Joe and Jada - The Real Report - DJ Vlad defends his viral tweets, why streaming is becoming obsolete, paying for interviews, LaRussell on Lil Wayne & top 5 NBA G.O.A.T.s

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

DJ Vlad joins The Real Report with Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda to address his viral tweets and discuss how misinformation spreads online. The conversation also covers Jimmy Iovine’s recent comments on streaming platforms and their current relevance, the business model behind paying for interviews, LaRussell’s remarks about Lil Wayne, and a debate over the Top 5 NBA G.O.A.T.S. across different eras of basketball.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vlad, you know what I want to know? Why do you interview Tony Yeo so much, Vlad? He didn't get stabbed. Right, shut the fuck up with him. Brooms! Role! Who's that point you get movies with? Oh!

Brimble! Look, come from a rich. Got my video. I would get to want you. I was a guy. I don't know. It's a kid. Don't.

So you missed the viral right now. Tell me how many views you did when you put out this story about Torrey Lanes and Rock Nation, because you said a lot of crazy things, and I don't want to tell people what you told me. I want you to tell a people. It's at about, I don't know, 13, 14 million impressions on that one tweet. And if you count all the other, you know, media outlets that picked it up and the TikToks and, you know, the Instagrams and the other Twitter accounts, probably 100 million, easy.

Wow. Yeah. So what made you wake up, right, Uncle Murder? We was thinking what made him wake up and want to troll today? Because it seemed like, is it trolling or what is it? What is it to you, murder? It seemed like Vlad is trolling. I think you trolling because I'm like, this can't be true.

I don't see these guys paying him to do all of these things. But there's everywhere right now so everybody want to know. And I'm glad you gave us the exclusive interview and all that, Blad. Right. So tell us, because I'm- I thought you was hacked. I said, Vlad got to be hacked or Vlad is trolling. So get into the story with Rock Nation and Torrey Lane's.

The biggest thing on the internet, let's get into it on the real report. All right. So I've been talking about the Tory Lane's making situation right after it happened. And as the information came out and as, you know, Megan said that I'm going to testify. I've quoted you a lot. You know, if you have someone that you shoot and they get on the stand and say, you shot me. Right. And this woman on top of that, there is a very slow.

chance you will beat that in trial. You might as well just plead out. So as they're going back and forth, he's antagonizing her and, you know, she's responding and everything else like that, I started saying in my interviews, Tori's going to jail. And I was like, oh, you're a hater, whatever.

And I'm like, look, based on what I see, he's going to go to jail. He DM me, you know, trying to figure out what I know, calls me a cop, whatever else. That's whatever, man. So Tori Lane's DMs you and called you a cop? I never knew this. Yeah, yeah, he did. Free Tory.

That's whatever. I don't care about that. I think Tori Lanes is a dope artist. Definitely. I have been called or type of names. What is that? I said you've been called or type of names. All types of names.

I agree. I agree. Glad is my friend, though. You know, Vlad is my friend. He's my guy. He helped me with a lot of stuff with learning about this podcast thing and he never really hated on anybody from what I see.

Now, does he pick on people sometimes? He doesn't know. He does murder. You know, and it's cool. And this time, picking on Rock Nation and Torrey Lane's. Well, not Tori Lane, just Rock Nation. No, no, no. I'm not, even picking on Rock Nation. So, so basically leading up to the trial, I was one of the only people in hip-hop media that kept saying, Tori's going to be found guilty, he's going to go to jail.

That doesn't make me a hater, doesn't make me a snitch or a cop. It's just based on the public information. I was following the trial, I'm like, he's going to go to jail. And everyone, whenever I did a poll on Twitter or, you know, YouTube, 80% of my vote, viewers said, no, he's going to beat it. He's going to walk away. You know, she's lying, whatever else. I predicted it too. Not to cut you off. I predicted it too. I'm about I said it to you. I said, right. When you got somebody that's saying you shot them, I don't know, the case is not looking. It's not looking good, right? So, lo and behold, he gets found guilty and he goes to jail. And he files an appeal, and the appeal falls through. And you think that

that's the end of it. But constantly, you see all this news footage that keeps coming out. And out where it's like, yo, no, she never got shot. He actually had a press conference, like, his lawyers had a press conference that said he didn't shoot her. Kelsey was shooting the gun and he hit her arm. The gun fell to the floor and fired twice. And that's how she got hit. Now, listen, man, I'm not Nicholas Irving, you know, the Army sniper, but I have handled guns throughout my life. And I can tell you, if I threw a gun on the floor, a thousand times, I don't think you would fire twice. Am I right?

That don't sound too believable, but, yeah, I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. Right. So what made you wake up, though? This is the room. So this is what happened, right? So that morning, a bunch of, like, Daily Loud and a bunch of other, like, Dom is News, I believe, and a bunch of other, like, media outlets that I follow,

starts running this video of Torrey's lawyers saying that Kelsey's bodyguard has come forward and said that Kelsey's the shooter, not Tory. And everyone's going crazy over this footage. Now, I'm looking at this going like, this is from last May. This already came out almost a year ago. The appeal went through and it didn't happen. The appeal was struck down. And so I posed this.

I'm like, oh, you're an idiot to think that this is somehow news and that this is somehow going to overturn this. And people in the comments, yeah, but, you know, Rock Nation, they bought off the jury. And Rock is really Jay's. Because remember, Tory's dad, like after Tori was found guilty, went on this whole rant where you were screaming about Rock Nation and Jay-Z in the courtroom and everything else like that, right?

So I said, okay, listen, like this is guys so stupid at this point that I'm going to just do a tweet where I'm going to take every conspiracy theory around this and just list it one after the other. I got paid by Rock Nation. Jay-Z paid off the jury. And he paid off the judge and did a verse for the judge's grandson. Right? Oh, God.

And he paid the Mexican dude to stab Tori in prison. And he paid off the doctor to say that she got shot when she really wasn't. And he paid off everyone else. Like, you know, I'm like, okay, this is so stupid that no one's going to believe this. So you're saying the internet does what it does best. Twist stuff up, change stuff, conspiracy theories. But you knew, but you know why I was trolling? I was trolling because you had to know some of the, now the Jay-Z verse was crazy, but him getting

stabbed by Rock Nation and all that. That might be believable or something. It might be believable. It might be believable. So you mean to tell me that Jay-Z, where he is in life right now, right? He's a billionaire. He's considered one of the greatest ever. He's going to risk all that to pay a pedophile, a Mexican pedophile, to do a murder in prison.

over a guy with an, you know, who's antagonizing an artist that's not even a big priority to Jay-Z. Like, like, but, but, Vlad, you, listen, you're a credible source

to the culture. So people are, like, a lot of people are, like, confused from what I'm hearing. You know what I'm saying? It's a lot of, it's just coming from you. So people don't know if you were hacked

or you was trolling or... I was not hacked, man. I was trying to prove a point and I proved it. that no matter whatever stupidity you put out there there's going to be millions of people that eat it up and I was right no matter how stupid it is no matter how totally unbelievable it is

there's going to be someone that eats it up and look millions of people ate it up millions I proved my point did I prove my point you definitely did because people ran with the story and it definitely went viral that's why we got you on a real report right now like share subscribe you know what I'm saying and we get to everything that's real. So where do we go from here?

