New Rory & MAL - Episode 515 | Dumbo is Heaven

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

Rory is back, and explains his absence, as well as how he and Mal spent their 4th of July Weekend. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tie the knot, causing outrage with New Yorkers for their wedding in Mad...ison Square Garden, and Donald Trump flexes his power as President to reverse a red card for Team USA in The World Cup. Un shares a heartfelt (sorta) poem to Jay-Z, where he explains the trauma that Hov has caused in his life, while Beyoncé releases a previously leaked song, causing fans to speculate what genre her Act: iii will fall under. B.dot drops his infamous Top 10 Rappers of 2026 list, Lil Wayne addresses his missed shows, as well as his recent breakup, and video footage of Pooh Shiesty holding Gucci Mane at gunpoint surfaces. Ray J and Orlando Brown are set to face off in a boxing match, SZA reveals new information about herself, and the guys breakdown the various trades and signings that happened around the NBA this weekend. All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet Visit your nearest Boost Mobile store or https://www.boostmobile.com/promo/25-foreverSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:03:10 That's what they called me the time. It was rigged. It was rigged. Just like the queen election. Oh, man. They got us, Peach. Mexico lost last night. It's all good, though, man. They fought hard. The hashtags gave it all they could give. It's okay, man. Mexico fought hard. They fought hard. They did.
Starting point is 00:03:33 They didn't capitalize on the 17 opportunities. They should have been 17 to 3, but you know. We had enough time down there on the other end, man. We had an extra man. Couldn't get it done though. Shout out to England on, man. They played a great game. I mean, we don't have to shout them out.
Starting point is 00:03:47 I mean, you know, the players. We're sorry, they're on to the next round as all we have to say about it. Should we not have to compliment the English? They moved on. The English have moved on, Rory. I have no objectivity when it comes to the English. Fuck them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Yeah, the English have moved on. It's right to shout out to Mexico for getting to, you know, farther than they've gotten in a very long time. Yeah, the Norway game was fun to watch too. Norway, Brazil? Yeah. Dare I say, and I want to choose my words very carefully. More than I choose my words with the barbs or any crazy staying group,
Starting point is 00:04:19 I don't want to ever, ever insult a World Cup team. Because they will behead me. Yeah. But Brazil fucking stunk, man. My whole, again, as a casual, casual football fan, soccer fan, my whole life, Brazil was always great. They fucking stunk yesterday. And not only that.
Starting point is 00:04:39 Oh my God. Namar said that was his last game. Yeah. In the yellow jersey. So shout out the Namar legend. The legendary Namar. Yeah. But she had Brazil loss as well.
Starting point is 00:04:49 Well, it's tough when Norway has an inbred seven foot five guy with a ponytail. Yeah. A fucking Viking leading the charge. Yeah. What are you going to do with that? You know what I mean? Pete, page was saying off Mike, you know what? Bloodlines, his bloodline is probably taken out.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Look at that face. Yeah. That's a killer right now. Erland. Erland is a beast. He's a beast. He's crazy. That defender from Australia,
Starting point is 00:05:15 who's like the same height as Wendy. Oh, yeah. He missed the first penalty kid. He's the reason they lost. Him center defense. It's like having Shaq in the box with you. Well, now that my favorite team is out. I guess I got a route for the USA.
Starting point is 00:05:31 Oh, so Mexico was your favorite? That was like women related? Or you just? I just love Mexico. When we were in Mexico, really felt attached to the soil. It's my people, man. I love the Mexicans, man. What do you talk about?
Starting point is 00:05:44 I'm from the Bronx. We actually have more Mexicans and Queens in the Bronx, for sure. But the seven train is Little Mexico. Yeah, man. It's all right. We'll be back. We'll be back, man. Four years? Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:05:59 It was four years to get it together. We'll be a lot. Homefield advantage, too. Yeah. Mexico City was late. England had to wear Mexico on their jersey like that was the crazy part
Starting point is 00:06:09 yeah man all right USA is playing tonight right yeah when we're recording as we're recording right now
Starting point is 00:06:16 yeah Portugal and Spain 3 o'clock while we're recording right now so Ryan you may need to put that on like a split screen I'm you know I'm fully in
Starting point is 00:06:25 I'm a bandwagon FIFA fan I'm not getting a club team I'm probably not gonna watch when it's not World Cup but I am fully fully attached to the World Cup now. Every game, every minute.
Starting point is 00:06:37 It's fun. People, the casual fans, get a chance to, you know, joining on all the talk and all the bars are packed. Everybody's watching, even though they don't know the rules. They don't know what's happening. You know what I mean, it's just that their country is being represented. And it's, you know, obviously the biggest sport in the world. So, yeah, it's a fun time for everybody.
Starting point is 00:06:55 Yeah. How gay is it that England's, like, victory song is a wonder wall? Mind you, it's a great song. Yeah. I love that song. That being your victory song. Yeah, man. Because soccer fans are the, like, if you think the Oakland Raiders or the Eagles
Starting point is 00:07:16 have like these crazy fan bases, nothing compares to the Tamis soccer fan. Yeah. So the fact that that's your fight song. That's why I was pissed. The Jay Z version. That's sick. That's all. That's all was Mad Mexico laws.
Starting point is 00:07:34 This going on for. the stadium last night? You're going to be the one that saves me. This would have went off last night in Mexico City. It did. Whether they won't have lost. Somewhere, right? All right, man, it's all good, though.
Starting point is 00:07:51 We drove past that stadium. That stadium looks really cool. Yeah. I would love to go to a show. I was going to try to make it down there for a game, but, you know. I wanted to go to the Kanye show that was there. Oh, yeah, that was crazy. Yeah, that looked really dope.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Yeah. But we are back. to buy boost mobile unlimited talk, text, and data. Also, patreon.com forward slash new Rory Mall. Merch is on sale. Speaking of being back, Rory, you are back. Yes. My brother is back in the building.
Starting point is 00:08:23 I'm here. Yes, man. It was kind of, it was different without you. Your energy, nobody could start the clock right. I had to figure out how to start the clock. Everything was just. Key cars didn't right. Key cars didn't work.
Starting point is 00:08:36 It was 100 degrees out. Like, see what happened. Ryan, the notice, McDonald's. Yeah, man. It's like everything was just running a muck around here without you being here.
Starting point is 00:08:44 But we are happy to have you back, my brother. Yeah. I was gone. I think, I'm not sure what you guys said on the episodes because I didn't really have time
Starting point is 00:08:51 to, to listen all them. But thank you guys for holding everything down. Wow, that was gone. I did have, like, friends that listened to the show. Text me very, like,
Starting point is 00:09:00 condescending things. Like, hope your tummy aches, okay? Yeah. And then I was like, ha, ha, I had a stroke. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:06 And they were like, all right, L-O-L. No, I had a stroke. Yeah, yeah. It's not funny. No, it's hilarious. Because when I spoke to you last, the week you were out. They probably still think I'm joking right now. Yeah, no.
Starting point is 00:09:16 No, listen, when you text, when I text you, um, oh, when you text me, was it that Sunday. Yes. And he was like, yo, I'm going to be out this week. Uh, I had a stroke. I was like, all right, man. Like, what are you talking about you had a stroke? You like, no, seriously. Yeah, this is a set up for a terrible bid.
Starting point is 00:09:33 Yeah, I'm just like, all right, man. Like, are you at Hot 97 calling somebody your closest friend to see who would react to you having a heart attack on stroke? Oh, remember those, those radio games? Yeah, because remember, we just saw Jay Balvin called Jimmy Butler and asked him for $2 million, right? And Jimmy Butler was like, all right, you send me the info. I send you to why, no problem. So I thought this was one. Okay, okay, we're always not going to ask me for $2 million, but, you know, I had a stroke just to see what my reaction would be.
Starting point is 00:09:57 But no, you really did have a stroke. Yes, this is not a nipple piercing. This is a heart monitor. Yes. you have to monitor your heart yes yeah how's how do you on a scale of one to ten well what's funny is
Starting point is 00:10:09 our Thursday episode that came out last well two Fridays ago I guess at this point I left a lot of information out about going to the Jay Z reasonable doubt 30th anniversary of friends and family thing left like a huge part of what happened
Starting point is 00:10:24 during that entire thing so let's go back to when two Wednesdays ago yeah I go to therapy I go to the gym had a very healthy, great day. I get in the car, and I'm going to head to the Jay-Z friends and family,
Starting point is 00:10:38 pop-up, opening, whatever, you were going to join me as well. I get to the parking garage in Dumbo. I was about like an hour early. I was going to stop and get food at Dumbo house. You know, it was a nice day. I was going to look at the water, whatever, chill until the pop-up.
Starting point is 00:10:52 Try to skip traffic. Get into the parking garage, park my car, I'm walking up the ramp. I feel a little bit of vertigo. If you guys have remembered over the past, I don't know, like six months, I've told you guys I've been having like weird vertigo. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:05 I'm wearing glasses. Everyone's like, you're a douchebag. You're in sunglasses on the show. I'm like, I can't see lights anymore. Lights is really fucking with me. Yeah. I take one step. I have a little bit of vertigo.
Starting point is 00:11:14 I was like, oh, fuck, vertigo back. Take a right step. The whole fucking world starts violently spinning. No, like to the point I cannot see violently spinning. I fall on an oil-induced New York City parking garage floor. And I lay there, hoping to God a car does not come because I'm on a fucking ramp. And you probably couldn't seem, I'd probably be a speed bump.
Starting point is 00:11:33 Yeah. I wouldn't mistake you for a speed bump if you were laying on the street. Thank God I wasn't wearing yellow. So I'm grabbing on for dear life on the side of a parking garage floor. It starts to calm down a little bit. I try to stand up.
Starting point is 00:11:52 I'm like rocking back and forth. I finally get out of the garage, find a bench, and the whole world starts spinning again. I'm like, what the fuck is going on? calms down I somehow stumble into a Starbucks at this point I don't know who was playing
Starting point is 00:12:06 during the day but the Dumbo streets were completely full outside with whatever country team was playing at the time it looked like fucking New Orleans in Dumbo so I fall into a Starbucks
Starting point is 00:12:19 and somehow get my shirt off because I'm sweating profusely and everything is spinning whatever team some Eastern European shit again I'm in the middle of a stroke so I'm not paying too much attention. I just look like I've been at a World Cup party
Starting point is 00:12:33 and I just had a little too much fun. I look like that guy. So I'm laying there. Starbucks, they give me ice, they put it on my head. There's a woman shout out to Mary and her son. I know you guys do not listen to the show, but she just kept saying to me, what drugs have you taken?
Starting point is 00:12:48 That's it. But that's the question you asked, right? The whole, I'm in the middle of a World Cup celebration. So yes, I look like I'm just some guy that took, probably did some Coke that ended up being fentanyl. And I'm drunk as fuck. And I'm trying to form sentences like, I'm not on drugs. I'm not, she's like, did you drink?
Starting point is 00:13:05 I was like, I have not drank. So I'm trying to drink water. I throw up twice in the Starbucks. Just throw up. Clearly these employees are used to it. Didn't even bat. Yeah, that's a regular. Just gave me more eyes.
Starting point is 00:13:17 Yeah, it's a regular day for them. So Mary and her son stay with me for a little bit. And at this point. Is Mary and her son? Is this Jesus? Was this, Mayor? Look at the metaphors that. Jesus came.
Starting point is 00:13:28 Mom, for all I know, Mary was not there. Marrying her son. For all I know, I wasn't in Dumbo. I think this was, you might have died. I might have been having this dumpo. He keeps saying, marrying her son.
Starting point is 00:13:46 I'm like, who's marrying a judge? Down under the manger of Bethlehem. Yeah, come on. The major of the Brooklyn Bridge. Come on, man. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. The manger of Dumbo house.
Starting point is 00:13:57 Yeah, I get it. So I'm, again, sitting on the floor, Starbucks. I've already thrown up to a, give me water. At this point, things have stopped spinning. And my mind is relatively clear, but I can't get my body to function at the same time. Like at this point, I'm speaking and I'm like, no, I'm fine. I've had no drugs, no alcohol, but I can't like get my fucking legs and arms to move. Yeah. So Mary at this point is like, okay, she had been there for like an hour. Like, shout to her. I wish she did listen to the show so she knows that I wasn't just some fentanyl induced
Starting point is 00:14:30 kid that loves soccer. I was having a stroke. Because she thought I was lying. I was like, I have not taken any drugs. I was like, okay. Yeah. No. I'm not.
