New Rory & MAL - Episode 78 | “Open Bars & Vibes”

Episode Date: June 24, 2022

The boys boys are back back in Cali Cali. This week they talked about coming back from Mexico, airline pilots going back on strike, BET Awards Weekend, Beyonce's new single, enjoying vibes and an open bar, Mal calling Drake "Brave", rumors on Beyonce's 3 act-album, Elon Musk finally acquiring Twitter, Biden falling off his bike, voting for The Rock as our future president, Cardi B teasing a release, Kendrick Lamar performing for LV, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What are our vibes? It depends on what your vibe is. It depends on how you feel, how you flow, you know what I mean? Like, can you be the vibe? Absolutely. You've never been to a vibe. I mean the vibe. That's why I get paid for. Bro, you want a cuck hole. You were the vibe. I was always in a cuckold. That's the different. You was definitely the vibe in the cuck.

I feel the energy in the room. Feels good. The sick energy? Yeah, the sick energy. I feel your nasal paths congested. No, I felt seen when Mall came in here today and said that he woke up feeling like someone was sitting on top of his head. Hey.

I mean, in context, it didn't sound as crazy as it just sounded just now. Yeah. But yes, we're both very much sick. It's all these, it's just traveling and on and off these flights and different climates. And I woke up this morning and it felt like I had 40 headbands on. Yeah. No, I was dying. And like, I thought I was being responsible.

I was like, oh, let me just stay in tonight. I got mad sleep, drank mad water, had a salad for dinner. Wow. Tried to be healthy. Woke up feeling like pure, like I drank a whole fifth and ate a cheeseburger before I went to sleep. Oh, God. Yeah, I got up at like 8.30 this morning, then I went back to sleep and woke up at like noon.

Yeah. But I feel, I'm feeling a lot better now. I haven't seen y'all since Mexico. I know. I know. You cheated. You went home. Well, no, we left the same day.

You snuck in a little home visit. Well, I was supposed to leave Saturday. But where we were in Mexico was so, like, out the way. I think the car service that we ordered once he saw that address was like, nah. Oh, he did the same. Same thing to Ed and I in the morning. Yeah, I heard. I heard you had to get a taxi from the hotel.

Yeah, we scrambled. Yeah. I don't know why we didn't just go to the hotel to begin with. We called every car service like in the country of Mexico. A lot of them were like, yeah, we was calling Cancun. Like, yo, y'all can make it. Yeah. But yeah, I left Mexico early Sunday morning.

Y'all left late on in the afternoon. But how ya been? How's everything? Good, good. I'm exhausted. Back in L.A.? This is surviving June, is what I call it. Surviving June.

Absolutely. Sunday, Sunday I will be home, hopefully. Hopefully. Yeah, I'm about to say, don't start talking too soon. You don't know where you're going. Well, I don't know if you guys have peeped,

and I don't know if I'm snitching, just because I have the inside information, aka I know flight attendants. Wow. There's a lot of shit going on with the airports right now. If you've been trying to fly, you probably know. Everything's been delayed or canceled.

Mm-hmm. For every airline? I think mostly it's Delta, but they're doing some strategy. The pilots want to go on strike. Like, I don't think this is just the beginning of what could end up being a major fucking issue. But what does the strike about? Is it pay?

Is it? I believe the pilots were making more off their unemployment than they currently are making right now. Oh, that's everybody. Welcome to the real world. Yeah, that's why everybody wanted to, nobody cared about getting fired. It was like, oh, everybody in the pandemic got paid off of fucking unemployment. Yeah, so I guess they've been delaying flights. And then, you know, like, hours work with pilots.

They have to go over certain hours or they can't fly anymore. They can claim fatigue because of a delay. So they're just, they're playing fucking shadow games and fucking with everyone's travel. Yeah, apparently there's like a severe staff shortage. Yes. And they've been working on. Shortage. Okay.

Because people are saying, fuck this. Like flying overtime like crazy. So I mean, obviously just to kind of build up something like that, you definitely would want to get crazy. It offered me like 700 bucks in a gift card to move my flight for this morning. You know you can negotiate. negotiate that even more. I've done that.

They got it in their budget. You can get that up to about 5K. Yeah. And if they started with 700, yeah, you could have got 5K. You had some wiggle on me, I didn't.

Because I've gotten to at least 3K and they've started at like $250. Yeah. Damn. And they give me a taxi from Nort to LaGuardia from my other flight. Do you think this is a result

of them firing people that were not vaccinated? Was that official? Did that really have? I don't know. That's what I'm saying. I'm asking if it's a shortage. I know.

I'm guessing people were let go or people quit. It may have something to do with it. I mean, I definitely know there is some strike brewing, but I could see that flight attendants were like, yo, I'm not getting vaccinated. It's dead air in here anyways.