Because you're a credible source. You're part of the culture, Vlad. So people like, what are you hearing? Like how people are calling your phone? What are they saying? And I want to know, Black, how do you feel about people like, because you're cool as shit, right? But how do you feel about people saying

you're a culture, too, Black? This is the real report. So we really want to know. He has a lot of money, ladies and gentlemen. But I want to know how he really feels about that, though. Because he's been a part of the culture for so long. Very long. So for people to say that, how do you feel about that, Vlad?

Yeah. I mean, what's interesting is that both of y'all, I was doing interviews with the both of you before Vlad TV. Yep. You guys are part of Vlad's DVD era. Facts. For real, for real. So you guys know how far I go back.

I don't care about that. Every white person in hip hop is called that at some point. You know, Steve Rifkin gets called that. Look how much she's contributed. Absolutely. Take Leo Cohen out of hip hop, and you would have a very different. different hip hop. People don't want to admit that. But there's a reason why he became president

Def Jam and then, you know, the head of YouTube music, you know, he had to, he was president, he was a chairman of another, he was chairman of, I think, Atlantic at one point. Like, I may be getting wrong, but it's like, yo, like, I'm fine with being called that. But, you know, at the end of the day, it's like, at what point do you just say, we have to use our common. sense. What's interesting about that particular tweet is that there's probably maybe like at least 100 replies where people are asking Grock, is this real? And every time Grock says, no, it's parody. It's sarcasm. Right. So AI knows sarcasm better than human beings now. Isn't that sad? Isn't that kind of sad? That AI does a better job of telling someone is sarcasm than the person

themselves, an actual human being. That's what's sad about this. I never thought like that. That's crazy. Every time Grock, and Grock doesn't even get shit right sometimes. And every time Grock got it, like, Glad is being sarcastic. It's not real. This is a joke. You know what's crazy?

When I look at like the DVD era, when I look at like the MySpace era, you know that the kids now don't know about, you know, it was like it was World Star. it was um this is 50 it was Vlad it was Forbes DVD you know and then you know Fendi and them had to come up but they didn't have the website so you had to come up and of course you had

cocaine city were French and you had um what's my man that always had the girls uh you know my man Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah Sub zero shout to sub zero It was just Smack smack of course Smack what up smack

And that was the DVD and then we transitioned into the internet where everybody, somebody get knocked out or whatever anything happens, World Star. And then you had Vlad TV, TV, you have, you had this is 50, and you have Forbes DVD. So when I look at the sport that we in, hip hop music, entertainment, I think it breaks all color barriers. And I'm going to tell you why. Because when I'm overseas and somebody knows my daughter name, my son name, knows everything

about my life. And they break down when my album dropped, this. that person might not even black or be black. Or if we in Mexico or Colombia and people know the music, it breaks every barrier in the world to me. We performed everywhere in the world. Armenia, Dubai, Italy, France, India, all parts of Africa, Morocco, Johannesburg, Angola.

The list goes light. You got some more for me? me. Tanzania. Give me some more, like. Like the barber in the building. Give me some more. Give me some more. Give me some more, like, huh? Yeah, give me just anywhere in the world.

Because he, like the barber flew more places than me. Qatar. Qatar. How about Russia? Kazakhstan. Kockistan. Right? Pause.

That sounds great. But we was in this park called Kockerstin or something like that. St. Petersburg, Russia, and Moscow. You know, this is what I'm saying. So there is no color barrier or music. I feel like it breaks every barrier because there's some people that don't even understand English that listen to music.

You know, but back to Vlad trolling, though, right? You did a good job, Vlad. I like that, man. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, man, listen, I think that we have to use our brains sometimes. And it's easy to think that there's always a conspiracy. There's always like something behind the scene.

and so forth. And that was like, for example, like when I did the Keefe D interview, part of the reason why I did it was there were so many conspiracy theories about Tupac getting killed. Shug did it. Really?

Like, if you want to kill someone and you wait 300 pounds and they weighed 100 pounds, would you have them shoot up the car while you're in it? Yeah, it's not too smart, but yeah. You know nobody trusts Shug back in them days, though. The government did it. So it's going to be conspiracy theories.

Yeah, you just heard. The police did. They swapped the body. He's still alive in Cuba. And it's like, all right, well, let me actually show you guys. This is the guy that was actually in the car when it happened. The last living person. Well, you know, they got the conspiracy now saying Jeffrey Epstein is still alive.

A guy looks just like him with the beard walking around. Oh, man. But we don't know. Didn't Robert Duvall pass away today? Yeah, rest and peace. Rest and peace to Robert. Rest of peace to him. Godfather, one of the classic mob movies.

What is one of your best classic mob movies? Give me four or five of them or maybe one or two of them black. I mean, I think my favorite, my favorite, favorite, just piece of cinema about the Italian mob is casino.

Okay. Just because it's so much longer than a lot of the other films and you got a chance to really develop the story and see the relationships and, you know, Joe Pesci was a lunatic.

Definitely. He was in top form. And this one, I mean, Goodfellas is an absolute classic. Godfather 2. that was my favorite godfather film Donnie Brasco that was a classic

man people love you know I interviewed a lot of Italian mafia guys trying to get some of them on your show definitely who are some of the Bob guys you interview tell to let people want to know I mean shit Sammy the Bull okay Sammy the Bull I remember at one point

he told but killed 19 people I didn't mean to cut you off at least maybe more maybe at one point I remember we talked about this he was selling make him hot, Sam, maybe more. You know what they're going to say about this. Blan's trying to get him dark. I'm telling you.

I didn't be talking, Blan. Like, I can think on his YouTube channel, he was selling Sammy the Bull 19 shirts. Oh, that's bold. Yeah. And he said, oh, no, we took it down. I didn't realize they were doing it. He backed up off that.

Got you. Wow. Yeah, Sammy the Bull. Michael Franzis. Man, a lot of big mob dudes, man. and a lot of FBI agents that busted them. You know, Joey Merlino, the alleged Philly Mob Boss. That was a really big one.

They just had something on that. His first ever, like, real interview was on my platform. And now he's, like, out of there. You know, now he's doing his own podcast and everything else like that. Yeah, man, a lot of interesting news. And, like, Merlino, I felt was the most, like, active in terms of, like, A lot of the dudes I interviewed cooperated. He was real flashy.

He didn't cooperate, Malino, right? No, he never cooperated. But what I'm saying is, is that most of the dudes I interviewed cooperate at some point. Sammy cooperated, Michael Frenzzi, somewhat cooperated and so forth. Joey never cooperated. So every answer, that's mobberlays. I don't know.

They had something about him on Netflix, right? They had me in the whole Philly Mob. Yeah, that was official. Yeah, I like the Joey. Oh, yeah, what was the name of that? The Philly Mob, something like that was on. Netflix, but I remember that. Right now, I'm binge watching,

like, I'm binge watching I'm hijacked with It Your Selba. Oh my God. The first season is crazy, man. That's like the best thing on TV for me right now. What's you watching? That's not the bad. You've seen a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

No, I haven't watched that. That's part of the whole Game of Thrones, like universe. Okay. In the last episode, oh my God. It was like a, they made a scene where seven knights have to fight each other

and just like this dirt field and the level of violence is just something different. I'm gonna watch that. We think about that, just a bunch of knights in armor on horses and jousts and like maces and swords just going all out trying to kill each other.

