever you are that's going to beat them up from a national side. Like, God bless any black Democrat running in Georgia. If you're anti-pro-Second Amendment, if you're anti-gun in Georgia and you're a Democratic Black, God bless your soul trying to get elected after what happened in Bronx. So Black people in Georgia,

it doesn't matter what the Democrats think about guns nationally. We're down here where we can be chased down while jogging and murdered by white people. So what do you think Black Democrats feel about guns in Georgia? If you don't start to nuance your local elections to fit your agenda, you're going to

start losing. One of the most famous Black Democrats in Georgia, a man named Vernon Johns, who's a man who demands and commands a lot of respect by the African American community and the African American male community in particular, came out and endorsed Donald Trump a couple weeks ago. Now, whether you agree

with that or disagree with that, think about that on a local level, how that disrupts the party. The party's going to have to handle him differently now. They're going to try to punish him. Then locally, black men are going to see him try to get punished, and they're going to fuck with him. So the Democratic Party is going to have to do more than just talk shit and jive. They're going to have to deliver because 54% of African Americans live in the South and 54% of African Americans are displeased

with whoever is running at the top of the Democratic Party right now because they're not trying to meet any real black agenda or any real black demands. Yeah, I think, but hold up. But one thing, I think that that's the thing that people get confused, that they don't think they can affect change. But what you're saying is basically, look, you can affect change from the bottom up. That's the only way it works. It did not start with the Washington, D.C. boycott. I mean, bus boycott. It started with the Birmingham, Alabama bus boycott.

You think D.C. gave a fuck about what was going on in Birmingham or Atlanta or Mayfield or Savannah or Trump. They didn't give a shit. But when Negroes got together, organized and disrupted a local economy, it affected the state's economy and that disrupted that state and the feds are like, what the fuck is going on? What are you country ass motherfuckers doing there? I never get our money fucked up

and get these Negroes so riled up that they cause a national attention. So locally act a fool. Locally run people against. Run better candidates. Locally put money in the people you believe in. Your little $27 you did for Bernie, if you do that you can win local elections with $100,000.

You can win local elections with $5,000, $15,000, $20,000 if it's a really small municipality, but you have to get home and you have to see who matches the agenda on your home base. There's a mayor named Ted, a white guy out of Clarkston down here next door to Atlanta. He has one of the most diverse constituencies in the state of Georgia. He's going to try to take a Senate seat, I think maybe.

I'm probably going to endorse this guy because he was progressive enough to decriminalize marijuana three, four years before Atlanta did. He was progressive enough to understand that I have a successful strip club in my municipality. Let me make sure that people can come in and out safely without getting harassed by cops. He's a true progressive. So who do you think I'm gonna support if they run for office? It's gonna be him, cuz his policy most mirrors people like Sanders. And I know I can help him get elected even if I couldn't do it nationally. What do you think about Joe Biden? He just put out like his. I don't like it. It's not good. The black agenda is not good. What was it like a blanket statement? Everyone is saying it's just it's not good.

It's not for real. There are no real tangibles. It's not good. It's not good. I'm not a fan of it. I'm not a fan of Mr. Biden. I'm not a fan of the Democratic Party running 18 quasi-progressive candidates versus Bernie Sanders. In this moment, what I'm a fan of is Senator Nina Turner and remaining steadfastly progressive. And I'm looking to see what she's going to say. And I'm looking to see what people like Tesla and Fagaro are saying. I'm looking at people like, you know, people within the entertainment circle that are really politically engaged, like the Brother Charlemagne. But, you know, I'm also looking to the people who on the extreme want the most for us. And that way you've got to you've got to get your organizations like ADOS, organizations like INCOBRA, people like Antonio Moore, people like Yvette Carnell, people like Dr. Cosby. I'm not Bill, but another Cosby. You have to start to look all around.

What's Minister Farrakhan saying? You get what I'm saying? Impress some of the people I know that's been doing this forever, and we'll see what your impression is. But what do you say to our people that, obviously, are against Trump, but aren't with Biden? Do you suggest that they stay home and not vote or do you?

No, I'm suggesting that locally you look around you and you say, what do I need in my community and whose policy best addresses that? Right now, if you if you look at yourself right now in your community you need free health care right your community right now people who are dark as me and you are in georgia 40 spike after we opened up 40 spike in covid cases went up most of those cases are black most of the fatalities have been blacks and Latinos. Do you not need Medicaid for all in this moment? Basic universal income, which is something that comes out of progressive side,

even though Yang introduced it, it comes out of progressive policy thinking. People like Sanders, even as far back as people like Eugene Debs 100 years ago, that comes out of progressives. Doesn't everybody need a couple grand a month now? Rent control to make sure that in times of hardship, a landlord can't just

kick you out of your house. Does people not need a 90-day moratorium on rent and mortgage right now? And I'm a landlord, so what I'm saying is whoever's policy matches those things that you aspire for, wouldn't it be great to be able to send

your child, right now you done lost your job, right now you fighting to keep your dignity and sanity, your child is graduating right now. Your child deserves a free college education or free trade education. They work their ass off in elementary school or high school, they made solid grades, they didn't get full

rides anywhere, but they're smart enough to make decent good adults. And this country is going to need people to build an infrastructure in the next 20 years to be our innovators. Wouldn't you want your children to be able to get a free education, especially right now? To know that on the other side of that education we'll have 20 years of prosperity in this country.

So if that matches what you're looking for, find a candidate that matches that and vote for policy and not personality. What if that policy leans towards a Trump? Or what if that policy doesn't exist with either of them? When you go in that voting booth, then that becomes your decision. But in terms of what I'm doing,

I'm fighting for progressives on the ground locally like a dog. I'm trying to make sure that progressives get district attorney jobs, that progressives get mayoral jobs, that progressives become governors. I'm trying to make sure that people who represent the class that I come from make sure that the door stays open. There needs to make sure a door, and a big door, not a little door, a closet door, big bay doors,

stay open for working class and middle class kids to work their way up the economic ladder and to return some of that prosperity back to the kids that are coming up behind me. Okay, what's that picture behind you? What is the kids that are coming up behind me. Okay, what's that picture behind you? What is that? That's Jack Johnson behind me.

A boxer? Yeah, that's Jack Johnson. And on the other side, that's his greatest rival was a Canadian guy named Langford. That's on the other side over there. So I got them across from each other. This is the sofa that I'm sitting on. This is from my grandparents. I was raised with this sofa. I was raised with this chair over there. So I got them across from each other. This is the sofa that I'm sitting on. It's from my grandparents. I was raised with this sofa. I was raised with this chair over there. All right, all right, all right.

And now you and T.I., y'all recently, y'all fed the homeless or y'all fed the community? No, no, we fed the community. It's a noble thing to do either, but T.I. and I, we're from the west side. His front door was open up to Bankhead, mine opened up to Adamsville, but we literally grew up streets from each other, you know, like a short walk. He went to Grove Park Elementary, I went to Collier Heights Elementary.

Right there in this neighborhood, which is the Frederick Douglass Cluster. This Cluster is named after Frederick Douglass. Wow. Right in this cluster, there is an organization called Paul Kids, a young black woman named Bataya. Make sure that kids' primary needs, clean clothes, underwear, socks, hygiene and health care stuff, and food. Make sure that kids in that neighborhood get it every day so that they can focus in school, grow and become. We're opening a restaurant right next to them. And we basically just partnered with them helping them. Whatever help we needed to help Parker Carter,

he always helped us and said, let's figure this out. So if they need help getting out there and feeding 500 families, going around to five different families, making sure they got products and money, goddamn, that's what me and Tip going to do. And it's not just me and Tip. 2 Chainz did it out of his restaurant. Big Boy did it with his foundation.

It really has been a movement of artists, the artist class in Atlanta taking care of Atlanta. And I love and respect all of us for it. Respect that, man. Respect that. Respect that, yeah. Love. Yeah, yeah.

