New Rory & MAL - Episode 410 | My New Friends

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

We’re back after Mal’s birthday weekend, but Rory is the one recovering from a long weekend. Bad Bunny is about to have the most watched Super Bowl Halftime Show of all-time. Rory says Gunna got one up on Young Thug after UY Scuti didn’t really hit. Mal thinks we gotta start putting Doja Cat and Nicki Minaj in the same sentence when it comes to talent. Ab-Soul took one on the chin, but ain’t no biggie he’ll be okay. Plus, Druski’s live gotta get better, Nas finally gets one up on Jay-Z, and Mal gives permission to Elon Musk to put a chip in his brain #volume All lines provided by hardrock.betSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's what yours is it? All right, now we're ready. Yeah, the burp is my life. I mean, we can leave it in. Let's see what the listeners think about your burp being. Yeah, the burp is the lighter. I don't know if they're the same. No, it's not supposed to be the same.

It's just kind of like insinuating that I. But the listeners should know, like, Mall's about to come on the track. I'm ready. Yeah. Okay. The birth means I. Yeah. Here we go.

Well, welcome back. Oh, man. Thank you, man. Thank you. It's good to be back. I don't know if I said anything that would require a thank you. I just said we're back. You said, I thought you said welcome back.

Well, welcome back. That's what I thought you said. It's cool. Fresh off the birthday weekend. I know you probably a little loopy, a little hungover. Hung open. Drained? No, not hungover.

I didn't do, I did absolutely. I just, I went to eat and went to the movies like twice. By yourself? No, the first, no, I went, I didn't go by myself. Okay. I went, I went the first night, the first, well, the first movie I went to see was, I was going to go see the Kanye documentary, but we got to the theater late because we were eating and shit, so we got to the theater late.

So the Kanye had already started, but the only movie that was starting, like, as soon as we got there, was the Marlon Waynes him. Okay. Yeah, terrible. They said it was. She just went to Kanye late. Terrible. Yeah, I could, I just went to the Kanye documentary late.

But, no, but, but Marlins acting was great. His acting in it was, was phenomenal. To see Marlon Wayne's in that type of role, you know, because we used to see him all and being goofy. Yeah. Funny. This was a more serious. This was his Ray?

I'm not going to say Ray. But this was his, you know. This was his more serious. His Ali? No, it wasn't his Ali. This wasn't his Ray. So it was his Mandela. Okay.

This was just him being just a more serious role to see him in that type of character was good. So he did a great job. His acting was great. The movie, though, it wasn't. And I got it the undertones of, you know, selling your soul to be a great athlete and get access to the elite world and all of that. I get the story behind it. But it just wasn't like.

Like, I could have watched that when it streamed. Like, I didn't have to go to the theater to see that. Yeah, I didn't even know. But Marlins acting was great. I loved, I think he's going to win some type of award for his role in this for sure. And is it like Illuminati base, like selling your soul? Or is that just the metaphor? It's kind of like that.

It's that metaphor of secret society. Got you. You know, if you want to be, if you want to get access to these things, if you want to be great, these are the things you have to kind of do and accept. Okay. Well, I can tell you out the gate just the. movie poster in itself, I would have just went to the Kanye. They had this man clearly doing what would be Jesus crucified to the cross, but instead he has two footballs. Two footballs,

and he's covered in blood. The blood of Christ. Blood of Christ. Yeah. Oh, it's a Jordan Peel thing. Yes. Oh, definitely was going to go to Kanye late. Yes. Why you should have Jordan Pill? I know it's, you're not supposed to say that, but I mean, you know, a lot of his movies stink. what's a lot because he only had one don't he have like three so three uh direct three stinkies well i want to go with directing directed by him it wasn't written by him okay any writing and directing yeah usually usually stinks like i like the show key and people don't get me wrong and he's been in movies that i like but get out was awful um i got halfway through us and nope didn't see that mm okay so you're saying basically you're saying that get out sucks he's saying

that uh black directors are terrible That's exactly what I think. That's what I'm a spike lead joint, I smoke it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he's a spike lead joint. I roll, I light it. It's the only thing I do to that. There's the only thing I do to a spike lead joint is light it.

Inside, man. He got getting a pill. School day is disgusting. Oh, man, I don't do that to join pill, man. We're just joking. But yeah, that movie was terrible. Black Klansman writer on. That was great.

All right. So I think it's just the director writer stuff that I ate. Okay. So his producer writer, you're okay with? Candy Man. How are we feeling about Candy Man? Well, which is this like the remake of the- 2021?

Not the one from 90. I saw the one in the 90s. I don't think I need to see the Jordan Pillar. It was cool. Well, all right, yeah. Now that I know him was direction, I will not be seeing that. Well, you can do the street.

You can watch it when it's street. streaming Netflix. I can't believe I'm listening to Get Out Slander. That's great. In 2025, that is crazy. What was the other one? You know what? He wasn't the target audience.

That's why I understand the importance of it. He actually wasn't the target. He was actually who the movie was saying, he shouldn't stay away from. I really think that Jordan Peel made a spoof and everyone took it seriously. I think like after the first week happened, Jordan Peel was like, all right, well, I guess I'll just lean into I was serious about this movie.

I think he made a spoof. and people took it as a serious movie. So you think he did what Kanye? He did with Adidas, take the worst silhouette they have. Yes. Add Yeezy and some colors. Yes. And watch them fly off the shape.

Granted, I understand the undertones of the entire movie. I get the theme. Yeah, you get the messaging. I get the messaging. But that movie is not shot well. It's not directed well. Not acted well. That's your opinion.

Lowell is the best part of the entire thing, and he's not even at the house. Yeah, he was outside at the end. He's the only entertaining part of the entire movie. Got you. But shout out to Jordan Peel. Yes, I still think he's a great actor. But definitely watch, definitely watch him, though.

I'm not saying go to the theater. Bullet? No, it'll be streaming. So, you know, movies only stay in the theater a month, if that. So it'll be streaming probably next week or in two weeks. Stream it, though, because Marlon Wayne's character, he smoked his role. Like, he definitely, his acting and that was dope. So me and my homeboy, we went to see one battle after another with Leo and Tiana Taylor.

This might be a movie of the year. Yeah? Absolutely. Leonardo's going to get another Academy Award. Tiana Taylor, I think her role in this one, I think it's going to be a part two. Her role in this one was a little too short, but her role in it was incredible. Sean Penn, he might get another Academy Award for this. Benicio Del Toro, Regina, Regina Hall.

She might, like, this is definitely going to, this might win movie of the year. This might win Best Film at the Academy Awards. This movie was incredible. I'm sorry, I'm reading what's on the screen. And it's just, what's on the screen is cracked. So Josh has highlighted Leonardo DiCaprio reveals that his agent told him his name was too ethnic and suggested using the lame Lenny Williams. Lenny Williams is ethnic.

That's an ethnic. So this was his aging in the 80s told him this. But a lot of people don't remember Baby D is that, you know, Italians were looked at in a different light at one point. They looked at as minorities, as, you know, like black people are, as Latin people are. Don't get them riled up. I'm just saying in Hollywood they were. So Leonardo DiCaprio in the 80s. Yeah. Like, yo, we don't want to lean too much into the Italian thing. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's a real thing. Now, of course, that's like looked at as a luxurious and prestigious name because of the world we're in today. But in the 80s, absolutely. That name was. No, I get it. But what I'm saying is Lenny Williams is like, that's, yeah. What if you were looking for the 45 of because I love you and stumbled upon growing pains? Yeah. It was like, oh, this is the same guy?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was like, I didn't know. Because you watched TV until TV went off and it was watching growing things. Right, absolutely, absolutely. But yeah, Italians at that point were changing their name, not the way that another group of people were changing their last names. No. For different reasons. But, yeah, that was the thing in Hollywood.

Absolutely. But, I mean, that is kind of wild, though, because that's such like an iconic name now. Oh, absolutely. He's fucking Hollywood royalty at this point. But that movie was incredible. Y'all definitely should go see it. Sean Penn, Benicio Deltoe, the cat. That's why I went to see it because when I saw the cast, I was like, okay, this can't be a trash.

Like, these are like the cream of the crop. This is, you know, Sean Penn and Leonardo in the same movie is like, I got to watch this. But the movie was incredible. The story was incredible. The acting obviously was incredible. And I wish Tiana Taylor's role was just a little longer. because the movie was it was a long movie but she would have definitely to me and I think she still will be nominated for some type of awards but she might have been nominated for best actress if

her role was long in this movie what um without like giving away too much what is the plot of the movie so they they are like uh they're like a rebellious they're like rebelling against the government and they're you know getting kids from these these these uh these camps at the borders and and kind of freeing them and then housing them in the city. And, you know, just like kind of what's going on now with, you know, illegal, with immigrants being here and people housing them and hiding them and trying to keep them, you know, away from ICE agents and things like that. So they're like a rebellious group.

Him and Tiana are, you know, together. They end up having a child. Sean Penn is a soldier or a police officer who is now hunting down anybody that was part of this freedom group. You want to call him. So we owe Sean Penn an apology. Why is that? When he was with El Chapo, he was just researching for a role. Yeah, yeah.

That's what he was doing? Because no one was going to ask him on this rollout. Did Jimmy Kimmel ask him like, yo, what's you doing with Chapo? Like when they go on the red carpet, if no one asks that, all right, cool. Now I see what he was doing. Research him for a role. He was on WhatsApp with Chapo. Yeah, you know, he got really become the person.

He has to really dive into the character. But great, great movie. Do you see what the baby looks like between Tiana and. Leo, because that would be a gorgeous child. Might be the most beautiful child ever. You could tell it to, she's biracial. You could tell she's biracial. Okay, so Cassie did their job.