Seven versus seven. Just a level of violence. You rarely see that type of violence like accurately depicted. Right. Amazing. What you watching like? What are watching like?

I'm currently watching Gangs of London right now. Season 2 just came back out. That's a popper right now. Yeah, gangs of London is popping. Okay. I think I watched the first season. Yeah, the first year of day. Part 2 just came out.

Gangs of London is popping. Yeah. But by the way, shout out to Aidan Ross, man. I remember I think I dissed him for the first time when you guys were all watching. Oh, shout to Aidan Ross. We worked it out, man. I went to his, well, Adam 22 and Jason Love had that fight, and Aidan Ross was the one that hosted it.

So we actually went to his event. And I watched it. And afterwards, you know, we actually got a cool. He just got to lay off Dochi. Shout to TDE, man. Shout to Top and everybody over there. You got to lay off Doci, man. I'm a big fan of her.

My daughter is too. Shout to my night. She's a big fan. To the whole TDE, man. So she told me, come on. Don't mess with Dochey, man. People take that personal. You know, we met up face to face.

We hugged it out. We exchanged numbers. We're going to do an interview. We've been in contact ever since. And he's like, man, that's what I realized about, like, this new breed of internet, you know, people is that they don't take nothing personally. They just keep it moving. I'll learn from you.

Me and murder's getting a lot of hate now that we're blowing up and we're doing a number shout to the value. Shout to all the haters. And I just embraced the hate. I'm seeing a lot of sideline hate, indirect hate, but we don't care because we even smoke duck in Morocco, baby. But show, Vlad, since we got you here, man. This month, IHeart Radio is celebrating the stars of the 2026 Winter Game.

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and bromances for over 50 years. And you can find Bromance on the I-Heart Radio Network or wherever you get your podcast. One of the most biggest music execs in the world, Interscope, shout to Jimmy Avine. I can tell y'all, my illish Jimmy Avine story is me and him in 50, eating lunch on top of Interscope.

And I kept my mouth shut the whole time. Shout to Jimmy Avine, Dr. Dre, M&M, everybody over there, right? Paul Rosenberg, 50. Did you hear what he said about how streaming is going to be absolute soon? Absolutely.

Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, I watched that whole interview, man. Great interview. I mean, he likes to correct my words too, Vlad. I don't know. Sometimes I'll fuck up. I like that.

I like to hold my brother down. You know, I teach them about the salad for, and now he's teaching me about what. It's my brother. We're going to take it easy, though. Did you see the last interview where, uh, where Yale kept calling bad buddy, Babs buddy? Yo, I told you.

You had to check. I see that last. I got to correct him when he kept going back and calling him Babs buddy. Yo, I don't know why I be doing that sometimes. I start calling people what I want to call them. I don't know. I don't know, man. I don't know, man.

I'll be tripping, man. I got to stop smoking so much bud and getting the gym, yeah. I got to stop. I'm going to slow down, man. Shout to the unit dismodel. You heard? Indoor, too, huh? I mean, what Jimmy said was interesting is that he basically said how all the record labels

made a deal with Spotify and now Spotify is bigger than all the record labels put together. Like in terms of the market cap, if you look at how much Spotify is worth versus what the record labels are worth, all of them put together are worth less than just Spotify. And the record labels only get like a small percentage of the overall pie. So what he was saying is that in the future Spotify may not be necessary, or streaming services may not be necessary because you'll be able to, you know, they basically say, he basically said that music is like the only industry where the artist or the label and the consumer don't connect with each other.

They always go through a third party. So they're always reliant on a third party, whether it's, you know, distribution. I mean, physical distribution or now digital distribution. distribution. It's like they still can't get directly to the person who's buying the product because the middleman controls that. And that's what he's saying. He's saying in the future that might, you know, that might change and it needs to change. But we'll see. How would that change, though? Well, if there is a, if you don't need Spotify. Right. And what he said was interesting also is that when you look at Spotify, most of the money goes to just the top artist, the drakes, the

Taylor Swift, the catcher, whatever. Because they're doing the most streams. Right. And but, you know, the way, the way it's structured is like, let's say a person pays $10 a month, a certain percentage goes to who he listens to. And if only 1% is going to the independent artists, like everyone who's uploading music who's not this megastar, they're really making almost nothing. The drakes are doing okay.

They're not even getting paid. You can say they're not even getting paid. Okay. So for example, you got to do well on streams? When you look at the catalogs that are up on DSPs with your catalogs, do you guys make a lot of money or not really? Yeah, I make some decent money. Shout out the Empire. Shout out the guys in need.

I just did a deal for seven figures with the music. So it's definitely still money and music. Shout to empire. Shut out the Empire. Cut me a check. Set out the guys in the name. We definitely do got a project. We definitely do got a project.

They're working on it. Like we got you. You know we got you on that check. It's still money and music. That was A&R. by Lightro the Barba, man. Guys ain't them doing great over there. So it's still money in music for artists.

Like, free 17 and sleepy, they still making a bunch of music off. Like, so. But it ain't Taylor Swift money, though. Of course, we know that. But it's still money that people, they feed their families off for this money. But what Jimmy Yv was saying that the artists like Taylor Swift

and Kendrick and like that, they, you know, they benefit, you know, because they do streams. They're going to benefit more, but we're going to still benefit as well. Like, we're good. We don't need Taylor Swift. to survive where we're from.

Like that. Like, you know what I mean? No, I understand what you're saying, but I'm saying that's what Jimmy Havine was saying. Like, and then he said something about like, there's no exclusive, like artists being excluded. Yeah, yeah. The exclusives are dead.

Remember, everybody's on Instagram? People were like dropping on title exclusively and it wasn't going on Spotify. Right. But then messed up people's first week sales. I think that's the problem is that in music, people care about the perception, more so than the money, right?

The fame becomes more important. And it even makes financial sense because a lot of the money comes from the touring, right? So if you don't have the fame, the touring doesn't come with it. But remember everyone was dropping exclusives on title and no one was charting in the top 10 so people just stopped doing that.

Even though there might have been more money by dropping exclusively on title when you don't drop it on Spotify and Apple Music, you don't hit the charts. And then it ends up looking like you're not a big artist and then, you know, it's like a domino effect. But there was more money. I remember I looked into, like, Kanye dropped Donda 2 on the, like, the STEM player.