Also, congrats on that. Ooh, la, la. That joint is crazy Greg nice premiere Thank you It took me all in the world If I would have called you I would have had you on the phone for three hours Telling you how much

And the Ozark placement too is crazy Oh I knew how big the Ozark placement was When there's a PD here In Atlanta he's a PD of placement was when there's a PD here in Atlanta. He's a PD of a big station. He's a good guy. He's often tried to show love, like come out and do these things,

but he couldn't necessarily play a lot of my music. I didn't make radio music, and I got it. He calls me out of nowhere like, yo, what's up with your new song? I'm like, what's up? Yeah, I'm the one on the back of Ozark. Yeah, send that to me right now. Right. And, you know, I think he told his mixes, hey, show us some love. Yeah, that record is so good. Let me ask you a quick question on that topic. Why'd you only get Greg Nice? Why didn't you get Smooth B as well, just being a video? Well, we don't know if there's a remix yet. And beyond that,

and beyond that, it's just because we had that sample and that splice and it was it was just like because we could have just went with the sample not even use Greg but we wanted to make sure Greg was shown in the video so kids would say what is it because what I want kids to do is what I what I what I realized we can't do is run the jewels we can't bring everybody back to the 90s or late 80s and say this is what it was this is pure what we can do is make it funky and dope and send you on a quest to find it i know who bob james is i know who confunction is i know who the barcage is because hip-hop sampled and it sent me back down a pathway of noah you know what i'm saying like

i'm thankful to note the lononious Monk because I heard Q-Tip talk about him. So for me, don't let our song be the end all and begin all. Make sure that you take the record. If your dad said, you know he settled there from Dwick, go listen to Dwick and sit your ass down with your old man and y'all smoke a joint together and talk that shit

so he can tell you how it was better in his day and you can be like, get the fuck out of here. It's R.T.J. Yeah, that shit is so dope. Wow, wow, wow. So, damn, I forgot. Okay, E. No, I wanted to go back to what you were saying because I feel like just to reiterate the point about affecting change from the bottom. When we're talking about like, if you have two bad choices at the top of the ticket, you're saying go in there and vote down ticket. That's how

you're going to affect change. No, that's not, I haven't said any of that. What I have said is, once you get over the soap opera, who wins your national election? Come back to the sobriety of this election doesn't even matter as much as my local election. And after you get out of the hysteria, if my team won or lost, go your ass back home, whether you win or lose,

and support people on a local level who support the agendas you want to support. But Colorado, before the feds said, we're going to decriminalize marijuana, and they still have not. Colorado decriminalized marijuana. As a state, they were like, it'll be a rogue state. We see

the opportunity to fund education through decriminalization. This is what we're going to do. You can do that in Georgia. I told a Georgia candidate that she said, well, because we're 35% black, then what we're going to have is the feds are going to come in on us. And I was like, well, the feds came in.

I told her, basically, that's what happened to our civil rights. Local municipalities start beating the shit out of us, and the feds came in and said, hey, you can't do this. This time you're just telling me the feds are going to come in. But, yeah, if the feds come in and raid us in Georgia to decriminalize it, then we finally can say, well, why aren't you raiding in Colorado? Right. And then you get to show the systemic racism. You get to show the two-partyism because it would have been Republicans sending someone in to attack Democrats. But if you don't expose it, if we're not radical and brave enough to do it,

why the fuck do we keep expecting it to come from D.C.? D.C. is concerned with the thoughts and concerns and needs of D.C. in terms of how we're relating to the greater world, trade deals, who's at war, who's near war. They're worried about that. It's on you to worry about decriminalization in your state. It's on you to make sure if you make up 35 percent of a population, 35 percent of marijuana contracts go to people who look like you. And the only way you do that is know who the fuck your schoolboy member is and your local

county commissioners are and your city council and your mayor and who are you voting for for prosecutors. And if you don't do that you need to start doing that. You have a responsibility in a republic to be civilly involved. And if you do not do

that, you can't continue to say this is being done to me. Because this republic allows all of us to be a part of the process. It's harder for some people. It's a shit show when you walk in your voting booth and me, I'm used to seeing 16 voting machines, all of a sudden there are four voting machines

and I know that the majority of these people are old people, they're tired, they don't want to be there. And so me and others from the community, we send chairs so they can sit down until it's time to vote. But we're not thinking and moving like we're powerful locally. So we keep expecting our team to win nationally. And we keep having disappointments or rewards based on people who don't give a shit about us. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network.

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the term that we always hear from our audience is that they feel seen. Get a front row seat to where media, marketing, technology, entertainment, and sports collide. And hear how leaders like Anjali are carving out space and shaking things up a bit in the most crowded of markets. Listen to Good Company on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And it's going to take us to heal us. It's Mental Health Awareness Month, and on a recent episode of Just Heal with Dr. J, the incomparable Taraji P. Henson stopped by to discuss how she's discovered peace on her journey.

So what I'm hearing you saying is healing is a part of us also reconnecting to our childhood in some sort. You said I look how youthful I look because I never let that little girl inside of me die. I go outside and run outside with the dogs. I still play like a kid. I laugh, you know, I love jokes. I love funny. I love laughing. I laugh at myself.

I don't take myself too seriously. That's the stuff that keeps you young and stops you from being so hard. To hear this and more things on the journey of healing, you can listen to Just Heal with Dr. J from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. AT&T, connecting changes everything. What do you say to these rumors? Like, like every time they say they say, like, it's a meme going around, like Chicago, stay home.

And it's like the Atlanta, it says Atlanta is the one going around, like, Chicago, stay home. And it's like Atlanta, it says Atlanta's the one that came out, like Atlanta's the guinea pig for the world. Do you think there's some truth to that rumor? I think that if there is some truth, stay your black ass in the house just in case

there is. Just in case, because let me tell you, man, whatever problems hit this country, it's going to hit brown and black. It's going to hit rural and poor. It's going to hit people on the fringes worse and first. It's going to hit

our community worse, and it's going to hit our community first. So stay in. You cannot like Chicago's mayor. You cannot like Atlanta's mayor. You cannot like Jacksonville's mayor. But if black mayors, I just did a radio drop for a Ducal County CEO, a six-day mayor. I did it in conjunction with Michael Thurman. Mike Thurman's a good man, right?

I like Mike. If Mike would have called me for a dozen other things, I might have said, Mike, I don't feel comfortable with this. But Mike called and said, he said, the kids ain't going to listen to me. I'm just the fucking CEO. He's like, Mike, at least they know and they know you give a damn about them. Do the drop with me. And I got a chance to just say, hey, man, just stay in the crib. Like, I understand.

You know, I understand your cousin might pop up, but three of your cousins at a barbecue grill is way different from 300 people in a park. You know, let's... And what we really have to realize is it's like when you it's like when you're doing bullshit and the police come by. Sometimes you have to

just stand your ass still and see what's going to happen. It ain't good to start moving too quickly. Right now is a stand still moment. Nature, the creator, whatever is over us is working. Whether it be through the streets got quiet and animals popped up. They're seeing

deer and shit in New York. Birds are coming out. So that really just tells us that maybe we need to calm down. Maybe the earth needs to reset. And let it reset and then we figure it out. But let's not be the guinea peas. You know, let's not get out there. Unless you have to. You have to go to work.

Go to work, come home, love your family. But we don't have to make excuses right now to be a guinea pea. We don't have to be to work. Go to work, come home, love your family. But we don't have to make excuses right now to be a guinea pig. We don't have to be a voluntary crash test. Like Kia said, don't be a crash test. Let's not do that. Now, with everything that's going on, everybody quarantining,

everyone's watching Netflix, so I guess the million-dollar question is, when is season two? Trigger warnings, what's it called it Trigger Warnings, Mr. Cole? Trigger Warning with Killer Mike. Yes, yes. The views have been going up since people locked in. Thank y'all, man.

I watched it six more times. Tripper, Koma, and Blood Pop are still growing and demand is still growing. How's my next one? Yeah. Go ahead. I just got Nation Islam just hit me. I'm buying a 50 pound bag of navy beans.

They farm just to do things. you know, black, shout out to my girl, Symphony Thompson. Every Friday, she hits us up

this Black Friday. I'm in the car racing. I went to the national, drag racing nationals, the NHRA, and a white woman came up to me. An older black woman,

pretty little pixie cut, I mean, white woman came up to me, pretty little pix woman, pretty little pixie cut. I mean, white woman came up to me, pretty little pixie cut. And she said, it's hard sometimes because of where we are. But I always at least manage to find a restaurant because every Friday we celebrate Black Friday. And this is a white woman? This is a white woman in North Georgia at the drag strip. Wow. Her husband's one of the most rich and successful people at drag.