Yeah, they did their job. But yeah, that movie was, whenever I felt like I knew what was going to happen, it was totally left, but it was like the acting was incredible and the storyline was great. So yeah, definitely, y'all should definitely go see one battle after another. That's definitely probably, in my opinion, movie of the year so far. Okay. Well, my weekend, I'll try to keep it pretty brief, but do you want to hear another

catastrophic traveling story of Roy's? Just my luck continuing with traveling? Oh, okay, so you went to, it was Maddie's... Maddie, shout out to Maddie. Shout out to Maddie. Shout out to Maddie. And what's her husband's name? Congrats to Maddie and Brad.

Yes. The newlyweds. Woo! For our listeners, Maddie is in some of our sketches. She was in the PR sketch. I guess not to be confused with Greer. She was in our, what was that, AD one. But yeah, Maddie's been in a bunch of our sketches.

She's a great writer, great comedian. She's fucking super viral on TikTok now. So happy for her success. So we drove seven hours to the middle of fucking nowhere in New Hampshire to go to this wedding. So the plan was to get an Airbnb. be my mom, Amara, Kia, and myself were going to go up to this wedding because Kia worked with Maddie. That's how I met Maddie. So I was more of a plus one than anything, even though she's worked with us. Thursday night, I pick up Amara from daycare. She's throwing up everywhere at

daycare. Get back to my crib. She throws up all over my couch, all over my white carpet, all over the floor, all over me. Nice. I'm like, all right, cool. So do that for the night. Friday, we're packing up. Amara seems like she's totally fine. Everything is cool. We don't even get halfway out of Jersey City. She throws up everywhere in my car. So then we turn around and my mom's like, here, you guys go up to the wedding. I'll stay here with tomorrow and, you know, everything will be fine.

You have to miss the wedding. But by this point, it's rush hour on a Friday. So it takes us seven and a half hours to get to New Hampshire. As soon as we get to the Airbnb, my stomach drops and I throw up over the carpet, the couch, the kitchen. Nice. I just follow through what Amara had just did in New Jersey. Like a duet. But I do it in New Hampshire.

Yeah. So I have no service. Some of the electricity is not out. While my head is in the bowl, I'm like, all right, let me at least put on like a video or something to distract me. I said, Kea, can you tell me the Wi-Fi? There's no Wi-Fi. No service. Y'all got an Airbnb with no Wi-Fi?

I didn't book it. Okay. But you know I said something. Yeah, I'm sure you did. Wait, but wait. No, how does the Airbnb not have Wi-Fi in 22-5? In a place that's SOS. I felt like the biggest, like, first world problem person ever because I was legitimately

upset. I could not have a toilet on my Airbnb. It's a phone. I'm not only Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi? Yeah. And then it was like, all right, we were going to have a child here, too. Like, you didn't want to mention to us that, hey, there's zero service up here and you

don't get Wi-Fi. So then we're like, all right, we could maybe turn on a TV. TVs work. They have a DVD player. Thank God. The TV player is great. It requires a remote. There's no remote for the DVD player.

Then we try to go through the channels, no channels. We were y'all in Palestine? Yeah. Okay. That's crazy. Oh, my bad. We were in Bernie's country, so. Oh, Bernie?

Sanders? Oh, yeah, no Wi-Fi. So we missed the welcome party on Friday. My head is in the bowl. Don't sleep at all. At one point, I was in the fetal position on, like, you know how steps go and there's, like, one little platform and then steps go up? Spent, like, six hours in the fetal position just in that area, because it was

the only place that I felt okay. Next morning, start to feel a little bit better, pass out again. Because we don't have Wi-Fi, we realized that the time for the wedding was actually 4 o'clock and not 6 o'clock. And mind you,

we don't have a GPS to get us to the fucking wedding. I don't know where the fuck I am. So we have to just drive aimlessly to find a town. Why don't you have GPS? Nothing's working. There's no service.

There's no... Oh, okay. My car couldn't do it. Nothing could do it. Like, yeah, this is how I found out I'm not a man. Like, I couldn't do, I was helpless without a fucking helpless. Like, the way women joke like I wish men would build houses and go to war, like, I feel them now.

Okay. I was the most helpless little man of all times. Sitting there like, you don't have any part. I can't, I don't know how to get to the wedding. I couldn't find a treasure map, a service center, a gas station. I was so fucking helpless. And my tummy hurt. My baby mom.

My tummy hurt. You had an upset stomach, no Wi-Fi, no GPS. Thank God I was with like your baby mama and out, like a bitch who was trying to impress. I wouldn't have went up to New Hampshire. I promise you that. It's worse being with your baby moms because she was looking at you like, see, I had a baby with this motherfucker. Yeah, yeah. How can this person leave this family?

This fucking piece of shit. He can't even fucking. He don't know what he's doing. I was hoping my tire would pop because at least I know how to do that. Right. I was trying to get some man points. You can like, oh, yeah, yeah. I got it.

Yeah. I don't need a router for this. I could change the tire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was pouring oil in this shit. I didn't need oil. I was just trying to show that I could do something. So did you all make it on time?

We made it to the wedding late, but I know Maddie doesn't listen to the podcast because she's on her honeymoon. But Peter gave us some tips to make it seem like we were at the wedding. Okay. Really? Like we said, little facts that happened. But we made the cocktail hour and the reception. We get back to the house somehow without GPS.

And then the moment we get there, Kia throws up everywhere. You should have known. Oh, so you had. I knew that once you had it, she was going to catch it. So when I had a few bars before we got to the B&B, I told my mom, hey, I've been throwing up. You should put like a mask on around something. Amara is getting everyone sick.

My mom goes, I got my flu shot. I'm good. Famous last words. We drive back seven hours on Sunday. get back there on like 3.30. Mom was in the bowl. No, my mom is bragging because Kia at this point is fucked up. I'm starting to feel better.

Like I had already passed the 48 hours. Kia is now just getting into hers. Yeah. So my mom's just sitting there laughing like, damn, y'all look like shit. I'm good. I went to Dwayne Reed. I got my flu shot. I'm like, this isn't a flu.

This is a stomach bug from a fucking daycare. Yeah. But whatever, Mom. Yeah. 9 p.m. rolls around. Kia texts me. Yo, I think your mom is throwing up in the bathroom. Yeah.

I go and knock on the door. I say, you good? You got your flu shot? Do you need me to go to Walgreens? Do you need your booster? Oh, man. So currently my mom is still laying in my house right now as I left to come record, throwing up, fucked up.

And on my way here, Amara throws up in the cargo. So you're contagious. Wait. No, I feel fine. Kia feels fine now, too. Amara has been fine for days. I don't know if it was because traffic and like stop and go,

but she threw up again this morning. Yeah, it might be car sick. I was like, dude, you can't be thrown up for a week straight. Yeah, that sounds like car sick. Because I can't, if I'm in a car, I can't be on my phone looking at my phone. I get sick.

Yeah. I get nauseous. If I'm looking down on my phone and like the car's moving, nauseous. So that can be with it. She's on her iPad. Yeah.

It could be that. Definitely. But, I mean, once I, I finally did get like full service. on our drive back. I was like happy but also like a little sad. I was like damn my phone's probably going to be. I probably missed so much shit, work stuff, this and that. No one. No one cleared the sample. We were fine. Yeah. Emails were the same. Yeah. But I usually wake up to 40 text messages. So I thought this is going to be the worst thing ever. But I was like, oh, all right, cool.

I like not mattering. Maybe I should move to New Hampshire. When I came out of the theater last night, I think I asked him my homeboy while we was in it there I guess he checked his phone and was like oh shit bad bunny got the Super Bowl

I thought he was lying I was like what it was a bad bunny Was that surprising to you Not that it was surprising to me because news that came out that Taylor Swift turned it down And Adele turned it down

Yes So I was laughing My homeboys about that I was like yeah When you're a big dog You turn down the Super Bowl You don't need the fucking Super Bowl Just talking shit

And meanwhile The biggest dog well benito benito decided he was gonna what would you think prince prince would be well no i mean it was it was jokes

it was just shit talking um but once once taylor turned it down and adele turned it down it was kind of like well damn who's gonna so then you obviously have to look at whoever's the biggest

the stars that's what they you know how they kind of go by it so it was bad bunny i thought about it but i didn't think the NFL or rock nation would actually pull a trigger on it and do it. I thought they would find somebody else and kind of fill in that slide. I didn't know if Bad Bunny wanted to even be a part of it, the Super Bowl thing. But it makes sense after he just had the residency in Puerto Rico, what he did down on the island, which was incredible.

But I didn't think that it would land on Bad Bunny after Adel and Taylor Turner. He wasn't the first person I thought about. But now that he is announced as to perform the Super Bowl, it makes sense. sense. I mean, he's one of the biggest stars in the world. So you thought right wing football was mad at Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog. This is going to be the most racist halftime Twitter timeline you have ever seen in your life. At this time, Bad Bunny was made comments about ICE. Also, I think Bad Bunny would make more sense for maybe FIFA just based off not only its popularity, but just the sport in itself and our internationalists.

Football is a very American thing. This is going to be interesting. Well, Puerto Rico is a territory of the U.S. I fully understand. Right. I just, it's an interesting pick. I like it. I'm just telling you with the climate right now,

this was a crazy pick. A bold move. But at the same time I'm not bad. I think the right move. I can't wait to see it. I think this is the time where it needs to, I think it's the right move. He's the biggest pop star in the world.

So, yeah. Well, it's interesting because the reason why he didn't go on an American tour was because he was in, I guess, concerned is the word. He was concerned that ICE would be at his shows arresting. Very fair assumption that that would happen without question. The fact that there's people... They go to Home Depot's. You don't think they go to the bad bunny show? They would be waiting outside.

But it's not interested to you that somebody that's here illegally a migrant could afford. a bad bunny ticket in America? What is that? You know how expensive bad bunny tickets are? Do you know how much money the guys standing outside of Lowe's and Home Depot pull in cash? No, I don't. A good amount. I'd have offered them.

