New Rory & MAL - Episode 544 | Notorious Diapers + Kai Cash & Lake

Episode Date: September 11, 2026

Happy Friday! The guys start by reacting to Daejon Love’s arrest video, where he is still dawning 49ers’ gear, before getting into the greatest scammer of all time, Elizabeth Holmes, and her new documentary by A24. “Entourage” director, Doug Ellin fires at Jake Paul, after Paul’s company wrote a new script of the show for a commercial, which leads to a debate over intellectual property, and remaking things that aren't yours. Aries Spears faces backlash over his comments about comedy legends, and Raven Simone questions the “blackness” of “That’s So Raven”. Generation Now CEO, Lake, and Kai Cash (who most notably took on the West Coast along with Joey Bada$$) stop by to kick it, and share their thoughts on Complex’s Top 100 Hottest Rappers Alive list, the state of hip hop, and Kai’s father being in Junior M.A.F.I.A., before discussing what’s next for both of them! Visit your nearest Boost Mobile store or https://www.boostmobile.com/promo/25-forever Go to https://baskandlatherco.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Love is free. He's in the San Francisco 49ers fit when he got arrested. And it looks like some type of airport, right? With his Ryan... What's wrong with when

money guy? Nothing, he's a fan. Well, clearly we have 10,000 hours of tape that says otherwise. He's not just a fan, he's a player. I mean.

That's commitment to the bit. You get arrested in the 4th. 49ers gear? Because you know the helmet was in the back seat. For sure. Passengers seat. He's on his way to practice, man. I know we've talked about this. You got to carry your own equipment when you're

playing NFL. So we don't have to stay on this at all, but I think he's going to be fine. If he leans into this shit, he'll probably do a couple months. It's just wire fraud. Yeah. A couple months come home, do a podcast. If he leans into this shit, he could be a star

for a year. Yeah. Why not? He could extend that 50 It's a thing. He didn't harm anybody. Did he really harm anybody? What harm was? $1.5 million in thievery? Yeah. I mean you spread it out. It's not one person. He's spread out among, you know. Yeah, government way. It's just gross. That was his, that was his gross. You think he paid taxes? It was his net. Does he strike you as someone that paid taxes? Free to love, man. Nah. Why don't like him? It's just corny. Like, even getting arrested in the gear, it's just corny. Like, he's starting to give me that type of friends that that that nigga. I'm not, I'm not saying what he did is.

cool. He's a corny thief. Him and they have, they both give me the egg, make me itch. I hate it. No, he's a corny thief, 100%. But it is funny. Yeah, but child,

we just spent all summer asking where the scamming ass nags at. Love the record. Here he go. He right here at the airport with his with a scammer outfit on. Yeah. Like now we're like,

nah, we don't like that. No, he's in his Batman cape. Yeah, he's in his uniform. That's his uniform. That's his part of his thing, his bit. Am I saying it's cool? No, I'm not saying it's cool, but I'm saying we can't be screaming where my scamming niggas at all summer

and then when the scamming nigga get caught, we'd be like, nah, he's a clown. But see, it's different type of scammers because you see, this is when we were talking about, we were breaking. There's no honor amongst these. We were breaking down lyrics yesterday. Remember we were breaking down bad lyrics

and you kept saying, what's the lyric that come after that? Because where are my scamming ass niggas at spending that money fast? Okay. Yeah, he was spending it. On women, no. On his self. You're supposed to be spending it on women.

No, you don't take money from women to spend on yourself. You're supposed to take money from large corporations. He probably had women that he was dating. He probably had women that he was dating that he was spending some of that money on. We don't know that yet. He was teaching them financial literacy. Yeah, I don't, I'm pretty sure. Did you not hear the video?

I'm pretty sure he's a heterosexual male. Which means he dates women. Does he see? So some of that money that he was getting from work because we see men do all this all the time. He had a little Asian boy that was underage. I don't know if he was heterosexual. What do you mean he had an Asian boy? His manager was a 14-year-old

little Asian boy. So what does that mean? No, if you go to when they started scamming, he was 14 years old. So what does that mean? Rory putting pedophilia on people. He took it too far. That's, to me, that's a little DC sniper shit that he had going on there. All right, now you trip, man.

But anyway, free to love, man. Compare the cases. We can't say where the scamming niggas at and the scamming nigga get caught. And we're like, nah, he whacked because he wasn't giving money to women. Because he was taking money on some women. He went to a strip club here and there. We go see some videos pop up with him throwing some singles in the strip club. I doubt it because even some of the stuff he had that wasn't fake and even the leases that he wasn't paying back on cars.

1.5 million can only get you so far over that many years. I don't think he was spending a dollar on anything else but keeping up this lie. I think that investment went into the lie. You don't think he had no fun with that money? No. Well, no, he had fun to rent a car. until it got seized, like until the people, because they, even certain car companies that weren't in on the bit were like, yeah, he'd pay us the upfront and then stop talking to us and we'd have to

go get the car back. So yeah, he was just, he was robbing Peter to pay Paul. So scamming is only okay if the man is spending the money on women. A scamman is only okay if you're not stealing from women and telling them you're going to invest your money. Steal from large corporations. That's the same thing with India, Irie, when India Irie was like, why are we? glorifying scamming and I'm like yo like why are we like take from the corporations they have it they use a slave labor anyway if you want steal from the corporation steal from the corporations as long as you aren't hurting your people the everyday people you're fine and they get bailed out with insurance money so but is there any blame on the women though yeah for being that just gullible yeah sure

but just because people are gullible or slow doesn't just because people are gullible or slow does not mean you should take advantage of them no I agree with that but I'm just saying like At some point, you got to be like, yo, but you really thought because this nigger had a helmet on at the beach, he played for the 49th? Yeah, well, some people aren't, some people don't have as much access to certain information or experiences. Certain information. Information or access, yeah. Common sense? Common sense isn't always so common, but you know that.

Google was like telling people he played. Yeah, if you Googled him, it said that he played for the 49ers. So AI will pull from social media fight Okay so we back to common sense is what you're saying But how is that common sense? I don't think that that's common sense for everybody Asking Grock if a dude plays you know They didn't ask Grock they went and typed into Google

Google now automatically does AI for you Even if you don't ask for AI Google does automatic AI for you It's the first thing it does which is kind of annoying Yes so if you go and type some shit into Google it looks like yeah I googled this. Google is saying he plays for the 49ers. That was his real criminal. Like, he really got that off.

But I mean, not everybody knows enough to know that when you Google some shit, like it's coming from AI. A lot of people don't even know that. That's AI. That was the scheme. He knew if you fell for me walking around the regular streets with a helmet, then I can scam you.

Now it's changed because of everything that's been happening. But before when you Googled him, he came up as if he played for the 49. we talked about all this but just that that arrest video wasn't out until today and that shit is just funny getting arrested like in the uniform it's kind of poetic like it's kind of a beautiful ending to the netflix series you know i know the new whatever jailhouse they took him to whatever hold and sell he in if he gets four if he gets four to nine imagine that you're stupid there's so much poetic justice in all of this he's silly yeah he's gonna be fine now he's gonna be more than fine man

A little scam. Sorry. Y'all just showed me that creepy-ass documentary trailer. I mean, she was at a different level, but... I cannot wait for that Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Who's Elizabeth Holmes? Elizabeth Holmes is the founder of Theranos. Goat-scammer.

Theranos, which was supposed to be a medical device that could, if I'm not mistaken, figure out what was wrong with you or what ailment you had health-wise by just, a tiny prick of blood. Yeah. So essentially, like, what takes years of blood work, kind of what I'm going to, like, through with hematology and trying to figure out what's wrong with me, she would just get this much amount of blood

and she set up damn near a vending machine. Like, you get your finger pricked at a vending machine and then it'll shoot back years of science and tell you exactly what is wrong. And she had every billionaire from San Francisco, London, everywhere, coming to this headquarters that wasn't real. and they did the fake prick at the vending machine and then she would do this tour of the whole campus

so the actual scientists could do the real thing to analyze the blood and she did the okey doke to a bunch of billionaires they're going on an hour tour while scientists are doing what we already know and they come back and be like oh your results are here by the way and she made like $5 billion.

Yeah. $5 billion? More. $9 billion? She made $9 billion doing it? this? She got them to invest. $9 billion. It wasn't liquid $9 billion in her pocket. Oh, okay. I'm about to be like

what? She got them to invest in over $9 billion. Getting caught after the $9 billion. You should have cashed out at $1 billion. So she raised over $700 million. Her company was valued at $9 to $10 billion. That's correct. Even though the technology did not work. He's in jail

right now. I mean, I think about the biggest investors that we even know now. They were all in on this too. They all gave her money. Every big name you know about gave her money. Like she tricked everybody. So like she should be the one negotiating with Iran right now. This bitch is the goat. So she's in, she's in jail, correct? Yeah. Yes, she's in jail. Ow. She's in jail right now. Sorry, I hit my elbow on the mic stand. She's in jail right now. But before she went to jail,

she gave a director the chance to, can you pull up the actual trailer, maybe the one that like moves? Oh, there is. Yeah. She told a director, allowed a director, 35 days before she, she went to jail to follow her around. So this clip is going viral. Flip, play around? It's a clip from the trailer. From the stop. There's no.

I'm not that person. I can promise you that. This is real, this isn't like a movie. I don't have anything to deceive you on. Of course, I'm not deceiving you. I'm engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you?

There's no, there's no reason for me to do that. that. Okay. Okay, good shot. You're being real right now. You're always being real. Someone impregnated her. Yeah, that isn't like a, like a actor. Like that is the actual human being that was going to jail in 35 days. That's the actual Elizabeth Holmes. That's her? Did I see a script? Did I see a scripted series or a doc? I can't remember how I know about this.

You saw a scripted series with Amanda's C-fried or something? Yeah, which was a really good series. Is that Hulu or some shit? Mm-hmm, I think so. I mean, it was on Netflix. She looks fucking creepy. Creepy as fuck. She got over on the biggest investors on Earth.

She believes her own lie. She believes her own lie. Like, that's how insane. That's what makes her so insane. Because she will not stop with this lie. Like, she's in jail right now, and she still won't stop with the lie. Look at this, Lismol. The Oppenheim family.

The family. Robert Kraft, the Cox family. Rupert Murdoch, the Walton family. Carlos Slim. Wow. That's Iceberg Slim's uncle. I mean, well, listen, man, salute to the scam. Fagging it till you make it.