I mean, flight attendants, they didn't have to take off during the entire pandemic before. The vaccine was even available. I know a lot of flight attendants that said they never got sick. They were fine, so they didn't see the need to get vaccinated, that whole thing,

whatever. I mean, that whole vaccination conversation is, like pass eight now anyway nobody even talks about it anymore i've been tricked by by pilots with that going over their hour shit i think i was flying to detroit and we were you know laurtea has like one runaway sometimes so we were in line wasn't like we was delayed or anything just in line waiting to take off we're like two planes ahead of us and he's like hey guys went over my hours we're pulling back to the gate no way we pull right back to the gate i was like wait so would

you have been over your hours in the air yeah no he would he would have jumped out of my house No, he would have landed wherever y'all went to Ohio. Like, yo, I'm not taking it all into Detroit, but y'all can get out here and PA. And like, I would imagine a pilot in the air traffic people would have known how long that was going to take in line. Yeah. Like, why didn't you just say that from Rip? Yeah. And then I had to take Spirit the next morning.

Oh, God. First and only time I've ever taken Spirit. Spirit is one of those, you know, you know when you're getting on Spirit, you got to kind of like make sure you write with God. Oh. It's called spirit for a reason. Must have faith. You got to have faith that we're going to take off and land. Yeah.

Father, son and the Holy Spirit just to get off that shit. Exactly. How small are the seeds in Spirit? Because I feel like even Delta Seeds are small. And I've just got used to fly. It's not really, the size is about the same. They're just not padded.

It's like a church folding chair. It's like when you wear a pair of sneakers and you take the soul out. That's a perfect way to put it. Yeah. It's like that. But I didn't, because I prepared myself for the Spirit Flight. I booked Frontier once to it. Atlanta and not, this was early, my early days of flying.

I didn't know Frontier was similar to Spirit. So I went in there with not being prepared. Spirit, I was like, all right, fuck it. I know this is going to suck. It's only to Detroit. That flight, when I got on that frontier plane, I was like, oh, this, so this isn't American. No.

This is going to be a frontier. Yeah. When they tell you like it's affiliated with Delta, affiliated with, no, it's not. They don't know, y'all. They have nothing to do with this airline. I don't do that. Whatever have, did Virgin got what? out by JetBlue or something?

You know, so the last time I was talking to mall, we were trying to figure out. That was one of my favorite airlines. Virgin was the best. Yeah, that shit was the club. Yeah, that was one of my favorite airlines for sure. See? The first time I ever flew, it was back from L.A. once because they were affiliated with somebody else.

So I booked, I think I booked like Alaska and it ended up being a virgin. I was like, oh, this is purple lights and shit. Yeah, I was definitely one of the TOW. For sure. Definitely one of the best flights. So we're back in L.A., BT weekend. Woo. Yes.

That weekend. Good weekend. BT weekend. A lot of people in town. A lot of people still in Paris for Fashion Week. Because I don't know if this, if it lands on BT Week in every year. This is the first time it's been like this in a while. I feel like Fashion Week happens every other week. Yeah. Well, it's a fashion week everywhere, every other week. That's right. But it's in Paris this week. But we're in L.A., obviously, for BT weekend. And yeah, man.

I caught myself doing something I've never really done before with this Fashion Week shit. I haven't been pocket watching per se just been adding things up in my head Okay How are some of y'all in Paris? I know how much I've never been to Paris But I know how much it costs

Especially during this week How are some of y'all are there? Listen, we know how You have no real income We can no, no no They have an income They just don't have a job They have an income

Yeah, they just you know what I'm saying? They have oh it's an income for sure But yeah I mean you know it's, listen, it's so much access these days. People have access to so many different people, different things. So, you know, now that you see, like, Fashion Week and things like that, and you see people there that have nothing to do with fashion and they don't work in the fashion industry. They're not modeling.

No. They just decide to pick up and go. They're just there for this Kralek set. Yeah. And it's, I mean, we understand what's going on. Sometimes you got to have, I call them, hors d'oeuvres. gotta have some hors d'oeuvres around a lot of

I understand it a lot of artists a lot of celebrities a lot of athletes I just I mean I know how much we're spending this week in LA for BET Weeker

yeah that's great let alone Paris for fashion week crazy listen man but I like it I like the fact that people are traveling I like the fact that people are going to different events

and things like that it's like fuck it man why not if you can get there however you get there I wish I was blessed with the scammer gene I just wish I was

or I envy it and I don't say it in like a moral way at all I just wish I had it yeah I mean but you know I just don't approach situations of how I could scheme my way to get somewhere for free I wish I had more of that in me too

yeah I just don't have it you know because I'm really not saying in a moral standard I just wish I had that I wish I had that but it's fun to look at people that do that and just kind of like okay and I want to know how many

I'm glad I don't do that yeah because like it may look good on Instagram and Fashion Week, but they failed at least 40 times already for other weeks. Oh, and then once you know, once it all catches up to them, and they're calling you from Home Wave, say, you, ask them my money to your account. It's like, oh, what happened last year in Paris?