I don't know if you ever saw it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You could actually take out, like, the vocals, take out the drums. Yeah, yeah, I remember that. He was selling it for, like, $200, and he sold, like, an insane amount. Like, I remember I did the math, and, like, he made something like $2 or $3 million off just that. And he didn't. even sell that many. But it was a high ticket price and it was direct. And it was like, yo,

and you didn't even hear about it. It didn't hit the charts. But he made way more than if he had released it publicly. And hit the charts. I think that's what Jimmy is saying. And listen, that remains to be seen. We'll see. I mean, I think guys like Jimmy Havine could predict the future when it comes to music. Because we was on Interscope when things was changing. When things went to iTunes and stuff like that, we was in that. transition. Like, we went from hard copies to, you know, streaming. So we've seen the transition. And that's when they, you know, did the headphones and was working with Apple. So a guy like Jimmy Avivine and, you know, Dr. Dre, they predict the future in music. Like, from my opinion,

from what I've seen from them. Yeah. Yeah. So when he says it, you got to, you got to, you know, perk your ears up. I remember when me and Leo Cohen spoke a couple years ago and I said, what's the main priority for YouTube because he's the head of YouTube Music Global. He says shorts. I paid attention. I started to do more shorts. And sure enough, YouTube scores have surpassed

like TikTok shorts. Wow. I never knew that. That's good information. Hey, man. You know, when people high up talk, you should listen. I would think TikTok was more. That's crazy.

No, man. YouTube is a monster, man. YouTube is a monster. And at the other day, in terms of businesses, like if you're a business, and trying to make money off your content, there's nothing like YouTube. No one even comes close.

You know I love YouTube. Yeah, YouTube accounts for like 90% of our revenue. Yeah, we make a few percent off Spotify, a few percent off Facebook, a few percent off of Snapchat, you know, and some other money here and there. But really, when it comes to serious money and where we really park our content, it's YouTube.

So let me ask you a question, because me and murder was talking about this. Shout to join. John Jada, shout to, um, John and Jada. Charlemagne, the Breakfast Club, NVH, RINVHS, Hilarious, Lauren, everybody up there.

The whole crew. So we know now you no longer see them on, um, YouTube anymore. They're on Netflix. Would you take a Netflix deal if the money was right? Or you think, what do you feel about that?

Netflix versus YouTube? I don't see Vlad going to Netflix. I think Vlad loves his YouTube thing. Yeah, I mean, every, every deal, you know, makes sense if there's enough money in it. Right. But it has to be like, like for example, right, I'll just expose this because it was such a stupid deal. Patreon approached me, right? And I've had a lot of bad deal offers, but this, this by far.

It was the worst deal offer I ever had. So, so they approached me. They say, listen, you have a really strong membership section of your YouTube channel. You know, we want to talk to you about bringing your members over to Patreon. And we'll guarantee you two years. of what you would have gotten on YouTube, you know, to go to Patreon. And I said, right, this sounds interesting, right? So, you know, this is a lot of money because there's a, you know, talking about thousands and thousands of members, right? So you make a lot of money, Black,

go ahead, keep talking. Yeah, I do okay with it. It's an important part of the business that I've grown over years. I mean, started with four members and now it's like, you know, over 10,000 members. So I'm like, all right, so I had the conversation with everyone. And I'm like, they're like, yeah, you know,

and here you could, you know, we offer this and we offer that. And I'm like, all right, before we go any further, are you asking me to shut down my YouTube membership and go exclusively with Patreon? And they're like, yeah. And I'm like, okay, so I'm going to shut down a successful growing business and go to you guys to make the same money

I'm already making with that business. It doesn't work out over. here, I go back and there's no business anymore because once you shut down, the membership, all the members go away. And you have to rebuild from zero. I said, how on earth does this make any sense? You're offering me the same amount of money I'm making over here to come over there. It don't work out. And I have nothing to go back to. Well, you know, lots of people. I'm like, man, this is stupid. You all waste of my goddamn time. I said, pay me 10 times what I'm making in a year and I'll consider it. I don't know. We can't do that. And I'm like, well, then we don't

have a conversation. You know, you're wasting my fucking time. It's a stupid ass offer. A stupid ass offer. You know? Stupid. That's like saying, listen, whatever you guys make in streaming money, I'll match it for two years. And then if it doesn't work out, you go back to making zero. Yeah, it don't make no sense. Give me some extra. I need some extra. There was nothing that I said, give me 10 times. Give me a 10-year stretch to work it out and then you know, give me that money up front

we could talk about it. Oh, no, we can't do that. You know what? How do you feel about our setup? Because right now they got all these fucking lights. I feel like I'm in a spaceship a little bit. Super. Now, we pop up.

We got the lights cameras action, man. But, yo, the number one rule you always told me was and was to embrace the hate. And I'm really getting it now. And shout to all the people that show to love that been watching the show. You know, y'all make sure, you know, We're sponsored by Hard Rock Betting.

Make sure y'all like, share, and subscribe. But hold up. We're doing them numbers. Hold on, murder. We said we're going to stop cutting each other off. Go ahead, yeah. Because we read in the comments, talking about our arguing and cutting each other off.

See, murder. This is the whole thing you got to understand, Vlad. People got to understand. My method to the madness is I don't watch my own videos. Any Vlad I did, Shannon Sharp, anything I do, I never watch back. Andrew Shultz, kill Tony. I never watch it. I don't know if murder's watching it.

No, I'll be watching this. Because I'm not watching it. And I don't read comments, but I always embrace the hate and I see who's hate. I'm watching them. Because I watch everything. But we appreciate everybody, Vlad. And what's your advice to people in the podcast world

to embrace the hate? Like, what advice you give us in this game right here? I think that you have to figure out what exactly you're really good and passionate about. I think a lot of people try to chase what other people are doing, and it doesn't work out. Like, Joe and Jada are authentically who they are, and that's why people like the podcast.

Right. But a lot of people try to emulate other people, and it doesn't work. And not only that, but you have to be prepared to go a long time without making any real money. Because not only do you go in with a deal like you guys have, Right, but even with the deal that you guys have, you guys have to bring the numbers. Of course. So, you know, I'm saying, so if you guys, you guys will get the upfront deal, but then a year,

two years into it, if you're not pulling the numbers, that deal will end. And you guys will have to start over, you know, on a different platform or your own platform or everything else like that. You have to be prepared to go in this in the long run. Glad TV started in 2008. So we're now 18 years into this of doing this every day. Like literally no days off, no real vacations, you know, putting out content 365 days a year, certain interviews hit certain ones don't but we just keep going and a lot of people come in you know do it for a

little while and then see that it doesn't compete with the type of money they're already making and then they quit you see what I'm saying deal or no deal you still have to look at it as a real job as opposed to just a side hustle got you see I'm saying if you if you treat it seriously you could do great with it you know norie came in way after I did he did great with it gillian wallow came in way after I did did great with it academics out of 22 you've seen a lot of people but if you look at all those people, they took it really seriously. You know, whereas other people is just a little side gig. They do, you know, an interview every so often.

They do a podcast every so often. You know, Nikki Minaj, she was doing her radio thing every so often. It didn't really stick, right? Drake, doing it every so often, you know, they get these deals, but they don't stick with it. So the people that are really, really successful, they take it 100% seriously and they stick with it. And whether they have a deal or whether they don't have a deal, they still are trying to put out the highest level of content.

because the deal is not going to stay if the numbers don't stay. You know, don't coincide with the amount of money. Nobody goes into this game to lose money. And I talk to people all the time when, you know, we have conversations that people expect, oh, I want to get paid this much to do an interview. And it's like, well, this does make financial sense. So no offense. I'm not saying you're not worth what you feel you're worth,

but I know what it's going to make on my end. And there's no point of paying you twice what I'm going to make. Right? That's just me putting myself in the hole. And I've had interviews where I've lost money, but not that often because I've gotten pretty good at figuring things out. Vlad, you know what I want to know? Why do you interview Tony Yeo so much, Vlad?