I think, I mean, of course, D. Love is up there, but... Now, D. Love ain't on this level, though. Her, all right, compared to, what was the other girl... In Vincent, Anna. Yeah. she didn't get to this level like liquid cash but anne was up there the fact that anna had um old boy from fire fest sleeping on her couch is like the avengers living in the same apartment like that's so crazy that that really happened like you had that fire fest guy living on your couch that's like

wutang like damn that's crazy that ghost and and ray like really like live together as kids and did this like they're scammer avengers the one that was a traveling the world and since she was. Yeah, she was like a royal family. I forgot. I watched her. She was a German heiress. That's what it was, yeah.

But hers was more like. She lives down. She looked not too far from her. I respected the Elizabeth chick a little bit more because Anna did it for clout. Yeah. Like Anna did it to like hang at like Soul House on steroids. She in pocket nine billion. No, with Shorty, surely having a company valued a nine billion and it's not even.

It's not even a real company. that's just nobody on that. Well, it technically was a real company. The technology just didn't work. Like, she really had employees. Okay, she had an LLC. Okay. No, she really had a full functioning company.

It was a small corporation. The technology just didn't work. She had a full functioning company lab, all of that shit. The technology just didn't work. It wasn't like some fake like, oh, yeah, you know, this ain't real. I'm renting this space. Like, nah, she had a whole thing. It's just the technology.

How much she sent us to? 10 years. But Demaris, I think... That was worth it. No, because a lot of evaluation money isn't real liquid. It's not liquid. Yeah, yeah. But also, Demaris, I think the debate with her is when she found out very early that

that technology was not equipped at the schedule that she was trying to do it at. And then she moved forward like it was... Yeah, like it was working. I'm not saying she didn't start out thinking, hey, let's try to change the world and do something good. But she found out very quickly. that that wasn't happening in the time frame that she thought. But also, a lot of the money that she took, if I'm not mistaken, was used into trying to make it work. No, she tried.

She was literally trying. She tried. But no, she went nuts. That tour was one of the funniest things I've ever heard about. Having the Murdox just tore your campus while they're analyzing blood. The same way that we all know how people analyze blood. Right. Just to throw you off.

and nobody out of some of the most, well, let me say the most brilliant minds, some of the most conniving minds on earth. No one said, I thought I could get it right away. No. Everyone pricked their fingers like, let's go see the cafeteria. No, no, no, I want to see my results. I just gave you 20 million. But, yeah.

I mean, do you think AI is going to take away from people like this? Like, do we think, well, unless we're already on the scamming level of being in the 1%, do you think the way certain people did with Palo Alto and the tech boom that did get their scammer shit off can now do it with AI? I feel like your car to get pulled too quick. So an extent, AI helped Dejaun. That's, to me, that's like peanuts. I'm not, I'm talking about on Elizabeth level. Not on some, I'm trying to get $10 from a chick from Instagram.

Well, with this that was going on, how would AI have turned it in? I think with the amount of money that that list has put into AI, that's an easy check where AI would have figured that out before Elizabeth did. What do you mean? The amount of doctors now that are saying that, hey, AI is going to put us out of business is, I mean, kind of astronomical, the amount of doctors that talk about AI in the health fields in what it's doing right now. Like the amount of stuff that doctors spent 20 years learning about to get their doctorate, AI, you ask one question and it'll give you the entire results.

But I'm saying that times 10 with where AI is at. Yeah, this is something they would have asked AI about. Not Elizabeth. Yeah, but the thing about AI is AI can only be taught will already exists. If you're creating something, AI won't know that. AI can't talk about that because if you're creating technology, AI doesn't know that that technology exists. So it can't say, well, this is impossible. Because as time goes on, things will continue to be invented that we will have to teach AI about. This is not a conspiracy or a movie trailer. AI is teaching itself just as much as we are teaching it. Yes, but AI will never replace human imagination. It can't replace human. imagination.

And I think... Does somebody just come out and say, AI is going to wipe out humanity? Yes. One of... A doctor. He wasn't a doctor. He was a tech guy from one of the major AI companies.

Yeah, I saw that. That shit is up like a hundred million views right now. So Terminator's happening. Yeah. And that's why I'm saying that Elizabeth couldn't get this off in this era because AI is too smart. And you're worried about Dejan Love and Terminator is happening as we speak. Project Bluebing.

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Even though it's Jeremy Piven acting like Ari, the dialogue is just not there. So he came out today and said, Doug Ellen, who's the creator of Entourage, He said it was a god awful, cheap, shitty imitation. Many people work really hard to make our show as good as it was. When I see a cheap, shitty imitation that tries to pass for what we did, it makes me puke. I watch it and I want to throw up because I would suffer along with many people over every syllable, every fucking word. So I watch this trash, this shit, and go, ugh, there's no bitterness. I want everyone to get paid, get rich.

Just fucking do it with your own shit. That's all. I not only wrote, we found these people, we cast these people. I actually had to beg Jeremy Piven to do the show because he didn't want to do it. He didn't even want to talk about it afterwards. Like he wanted to get away from it because he had so much better shit going on. But now that he's back, now that he's back on it because he's getting paid. Now, I don't particularly care to talk about entourage like that because that's a niche audience.

But I feel Doug Ellen with this with a lot of TV. I remember when Ashley Larry ended up on Avion Crockett show. And I remember Neil Brennan and Donna Rawlings have like a fallout of that. Like that's my IP. That's my character. You can't just go out and do that with someone else writing a character that I created. That I understand it. And again, as an entourage fan, it came across cheap.

And that's no disrespect to the Paul Brut. Like, get your money. I don't care. But that is a show. That was iconic to so many people. And to me, Ari Gold is one of the greatest TV characters ever. You can't just have some gambling sites writers write Ari Gold. Like, you love Game of Thrones.

Think of characters where that core writing team doesn't write for that character. And now they're in a commercial just doing shit. Yeah. And it feels very inauthentic. And as a fan, like, you were tripping out yesterday. You were really upset. and we were telling you you were nerd and out and teasing you. But I can completely understand, like,

especially if you haven't seen a character in years, when they come back, you're so excited. And it's like, this ain't the character. Like, this is a caricature of the character in person that I love. Because I remember, like, when Sopranos was popping, I remember, like, Pauly Walnuts would do, like, Super Bowl commercials, but they would always just do the Italian shit where the guys would just stand there and just look Italian.

Like, it wouldn't be, they tried to make Ari and Vince, like we were watching an episode. And it was bad. It was just bad. It was nasty. Yeah. Yeah, I don't blame the writer as a person who's obviously never written anything to that extent.

But who has written and written characters? And I would want them to act the way that I would want to be in charge if they're writing until the day I die. Don't take my shit. It's the same thing is like if I die and you take my picture and put clouds behind it. Like don't go do shit I wouldn't approve of if I was alive. Like they could have called him. Maybe he would agree to it.

Well, here's also the thing with. with entourage specifically, but to the broader point that we're making, entourage was kind of buried with the HBO Max and HBO Go thing because when Max and Go like really hit streaming, it was at the height of

Me Too, Woke, gotcha on everything. And entourage, no, there's nothing bad in entourage, but at that height, like if you, out of context, some of their jokes wouldn't have flown in this era.

So Doug Ellen, E from Aptrage, and drama for Entourage had a huge podcast called Victory about the show. Like they break down each episode. They've had Jeremy Piven. They've had everyone on the show. It's an incredible podcast. And they get so many numbers to the point that HBO has considered maybe a reboot because people, they're starting to realize how many people love Entourage.

It was purposely buried. And then they did the movie with HBO that was also a nightmare. And I only know this because I listened to their podcast. So now imagine you're battling with HBO. And yes, you created these characters, but you don't own the IP. HBO technically does. And then you watch somebody you've been battling with after you gave them a movie. They won't do a reboot even though, and they're burying your show.

And to find Entourage on Go is very hard. You have to type in the entire name to find it. that happens and then you see HBO sell those characters to Jake Paul in them and have someone else write it. I lose my fucking mind. It's the same thing Chappelle did when he said, you know, boycott HBO when they tried to stream Chappelle show. And he said, I have a deal with Netflix.

And he said the CEO Netflix at the time that he loved him so much because Netflix was streaming it and they took it down. They said, Chappelle's not cool with this. We have a deal with him. I'm taking Chappelle's show off Netflix, it will no longer stream. Even though Chappelle signed a shitty deal, admittedly, and Comedy Central could do whatever the fuck they want with that show, Netflix was ill enough to be like, no, no fucking way,

are we going to stream this when we work with Chappelle and he doesn't like this? I didn't know that. That's interesting. Yeah. That's integrity. Shout out to Netflix show. Shout out to the game. It's not the redemption clip.

It's on YouTube, though. Chappelle did a whole like sit down about the entire thing when HBO started streaming it, gave the whole the whole history of when he brought Chappelle's show to HBO and they said, why would we need you? We have Chris Rock. Yeah. And he was like, okay, well, fuck you too. And he said, now why do you need me?

Now why are you streaming my show that you turned down? You didn't want my show. And then Netflix also had a bid to get it and started streaming it the same day. and they took it down because Chappelle was like, this makes me feel uncomfortable. Yes, you have every legal right to do it. But why do it if we're in business? And I feel like Doug Ellen didn't say that here, but I hear him. If y'all trying to figure out some type of reboot with entourage,

why are you selling out the characters me, just me, no one else created? Yeah. To do a shitty Jake Paul ad. Yeah. I'd feel a fucking way. Sorry if I ranted for this whole time. I mean, you're an entourage fan, so it's okay. I get it.

I get like that about Harry Potter. Well, it's not so much entourage, more just, you know. Creators. Because, yeah, it's a part. It comes across an authentic, the same way that people complained about the last two seasons of Game of Thrones. And that's because the writers had to write past the book and past the books. The books match, the character, arcs, everything matched. And then you get separate writers for the last two seasons.

Everything goes to shit. The characters don't seem the same. And it's because they have different writers. So that makes sense. Yeah. Apologies about writing. What do you think about Ari Spears, what he said about the comedians that were overrated? Everyone's entitled to their opinion.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. But Ari Spears is going to run into some of the things that I've run into when you're opinionated and also have a past of doing the same things that your opinionated on. You can't call someone doing buffoonery and you have 20 years. of doing buffoonery. And not only that, but go ahead. I'm sorry. For people who don't know,

ARI Spears was on a podcast with a couple of other comedians. This is Tony Rock's podcast. Tony Rock podcast. And they were talking about, you know, if he had an unpopular opinion, if he thought any comedians were overrated or whatever. And he brought up,

the first one he bought up was Bernie Mac. He said that he doesn't get the whole Bernie Mac thing. He said he doesn't even get the jokes because of the very, um, Shuck and Jive kind of the way that Bernie Mac talks. Well, he didn't say Shuck and Jive.

I don't want to. But that's what he was alluded to. Like, it's very buffooner. How he did it? Shut up, Ma. I didn't scare to you, motherfuckers. Yeah, like that. He was like,

what? That wasn't good? I didn't do good? I didn't do good. It's funny as fuck. I didn't do good? No. Oh my God.