Like, yeah, that ain't. But that's just nice. They buying the big chicken tenders and fries at the stadium. But for the artist to be like, yo, I don't want to go on a U.S. tour because I'm afraid that ICE agents might be at my shows arresting people. Yeah. And also, not even all of them have to be immigrants. they could be,

the ice be fucking around fucking with regular Spanish people. Like, they don't even have to be immigrants. They will arrest you and then figure out the details later. Oh, you're American,

oh my bad. Oh, you're a dreamer. Oh, my bad. Yeah, I don't think that's how it goes. That's definitely happened plenty of times.

I don't know that. I don't know if that's happening. But it has happened. The interesting part is, the interesting part is his show, his stage performance is incredible. For sure. He puts on a better show

than 90% of the artist. So, yeah. It will be a huge production. it will be great. Completely well-deserved. I just think it's a bold move that I'm not mad at.

It's just for this year, we're going into next year. Yeah, it's just a crazy pick. And then we know what it's all about. You know, they're getting the big, you know, obviously the Latin community will tune in to the halftime show. So the numbers are going to be incredible.

And that's all this is about. It's not so much about the people in the stadium. It's not so much about the people that's actually at the Super Bowl, but more so about how many people can we get to tune in for halftime to push these commercials and things like that. So I mean, Bad Bunny is, you know, he has a huge, huge, a global audience. He puts on a great show.

He has great music, great performer, great entertainer. So, I mean, it makes sense. Is the NFL scripted if somehow the Raiders go from one in three and go on a Super Bowl run? Why would that be scripted? Because a lot of Latinos are Raiders fan. Cowboys fans too. True. Chargers are doing pretty well.

49ers fans. Is that a thing with the Niners? Oh, you never been to a Niners game. I haven't, no. Oh, yeah. Huge. Oh, okay. Huge.

What's the Niners record now? I'm just trying to see if, uh, get that if I'm scripted. Three and one? Chargers three and one. Nine is three and one. Script is in. It's in the Bay Area. The Ninus might be in the game, man.

The Ninus might be in the bowl. In all Latino experience. Oh, my God. All Latino. Yeah. Los NFL. I'm curious how they're going to not spin per se, but like market

the entire thing with bad bunny. I'm just interested to see. The same way they market, you know, Modelo. It's the same. Y'all have a large Spanish audio. Wait, are we being offensive? No, and how am I?

No. How's that a family? Just making sure. No, that's not offensive. I'm just saying they're going to market it the same way they market anything else. In Mall's defense, the image that Rock Nation did pick looked like a Corona commercial.

He was on the beach with a fucking gold post. You know the Corona commercial with the silhouette of the little hut in the palm tree? It was the same thing. It's the same thing. It's Bad Bunny. That sells itself. Good dope sells itself. You know that, Rory.

Bad Bunny. It's blue magic. It's brand name. Bad Bunny's performing at Super Bowl. That's all you have to say. It might be the highest watch Super Bowl. I don't know. Okay.

It might be the highest watch Super Bowl. don't think that's a bad take at all. Nah, not more than not like us. All right. I'm not trying to go back up. I will say between the numbers of people that watch the half-time show regardless, plus an entire new demographic that may not watch it. Yeah, this could be the highest rated halftime show at all-time.

He's not. Nowhere. He's going to beat Kendrick. No, he's not. Yeah, I will go on the limits. He's probably going to beat Bruno Mars and Beyonce. You're like. Y'all got bad boony fucked up.

See, now that's offensive. We were not a few. That's the most offensive thing that was that. I don't know if that was that. What was that? All of my friends. That's like when my dad says, Rossi inside a Mexican restaurant.

What the fuck was that? All of my friends who say bad boony, they all say it like that. I'm telling you, all of them are bad bunny. Yes, they are. Who are bad bunny fans, like all of them. Shout out the Ann.

Shout out the rocks. Like the ones that traveled to Puerto Rico to go see Bad Bunny. That's how they say it. Yeah, but you can't say that, though What the fuck can I? Well, you look like you can be Spanish. You do.

Is it the mustache? No, you just, you look like you could be Honduran. You look like you can be Puerto Rican. You're like you can be Dominican. Yeah, you got that look to you, Costa Rican, maybe. Yeah, you got that look. Definitely have Puerto Rican mannerisms for sure. What does that see?

That feels racist. That felt racist. Or anything from his face, his white face is going to come across. You're acting like I was quoting the young thuggettrow. Why did a thug turn A by white? What's going on? Well, he said, young thugs said, you know, the thing about what the music industry used to be is if you want to be big and be success, go white. So that's what he was trying to do.

Like he was trying to. This is his bluegrass album. But why did he turn everybody's white? This is not his bluegrass. This is not, I don't even want you to. This is not young thugs. This is not. No, this is not that.

But that was his reason saying, you know, they used to have a black guy. black artists when they, but back in the days, their album cover would be like white people on a beach. It wouldn't even be the black artist on that. So he's kind of like alluding to that. If you want to be the biggest, you got to go white. Okay. Was that a fake tweet when he posted, here's all my friends and was all the features and they were all white too? Because again, I didn't have service. I didn't know if that was a troll. Probably a troll. I don't know. It looked like it was a real account. But it had all the features and they were all white. Which made me wish.

that Central C was on the album so I could see the white version of Central C that he would make. To just put a picture of Central C? If it was all of them and then just see as is. Do we think Bad Bunny's going to bring anybody with him? Cardi B. I would not be surprised, but I don't think so. I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't think so.

Bodega Baddy at the Super Bowl? No, what was the one from the first album that they have? Now, I like Dynast. I like Diamond's. I like Diamond. Yeah, I think Cardi comes out and they do that. I like it like that. Oh, yeah, they definitely got to do. If you're going to do, I like it like that anyway, it has to be at the Super Bowl. Yeah.

That's such a Super Bowl record. Cardi and Ricky Martin need to come up. Yeah. For sure. Shakira while they're at it, see if she's free. Didn't she already do Super Bowl? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I think Cardi gets brought out. I don't know, is there another artist from that genre? Jay Balvin? Jay Balvin, yeah. Jay Balvin. Isn't he on? I like it like that, too. Jay Balvin and Bad Bunny got a little.

Oh, it's a little static? A little static between them. Oh. I mean, I don't know. I don't know if it's, I wouldn't say beef, but I don't think that they're on the terms that they used to be on right now. But they could squash it at the Super Bowl. That would be like a nice moment of unity.

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and this was, Thug didn't really announce anything. This shit just dropped. So it was kind of ironic, were having that conversation the week that his album was going to come out. It dropped. And I listened to it yesterday. How was it? Be honest. Gunna is, if we're doing the competition, Gunna is clearly in the lead. Okay, well, let's ignore the competition. How was the album? There's some joints. Some fat needs to be trimmed off this, but let me start with the records that I do like. Catch me on falling, I like. Whoopty do I like. Blaming Jesus I like. Sad spider I like.

Pardon my back, I like. Um, walk down is okay. Money on Money with Future. I don't know why that's track 18. I think it could have been a single and should be way higher. Um, I know they have a lot of records like that, but that's a classic future thug record. And then dreams rarely do come true with my scientists. There's like five or six joints that are cool to me on this. 20 is a lot, an hour and 14 minutes. I don't know. But it did kind of kill the rumors of what we were talking about, of who's going to be featured.

Everyone he talked about on his podcast was featured on this. Baby has a great verse. Cardi is a cool verse. It's just cool. It's not groundbreaking. It's not... Little babies on album? Yeah.

That's a great verse, too. Okay. Actually, one of my favorite baby verses in a long time. I haven't heard a baby feature that I've really loved in a while and this one's really good on part of my back but I don't know if this is getting it done the way we talk again I don't want to compare it to Gunna but they compare it to each other he talks about Gunna on this

whole shit this isn't that this isn't getting into the next level of everyone's gonna forget about what is going on it's just cool I don't know if any of these are really going to connect like that I don't know what would be the standout maybe part of my back with a little baby I thought you said it would be future on it would be the stand it's all it's number 18 out of

20 tracks and the last one being that I miss my dog's seven minute record so it's damn near the second to last record I don't even think they care about it so I mean according to Apple music it would be whoopty-do fucking told you which I think was probably one of the worst records on there I don't know it starts out slow and then picks up I like more of the the sadder thug on this the more R&B thug

the other stuff is a lot of the same generic beats. It felt like they didn't mix anything at all. So I don't know. I'd be curious what a like a real thug fan would think about this one. As opposed to me. I like thugs music, but I would never consider myself a thug fan. Yeah.

I like songs. But there's joints. I'll definitely continue to listen to Sad Spider, blaming Jesus. Catch me on falling. I don't know if I'm going back to a bunch of stuff, but he got all the right features. Sexy Reds on it.

Savage, Travis Scott. I mean, he did what he was supposed to do as far as that goes. I just don't know if the production is really there. So it's the music. Yeah, it's not to say like Gunner like super elevated his sound per se with the last two projects, but it did move in a less stagnant direction. This is very much plateau. if not lower than a lot of the production thug has had prior to prison.

Even some of the production on the project he put out in prison, I think, was better than a lot of this. It felt a lot of it felt like super too tracky and like, I don't know. I just don't know if it's really going to connect with people, especially the way that he rolled it out. Like with the podcast, you had so much momentum. Like, you should have just kept talking. I did see he was performing in front of the jail in Fulton County Oh that's good Is it?

I mean yeah give him back Is it? Is it? Her Roy? That's good, is it? Give him back. Oh, okay. Remember like when Wu Tang used to go to Rikers and perform and like, you know, boost

the morale of everyone? Yeah, same thing. Like ODB. Wrapping about all the shit that landed them in there, sure. And he performed a gunner record. Oh, he did? I do love the fact that him and Luchu were able to squash their beef and put their differences aside

and, you know. Yeah, I feel like that record should get him off parole. Well, no, that's not what the... Like, if they're cool... That's not what the DA is. Everything is fine if they're... Yeah, no, it don't work like that. Just one song don't mean I cool everybody's off parole.