Because he makes money. I'm asking Vlad the question. He just told you. Now you're cutting me and Vlad or Vlad. He just told you. That's elementary, dear watch. I'm asking Vlad the question. That's elementary.

Why do you interview Tony Yeo so much? That's something me and the whole crew wanted to know. Look, the plan was not to interview Tony Yeo a bunch of times. The plan was just to do one interview, right? And, you know, when we do an interview, we kind of do like a life story piece on that person. So as it so happens, and Tony remembers me and him were not on the best of terms when we did this interview.

There was a little bit of tension. I didn't like Vlad either, ladies and gentlemen at a point. But Vlad is my brother, man. Things can work out. like me and Fat Joe, things can work out. Look, shout to the volume. Shout to Joe and Jada. Look, he helped us get this deal over breakfast in Belgium or Germany. Where do you said? Yeah. And you could even tell in that first interview, me and him, there was a little bit of tense energy between us, right? That whole shut the fuck up. That came from the first interview.

But it came out. And look, I could have cut out that whole shut the fuck up. I'm going to be like, oh, man, he disrespected me. Fucked that. I ain't going to put that out. I mean, I have final cut. I can cut out whatever I want. But I'm like, no, I'm going to run with this. This is actually funny. And this became a meme, right? To this day. I say meme. Why I say meme? meme. meme. Meme. Me. I'm going to help you with a couple of these words. Go ahead. Don't know the words, but this meme, there's a meme word too, right? This name and meme? No, it's just mean. All right, cool. Go ahead. Go ahead, Vlad. Shit, it became a meme. The interview did big numbers. And then it's like,

I let's try a second interview. Did the second interview, and it did solid numbers, and then it became a profitable and mutually profitable relationship. And over time, it also became a personal relationship. Me and Tony started talking more offline, and I got to really see who he was as a person. And, you know, it's like me and him started a vibe

with each other and anything else like that, you know, hung out. You know, we'd have breakfast of the country club. And, you know, and he's all. Shelter the Calabasas Country Club. Yeah. We're doing different things. Embrace the hate, man.

I learned from Vlad. You, Vlad, they say, you know, you're a culture vulture. You don't, you know, you don't respect people. Tell them how much money you spent, because you spent the most money on guests. I've paid out over a million dollars to guess. And I could even, I could even, like, if I had to, I could even break it down by each guess. You see what I'm saying? Like, I don't think there's anyone in this space that has paid that amount of money to guess.

and I feel like before I start doing it, this was considered a no-no in the media game. It's like if you do an interview, it's supposed to be for free, right? 60 minutes is free. You know, Diane Sawyer, free. Like it's always, you know, Oprah free. You know, radio station's free. So during the pandemic, I'm like, yo, listen,

some of these people who are my regular guests are hurting right now, like especially like the comedians, The comedians were hit the worst because they suddenly couldn't tour. And that's how they made their money. So I said, yo, let me start putting some money in some of these comedians' pockets that are still rocking with me. And now I'm not depending on just a favor or the relationship. It's like, yo, let's turn into a real business. Like, yo, I'm going to pay you.

I'm going to put it out. We're both going to make money. And that created a whole industry and of itself. I remember when me and Birdman first had our conversation, he was like, man, like, what you did was interesting because I never saw anyone pay. for interviews and now you've created a whole business around it. Now people support themselves through paid interviews. And now everyone pays, you know, more or less, you know, and so forth. And you've had all these businesses that have flourished.

And the people who have gotten paid have now created their own careers and, you know, create their own podcast. Like, like you, for example, Tony. Like, you went from getting paid to do interviews to now do your own podcast. I mean, definitely. That's not a coincidence. Me being on Vlad TV gave me the experience. And you got to have tough skin.

You know what I'm saying? To be on YouTube and you got to be smart and you got to be strategic. And to anybody, Vlad is one of them platforms that every artist or anybody should go to because it's a big platform. When I'm overseas in Europe, anywhere, everybody, the number one interviews

they always talk about is Vlad TV. Even we did shout to the Black Caucus family out there and Albany. We were chilling with the mayor and the congressmen. The Tony General. You know, all of them was talking about, you know, Vlad TV, they see an interview, another viral one, another one in the books. You know, it was great.

Good promo. You know what I mean? And they watch Vlad. You know, Smoke Duck is like, it's super viral. You know, shout to everybody. Every time they put it up, I'll definitely post them. And I think it's pretty dope because you got people from all walks of life that are showing how dope it is to vacation. Yeah.

So they're showing their vacation and they said them eating smoked duck in Morocco. It's even more motivation for me. Now I want to go places that we haven't been. Like, you know, I don't know where we haven't been. I definitely got to get to Haiti. That's one place. Shout to my Zos. That's one place I haven't been.

We were supposed to go to Ycliffe. What was that? Way back. You know, but shout out of my Zos, I definitely want to go to Haiti. Nice resort and just chill. You're a Haitian yourself, right? Yeah, definitely. Both parents.

Have you ever been, you've never been back? Never been to Haiti. I'm born in America. I would have got deported if I wasn't born here because I had felonies and stuff. So they would have sent me back to Haiti. Right, but you've never, but I'm saying your family's from there. You've never been back. You should go, man.

Nah, that's one trip that I definitely want to take. All kind of things happen in Haiti, man. It's, you know, but it's a real beautiful country, beautiful water. You know what I'm saying? It's a real nice resort. So, you know, my mom's telling me that all the time. So I definitely want to go out there. And the food is amazing.

Yeah. Nothing like some Haitian rice, some Lombie, you know what I'm saying? Haitian potato salad. Dominican people say it's their potato salad, though. The beet salad, like I heard Dominican say, that's not a potato salad, but it's Haitian potato salad. It's the same island. I've been to D.R., but I've never been to Haiti,

but it's the same island, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's the same island. You can say that. But I love, you know, I'm talking about the Haitian potato salad, which I love. It's like beets instead of regular just potatoes, it's beets in there too, so it's red.

So I love that. But Dominican people do it the same way, too. Shout to the Dominican people out of you know, we're in New York. You know how that go, man. Well, Vlad, you got a good-ass setting behind you, man. I see the fireplace. You're living good. I'm going to come check you at the Calabasasas' Country Club.

We walked in there. They looked at us like we was crazy. They made you take off your hat. Yeah, they made you take off your hat real classy. We was the only black dudes in there. Me and Hollywood, shout to Hollywood, man. And thank you for your time on the Real Report, sponsored by Hard Rock Betting.

You know, we got Vlad TV here. Ready, no, Vlad, me and you barely got to talk. It was just like another you and Yeo interview, but it's all good. Just the real report. You know, the vibes. I mean, yo, hey, man, he got to have his questions ready, man. You got to have you. Where's the pillow at, man?

Where's the pillow? We ain't got the way. No pillows today, man. No pillows today, man. No pillows today. So you on the West Coast? You on the West Coast now? Staying out to cold, man.