But yeah, he was, he said he can't even get to the point of the jokes because he can't listen through that voice. He feels the same way about Tracy Moore. he said he feels like Martin was overrated. Martin and the Wayans Brothers was overrated and that their sketch comedy wasn't very good. And I kind of understand what he's saying and what I'm realizing about the things that he's saying.

Not with Bernie Mac, he tripping with that. But with the other people, as far as like the Martin show, because I've said before that I thought Martin was a little bit overrated, is that he also doesn't like slapstick humor. And Martin had a lot of slapsic humor. And he bought up a lot of the situations that Martin would be in, like, fighting the squirrel and shit like that where it's like he's like,

I don't find this funny. All right. My thing, to start with Bernie, I wouldn't say that I'm like the biggest Bernie Max standup fan. But at 36, the Bernie Mac show was like one of my favorite shows growing up. Everything Bernie has done. Bernie's funny. Comedic acting is incredible.

So to say like I don't understand the Bernie Mac. I guess maybe he was saying stand up because he was imitating Bernie standup. Well, that's how Bernie. talks. That's all Bernie talks. No, that's how he talked on his stand-up. No, he talked like that. Listen up America was very clear. He wasn't going, remember, right, right, right.

Like, listen up, the Bernie was an extremely articulate show. He didn't sound like that in Mr. 2000. Like, not at all. But he did sound like that in Players Club. Oh, yeah, that was the character. Oh, yeah, but that was the character. Yeah. But Bernie is very much not that.

Yeah, I can see. The only problem with this is the person saying it. Airy Spreez is not the person to say this. If Dave Chappelle said this, I don't think it would be as much. But I don't, like you have to be at a certain level. Huh? Chappelle wouldn't say that. I'm just saying if Dave Chappelle was to say something about legends, like, it wouldn't be taken as offensive or as, you know, kind of like, whoa.

Like, it's just airy Spears to, to most people is not on the level of a Bernie Mac or Martin Lawrence to speak about them or speak down on them. Now, Ari Spears can say whatever he want. He can have his opinion. I'm not, you know, anybody's entitled to their opinion. But if Dave Chappelle was like, you know, honestly, you know, I just didn't really, the Martin show like to me wasn't really, I didn't really, wasn't really into it like that. People would be like, oh, shit. I didn't, I thought Dave would fuck with that show. But the backlash wouldn't be as, oh, that's fucked up.

Because Dave Chappelle is a legend in his own right. He's a legend. He's one of the greatest comedians ever. Aery Spears is not on that level of Martin or Bernie Mac to, you know, at least people feel that way about him. I feel like Chappelle would still get some backlash there because I don't. For sure. Because I don't think you get without like in living color and even Martin.

I think Tony Rock made a great point about Martin. Like it went from sitcom and then sometimes it went into sketch. Like I don't think you get to the Chappelle show without having those steps like in living color and Martin to get to be able to push the envelope the way. Chappelle did. You have to have Martin before that. Yeah. So I think he'd still get flack, but I don't think Chappelle would ever say that. And I like Eric Spares a lot. I actually

think he's an underrated comedian. But you can, and as someone that liked Mad TV, like I generally liked Mad TV. I would sit and watch Mad TV. To the point, at some point, I thought Mad TV was better than SNO. You can't judge other sketch or sitcoms

with some of the shit y'all was doing on on Mad TV. Like, you can't, like, you can't do that. No, that's what I'm saying. But somebody like Dave Chappelle in his show, in his career, if he was to say some of these things, like I said, people would give some like, damn, whoa. And especially because Bernie Mac is no longer with us. Whenever you speak on the deceased, it's always going to be, you know, people that feel away about you just doing that because Bernie's not here to respond to that. Yeah. But at least, you know, Dave is well.

accomplished in having his own show and, you know, having his standups and legendary standups and things like that. So where, you know, people kind of would take Dave's words a little more like, okay, with Aries, it's like, watch your mouth. Yeah. Like, who are you to talk about the late great Bernie Mac? Who are you to talk about Martin Lawrence? Like, not on their level.

Do you guys think that he has a point? And to be fair, he didn't talk about Martin Lawrence as a comedian or as an actor. he talked about this show Martin in general. Yeah. No, I don't think he is. I mean, if he feels that way, he feels that way. I mean, he's allowed to feel that way. Yeah, he's allowed to feel that way.

Like, I'm not mad at him. That's not what I ask. The fact that I don't think that his accolades and his career warrant him him saying that to most people, they probably feel like he doesn't, it doesn't warrant that. Now, my question. My question is, do you think he has a point? He can feel however he want to feel you. I can't stop him from that.

No, I thought Bernie Matt and Martin is probably my favorite, my favorite, my favorite. favorite sitcom of all time. So, yeah, I don't agree that it was buffoon. I mean, before you asked the question, I said Bernie standard-wise was not, but Bernie Mac's show is not buffoonery to me whatsoever. Bernie is a comedic actor, a serious actor, being in serious movies, but being the funny comic relief, Bernie is a fucking legend to me. The Bernie Mac show is great.

Bernie Mac's show is incredible. It is. Probably one of the most underrated sitcom. I'm talking about Martin and the Wayans brothers. Two of my favorite sitcom, so. I disagree. You disagree. Okay.

Thank you. I disagree. Oh, yeah, no, for sure. And I love Martin. All right, so the Wayans brothers, I could only give the white perspective on it. Not what I think Ariz was trying to get across in that. But I do think there is a space for slapstick, scary movie, white chicks. Like, that's still a genre of comedy.

If it's not for you, I totally get it. but I wouldn't discredit what the younger Wayans brothers did after they're two older brothers. If it's not for you, it's not for you. But to say that that's not a legendary comedy run, like don't drink juice in South Central. Like all that shit is legendary if you like that type of comedy. If you don't like it, cool. But you can't sit here and say that that slapstick shit has not been around forever. You know, they just, I think.

Like, they just, they dominated that era of that type of comedy. Yeah. And Aries has done scary movie S type comedy a majority of his career. Aries is a way better stand-up comedian than both of the younger Wayne's brothers, for sure. He can say that. But when it comes to the shit that you was doing on Mad TV, don't say the Wayne's brothers didn't do that better than you. Because they did. And not to say they didn't come from a family and probably had a, a, a, you know, a,

step up because their oldest brother is one of the greatest that's ever lived. But yeah, they have a generational run within cinema when it comes to slapstick sketch type comedy. They do. Okay. Man, the Wayansbrough is a classic show, man. We're not. Yeah. Martin is a classic show.

Bernie Mac is a classic show. If you don't like it, it's not your type of humor and comedy. All good. I know people that didn't like the Chris Rock show. I think that's one of the greatest sitcoms ever. But some people don't like it. So I get it. Me personally, if I watched reruns of Martin,

I've watched probably every episode of Martin at least in my lifetime, 20 times. Jesus. Every single episode of Martin. Like, that's just, I'm going to watch it. You know what I'm saying? Like, I grew up on that. Martin's one of my favorite comedians. We got some iconic episodes in that comedy series.

We got great characters out of that series. same with the Wayne's brothers with pops you know the dining and all of that like that was part of you know you come on from school you was looking forward to watching those shows like so I mean Airy Spears can feel how he feels he's a

he's a comedian he's probably looking for certain things in comedy that comedians should do and have that I can't really speak to so you know again his opinion is his opinion but you know you can't take away from what the legends have done and the iconic shows that they created and built.

Just because certain things that you think should be in comedy or comedian should have didn't exist in these shows. That doesn't mean that, you know. And to be fair, they asked him a question. He answered it. That's who he felt like was a little. Yeah. He said, I don't get the whole Tracy Morgan thing.

You know, I don't get, you know, the burning back thing. Like, okay. All right, back to similar to the birthday. The last OG was dope. The last OG was dope to me. It's so good. The last OG is incredible. credible. I'm mad they canceled it. And Tracy is just naturally funny. No, he's not a

Chappelle-type style stand-up comedian, but why does every comedian have to be that? Right. Now everything has to be super high brow. Like sometimes it's fucking hilarious when Tracy Morgan slaps his fucking stomach and puts his leg under and says, I lost my leg in Vietnam on a fucking late night show. Like, this shit is fucking hilarious. Tracy Morgan is cinematically, movies, hilarious. Even don't like a stand-up, all right, I get you. That's not his thing. He's on Ari's ass, though.

Well, he also, let me say fucked up, but as someone that's missed the mark in backlash before, I'm not here to judge him, but his response video, he completely misunderstood why people were killing him.

He was like, I didn't say anything disrespectful about them, why is everyone mad? I'm not allowed to have an opinion. That's not what everyone's mad at. no one thought he was being disrespectful to any of them or he shouldn't have an opinion. We're just saying you can't accuse people of doing something that you did your whole fucking career. Yeah. That's what the backlash was.

Like, all right, cool. People may agree with you, Ari, but you can't do this when there's a thousand hours of tape of you doing worse than everything you're accusing them of doing. Yeah. But, and this is not me standing in a fair. But some people would say that he was doing that for Mad TV. was doing that for a check. That's not his brand of humor. He's done it, but that's not his brand of humor. You don't take the Wayne's brothers did it for a check? They got a mortgage. They owned their show.

They could have done whatever they wanted to. That family could have done whatever they wanted to do. They specialize in that type of humor and that's what they wanted to do. Aries is I auditioned for a job and I got this job and I was on a show. This is not my show. I don't have creative control of a show. I am an empathy. Okay, but Aries and again, it's, In reference to mad. You can grow in your career. I mean, he stopped working with Vlad. Even though actually, as someone that Vlad keeps calling out, I agreed with Vlad in the Aries situation,

but Aries stepped when he felt uncomfortable. He has a track record of stepping when he feels uncomfortable. So if you felt uncomfortable with all that mad TV shit, she was doing leave. You've done it before. I don't think he felt uncomfortable. And that's what everyone was saying. And that's the point.

Clearly you was fine with it. I mean, I get it. But I can also understand if he doesn't find it funny. Listen, you're allowed to grow because when I was younger, I did shit for a check that I wouldn't do now. So I'm not here to chastise him or judge him in that way. There's plenty of things that I did when I was younger, when I needed a check,

I was trying to grow a career that I would never do right now. There's pretty a shit that we do today for, we talk about that we don't really get about it. I love. See, that was you shouldn't do that. me to talk about it. That was unnecessary. But we still do shit.

Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, let's be real here. We're adults. We got bills. Like, you know? Like, we don't do shit. We don't believe in. Well, there's no, but there's no advertiser that can tell us what we can and cannot say.