And she says, we do it every Friday. Be clear for our fans. When he said the drag strip, he was talking about the drag racing strip. We don't get... Some people are going to take that part and be like... I had to care about it. I'm sorry. Good care. I know my audience.

I know my audience. Drag racing, y'all. Yeah, we're definitely talking about drag racing. I had no idea that that was even a thing. So this is one of the most white conservative places

and simultaneously black working class place you can be and Two types of people that you wouldn't even think of we have a conversation Are talking about black frat they don't look like each other. So that's the positive That's what this show did and guarantee you it's gonna it's gonna be another something of it in some form or season or something I just we had to make the out. We got an album drop one to two Okay, okay. All right. Um dropped. One of the two. Okay. One of the things, when Puff said his statement, one of the first people

I see repost Puff's statement was you. Remember? Yeah. Why did you feel the need to repost it? Why did you feel the need? Well, I reposted Puff's a woman named Teslin Favara. Okay.

And Teslin is on Fox News often. She was formerly with Sanders in 16 on his staff and helping him make a way. Her and Marcus and Nina Turner really helped the black community pay attention to who he was, thankfully. Teslin is about her people. She's about black folks. So she put up a statement saying, Puffs demanding something of the Democratic Party is not the same as endorsing Trump. And she explained why. She's amazing. So I posted both of their statements, because I need black people to know when you free, you act like. When you free, you don't let fear be the only motivating factor in your decision.

You understand what I'm saying? That's almost how a pimp handles a prostitute. I'm going to beat you, but them, but them niggas on the strip will kill you. So in her, in her mind, as long as he's just hitting me, not put a knife to my throat, there's a possibility he loves me. And what, what we're saying right now as a community is we don't want to be your side cheek. We don't want to be your other option. We don't want to be your law

dependable bitch when you go to prison. We want to be regarded as a people. We want to be regarded as a people worthy of something in exchange for our voting block. And if not, you're going to potentially lose us. And Teslin explains that in a street way better than anybody else I've ever known.

This sister knows people on both sides of the color fence in L.A. This people has not, is respected in the streets of Oklahoma and Houston, Texas. And this people, she doesn't bullshit on behalf of our people. So she's the person that I retweeted along the club and I put up on my Insta because

I want black people to have different people to look to for leadership. In these times, look to Nina Turner for leadership. In this time, look to Tesma Figueroa for leadership. In these times, listen to who's telling you the truth. Listen to Charlamagne. He's your Dan Rather of this time. As crazy as it may sound, you should be looking at people like Lil Duvall who can give you some great advice for how to not take life so seriously and enjoy the moment. Like, these are the times where you have alternative media, meaning you don't look at TV, you look at your phone.

There's time for alternative voices in the total line of people who work for either side that are telling you what to do. But what do you say to people? I know I asked you this earlier in a different type of way. What do you say to people who feel like they have no choice other than Biden? I don't say anything to them. He's saying have your own choice. Whatever your choice is your choice.

I work for the campaign I believe in based on the policy that I believe in. I will find parts of that policy other places to support or I will not and I will not support those places. Do you believe in any way about the outside influence in terms of like the whole Russia stuff and all that stuff? Do you believe that that has any kind of impact?

I saw with my own two eyes that DNC purposely take measures to sabotage Bernie Sanders. So it's not out of the question that that can come from another country as well? No, no, no. Listen to what I'm telling you. I was on the floor when surrogates in 2015 were walked out to speak on behalf of them candidates. And I was one of the surrogates that was held out just enough time to lose press for Sanders before the DNC would allow us in as they allow. So what I'm telling you is we have unequivocal proof that's been told by other Democrats

that the Dems in 2015-16 sabotaged Sanders. I know that to be true. Why am I having a discussion with Russians when I have the truth of an American organization sabotaging the best chances of their candidate who could have won.

And the problem is, if he wins, he radically transforms their party. And it's almost as if they're saying, nah, I'd rather my party stay the same and take the L. You get what I'm saying? I haven't been afraid of Russia since Rocky III.

I haven't been afraid of Russia since I watched Red Dawn and we won at the end. First one. Yeah. What I am terribly afraid of is that the things that are gratuitously obvious to us that are true that we are not active about.

Right. You and T.I. got the best vocabulary in the world. Let me tell you something, man. I got to shout out Dr. Samuel Hill. Tip and me both went to Frederick Douglass High School. And I'm going to tell you, our vocabulary fails in comparison to Dr. D's. He's probably the person Tip heard Expeditionist from.

Because he would come down the hallway, let's get to class in Expeditionist, son. You know what I mean? So we went to a time where our Atlanta high schools were great and they took a lot of pride. So, you know, your nigga could be in the trap and he knew some three-syllable words as well.

Let me tell you something, man. I told you me and Tip, we had to get on the phone and like, you know, iron something out. So we got on the phone and we... Yeah, right.

Yeah, we spoke. But, you know, he had to, you know to get something off his chest. Yeah. Let me tell you something. If you ever get cursed out in the world, which is the two people you want to get cursed out from, a South nigga with that South accent just come out,

they can't help it, and a crip. If you ever get cursed out by a crip, yo, Carlos, yo, Carlos, really, I can't help it, and a crib. If you ever get cued up by a crib, yo, Carlos, yo, Carlos, I kid you not. Yo, the South, the South, like, because the thing about it is, like, it's us with the

dead ass and the New York shit, like, it's the same as that, but, like, when a South nigga, they just cut so much corners in how they just get to the point, pussy-ass nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga. I know you heard of pussy nigga, fuck nigga, fuck-ass nigga, fuck this sucker-ass nigga.

Y'all already know. This ain't even about a bitch. Fuck you, hoe-ass nigga. Listen, man. I done heard it. I was out of this bitch-ass. I love southern niggas arguing, man. It's a thing, man.

And Crips, you ain't white. You ain't Crips. If you see a Crip, man, like, and their vocabulary is, like, so crazy because their vocabulary is so, like, it just you don't ever want to get cursed out but if you ever get cursed out by street niggas you want the street nigga to be from the south because at least it's gonna be entertaining and then you want to make it to be from the South, because at least it's going to be entertaining, and then you want the nigga to be a physical career. I'm just saying. I'm telling you, man, like, Pimp C, man, I got a chance to hear Pimp C curse a few times in Magic, man.

I've never seen... As many times I've been around Pimp C, I've never been around Pimp C mad. Not once. No, man, I was around him not even mad, him just talking with disdain about him. Yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, it was, ooh, I was around when I'm not even mad. Him just talking with disdain about him. Yeah, I've seen that.

I've seen that. Yeah, yeah, it was cool shit. I'll tell you some cool shit. I forget what they did, how much they charged us, but we went and we gave them the check, and Pimp C gave me back the check. He said, I just wanted to see if you were going to come with it. I said, oh, shit.

I said, oh, man, you've been cool ever since. I love Pimp. That's in peace, Pimp C. No, I just said been cool ever since. I love Pimp. Rest in peace, Pimp C. Not just I love Pimp. I love Pimp. I always tell people, rest in peace, Pimp, and long live the bun, man. Real talk. Long live bun, man.

K for life. I see bun in the sneaker game is still crazy. Big up to bun. Big up to, you know, Pimp, we love you. But now, where everybody be at home, everybody is tuned into this one show, and this one show is called Versus. So I'll be crazy not to ask you. One thing I know about you, you love being from the South.

I love being from the East Coast. You love being from Atlanta. I love being from New York. And I don't care for where we at, we are always going to represent. You had a party the other day. I was just watching how South you was. I was like, wow, my nigga's really, really south. You know, you forget

sometimes. That's a beautiful thing. I was almost jealous. Yo, just remember your New York house. Listen, this is the thing, man. DJ Swift was DJ. OutKast DJ and Big Boi's DJ.

They were the generation before us. So they were not the Grandmaster Flash and Molly. They were, say, the Houdini. They were the Black Houdini. They were like Pumo D. They were like the Just Ice. L and L. No, no, but not even L because they were just before the big.