It's raining out here, but not like what you're all going through. Yeah, we got. You know, it's actually a little nice out here today. The weather got a little bad, man. Got a little nice out here. Today, we are a little pot. You guys had 20 year, 20 year low, I heard in terms of weather. Oh, man, it was like Alaska.

A little colder than that, they were said. Two weeks, right? Yeah, it was colder than Alaska. It's crazy. You know what? The thing I hate is the shoveling. It's like, you know, for the city, y'all put the, y'all knock the snow out the street, right? But then y'all block everybody's car in.

So when I go to Queens, everything was like a one-way. So don't have a big truck or anything like that or, you know, even having a regular car. It was just, it was crazy. They got to find, remember that thing we was talking about. Canada, they got to find a way to melt that snow or something. And then there's a conspiracy theory saying that it's fake snow.

Spending for two weeks. Like your conspiracy theory. AI, there you go. See, you started that too, probably, Vlad. Man, listen, shout out to Rock Nation. Shout out to Jay-Z. The lawyers. Torby-Lanes.

Yeah, you know. No shout out to Megan, though. Shut out to make the same. Too, man. Everyone was talking about the middle of this shit. And Clay Thompson now. And Clay Thompson now. Yeah, shout out to all of them, man.

Listen, people ask whether Jayce's lawyers have approached me. No, they have not approached me. Because they know it's sarcasm. They know this is not some, you know, what's the name of that? Jaguar Wright type shit, right? They know it's sarcasm. And if they did approach me, I'll say no problem. I'll say it's sarcasm.

I've been saying it's sarcasm. Glad, but if you get ran off the robot tractor trailer or something like that, Oh, man, God damn. Oh, my back rolls up on me. Rock Nation, bro. God damn. Oh, man. It's a joke, man.

Oh, man. Love you, glad, man. You're my brother, bro. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. What you was going to say, my fault? I will say, man, if I get hit with a rock, you know, you know where it came from.

It's the rock. It's the rock, dude. Yeah, man. Jay don't care, man. Jay doesn't care about it. Nah, man. That's a billionaire. All these rich guys don't kid, man.

They don't care. No. And even though I predicted that Tori was going to go to jail, I have publicly said, because I did an academic stream the other day, I'm like, based on what he's gone through, he's been locked up for a couple years, he got stabbed. Her way worse than what happened to Megan, I personally feel that he deserves to come out at this point.

I feel that he's paid his debt to society. We all agree. We all agree. But me, I'm cop out master flex, man. I'm coping out. You say you got two, if you say you got two or a year probation, wait with a guy if he capped out. Yo, I heard, I had heard from some people around him

that it was as low as a year and a half. No. Yeah. But this was before, because you've got to understand that Megan wasn't involved in the investigation originally. It wasn't until he started antagonizing her that she said, okay, I'm going to cooperate. Originally, she didn't want to cooperate.

That's why she said, oh, I didn't get shot. I stepped on glass. She actually was trying not to escalate the situation with the police. But then he starts mocking her and everything else like that. And it's like, okay. Now she started and then that's when she started cooperating. Once she started to cooperate, but there was that window before her cooperation where you could have copped out to a year and a half and end up doing whatever, nine months, you know, stay time

and been home and making music right now. So when she did decide to cooperate, was they offering it in the other time besides the 10 years ago? Yeah, I had heard it was like a year and a half, two years. that I heard at one point. It was like four years. But then, you know, but then at one point, it was just, it was over. You know, it was like, all right, we're going to trial. Yeah. You got to, you know, I mean, he was making songs about her.

He was making songs about her. Who makes songs about the victim that they shot that's going to take the stand against them? He did have a song, right? What was it called again? He did have a song out, didn't it? You know, there was a lyric in there. You know, how you get shot or something, something, something, something. How much time Tori got in now, though? What are you, like, eight years or something?

No, how much time he'd been in so far? Two, two years, I think. Yeah, about two, maybe going on. About two? Yeah. Yeah, but did you ever see the stabbing video? Did you watch the video for your stabbing video? No, I see the stabbing video.

Oh my God, man. Like, when you saw that, like, that guy tried to kill him. That was not just like a message. Like, he really tried to kill him. Like, Tori's lungs collapsed. They had to airlift him to a real hot. hospital. The prison hospital was not equipped to deal with those types of injuries. That's how bad it was. They had to airlift them to a whole different hospital and do surgery. So think about that whole

situation. Right. That's crazy. But, you know, once again, you know, that's why I was like, oh yeah, Jay paid that dude to stab him up. No, what it happened was you got a dude who's a pedophile who's doing life in prison who has a girlfriend on the the outside. And Tori allegedly was flirting with her during visiting days. Now, you know, think about just in the real world trying to get a girl that you like and, you know, form a relationship with her and find someone that you're compatible with and so forth. You're doing life in prison for killing an underage girl. It's a little harder for you to find a girlfriend. You know what I'm saying? And now this R&B.

superstars in there flirting with her, I can see how you would snap. Allegedly, we don't know if that's the story, but allegedly that's how I posted. Allegedly, that's the story. That's the story. But if you look at Tori, man, all his problems always revolve around women. It all goes back to a woman every time. Yeah. You're glad, you know what I want to ask you?

Crazy you say. What do you think about La Russell saying little Wayne never really said nothing in his music, meaning like no substance? I just seen an interview with that. He was a big fan of Lil Wayne, but I guess he said as he got older and revisited Little Wayne's music, he said he realized that Little Wayne wasn't saying nothing. I don't know, LaRessel personally. I know, you know, he's from the Bay Area.

He just signed the Rock Nation. He just signed to Rock Nation. He just signed a Rock Nation. And I don't know him personally, so I can't say, well, this is what I think he was thinking. But from the outside looking in, I think that La Russell has been independent for so long, has been under the radar because of that, is that now that he's, He actually, you know, has this opportunity that he's getting all this attention. He's on Rock Nation.

Everyone's looking at him. I think he's turning up. He's trying to troll. He's trying to get on the algorithm. And by saying stuff like that, here we are talking about it. Okay. I think it was calculated. I think it was calculated.

So then what you was doing was trolling too then? Right. We're all trolling. Everybody's trolling. Everyone's trolling. I mean, think about it. When you guys got into the altercation with John on the plane, you guys put. phone and started and started recording.

Trolling. We was having fun. I was trolling them. I was having a little fun. Murder trolled them. I was having some fun with it. But you know it's crazy about that? Murder had it for like two, three days.

He didn't even care about it. And then, you know, shout to TMZ. They started calling and it was like, yo, it is what it is. Listen, everybody have their opinion on it and saying, you know, we the bullies. And some people were saying, oh, that's what's up. And even congressmen and Senate was coming. Why did I take you off the front? I mean, some things just happened.

You got the mayor of Albany coming to you. Like, yo, why did you kick you off the plane? All these Senate people and the governor, the governor, she was there. The attorney general. The one that was beefing with Trump. Yeah, they're all there. And they're, you know, they're all saying,

why do you kick them off the plane? We're like, yo, sometimes things just happened. Then people saying what they would have did, I would have knocked them out. Y'all, y'all goofies, y'all this, y'all. Listen, bro, we got to fly and make money. So we damned if we do, we damned if we don't. If we were to snuffed them, it got 86th off flights.