That's the different, like, when it comes to some of sketch comedy and you're working for a network and they want you to do a sketch that you're uncomfortable with. Even down to like maybe Bobby Lee on Mad TV being the Asian caricature stereotype every time. That's a difference between advertisers and wanting to advertise with our show. They don't tell us what we can and cannot say. That's the difference. If they said that, we'd say, fuck off. You're not about to tell me what to say. Unless it's Apple. Well, I like the duo.

If Apple's listening. I'll say whatever y'all want me to say Apple. For a duo. Look what niggas is a duo. That's your price. It's just a duo. Yeah, man. I'll tell these niggas whatever you want me to tell them. My bad. This became a preachy episode.

No, it's not preachy, but it's, I mean, it's the truth. Yeah, Roy, shut the fuck up with this honorage shit, man. Nobody gives a fuck, right? Doug Ellen, fuck all of these guys. Every time he ran, I'd be quiet. Aries, I'm rolling with you, yo. I think that some of those shows are a little overrated too. I respect them as classics, but the comedy to me is a little.

But again, like, like I said, I don't like, I'm not big on comedy shows. All right thing. you got to just fall back. But that don't mean I don't know funny. Like the shows that I watch, I think, I think that succession is funny as fuck.

Hilarious. Funny as fuck. But other people will watch it and not think that it's funny. I think that sarcasm and intelligent humor is funny to me. Cousin Greg is one of the funniest comedic characters. Like awkwardness is funny.

Like insecure. Insecure is fucking hilarious because it's awkward genius funny. Just like, oh my God, let me just slap something on my face and all eggs on my face. oh my God, that's so funny. Or, oh, I have, like, a stupid, like, shuck and jive country accent. Or my name is Cheniqua.

And that's, that shit ain't funny to me. That's just me. I don't, I can understand it being funny to other people. But it's not to me. It's literally the same thing with Will Ferrell. But do you also see, like... People said it was just because Will Ferrell was white. And when they bought up Martin, I was like, oh, I understand what he's saying,

because I never really thought Martin was that funny either. Martin, the show, not Martin Lawrence, the person. But you understand, like, people want to turn off their brain and watch, like, reality TV. Yeah, I understand. I don't like, turn their brain off. Yeah, that's what I don't blame other people for what they find funny. It's just I don't find it funny. That doesn't mean that it's not funny.

I just don't find it funny. Do you think that's so Raven is a black show? No. But what would you say makes a show a black show? All black cast or mostly black people who watch it? Not an all black cast. But it has to be a predominantly black cast. It has to talk about things in black culture.

Yeah I think it has to highlight or talk about things that we identify with What do you mean things that we identify with? Like what goes on in our culture In our homes and our schools And our jobs

It has to be the black experience It has to speak from our experience But what do you So what I'm asking is What show do you think defines the black experience Because I don't want it to be painted As if black people are a monolith Because everybody's black

Black experience is different. No, that's what I'm saying. But if you said what makes a show a black show, I mean, whoever the show is based on has to be a black person with a black experience. Like, it has to be somebody from our culture. That's what makes a show a black to me. Like, I mean, the character, it doesn't have to be an all-black cast. No, like, because we have white friends.

We have Asian friends. We have, you know what I'm saying? But it's just like, yeah, like. It has to be about our experience and from our point of view. So this conversation is coming because Raven, Raven Simone, made a comment and said that the, that's old Raven show was not a black show. I agree with her. It had a predominantly black cast, but millions of kids of all races can identify with that show.

Yeah, it was a digital channel. It wasn't so hyper-fixated on. You know, wasn't she like in school? She was in high school. Yeah, so it was a bunch of different like classmates and characters, things like that. Because she was in school, it wasn't a black show? It's weird that you said. No, not because I'm saying that I'm trying to remember the show.

I can't really, because I was older. All right. Well, I mean, the premise of it, yes, they were in school, they were at home. But the premise was that she could see the future and she would see the future in the episode would be based off her trying to fix her vision, which ended up being the vision. Yeah, that's not no black show. No, it's not a black show. Black people don't even think about shit like that.

I think it's a great show with a black cast, but I wouldn't, I don't know what a black show would be considered. Is my wife and kids a black show? Yes. See, that's, I'm asking as a white person that's trying to learn. I think my wife and kids is a black ass show. Is that with the white person? That's what, that's with, uh. Damon?

Yeah, Damon. Such a good show. One of my favorites ever. That might be a black ass show. I think that's a black show. But black, just because. it's a black show doesn't mean that other races can't watch it. Yeah, they can exist in the show.

Not even in the show. I'm talking about the fan base. Yeah, no, definitely. Yeah. I mean, okay, so then what you asked them all that question, I'm as a white that's trying to learn. Why is my wife and kids a black show and that's or even not? Because if you replace Raven with a white girl,

that show could be outside of Raven's, very black as a black woman very black mannerisms you could replace Raven with a white girl and that show would still be that show it would still make sense Hannah Montana could do it you could not replace

Michael Kyle as with a white man and that show makes sense they replaced Claire just like a dumb son I don't know okay well let me ask you this did you ever watch King of Queens

Love King and Queens Okay But is there much- Is there much difference between King of Queens and my wife and kids as far as... Not that much difference. Not that much difference. That's why I guess I'm asking, is it a black show?

But everybody in... Because I think it's just a representation of like two working families. Yes. But every... I guess it's the actors and actresses that they had in it because when you think of that's so Raven,

the only black ass... I'm talking about mannerism. Black-ass character was Raven, right? Like, everybody else was pretty, you could replace them with white characters. Orlando Brown? My wife and kids, yes, other than his, he could be a white hip-hop head, whatever. My wife and kids, you got fucking, look at who the mother and the fucking father are. Like, you can't, there is no white equivalent.

Shout out to Martin. There is no white equivalent to them. Shout out to Martin for what? The wife. Never mind. lineage. Is everybody hates Chris a black show? Yes. That's a black ass show, black show. What? It has a lot of white, all of their experiences.

Yeah, I think that's a very black show. Can a white comment on it? Yeah. I think that would be considered one because Chris Rock speaks specifically to his black experience of being bust from Bedstai to Garrison Beach and being with whites. It's based on the experience. That's a black experience. Yeah. But I mean, I think a lot of the family elements of everyone hates Chris are universal.

Yeah, that's universal. Like, yeah, I don't think that's a. But that's a black ass. That's a black ass show. But like having your one white for, like they speak on race a lot in the show. And I think that that's another one too is you speaking on race. My wife's kids speaks on race more. That's a Raven damn near, but it's a Disney show.

So they barely, barely, barely speak on race. And that's all raven. But they didn't kill Raven. They just found a lot of hilarious examples. A lot of Raven being black. Is girlfriends a black show? Yes. Yes.

Girlfriends are a very black show. The Cosby Show. The Cosby Show was black because it spoke on race a lot. Is sister-sister a black show? They're not even black. If they're not black, no, they're black. I'm playing, man. But, uh, ah, yes.

Why? Nah, man. Tia, sister, sister, yes. Why is it a black show? If that's a so Raven is not a black show, then I can't see. How is sister, sister, a black show? I think you're under your misunderstanding just how big that's old Raven was. That's so Raven.

The only thing that comes- The same fucking network, just two hours difference. That is, what I'm talking about popularity. That popularity has a lot to do with it. I was young watch, I didn't care about the nose. The more popularity you have, the more of a different racial demographic you have. And on top of that, the time that it was in. But it was, that was still Disney, right?

Yeah, there were both. Was sister sister Disney? ABC. Was Moesha Black show? But didn't Disney, I was on Disney. Moesha's a black ass show. Yes. The Parker is a black ass show.

I don't know if Moesia was. Maul, be fucking for real. I don't know, man. That girl name was Moesha. Yeah, but I mean, I don't know, man. Moisha is a black ass show. Oh, AI says, yeah, she is black, sister, sister. Oh, I thought you typed in a sister sister,

a black show. A.I. say, yeah, that's a black guy show right there. Sister's a black show. I don't know. Like, you would compare sister's sister like different strokes. Different strokes is a black experience in a white family. Like, to me, that would be more of a black show than sister sister. No, different strokes.

It's just a show. Steve Harvey's a black show? Huh? Steve Harvey? Harvey show, yes, black show. Keenan and Kel? No. Okay.

I'm asking. As a white, I'm trying to learn. We're getting somewhere. Hold on, let me sit up in class. Hold on, we're getting somewhere. Keenan and Kell is not a black show. No. Crowell family, black show.

But Keen and Nicole's not a black show. Maybe Judge Jackson, not a black show. Wait, all right. Hold on. Can you just explain why Proud Family is? I'm not saying it isn't. Because I think the majority of the people who watched Proud Family were Black and Proud families. I also think a lot of Black shows also lean into stereotypical black, lean into black stereotypes

a lot. And the Proud family did that. Every white, Spanish or Black friend I had watched Proud family. But this is the thing. I also think the Proud family was written by Black people, if I'm not mistaken. I would hope so. That would be weird. The PJs are black children? Do you know why the gross sisters were purple, were blue?

It's because they were ashy. And all the sisters were named after lotions. That's how black the proud family is. That's how black the proud family is. I'm dead ass. All the sisters was named after loz. And I hope it was written by black. I think it was, I'm pretty sure it was written by black shit.

I hope to God. Yeah, the proud family was created by a black person. That was written by Fat Joe. Yo, is the PJs a black show? through Jumbelaya Studios produced the series Jumbalaya Studios That's what I'm saying

The Proud family black is fuck So it's Creole It's black as fuck Of course it's Creos It's French La Ciena Boulevades That show black as shit I know

But only a black person Will come up with some shit like that Is smart guy The Black show? Uh Yeah In between Halfway

Hanging with Mr. Cooper Black Wait, hold on Can you explain my smart guy Is half black? It's like It's biracial how though

it's the same as sister sister small guy that's right there with sister sister it's like it's it's the same show but i also think that that that sister sister is more biracial too like i wouldn't say that it was a black ass show but it was black the proud family black ass show live a single black ass show moisha black ass show the parker's black ass show like

wait but hold on how all right how is prince biracial so how is famous jett jackson not biracial wait that's That's a young black famous man trying to live in a white world. Fresh Prince is by racial. The Fresh Prince is not a black show. Y'all can't, y'all will not take that from us. That's a black show, bro. But it ain't taking it.

It's not taking it from you. I think just because the Fresh Prince got so big. That's a black show, bro. I'm not doing that. That's a black show. I don't know the definition. I'm a white trying to learn. I'm going off fields.

I'm going off field. Mind you, the Fresh Prince of Belair is one of my favorite shows at all time when it comes to like that type of show. I think the Fresh Prince is significantly. more funnier than Martin. Okay, that's fine, but that's not the topic at hand. Cousin Skeeter, black. I never seen Rob.