Starting point is 00:14:39 Sure. Tell me anything. Yeah, I get it. So she ends up leaving. I somehow get my legs to work a little bit. Like I'm starting to come back. It was weird, but cool. So I walk out of the Starbucks bathroom.
Starting point is 00:14:55 There's like one of those luxury buildings across the street. I'm like, let me see if I could just walk. I made it probably halfway through the crosswalk everything starts spinning again end up laying on a bench outside of a luxury building throw up two more times and mind you
Starting point is 00:15:12 like red vomit I didn't have anything red that day fucking security guard comes out again thinking that I'm some drug and infused guy he said how about a ginger ale that's a great I'm having a stroke
Starting point is 00:15:27 he offers you a Cold ginger out. I said great. Took two tips of that shit and projectile vomited everywhere. Oh my God. So I'm laying on this bench and again now my mind is completely clear
Starting point is 00:15:42 like functioning like it is right now but I still could not get my legs and arms to work. Yeah. So I lay there for, I don't know, maybe another 30 minutes and I'm like, all right, I have to get back to my car. Nah, fuck that.
Starting point is 00:15:54 You know what? I'll leave my car. I'll Uber home. Call an Uber. Shit, two minutes. My legs and arms go back to not functioning. So I'm trying to like hold my phone to tell the Uber driver that I'm not going to make it to the Uber. That cancels.
Starting point is 00:16:10 I wait another 30 minute. I feel like I'm back to normal. I'm walking a little bit, but I have vertigo. I'm like, all right, let me just walk around, get my bearings, and I'll get back in my car, and I'll go the fuck home. I didn't realize I walked towards the Jay-Z 30th anniversary thing. Oh, okay. I didn't realize in my walk. Jay Z's not even on my mind at this point.
Starting point is 00:16:33 I'm just trying to figure out if I'm alive. I see Vaughn, Tata's brother. He goes, yo, where's Moll at? And I immediately went, holy shit. I'm here for the JZ 30th anniversary. I forgot why I was in Dumbo. Yeah. I was like, oh, I have to ask Vaughn what I said.
Starting point is 00:16:49 Yeah. I have no idea what I said. You text me at that time. So he's like kind of in line. And then someone from the front goes, you're a mall right no I'm Rory she's like oh okay
Starting point is 00:17:04 you don't need to stand in line just come in I was like fuck so she walks me into the thing and the first person I see is Marissa Mendes I was so happy to see Marcia Mendes
Starting point is 00:17:15 yeah not mid-stroke though Mardi I have to call you I have no idea what our conversation was the only thing I remember is Madi going you don't seem very interested
Starting point is 00:17:26 in this conversation yeah I'm having a stroke. I'm having a stroke. It's not funny, but it's funny. I'm not laughing at you. I'm just laughing at the situation. So, body walks this way and I'm like, okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:17:43 The lights were lower, so I started to feel a little bit better. Rosenberg comes up to me, and it's talking about each piece that he's going to buy, what sizes are this. I'm staring into Abyss, and Rosenberg is like, yo, you want to get the yellow one? I was like, yeah, give me an X-L. Yeah. I have no idea what Rosenberg said to me after that.
Starting point is 00:18:03 Ebro was there. We could have had a full-blown conversation. I have no idea what anyone said. Walk, what I remember, passed them after that conversation. I may have, like, mid-conversation walked away from them and didn't realize it. I see Guru, and I just give him a pound and keep walking. And Kuro goes, since when the fuck do we do that? And gives me a hug.
Starting point is 00:18:23 And I'm like, oh, who's up, man? Yeah, everybody's like, yeah, Rory was definitely, he was high. on something for sure. I immediately get the fuck out of there after that. Run into Joey Badass. I have no idea what I said to Joey Baddust in the way out. And I try to walk up the hill back to the parking garage. Fall like twice.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Get to my car. I'm like, I can do it. I made it just to our office and parked outside of our office and slept here for like four hours. Woke up, went home. Next day, I felt okay. I felt weak, a little bit of vertigo. Then we recorded two fucking.
Starting point is 00:18:59 episodes here. Felt okay. I was like, I'm gonna get checked out tomorrow. Thursdays, and I'm not advocating for this. This was dumb of me. I should have went to the hospital right away. Yeah. This is just man shit.
Starting point is 00:19:09 Like Thursday, yo, can't miss two episodes. So I'm like, cool, I'll just go Friday. Friday, I'm like, I have to stop at Target before I get tomorrow. Then I'll go get checked out. I get into Target, hit the target lights. The only way I could describe it was I could only see kaleidoscopes. It's the only thing I could see, like rainbow kaleidoscopes. I fall out and target.
Starting point is 00:19:30 The old woman that they paid $2 an hour in the front to check your receipt was like, are you okay? And it's the brand new one in Jersey City. It's still a little fenty over there. Not to make it. It's a little fentany all over there. So once again, I think people think I'm just some drug addict.
Starting point is 00:19:44 Lay there until it passes. Drive myself to the hospital, explaining what happened. And they're like, well, we don't think you had a stroke, but we'll figure out what it is. What drugs do you want? I'm not on any fucking drugs. Yeah, this is going to always go back.
Starting point is 00:19:58 back to that. So they give me a cat scan right away. By the way, if you've ever been to a hospital on the line was long at the ER, just say you're having stroke symptoms, you get right through. Get a cat scan right away. They come in, they're like, we think you had a stroke. I was like, all right, let's do the real test and then we can figure out what it is. Then they send like the cooler, younger doctor. He's like, you know, this isn't like a police precinct. It's okay, you can talk to me. No one's going to say you can't get in trouble. Just tell me the drugs that you're on. I say, you could take my blood, my piss. I am not on any drugs whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Then the neurologist looks at the cascann and like, oh yeah, get this kid up to the fucking other wing. We may need to do surgery right now. I had a full-blown stroke for two days. And I just kept having more strokes. Whether it being Target, whether it was on Patreon, was Zip, whether I was at the Jay-Z shit. I just had a marathon of strokes for three days.
Starting point is 00:20:55 So when they got you in the room and it was, you know, going to give me you the cat skin and shit like at any point did you think that they was going to have to like go in your head? Yeah,
Starting point is 00:21:05 so I was waiting for the MRI because it was backed up to get an MRI and they had like, you know, people that were coming from like car accidents and shit
Starting point is 00:21:12 were ahead of me. Did the MRI and MRI and I forgot with the reverse shit they call it. But I just sit for an hour and a half an MRI machine.
Starting point is 00:21:22 I've heard about MRIs before. I didn't know that your nose can touch the top of it. You can't move for an hour. that was one of the worst things I've ever done.
Starting point is 00:21:31 If you're claustrophobic, MRIs are the worst fucking thing. And I found out that Frank Ocean blonde, he got all the sounds from the MRI machine. If you've had an MRI, go listen to blonde. The transition on nights is the MRI machine. The whole time I'm like,
Starting point is 00:21:43 I've heard this record playing that. I've heard this record before. Are they playing blonde? Yeah, yeah. If I ever meet Frank Ocean, I'm going to add like, have you had an MRI before? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Because all of blonde is MRI style machine. Like, that's all the shit is. And it came. back and they were like, yeah, you had a couple strokes in the cerebellum, and yeah, they were like, we'll see if the cholesterol medicine can do it, but if not, we'll either have to cut your head open, or there
Starting point is 00:22:08 was one where they could just go in, like, with like a, I'd still be under whatever the shit is called. Yeah, anesthesia. But they would just like take like a needle thing and like fuck around. Like a small row. Yeah, yeah. So hopefully that doesn't have to happen. Hopefully with the
Starting point is 00:22:26 next week, I'll be fine. Lint the medication. We'll see. Have a heart monitor. Did heart echoes and shit. Yeah, so they got you meds and just a heart monitor. Damn.
Starting point is 00:22:37 Yeah, I ain't gonna lie. You told me a stroke. I was like, like, we came in here and we was all just looking at each other like, bro, what? Well, the funny satisfaction was once they took my urine
Starting point is 00:22:47 and all my blood and everything came back lifestyle-wise that had nothing to do with my stroke, now it's like, oh, it could be a blood disease. That's what they're leaning to some type of clotting situation. because like even my like I don't eat great per se but I don't eat stroke at 36 years old
Starting point is 00:23:02 Yeah no no right So yeah it's it's probably something with my blood clotting But yeah it was it was a fucking scary few days man That's nothing to fucking play around with a stroke I started I ain't gonna lie You told me that shit and I think the next day I started catching the headache I said wait hold on man
Starting point is 00:23:19 You know that's how shit happened like Your boy tell you you went through something That you start getting them same type of symptoms I'm like yo listen man Like, nah, we both can't be stroking out. Like, this is what happened. We can't both be stroking out, bro. Stroking out.
Starting point is 00:23:33 Like, but I am happy that they have, you know, some type of control over it, you know, on meds and trying to figure out what happened. Yeah, no. Hopefully they won't have to get into your head because that type of invasive surgery is crazy. Oh, for sure. You know, we don't want that to happen.
Starting point is 00:23:47 So, yeah. Got to make some lifestyle changes. That's all. But listen, man. Shout out to Jersey City Medical. Everyone on staff was great. Thank you, Jersey City Medical for keeping food.
Starting point is 00:23:56 My brother's safe. Food was fucking terrible. Taking care of him, man. Dug, that shit. And, like, I'm very blessed that it wasn't, like, a stroke that affected, thank God, because at one point I could not move my legs or, like, thank God it didn't block something that was permanent. But I was in the wing with a lot of people that had strokes that left them with your unit damage. So it's the same, it's the same routine every morning of, like, asking where you are, why you're here,
Starting point is 00:24:25 which then I have to walk with the fucking walker and the cane and like it was almost scarier to see what it could have become because I have to go through all those steps. Because I was walking okay and now again I have bad vertigo for sure. But I'm operating okay. Those steps dog of like what this could be. Yeah. And my roommate John, yeah, man. It was eye opening to see what could have actually happened. And no, you shouldn't have a stroke at 36 and it's very alarming.
Starting point is 00:24:59 That's why I have the heart shit. I'm meeting with, you know, all the heart people too to make sure it's not affecting that. But the blessing is at 36 that I can, all the brain cells that died can rebuild them and shit. Like it's not like I'm 60. So, no, I shouldn't have a stroke at 36. But thank God my body can recover at 36 with that shit. All right. So now if you start, you know, saying shit on the mic that don't make sense.
Starting point is 00:25:23 I'm going to just. I'm just thinking you stroking out. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to hold it to you. I'm not going to be as hard on you. This whole time you guys thought I was mentally ill, autistic. No, I was, I was, I was mid-stroke. Mary thinks I'm on spend. No, guys, I'm just, I'm.
Starting point is 00:25:40 I'm just having this. I'm on the stroke spectrum. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. But yeah, I'm glad you are feeling better, though, and now you're back in the studio with us today, man. Yeah. And, I mean, I'm definitely the advocate of, of, of,
Starting point is 00:25:54 once you, especially once you reach a certain age, to always checking your shit. But, you know, it's not like this is colon cancer. Yeah. Like something that you could check. I just went, I switched my health insurance, so I got a new primary doctor. You know, when you get a new primary doctor,
Starting point is 00:26:07 you go through the whole, get to know you, cuff your balls, cough, blood work, everything, just so they can have it in their records. He was like, perfect weight for 36. You're super healthy. Two weeks later, I'm stroking out in Dumbo, laying on a Starbucks floor. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Like, that's the scary part. Like, it could go left, quick. Yeah. Like, shit, Kia's sister out of brain aneurysm, there's just certain things that no matter what you do and check up on your health, some things are just going to fucking happen. Happen, yeah. So. That's life.