No, it don't work like that. But it is, you know, on the serious note, it was dope to see them work. together and um you know kind of move past that part of their lives anytime you have people that are going through serious things in the streets and you know people were unfortunately killed and and hurt and things like that you know at some point you have to be like all right man what are we doing and let's kind of put it into this bullshit our damage was already done too much damage was done lives were lost but you know that doesn't mean that we can't in this come together move forward

Be examples for the community. Be role models for the youth and show them that, you know, that lifestyle is not only going to end up, you know, one or two ways for you. So let's just talk as men, settle our differences and come together, work together, and, you know, provide for our family. So shout out the thug and Lucci for that. I appreciate it on a sad spider of doubling down on the great manipulation of not taking accountability for what you said, but being mad at the people that recorded it. let's just focus on that. Forget what I said. Like, why, why you go through my phone?

It's not what's in the phone. Why are you going through my shit? Yeah. I appreciate that he's still doubling down. Forget what I said. Why they record it. Right. Because if the eye ain't ever recorded,

we wouldn't be in his predicament. He even said, try to keep everything secrecy, but they want to record it. No, you're on the phones. Like, you're in jail. It tells you when you call somebody, this call will be recorded.

Like, so. Demaris, did you listen to the outro, what I call the outro, because I don't really count to miss my dog shit. Dreams rarely do come true, which is the second record with Mariah, the scientist. Yes. I couldn't, is his verse about Mariah?

I don't think so. Because I was a little confused. I don't think that verse is about Mariah. I think that verse is about somebody else. Was it about the girl that? Possibly. He was accused of sleep. keeping with right before?

Possibly. Or one of the, or what you're going to call it? Devin Haney's baby mother. I can't remember who it's about. But I know it's not about Mariah. There's parts in there that are about Mariah, but it's not about Mariah. He said, why would I cry over a bitch I gave the Gunner's police ass? Yeah.

This is a ballad, by the way. That's one of his more heartfelt moments on the album. I was hitting your friend, but cut that hole off for you. did it like a real one solid you didn't have a clue viral on the internet and I'm my baby mad acting like I lost my player card and went out bad we was talking about something serious and it just made me sad why would I cry over a bitch I gave the gun a police ass

yeah all right well if you ain't got nothing else to do listen to the thug album you know what I mean download that thug album give it some spins see what you think um yeah I'm just curious to see see how it connects I don't really have a prediction I don't know. I could be wrong. Everyone could end up loving this the next week. But overall, what are your feelings on it?

It may just come and go. Not saying it's bad, but I think it may in the climate, which we've talked about a million times, how much music, just like this, the shit is here today, going tomorrow, even with great projects. This type of album in this climate, my first thought would be this is going to come and go. But I mean, I hope something does connect.

Like, I do fuck with Doug as an artist, and I think he is important. So. Have you guys listened to Big Doge? I know all did. Did I? That's all I've been listening to a whole weekend. Really? What?

He put on his back to the future. What's the sneakers you got? The mags? You definitely put those on to listen to that. No, I didn't do that. You was walking around the house in them. No, I definitely didn't do that. I haven't heard it yet.

Is it more rap? Is it pop? Is it, what is it? I haven't heard it yet. I've been busy. Oh, my God. It's very 80s pop. very much 80s pop

this album is incredible incredible music doja bro listen man she might be y'all know how I feel about Nikki but like doja is like right there for me I think she I think doja as far as her artistry her talent

her vision I think she's right there with the Beyonce's and and the Riannas and all of them absolutely like her artistry and her skill set and her vision, like her stage show, her performance. Everything is right. She just doesn't have the big production that those artists have.

But like her talent level, her skill set. You just named two artists that ain't even on the same talent level. So like, are you putting her on a level with Rihanna or a level with thinking or a level with Beyonce? I'm saying she's right there in the same scope with those artists. She's right there. What I was saying is them artists are not on the same scope as each other. That's why I was confused.

No, but I mean those are like superstars. Oh, okay, you're saying she's a superstar. Yeah, absolutely. I thought you were talking about actually like... No, she's not on the same... No, she hasn't had the success that those artists have had, but skills, skill set and talent, 1,000. Oh, okay, I agree with you there.

1,000%. She definitely has the skill set. 1,000%. Like, she's, bro, like, you can just look at an artist and tell, like, if they had... Because you, as you know, Roy, a lot of what comes with the lore of a superstar is, you know, production, is the production. big and the stage president all that kind of adds to but i'm just talking about skill set talent vision like she has all of that i mean anytime you see it at these when we see it at the met

like she was the most talked about person on the carpet like she has that that thing that she has that superstar quality that those other ladies have without a doubt okay that's all i was i just wanted to clear up because i'm when i hear you say that you compare and doja to biance i don't want to be hive to kill you. So that's why I just want to clear up what you. I'm not saying. Don't. And not say that Doja Cat is as talented as Beyonce. That's some crazy ass shit to say. I'm saying she is. Okay. Okay. I don't think she's not she's not as strong vocally as Beyonce. But talent, she dances, she rap, she sings. Like she has, she checks all of her performance.

She checks all of the boxes. Without a doubt. Like Doja Cat is that type of talent without a doubt. Skill set. Yes, I'm with you. But to put them in the same category, she would have to accomplish the same things that I feel like those. But that comes with time. Yeah. That just comes with time. That's all we're talking about. Because I mean, when it comes,

obviously she's not a better singer than Beyonce, not a better dancer catalog, and hasn't done any of the tour scales that Beyonce has done. I mean, I don't even think she's there with Nikki yet, but she could be on the path to get there. Like, I think she's great. I just think she needs to accomplish more to be in those conversations.

When you say she's not on Nikki's level, what do you mean as far as what? Skills, talent? accomplishments that comes with time bro you're talking about things that come with time I know but that's what I'm getting like catalog um impact

um hits like I don't think Doja could stand toe to toe with Nikki and come even close in a versus yeah but you okay that's that's I'm talking about songs just I'm talking about talent level

skill set yeah super star quality you think that Doja cat is when it comes to rap music, right? Because I look at Doja like a pop star. I look at Nikki as a pop star too, but Nikki leans more to a rap. You think that Doja can sit with Nikki

talent-wise with rapping? Absolutely. Absolutely. I think if Nikki and Doja get a record together where they're just rapping, I think Doja definitely holds her own definitely will have people like,

oh shit, I didn't know Doja was like that. Without a doubt. I think she would definitely hold her own. agree but i mean again and it's not a slight to doja at all but you know she'd be on a record with somebody that clearly had a huge influence on her oh yeah like like yeah and i don't know that that way everyone should be absolutely no influence by you y'all know where i put nudge but i'm just saying like but you can hear niki through a lot of dojahs one hundred but when you i'm just saying when you i'm just saying when you listen to a doja cat record or album and you just hear just again the

talent level for somebody who is probably writing all of this shit. Well, yeah, Twitter, I forgot what page it was, put out a very misleading stat that Doja Cat is the first female rapper to have only herself in the writing credits of a full album. And I was like, no, that, well, that's wrong. Yeah. But to what I'm saying, she's writing all of this. Whether it's a rap, pop, R&B, whatever she's doing, like she's writing that. She's executing. it. She sounds great. If she, you know, at her show, her performance is incredible.

Like I just was told my what she did at the VMAs. Her performance at the VM. She had Michael Bolton. Yeah. Was it Michael Bolton or Kenny G? Kenny G. It was Kenny G. Kenny G. She had Kenny G come out. Like, just that attention to the detail

for a stage show, like for, that is, that just lets you know that this is an artist that is looking at things differently. She's paying attention to the detail of everything. And that is what a superstar does. To me, I mean, Sands fashion and producing to some degree, I know Docha Cat does produce, but she's more in a Tyler Lane to me than she would be comparing her to Nikki. What? Yeah. I get what we're saying. No, you don't. This album, I mean, she doesn't compare it to the last project, which was more of, was a rap project. She doesn't rap that much on this project.

it's a pop album. So like that's where the Nikki thing I wouldn't even like. Forget the, the project. I'm just saying her skill set. Sure. Okay.

Yeah. You said Tyler or Tyler? Tyler. Tyler, the creator. Okay. Oh, okay. I thought you saw my Tyler. He said Tyler and I'm like,

no, no, no. He meant Tyler the creator. Oh, okay. Okay, okay. Got you. I said Sands fashion and some producing. Tyler produces all of stuff. And I know Doja Cat produces,

but I don't think she does to the degree that, the creator does. Okay. And Tyler has a, like, his fashion shit is over here, too. But I would put Joe, I would put Joe. I would put Joe. So now you see why I was kind of like, what?

Yeah. No, Tyler. That's all I'm saying. And there's no disrespect to Tyler. I think she's dope. That would just be a weird. But I'm just saying for you to say that, I was like, how are you comparing that? But okay.

Yeah, I would put her more in a comparison there than Nikki, who obviously does have pop hits and does sing. But Nikki is at the end of the day, like, You think rapper first, hardcore rapper first. Whereas Doja is spread across the whole spectrum when it comes to music. This album being one of those where she's rapping. I love her raps. But that wasn't the focus on this.

This was way more melodic, way more in the sense. Like this was, it was an 80s pop album. Yeah. My only critique of it, because I really do love it, it's a little too on the nose of 80s pop. I would have liked her to make it more of her own. I think it. This was like straight up like, hey, I'm making an 80s pop album. It was Bruno Marzzi?

No, no, not in that. Like, it doesn't need to be warmer. It's just like, um, like, all right, day and night to me was like a Cuddy. It was a weird version of like an 80s pop record, but Cuddy made it his own and made it in this time. This doesn't sound like an 80s album in 2025. It just sounds like an 80s pop album that Doja Cat is singing and rapping over, which is fine. I think it's great. I think that's what she was trying to do.

Now, the content. It's definitely Doja. Hell yeah, what she's saying is. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's talking shit on it. But the music is, I think that's what she wanted. She wanted to kind of capture that sound, that, you know, that energy of 80s pop. And I think she did that, but I think she still kept the Doja with the lyrics.