It was sandwiching between white shows. Like, Cousin Skeeter, I don't know. I guess I just don't know the definition. The Fresh Prince is not as considered not black? I don't say not black. I said biracial. It's like in the middle. I think when you blow up so big, when you become like big.

It only became biracial when they replaced the black, the dark skin on Vib with the light skin off Vib. But they did that in my wife and kids with Claire. They got rid of dark skin, Claire, and got light skin, clear. Yeah, that's the only thing that makes me. But they didn't get rid of her. That's not fair. They didn't get rid of her.

Her parents didn't want her star on it anymore. Dark skin, Claire. They didn't want her. That's what NBC said. No, that's what her parents said. Because the subject matter was a little bit too much. Family Matters, black. Family Matters is a black show, for sure.

It's a black show. Whenever you guys want to pull up white shows, then I'll be a critic. I'm just here for the ride. Home improvement. You think to wire a black show? It's a white-ass show. It's a white-ass show. Y'all think The Wire or Black show?

No. Me either. Not even a little bit. Me either. Y'all don't think the Y is a black show? No. No. Like, not even a tiny bit.

I can understand why because of the cast. But no. That's sick. That might be the first time I heard that. It became. So when I think of a black show, I think of who the audience is. And the Wire's audience is so widespread. White people love the White.

Oh, I'm not thinking about the audience. I'm thinking about the actual show. I'm thinking about the audience and the subject matter of the show like both but the audience is important wait if you're going off if you're going off audience

that would mean flowrider is a white rapper like just because the audience is white that's completely different from show that's completely different how come people don't bring out the furrider than like rapids and shit because he's making like weird white pop music

I think music and TV is a little bit different yeah I don't think the wire is a black show what about it is is a black show. Have you seen the wire? Just because something is in the hood doesn't make it a black show.

You see the subject matter? I mean, the theme of the overall series is how the street element of Baltimore ties into politics, kids, media,

pale, like everything is just it's about the city of Baltimore. No, I get, yes, it is. And mind you, Baltimore is a black city. Whereas even when the mayor was running, at the end of the day, I'll still be a white mayor in a black city, for sure. But no, it's about city politics. And cities are melting

pots no matter what you, whatever the highest demographic is, cities are still melting pots. And that's a representation of what city politics look like and how everything trickles down from a corner kid to the mayor. Everything is tied together. I don't think that's a black show. I think black people are part of a city. Hopefully. Hopefully they consider that. I think everything trickles down to education to the mayor. It just is all.

Come on. Is Snowfall a Black Show? Yes. Yes. But the wire is not. Different in how that aspect. Snowfall focuses on one specific part. whereas the wire

Snowfall is not about the entire city of LA the way the wires the way the wires there's not season two there's not a season two dedicated to the Long Beach docks like I don't know man

you can make a case with Snowfall that there is a lot of the freeway freeway Ricky story of CIA and how shit got here but no that's what I'm saying that's politics in comparison I would say Snowfall will be more...

I don't know what a black show on a white show is. It's really what I'm saying. We're all just, you know, freestyle in this shit. It ain't like what we say is law. Not what I'm saying. It's law. Fuck that. Well, Sim was on the reboot, so... Oh, what? Check it out. Snowfall.

It came out two nights ago. Oh, did you see... Did you watch it? Oh, the spinoff. Yeah. I had to watch it. How was it? I know. I haven't watched it yet. Okay. But yeah. I didn't see that at air.

No, I went to set. Maybe you'll see me in the background. Maybe. That will make it a not black show. I play a undercover CIA. Hey, how about this thing called Craig? I see Compton is a thriving suburb for black people. How about I ruin it with cocaine? I got to check it out.

The drop. Okay. On FX and Hulu. I'm going to check that out because I mean, y'all know how I feel about snowfall, so I want to see what they did with this. Yeah, no, it's got a lot of good actors in there as well. I don't like what, uh...

Asante Black, who's been in our studio before, Asante's a really, really good actor. He starred in Eris's movie Story Ave. Okay. He's also in Euphoria the last season. Asante's really dope. We have to have Asante on the show some. He's a really good actor.

Let me check this out, man. Let's see. Hopefully they got this one right. Yeah. All right, Maul, let's get to our guests here. Some of my favorites. Some of my favorite guys. Yes.

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Chiller. You had the album? What was it, the album released? I'm released. He was a little late, but it's better late than never. Yeah. Did you wait until you came back to New York to do it? No, I've been in New York for like four months. So why you didn't do? I didn't want to.

Yeah, I did not want to throw on it. I mean like, bro, the anxiety of having to put on an event. Okay. Yeah. It's like, it's a lot. And I just got to like Willie Joe. He was just like, yo, let's just do it. And I was just like, word.

Okay. I was like word. Let's just do it. Easiest rollout we ever had. Yeah. Let's run it. So was it like you just didn't want to do it because it's like, man, just put the music out or? Yeah, I'm that I'm that guy, bro. To me, it's just like the music is the only thing that matters.

But unfortunately, that's not the truth. Right. So it's like, we got to do the other. You got to play the game. Yeah. So I'm like, you know what? Let me get into the groove of it. Let's play.

How was it working with, you know, Lake and drama and canon? Because these are like, these are vets. But they're also very tapped in with the next generation. I was going to add in like in their assing. I ain't a lot it's been smooth for me. I can't lie.

Especially like learning who they are individually. It's a very interesting. Very interesting group of a collective of God. It reminds me and me and my friends like

Yeah. She's the most interesting. It's like I fuck with y'all. Who's the most interesting? Yeah, it's like I fuck with y'all but I'm gonna see y'all when I see y'all. Like, all right, we got to do something today? All right.

Canon would be like, I might be there. Yeah. Which is a note. Drama Lake is kind of old. To me, they're always together. So it's just like, all right. I know if Lake will pull up, drama pull up. Except for today.

Except when he has boating incident. Yeah, we allowed to say why he's not here? Sure. Yeah, let's go. Falling off a jet ski and missing a podcast is the funniest kid I've ever heard. And what did he hit? I don't know. What injury is it?

Yeah. Was it choppy? Had to be. Yeah. Had to be. Well, hopefully drama is out. Yeah, man. I don't want to go.

We're praying for drama. Yeah. It wasn't a jet skiing in New York, too. Because when he said it at first, I was like, did this nigga go jet skiing on the Hudson? Yeah, in the Hudson ribbox. That's an injury for sure. It'll be awfully dusty. But he ran into the Manhattan Bridge.

Right, exactly. So Barr's not dead. How is the climate as far as you're concerned being one of the young, the young new rappers out of New York City? Like, what's the climate right now as far as you're concerned? For hip-hop or just for like me? Both. Yeah, both. To me, this is a crazy take being who I am, I think hip hop is in like a very dead space.

I feel the same way. It's just feels it's not as alive as it used to be. I had a debate with a couple of rappers like a week ago. And I was like, yo, I'm not even like, I've never been the biggest Nause guy, but this is probably what he felt like when he put that album out. Yeah. Yeah, it's still happening. But it doesn't feel like. like what I know.

Yeah. You feel me? So it's just like, right now, to me, it just don't feel like what I know. And for me, that's a great, that's great. But for me being a, like, a team player, for lack of better words, like I love to see the sport and the people playing the sport, be active.

It's just like, I don't really know what's going on. I don't really give a fuck to know what's going on because it's not interested in me. But people are active, though. That's what I'm saying. I just think the music is just not sustaining. It kind of mirrors that time when Nass put out hip, I was dead.

Because you still had Kanye J. 50, Wayne, but under that was all ringtone rap. Like, that's what consumed everything besides those guys. And now, of course, you have great artists,

but everything below that is TikTok. And it's just, which is just the new ringtone. It's so much of it. It's just like, I don't really even know where to go. So I don't, I personally don't bother.

Yeah. I mean, but do you think the moment you had with Joey and everyone, I wouldn't call it battle per se, but just that moment of everyone rapping, did you feel that way at that time? Yeah.

I felt like that was cool. But something about it was still just like, all right. Like this is, like, it's just another moment. Yeah. Like I feel like the last time, to me, the last time hip hop was like, okay, this thing is alive and thriving. It might have been that 2016 freshman class. Like, I feel like, yeah, to me, to me personally, I feel like that era, it was like this shit is jumping. You could go anywhere.

Hip hop is just the thing. Now we go places It's just like It's just like Oh yeah Rap is rap Was that the Zanzacuri Yadi

Yeah Yeah that class definitely It just felt like a new shift Yeah it just felt like something to me It was new energy for sure I think I think it's a shift happening I think that's why I feels this way Because now everything is resetting

I don't know if it was the whole Drake and Kendrick thing And watching the party died And it really happened I don't know what it was But it's like I'm looking I'm just like damn

Do you make music differently because of that? Yeah, for sure. But I also went through a lot of like internal changes. Okay. That just made me just look at life differently. So I'm already just in a different space. That's probably why I feel this way, to be honest. Okay.

Do you want to speak about any of those with a microphone in your face? It's just more. People listening. On this huge platform. Like those internal. It was just like I did like a three-day fast. I got a baby on a way. Like, it's so much shit.

Go, thank you. It's like, it's just so much shit I'm going through as a adult. Like, I had an ego death which is like all the old shit that mattered to me just one day just stopped mattering. Okay. And all the shit that I used to care about is the, it's the simple shit. Did you take, I was like, I feel like I did. Too much shrooms or just really one day was like. This was a natural.

I think it was the fast for me realistically. It's just like I shut everything out and it just gave me a different type of. clarity, it's just like, damn, I'm polluted. Like, that's what I feel like. I respect that. I'm like, yeah. I'm like, damn, I'm polluted, loki. Like, this shit is crazy.

When you get away from certain shit for a little while, you just like, oh, wait a minute. But that's real, though. Like, it's still like, and I think me personally, I was so stuck and caught up in just the normal shit, the Instagrams, the numbers, the checking in on this, what's going on right now because soon as you wake up. You see a nigga die or a joint naked or whatever they, whatever you want to see. It's right in front of you. So when I kind of let that go for a second, it's like, oh, it's real world is still outside.

Like, it's still things. And I realize how many more people agree. Like, they want to, like, just ISO. Get away from all of them. Get away from everything. Like, it's people really want to go outside and touch grass again. And I feel like that's a part of the shit. But that's really what I was going through internally.

Like, just letting go a lot of the old. That don't serve me no purpose no more. People include it. I feel that. No, that's that. I mean, that's real. How old are you? 29.

That's dope to have that, you know, mindset at 29. Especially, you know, in making music and being in the industry. Because at 29, you're supposed to be with all the bullshit. You feel me? But I've been doing all the bullshit since I was like 16. My fucking 16 birthday party was at Greenhouse. Who was a DJ? Who kid, I would imagine.