Starting point is 00:26:36 Yeah. I mean, we'll see. But I feel okay. I feel like I could have came back last Wednesday, but you, Kia, DeBaris, nobody. That definitely was not happening. I got discharged Tuesday night. I was like, I'm back to go. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Just go home, rest. You don't need these lights in your face. Like just get some, you know what I mean? Just just chill, relax. Shout out to Zip. Zip came through for the week, held it down, man. Yes, love to Zip. Thank you so much for holding it down.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Yeah, man. You know, just had to make sure you was all right. Make sure you get proper rest and everything was clear, man. But we are happy you're back. So let's try not to stroke out anytime soon again. If you start feeling too dizzy, let us know. We'll cut these lights off. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:27:19 We'll give you a blanket, some ginger ale. I don't know. I don't know what to give you like. Shout out to marrying our son, Jesus. What if his name is, what if his name is Hesu? I was about saying it could have been Hesu. They could have been from Nazareth. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:36 I think Egypt was playing that day. The signs, man, are all there. Yeah. But I mean, listen, if anyone questions if I'm a whole venger or not, mid-stroke, no, I'm about to go celebrate 30 years ago. 30 years. And I'm buying a T-shirt. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:55 Stroking out. I want to go out wearing this Reasonable Doubt T-shirt, though. Yeah. That's how you go out, man. I was feeling it, for sure. Yeah, he definitely was feeling it. No, you was feeling it.
Starting point is 00:28:03 You was definitely feeling it. You was definitely feeling it. Can I live? Yeah, can I live? Oh, man. That is too good. No, it was, uh, it was interesting. And then what's, what sucks is,
Starting point is 00:28:20 especially when you're the only child, I have to manage, you know, my mother, of course, loves me. Now I have to manage my mother's emotions with her son having a stroke of 30. Yeah, how's mom and dad doing? How they, like, you know. I mean, you know, my dad is my dad. You're tough. That's the dad way, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:38 You're like, come. You're all right. Get up. Get back in the game. Yeah. My mom popping up at the hospital. She's like, I didn't text you because you would have told me not to come. I was like, yeah, you're right.
Starting point is 00:28:50 That doesn't mean now pop up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly what. Yeah, you're having a stroke. What? Parents got to come through, man. But, you know, glad you're feeling better, man. And you definitely got to take care of that. Whatever it is, they're telling you to do, whatever they're telling you to cut out,
Starting point is 00:29:03 cut it all the fuck out. Like, you know what I mean? You got to get real strict with, you know, your diet and just your lifestyle of world now. Yeah, fun's over with steak, man. No more red meat for me. Yeah. I mean, that what they say? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:16 Damn. It's steamed vegetables and dry chicken for now. Okay. Just whatever, man. I mean, there could be worse things in life. Yeah. If I didn't eat steak every day, anyway. If that's what it takes to be healthy, I'm totally fine cutting steak out of my fucking diet.
Starting point is 00:29:32 You fucking right. Yeah, I'm not going to try to sneak some steak. No, no, no, no, no. I can't read it. But my dad came up when I had the stroke and I gave him the Earl Monroe shirt. So he said, Moll, thank you so much for the Nix Earl Monroe T-shirt. For those I don't know, Moll got my dad of Earl Monroe signed Knicks T-shirt. said I was in the Bronx
Starting point is 00:29:50 72 to 76 and got to watch him and Clyde him and Clyde make it a beautiful game back then you'd get into the garden sheet sitting blue heaven is what we would call it it was Superfly Tom he had a mix of playground acrobatics mixed with some Dr. Jay you could not help it
Starting point is 00:30:06 but like his style thank you so much Jake Jake my man hope you enjoy the shirt man he said can I have Maul's email I said that Mal's not going to check his email just send me the message and I will read it If you're popping to email me, I would have for sure thought you died. I'm like, oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:30:22 Rory's out of here. Jake's emailing me. I'm like, no way. No way Jake's emailing me. Email? No, man, you ain't got to email me, man. It's all good. But how was your July 4th?
Starting point is 00:30:34 It was cool, man. It was hot as shit for a couple days in the city. So I really just chilled out. You know, my people's had to cook out. It was with the fam. Kept me, kept me chill, man. The night, I don't know, a storm. I thought we was having a tornado or something.
Starting point is 00:30:50 That came out of nowhere. It was crazy. But, you know, it was a chill, chill time. Yeah. Time with the fan. Well, the storm did leave, like, one of the greatest sunsets I've ever seen. Mixed with lightning. It was worth the storm.
Starting point is 00:31:01 Yeah. That was kind of ill. But, yeah, I mean, I was in the house with Amara. Luckily, we could see the Jersey City fireworks. So, you know, I got to see shit, I guess. Yeah. But it was light. Hopefully all the puppies and the dogs are doing okay, man.
Starting point is 00:31:13 It's a tough time for them, you know, all the dogs under this. How's Bailey doing? Bays, Bays has always been fine with fireworks. Yeah? Never bothered her ever. Okay. And Amara, I thought, because, you know, this is her first, like, Fourth of July that she's, like, aware of what's going on. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:36:31 podcast. But because of the stroke, I had to send my gift to the Swifts. Yeah. I couldn't make it. I thought about powering through, but I didn't think Taylor needed that liability on her hands. Yeah, it's all good. It's okay if you missed this one. So congrats to Taylor Swift
Starting point is 00:36:52 for her wedding and Travis Kelsey. Is she going to be Taylor Kelsey? No. He might be Travis Swift before she's Taylor Kelsey. Taylor and Kelsey sounds weird Yeah, no, she will be Taylor Swift Absolutely If he put Swift on the back of his jersey
Starting point is 00:37:09 Next season They could buy the garden Yeah, if he put Swift on the back of his jersey Nah, he's a man, he can't do that I mean For a licensing fee though For your jersey? I don't know, man
Starting point is 00:37:25 Listen, your wife is a big deal Listen, it is what it is She has a buzz Yeah, she got a little cold She got a little underground cold football. She had her and Tech Nine have the similar. Yeah, we've had our wedding at MSG. It's something like.
Starting point is 00:37:39 You know, nobody was booked in the garden that day. I want to make sure this doesn't sound like Hating because, again, congrats. I think love is amazing. Why MSG, what tie did either of them have to Madison Square Garden? I'm not sure. Like, that's ill. Don't get, like, if you could get married in the garden, great. But, like, they're from Ohio and Tennessee, right?
Starting point is 00:37:57 Yes. No, she's, I feel like she, wasn't she? Is she from... Yeah, I think she's from Nashville. I always thought she was from like Rhode Island or something. No, I think she bought a house. I think she like owns the state or something. Something like that.
Starting point is 00:38:10 I think she bought like the southern part of Rhode Island. Yeah. Okay. I think she has a house there. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, okay. Okay, that's what it is. I knew she was from the East Coast.
Starting point is 00:38:20 Yeah, I don't know. I just, MSG that's like so random to do. But I mean, I guess that's cool. Oh, well, people saying they probably, they could film a concert style if they had it at MSG. I think Taylor could have filmed anything concert style as she. Yeah. It matter where she had her wedding. And there's plenty of like, I don't know, MSG
Starting point is 00:38:40 I could see for a Nick or something like that, but good for them. Weird weekend to do it, Fourth of July weekend, midtown Manhattan? Yeah. Was there any leaked videos of what was happening in that? This is the biggest wedding of all time, right? But it's up there for sure. I saw one video, I mean, well, not even a video. I saw a picture
Starting point is 00:39:02 from inside the wedding. And I know there was the NDAs and I think there was a strict no camera, no phone policy maybe. Somebody obviously violated that. But I haven't seen much footage. There were some pictures. I think there was some pictures of Beyonce
Starting point is 00:39:18 pulling up to the wedding outside MSG. Are they like industry close? I never knew Taylor and, if Taylor and Beyonce even knew each other. You don't think Taylor's were from Beyonce know each other? No, of course I know they know.
Starting point is 00:39:32 But like, I didn't know if they were close like that. I mean, you know, I'm not going to say that they're close, but if I'm inviting, if I have my wedding at MSG and I need to, you know, fill up the seats, I'd reach out to Beyonce. First of all, Ryan, that is fake. That's from like some Illuminati ceremony. That's not a real image of their wedding. That was debunked.
Starting point is 00:39:58 I have to give Dolan credit for the second time in my life. Why is that? I have a theory. I was very confused why Taylor Swift was court side at one of the Knicks' playoffs games wearing Stevie Nick's shirts with all her bridesmaids. I think Dolan did like a verse swap. Like I feel like even though you Taylor Swift, nah, I need something. No, you need to be courtside at my playoff game.
Starting point is 00:40:19 If I'm going to allow you to get married here, no, I have money. There's no dollar amount that's going to be like you can rent it out because I'm already a fucking billionaire. Yeah. I need the most famous person ever court side at my playoff game. game. Wear your Stevie Nick shit so it's still music and fun. Have your brides made?
Starting point is 00:40:37 That was the verse swap. If you want to get married here, I need you courtside. I think that's what Don't do. Which is ill, because I was confused. I was like, wait, hold on. Taylor Swift was just courtside
Starting point is 00:40:46 rooting for the calves against the Knicks last week. Now she's in a Knicks color shirt, courtside clapping. Yeah. That makes sense. You might be honest on. But to me, that's,
Starting point is 00:40:57 it warms my heart that even she has to be humbled sometimes. Like, yeah, all right, fine. A favor for a favor. Fine, I'll do it. That's a favor you would do, though, to get MSG for your wedding? Oh, I have to sit courtside at a playoff game. This has been the first time in 53 years.
Starting point is 00:41:15 They might win it all. Oh, okay. We'll pull up. Yeah, that makes sense, though. I can see that. I can see him, Dolan definitely saying, yo, listen, you know, just sit cross side. The camera hit you a couple times.
Starting point is 00:41:25 Was that the same day as the Trump? Oh, no, I think that was game. That was game four, I think Taylor Swift was that. But it's game four. It was game four. And then Trump was there, game three. That was the game to be at. The 29 point comeback, that was the game to be at.
Starting point is 00:41:39 I will say, though. Dolan is as much as I'm not a Trump guy or particularly care for Taylor Swift like that. Pulling off the two most famous people in the world back to back in your arena, that's a stat. That's a crazy stat. Taylor Swift to Donald Trump back to back. Absolutely. What the fuck? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:58 Did they keep the barricades up from the Trump game? For Taylor's wedding? No. Those barricades came down and went back up. They're in storage, though. No, no. He didn't return them. They had, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:42:08 He definitely didn't return them. They were in the garden. They housed them in the parking area, for sure. Yeah. But any plans this week? We have a U.S. Team USA plan right now. Yeah, I'll just be locked in. Who planned Belgium, right?
Starting point is 00:42:20 Yes, Belgium. I think we're going to kick Belgium's ass. They're favored. Yeah. I mean, now that Trump hit him with the Uno reverse. You, listen, man. He's a man of the people. I thought Biden did it.
Starting point is 00:42:31 until Trump told me that Biden can do it. This whole time I was like, yo, I bet Joe Biden did that. You know, Trump is insane. Listen, man, Trump, he got them to reverse the red card. Listen, man, if you got a president that can pull some strings like that for your national team, listen, we'll take it.
Starting point is 00:42:52 We'll take it, man. There's just some irony in that the person that he was getting the red card reversed for, he also doesn't believe should be a citizen based off the laws that are put in place. Because he's an American naturally born citizen. And Trump is actively trying to change that law to make those people American citizen.
Starting point is 00:43:12 He should have done some digging into who he was doing the UNO reverse for. Because it doesn't go with his ICE policy. Nah, see, but that's what I'm saying. You never know what you don't know what? You know what I'm saying? This is like, listen, he's on the side of right is right, wrong is wrong.
Starting point is 00:43:25 He felt like it wasn't that you said. Well, it was a bullshit red car. Definitely. That's all it was. he's just saying, listen, he saw the play and it wasn't a foul. But I like how he said you got to get it to the referee's pass. Like you got to look into it.
Starting point is 00:43:37 He said this referee was a little bit suspect if you check his past. I would love for that referee to do a press conference and say, can we go into the files that you're in, Mr. President? Let's go file for file. You know, all of this shit is a simulation, man. I'm telling you. This is all a fucking sitcom, all of it.
Starting point is 00:43:59 No, you know what? I thought I was still having, a stroke when I saw Lance Un Rivera read a poem to Jay-Z. I thought I was still, because they gave me a lot of meds. I slept more than I slept in four years than I did in the hospital. I thought I was really mid-struck. I was like, this is, what a weird thing that would be on my brain to hallucinate. Maybe it's because I was at the Jay-Z thing, and now I'm hallucinating that Un would read a poem on Art of Dialogue to Jay-Z. Yeah, listen, man, so, so they, so, um, was on Art of Dialogue, and they asked me, you know, about the, obviously, the J-Line. Can you give us some back?