Contest for sure, yeah. This is definitely a tour that I will pay. Oh, no, I'm going to the show. Like, this is going to be. I'm going to the show at the garden. Without a doubt, I'm not missing Doja again. It's not happening. What happens when like the lights go too crazy?

Epilepsy, what do you get? I want to get epilepsy at the garden. I'm Molly. If it's 80s themes with all the lasers, like, yeah. I want this to be that. Yeah, I'm definitely going. 100% I'm not. I was mad.

I missed her last tour. We got to L.A. I think the day after she just ended the tour, that's not happening this year. I will be at the garden for that Doja show, without a doubt. Got to see her life. She's one of those artists that I just, I feel like I have to see it. I have to actually go to the show and just see it and feel the energy and what her fan base is.

I'm mad I miss Global Citizen Fest in New York this weekend. What is that? It was like a kind of like a, not really a festival, but a festival. Global Citizen, they had Tyler, they had Cardi B up there performing pregnant. They had Mariah the scientists. They had a bunch of people. I was heartbroken. No, I don't think those should perform, but it was a lot of people.

I never heard a global citizen Really? Wow Yeah It was in New York This weekend So it's just like a festival Yeah it's been going on for a while now

Was it at Shea Stadium? No it was on some lawn It was on some lawn No for real Oh yeah That's a lawn Oh that's a lawn

Central Park is a lawn So yeah I get it Farrell Alicia Keys My Republic Her Carol King

Yeah, that's very old. That's 2019, baby. Oh. I'm like her. That was when the world was okay. Yeah, I'm like her. Yeah. It is called the Great Law in Central Park.

I know I wasn't crazy. Shakira, Carkey B, Tyler, Ira Star, Marita scientists, Camillo, Eliana. Yeah. Okay. Oh, I'm sure that was fun. Yeah. We missed it, but it's fine. Well, yeah, check out Doja Cat's album.

I'm curious to see what the visuals look like on this. actually shocked with that type of production that she didn't release like similar like what Beyonce did with this self-titled album like a visual for every single song because this is one of those that I think like every song warrants even if they did like a short film of all the songs I think that would make sense because there's so much you can do with that 80s pop shit for sure um but yeah other than that she's been on a run I mean last from 2021 to 2025 four projects. Like she's staying super consistent for being a A list artist. She's incredible, man. I love Doja Cat. Like I'm like a Doja Cat fan. I love that.

Like a real Doja Cat fan. Maybe she'll come on the pod. Yeah. Let's get Dojo on, man. I might DM her. Let me, I'll DM and see if she, she responds. If she can't come on, we can maybe just do like a, like a chat online. Yeah. Something. Yeah, just a little chat. One of her. Having a Zoom's in a room. She can show us her feet. now she's not going to answer and DeVarric can do her bad bunny impression so we can keep the theme of the racist chat but shout out to Doja Cat definitely listen to that album

is you know if you appreciate that type of art and attention to detail with artists like I think this Doja album is for you also over the weekend which I saw late I hope Abso is okay he was on on the radar and Kai have their collab where they've been doing freestyles Samino was just up there

They've had a lot of people It looks great Congrats to Gabe I think this is This is amazing And I love that Kai's Implementing this type of stuff On his platform

Abso went up there We've seen Abso Smoke countless freestyles This one I guess was really for free Is that okay? It's really free He's funniest shit I'm sorry

We love Absole up here He kind of he fumbled He dropped the mic He you know forgot his bars and you know every rapper has had one of these moments it just so happens to be on the biggest streamers platform and then on one of the biggest freestyle platforms um saw a lot of people everybody saw this so it's kind of like it's the bad time to drop the mic and fumble that's just a bad time like finally you know obviously flex sway leakers like

I'm not going to act like freestyles are not still important or get highlighted but for the younger kids on this platform they rarely do yeah so this to me for the people that could freestyle for real this is like your your time to really yeah like ab is one of now it finally matters to do this yeah he's one of the real rappers real you know real bar spitters so for him to ab is an alien yeah for him to have his moment up there like that and you know not deliver as we know ab to deliver it's like it's tough to see that because again everybody saw this this is again, this is biggest streamers platform. Like, everybody's watching this.

So for him to have a hiccup, let's just call it a hiccup. I mean, it was a long pause hiccup. I mean, sometimes you gotta hold your breath. It's like a four minutes. That's how you get rid of hiccups. You gotta hold your breath. Yeah, there you go.

See? Ab did respond, but I mean, I'll save you guys some time of the four minute response. He didn't really say much of anything in the response, just that he was okay and he had a bad day and that he fumbled and...

It's okay. as fuck up. If you can't really freestyle, I know Ab Ken actually freestyle. I've heard him freestyle in person. You can freestyle. Do we want real freestyles? Because I don't.

Well, freestyle. I want your written. Well, I do. The word freestyle is changed. It took on a whole different definition. It's not, you know, back in the days where a MC, a real MC, a real rapper, could stand there and just start rapping about anything

that's going on around them in the room. Guys are not doing that. These are just bars that, you know, rappers have for when they know they're going on these type of platforms. It's not going to be bars you're going to hear on songs. Sometimes you do hear some of them on songs and things like that. But these are not just off the top. Don't know what I'm about to say about to draw inspiration from the room and just rap about it.

This is not that. Those days, the emcees that do that are very far and few in between. There's not a lot of emcees that can still do that. And like you said, I don't even know if I want that. Like write something, knowing that you're going on Tye's platform, write something, write whatever, 60 bars that you can just, you know, just get rid of on that platform to showcase your skills and just, I call it throwing away those balls because you can't use them again.

Just throw those bars out there, you know, and that's it. But don't go on these platforms trying to, because that's, again, that's reserved for a select few. Very few people can do that. I mean, I can't even think. Like the last person that I think that I'm going to sound like I'm trolling. I think Charles Hamilton was maybe the last person I've ever seen that like, I don't mind if you freestyle because he was actually like good at it.

But other than that, give me a written if you want to throw in a quick freestyle 12. Loz still does that. Okay, Loz still. All right, yeah. But even with Loz will give you like 12 freestyle and get back to a written and go freestyle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he can still, Lose is one of the few that can still, you know. Lois is exempt for sure.

Sit down in front of a mic and, you know, you just turn a beat on that he might not have. Well, he always got bars, but he might literally just freestyle about what's going on. Yeah, but Ab, I would have preferred a written Ab Soul 32 on this one. Punch also tweeted that him and Ab were laughing about it, like, everybody has a bad day. Which again, I hope that is the case. I hope Ab is cool because I know a lot of people were like, oh, you know, Ab has admitted that he's had some mental health problems. Damn, look, you fumble.

Yeah. You fumble a freestyle thing you start asking if you are. I'm good fam I just forgot my bars Like it's like They can start asking about You middle hell What's going on at home?

Yeah Yo you're good When your ab so Oh yeah Because Ab is one of them Like we know Yeah

But I didn't see that And be like Yo ab going through it Everybody In the group chat I was in was like Yo is ab On drugs

You have another Like You got to be on drugs You can't just You can't just You can't just You can't You somebody check

Yo he's fine I just I was like, yo, he just, now what I thought he did was, and I don't know why rappers even still do this. I was like, he probably smoked right before he started rapping. And the thing is, when you smoke, like, you get cotton mouth, you know, your tongue get heavy sometimes depending on the strand. And you, you know what I'm saying?

It's hard to, it's hard to speak, let alone rap and stay on beating. And remember, like, so I'm like, I hope he didn't smoke and then go sit down because I never, even when I see a lot of dudes like battle rapping and you can tell they smoked right before they on stage. I'm like, I don't know why they do that. Like, you're gonna get cotton mouth. And, like, you're high. So it's like your mind is just like, you know, all over the place really. Like, you're thinking about all kinds of shit. Your body feels good. Like, you just, I don't know why rappers continue to do that unless you're doing something like, you know, you had a show. And obviously, you know the songs that's when performing, the crowd knows the songs. But if you're

going somewhere or battle rapping then you're small, I don't know why these dudes do that. I cannot figure like why would you even set yourself up like that? Yeah. And sometimes just maybe be like, I don't want to freestyle. Well, no, you can't say that while you're there. I feel in no disrespect to Melly. But yeah, he should have told Sway. I'm good.

I don't need to freestyle today. Instead of going, mm-mm-mm-mm. Well, yeah, you can't do that either. You can just be like, nah. You just be like, no, I'm not coming up there to do that. I'm not. Yeah, like maybe another time. Because I...

But what I should do is put out a video with him, whatever he was going to spit yeah just drop a video get your balls still get the bars off don't like don't go out like that definitely still get your bars off but i mean i think it's a we're just fucked up i think everyone in my group chats and online saying is ab okay is more of a compliment because we're used to how good ab is and then this was that so yeah it was like damsie i but question of somebody's mental health because they forget it has been very open about somebody's mental health issues he has and i understand that but i didn't get that from him just forgetting his bars on kye string

I didn't be like, yo, damn, my whole hope average I was like, yo, he just, you know, he fumbled, it's okay. Maybe Drusky can bring him out at his next, his next show to perform that freestyle. Why are they killing Drusky? What's going on? So he had, Drewski had his, he's on, I think it's a tour, and they stopped in Toronto and people on, or I guess Toronto Twitter, they, it would have to be Toronto Twitter. They was at the show, right? Yeah, yeah. So they was out and they was expressing their disappointment.

saying that they didn't understand what's going on. The show was trash. Drewski said that, you know, they didn't let Soulge Boy cross the border. I guess Soldier Boy was supposed to be at the show as well. So maybe that was, you know, something that threw the whole rhythm of the show off. I don't know. But Toronto Twitter was upset at the show. They were trashing and saying the show was awful.

Save your money. Don't go to the show. I mean, I don't want to pump that. I mean, I didn't see the show. So I don't know what happened. But Toronto Twitter, the people that were at the show, were absolutely pissed off and they were mad about. They were asking for refunds, expeditiously want to refund.