Who kid was the DJ? Yeah. Who kid was DJ? I was around for the greenhouse there. Who kid was the DJ? Legendary nights. Yeah. Was it during the day?

No. I wonder that and whip got shut down. Right. You feel me? We probably played part in that. I think they got it right when they shut greenhouse. After the party, the shit, definitely shut down. Once Tony Parker gets hit with a bottle.

Yeah, it's time. It's time they did a hard reset. It's time they did a hard reset. once Tony Parker gets hit with a bottle. I mean, did you feel like you grew up a little quicker than most just because, you know, your dad was in junior mafia. You have like similar to mall. Like you do have a hip-hop royalty family even though you weren't directly in.

Yeah, we sued on Apple babies. But, yes, I did grow up faster because I seen, I just seen things that people that I was going to school with just growing up in their way. I probably would never see in your lives. And it's just like, I've seen it so much that it's normal to me. So I kept myself away from even having too many friends in school and shit like that. It's just like, you know, my life is just different. Y'all are not even ready for this shit.

Y'all can't fuck with what I got going on. I don't even really want to fuck with you. And of course, now, looking back at it, like, that's some fuck shit to think. But it's real. It's just like, bro, like, what am I to do? It's self-aware. I don't think it's arrogant. I just think it's self-aware of who you had around you.

You feel me? So I was just like, bro, I'm 14, 15. I'm just having my way I'm lit on the gram that's the shit that matters to us it's like bro I'm telling me this man Biggie changed my diapers

bro shut up What are we talking about? What are we talking about? Why do I even go here? Notorious Right Easy call That's crazy

Notorious diapers Notorious diapers That's not like the name of the new album No I'm familiar Like with DROC being your uncle And having all that guidance

Were they a little reluctant about like these guys? Nope. Okay. Nah. Not at all. Actually, bringing him a rock was, he was the happiest. He was like, yeah, nah. Between him and my pops? Some of the niggas was like, nah, those are the right people.

Finally, they're like, finally. Yeah. We've been waiting for so long for you to get with some good people. Yeah. And I was already super cool with a lot of the mafia cast. Like, C's had a lot to do with it. You know, bang. Like, had a whole lot to do with it.

Like, I spent, I, I, I think for the last probably five years of me coming to New York, I would bang will pick me up and I would wrong. I would be in Brooklyn with them niggins hanging all day every day. So I've had a relationship with Rube, C's, bang, shit all the way down to sea gutter. You know what I'm saying? I know what I'm saying?

So it's a different type of trust that they had. Yeah, it was a mutual respect. And you know, them niggins ain't really nobody to play with either. You know what I'm saying? So the last niggas you want to do is, you know what I'm saying? But it helps when you're involved, you know what I'm saying? and you already have that relationship. Yeah.

They know that you ain't going to have Kai. Absolutely. They understand that part of it. What did y'all see in Kai? Because just judging off the Generation Now track record, you had Uzi that was clearly awesome rock star shit and was completely different but had that crossover shit. Jack is white with curly hair.

Right. We could take him to. Wherever. Jimmy Yveen and have a blast. Kyle wraps like he's really, really from New York. While I enjoy that type of stuff, sometimes that's not the easy. thing to market or crossover.

Yeah. And y'all were taking risks with people that I think had pop appeal based off the current times. What did you see in Kyle that was different? I mean, I think the foundation is the skill set, right? I think we were speaking earlier about like why the business is in the position it is. And now I think I think that's part of the problem, right? I think it's still rap.

You know, like I think this is the only sport or this is the only business where somebody says like, I'm not a rap. rapper, but it's rap. Like, imagine you going to get your toilet fixing the plumber being like, yo, I'm not a plumber, but I'm here to fix your toilet. You know what I'm saying? Like, it just sounds crazy even doing that. Every landlord. Yeah, I think, I think the appealing thing about Kai is, A, the foundation is the skill set, right? He can rap, and that's what this shit is. Like, it's the music business, but we're in rap music. So that's the exciting thing for us. And the truth is, you know, even though most people know drama and canon from their history from,

you know, the mixtapes and most of those mixtapes are Southern. Those are two hip-hop heads from Philadelphia. You know what I'm saying? I'm a dude from LA that grew up in, you know, like the Project Blow to era, you know, watching like A.C. alone and dudes like that. So this is what we traditionally listen to. That doesn't mean we can identify what's going to work in the marketplace or say, yo, this may not sound like Tribe Call Quest or something that we grew up with, but we can identify whether it's going to work with. So to me, the skill was the first thing that was attractive. Of course, the lineage is there. So, you know, he has some sort of strong foundation, at least from a mental standpoint, because that's half of dealing with these artists,

right? You got to deal with them mentally as well as creatively. So I think those two things were it. And then for real, do it just make good music. And when I look at the guys that are the guys, like when you look at the top tiered rappers, when you think about Kendrick, when you think about shit, Drake, when you think about Cole, all those guys can really wrap their ass on. You know what I'm saying? So we could develop song structure. We could find good beats. We could make a catcher chorus and take a word or two out, but I can't teach him how to be a good rapper. Right.

I'm saying. As an executive, though, how do you feel about the current state of hip hop league? Like, where do you, because you've been in the industry and in the game for so long, so you've seen the ups and downs of this. Is this something that is, like, completely different for you? Or are you like, I recognize this.

This is how we've gone through this before. I think we've gone through this. I think it's a few things, right? I think ageism is a real thing in hip hop, right? And I think a lot of that isn't necessarily, I think it's a lot of fingerpointing saying, like the older guys don't like the younger guys, and the younger guys don't like the older.

I don't think that's the case. The truth is, it's a 50-year-old genre. Right. You know what I mean? We're just figuring out how to age the right way. You know what I mean? Like, and I think, just to use an example, like the work we're doing with Gizi now

with the residency that he's doing in Vegas. You know, dude is in a tux every single day, you know, saying work. to probably one of the most gangster albums ever put out. But now those people that are in their late 40s or early 50s or late 30s, they feel comfortable going to a set and without having to necessarily go to a nightclub. So for me, I think learning how to age gracefully is one thing. I think hip-hop's in a space where it honestly just needs a hard reset.

I think the focus has been so much on data that we've kind of lost the foundation, which is, again, skill and ability. I think the ability to identify talent has been lost with just kind of looking at information and look there's nothing wrong with data but data is what it is right it's just information it's what you use it for so for me that should never be the foundation the the ability to identify a talent is the first thing and then from there the data gives you the information to know where to go on what to do so I think we've kind of reversed that a little bit and I think the the incline I think I was here to you know we were blessed to see the peak of the streaming era but now

we're seeing kind of like yeah the negative effects of what can happen from it and that's on Yeah, and I think right now is the time where, you know, it's good for a hard reset. But it's great for guys like that because now you can just be creative. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's interesting for me because we're finally seeing, like you said, you know, just hip-hop aging. And we're seeing guys like, you know, GZ do residency's in the tucks every night. Jay-Z is doing stadiums with music that we didn't think was stadium music at that at one point.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Kanye, what he's doing around the world. You know, I think that, and then you got the guys that's, you know, now starting to really get into their starting like a Don Toler. That's a great example. Who is now, like, you know, he's showing people like, you know, like, this is my time. Like, I'm at a level now where everybody is looking at me like, holy shit. You know what I mean?

So it's an interesting time for a number of things. But like you said, we got to wait. from, I think, what this thing really was about, which is the skill set on, we started paying too much attention to everything outside of the music, you know, impressions and virality and things like that, where it's like, no, let's get back to the music because we see what great music can do later on. You can end up in stadium. You can end up, you know, a guy like Don Tolliver, who was probably, I don't see him doing a lot of interviews. Right, at all. But he's going to give you an incredible project. And then his production on

on stage, you know, visually, aesthetically, is gonna be something that you're gonna be like, holy, who is this kid? You know what I mean? So I think that we're seeing glimpses of what we need to do. Right. And glimpses of what will happen

if you do certain things later on in your career where it can take you. And I just think that for the next generation now, you gotta get back to the nucleus of, yo, listen, just create from a place of respecting the art, respecting the skill set, and being true and passionate to who you are. No, totally.

And I think, I think you guys I always play a vital role in it too, just media in general, because I feel like critics are what drove rap for the longest. They used to call them gatekeepers, but they were the ones that kind of let us know the system of checks and balances with this shit, right? The truth of this is... We need gatekeepers. No, you have to. I think it got a negative connotation for some reason that... You got to. But I feel like it's necessary to have gatekeepers in anything that's culture. Because there's no separation between an amateur and a professional and rap. You know what I mean? Like, in basketball, there's high school, there's...

college, there's the D league until you get to the pros here. You know, there's a guy that could try at one time and be in the same league with somebody that's tried for 15 years, right? But, you know, their career may last a month and they're wondering why it ends up like that. And there's, you know, the sour taste in their mouth pause for them not, you know, for them not being able to, or them not having the success or the successful career that they imagine to have. But I think a lot of that comes from the initial gatekeeping. You know, it took money. It took time. It took somebody saying this ain't good enough to make it out here now, but I think we're hearing everything, whether it's good or bad. You know what I mean? And I don't know how good that is.

Yeah. Yeah, because if I hit a lucky three, the league is not going to take me. No, at all. I could put a lucky record out and I'd be on Rolling Loud stage tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow. Yeah. I can get lucky fucking around in Pro Tools and be on Rolling Loud stage tomorrow. All this development happens at Rolling Loud now. Yeah. No, that's it. That's the first. That's it. We saw Ice Spice. I think her first performance was rolling loud or something like that. And everybody was like, oh, she's just twerking. She doesn't really know.

She looks uncomfortable. I'm like, fam, this is probably... She's never performed. She's probably never rehearsed from here. Like, we're seeing artists development happen at a festival, one of the biggest festivals. Like, we've never seen that before. Right.

You know what I'm saying? So I think that, you know, gatekeeping, for whatever reason, you know, people started to feel like, oh, they're trying to keep people out. And it's that, but you need to because, like, to what you're saying, like, there needs to be checks and balance. Absolutely. You need to be like, Not yet.

Not ready. That's fire. Y'all should be checking this out. I think that you need those things. To me, it helps you know, sift through the bullshit. It's going to, it's going to, you know, you're not going to waste your time. At one point, I thought it was cool to be like, yo, here's this unknown kid who can upload his album the same day as Drake or Kendrick. Same platform, Apple, Spotify, have his album right there.

But then it got to a point. It's like, maybe that's not a good thing. It's not, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like maybe they need to accomplish and do a little more before they're able to do that. Because your natural reaction, right, is going to be, okay, like you said, you're going to sift through product, right? So you go and you see what's released on Friday and there's 35 projects, right? So you listen to two of them.