Starting point is 00:44:31 backstory on who on is in relation because maybe some of our listeners were engulfed in all this so we know who lands on on on uh had undius entertainment yes he uh was managing cameron uh big's big's big's big's a friend growing up big's a friend of biggie um you know he was he was a guy in industry that you know he was moving and shaken in the 90s and um you know him and jay had a run in in the 90s based on some, you know, accusations or some whatever of un-bootlegging Jay's album at the time, you know. At Q-Tip's birthday party. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:08 Years later, it revealed it may have been a little more personal than just the album, whatever. I don't really know about that. Don't really care about it. But they asked him if he heard the line that Jay spit in the Roots Picnic about, you know, I really get on the skin to ask unhow I'm playing. in light of, you know, the whole stabbing incident at the Kit Kat Club in the 90s. Which we talked about when the freestyle came out. And I thought it was fine because Jay has had bars on the Deer Summer freestyle, on the intro to 444.
Starting point is 00:45:39 He's brought Un up, but Un then went on Vlad, Artadale, a bunch of platforms and discussed it. Yeah. And basically called Jay a liar. So I thought it was fair game for Jay to bring it back up again, if he's replying to everybody. I thought that was fair. We've seen Dame reply. We've seen a bunch of people reply. Oskino, I was not expecting that Un was going to get back on Art of Dialogue to read a poem as a response.
Starting point is 00:46:07 We spoke about it when it happened. I didn't, I told you, for Jay to even spit that bar to me, I was kind of like, whoa. Listen, Jay is a billion. What billionaire is talking about stabbing somebody? Like, just look at the culture of hip-hop for one second. Jay-Z, multi-billionaire, husband of one of the greatest performers, entertainers, another multi-billionaire and Beyonce Nose Carter. And here you are at a point in your life where you're so far beyond all of those things
Starting point is 00:46:40 that have happened in the 90s, early 2000s, whatever. And then now you get on stage with all that you have going on and rehash a stabbing that happened when you were just a young hooligan in the streets of Manhattan like only hip hop can do that like Jeff Bezos won't be anywhere anytime soon talking about
Starting point is 00:47:02 you know ask Elon how I'm playing Okay They're both in a space race right now Yeah but that's not Yeah but Bezos ain't never stab nobody They shoot rockets at each other Yeah but Bezos ain't never stab nobody
Starting point is 00:47:15 Man only hip hop coach do we get this I mean you're right He could have had somebody stab Oh no for sure But I'm telling my hands on, only hip hop culture can give us that. That's the beauty of hip hop. Now, you know, not making light of anybody being stabbed, but... No, of course not.
Starting point is 00:47:29 Only the culture of hip hop can give us a moment like this. Where a multi-billionaire can talk about him stabbing somebody when he was just a young, you know, young guy running around in the streets rapping in New York City. Like that's only hip-hop gives us that. Which, I mean, I did appreciate in the Kill JZ intro. that Hove wasn't proud of it. He was saying it was completely off ego.
Starting point is 00:47:55 Yeah. There was some redemption in feeling bad about the entire thing. But then I think in the Roos freestyle, he was kind of sick of everyone's shit. And it was like, well, I can get under skin if you want me to go back to that. Yeah, but that's just, but this is what I see because people be online giving Jay shit.
Starting point is 00:48:08 Because it's like, at one hand, you was like, you know, I don't think we need, you know, the whole battle thing in hip hop. Then you go on a root stage and you get into a battle type energy, battle type mode where you have bar. constructed to really go at people. Oh, which, I mean,
Starting point is 00:48:24 Hovenger aside, I was objective and that was rightfully so critique of you just sat with Frazier to talk about that and then now you up here, I declare a war. No, I get it. It's only been two weeks. Listen, I understand it. I understand.
Starting point is 00:48:40 We know that Jay has sat back for a while and has heard some nasty things said about him and this, that, and the third. You know, but, you know, the irony of it all was the fact, you know, things that was said about him some things that were said about another artist during his battle and he decided he wanted to respond
Starting point is 00:48:55 and say things that were kind of crazy and take it to another level but you know it is what it is. Only hip hop gives us these moments is what I'm saying. Before you give him a little taste of this haiku, this poem that was constructed during the art of dialogue clip that came out a shout out to art of dialogue. They do great interviews over there. I watch pretty much
Starting point is 00:49:17 everything they put out. He did start talking. about having PTSD from it, Jay bringing it up, is causing trauma and stress towards him. This sounds, and we know that Un has sued Jay before. I don't think Un is a stupid person.
Starting point is 00:49:35 I think Un is extremely intelligent. I think Un is very strategic. And this, to me, in this clip, sounds like somebody that is gearing up to sue Jay-Z again for the trauma that he is feeling
Starting point is 00:49:49 based off that Roots Picnic. This is somebody angling a victim. Oh, this is very... And he led with positivity. Oh, man. Look who I am. Can you give him a little... Listen, anytime somebody says...
Starting point is 00:50:03 Dear Jay-Z? Well, yes. But any time somebody follows Dear Jay-Z with, that is why your voice still matters today. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the lawyers have been... The lawyers have been email. You think he went so hard of dialogue
Starting point is 00:50:18 because he had to get something off his chest? No, no, no, no. This is legal shit. And, and Unsaid, I've been working on something. Before he got it to the open letter, he said, before we get into that, because they asked him about if he heard it. He said, I kind of seen it, you know. Well, that's where he fucked himself over, because I think Jay-Z's lawyers can have a field
Starting point is 00:50:36 day with that. You're saying, which everyone always, I hate when people do that on interviews. Nah, I didn't see it. People told me about it. No, you saw. You saw the whole thing. You saw it. More than once.
Starting point is 00:50:45 Absolutely. But he said, I kind of saw it. People told me, all right, then why you got PTSD and stuff? trauma if you ain't even see it. Yeah. Then he said, because right now the world feels heavy. Oh, oh man. When the victims go to the podium, everything is heavy. You know, the world is heavy, all of this. And then he said, but it does hurt. And that is why your voice still matters. Anytime somebody tells you your voice matters, that means I heard exactly what you said. Yeah. I heard exactly what you said. Honestly, the world needs more of that right now.
Starting point is 00:51:14 At the same time, there's still brilliance in those communities. There's creativity. You start talking about the communities. There's creativity, leadership, intelligence, culture, and untapped potential everywhere, which is why when I sue you and I win this lawsuit, I am going to dedicate. Your voice will ring in those court rules. When that gavel hits, it will echo for eternity. If y'all think un-a-bought to set up a lawsuit. He's like thousand percent doing that. What? What makes your journey powerful? It's not just wealth. Lula, he's talking to his pockets. Not just wealth or success.
Starting point is 00:51:50 It is evolution. People watched you grow from speaking about survival to speaking about ownership, generational wealth, accountability, and legacy. That evolution gave people permission to believe they could grow to. And now, more than ever, the culture needs voices willing to connect success with responsibility. That means he will have Jay in court taking responsibility for that stabbing. I know victim. I know victim chat GPT when I see it.
Starting point is 00:52:23 So do you think unread this directly from chat GBT or at least copy and pasted it out of chat. Man, un went right to chat GBT and said if you were stabbed by Jay-Z in the 90s, what is a letter you would write to him as a victim? Because we were on the same page. Of course, it felt very chat, GBT. So I went to chat GBT and I said, can you write me a letter to JZ, starting with dear Jay-Z, that explains how important he is to the culture? this is what came back.
Starting point is 00:52:50 Okay. Remember what unsaid. Yeah. Dear Jay-Z, there are very few people whose impact can no longer be measured by albums, awards, or business alone. Your legacy lives in a way that people think. You showed an entire generation
Starting point is 00:53:02 that success didn't have to end with music. You changed the blueprint from making hit records to building ownership, equity, and generational wealth. Yeah. Before those conversations became common,
Starting point is 00:53:12 you were already living with them. You made intelligence, aspirations, you made financial literacy feel just as important as lyrical ability. You made reading contracts, owning businesses,
Starting point is 00:53:22 investing, collecting art, and preserving wealth, part of the conversation in communities that often had been excluded from those opportunities. It's the same shit. It's the same shit.
Starting point is 00:53:31 You're just not speaking from a victim. He didn't stab you, Roy. No, see? Yeah. That's crazy. I don't know, man.
Starting point is 00:53:40 The lights in there could have caused that stroke. We could partner on this. You just said you had the stroke before you got there, Roy. Did I? Oh man
Starting point is 00:53:54 But then there was part two with the unshoot Because I shit Cam, Dame Everyone for years has speculated that It wasn't just because Un had allegedly leaked some Of Volume 3
Starting point is 00:54:07 It was because Jay and Un both Allegedly Because I want to put this on Anybody's name that You know Can't Be here to defend themselves
Starting point is 00:54:18 The Way Big's ex-girlfriend Charlie Baltimore They were both sleeping with her after Big had passed away. So Art asked that question because people were bringing it up again. He said, what's your relationship with Charlie Baltimore? That was my artist. Of course we had a relationship.
Starting point is 00:54:35 She was signed to me. And Art said, no, no, no. Were you intimate with Charlie Baltimore? He said, who me? Who else is our interview? Who else is our interviewing? Who else is our interviewing? He said, who me?
Starting point is 00:54:48 Who me is allowed. Who me? you gotta be sure he said I mean of course we were intimate like when you make a record you gotta share
Starting point is 00:54:56 intimate thoughts and feelings in the studio of course we were intimate we were making hit records together yeah I'm no and then he said would you think it's foul
Starting point is 00:55:06 if your best friend passed away and then you started sleeping with his girlfriend like after you died you think that would be like something foul just hypothetically
Starting point is 00:55:17 you know that doesn't do he was like well not I don't think so. Because, like, you can't help who you love. Mm-hmm. So, no, I don't think it would be foul at all. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:55:26 All right, Un. All right, man. I get it. So Ryan just put in Un's poem into chatGBT zero, it's called, which, like, the schools used to detect if chat GBT or AI put together. What did they say, Ryan? It's 100% AI. Zero percent.
Starting point is 00:55:47 Zero percent. Not even mixed. Yeah, yeah. I'm like that's something. I've been working on something. No, you have not. You know.
Starting point is 00:55:58 Oh my God. We are highly confident that we wrote this. Oh, my God. That is crazy. Oh, man. The whole thing is highlighted. When I just typed in, write me a letter about how Jay Z's important in the call. It was the same shit.
Starting point is 00:56:13 Yeah, but you could just hear it, man. You can just hear it. You know AI when you hear it. Oh, yeah. we get it you know what I mean but hopefully this is not really some we just hit talking shit laughing but I hope that there's no lawsuit coming out of this shit that would just be ridiculous but you know it is what it is as much as I do think there is a lawsuit on Vlad and other shit saying that jade did not stab him so yeah but now if jays on stage
Starting point is 00:56:43 saying ass un but I'm playing how can you sue if you're saying this guy didn't stab me and I'm talking about it, and then he talks about it. Can you sue someone for PTSD of something that you say they didn't do? Well, that person that you said didn't do it is on stage saying, I get under skin, ask how I'm playing. I'm just saying a lawyer might look at that and feel like they got something there. A lawyer will look at anything and be like, even if we lose, I'm charging you for the hours. Yeah, yeah, that's all.
Starting point is 00:57:09 Of course, the lawyer's going to be like, yeah, we have a case, but I don't know. Well, we'll see, but yes, I think he sued before. You think he's going to stop now? I hope. It's happening. Oh, also July. fourth we got a new Beyonce song. We did. But this wasn't...
Starting point is 00:57:23 Don't be Demaris in the group chat. Trying to ruin everyone's fun. Okay. I don't know what DeMaris did, but okay. I'm not going to ruin nobody's fun, but I heard this record a while ago. I put a bunch of B emojis in the recording chat and Damaris was like, new Beyonce a question mark? And me and Pidre were like, yeah. And she's like, I heard this
Starting point is 00:57:43 leak before. I've heard this song before too, but doesn't mean we can't be excited that is out now. No, no, no, I get it. I understand. Let's not be those people. A majority of the world has not heard the song. Yes. It was leaked to a while ago. She officially released it. Yes.
Starting point is 00:57:56 And shout out to a friend of show. Our brother Dixon was a writer on it. I want to debate when DeMaris is released from captivity in Atlanta. Her flight was canceled. So she does get back this week. I do want to revisit our Beyonce Act 3 debate. About. She was on the side that it was going to be a rock album.