Okay, okay. But they were LL even L, because they were just before the big. Okay. So, but they were LL in terms of what they were listening to, but I'm talking about who they were. They just represented the Just Ice generation. So he's a militant about making sure you always represent motherfucking South. Like, you know, like he DJs for OutKast, but he's always going to make sure that he's

spinning. You know that there was music before. So he went on a Southern road. A history lesson. I love it. It was a strip club, jamming, thug down, and I sing Nori here, and yo. Yo, I learned my lesson.

Let New York in the club. Yo, let me tell you something. This is when I know I'm not from the South. I lived in the South almost 14 years, let's be clear. But I know I'm not from the South when they play records that I'm supposed to know, and I don't know it. I'm like, he went too far South.

I know commercial South. At the point he played Get That Bitch, which you have no idea. I have no idea. But it's no idea. I'm going to tell you a club in Atlanta on my side, and we're going to play Get That Bitch in a club. Get that bitch, man.

Get that bitch, man. Get that bitch. Get that motherfucking bitch, man. When that came on, I was just like, we're probably not in New York in a club. Miami's the same way. There's records that they're playing in Miami And I be swearing

Like I lived out here this long And I be looking like I never heard this Yeah I never heard that And I swear I'm like the historian So I be swearing I'm supposed to know

So that night He was playing You were right The DJ was playing Certain joints And I'm sitting back like I heard that joint But I don't know who that are

Every region God damn in history Yo he cursed me out Last week because I got a 96 in power. And I pulled up on him. And I was like, yo, man, I was like, the system, you took me to these dudes. I was like, then I ain't getting right. I got to go to somebody else. He said, what you playing?

I said, I'm playing Tribe Called Quest, low-end theory. He cussed me out. That's why your shit is what? He was like, the fuck, bro? He was like, man, you supposed to be playing some shit like Nemesis, Luke, the dogs. I was like, man. He said, you

big and Drake killed me. Come on, motherfucker. Real soft here. So, I have to ask you, if Versus came around and you had a chance to square off whether it's the person you like or the person you don't like or whatever, just musically, who do you think Killer Mike matches up with out of everyone?

Man, for me, you'll have to go, like, I don't really do, I wouldn't do the Versus because all the people whose music I love enough to play, they're going to kill me but I just want to be with them just to hear their shit like when you start talking to me man I want to hear if I had my ultimate verses matching I'd be like man I just want to hear 20

songs by Scarface 20 songs by motherfucking Ice Cube you know what I'm saying Scarface against Ice Cube that's insanity no no it's just classic just hearing the music I need a chance to hear 40 records You know what I'm saying? Oh, you put my face against Ice Cube? That's insanity. Not even against, because I don't even look at it. No, no, it's just hearing the music. I need a chance to hear 40 records.

Yeah. Give me 20 by Cube, 20 by Face. Give me 20 by the Beatnuts, 20 by the Alcoholics. You know what I'm saying? I'm just like... It's a good battle. Yeah, I'm just so-so. For me, you know, you guys approach things on the battle aspect.

And in the South, we approach it just on the jamming aspect. You're approaching it on some celebration tip right now. Right now, I'm on celebration tip. Yeah, so, for me, it's like, man, let me get 20 rough riders, 20 no limits. You know what I'm saying?

Like, imagine that part. How lit that shit gonna be. You know what I'm saying? You know, it's the only two people that went too far was from Atlanta. It was Dream and Sean Guy. No, Dream is from Atlanta. I think Sean moved here. That's where Sean was from Atlanta.

No? I think he moved here. No disrespect. Oh, he moved here? All right. We've seen him in hip-hop love Atlanta. Yeah, we can't do responsible airbites. There's something...

They are claiming him somewhere. A part of Atlanta is claiming him. Hey, no, no, no. A part of Metro Atlanta. I'm from Atlanta. I don't even say the second T in Atlanta. I'm from Atlanta. I'm not from the Metro. I didn't grow up outside of 285.

All the schools I went to were named for black people. I didn't have a white neighbor, so I got rich. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't. Yeah. I'm from Atlanta. Big of the dream. But if you had one, if you was the battle, you, you, Killer Mike, if you was the battle,

who do you think you would compare, like, with music? I would. I just don't even, I don't even think I got where I'm going yet. Who do you think, has been with him? Killer Mike? Damn, that's crazy. Yo, you know what? I want people to It would be someone literally to let me know.

You know what I would like? Who? Killer Mike versus Killer Cam. The battle of the killers. Listen though, yo, Cam got more club anger. So I would say on some records, philosophically, you got to say, like a fan said, my man, my man, America HD said, me and Immortal Technique. My man said.

You and Twista would be dope. Yeah, Twista, Twista. I don't know. I'm just thinking in terms of what we do being similar. You're talking about, okay. You're talking about like Q. Dead Prez, you would be duels. They'd be a duo.

Dead Prez would be doable. But again, I'm probably going to do a versus because I just, I'm just like, man, I just want to champ before that. My shit would be like T-Pain and Lil Jon. I liked it then. I liked it. Like, that was real. I don't know. I don't know no shit got nasty.

Thank God I didn't see Garrett and Drink, because I love both of them. I love both of them, too. I love both of them. I don't want to see no R&B niggas fight. Too much hair, color, and diamonds and shit. I'm like, I want to see more Lil Jon dreams where they fans of each other, they drunk out their motherfucking minds.

They have fun. Swiss and Timbaland started that. They were both drunk It all finished. Swiss and Timbaland started that. They were both drunk at first. And Swiss and Timbaland went for five hours. And they had a lot of fun with it. Yeah, they went. I got to vote for them brothers. I can't even act like that.

They set the tempo. So if anybody actually watched the film, that was the first one. That's how the whole idea burst. Yeah. You watch them. They really went for five hours. They got really drunk.

You've seen them start so well. They showed each other love. They bigged each other up. That's what we need, man. We need to have great chances. We need less of y'all niggas giving y'all feelings, man. Y'all niggas, get out your feelings, man. Because the fans, honestly,

we just fans of y'all, we just happy to hear 40 records. We ain't got to pay 40 for parking. We ain't got to pay 100 to get in the door. We ain't got to beg Alex to let us have a section with $1,000 off. We just get to see so let people enjoy y'all, man. Stop being assholes to each other. We love all y'all.

Yeah, yeah. Nah, that's real shit. That's real shit. That's real shit. God damn it. God damn it. So, other than you going with T.I. and feeding people, have you been outside, like, just for the essentials

and things like that? No. If I got to go to the drugstore, I go. If I got to go to the grocery, you know my wife. What the fuck am I going to do? I've been exercising in the yard, drinking water. You know what I'm saying? You know Shay ain't with that shit. She let me go to the studio twice

to tip off. You know what I'm saying? That was it. Is it weird, though? Is it weird that... Like you said, you got to have homeboys who live in the city of Atlanta who probably... Maybe they're an essential worker. Maybe they're not.

How is it when you're speaking to these guys? I mean, my homies have hit me from prison, Georgia State prisons, and let me know what's going on and try to help them get the noise out. My homies who work for the city and who do, you know, work at the airport and shit have been informing me. And my homies who work for school, so a lot of my homies teach and coach and things of that nature. So I've been hearing and understanding and trying to pass good information on life. One thing, if you guys watch my trigger warning show, you saw me introduce a black telephone company called Figures Wireless. It was started by Freddie Figures, a black Floridian, a good brother.

Hold on. Go ahead. Hold on. Okay. What in the fuck is this man doing? Mike, actually, off of this, I want to connect you with somebody. We'll talk after. Okay, absolutely. Someone in Georgia that just came to mind. Norris reminded someone he's black.