I mean, it's in that right now. The best part of Zewski Toronto show was the fight in the crowd after the lights cut on. So when you start reading things like that, and then it's not fair too because we've seen this happen. Some of these niggas wasn't even at the show. They just start reading shit online and they just want to jump in on it and start dogpiling Druski. He's still one of my favorite follows on Instagram.

Juski is fucking hilarious. For sure. Not sure what his live show looks like, though. I've never been to a Juski live show. But some people at the Toronto show obviously were upset and, you know, mad at the show. I think people were expecting more skits and more performances where it wasn't that. From what I was reading, outside of the people that were just hating. People that were, like, giving constructive criticism.

I guess he did one skit with a piano, but everything else was more like him just talking shit for a second. and then like young, young and mayo come out. And then just talking shit. Like it wasn't what they were expecting with what Drewski's platform has been. And I mean, I guess that kind of begs a question of,

can promo videos and announcements actually fuck you over in the long run? Because that was one of the coolest tour announcements ever that I can remember as of late when Druski did that with everyone saying, I'll be there, this and that. And I'll be the one to tell you, Peach can tell you as well.

consumers don't read flyers I could put the date the time and the location all the comments will be when is it

what location what time to the doors open nobody read shit so if somebody saw that amazing tour video yeah I'm gonna think

Biba Valley and Big Drake are gonna be there like I'm waiting to see Justin Bieber do all that matters to me in Toronto

yeah like if anybody went there if anybody went to thinking Biba was gonna be there like come on he's selling the video

he didn't say Biba was going at the Toronto show. Can we pull up the Drusky? Now, if he said that... I know, I'm not saying he said he'd be at the Toronto show. I'm saying fans don't read flyers. So the Toronto show could have been very specific out of that announcement video. These are the only people that'll be here. But I'm telling you, people do not read

flyers whatsoever. Yeah, but if you went to a Drusky show expecting Justin B. would perform, like, you're just stupid. Yeah. You're just like, you're the person that shouldn't be at the show. In my opinion. Like, there's no way you thought. what Justin Bieber was performing at a Drewski show. Like, you didn't think that. Yeah. I mean, but if you do a...

In Toronto. Beaver living in L.A. I mean, he's from Canada. He can get to Toronto if he needs to, but he won't be performing at Drusky show. He won't be lying to Drusky show. No. From L.A. Like, no.

Okay, but if I see a trailer, there's all of these people saying, I'll be there. Like... Like, I want, Like, I want Snoop there. I think that's stupid. Okay, all right. I started this by saying, people that buy tickets, myself included, are stupid.

Oh, okay, cool. We see a trailer and think, oh, that's the tour, is these people. I just gave you an example of any time we did Palooza, which is at a way lower scale than this. People would ask what the date would be in the biggest font ever. And they'd be like, what day is it? People do not read that shit. They just see this and see Toronto, that date right there, after. you had Snoop, Beaver, Soldier Boy, G. Herbo, all these people on your face-dom thing.

That's what they're going to think, and they're going to get there and be disappointed. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I understand that. People, they don't read. They don't, you know. But again, Bieber? Come on, man. Is it far-fetched the thing that Beavs would be at the Canada one?

Yes. From Canada. I think that's very far-fetched. From the outskirts of Toronto. I can see that happening. But either way. I mean, give it a chance. Maybe Juski will fix.

When is he in New York? Let's see. I want to go to the New York show. Oh, that's like in a week and a half. Okay. Oh, sorry, October 11th. Okay. Yeah, I might check that out.

I might go to the Jusky show. Just to see it. I'll fuck with Jusky. So definitely want to support him. Okay. And I mean, this one, I'm on Barclays Center. dot com event information Caleb Presley Big X the plug

Soldier Boy young M.A. Nav and special guests. So I mean I think some of those other guests will probably all just be in L.A. Okay. And this is the traveling one because I did CBCT the plug was in Toronto. Soldier Boy got caught up at the border which isn't a Drusky thing like that happens pretty often but I feel like they should have let Big Draco in

like Drake could have made that call? Drake called for Big Draco? Yeah, they're cool, right? I don't know. Oh, okay. What you're asking me for? I don't know. NAS from Canada.

You can make that call? It's crazy. Yeah, I don't know if NAV has that pull at the border like that, but... You never know. I don't know, you right? I'm saying, I don't think he has that pull at the border. Have you ever been to a show that you felt like completely finessed at? Completely finessed?

Not really. Not really. I've never been to a show I feel like damn I want my money back Yeah I don't know if I've been to one I've been to shows Where I was a little disappointed

But I was like damn They don't sound good in person I've done that But I didn't walk out of there And hop on line And say give me my refund expeditiously Like

I never did I never did that But I mean it happens I get it I understand I understand people going out And expecting one thing But

I just It just As Drewski If you're sitting at the dress room And you're reading that like in real time like what are your thoughts like damn like they're killing me right now that has to fuck with sold out show no i didn't see sex of speech i know y'all i know y'all board is a motherfucker i'm sorry he said that i know y'all board as a motherfucker

i try my best i mean he i'm sure he could feel in the crowd first of all it's in an arena just talking in an arena is very hard i don't care how funny but you can't say that some of some of the greatest stand-up comedians ever are like, I'm not doing an arena. It's so hard to even connect with an audience. And then to not even be a stand-up, even though Druski is a legit, hilarious comedian, he's not a stand-up comedian. Yeah, that's tough to do that with a whole arena standing there. And then it's like, well, here's the young MA. Ooh. And then, oh, that was young Emma. Make some noise. Okay. And that's when... Big X the plug. That's when it's time for like, that's, Times like that is when your team needs to talk to whoever the booking team was that

insisted on these arenas so that they can get their fucking 10% or 20% cut of ticket sales and say, hey, we shouldn't do this. Instead of, hey, you can sell this out just because you can sell something out. It doesn't mean you should. Or you just need to rehearse and have like a full script. Like you can't freestyle everything. And I'm not saying that's what Drewski did, but that's how the fans at least on Twitter felt like. there was one real like skit on a piano

than the rest of the, he was just talking shit. Yeah. Like you need to have Paul a tight show. Like for this 10 minutes, this is exactly what we're doing. There's a script. I know what Drewski's supposed to do.

I'm not going to say it though, but I know what he's supposed to do. I know exactly how he gets around that. I think he should come out as each of his biggest characters. I know what he's supposed to do. There's that. I also think that his love show, that needs to be a sketch.

that's in the show. Yeah. Like those girls need to come out with him. His talent show, his love show, like all of those things need to be, especially his talent show. Well, that was one of the comments that got the most traction on Twitter. It felt like a kid's talent show

in an arena. Yeah, you can't do that. Because now you're relying on you know, people to be entertaining. Like if you're doing a talent show, like at an arena, like you're doing like your show that you do on, you know, on social media.

It's like, oh, on YouTube. Like, yeah, I have my, you know, casting call if you want to call the people come in. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, you can't do, you can't expect people to buy a ticket to see that. But even if you're, if you're adding some of that into like a quick 10 minute part between performers, like, when Drusky does his A&R could have been records thing, when someone comes out and he's got the two security guards and, like, roast the person, you know, that's good. He can do that with people in the crowd. like they can grab three, four people and just have them walk out. They don't get a microphone, no nothing.

Drewski is funny on the spot. Let's not act like he can't roast somebody real quick. Like you just said, it needs to be a tight show. As few things on the spot as possible, you can hire an actor to do that. That sketch, you hire two fucking actors. Everything is already set up.

That's how you do that sketch. I would not pull people from the crowd. Y'all have pulled people from the crowd before. Y'all know how that can go up. Pull people from the crowd. Yeah. Who's going to be in the crowd? Beber.

No. You've never seen his Could have been records A and Arthur? Yeah. It's not artists we know It's just random people That are trying to

But I'm saying If they're not entertaining No, they wouldn't have a microphone I'm saying if they got actors That would be in the crowd That they could pull for that sketch For the could have been records Like, no, I know what he's supposed to do

You're gonna tell him Or you ain't gonna give him free info No, I ain't giving that nigga No free info That's crazy, that's hate. No, it's not. They hate at all. I don't know Drew's gonna.

He don't know me. I'm not hating. But I know how he gets around that to still keep it on brand with his brand. He just got to tweak it. But I think he's, I think Drewski is incredibly talented and funny. So he's going to figure it out. But going on stage saying I know that sucked, you're not supposed to do that either, though. You can't acknowledge the bomb.

Yeah, yeah. You got to just take that in the green room with your team and just kind of like, you know, regroup and come back out stronger next time. But you don't say that to the fans. as they're exiting. Like, nah, can't do that. I mean, at least the timeline wasn't as bad as when TI did stand up in Barclays Center.

You remember that? Oh, yes, I do remember that. Is T.I still doing comedy? I think that was his last show. Oh. Started at the Barclays ended at the Barclays. Didn't Arena and then retired right there. That's it.

Grand Open and Grand Closing. Why did T.I. stop podcasting? He was like a pretty good podcast. He got that big settlement. him and him and his wife got that big settlement what's the name of it OMG girls yeah oh yeah

no need to pot anymore what are you doing like are you kidding me I might have gotten reverse I remember they were talking about getting that reversed nah if the money go to my account I'm never getting that yeah that's it

gone next day y'all go to the account that's gone that's already we already we took that out we took that out last night that's a fact but I do I didn't remember reading something I did remember

they reduced it they reduced it they reduced it and ordered a new trial Oh, so they didn't get paid yet. Oh, wow. Damn. All right. Well, Tiara, the barclays is open.

Go to guitar center. Get those mics, man. It's time to pot again. It's time to pot again. Expeditiously. That's hilarious. Finally, Nas, we got one, man. We got one over hove.

Oh, my God. It took 20 years, but Queens back on top. Queens get the money. Ether right to the casino. Sorry, Hove. We won this one. Was this a Hove, Naz battle? I think now we're, you were saying

Hove had no reason put an album out. The day that this casino opens, we're getting a Hove double disc. For sure. He might do a residency in that casino. Yeah, that ain't going to happen. But shout out to Naza, that's big.