Starting point is 00:58:19 If I believe, I'm not misquoting it, right? She's not here. I believe she was leaning on the side that it was a rock album, which she's not the only one. A lot of people were like, all right, it's going to be dance, country, and then rock,
Starting point is 00:58:29 which makes sense. I don't think we've ever gotten the proper, proper Beyonce R&B album, even though she has a lot of R&B on her project. She's a pop star, so she has to mix a match. I think this album is going to be traditional R&B.
Starting point is 00:58:42 So this being a leak in kind of a Lucy that's in that very traditional R&B range, I don't think, she's just releasing this if this isn't leading up to this being the sound. So to me in my Beehive hopeful thinking mind is that this is confirmation that it's going to be an R&B album. Yeah. This won't be on the album, obviously, but I don't think you release this Lucy for the fuck
Starting point is 00:59:08 of it to then put out a rock single in a few months. I just don't see it. Or maybe because she knew it leaked. So it's like, all right, well, might as well officially release it. And can still have plans on the album being a totally different vibe, different sound. Yeah. I mean, but I mean, it's not far-fetched to think that a next Beyonce album in her act series will be an R&B album.
Starting point is 00:59:31 I don't think that's far-fetched at all. Yeah, I think that rock thing comes from like another leak of some document that had, that did predict the country shit before we knew was the country. So the next one was rock. So I think people are looking at that leaked doc of Act 1, 2, and 3, like, oh, must be real because it was country. Yeah. So, I mean, either way, I'm fine with a Beyonce rock album, too.
Starting point is 00:59:52 Let's hear it. Like, don't hurt yourself on Lemonade is rock, and that's incredible. So if Beyonce wants to put a rock album, you won't hear a fucking complaint for me. But I would love a traditional R&B Neo Soul type album from Beyonce. I would love that. So it's a great record. Don't let people like DeMaris ruin your fun because you like the song by saying things like, oh, you just heard this?
Starting point is 01:00:13 Like, what DeMere's saying? Oh, I use this in my vlogs. Yeah, I'm going to get what she said, I'm going to get hit with a copyright flag. I'm going to get hit with a copyright flag. Yeah, well, prayers to Demaris. Hopefully she can get back from Atlanta. Why are you praying for us? The flight was canceled.
Starting point is 01:00:32 Everyone's flights, like, shit, I saw Weezy on her story. A bunch of people on Instagram are trying to get back to New York right now. The weather is. I know, but when you have 30 canceled flights from one city, it's tough to, like, get back. Yeah, but she's not liking the swamps of fucking Tuscalooga. Well, I love Atlanta. I just think she wants to leave Atlanta. She don't want to leave Atlanta.
Starting point is 01:00:51 That's true. You and her want to move to Atlanta. I know. Somebody said she wants to leave Atlanta. I just based off her stories of running rampant in the airport. I was like, get me out of this place. Oh, you fall for that? Yeah, I do.
Starting point is 01:01:02 I don't fall for that shit. Whenever girls get stuck in Atlanta, Miami and they're on their storylines, I don't know, it's a stuck. You ain't mad. You're going right back to the ball, right back to the strip club. Like, cut it out. Man, that never happens to me in a good. way. I've had flights canceled, but I'm trying to get home. It's never like when I'm in Miami
Starting point is 01:01:22 or want to stay in Atlanta, my flight gets canceled. It's always right on time. I get, I get right home. Yeah. It'd be early. You be late. Like, damn, I wanted to stay. I just don't have an excuse today. Get your ass on. But then when I'm trying to get home, it's like, all right, it's delayed now. You got to land in Philly. You know, after the Rock, the Bells Cruz, my flight was super delayed from Miami. And I was like, all right, another three hours. I was sitting there like, cancel the shit, Cancel the shit. Let me stay in Miami. I've been excused. Yo, you got to pick tomorrow from daycare. Flight's canceled. Can't do anything about it.
Starting point is 01:01:52 Always when you got some shit to do. That shit got me right home. The worst. But Demarice will be back this week, though. She's fine. For sure. While we're recording, I got a text message that BDOT is added again. We're at the halfway mark so we know we're getting a BDOT list. The 10 best rappers of 2026 so far based on skill, song features, and presence. First six months of 2026. we fall for it every time.
Starting point is 01:02:18 You fall for it every time. What do I fall for though? This? A list? A list hate to see you coming. No, I'd love to see me arguing. I've never seen a list and be like nailed it. Yeah, you've never seen the list you agree with. Never. All right, can we go back to this Drake at number one? I completely agree with.
Starting point is 01:02:38 T.I. at two, I'm not that mad at. He's had some hit records and T.I.'s been rap. I don't know if it's number two. but TI in the top five, I'm not terribly mad at it. Okay. Then Cole, Gibbs, Kanye, juvenile, French Montana, Rock Marciana, currency, Rick Ross.
Starting point is 01:02:57 This has nothing to do personally with anything with Rick Ross. What does Rick Ross put out in 2026? All I know is he keeps pushing his album back. Has he put out features or anything that I'm unaware of? He's been on Instagram a lot. I didn't see Instagram and the criteria for BDAT. No? You're asking me about him?
Starting point is 01:03:17 You care about nothing he's doing. I may sound like a broken record because we do support Waleigh on this podcast. Everything was a lot. Came out the end of last year. So it carried on into 2026. Sold Out tour has a hit record with Leon. I love the juvenile record. I think it's great.
Starting point is 01:03:35 I'm not saying Juvie shouldn't be here or French Montana. But what else would you need to do based on this criteria that Walee hasn't done in 26 to make a top time? The Walee disrespect has to stop. This is like it's kind of crazy. It's, it just has to stop. Like, I don't know what it is with Wiley and why, you know, and not saying that, you know, BDOT's list is the list of all lists,
Starting point is 01:03:57 anything like that. But BDDOT is somebody that is a part of the culture who understands the culture and does his due diligence. Yeah. You know what I mean? So he's somebody that I respect Wale, no, I mean, BDOT knows better than to not have Wile. Wile's record, his feature with Leon Thomas is one of the best features of the year.
Starting point is 01:04:15 presence with the tour that album still if you go through the stats of everything is a lot it's one of the most successful rap albums of the past six months
Starting point is 01:04:27 by far like if you get into the numbers and the stats of what it is maybe it's not at the top of every timeline when they're debating Drake and Kendrick Easter eggs but
Starting point is 01:04:36 it's doing the numbers it has presence but that's not even part his criteria is not numbers so we only have to talk about the numbers yeah but even the presence of the tour
Starting point is 01:04:45 and the record is played everywhere. To your point, yes. If this was a complex list, I'd be like whatever. But BDOT is somebody that's putting people like Rock Marcy and currency on there. BDOT pays attention. To not have Wiley up there is asking.
Starting point is 01:04:58 Well, his album, the album came out in November. November. But it carried over. So is he just talking about the fiscal year? Okay, what is Ross done? And this is no disrespect to Ross. I just, what, French Montana and Max, I love the project, great, cool.
Starting point is 01:05:13 Kanye has, obviously, with the show, a lot of presence there and put out bully but I don't think bully had a crazy presence music wise I think it shows definitely I'm fine with being on the list but no gives put out a great deluxe I'm not mad at the list I just don't know why while I wouldn't be there if you go through the criteria with all 10 of these people yeah but maybe it's because it came out November 20 2025 20 25 so that may be yeah so let me give first six months of 26 so BD I apologize. You're not disrespecting why.
Starting point is 01:05:48 You're going off the first six months of 2026. So we'll leave that there. I mean, the award- I still don't agree with this list, but- The award shows are probably fuming right now because you know that number one spot should be. The number one spot? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:04 Kung Fu-Kinney. From what he did in 2024, he got to be number one. Why are you trying to pull me in to- Every time I'm not- I'm not doing that, man. I'm done with that. I promise you I'm not getting into that.
Starting point is 01:06:20 Okay, well, I'm going to laugh on Twitter at, I laugh at the OVO stands too. Everyone on the TD side, relax. I am going to laugh to see what the Kendrick stands try to make the case. That he should be number one on the beat out list. Yeah, right there. The first thing, no Kendrick.
Starting point is 01:06:42 Baby Keem, Vince, yeah. You could make a case for Vince for sure. You should put out a great, great album. But yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's the stroke that put things in perspective. The list. It was a stroke. I'm cool, man.
Starting point is 01:06:56 Make a list. It's fine. Rocky, I think, could be, Rocky put out a great album and is a big tour right now. Is Don Tolliver not? Don Tolliver should be number two if we're considering in rap. So forget what I said about Waleigh. The Don Tolliver disrespe has to stop, B.Dott.
Starting point is 01:07:15 Don Tolliver is definitely. definitely has one of the best albums of the year, presence, skill, features, whatever you want. I don't give a, Don Tolliver's project, Octane is one of the best albums. It came out this year, right? It's one of the best albums of the year. Like, we got to, like, come on, Don Tolliver deserves to be on this list. Like, you can take, you can eliminate number 10.
Starting point is 01:07:41 Come on. If you're going off songs and presence, like, come on. Octane, what do we talk about? Yeah, like, what? That album is crazy. It's incredible. I was Don Tolliver not on every list, any rap list we're talking about. If you don't want to say it's rap, whatever.
Starting point is 01:07:59 That would be the only case that I think you can make is, okay, is this, is this rap? Is this hip-hop, which I think in 2026 it is? It's titled, it's titled hip-hop. It's titled hip-hop. It's title hip-hip-hop. Yes. Hip-hop rap. So we got to
Starting point is 01:08:20 It's hip-hop rap Octane is a hip-hop rap album So I mean I kind of have a bold prediction This early into this five years You know how we usually do the five years Like in 2030 We'll do the best albums from 2025 to 2030 Of course I know we're only in 2026
Starting point is 01:08:38 There's plenty of time I have a bold prediction that Octane might be a top three album Of this generation That we're currently 25 to 2030? It's a great album. It's high up from 2020 to 2030.
Starting point is 01:08:56 Yeah. It sounds good. I haven't listened to it in like a month or two. Go listen to it again. No, I just listened to it the other day. It's fucking incredible. It still sounds great. You know, Don Tolliver deserves to be on the top ten best rappers of 2026.
Starting point is 01:09:09 He made an album that very few artists are able to do. Kanye's been able to do it. Drake's been able to do it. an album that literally everybody in your life could all get in a car and we could all be satisfied if you put that on. Your girl, your man that don't even fuck with with lyrics, your man's that
Starting point is 01:09:28 hates this type of shit. Like you can put Oxane on and every single person in your car will be like, yeah, I'm cool with this. Yeah. This works. That album is incredible. Yeah, it's a great album.
Starting point is 01:09:40 If it doesn't get the awards, it's due. I mean, that's just politics, but... Don't Oliver is... That's up there with any... album you can. He should be top five on this list. Oh, if he's considered rap, then he's number two. Yeah. Easily number two. Yeah. So, I mean, it is what it is. But shout out to BDOT. His lists always get people, you know, moving. I feel like he should do more content around these lists, though. Like what? Some type of video element, for how long he's been doing this and how much this
Starting point is 01:10:13 stirs up, like kind of how complex has Jordan has been sitting with people after the list, this and that. I just feel like BDOT should have a video element to these because they cause so much hysteria on the internet. I think there should be some type of element with video or socials besides just posting, you know, the notes version of it and leaving it alone. He wants to keep this staggy that he's half a year's, I guess. Is what it is. Mall today's show is brought to by our presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet, Florida's Sportsbook, and Mall FIFA is here. Everyone is watching the entire world national pride.
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Starting point is 01:15:22 My husband is currently on a vacation with his mistress, and I'm confronting them. Tell me, Sophia, how did she even catch them? Fun Amazon shopping receipt. He accidentally sent her a photo of the kid's Christmas gifts with a delivery to another woman at the bottom. He exposed himself? That's a rookie move. Couples massages, monogrammed bath robes,
Starting point is 01:15:43 and lingerie he then moored her for. So she spent four weeks gathering evidence and taped a 10-page letter inside his luggage before he flew out. In his luggage, she came to play. And the second he landed, he blocked her. So she called the hotel room directly and got the mistress on the phone. Oh, she got the mistress live on the phone?