There's 30 more rappers you got to listen to. Right. If the first two you listen to you don't like to, your natural progression is to go back to what you do like. And you have all that at your own disposal. So you know what? All this shit don't sound good. Put on ready to die. Right.

You know what I'm saying? All this don't sound good. I feel like listening to this this day. Let me go back for what I know is good. Exactly. So, you know, I think right now discovery is the hardest phase, man, because it's so much. And people are so inclined to go back to what they know or their condition alike anyway. Yeah.

And, you know, and it's in the palm of your hand. Yeah. And, I mean, to your point with media being important, I also like that there is the checks and balances with media gatekeepers now. Like, as annoying as it is when you are in the media to have a bunch of people kill you online. I like that outside of some of the weirdo stands, people online will keep media as honest as possible. For sure. They will get caught before if like I disagreed with Elliot Wilson when I was in high school. Yeah.

He wouldn't hear about it. It would be us arguing about it like, damn, oh, he's really tapped in with shady. He only puts M&M and 50 cent on the cover of Delaware. My voice was never heard in that regard and media didn't have to keep to that standard because there was no one really having a voice to yell at them about it. I like that there's checks and balances with us now too, even when I'm at the butt of it. Right. I think that's great to still have gatekeepers, but I do like that fans can call us out on our bullshit. Right.

Yeah. Or like our admitted biases or relationships we have, like I think that is great that the fans have that voice to. As annoying as it can fucking be sometimes. Yeah. And how many people I don't think really even deserve an opinion because they don't give a fuck, they're just here to talk. Right. I think that's important too with checks and balances.

No, that's real. You don't have to hear all the. but it's good to hear some of it yeah you need to some of it so Kyle with Barr's not dead first of all I love the fact that it's 12 tracks I love that why because you get right to it I feel that don't give me 37 tracks yeah we ain't having that yeah no I'm not I'm not listening to nothing over 12 attention span is too short yeah it's like if you can't if you can't tell me what you need to tell me in 12 14 tracks I'm not listening to the next 20 tracks I'm just not going to do that is there anybody that

you worked with on this project that surprised you. Like, damn, like, I like, I like this dude, but, like, he really performed on this record. Because I see you got smoked this on there. Ruben Vincent, Ben Riley. Swave. Swave. Yeah, I like Swave. Al-Qaeda, is that the one?

No, that's not the one. Akeem is on the first one. Okay. It would probably have been that one. But from this project, I say Ben Riley. I would say Ben Riley because I wasn't really super privy to his music. Like, me and Ben might have really connected this year. But the verse he gave and just the way he kind of carried it,

it was just like, oh, shit. Like, he matched the energy. I got a melodic hook on there. Like, he fit the bill so well. And the verse is impeccable. I think that's probably who really surprised me. Not to say that he's not good or nothing, but I wasn't really onto his music like that beforehand.

Yeah. Is there some click? that you have with Swaveh, Rubin. I feel like y'all have been like on tour. Yeah, now we're working on our Nala Simone. Generation Alicamon, working on the Honor. Project.

It's a collective called the Honor. It's me, Ben, Swave, Nico Brim, Marco, Plus, Winn, Ruben, Vincent, Chris Patrick, and Jordan Bell. And this is something that Nila has been trying to do for a little minute. She tried it with a,

just a bunch of us from our head. That shit didn't work. That shit. He didn't work. White's like that. She just didn't work. A little New Yorkism. Yeah, man.

But she got it right the second time. You know, that's why I keep trying shit. I salute to her. No, that's dope. Yeah. It's coming together well, too, because we, the chemistry is there with all of us. I think that's what makes this one. Yeah.

Way better than the first one. It wasn't like the chemistry wasn't there, but it's just like now, I think it's just, everybody has been somewhere before. And we're all really trying to go to the same thing, and we're all adults. And it's just like, all, right. bro, like, fuck with y'all. Yeah. Let's do this music.

I hear that. You all have a different understanding now. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, I think that shit is kind of lost in current music now. I was watching Quest Love. I forgot what podcast he was on. But he was talking about, like, the Geffen days when they were trying to break the roots.

And he told whoever was the head of Geffen at that point, like, you need to sign Bilau. You need to sign Erica. You need to sign all. We all need to be together to, it's a specific. niche fan that we have. There's a million of them, but it's still a very niche thing. Like, we need to be together even if we're not a click. Like, if Geffen wants to succeed with the roots, they got to sign people like the

roots. Absolutely. So we can move around together. Like, put it tour together, openers, like, that's the way it's going to work. Yeah, it's a lost culture, the collective. I think her putting this collective together, especially with like, ain't no slouches for like, we all can rap, good as fuck. Niggas is fly.

we have a girl a part of it he's white that always helps yeah you feel she can wrap her ass I'm sorry Wynn but yeah can rap

she can wrap then we have Nila Simone who's young fresh energy in New York pushing the coaching forward however she can yeah you feel me so it's like

what that's that's there's beauty in that I'd be telling we all speak about it we all feel the same way but it's just like bro

you know nigs is trying and get their own shit off every day everybody got their own agenda but it's like This is going to help all of us. And on top of that, you have late drama, then you have guru, you have ninth. Everyone else has their own exact second came.

Everybody. Everybody's going to be helped at the end of the day. And all it's going to take for them is one of them to get the attention. And if they continue to work together, they can build a little community around. Exactly. It's the same way you said, Gephness. I think that's a lost start, too, Rory, when you just spoke to that. You know, I think that's a huge part of it. I think there's a few labels that have done a really good job of curating, like, a

Sonic representation of who they are. I think TDE is one of those companies. QC was probably the last one on a major, major level of sonically, we know what we're getting. We know what we're getting. Yeah, QC and TDE really did a good job of doing that. I think us as a generation now, we're scattered. We did a good job of building stars, but it's not necessarily like a distinct sound. You know, you're going to get Uzi and Jack sound totally different.

It sounds different, you know. But I think they've done a good job of really like developing the sound saying like this is the brand. this is what it stands for, and you know what you're going to get. Right. So I think that matters. Is there any pressure, like, I'm sure Kai's not asked or anything, but pressure to, because Generation Now is one of the few labels out that is scattered in that way. Uzi sounds nothing like Jack and vice versa to merge like, all right, we need the Uzi feature.

We need the Jack feature. Is there pressure when you sign someone? Because that's kind of how QC, because they had similar sounds, it was easy to be like, all right, we sign Citigurals, Cardi, here we go. Yeah. Is there pressure on that? regard within like label politics? Not really just because unfortunately like Uzi never did that for Jack.

So Jack was like, I ain't doing that shit for nobody either. Jack's addressed it. Like he's wrapped about it. Yeah, like I think, but one thing I can say is, is like Jack himself, he's been super receptive to Kai. And always been super open arm to do. You know what I mean? So it's always been cool. But he's kind of been like, you know, I had to get it on my own.

And I had to get it when he was dissing them, niggins. you know what I'm saying? So I think for him, he's like, look, you know, if when you need me and when the timing is right, he'll do it. But I think Kai does a good job of standing on his own, you know what I'm saying? And it works. But, yeah, it would be great. I think the way we're structuring our company in the future is, though, is like that.

Like, look, Kai's coming. Whether you like it or not, my guy, you're going to have this feature. I'm just playing it. When you're like it or not, you're making a meal so out. Yeah. Like it or not, he's singing a chorus, all right? You're going to paint your nails too, the following album.

No. But the truth is that the truth is while we're laughing about it, that cohesion is what builds labels and builds companies. No, 100%. That's how I knew Jewel was on death row. You know what I mean? That's how you actually build the company. And one good feature or one good representation on a song can do a lot for him.

And that may do a lot for the next person too. So be a leader, not a follower. No, 1,000%. I'm here. The rumor was when Jack moved to New York, Kyle showed him around, showed him the blue note. Then he started wearing a hat. That's what happened.

When I bought Jack to the blue note, I had the, what's the name fit from the Monica cover? I had that whole fit on. Everything changed. It's crazy, man. Shout out to Jack. Yo, Jack is crazy. That one right there. Jack is having an amazing tour, by the way.

Look at the way you wearing your hat now. We went to, me and Roy went to Cole the night Jack was. I saw y'all drive by. Yeah, I would have we known, I would have pulled up to the Jackson. Yeah, go see my guy, man. I want to see him. I've never seen Jack. perform. I definitely want to see him perform. And he does a good job. I don't hate the album the way

Twitter did that. What's crazy is the album isn't really like I know people are on the tag. It's not a bad album. It's not a bad album. It's not a bad album. It's actually sonically good album. Dude is a musician, bro. He's really good. Yeah, well, I'm going to see a lot. The tour's not done, right? No. And he's found a way to integrate the singing shit with the, uh, with the rap shit. Yeah. So, no, I fuck with Jack, man. That sounds just that sound just was just one of the pictures. Oh, what are the pictures is crazy. One of the pictures was mad funny. Go back again. Go that's the one to out now

Monica joint. Oh, that's sick. Yeah, that was sick. That was sick. That's five. That shit fired. Shout out my dog. Jack.

That's the word. True artistry because he's standing next to it. He ain't changed hats yet. Yeah. Super intentional. No, listen, man. It's intentional as hell. That's one thing I respect about them.

Whether you all like it or not, like this is what I'm doing. And I think this shit is no. But it got to be. I have to see the inner brim of the hat. Like, does it got the sweat marks or is he buying new ones? No, it's official chew stick roots. Yeah, yeah.

What do we do, what they do, video is the one. The one that's the roots bought. They was dissing his family. The whole family. Everybody I know. Some of those hats are like the joints you get from the military supply stories. Yeah, yeah. The Army Navy story.

Yeah, hell yeah. Army Navy. That's a little. We out here. Kyle, you saw the comments that Vince Staples was making about his rollout with his last project of like not really want to do media because nobody really talks about music. I don't blame him. Yeah. I don't blame him because it's just like I'm sitting on a couch.

I'm in a dog. I'm about to break it down right now. I'm in a different space. Yeah. Y'all going to see me. I want y'all to see me everywhere. Vince is not in the space. I mean, he don't need that shit.

Yeah. We already know Vince Staples from all his interviews anyway. It's just like, bro, he's a seriously funny nigga, both. Yeah. No pun intended. And, Oh, I'm sorry. I just wanted him to read the quote

so that they had context for it. But you could keep talking. I'm sorry. What was like for you to try me? I hear me for you to see me. I'm sorry. Finally, she speaks. Okay, there we go.

But yeah, I just feel like, you don't, you know, when you get to a certain level, you don't have to do the things. You don't have to play the game, I don't think. For sure. You definitely know how to play the game when you reach a level. I just don't think you have to play the game. But question for you, though.