But so I was reading it, I don't know if he is actually a part of it, though. I think they said they were using his likeness and his influence. I don't know if he's on pay. Now, I'm sure he got something from it. For those that don't know. But I think him and what he did with this and what Jay was doing with the Sears and Times Square were two totally different things.

Yeah, they're definitely different. If you remember a couple weeks, well, shit, a couple months now at this point, Nas had put out that trailer video of his partnership with Casino in Vegas and opening that. He does have some form of a partnership with Resort World Casino. Mm-hmm. Jay was bidding to open Caesars in Times Square. Yeah. Now, Naz, I mean, yes, this is a win in our world, but there's already a casino in Queens, as it is.

The laws are drastically different than Times Square. So this wasn't like a crazy approval. I think people saw this coming, and, you know, good for Nas and Anthony, they've been investing. I mean, they're probably both billionaires together at this point for what they've invested in. they've been making great moves. So congrats to Nas and this casino that's, you know, just going to be added on to where the other one is. Howard Beach is going to be booming.

Yeah, I think, I think the mob might be back now. Back? Aqueduct, I'm going to go crazy. Never left, baby. But I heard Jay and Rock Nation are going to try to bid again for the Times Square situation. He'll get it. They just didn't want to give it to him on the first shot. Yeah.

They didn't rock the right people. They got to grease a few more. You got it. You know, they're going to make you work for it, man. They're like, listen, man, great idea. It makes sense. But first shot, I mean, we're not going to let you. We're not going to let you get it on the first shot.

Yeah. But I think they'll, you know, they'll come back to the table in another year or two. And, you know, I think eventually it will happen though. Yeah. And I mean, even, you know, coming from New York City, in regards to the one in Queens, we're incredibly grateful for the large number of residents,

partners put on this project without a single person speaking against it. This is a testament to our mission solidified over the last 15 years to be the best neighbor possible in Queens for the casino. So this has taken them 15 years to even get. Ho's been working on this one for two years. Two or three years. It's going to take some time. Charlemagne, you're going to have to come back to Manhattan Plaza more and more.

I'm going to have to see your face. Just lying to Dame's face on the breakfast club. Dame just telling your business and you just sit in there lying. Yeah. No, that's cool. Nah, you just like going to Manhattan Plaza, don't you, Charlemagne? Yeah.

Oh, my God. But yeah, I mean, listen, I see the good and bad with the casino. So, of course, they do bring more crime. Crime statistically happens when you put a casino anywhere. That's just the nature of it. And when you let Eric Adams run the city? No, if he didn't drop out of the mayor race,

Cesar's would already been built by now. No, that's why he dropped out. He dropped out so he could be a part of the scene. It was a conflict of interest. It was like when Holden to sell the Nets so he could be a sports agent. Exactly. He's like, y'all, I got to draw. Okay, I can't be mayor and be a part of the Seasons thing. All right, cool.

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Do guys get more attention from women when they're single versus when they're in a relationship? Times change. I don't think nobody gives a fuck whether you're in a relationship or not anymore. I don't think. I just saw somebody. Oh, it was actually Cardi. She was talking about how men respect when a woman is married. Or when a men respect a woman's marriage more than women respect a woman's marriage.

Like Hardy was just, I just saw someone talk about that. She was like, you know, like when she was married and everybody knows, like, guys would never even attempt to speak to her, say anything to flirt with her, none of that. She was like, but the women, she was like, they didn't give her a fuck. Like, they was throwing themselves an offset, fucking them. Like, they just didn't care. Niggas be fuckable. Men don't do it because a lot of times they know they're going to get shot down. Men be easy.

They be fuckable. Married or not. Women are easy too, married. than that. Sometimes, ma'all, but more than likely. No, it ain't more than like. Where you can nest that from? Who did you survey? You know what? Who did you survey? I'm telling me. Who did you survey?

It's the end of the episode. I don't got a little shit. You can't say these things and you ain't asked no questions. You can't say that. We didn't see. I didn't hold a study. I'm wrong. We didn't see women be fuckable too. You got me. We didn't see women be fuckable too is all I'm saying. You can't say that. Don't just say men are fuckable. Women are fuckable. Okay. Who do you think is more fuckable? A married man or a married woman? And my heart hood, I think it's more, it depends on who the person is. Okay. I know women that are married that was fucking other guys.

100%. Yeah. So I'm just saying it depends on, you can't say it's men. No, women fuck and men fuck. Women get horny and men get horny. You can't just make that statement like, nah, men is fuckable. Women is fuckable. Women are jerky off and suck your dick with the rock on their fingers.

That's crazy. I've seen it happen. That's nuts. I'm just saying. So we can't just make that statement. And not only that, Cardi just spoke to the fact that women were throwing themselves at like men were respecting her.

Men wasn't even trying to talk to her when she was when she was married. That was, I think that was my point that you missed. Yeah, men weren't trying to talk to her, not because they didn't want to talk to her, but they knew that there was a very low likelihood of her fucking them. That's why they didn't shoot at her. Not because they didn't want to fuck her, but because they knew it was a low likelihood of them doing it.

The fact that you're missing is the marriage. So when you say men are fuckable, yeah but women are fuckable too but the fact that she was married niggas was like nah she married now it was just she's dating offset niggas might have been shooting at her all day like yo it was good like y'all can I take you out

but marriage when it's sacred like that not only that because men know the dangers in fucking another man's wife because now it can go a whole other way now you do find out you trying to talk to his wife or his wife stepped out on him now it can escalate to something else so that's the number one reason why men respect

women's marriages because it's like, yo, bro, that's somebody's wife, though. He's not like, he's going to crash out over his family, over his wife. But if it's just somebody you're dating, dudes don't be caring about a girl having a boyfriend or she's seeing somebody. It's still trying to talk to her. You married, rocking your finger family, living the same home? No, I'm not, I'm not fucking with that. I'm not, I'm not fucking with that. Okay, but there's also a fame aspect to we're talking about with Cardi and offset as well. Take them out of it. I'm just saying any married couple. I mean, I think across the board in 2025, people don't really care. that much to begin with.

But as far as his question of, do you get more attention in a relationship? I don't know. I guess is he speaking more to the person that flaunts their relationship, I guess? That, like, post it all over their Instagram or is, like, always forward-facing with a relationship? I don't know. I mean, I guess he's just asking. Like, do you get more attention?

Because somebody wouldn't know if, like, you were just walking down the street, a girl's not going to be like, oh, he's in a relationship. I want to give it more attention because I guess it would have to be in the circumstances where it's somebody, let's just use Instagram because that's how most people fucking meet these days. I think he's speaking more to like, yo, when I start posting my girl,

then I start getting more and more DMs. Okay, yeah. I can probably see that. I think women have a way of testing the waters if you post your girl. Like they'll do it an innocent way just to test the waters, just to see what you'll see.

say where no matter what they could if you reject it it could be like oh no it was just like saying y'all look good together but if you keep talking all right now i see there's some rhythm and a temperature here or could it be that you just notice the attention more when you're single versus when you're in a relationship stresses you out more yeah like you could probably notice the attention notice the energy notice the flirtation more when you're single like oh she kind of throwing it at me versus if i'm in a happy healthy relationship and i'm in a happy healthy relationship and love my girl. And so it's like, you don't even know that Shorty was just flirting with you because you're not even that frequent, you know what I'm saying? Your antennas is not even up for that.

You're like, nigga, I'm happy with my relationship. I don't even notice if a girl just says something and that could be taking flirtatious versus if I'm single, I think everything is flirtation. I'm out here horny. Yeah, when you single, you just like, yo. That's a sound bite, by the way. You're out here horny. I'm out here horny. Like, everything is a flirt. When you single, everything is a flirt. Like a girl show you to your seat, you like, you know, she's trying. give it up like she works here like yeah but nah but she like walked me all the way to my seat like usually she could have just said yo right down there but she like walked me to my joint made sure i was comfortable like yeah you see she just took her top off we're at a strip club

yeah yeah she got naked in front of me yeah like i'm just chilling all of a sudden she naked yeah we had magic city fan that's what they that's what they do in here like nah she want me no she don't but yeah i hate that friend so much that she want me friend yeah yeah but that friend is the fucking worst. But that's young shit though. You gotta grow out of that phase though. You can't just think every woman want you. But when you're young, you just, again, you're horny. You're horny out here. I mean, you can't specifically test

that water of like flirting with somebody. But you shouldn't think that every woman wants you. Yeah, no, absolutely. But do we have another voicemail? I don't have much advice for him to answer his question. Yeah, I think certain women see a man in a relationship and are more attractive. Especially if you like, you treat your girl. girl good, like you had a good relationship.

Like, women are attracted to that. And some, you know, some respect the relationship and we'll never do that. But then you got something that's like, I don't know that bitch. Yeah, I mean, Chris Rock had a great joke that when he would tell all his boys about a girl, all his friends would be like, damn, I got to get a girl like that. And then when she would go tell all her friends about him, all her friends would be like, I need him. Yeah, him right this specifically.

Not somebody like him. His friends are like, I need a girl like that. Yeah, 100%. It's just a joke to Mars He's a comedian He's a comedian That's what he does for a little Don't try to paint me like I'm being sensitive

Yo like I'm not Oh I'm just Puerto Rican She's not Puerto Rican She's not Puerto Rican There's a call back Hey Hey

Fuck with the pod But I got a hot question real quick A hot question real quick A hot question So say for instance Elon must come up to you And say I got a hundred billion

dollars. Oh, Lord. But I got to put a chip in your head that records every thought you have for the rest of your life. Won't thug of me. Would you take the $100 billion? I probably wouldn't have the $100 billion after the first day of thoughts getting put on the summer jam screen. Yeah, they'd be. They wouldn't. They'd be the first successful cancellation. But what's the stipulations? Am I at risk of losing $100 billion depending on what I think about? Or it doesn't matter. They just want to record my thoughts forever. I think they just want to record your thoughts. Oh, wait. It's just for Elon's

personal in his den that he just gets to watch my thoughts? Man, chip me. Fine, yeah. $100 billion? Chip me. But if everyone gets to like hear those thoughts, I don't know if I'm... Now, I ain't gonna lie. Even if everybody gets to hear them thoughts, still give me the $100 million. I don't give a fuck.