Okay, yeah, the Fingers thing, yes! Yes! All right, all right. So Fingers, that's why I think, hey, look, look at it. The fingers, yes! Yes! Come on, man! So, fingers, that's why I think... Hey, look, look at it. Look at it. Hold on, somebody screenshot that

and send that to us, man. So, look, check it out, Nori. So, I remember, Freddie, the teacher was like... Well, not the teacher, the school superintendent. Come on, you brought me two books? Go ahead, bro? Go ahead. So our school

superintendent, Maria Carson Starveson, she's like, Mike, we need, we have the food to feed the children, but we've run out of masks and gloves and smocks to serve them, right? And I'm talking about serving 20,000 families

because the feds raised, it was you could just serve the kids who actually went to school. Then the feds said, well, you can feed everybody. Now it's kids older than 18. And it just became a clusterfuck organizationally. And it was hard. Like she was going crazy,

but determined to get it done. I talked to Freddie randomly. He was like, Mike, I got these masks and stuff coming in. Not only do I talked to Freddie randomly, and he was like, Mike, I got these masks and stuff coming in. Not only do I have them coming in, he spent about $3-4 million of his own money to try to help. He helped

people out in Florida. So he sends them 5,000 masks, gloves, so they can serve kids, right? So all this is happening off of rapid relationships. And then in my talks with her, we find out that a lot of kids don't have the capabilities from an internet

perspective to do the work they need to do. We got them hooked up and hopefully they're going to come up with a solution for Atlanta's kids. That's the type of things that I've been able to do by being home and just being able to take phone calls from people I know to hook good people up for the betterment of the bigger economy.

My old art teacher pulled up to my gate, dropped off some plants and said, your garden starts now. It ain't like you're going on tour this summer. So I've actually started growing my own shit like my grandparents had taught me to as a kid. I go fishing with Greg Street tomorrow morning or the morning after. Like I've given a chance to kind of reconnect with who I am. So I haven't been bored to the point of doing drugs and killing myself as much as just kind of relearning who the fuck Mike is, you know? Right. If the average person that wants to do something, that has the ability to do something but they they're home, wants to try and help somehow, what could they do?

So the first thing we could just do is this. I told everybody, I'm about to put this up on my thing. I'm going to go buy a little styrofoam cup. I'm going to get some black dirt, and I'm going to get a tomato seed, and we're going to grow a tomato. That's it. We're going to just grow a tomato to put over our salad one day. We'll do it with you.

We'll do it with you. We'll do that. So one thing we can start doing is if we have extra, check on the people three or four doors to our left and right that are old or that may be a young woman with children, right? If there are people in our vicinity that need water, that need supplies, let's make sure we have extra. We help everyone does a little bit. No one has to do a lot and

that's that's really what you know one thing about being a rapper or a dj is nobody gives a fuck what you got to say into a time of crisis and then they don't want to know what you got like if you just randomly said something like i think what we don't pay you pay to do drink but if they need to get a message out to the drink champs audience they come to you and say hey help us get this message out to tell people toats audience, they come to you and say, hey, help us get this message out to tell people to stay in that. And you're like, yo, you just told me to shut the fuck up. Well, I want you to say what I want you to say. What this has given us an opportunity

to do is to, on a micro level, to take care of each other. There are things that are going to work in Brooklyn that are not going to work in Adamsville, that are going to work in Compton that may not work in Englewood. But we have to be about the business right now of, first of all, taking care of yourself, yourself your own health like my man Nori is one of the people keeps encouraging me So I don't stop moving and sweating and eating better. You know, I mean, I don't know if I ain't never reached my goal

I've definitely got healthy each passing year. He's encouraged me So we got to do that then you got to take care of your household your own family and then your community in a great community That's the greatest thing you can do right now. The greatest thing you can do right now is self-care, family care, and community care. And the rest I promise is going to start taking care of itself because the solutions are going to come out of the stuff you do.

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AT&T, connecting changes everything. Is that? No shit. Oh, man. I couldn't believe, like, I see. Well, I didn't watch it live, obviously. Worldstar. Well, my friend pulled it up on Worldstar. And I never thought that hip-hop would even be this crazy.

Did you? I mean, and this is a question to both of you guys at this point. You thought this shit, EFN? Hell no. Yeah. How about you, Killer Mike? Are you surprised in hip-hop? I mean, it's not that hip-hop is a separate thing. I? Are you surprised in hip-hop? I mean, it's not that hip-hop is a separate thing.

I mean, are you blaming hip-hop? I don't think that's... I'm not blaming hip-hop. I'm sorry. Let me rephrase my statement. Like, I mean, you ever thought that our culture, like, will have a person like that that exists? You know what I mean?

Like, it was like two million people who tuned in. All right. Like, what do you feel killer mike 20 minutes two million to 20 minutes and he's bragging about it like i'm like i don't give a fuck if you had fucking 14 billion you know what i mean like he's actually the he's actually like the donald trump of hip-hop like like he's like the... He's actually like the Donald Trump of hip-hop. Like, he's like the... You know, like Trump is... People hate him, but people love him. Yeah, people hate him, but people love him. What you think, Killer Mike?

I'm sorry, I got to get you to say something. I'm on to that. Come on. I'm smoking too. You think this day would ever exist in hip hop when we have a person who blatantly told

blatantly like he's the Sammy the Bull Tom's Donald Trump Tom's all that together you think that you think that would ever existed in

what do you think no comment silence says it all What do you think? No comment? Silence does it all. Let it be. Next. No problem. So you planning to open back up a barbershop on June 1st?

Yeah, absolutely. We all, the Shade Wash and Groom shop, man, we got one in the arena, the Hawks arena. Shouts out to Trey Young, what college man,

y'all was, we on our way. You know, shouts out to Steve Coonan who run it over there. Shouts out to the ownership, you know,

shouts out to my man Grant Hill who's one of my minority owners over there. Like, I'm excited about getting back popping. When basketball can get back popping, our flagship store on 365 Edgewood Avenue

is going to open. I would say look for it right at the top of June. And we got the original, the OG store down on Roosevelt Highway on the south side of Collin Park and Titty Boy and Bear Loke on the east side of town. We opened one. We were in the process

of shooting to open 10 shops simultaneously, but this kind of made us step back and reevaluate. So we may roll out less shops, but the goal is 10 to 20 shops in the next three to four years. And, oh, damn, damn. So what was I about to say? You have something to eat? I forgot what I was about to say. And, oh, damn, damn.

So what was I about to say? Yeah, you have something to eat? I forgot what I was about to say. No, I just think, what do you think, like, what do you think after we get over this whole quarantine and the pandemic stuff starts,

you know, whatever, tampering down, which I don't know that it really ever will because I don't know that we could trust all the information, but what do you think?

Go ahead. Go ahead. What were you going to say? No, no. I'm letting you finish the question. I'm sorry. I'm just kind of coming out of the car. No, I'm just wondering, like, what's the how does everybody come out of this?

And what do you think people's first steps should be? Like the average person living, you know, man, like, like, it's just it just seems like looking ahead. It seems like you're going uphill. Simplicity, though, man. It's like for as bad and as hard as this is, we have people that were alive during the Spanish flu. And yet they have survived and thrived and lived to be old. My grandparents were born in 1922 and 1932. You know, they have seen the grips

of poverty in this country. They've seen this country prior to government intervention to help. They've seen it post. They saw it. And so I've never expected it to go smooth the whole ride. And we're entering some bumpy times. But I just know that I've always seen poor people endure, survive, and thrive.

And right now, the people to be looking at are the people who have compassion and sympathy and empathy politically and want to make sure that we get the right type of leadership. And also the people on ground level who are doing the work like Tanya Ove and Park Kids and Gary down at Next Level Boys Academy that are making sure that people have substance to eat, their mentality is stable. Those are the people we need to look to for leadership. We, as entertainers and artists, our job is not always to think of the great idea but to magnify the great idea. And there are people on local level that are doing stuff where you at at home.

And that's who you should be helping. And you should be, if there's a gardening center in your home and you got time, what better time? I don't mean something you got to pay for at the Home Depot. There's someone in your community trying to teach children to garden. Get up out of the sofa

at what point you feel safe and go help them tote some bags and to do some things. Because that knowledge of growing that tomato that we bags and to do some things. Because that knowledge of growing that tomato that we're going to do in a window seal together is going to help you in 10, 20 years and actually 10 months to be a stronger person.

We can't depend on government. I'm going to just be honest. We can require, we can hope, we can help, we can make things happen, but in the immediate, on a very day-to-day basis, you've got to depend on yourself. Self-sufficiency. And that's hard to hear in places like New York, Austin, Philadelphia, and Connecticut.