Starting point is 01:16:03 That is a bold move. Let's see if it pays off. Then it gets worse. He took the mistress on the Bahamas honeymoon trip he had planned with his wife. And then the mistress tagged him on Facebook, outing the fair to her entire family. That's like a whole public confession. And spoiler, two years later, karma hits him so hard. He's calling his ex-wife in tears saying about the mistress.
Starting point is 01:16:24 What a mistake that was. To find out what happened, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHart Radio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Prayers to Wayne going through a breakup. You praying for him? Yeah. But I like breakup Wayne music. So maybe this will be the kick in the ass that Wayne needs to be on time to a show.
Starting point is 01:16:51 That's your goat, man. That's my goat? Yeah. Why fuck Wayne, it's not my goat. That's your goat, man. Don't do that. Don't do that. Wayne is your greatest rap.
Starting point is 01:16:59 My goat would never show up late to a main show. He didn't show up at all? He would never show up late to a New Hampshire show. My girl would never do that. New Hampshire is one without state tax, right? I think so, yes. Or is that Vermont? Come on.
Starting point is 01:17:15 Wayne would never live free or die. Wayne's showing up to that. So he didn't show up to his main show? And he was late to another one. I think he was with the Republican Party. He went to Michael Ruma's old white party. We didn't see no pictures of Wayne? I didn't see any.
Starting point is 01:17:33 I didn't see any pictures. He was there? Oh, I thought they had photos of him at some like Republican convention. So Wayne missed the show to go to Michael Rubin's all-white party? It was the main show. No disrespect to Maine. But Shawshank Redemption is the only thing that you know about that place. Yeah, but you, to miss a, yo, dog, to miss a show completely and then pop up in pictures at an all-white party, that's fucking crazy.
Starting point is 01:17:57 Because even Cardi performed at Michael Rubin's shit and then was in New Orleans in one hour to go perform at like S's. There is an airport right there. And he performed at Michael. Yo, Wayne, you sick, bro. He skipped the main party to perform at Michael Rupert's old white. Listen, man, if it's Maine or the all-white party, I'm going to all-white party. But you could do both.
Starting point is 01:18:20 Yeah. Well, you could definitely make it in time for both, for sure. Because he probably didn't go on in Michael Rupert's party to what, one, two in the morning? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, you could hold on. Because isn't Maine, like, straight? Yeah, come on. That's a straight shot.
Starting point is 01:18:36 Yeah, you can take a... Long Island rights of Maine. You can take the chopper. Come on, Wayne. Yeah, that's kind of... That's kind of nuts. And he was... He was late to another show in New Hampshire. He was late to New Hampshire show. But he's going through a breakup with a 23-year-old. You know it's a lot of paragraph texting. So he said he was having seizures? Oh, I take all the jokes back. I didn't know that part.
Starting point is 01:18:58 Yeah, I didn't hear about that. Well, we know Wayne has had seizures and maybe he's... because you can't question that. Like, if you guys don't think that I'm going to get off stroke shit of why I can't make... I've already turned down two guest pods and I said, hey, I'm taking it easy. It's just because I didn't want to do the show.
Starting point is 01:19:17 But I can blame things on a stroke now. I think this could be a case where Wayne, who we know has had seizures on his plane when he was addicted to coding and shit. You can't... That's bulletproof. Well, he did say that he has epilepsy. Same.
Starting point is 01:19:31 He has seizures. Thank God I haven't had a seizure in years, but seizures have triggers. The trigger to my seizure is badass migraines, and I had a badass migraine that night. Now, was the migraine leaving Michael Rubin's party? Or was it on his way to Michael Rubin's party? Was it from the Acese? Yeah, I just need to put nothing on Wayne Jacket if he didn't do nothing.
Starting point is 01:19:51 Yeah. You know what I mean? Just give me to find the timeline in between Michael Rubin's party and, you know, the main show. That's all. I think the triggers were trying to break up with a 23-year-old. That's a lot of texting. That's a lot of shit. That would give you a margin.
Starting point is 01:20:03 Yeah, it's a lot of shit. That would give you a migraine. Breaking up with a 23-year-old is, it's a chore. It's a whole day process. You can't just be like, hey, this isn't working out. So he announced that he and Maddie, Maddie Cannon, have no idea. He announced it. He had broken up revealing that they were never engaged.
Starting point is 01:20:18 I didn't even know that that was a thing. But he said, I had a beautiful thing going with an amazing person. But obviously, due to the temperature of today's crazy world and culture, I don't want to be such a burden or such an amazing person. So we decided to part. So he's probably speaking to the age difference, the age gap that, you know, everybody online was kind of, she's, what, 23? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:37 Wayne is, he'll be 45 this year, I believe. Is Wayne already 40? No, Wayne's 45? He'll be 45, yeah, September, right? I think. Really? Yeah. 43?
Starting point is 01:20:48 He's 43? I thought he was 45. Okay, so he'll be 44 in September. I would say that's Chad GBT, but they have the footage of Wayne actually said. That's Wayne GBT. Yeah. That really just, he said that. And who is he talking to?
Starting point is 01:21:01 he got a guitar he probably you know creating hey up i'm i'm here for the breakup album yeah but that that relationship was a little i didn't even know it existed i didn't know existed but you know now that i'm thinking about it 23 43 yeah i mean yeah that young yeah i don't know it's just a little you know i mean love is love but yeah it's a little just a little it's the climate in the culture of today that's all this old yeah why put that burden on something
Starting point is 01:21:36 I get it true 20 extra years of trauma yeah can't do that come on Wayne plus so tell her what the 80s like she knows nothing about the 80s at all
Starting point is 01:21:47 I haven't really been paying attention too much to this push-shisty Gucci thing purposely I think there's a bunch of other great podcasts that you guys can go to that can cover the day-to-day details of this robbery
Starting point is 01:22:01 That's just not really my lane. I did see, however, the footage that came out over the weekend. Maul, maybe you can better explain it to me because I am just a civilian. I am on the sidewalk. I'm not in the street. Why are we filming crimes? I have no idea why they chose to film this. Maybe it was, they thought it would be evidence that Gucci actually dropped him from the label.
Starting point is 01:22:28 I just, you know, it just wasn't a very, smart thing to film a crime like this. Because I'm just going to go out on a limb, and I assume that automatic rifle in the, I assume that's not a license firearm. I think that's a safe assumption. It's a safe assumption. I'm going to go ahead and assume that the serial number is not.
Starting point is 01:22:54 Yeah, it doesn't match. It doesn't come back, no. If you can even see the circle. And, all right, I'm not going to play myself and say that a lot of thought went into this, so I'm not going to try to make sense of something that doesn't make sense. But, okay, let's say they wanted to have video evidence
Starting point is 01:23:10 of him saying that, even though he's saying in the video that he just signed the contract that released him. You would be taking video of that as evidence that you were dropped that in the event that Gucci said you're not dropped, you could go to a lawyer and be like, well, look, he said it. Right. Great. Why have an illegal assault rifle
Starting point is 01:23:31 in the video that you would then bring to a lawyer to go for the request system. Yeah. And again, I don't think they looked into this, but you can, there is also a law where if you sign something under duress, it doesn't hold up. I assume a video is the same thing as well. Hey, hey, the video where you have a gun to him saying he's dropped, I don't know if that holds up. Yeah, I think Gucci knew that as well. Like, he knew, like, I'm going to tell you all whatever y'all want.
Starting point is 01:23:56 I'll sign whatever you don't want. But it's not going to hold up. Like, it's just not. I don't think that pushaiste and, you know, I don't think they thought about that part. Like, it's just that that's not going to hold any weight. Like, you'll still be signed legally to the label, even though he did sign the paperwork. Like you said, under duress, it's not going to hold up. So, I mean, it's just, it's a, it's a wild situation.
Starting point is 01:24:20 And it's not, it's definitely not good for anybody involved that this is on video, because how does a lawyer even argue or fight this at this point? And great, I have grace even for. for full grown adults that were raised in an environment where they were not taught how to do the legal business part and this is all he knows.
Starting point is 01:24:39 This is who when he feels something is wrong or he feels disrespected. This is the way he's handled things in his whole life. I think his pops was involved in this too. Raised by somebody that also has the same mentality, I have grace with that mentality. But I don't think Poo Shai'sti is dumb per se.
Starting point is 01:24:56 I'm sure Pushcheisty scrolls on his Twitter all day long and sees that there's cameras everywhere. The first footage came out of the hallway of this place with assault rifle. When you all get together as a gang to talk out what we're about to do,
Starting point is 01:25:11 does anyone raise their hand and go, it's 2026, there's probably cameras everywhere. Hey, I was on Twitter today and saw 75 crimes based off ring cameras. Yeah, no. No one's like, hey, I can hit refresh and see crimes. Maybe we should see if there's cameras there. But there's a part too where people just don't care of.
Starting point is 01:25:31 And they said, not only will there be cameras there, we'll bring one too. Yeah, people don't care, though. These, these, these, you're dealing with people that are, you know, really in the streets and they don't care about cameras and shit like that. It's just, that's, that, that part is clear. But it did, whatever the situation is, this is not good for, for Bushi's D. at all. He's only only didn't get bail. Which out the gate is not great with priors.
Starting point is 01:25:56 Wasn't he on parole, darn this? Yeah, he had a brace on. He had an ankle monitor on. Yeah. So, yeah, definitely not, doesn't help his situation at all. Okay, well, never mind. If I have a bracelet on when I'm on parole, yeah, let's make a production of it. Bring lighting.
Starting point is 01:26:15 Of course they know where the fuck I am. I have a bracelet on. Yeah. Let's do it. Bring lighting. Bring audio. Let's get live mics. Let's make it a thing.
Starting point is 01:26:23 Because we're not getting out of this. Good luck. That's all I can say. Good luck fighting that one. That's going to be tough. For any lawyer. Yeah. I don't know, man.
Starting point is 01:26:35 What's the push-a-sy song? FD-O, FD-O. First day out. That shit was hard. Yeah. I reckon is hard. Do you think we'll get a part two? Second day out?
Starting point is 01:26:49 I don't know. I just don't know if that one is going to get queued up. I mean, it could from, you know, behind the prison walls. They have 30 years to think about it. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think, again, I haven't paid so much attention. I know there was rumors that Gucci cooperated.
Starting point is 01:27:01 Do we think Gucci, takes a stand in this? Because something tells me who's Sheik's not going to take a deal. I think he's going to go all the way with this one. You think so? If you're bringing cameras to a crime, I just don't think that you're in the business of
Starting point is 01:27:16 taking a plea. I think you're going to go for the trial. He should take a plea because it's evidence everywhere. Take the low. But yeah, something tells me Shaiksy's going to take this whole. I don't know, man. On parole, I don't know if you take this to trial.
Starting point is 01:27:35 I just don't know if you take this to trial. Like, seeing the video, we just saw, you don't take this to trial, man. Well, in some cases, it's worth it because how old is he might be worth it? Yeah, because you're going to face it 30 or life. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's like. If you look at what the plea deal or plea bargain would be, he's 26. If he's looking at 50 fucking years.
Starting point is 01:27:57 Might as well. All right. If I blow trial, what's the difference? It's like, might as well make this interesting. Yeah. It's fucked up, man. It's a sad situation all around. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:28:09 No, definitely. It's unnecessary. But I am curious if it does go to trial where what Gucci... Oh, we definitely will be paying attention to that. Ends up doing in that situation. Yeah, we're going to have to definitely pay attention to that one. Yeah. Did you see the scissors thing of being having high functioning autism?
Starting point is 01:28:26 Her burner's been, like, getting all the headlines. She says she has high functioning autism. Yeah. Finally took the time. This is her burner? Well, it's not a burner because we know it's her. I'm not saying, how does the burner even work if you know it's yours? Yeah, it's a, she just posts things that are less music related.
Starting point is 01:28:43 Okay. Well, the name of the account is not music at all, I swear. Yeah. Okay. So not music at all I swear. I can't say scissors at it. Not music at all I swear says. Finally took the time and got formally diagnosed.
Starting point is 01:28:54 Asperger's high functioning autism smarter than you niggas. So stop playing in my face because pattern recognition told me and I will get to the bottom of it. Thanks. Pretty sure this is why I'm taking AI. so person, by the way, L.O.L. And also why I'm in every comment section. Okay. Maybe that's why she blocked me in.