Sorry about that. These guys are sitting with you right now, right? When you need it per se, right? Yeah. When they need you, why is it not reciprocated? I don't think, do they need Vince Staples? Do you think they deserve to do an interview with Vince Staples? No, no, I'm not saying.

I'm not even talking about you. We love it. I'm just saying, like, in general, just media in general. I don't feel like media is just like, oh, we need to get Vince Staples up here. I mean, to what Lake is saying some platforms may need events. Absolutely. Okay, that changes. It makes it a little different, but I'm a different person.

Because if that's the energy, then it's like, yeah, I fuck with Roy and more. I'll go up there. I'm not going everywhere. Yeah, for sure. I would love a Vince interview just because I fuck with Vince as a human being. I think he's hilarious, intelligent, everything. I think he's dope too.

But at the same time, a lot of podcast listenership has become fans of podcasts, not fans of music. So I agree with what he's saying. Sometimes when we get on like nerdy music shit or want to have guests like you of artists that we like, our fans are like, man, get to the headlines. Right. Like, we want to hear y'all talk about the bullshit. And I mean, let's fucked up about this interview.

We're proud that a lot of our listeners, like, we proud ourselves in that. We still do have a listenership that loves music, loves music discovery. But I'd be lying if the podcast space in general is not a bunch of podcast fans. I'm music fans. Okay. When we started podcasting, we got music fans to listen. Okay. That has now, because podcasts became so big, they're comments.

content fans. Yeah. That's that's what they're looking for. And even if we have a super big guess, a lot of times they're like, we don't, we just want to hear y'all talk. Yeah, they want to hear the news. This is damn like urban news to an extent. He's looking for the clip. Yeah. That's all they they're doing for. I hear Vince, especially if you put all this work and poured your fucking soul into a project and they're just going to ask him about headline shit. Like, no. Even what he said. I get the breakfast club. You sit down and you eat hot wings. It's just like, Yo, it's not a hot wing at the breakfast club, but I feel it. Yeah, I get with, but I understand what he is trying to go to.

But it's just like, yeah, for some people, that would be like, nigga, I didn't come here to eat. Events, events, events, events, uh, interview is, is gold because Vince is so intelligent, so raw and honest. Um, and funny without trying to be. Yeah, yeah. Um, but aside from that, he's a super, super talented artist. And I, you know, some of the conversations we've had with Vince,

on personal time away from the cameras, I wish there was a camera rolling. Yeah. No, he's class. Oh, my God. It was just me, Ball, Vince and his engineer in the studio for three hours.

That would have been the greatest podcast of all time. Yeah. But there's a reason why it wasn't. There's a reason why that's not recording. Because camera and they were to change the whole trajectory. A lot of people would be upset. A lot of, you know, a lot of business might go away. Right.

You know what I'm saying? So it's like, but it's like, you know, it's fucked up because. And not because he was being messy. Sorry to cut you. No, no. Not because it was like messy or like rappers names. No, I was just a really good conversation that I don't think you get sometimes when there's three cameras, lights, and you're sitting people in the background. Like, yeah, it's different.

How do y'all question for y'all? How do y'all feel about the podcast space? Because like, again, there's really no system of checks and balances in y'all shit either, right? For sure. So. That's our checks and balances is Demaris and Peach. Okay, there we go. There we go.

But like a guy could just get a mic and turn the screen. on it and start a podcast tomorrow. Oh, have a blast. Try. Go ahead. Yeah, I mean, I'm not. That's how I feel about the music shit. This isn't an arrogant thing whatsoever, because I know there's, I have room for improvement with everything.

But no, that doesn't scare me that anyone could just go get a microphone at Best Buy and start talking. If you guys think it's that fucking easy, do it for 10 years. Let me know how far you get. That's how we feel. That's how we feel.

And make a career out of it. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, I like the fact that people are trying. something. Okay. I'm never mad at that. Like, you know, I think that, you know, we wouldn't be where we are if we didn't try something. Right. So, you know, it's always room for people trying. I think that people need to understand the consistency that it takes, though. And, you know, in order to sustain a certain level of longevity is just the work you have to put in. So I'm not, I'm not, I don't, you know, people, podcasts pop up every day. I love it, man, because sometimes

you'll, you'll find something like, oh, okay, I like this person's opinion and their point of view and things like that. And sometimes you can tell like, this person is just swinging, just trying something. You know what I'm saying? And again, I respect all of that.

So I don't feel, I don't feel no type of way about that. I just, I hate when I see rappers start podcasts because I already know what that's going to do. They're going to be like, oh, if I could make money doing this, I'm not putting out music no more.

Right. And it's like, no, but we still need music though. Just losing the part. From certain people, we need music. Like, yo, you need to keep putting out music. We see it with the athletes

going into the space, too. Sometimes it works. are great and you're Tony Romo. Sometimes it doesn't. Right. And that's going to happen within rappers and musicians doing podcasting and vice versa.

Like that's, some are going to work, some aren't, but that's, it's a booming space. That's what's going to happen. Yeah, that's true. And I mean, yeah, you're going to end up on the rolling loud stage. Right. Eventually. It'll be a cool month.

Eventually. Will you maintain it? I don't know what to tell you. No, that's true. Because I mean, when we did it, we hit every single stage. Right. We did this shit live.

Like we did the underground rapper ascension with podcast. Yeah, y'all took the stairs. Like, we've been on the road for six years straight doing the shit. Like, that's why it's a little different with, even if our core fan base is not as big as the clickbait person that has it that month, I know our core comes from 10 years of podcast. Like, they've been with us. Like, Paul, we've touched people in every city.

Like, we did what I think the big three rappers did in the beginning of their careers, but in a podcast space. which I don't think content creators view it that way anymore. And maybe you don't need to. But that was our grind. And I think it paid off better in that way. Okay. Than just, you know, saying the wildest shit in your crib with a microphone.

That's true. So, Kyle, what's next, man? Ball's Not Dead available now. You're hitting the road. You're hitting the stages? Yeah, we're planning the show. You really just working on the next project. Bar's Not Dead.

The series just comes from like us getting the album together. I just want to put some music out there put some raps out there I love to rap so much that it's just like let's put something into the world for people to listen to

Who are you waiting to rap with though if you haven't rap with you To be honest bro I kind of want to rap I want to rap with a lot of people I want to rap with niggas like dot I would love to rap with a nigga like Cole

I would love to rap with a nigga like Hove I don't know that I don't think that's ever going to happen though Put it on the whiteboard though yeah Yeah, you feel me like I want to wrap with them. It's possible. Yeah, I just,

you know, this is getting older, man. I want to rap with Montaleo. I think she's super tough. I like her. Who else? I want to rap with Tyler, the creator. Fuck with Tyler. That's attainable.

Yeah, facts. Nobody from the city? From the city. I feel like I've rapped. I just, from the city, I already got shit coming out with people from the city that I wanted to rap with. We got this thing, me,

Fergie, Bimo, Ryan Witherspoon. It's a lot of us. We've got to put something together. I like Ryan Wood. He's from, is he from Brooklyn, too? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I like him. We got something that we're putting together. Yeah, I would love to rap with Future. I think that'll be fun. Okay. Really? Future, Pluto would be fun. I would rap with Caraboo.

Like, I'm into stuff like that. Okay. People wouldn't think it, but you're getting the car with me. I'm probably not going to play what you think. I think I'm going to play ever. I'm going to sound like a hater. I still don't get the terrible thing. I'm even trying.

It ain't for everybody. I've tried to convince myself. I've even tried. I would just want to do it just because. Yeah. I don't want to do it. You feel me? Like, I'm open to rapping with anybody.

Yeah. Just for the sake of me just showing off for one. Yeah. But for two, like, just to say that I did it. Like, that's rat. That's rap. That's rap. I hear that.

Do you prefer the Atlanta scene or New York scene music was? Because, I mean, you bet in both. New York scene, for sure. New York City. It's just, you can just go anywhere and it's just there. Atlanta is like, it's kind of like the who's, who's a little bit. Like, you got to know where to go because you can go places. You can end up in the wrong place a lot of the time.

That's a fact. New York is just like, maybe it's because I'm from here. Like, I know where to go. I know where not to go. I don't want to go rather. Yeah. It's just like, I know where everything is at. So it's easier for me.

That scene. I'll hear that. I like that. Well, Lake, man, we appreciate y'all for pulling up. man. Drama, hopefully somewhere healing up. Todd Cash, Bar's not dead. Available.

Appreciate your brother. Is that. Get that. Stream that. Real rap is still alive. Bars are not dead. Max. We appreciate y'all pulling up, man.

And next time we're in Atlanta, we've got to come pull up on y'all later. No, absolutely, man. Come here to actual project. Looking forward to it. We'll be announcing our new label home real soon. Looking forward to that. Okay.

Yeah. Keep streaming, spend that. Keep stream and spend that. Keep streaming, spend that. Shout out, Miami. Is the GZ residency over? No. We just added nine dates.

In Vegas still? Yeah. So there's four dates in November and there's five dates in December. I got to catch one. We're supposed to be in Vegas in November. Yeah, I got to catch one. The F1 shit? I got to send you all the dates, but I love to have you all out, man.

Yeah, man, I got to catch one. I thought he, I saw, was Braun at one of this show? Yeah, so the last date that everybody thought was August 23nd. He got the key to the city in Vegas, and then Braun announced the other nine days that he had. Okay. So, yeah, the last date is New Year's Eve at Planet Hollywood. But, yeah, that's been amazing, man, just to... I got to catch one.

I mean, I went to the one at the Apollo. Oh, yeah, this one is 10 times beyond it. Like, what he did, just from a production standpoint, like, for real, just shout out to the team. Shout out to him. Shout out to Naima. Like, bro, they... just what's built. It's so hard to explain, bro,

but it's really refreshing to see it. You know what I mean? Because, again, you're in there in the tuxedo saying the most gangster shit ever, and it's like, that's why I got to catch it. I got to see that.

It's amazing. That's just such a cool thing to see. And we bring somebody out every week like you never know who it's going to be, you know what I'm saying? I saw LA Lake for the first time at the Apollo. You did. LA Lake.

You did. No, listen, I know. I know. I was about to say, who's been nothing but kind. It's like, yeah. That's how I know Lake. Yeah.

I saw LA Lake against security, and I was like, oh, okay, my bad. I wasn't familiar with your game. I didn't. We don't ever want to expose that part, man. We want to be a cool business. Yeah, at all times, man. Yeah, at all times. Everyone got real quiet.

Always. Yeah, always. Yeah, always. Yeah, always. But we definitely going to catch one of them Gizi shows, man. We're going to catch one of the more than a big, bro. Can't wait. That's Kai Cass, Lake Sheezy, Generation Now, Bar's Not Dead.

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