But once you start going upstate and once you start in the rural areas, it all turns into kind of what we've grown up around in the South. And we're going to have to start figuring out some alternative ways to be happy and shopping. We're going to have to start figuring out some alternative ways to be happy than shopping you know we're going to have to start figuring out what else makes us happy being together taking a walk you know when nori was running the job and so for me i'm i have taken this time to understand that this very simple living that made me happy as a child and my children are not worse off for having to live simply now you know and and we're going to have to start to accept that maybe a version where we have less equals more versus, you know, versus having too much. And I want people in this panic not to give up their freedoms.

You know, we have a lot of constitutional freedoms in this country, and I don't want us to get so scared we give up everything. You know, I want us to be able to not have government tell us what to put in our bodies. So pay attention to everything that's being given. I saw, and this is not to kill us down, but I saw something I didn't appreciate. I saw Virginians come out black, white, short, tall, all types of ethnicities together a few months ago and tell the governor, no, we want our Senate amendment rights. And then I saw quietly when this happened him press an order that

kind of wiped away people's will and what they wanted to see. And even though usually I vote for his party, I just didn't think that was a good move. And it's the same guy who was in blackface at once in his life. So why would somebody who's ever done that and understands the pains and troubles that he caused and the pains and troubles

of black people want to dearm a constituency and troubles of black people, want to dearm a constituency that consists of black people as well. So I'm just watching out for all the okie doke shit. I'm listening to a lot of Goody Mob. I'm trying to keep my mind calm and I'm trying to do what I can on a daily basis for myself and help those who cannot help themselves.

And that's the very simple honest answer. I don't have a big structural answer for you, but I tell you that if you can't control anything else, you can control your own mind and take some time and focus on that. And we can start to evolve and progress. Stacey Adams or her name is Stacey Ables Stacey Ables or Camilla Harris what if what happens if he does elect his vice president to be

a black woman I just don't I don't think I don't think Biden beats Trump I think Sanders was the strongest possible chance of beating Trump because you don't beat Magneto with Magneto-like. You beat Magneto with Professor X, someone who is the antithesis. If Biden's policy becomes the antithesis of Trump's policy, and if his policy becomes reflective of a truly progressive policy,

I think it's possible to win with whoever he picks. Again, because I've only talked about personality. I mean, policy this interview. You brought up a few personalities. There's nothing wrong with this. Nothing wrong with invoking Kamala Harris or Stacey Abrams. There's nothing wrong with invoking Nina Turner, who really is qualified to be president of this country. There's nothing wrong with invoking Tezlan who really is qualified to be president of this country. There's nothing wrong with invoking Teslin Figueroa, you know, who's qualified to definitely be anybody's vice president, secretary of state. Just to me, let's invoke the people with truly progressive policy, not just the personality,

you know, that we like. So who has the policy? Who's running for president with a policy that trumps Trump? And if we don't have that, we still got enough time to fix it. Who has the policy? Who's running for president with a policy that trumps Trump? And if we don't have that, we still got enough time to fix that. That's crazy. That's crazy, man. Well, there you have it, man.

I think we got your time. We got into your position. And like he said, go listen to Goody Mob. All I would do right now is listen to Goody Mob. The first two Goody Mob albums are all I'd listen to. Wow. Okay. I got to get into my Goody Mob, man.

Get into your first two Goody Mobs. Get into that Dead Friends. I say get into that Ice Cube, the second one. America's Most Wanted. No, no, no. Death Certificate is the second one the uh america's most wanted no no no that's certificate it's the second one i'm thinking of the ep my bad yeah exactly that was kill that will kill that will was the ep but i get into death certificate that's the best one of the best albums of all time all fucking time i definitely i definitely get in i definitely get in and there are many others who came you know to the coop but i i definitely get those those

four records those two bittyitty moms, definitely that cue. I forgot the other one I said. Oh, yeah, man, PDP, what the fuck am I thinking? If you're not listening to Chris, black cop right now, watching that bullshit go down in New York, like, man, shut up, man. To that brown police officer that put his knee on that child's head, in your lifetime, you have been

scared a cop was going to do that to you. And you're a piece of shit bully for what you did to that child. Wow. In your lifetime, you have been afraid of a cop was going to do that to you. And you're a piece of shit bully for doing that to that child. Yeah, I can't lie. Sometimes

it's like Guru following my brother, my son, because he posts all of that. He does. And he's valuable to the community. Thank you, my son. Real talk. Thank you, Tamika. Thank you, Tamika Harris. Yeah, absolutely.

Big them all up, man. It's painful to see that we still go through this shit like it's 1920. You know what I mean? It's painful, man. we still go through this shit like it's 1920. You know what I mean? It's painful, man. It's real painful, man. It all can stop if we ever organize. Bobby Seale

I think said, we're not outnumbered, we're outorganized. If, I'm telling you, if every single time this happened, and not even, Dick R Gregory said this, kill Christmas. If we're angry enough to say we're not spending no money from Black Friday forward, we're not spending no money. We're not spending no Thanksgiving money.

We're not spending no Christmas money. We're not spending no Kwanzaa money, no first of the year money. We're not spending shit. We're not even coming outside tomorrow to pay person human. We not spending shit We're not even coming outside the model team day watch this country doing about face 40% of all US profits from retail coming at those times of the year So what are we willing to do? Who are we willing like if you're not gonna take to the streets with guns and rivals and ammunition? Have the only other way in capitalism you hurt anyone is to punish their pockets on a local level

If you vote the right people in, you can make it so that the officer can be sued if they found guilty of that. He can lose his fucking pension. You can make it so. It's a longer campaign. But you can make it so that once convicted

of a crime, you can make it so that the police has to have an authoritative community review board. So you don't just have just the police and just the police unions and the politicians. Now you can empower a community review board to be in review to officer policy as well. You can make sure that regular people are on that board and you have civil

rights and independent counsel on that board. You can make that happen. people are on that board and you have civil rights and independent counsel on that board you can make that happen you can get that through legislative now that's going to take a couple years but while you call out every cop while you film them while you put their name and addresses out make sure that you're doing something under those gold domes to make it punishable to make it to make it so that—because when they say, well, the city had to pay out, them Yote tax dollars. Punish their pockets. Punish their pensions. Punish their retirements. Punish the politicians that protect them. When that punishment starts getting added out of the capitalist system, when money stops getting spent at stores, well, why don't black people want to buy joints almost? They're protesting. Well, what are they protesting? They're protesting

police brutality. Well, what does that have to do with us? Nothing. Nike's going to go to every legislator and say, we don't know what the fuck is going on. But our sales of Jordans and Air Force Ones are down. Kick your dogs and shit and back

in the cage. You will see public policy changing in me. That was real. dogs and shit and back in a cage. You will see public policy changing immediately. That was real. That was all. Now, I could give you the alternative, but that would call death and bloodshed. And I truly don't think that's what Americans want. You know, Americans have to do what we're going

to do. And I think it should be economics. But just for, you know, fuck's sake, what is the alternative? Well, you got to listen to more white people. They'll tell you. They're going to show you more about it when they see it from the union. Y'all have a great day, man.

I love y'all. Yeah, love you, man. All love. Thank you for joining us. All right, love. All right, how do we do that? Good looking, Mike. All right, Jen, how did we do that? Good looking, Mike. All right, that was all. What's going on, dog? I thought we were on Instagram.

I know about Instagram. My G. So we got Shannon Briggs on here. We recording, right? Everything recorded, right? So we're hearing there's a rumor that Mike Tyson is getting back In the ring and not only is we hearing That Mike Tyson is getting back in the ring But we're hearing one of his opponents

Potentially Is no other than The champ right here, Drake Chen We need to hear Is that a possibility? I think it is Possibility, we're working on it I'm going to be honest with you. First and foremost,

I want to say it's a pleasure and an honor to be here finally talking to y'all two because I'm a big fan of both of y'all. I appreciate you. Everybody and their grandmas would be like, yo, champ, you need to be on there. That's all good. We're going to get to that later. But the most important thing is right now, Mike

Tyson is shaking up the boxing world. Mike Tyson is shaking up the boxing world. Mike Tyson is shaking up the boxing world. Even Donald Trump tweeted, yo, Mike Tyson, come back, blah, blah, blah. So, the hottest thing in the world right now is Mike Tyson. We all love him. And my thinking is this, Paulie. You know what I'm saying? I'm a 30-year-plus veteran of the game.