Starting point is 01:29:14 Maybe it was high-functioned autism. I don't know. I thought it was showing love. That's what you're talking to love to? I thought I was showing love and appreciation for her taking the time to, you know, reach out to me. But, you know, obviously she thought I was, you know, cloud chasing, I guess.
Starting point is 01:29:25 I don't know. I wasn't here for that episode. Yeah. That was pre-strow, high-functioning stroke at that time. Yeah, you had a high-functioning. You're a high-fucking. High functioning. High fucking stroking.
Starting point is 01:29:37 You're high fucking stroking. I mean, anyone that is as talented as she is, especially with writing, does it shock me that she would be on the spectrum? A lot of amazing talented writers are on the spectrum. That part is true. And I do think that all of us are on the spectrum. You know, just where we land on the spectrum is the question. That's why it's a spectrum. I suspect from.
Starting point is 01:30:06 But I mean, I haven't been like around, around Sizzar to, I have friends that have Asperger's and you can tell pretty fucking quickly that they have it. You guys give me shit for diagnosing people with that because I'm not a doctor. But if you've been around enough people or have enough family members with Asperger's, you can spot that shit immediately. Yeah. But it's good to, you know, find out what's wrong. But let me not say what's wrong with you.
Starting point is 01:30:31 Certain conditions that you do. Well, how you're wired. So you know how to operate. something wrong with you. Yeah. Just how you're wired. With somebody that has to be in social settings with strangers all the time. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:30:43 Yeah, it's good to know how your brain is functioning and how you're dealing with that so you can find other ways and other patterns to deal. So good for her. I think that's great. And probably checks out. I am getting a little sick of people that are like faking the tism. I don't think sis is doing that whatsoever. I don't make that very clear.
Starting point is 01:31:01 But there is a large, and I'm not going to just, put it on Gen Z, because it is my generation, too. It's millennials too. Ladiol is just lazy. Yeah. And now you have anxiety and you have tiz. No, you don't. No.
Starting point is 01:31:14 You're lazy. You're not motivated and not because of any meds disease. You're just a fucking bum. And you're trying to find an excuse of why you're lazy instead of actually getting up and doing something. And you've developed this pattern where, all right, I've survived my 20s of not doing shit and I'm okay. No, you're just, you're lazy.
Starting point is 01:31:33 And you're soft. And soft? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. All right.
Starting point is 01:31:42 And this isn't a stroke victim, Rory coming out, still swinging after my cerebellum was blocked. I've had these thoughts. Me and Guru have talked about this a lot. Because, you know, not about his kids or anything, but, you know, he meets younger people because he has kids. Like he's now exposed to the college generation because his kids are, a lot of these kids, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just soft. You just can't handle shit because you're pussy. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:32:07 You don't have a mental disorder. You just can't handle any type of disagreements. You can't handle things being tough. You can't handle things when you have to be responsible for doing it. That has nothing to do with your mental health. No. You're just soft. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:32:22 And spoiled. And, you know, a whole lot of other things. Yeah. No, you don't have an issue with social settings. You have an issue with social settings where everything doesn't go your fucking way. Everyone doesn't have to stop and be handed foot to, consume what makes you feel better. Yeah. And you get to college and realize,
Starting point is 01:32:39 oh, people aren't waiting to see how I feel? No. College doesn't revolve around me? No. Not at all. So, again, nothing to do with Siza. It reminded me of these young kids that are just, I feel like they use a lot of the shit all the time. But, you know, not everyone's built like Ray J. in Orlando
Starting point is 01:32:59 Brown, who may actually have mental health problems, but they still get in the ring. When have you heard Orlando Brown with, clearly probably has some mental health issues. Has that stopped him from being successful? He's a hard working. That motherfucker gets up and works. Yeah, Alinda Brown, he's going to work. Alando Brown is going to work.
Starting point is 01:33:17 In the middle of an episode, he's making money. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. He's going to figure it out. So Ray J and O'Landa Brown have set a boxing match for August 15th. We just saw Ray J get knocked out, not even, what, two months ago? If that. Two weeks ago.
Starting point is 01:33:34 Two weeks ago. had a knot on his head. You know, we love Ray. We didn't want to see him like that. The fight was fixed and it didn't go the right way. The fight was fixed and somebody went against the fixed fight
Starting point is 01:33:42 and Ray J's back in the ring, August 15th with Orlando Brown. Yeah, I guess I'll be tuning in for this. Why not? Why not? Why wouldn't I want to see Ray Jane Orlando Brown fight?
Starting point is 01:34:00 Why not? Man, listen, hey. I'm not going to give you pushback because I will be tuned in as well. Why not? Why wouldn't I want to see, you know? I sat through B2K versus Pretty Ricky. So I am not above anything.
Starting point is 01:34:11 Yeah. Which I told you. I know I missed last week. I told you they was going to get washed. Yeah. No, we spoke about it. They got rinse. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:34:19 That was bad. That was bad. Really bad. That was really bad. That might have been worse than Jada versus Fab. We spoke about that. We was asking is that as is that worse than the locks dip set? And we still think that.
Starting point is 01:34:34 Really? Yes. No. Lox and Dipset was bad. All right. They're 1A, 1B. They're the same. I think,
Starting point is 01:34:43 nah, I think the locks was, the locks dipset was worse only because I don't think people, more people cared about the locks and dipset, first of all. Oh, absolutely. And then it was like,
Starting point is 01:34:52 just the performance of it all, just the way it happened was just like, damn. Well, you know why the locks may have been worse is because Dipset was, they would go play records that we all love that should be a point, and it wasn't a point.
Starting point is 01:35:05 Whereas B2K, once they got past record 7, most of the comments were I've never heard this fucking song before in my life. Which is cool. That should lose. But like Dipset Anthem
Starting point is 01:35:15 not getting any reaction, Dias, bro. Yeah, it was that. To me, that's still the worst loss we've seen in a versus history is Locke's dipset. But that pretty Ricky B2K one
Starting point is 01:35:28 was bad for sure. Quiet as Keb, you know what's a number three? Ludicrous versus Nelly. Nelly did not. come prepared, Luda, Luda shouldn't, it should be a fair match.
Starting point is 01:35:38 Yeah, but see, those, those when it was, Luda came super prepared and Nellie did not, and Luda cleaned him up. I don't,
Starting point is 01:35:44 see, I can't, the ones that was like that COVID stretch where it was just, you know, on IG Live. They bailed the kit. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:35:52 separate rooms. To me, that was, I can't really, I can't really judge those. You know what I'm saying? Because it's like, it's just,
Starting point is 01:36:00 the performance of it all was totally different. The engagement of it all was different. But yeah, that was bad too, but I can't really, I can't really compare it. Like, you can't compare the locks and dipset being at the Paramount Theater to Nellie and Luda in separate studios in different states, like on IG Live. It's just not the same. It's not the same.
Starting point is 01:36:21 Well, either way, I want a 24-7 with Orlando Brown and Ray J. We need that. I need to see the training. I hope Adrian Bruner is one of their trainers. I don't care who. Maybe both. I have a theory that Adrian Bruner actually. should get into training. I think that would be like so far. Like he's obviously streaming now.
Starting point is 01:36:41 And for him to stream him actually like helping kids out like getting in the gym, training kids to box. I think to me that's a crazy ill transition for Adrian Bruner. I think that should be his focus is getting the gym. He's, you know, he's back making money now, open up a boxing gym, you know, get the kids in there, you know, get kids into boxing, train them. I think to me that's the transition in AB. career is actually turning into a trainer and, you know, really building a kid up to be the next prize fighter. I think that would be dope to watch that on stream.
Starting point is 01:37:14 Like, really, instead of just, you know, running a mill, in the house party, girls, drunk club. It's like, we got that. Like, you know, give us something that's, like, really, like, A.B. Like, this, you're one of the best fighters of your generation. Like, give us something that's a chance to be, yeah. He still was, though. He's like, he's still one of the best fighters.
Starting point is 01:37:33 A.B. was incredible. Yeah. It was. It was. No, but that's what I'm saying. Have you ever seen the fighter with Mark Wahlberg with Mickey Ward and his brother, Dick Eklund or whatever? I think it would be similar to that.
Starting point is 01:37:47 Whoever A.B. would be training would be waiting at the gym. Just hit in the bag. And A.B. might be in a fucking crack house. I don't. I get what you're saying. But if you ever see some of the clips from his dreams, right, you never notice when it's like they're in a gym and it's boxing time and it's all of that like it's a it's a whole different ab well for sure i mean so this is what i'm saying so i think that's his
Starting point is 01:38:12 i think that's his space is safe haven where all of this other shit that we know ab to get into i think once he is in that brain and that part of his brain is turned on where it's like when he was with the m mma guy and he's teaching the m ms guy different angles and things like like when you see that ab he could have been drunk in that clip and you wouldn't know have known it because a different part of his brain is switched on with it's like, oh, like, I'm in boxer, you know, this is, I'm talking about boxing now. Like, it's a whole different energy with A, B. And I think if he starts streaming that and leans more into that, I think that is where his career totally takes off and streaming if he's able to really like, you know, get his
Starting point is 01:38:53 gym. Like we see him go, I'm talking about from the ground up. He buys a boxing gym, builds it out. Like, you know, starts getting kids in their train. Yeah. So watch that transition. I I think that's fire for Adrian Bromond. Oh, I completely agree. I just don't know if the AB brain is pulling that off. I think so, man. The clips I see him talking about boxing is a whole different energy from him. I'm extremely talented.
Starting point is 01:39:13 And shit, I remember way before AB streaming when he was on the HBO shit, they would have video footage of him at the club, pouring full bottles down, and then he'd be like, no, I'm not getting the car. I'm running home. Remember those days? Yeah. When he used to run from the club drunk while he was training it? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:39:29 I mean, he could balance it. He told me, she said he wanted to stop drinking and go all in on boxing. I mean, AB is a lot of these. He's gifted in a different way, so yes, he's one of those people that if he did focus, I would 100% think he could do it because A.B. is a freak of nature
Starting point is 01:39:44 athlete. Yeah. And boxer. So I think, yes, he could tap back into it. I just know if I have the discipline to do so, especially when the streaming thing is working so well. Yeah, but stream that. Like, he's seeing some ROI on the shit. No, for sure, but I'm just saying, stream that. How much do you think the audience that he's built
Starting point is 01:40:00 within streaming is AB chaos fans and would tune out if he started being sober and training. Because I think he has a whole new fan base and it's not the people like me that liked AB as a boxer. Yeah, but his original fan base that built him up to where he is
Starting point is 01:40:17 is boxing fans, it's fight fans. I just think it's a whole different. He's gained a whole different audience with streaming for sure. Yeah. But we're not going to act like he doesn't have a huge boxing fan base as well. And to like I said, to see it on the streaming
Starting point is 01:40:31 and, you know, who was in the, who was that that was in the gym with, uh, with, uh, damn, what's the, what's the MMA guy? He was on the tithing in the movement. He was like, God damn, you motherfuckers ain't listening. Like, who was that? Damn, I forgot. But if we were to see a- And Colin McGregor would be a great streamer.
Starting point is 01:40:50 If we were to see AB streaming like that, like, told me to the kids, like, you're not listening, like, step back. Let me show you motherfuckers how to do it. That type of energy I'm talking about. He ain't got to go in there really, like, you know, changing his personality. and becoming old. No, I'm not saying, still be A-B. But I think for us to be able to sit back and watch that
Starting point is 01:41:06 and watch him really like, you know, give back, reach back to the next generation and build up the next fighters, I think that's dope. I would love to see it. I just don't know. I think it could happen, man. He could do it with Orlando Brown.
Starting point is 01:41:18 I don't know if that could happen. I'm not going to say Orlando Brown. A.B. and OB is crazy. A.B. and OB is crazy. Mentor and Mentsie, that could be the first one. That would be great. They have a similar build? Well, now, yes.
Starting point is 01:41:30 Adrian could snap back in a month and be a whole different person. I saw, I saw street Twitter like, you know, we're at the age where Big Meach is on a stream now. Like, this is what the streets is now. I was like, yo, y'all have revisionist history. Big Meach put a billboard up that said the world is BMF. The next step of that is I'm on stream. He had blimps with a drug organization.
Starting point is 01:41:57 I don't know if the next step of that is being on the stream, but it's not far. Putting a billboard up of your drug empire. It means you want to be seen, yeah. No, it doesn't shock me that Big Meach is on stream. Yeah. Like, the natural progression of that, John Gotti would be on stream in 2026. I don't know about that.