Everybody was like, yo, they're stupid. They messed up. They bad. Give me your job. 50, 50, blah, blah, blah. Let me get their job. They dumb. No more smoked duck.

They were to shit on you. And when we, you know what I'm saying? And we don't do it. We goofies. Yo, they not like that. Don't ever let this podcast shit fool you, brother. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?

Because sometimes now we got the podcast so people feel, you know, but everybody can have an opinion. And I learn from you. embrace the hates now, Blas, something else I want to ask you

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Charm has been part of your love stories and bromances for over 50 years And you can find Bromance on the IHeartRadio Network or wherever you get your podcast Do you think Michael Jordan could be canceled because it was just footage of him grabbing on the little kid butt. You know what I'm saying?

That was a little crazy shot. I don't even know if he could be considered the goat no more, Lycho, after that butt grabbing he was doing. I'm just saying, Mike was doing a lot of butt grabbing. Mike was doing a lot of butt grabbing. Hold on. My man, Lycho over here, we have a lot of debates about sports. You know, I think LeBron is the goal.

He thinks Kobe's the goal. Michael Jordan is always in the, you know, supposed to be the king goat and all that. He said that's Vladway. You know Vlad's going to say Jordan. But I do want to know, do you think Michael John could be canceled because anybody else, they, they, videos out there surfacing to him grab the little kid button all that.

But Ye said, Jay said the kid parents didn't even look mad when Mike grabbed me. No, they didn't even think you, I think that was, I don't know, I'm not going to make an excuse for him, but people are going to say that's like a basketball celebration coming from him. Now, if it was somebody else, yeah, look wow. It do look wow. Don't get me wrong. But you hear people saying, it's AI.

Was it a pause? It was crazy, bro. I'm not going to say pause. It was crazy. That's not a pause. But what I'm, listen to what I'm saying. That was a pause. I'm going to let you talk because you don't want to talk.

All right. I think the way Mike squeezed it looked like if it was AI then, then not. But the way I'm not saying that, but what I'm saying is, are you still going to buy Jordans? It was a pause. Look, let's look at the video. Let's look at the video. It do look crazy, but you. I saw the video.

The video was crazy. Go back to the hand squeezing. Look at the hand squeezing. Then he did some more. Now, was that a pause, Jay? It was crazy. I'm not saying it's not crazy. What I'm saying is it's Michael Jordan,

so people are going to forget about it in a couple of days because it's Michael Jordan. But as me and you just watching that video, was that a pause? I'm not saying a pause. I'm saying it's crazy. It was crazy. It looked crazy.

It was a pause moment for Michael Jordan. What do you think, Light? What you think? I give it a pause. You give it a pause, Vlad? I give it a pause. Thank you. I don't know why he's trying to defend it.

No, I'm not saying a pause is totally different. than what that was. That looks crazy. A little kid. Oh, he's going to look. All right. That's what I don't even want to go there. All right.

Okay. Okay. Yeah, I talk about pause. That looked crazy. What's you think? Beyond pause. Right. So would you still buy the Jordans?

It just looked, it looked crazy on the camera, but what I'm saying is it looked like a celebration, but it's Jordan, you know, people are going to be like, no, if it was. You just said it's past pause. So I was trying to think I would you still,

I don't want to, I don't want to. Who? You. I got, Jordan's on my feet now. You're going to wear them too. I'm just saying because you said it's beyond pause.

Like that's, you said it's big of the people. I don't know. I just seen a video for the first time. All I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying. I'm saying it's AI and it's not a big deal. And he just won that was that. Ndhcars. NASCAR.

NASCAR team did win. That was his son. So I don't want to insinuate like that. Jordan is one of the goat. So I would just think it's, you know, a celebration. So I don't want to think like that. You know what I'm saying? And I, yeah, that was the driver of the team.

Yeah. That's his first time winning. So I don't, you know what I'm saying? I know how it looked, though. I saw the video earlier. I'm glad that was your first time seeing it. Yeah. It looked crazy.

Yeah, all right. I heard about it looked crazy, but people say it's AI. Well, you know, Jordan is still a guy. That's not AI. Not AI. No, it's not AI. That's what people were saying. No, I'm just, it's not AI.

Okay, brother. Calm down. No, but it's not AI. Calm down, brother. I didn't say it wasn't AI. We might have to take those Jordans off his feet, man. We might have to take the joins off his feet, play. What are you talking about?

I mean, you'll never be able to do that. Once you ask me what size I wear, I know that means pop. I learned that on an island. You know what I mean? Free everybody on Rikers, man. Free all the guys. Free all of guys. You know what I learned that on Rikis.

Yeah, but the joins might be, they might be no good no more. He might have to. Niggas might have to take them joins off, man. Oh, my goodness. This is my head to take the time. I'm just saying. This particular situation, I don't think he's really going to get canceled like this because it's not like he's doing this privately somewhere

and they got a footage of him. Like he's obviously around a ton of people, everyone's celebrating. I think he's trying to pat the kid out the way, sort of. And, you know, the way he did it, I thought it wasn't appropriate. But it's not like he's meeting underage kids or, you know, this was a hidden video somewhere that, you know, just him and a kid by themselves. I was like, absolutely he'd be canceled if that was the case.

But I think this is just him. You know, listen, Jordan is, everyone I've talked to that's played with him, he has a level of competition that's just insane, right? Like, he will play dice with his security guards, you know, for a dollar and expect them to pay that dollar at the end. You know what I'm saying? John, about that money, man. No, he, remember he got caught up in the golf gambling situation?

Like, he really, like when he, he, like, when he, gambles or when he like competes, he's not like the rest of us. So I think that this is his first like whatever race car championship ever. So he's like, you know, suddenly he's back into his Jordan mode.

He was just excited. He was excited. He's just like, he probably thought the kid was a teammate. That's what it kind of looked like to me. It didn't look like, oh, let me go feel up on this little kid's butt. Yeah. Even though you shouldn't be doing that to a teammate neither, but I don't know what's going on. Let him talk, murder. He's doing it in front

I know you want to hear Blad talk. It's okay. He knows he knows he can't be slick about it. Everyone's filming this. So I just think he just caught up in the moment and he's just, yeah, that's what I think. But then again, listen, if some other shit come out, then they're going to go back to this video again. Definitely going back to that video. They definitely going back.

Vlad, who's your top five basketball goats? In order or just five, period. In any order you want to. Any order I want. Okay. Jordan. Kobe, AI, and LeBron. That's no order.

That's just your top five? The top five, yeah. Got you. Got you. That's a good top five. Good top five. Yeah. I know my man, like, me and my man, like, all right.

People forget about Shaq a lot. Like, Shaq was just the level of dominance he had. You know, who could push around Shaq out there? Anyone? Nah, Shaq was the truth. Even though Hakeem used to be giving it to him. Yeah. How came this to be given to the shack?

So I did Kobe LeBron and Joy how you rate them? Yeah, let's go. Jordan Kobe LeBron. Okay, that's your opinion, Black. Jordan Kobe LeBron. Because I feel like when it comes down to it, when everything's on the line and that player has to hold the whole team down, I think that's the order that you see it in.