A hundred billion? I will tell you what I'm thinking for $100 billion. You ain't even got to record this shit. Just called me every day off you know what I was just thinking about, my nigg? A hundred billion. You ain't got to record shit. I will tell you exactly what I'm thinking.

Certain family members, this is what I've thought of you already. Here's some money to make up for. I've been podcasting for 10 years. I ain't got a hundred billion. I've been telling niggas what I think for 10 years and I ain't got a hundred billion. Are you kidding me? A hundred billion, man. Give me that fucking money, man.

I don't care when nobody. A billion dollars I could pay someone to get that chip out of my fucking head. Yeah, 100 billion. Yeah. Easy question. But now we can't go to Mars. I don't give a fuck about Mars. You want to know what I think about?

Mars? For a hundred billion, nigger? Give me the hundred billion, man. I hate when they give you the astronomical number because then it's such

an easy yes or no. Like, offer me like, offer me a million and see what I say. Nah, like, make me think about it. I'm not putting no chip

in my body for a million hours. Not happening. So what would be the lowest number for you? A hundred billion. That would not be the lowest number for you. You would do it for one billion.

You would do it for one billion. For one billion? For one billion? For sure. You would do it for 50 million, nigger. For sure. Exactly.

Chit me. Chit me like that little poodle I found a couple months ago. Chip me, nigga. Fight for 50 million? Man, you want to know what I'm thinking for 50 years? I would do it for 10 million. 10 million I do it for.

Shit, 10 million. Demaris, I think you would do it for 100,000. If I had 100,000 cash right now, I said, Damaris. I wouldn't do it. I want to chip you for. I look. If I say 100,000, 100,000 a year. Tax-free.

Tax-free. Cash in your hand. I could go get a job. I don't know. Or you gave a job and have an extra 100,000 tax free for us in your life. 100,000 cash. My thoughts, not my, I know how much my thoughts are worth. No.

Oh, my. A hundred. Geez, cash? That's, I feel. And I just want to, a year. I just want to know what you're thinking. Listen, it doesn't matter. If Elon has access to my thoughts, Elon, the Musk, the guy, the African, Elon Musk.

If he wants my thoughts, I guarantee he's making more. He's making billions and millions off my thoughts. if he's studying them. So no, I would want more. Yeah, but you can't. Off the technology of being able to read your thoughts of the chip is where he's making his $200 billion. Yeah.

It's not what's in our head. Oh, he's selling my thoughts and my data. Yeah. He's doing that already. He's doing that already on your phone. What do you think the cookies are for? Yeah. He just said cookies, I'm going to get a chips-ahoy ad the moment I fucking leave here.

Yeah. All right. So 200 bands a year. No. Tax-free on top of, yeah. Demar's just talking shit right now, though. She just told her. De Maris will be, she'll take that $200 grand a year.

300 bands a year tax-free. So the difference is 100 grand. Yo, you know, demerits is we wanted to argue. I could make an extra $100 grand a year stretch. What? You know I'm out of here. I'm going to live on a small island.

Give me a nice little condo, little house, something by the beach. I'm chilling. Just to know my thoughts. Yo, come on, man. Y'all are crazy as hell. That's an easy call. $100 billion is ridiculous. Everybody would do that.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's just, you know. But, yeah, I would definitely do that, though. $100 billion. Are we doing it for free now? There you go. It's not for free. We're not technically for free, but yes.

Not a conspiracy. We talk and ads pop up. You've ever thought something? Just thought it. Yeah. And an ad has popped up. Nah, I ain't do that yet. I'm going, I'm going, I'm going back to the, uh,

to the no kid. To the no kid. I'm going back to the no key if that happened. I'm not mad. If niggas start putting ads on my phone base of what I'm thinking, it's coming. I'm going back to the no kid, bro.

We're not doing this. Yeah, we're definitely not doing that. But yeah, that was a, that was an easy easy answer for me absolutely yeah today now any got stitched me up after you put this i walk out with a guard bad just just had a money in the account like we'll find somebody stitch me up with a hundred billion because i don't want nobody changing their mind on the way out nah nah nah nah nah yeah just stitch me let me get out of here i'm cool i mean in every black mirror episode it ends up fine so exactly i'm sure it'll be great yeah before we leave though we do have to

send rest in peace and condolice his prayers to the family of the legendary queen of sadda chakor yes she passed away over the weekend um it was the cuban ministry i'm not sure exactly where it wasn't cuba but yeah whoever reported it um when i first read it i was like oh sadda she she she got another trick up her sleeve they must have been hot on her trail like yeah you know what saying, but I think it is official and it has been confirmed that indeed Queen Asada Shakur has passed on.

What a life, man. You're talking about free freedom, you know, being able to live on her terms and thank you to Cuba too. Shout out to Cuba, man. Shout out to Cuba all these years for you know what I mean, giving the queen

a safe space to rest and live and, you know, just be who she was. Like, we don't think about Cuba enough when it comes to that. So salute and thank you to Cuba for, you know, opening up their country to Queen Asada Shikour all these years. I hope they eventually do a proper movie or series on her life. Because if you saw that without any context, you'd be like, wow, this is a really cool fictional series. Yeah.

This would never happen in real life. But that's how incredible and astounding her story is. So yeah, rest and peace to Asada Shakur. The entire court family condolences. But that, yeah, it's one of the wildest stories ever. Has there been a successful prison break since then? I'm sure that. There's been prison breaks.

Did they ever catch that last nigga from New Orleans? Yeah, they caught that nigga right therein' pop-aise or some shit. He was doing a TikTok dance outside. Yeah, some dumb shit they called him. Then they caught him out of Popeyes. I'm dead serious. Something stupid like that of fast food spot, I think. But I, you know, you read stuff.

It could be fake. But I think they're the same reason. Tyler went to Dairy Queen after he, never mind. Yeah. Because that happened. Sometimes you just need a blizzard after. Nah, Derek Groves is still. You know what I'm craving?

Derek Groves is still at large. For real? Yeah, they ain't called him. And when they pull all their pictures up next to each other, I said, dang, I got catch that next. He looked like he ain't going to be caught. He looked like he ain't going to be caught. No, he's still at large.

Were Derek still out there? Mm-hmm. Okay. Wait, what Derek do before I give Derek credit? Like, should Derek be in jail? Well, I mean, they all should be in jail? No, but what... See, more racism from...

He's a killer. But who did he kill? Who, like, yeah. Yeah, who did he kill? Yeah. Because that's different. If it was just some street shit and they was out there, like beefing and, you know...

Game is a game. But if he ran down on the mother of three coming home from work with coaches and the hand... I'll help you find him. Yeah, as a matter of fact, put it up. He's the cover art if he did it. He was convicted last year for gunning down two men with assault rifle at a block party. Okay.

I need more. That's not enough information. And were the two men ops? To press and peace to everyone that. Who were they ops, yo? Not because I'm saying, we just gotta be, if it's gang shit going, that's what happens. We're not condoning it, but there's reasons for certain. But now, if this was an innocent two guys that had nothing to do with nothing, they just got killed.

Like, yeah, lock them up. Then lock them up. But if this was just, you know, part of the game, then no. But also with that said, the Derek Grove story is not the Assad of Shakur. Yeah, no, no. Not to be confused. The successful Frisbourg is way different. Yeah, yeah.

We're talking about we talking about got to Cuba. Like, yeah. Man, fucking Obama. Obama went and tried to, you know, put her back on the top 10 FBI most wanted. We ought to put money into the final. Him and his wife went to Cuba. I'm like, go find her. Like, you're in Cuba.

Go find her. But it doesn't matter. They can't extradite her. It doesn't matter if they find her. What does it mean? Yeah. No, Cuba really held that down No, they did 100%

100% Do they still have that same? Like, can we, like, if we commit a crime, can we run to Cuba and we'll be good? I don't know. I'm not sure of where the laws are at with everything. Because at the time when she

escaped to Cuba, we were not on great terms with Cuba. We're on better terms with Cuba now. Yeah. So I'm not sure whatsoever. Imagine being the guard tower at Guantanamo Bay and just seeing a side of just going for her morning jog on the beach just nothing y'all can do can't do

shit can't do so it says it'll extradite non-cuban fugitives under specific circumstances but it refuses to extradite its own or people cuba considers political figures so if they consider you a political figure they will not allow extradition but don't get it twisted well she was a political figure yeah and not only that people in cuba didn't like this cuba officials didn't know where she was at either though. How big is the island? Yeah, they still didn't know where she was at. You know, I don't even think people knew what she looked like anymore.

Yeah. They would always give updates and pictures of what she should look like now, what she could look like. But they never really knew. But anyway, prayers, rest in peace, condolences to Queen of Sadd of Chikor and salute to Cuba as well. Yeah, absolutely. All right, well, make sure y'all go see that movie if y'all can, man. Yeah. Really great, great movie.

I think y'all going to do it. It's about him, right? Shout out the mall. We're not doing that. Shout to them all. We love them all of Wayne's. You know how I feel about the Wayne's family. But yeah, that wasn't the movie to go see in the theater stuff.

We could have streamed that. But what was the name of it again? One battle after another. One battle after another. One battle after another. I keep forgetting a name. One battle after another. One battle after another.

She was repeating itself too. That's all. I'm gonna keep it. But yes, go see that when you can, if you can. Great movie, great film. Shout out to everybody. involved in that film. I really, really enjoyed that movie.

I haven't enjoyed a movie in a theater that's like that in a very long time. That movie was really, really good. We'll talk to y'all soon. Be safe. Be blessed. Rest of peace, Queen, Asada Shakur. A win is a win.

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