Starting point is 01:42:19 He was on the cover of, he did interviews as the biggest mob posts. Yes, that version of that now in 26. You know. Stream, I don't know, podcast, yes. John Gotti would do numbers on TikTok. top. I don't know. Like and subscribe
Starting point is 01:42:35 with John Gotti would go crazy in 2020. Podcasting, yes. I don't know stream. I don't know if he would walk around
Starting point is 01:42:40 with cameras 24-7. I don't know. He did in 1990. He wasn't filming shit. Yeah, but he knew with a pop- With cameras on him? That's different.
Starting point is 01:42:49 What murder. Yeah. It was a little different. A few blocks from us. He would just camp out. Yeah. They'd all sit there. I could see a podcast.
Starting point is 01:43:00 He'd bring the whole gang. All of us. Let's meet at 8 o'clock. I can see. a podcast. We're streaming. I don't know about that. And of course, Joey Molino is not in the mafia whatsoever. He's allegedly, according to Netflix,
Starting point is 01:43:10 was involved with Philly, which we know he wasn't. But, I mean, he has a great podcast. Yeah, for sure. And they called him the new John Gotti as far as being the flamboyant guy. Of course, neither of them were in the mob. But yeah, he has a pod. That's the third time you said that. He's covering my track.
Starting point is 01:43:26 Okay. All right, Roy, the NBA shaking up. I don't know if you're stroking out, so you you might have missed some of these trades that's happening. all. I thought I was stroking out. You were stroking out and Jalen Brown is shipping out. Shipping from Boston to Philly, not far, not a far ship. Just come down, you know, come down to Philadelphia. Yeah, look at what the league got to do when the Knicks are around. Well, things got to, you know. Look what we did to the league. We shook up the whole league. Bronze not even. I can't even, I got to let Knicks fans talk. Y'all got to talk y'all shit.
Starting point is 01:43:56 Oh, yeah. So I'm not even mad at that. But we knew once Janus left Milwaukee that a lot had to change. A lot of chips had to happen. And then LeBron announcing that he, you know, the Lakers can move forward without him. He plans to play some where. We knew that that was going to cause a shift everywhere. And it did. Jalen Brown has been sent to the Sixers for Paul George and two firsts and two second round picks.
Starting point is 01:44:21 Listen, if the Sixers can stay healthy, which is rare, that's a good squad. Yeah. The Sixers are crazy if they stay healthy. Yeah. I just don't know if Embed's going to, But if they can get at least the second half of the season healthy going into the playoffs, that team's going to be a fucking problem.
Starting point is 01:44:39 Philly is going to be tough. If they can stay healthy and B stays healthy with Maxie and Jalen Brown, yeah, then Philly's going to be a tough. You know, they got that young kid, V.J. Edgecombe. I like him a lot. Philly's going to be a tough out next season if, you know, again, it all comes down to team staying healthy. Brian Winhorse is reporting. that LeBron is close to signing an agreement with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Starting point is 01:45:06 I'm happy to hear that. Brian Winthorst is somebody that, you know, he has credible sources and he's usually, you know, spot on with a lot of his takes. I'm happy to hear that it's Cleveland. I didn't want to see LeBron in another, because this is obviously going to be LeBron's last destination. Yeah, for sure. Last team, 43 years old now.
Starting point is 01:45:29 He's still playing at a very high level. Yeah. But, you know, after a while, it's like, what am I playing for? Again, I don't think that Cleveland will get close to a championship now with LeBron. They have a good team. They have a good squad, and Adam Braun is not going to. No, they have a really good squad. Not going to hurt.
Starting point is 01:45:46 No, they have a really good. But, you know, LeBron is not a spring chicken. He's not 23. He's not 33. He's 43. So, you know, age still matters. When you talk about, you know, just being able to hold up and going into the playoffs. But I am happy to hear that he is close in agreement with Cleveland.
Starting point is 01:46:02 which means, you know, he's going to end it where he started. Yeah, my guess was Cleveland or Miami. Yeah. You know, and that, to me, I think that's how you close the chapter on one of the greatest careers in sports and basketball is, you know, you end where you started. Full circle moment. If he announces, you know, it'll be just a one year or two year. They'll give him a, you know, a victory lap season.
Starting point is 01:46:27 Every arena will honor him in a Cleveland jersey with his number, 23. I was going to say, does he go back to 23? Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. That's his number. That's his jersey. And, you know, you honor him the right way. HBO is going to
Starting point is 01:46:46 produce a documentary, following him all season, which means this will probably be his last year. Yeah. This will probably be... Then yeah, Cleveland makes the most sense. I mean, Rich Paul was, you know, he didn't have to do that to us and Nick's fans. He did the interview and saying, you know, New York was always on the table for Brown all the time,
Starting point is 01:47:06 but it would take a call from Jalen Brunson to make sure it was okay. Listen. How did you- If it doesn't break up to team. I love our squad now, and I've said on this pod, I don't want, give them one more season, and if it doesn't work out, then break them up. I mean, losing Mitch, salute to Mitch, get your money, I understand. But it's not the end of the world losing Mitch.
Starting point is 01:47:32 Yeah, Andre Drummond. Yeah. I'm saying more of the core team to get Bronn with the cab space I don't know what they would have to do like I don't want to lose Josh Hart so we can get Braun somehow but I'm not one of those Knicks fans
Starting point is 01:47:46 that's saying fuck LeBron James if LeBron James wants to come to New York Knicks and we can afford it and not break up the team please I would love to have LeBron James on the Knicks he's LeBron James No I get that but I just I like what Rich Paul said
Starting point is 01:48:01 had the Knicks not won make more sense. But it's like they won. You don't want to come right after a championship. It's just because now it's like if next season the Knicks don't win and they have LeBron it's like, we shouldn't have signed them. Yeah. It turns into that.
Starting point is 01:48:14 You know what I mean? So it's like if KD went to the Warriors and they lost that would have been like, ugh. Yeah. You get what I'm saying? So, you know, it's just like. Well, which they did with KD once, right? Yeah, but Katie was a lot younger though. Yeah. I mean, I love KD. I get why he did the move, but I would look at Braun weird after winning the championship
Starting point is 01:48:31 going right there. But to me, it was either Miami or Cleveland so happy. It's Cleveland. It's Cleveland. DeRosen just was just waived by the Kings. He'll land somewhere. He definitely. He'll land somewhere.
Starting point is 01:48:44 How do you feel about Kauai to the Raptors? Not sure if you guys talked about that. We did. You know, there's some speculation on why that happened. You know, there was a whole lot of talk of how Balmer paid him that money with the Clippers. You know, now he's in Canada.
Starting point is 01:49:03 I don't know if that, those jurisdiction lines. You know what I'm saying? I don't know if that affects them anymore. But, you know, I'll tell you this. They got a good team. Toronto is a good team. And adding Kauai, I mean, you know. The East looks great.
Starting point is 01:49:20 This is going to be a fun NBA season. Yeah. Especially if Braun goes back to the Cavs. Like, the East is going to be fun to watch. And I'm still a confident Knicks fan. I still think we're going to be great. But yes, it's going to be some, it's going to be some fucking confidence.
Starting point is 01:49:33 the East. Yeah. Was that Mitch letter? Was that real of him talking about? Yeah. Can you put that one in your chat, GBT, zero? Did you read the Mitch letter of how he broke his? It was something with his family, right? Yeah, I believe it was his brother, was in a car accident, and I thank God his brother was okay, but he thought maybe his brother died and out of frustration he punched his truck, but the funniest part in there is he just randomly throws in that he loves country music. He's like, You guys know how I feel about my trucks. So punching that was a big deal. You know I love country music and trucks.
Starting point is 01:50:08 So punching it, you know, I must have been in a bad place. Ah, AI says it was human. Oh, that wasn't it? Okay. I'd be surprised it was Chad GBT. It felt like Mitch did write that, but that was quite the explanation. I'm going to go out of limousy that was shit at GBT. You didn't need to explain it, though.
Starting point is 01:50:28 That's what was so crazy. You're on a whole different team now. All right. Chad G.B.T. He says it was 94. Okay. All right. Go Mitch. It was his boss. Mitch write his own rhymes. I never knew Mitch Wright wrote his own rhymes. I just think it's funny in the midst of talking about a sibling, possibly pass.
Starting point is 01:50:48 You just throw in there that you like country music. Yeah. Which is nuts. It's probably his PR. His PR probably wrote that. But salute to Mitch. Thank you for all the years in New York. Thank you for all the office. offensive rebounds, especially in game five.
Starting point is 01:51:05 Go ahead. No, I'm sorry, but you're a Nick fan. Get your shit on. Get your shit on. No, because I saw a lot of Nick fans saying, yo, fuck him. No, no, no. But Mitch was the longest standing Nick on that team. For sure.
Starting point is 01:51:15 We had a lot of years with Mitch. And again, game five, that offensive rebound solidified. Huge. Us winning off that foul shot. Yeah. Like, thank you to Mitch. It's going to hurt to see him in green, but hey, is what it is. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:51:32 I do feel like Mitch should have stayed in our system. There's no hate to Mitch. I just, I don't know if he, if he's going to work in that Celtics system, the way he works with the Knicks. Listen, man, Drummond might be a better rebound than Mitch. He might be. I'm not terribly mad at that take. He might be.
Starting point is 01:51:48 So, I mean, yeah, I get it. Knicks fans don't want to see Mitch go. But Andre Drummond is a great rebound as well. So, I mean, you know, I think they filled in that gap pretty nicely paused. where do you think your white Lakers are going to land this year we win at all man
Starting point is 01:52:04 we're running the table man listen man Luca as long as you give Lucas somebody that go some hoopas around them listen man the Lakers gonna be all right
Starting point is 01:52:13 the Lakers gonna be all right we need a we missing one piece I think I saw them they was going after Kaminga I think okay I like Kaminga if the Lakers are able to get Kaminga
Starting point is 01:52:23 I like that I like Kaminga You know, he runs the floor well. I think him and Luca pair well together. You know, it's how rebuilding you. And I sound like a Knicks fan. I sound like the Knicks. It's how rebuilding you.
Starting point is 01:52:37 Don't worry about it. We rebuild for 50 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we can rebuild for a couple years. It's our rebuilding time. No, listen, I like going back to the, this is the Jerry Westlakers. That's a nasty lineup right there, though. Jesus.
Starting point is 01:52:50 It's crazy. Oh, God. I've not seen that much white in golden purple in quite some time. Yeah. I like Kessler too. He can hoop, but yeah, we just need some more. We need some more dogs.
Starting point is 01:53:03 We need some more brothers on there, man. You don't think Austin Reeves is a dog? He got, no, Austin Reeves got game. For sure. I'm not mad at Austin Reeves, but we just, we need some more. Camanga, let's go after Camingo. Let's get some more brothers over there.
Starting point is 01:53:16 Let's get, let's try to get Camingo over there as soon as we can. For sure. No voicemails this week. Hopefully we will have Demaris back. Maris locked the voicemails. She didn't want us doing them without her. It's okay. She can't manipulate them.
Starting point is 01:53:33 Yeah, it's okay, baby Dee. Yeah, she's probably hiding all the good ones about her on there. Yeah, we got to go through that sometime. Guarantee, we got some good voicemails about Baby Dee on Wednesday. Guaranteed. For sure. All right, we will see you in a few days. Yes, sir.
Starting point is 01:53:47 Happy to have you back, bro. Yes. Please take care of your health and do whatever the doctors are telling you. I am going to go to the Blueprint show still. Okay. Then the lights trigger you? I'm going to wear sunglasses. Okay.
Starting point is 01:54:00 It's not like epilepsy wear a bunch of, but like these will do worse than I think concert lights. Okay. It's very bright. And it's not as in your face. Yeah. Yeah. So I think I should be fine. But you had a stroke at the pop-up.
Starting point is 01:54:13 So it's only right if you have a stroke at Yankee Stadium at that. What if my triggers are Jay-Z? Then we got a whole other pod to come here and do it. That's the case. Then you're going to be having an open letter like, un. I ask Rory, I really get in the brain. What fuck's up is? Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:54:41 There is, he said cancel the brunches. There is some like PTSD with Jay-Z. It's all right, dude. It's all right in there. You're just crazy, man. But cerebellum. Yeah, it's all there. It's all there.
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