And my whole thinking is this better than being Mike Tyson for for for charity and for exhibition a bunch of noise who's the AK? It's gone, right? Yeah, I don't hear no more. Sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. What I was saying was, you know, for the most part, it's that. Who's is it? Who's the AK? That's.

Oh, I can tell I can come in. Who? I can. I can. Come on. That's Ack Oh Ack Tell Ack to come in Who Ackanelli Ackanelli's on Come on Ack Ackanelli come on Hit your camera That's my brother Yeah come on Ack Hit your camera

Let's do it We know you're joining Taliban Ack Come on hit your camera Ack tune in on There we go Yo we right here Alive in the E What's up there mutual what's up yo we right here live in the what's the deal

I'm right here I'm right here hey yo hey yo Nori yo Nori I came to my crib and he was like Oh that's my man From back day I always rock with me

He support me I love him He know the family He family me He came by my crib And I said Yo you the next Don King He came up with the tag

The driller in Brownsville You feel me? I seen that image too That shit's already All over the place That was my only idea The driller in Brownsville I can tell he is the next Don

King. Wait, wait, wait. You in your mobile home right now? I'm in my mobile home right now, man. I'm in my mobile home. We going. We traveling right now. We promoting the Don King. This is Akinyele. Akinyele. Not Don King. Akinyele.

I got this here going wild like Don King over here. We're promoting the Shannon Briggs attack right now. Both of them from Brownsville. It used to be the Thora of Manila. Now it's the Thora of Brownsville. We might have Layla Ali as the referee. Yes, it's going to be fun.

It's in New York City. Definitely. It's a fight against COVID. You know, we're giving back to the people. Mike Tyson, Shannon Briggs. Let's go. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here with us tonight. Welcome you now.

Tune in to the Drink Champs. Yes, I'm your co-host, Akmel. Shannon, talk to them. Let's go, champ. So look, so just in case, right? Just in case, fellas, we understand that this exhibition is very, like, it's important. Just in case, let's say Tyson picks somebody else. Are you willing to do an exhibition with somebody else until Tyson comes back?

Like, you know what I mean? I want him to fight anybody, anytime. I ran down on Klitschko. I ran down on Wilder. I ran down on Hay. I ran down. I've been knocking on doors. Ain't nobody answering. You feel me? I'm on my shit. I'm a New Yorker. Just like you, you heard? I ain't scared

of nobody, son. You know what I mean? I ain't scared of nobody, son. I'm repping New York. I rep the world. I'm the people's champ. I don't need no belt. I just need the people. I'm like you. You're the champ of the people, Nori. The people love you. We love you because you rep it. That's how I am in boxing. I'm the people's champ.

Wait, wait. You driving? I'm driving right now. I'm on South Beach. Drive. I'm the people's champ. Wait, wait. You driving? I'm driving right now. I'm on South Beach. You're on the bus. I don't want to go. I'm driving a lot. We're still on the bus. Yes, don't worry about it.

You're going to be there. I'm going to take you to Oceania. Wow. Fun, too. But right now, we're promoting the Shannon Briggs event with Mike Tyson. We're going to love it. Yes. E, what's your thoughts on it?

I can't wait, man. Make sure we're in the front row. Big chance. I need to be the commentators. Oh, we in. We in. We automatically in. This is what it is.

Commentators. Real talk. That's right. Noriega, EFN, the commentators. It's going to go down. We want to do it at the Barclays. Only right. It's Brooklyn. Noriega. Call home. You's going to go down. We want to do it at the Barclays. It's only right. It's Brooklyn.

Call home. It can be funny, but call home, man. Get it on at the Barclays, man. Get it on at the Barclays. And we're going to have fun with it. Yes. Or we can do it at the Met Stadium, wherever y'all want to do. No, it's got to be the Barclays. It's got to be the Barclays. It's Brooklyn.

It's Brooklyn. It's Brooklyn. It's Brooklyn. I think it's a whole Area for Like You know Bare knuckle Underground

They got the BX Fight Club Kimbo Slice has started something Kimbo Slice Yeah I think. Rest in peace, Kimbo Slice. Yeah, I think rest in peace is Kimbo Slice. I think this is an area where there's an actual league of people, you know what I'm saying? What do you think? Who does a person qualify for you

to fight, Shannon? You know what I mean? You wanted to do a warm-up fight before this. I think they should have some boxing experience, like a real boxer. Like, you got Klitschko, David Haye want to come back, James Toney talking slick, Holyfield coming back. They all older than me, but you know what I'm saying? You know, I'll take your light on them. Nah, nah, I'm just joking. Hey, talk that talk. Talk that talk.

Instead of rap? I'm lying. I won't take it lightly. Instead of rap, this could be like, you know, I see the Klitschko brothers all the time in Hollanda. I see them in Hollywood, Hollanda all the time. Me too. So that could be something that's crazy.

They retire too. You know what I'm saying? Which one you prefer? Which Klitschko you prefer? You don't even care. I fight, but I fought one of the brothers, but I fought him with one arm. My arm broke in the first round. I fought him for 12 rounds with one arm. I took the loss, but I didn't get knocked out. Then I was like, yo, he retired. I was

trying to get the brother. I was chasing him all around the world. He live in Hollywood. I be seeing him sometime. He be ducking me. You know what I'm saying? chase him all around the world. He live in Hollywood. I be seeing him sometime. He be ducking me. You know what I'm saying? He a sucker. Bye.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yo, go ahead, man. Go ahead. Yo, Hawk, you on Ocean Drive right now? Right now. Right now. We on Ocean. Going past Prime 112 right now.

That's Prime 112 like a mother. That's Prime 112. We're out here riding, definitely. Is that a wrap vehicle? Yo, give me some. This is a bus. We live on the bus. We live on the road. I mean, man, I'm quarantining on the bus right now.

What do you want me to do? That's the best way to quarantine. You at home, but you're moving. I have an underlying illness, so I have to quarantine. I've been suffering from erectile dysfunction my whole life, so I was in Viagra and the COVID in my chest and my heart, I can't play.

But right now, right now, we're here. We're promoting E! and Nori, and we appreciate you guys for giving us the platform. It's for Shannon Briggs and Tyson to fight. Who else would the world want to see besides that? When we was growing up, we're New Yorkers. They were our heroes.

So finally, before we go out, I mean, you got the Holy Spirit, you got everybody else there, but it's like we've seen that already. We've seen that. This is for the street. This is for New York City. This is for the people who use the slack box on their block like there. This is what we want to see right now, what's happening right now.

Yes, Shannon Briggs, Mike Tyson, Barkley Center. It's all Brooklyn, man. And I'm from Queens. I'm biased. I'm from Queens. But it's all Brooklyn, man. I tell people like this. Everybody from Queens is second generation, third generation Queens.

They really from Brooklyn. Everybody. That girl definitely. Everybody. But I'm not going to lie. To everybody that's on here, we all seen that footage of Tyson. Blah, blah, blah. Like, the guy

holding the gloves looked like he was dead. Like, you sure, like, what do you, what do you say when you see that, Shannon?

I say, damn, he still got it, bro. He still got it at 53. He look like a, he look like a fucking monster. You feel me?

But, the whole thing is, you know, it's like, look, you know, he from the Ville, I'm from the Ville.

I love my, I just did, I just did the show. I just did the show. We waiting to launch it because we're doing a movie called Never Ran, Never Will. My man from Cocaine Cowboys,

my man Billy Corbin, he shot it. You know what I'm saying? He's called Never Ran. My man Billy's called Never Ran, Never Will. So we was like, yo, we're going to drop

the episode when we do know we dropped the film. And that's about Brownsville? Huh? That's about Brownsville, Never Ran, Never Will? That's about Brownsville.

You got three former heavyweight champions, Mike Tyson, Riddick Boyd, myself, all from Brownsville. You got Zab Judah, Curtis Stevens, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Danny Jacobs. We got a new kid coming up named Shushu, undefeated. So, you know, Brownsville always been a ghetto, you know what I'm saying? Since the 1800s, 1700s. So right now, we trying to to, we're doing a movie about Brownsville itself.

And then the whole thing to this whole thing, Nori and Yef, is that we want to open up a gym in Brownsville called the Brownsville Boxing Academy. You know what I'm saying?