I don't like when Jordan gets down in the bottles he don't even pass the ball of nobody right you know it's not a team sport anymore it's like the barba's happy over here yeah self to like the bar best bar in the u.s man you know but i can see an argument for lebron being the goat of course of course of course there you go vlad of course these are all valid arguments yeah that's just vladd opinion it's just vlad's opinion LeBron the goat. Yeah. I mean, listen, man, my man, John Sally, he just came by the house recently. That's my man, you know, but that's my actual friend. But I'm not going to say he's better than Jordan.

You know what I mean? You can't say that either, right? But I think those three, there's an argument you could switch all those three around depending on who you are. And I feel like the younger generation, because you're younger than me, murder. I feel like they just gravitate towards LeBron because they got to see it in real time. there's something different like i got to experience thriller when it came out i remember going to the store and buying the cassette and hearing the songs when i remember seeing the beat it video

seeing the thriller video you know seeing the bad video everything else like that like like this is brand new music you can't really know you can't go back to some old shit and have the same experience of the person who actually lived, lived through it. Right? This is why I'm not a huge Beatles fan because I'm just too young for that. Right? But my older cousins, they love the Beatles like,

oh, like they're like Jesus. But, you know, for the younger generation, it's going to be LeBron. For the older generation, it's going to be Jordan. For in the middle, it's going to be Kobe. And people just gravitate because they're seeing the games in real time. They're going to the games. They're experiencing it.

You know, they're meeting the players sometimes. You know, like an 18th, year old doesn't really know about Jordan like that. They can watch the tapes. They can wear the shoes. But it's not like actually experiencing, you know, the three Pete and everything else like that. And just the, you know, how Jordan came in. And think about it. Before Jordan, it was a totally different NBA.

It was. Slow. It was way slow. People were not. I mean, but I mean, just like just the hype of it. Like, who was really buying Magic Johnson's converse? I mean, people wore them. But it wasn't like when the Jordan threes came out, it was like, yo, what is this?

Like, this is actually- Magic Johnson had Converse? I didn't even know that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he had- What was they called? The weapons? Magic, Larry.

Larry Burr has some niggas too. Yeah, him and Larry Byrne, I think, had Congress. The weapons? I never knew that. Oh, I never even knew that. That's some basketball history right there. But they were just the regular-looking, you know, like the Jordan ones are kind of some regular,

looking basketball. Choose your weapon. Oh, like lethal weapon. Oh, choose your weapon. Wow. That's crazy. That's crazy. Look at that. Okay. Yeah. You know, Jordan came in and like, yo, people weren't getting robbed for sneakers until the Jordans came out. Right. You never hear of people getting robbed for their pumas. Not like the Jordans. How like the Jordans. You ain't lying. And the price point was crazy. It was like It was so expensive at the time. It was like, yo, like, these are investments on your feet. Hey, Vlad, you know what makes Jordan special to me?

And, like, when you, we just watched the All-Star game, right? Who won the East of the West? Who won, like the All-Star game? Yeah, the young boy. They did a difference this year. They had the All-Stars, the Young & Come in, and they had the World League. The World League. So, who won?

The Young Boys. Oh, right. The Young Boys won, right? Back in the days, didn't Michael Jordan do the slam dunk contest? Right. Now, the world make the All-Star game crazy if we had LeBron, Wembeiana, and give me somebody else, you would think. And Edwis, I think she'd been.

And Edwitz, say we all had them, John Morant, say we had them in a slam dunk contest. You know how much views would go up for the All-Star game? No more stars really want to do nothing. When you've seen LeBron is not doing a slam-dunk contest, but Jordan did. So that, to me, that's what make it better. when you,

Kobe did it too. Oh, Kobe did it too? Oh, I, there you go, Lai. Kobe did it too, y'all. The most notable stars did it. But imagine if them names was on a slam dunk contest, Ross.

It'll be popping right now. It'd be popping. Shout out to my guy, Moe, power by Indoor in the building. For show, Indoor in the building. Yeah, but now, if you look at some of these high school kids, I'd be seeing some clips on the grammars

to them kids that be doing some of these dunks. They'd be getting busy. They need to bring them in the league. to at least entertain the people, man, they don't got to be in the league before a slam dunk contest, go get the best dunkers in the world and let them get busy.

The young white boy, he was killing it. I think he's on Indiana now, some. He was killing it for a minute, though. You call him a young white boy? What's his name? I forgot his name. The young white boy.

He was on Indiana. Man, they know who I'm talking about. Vlad, no, I'm talking about. He won the slam dunk contest, I think, two or three years in a row. McClomb, McCloom. Yeah, McCloom. Yeah, he was killing it.

He was killing the dunk cons. I don't know why they didn't have him in it this year. I mean, isn't it sort of like, but now you got these dudes like Wembe who are just, they don't even have to do it, they just walk over and just put the ball in. But just imagine his name being in the slam dunk contest with LeBron, John Moran, and Edwards or something.

Just imagine that lineup. That alone or sell an old-star game, right? Stars need to start doing that. That's what we want to see for the slam dunk contest in the three-point contest. I don't know what I don't know. I mean, I guess it's just,

I don't know. What's the real report? I do know. I do know. I do know. You know what the real reason is? Why? They would lose to smaller names.

LeBron would lose the slam-dug contest. Right? LeBron too old now. I'm saying, but a lot of these bigger names would lose to the smaller names. Yeah. And it would look like the losers. You know what I mean?

I think that's a person. They think it would hurt the brand or something like that. They feel like it would hurt the brand, things like that. Sell less shoes and blah, blah, blah. You know, like Luca. Okay, LeBron is an icon. He lost the slam dunk contest. He's like, no, fuck these shoes.

I think that's what it is, the perception. Because it's a solo competition. It's not like, okay, well, I lost the All-Star game, but I was with a whole bunch of other players, you know, whatever. I played a one-on-one competition, and I lost to someone who's a waste. There's no excuse when Jordan and Kobe do it. Like, like said, there's no excuse.

But did they stick. If Jordan, listen, if Jordan and Kobe did the slam dunk contest, there's no excuse for no other star or icon not to do it, bro. I'm just keeping it real, my opinion. Yeah, man, I'd love to see it, but I just don't think it's going to happen. You know, you think SGA going to do a, you know.

No, everybody protecting their interests now. Everyone protected their brands, their interest, very more money in it now. Yeah. What happens is that when you have these slam dunk content, it's a bunch of dudes that are like, you know, role players and stuff like that. They're, you know, like the white boy you mentioned.

You know, we're all talking about him now. But he had nothing to lose. He don't have his own shoe. Oh, you got no problem with Vlad called him the white boy? Who? Who? Vlad? Glad just said the white boy.

I was letting y'all talk. Oh, all right. Now you letting us talk. Now he let us talk. You want to argue. I told you. I'm not here to hug. I just, you cut me off when I said the white boy.

You let Vlad say the white boy. I'm chilling, man. I'm in chill mode. You know, Vlad? I'm in chill mode. I'm in journalistic mode. I'm in work mode. You know?

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