To leave a legacy to help a lot of kids. Like myself, I was a homeless teenager growing up in Brooklyn. Mike as well. We both was homeless. We both found boxing

to get out, you know, get off the streets and make a life for ourselves. So we talked about it. We talked it boxing to get out, you know, get out, get off the streets and make a life for ourselves So we talked about it We talked it up for four hours chopped it up and then we started moving forward with the movie because we think it'll be Something that people love to see aside from that Might coming back gives the opportunity for this to really happen. This is a mic. This is Mike

That's up to Mike now because 600 700 kids that died last year in Brooklyn. Shootings and all that type of crazy shit. We need to stop this. Brownsville has to produce some great fighters. Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe, Zab Judah. We don't even know how many great fighters have come out of Brownsville or Brooklyn itself because there ain't really no gyms like that. You feel me?

All right. Yo, so Akanele. Yes, sir. The versus thing going on right now. Who would you battle on the versus? Could you battle me? Nah, nah. If it's the versus thing right now, I'm good. I'm good for one song.

I'm good for one song. I'm good. I mean, it would just be putting it in your mouth against Doodle Brown. That's it. I was going to say that. I mean, it would just be putting it in your mouth against Doodle Brown. That's it. I was going to say that. I was going to say that. We're going to go right and put it in your mouth

against Doodle Brown. That's it. I'm going for putting it in your mouth. Putting it in your mouth against Doodle Brown. That's it. That's a good one. Then we just got to bring girls out.

It just got to be late night. It got to be late night. It's got to be late night. Y'all, I just don't know. My first tours was with Akineli. Akineli would put on the greatest performance. He would have regular dancers. He would have strippers. They would do a banana show with a banana, with chocolate.

And like, yo, listen, Akineli is one of the most phenomenal for all of them. I wanted him to hear this. Jesus. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. Oh, okay. A lot of people don't know how you touched that stage. I see you just did the loud thing. Yes. Yes, it was dope. I went to the loud

hangover 25th anniversary. It was at Radio City Music Hall. it was real good it was epic, it was like you wait 30 years you're the underground rapper that never gets there, right, and then 30 years you come on the live stage of Radio City

Music Hall, and then you say yo, my name is Al Canelli, and the crowd goes crazy and you said, that's what I came into shit for, 30 years ago and you get out, and finally when you get you look up, and you said that's what I came in this shit for 30 years ago and you get out and finally when you get it you like look up and you look at God and you say I am not ready to die you can take me right here we did

it what the plan is yours once again yes right now in case you just tuning in you watching Drink Champs live and direct EFN VJ VFN Moriega and we got Stanton Briggs live and direct. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you're here

with us tonight. Talk to me, close to the ladies, or you will pay child support. Yes, yes. Shannon Briggs, Mike Tyson. Take it away, Shannon. Let's go, Chad. That's what we said. Shannon Briggs against Mike Tyson right now. Live. Yes. Shannon Briggs against

Mike Tyson. This is the fight in New Yes. Shannon Briggs against Mike Tyson. This is the fight in New York. This is the fight in Brooklyn. This is the only place that should be at is the Barclays Center. No people. Just straight Instagram. Just straight internet.

Just straight on Drink Champs. They have to come through Drink Champs. This is the only way to fight. Listen, women, it's going to come

through Drink Champs. Mike Tyson them at the Barclays. Shannon Briggs. It happens live. To open the fights, we's going to come through Drake Champs, Mike Tyson, them, at the Barclay, Shannon Briggs. It happens live. To open the fights, we're going to have rappers slap boxing. That's how it's got to go. Rappers just got to slap boxing. We're going to have verses live.

Verses live. We'll probably get some rappers slap boxing. We'll have Timbaland against Swiss Beats live. Live. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And definitely do it and we can make it happen. Swiss Beats live. Live. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. That's the opening card. Exactly.

And definitely do it and we can make it happen. Yes, right here. I King, Yelly. It used to be Don King. Now it's I King. My ears are streaming wild like they're here with Don King. Yes.

Yeah. I can't believe it. Let's suppose this actually happens, right? Let's suppose. What would the league be called? What would it be called? Life After Boxing? Oh, Legends League. Legends League. I like

Legends League. Legends League. LL. Legends League. That's right. LL. Shout out to LL. The greatest. The GOAT. The GOAT. Oh, name it after LL. LL. Legends League. LL. Mama said knock you out. Oh, maybe I'll see you. Legit,

Mama said knock you out. That'd be the official song for the league. Facts. Facts. You're my happy hour. I'm going to drink more drink caps. My wife came while I was screaming

on me. I said, chill, I'm going to drink caps. We still drinking, chill. He's still drinking, too. We were quarantining. She came screaming on me. I'm like, chill, I'm on free chat.

Real shit. Chill, man, chill. How have you been quarantining, Shannon? How have you been quarantining, Shannon? How have you been quarantining? You know, I've been, it's funny, because I've been doing this 12 years. I've been just standing in the crib training and going out for specific reasons.

So for me, it's regular shit. You know, I've been down here 24 years in Miami. This is home for me. You know what I'm saying? So I'm regular. I'm used to it. I'm used to standing in the crib. I'm out here, as you can see. I'm in the backyard. You know what I mean? Shit is cool. It ain't Brooklyn. You know what I'm saying? So, I'm regular. I'm used to standing in the crib. I'm out here, as you can see. I'm in the backyard.

You know what I mean? It ain't Brooklyn, you know what I mean? Let's go, champ. And same question for you, Akanele. How you been quarantining? I've been quarantining inside of a tour bus, just hanging out. So, it's crazy, because when the bus

pulls up on people, it's the bus in your face. You, it's the bus in your face. You get it? The bus in your face. Yes. So it's still art in the day of life. The bus in your face. You know you got bars.

Bars. That's what it is. So I've been quite to the other bus. We have a nice bus. We have an oven. Everything. I have a, you know, everything. A bedroom, a bathroom. I mean, it's the only place.ing on the bus. We have a nice bus. We have an oven. Everything. I have a, you know, everything. A bedroom, a bathroom.

I mean, it's the only place. It's the bus. When you see the bus pull up, officially the bus is in your face. The bus is in your face. Watch out. Yo, so listen. I'm not only praying that this fight happens.

I'm praying that you get an exhibition before this so we can actually, you know, go out and bug out with you. You know, I'm a big fan of your attitude, Shannon. Every time you know, you know, you're always positive. You walk in the building, you let's go champ, let's go champ. You know, that's our thing as well. Drink champ.

You already know. Next time we, you know, hopefully we can do this in person. Akanele, Akanele's like, you know, damn near my, like the first person I kicked my third rat to. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I know Akanele from Collect Calls from jail.

He used to sack my shit. I used to kick rhymes to him. My shit was horrible. He was like, keep going. He never told me I was whack. He was like, keep going. And you made it here. We appreciate it. Yeah, no doubt. I want to say, too, I could put you on to this. I'm a big hip-hop fan. I'm a big hip-hop head.

I can tell you I love hip-hop, and I'm a big fan of yours. I know all your raps. So if you ever need a hype man to finish a verse, I got you. I got you. No, I can tell you. I know all your shit, champ, all of it. But what I do want to do, what I do want to do is me and EFN, when this shit boils down, me and EFN

go train with you because what we will do is, every year we've been planning on us going against EFN's crew at Crazy Hood and do a paintball thing or a handball tournament. What we want to do, we want to put together the Drunk Olympics

where you like, where you could be like the trainer for all of us and we just do just that. That's live. That's live. But it's a couple of different things.

So you'll be the official trainer, you and my man Giant. And like, it'll be like some funny shit. That's live, sir. That's live. That's called the Drunk Olympics. So like,

let's start a Gatorade. We're handing out Heineken's and a piece of Spain. That's live. That's live. Instead of Gatorade, we have now Heineken's and a piece of Spain. That's live. I want y'all to stand back so the men can see y'all real quick. I want y'all to give them a shot showing what's going on. All right, well, look. The ladies want to say hello.

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It's also hosting the Mike Tyson, Shannon Briggs fight. Put it in your mouth records. It's fun. They got artists like Super Bossa Nova, DJ Luke Nasty, Wally Coyote from Empire. We're having fun and we want to thank you you could have been anywhere in the world but you're here with us tonight and we appreciate it drink champs dj salute yes yes yes love y'all

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