Or they caught up to you. You was at the Louvre and all of that, huh? Yeah. I know. I know. Now look at you in a box, 23 and 1. You know what I mean? So, yeah, they have their run.

but it comes to an end. I've never seen the Eiffel Tower, but I don't think I do 23 and one for... No, I'm not doing it. I go to Vegas and look at the fake one. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, so we're here in LA, man. BT Weekend, who are you excited to see?

If you're excited to see anybody? Any performers? Who's performing? I have no idea. Actually, Little Wayne is performing now for the BT yours. Really? Mm-hmm.

Oh, that's dope. What is he going to perform? You don't know, his greatest hits. If that's the case, then I'm definitely with it. Is he nominated for a, Is he receiving an award or something? That's a great question. A Lifetime Achievement Award.

But no, Ditty is getting it this year, right? Now, Wayne's getting one too. If Wayne got one before Stevie, would you be tight? Yes, but not tight because Wayne got one, because Wayne deserves a lifetime achievement award. But because I say it all the time, Wayne, to me, is the realest dude in the industry, one of the realest artists, you know,

the way he stepped out of his own ego and out of his way to let Drake and Nicky become the superstars that they are. not a lot of artists and people would have done that. So for that, Wayne is a legend in my eyes. But yeah, he definitely deserves a lifetime achievement. But we got to get Stevie one, man. Jesus Christ. And somebody sent me something saying,

Steve, you received some award from BET in 1998. But it wasn't called a Lifetime Achievement Award. Just an award? It was some type of an award. Here you go, Steve? Yeah, I'm like, fan, that ain't, that's not a lifetime achievement award. Like, they got to give Stevie the lifetime achievement,

half people up there performing some of his greatest hits. Like give Stevie all of that while we still have him. Oh, please. They don't throw Doja up there. Before, nah, come on. Doja cat before Steve. No, we're not doing that. But Diddy is receiving it this year, correct?

Yes. Yes, which we did discuss, I think, last time we were here. Yeah. Of how I hope that that medley to go. But that's good that Wayne's performing. Yeah. Not the Puff award shit, though, right? you got i mean in terms of just people performing you got roddy rich jack harlowe lizzo chants in other people

did it rottie got bailed says chance in other people and many more will perform chance and chance in others that means nobody that means a lot of people chance in his little brother yeah that means a lot of people didn't confirm some people are out of town for fashion week like they don't know who's going to be able to come like i get it i don't understand ari is nominated more than anybody why wouldn't you have her perform that is true were you in that committee not why i voted i didn't vote for who to perform. I would have said Moll and I. If you and Moll were to perform at the B2

or that would be... We should be giving Puff his lifetime achievement war. Out of all the people? Out of all the people. Yeah. Why not? What's you trying to say? I bought Wahn Epstein.

I bought No Way Out. Like I actually went and bought Purchas no way out. Yeah, like me. Went and walked to fucking... It might have been still been the Whiz back then. Oh, shit. I know you're talking about. First of all, the Wiz wasn't that long ago.

Let's not age ourselves. It's been crazy. The Wiz is at least 20 years ago. When did the Wiz close down? 2004 or five? Yeah. Really? I thought it was before that.

I hadn't seen one before that. That's what I'm saying. Don't age the Wiz like that. It's still over 15 years. That's a long time. Only one I thought was in before. But he's talking like the Wiz closed in like 2000. Shit, I thought it closed in like, yeah, 2002.

Because after that, after that, after that it was the Virgin Megastore. Oh, for sure. But the Wiz was still open when Virgin was there. It closed in 2003. 2000. All right. Four, I was close. That's 20 years ago.

It's a long time. So yeah, and no way out came out of what, nine what? And nobody beats the whiz. Yeah, and still. Still. And no way out came on what, nine or seven? No way out came out. 98?

Maybe the latest? 97. 97. Yeah, so I actually purchased No Way out. You know what I mean? Like I went purchase. I might have went to an in store and tried to get an autograph. Nasty times.

Nasty times. I remember in stores. Wanting another man's autograph. Waiting in a lot for in stores. Crazy. Yeah, I was, I probably went to a win to a store. in store for No Way Out. So yeah, they should let me

give Puff his hand, him his lifetime. Because you're the only one that ever went to an in store for both. Yeah, I'm the only one that bought No Way Out. I'm the only one with a physical. It's like triple platinum. Yeah, only me. But I still have it. A lot of people don't still have it. I probably still have no way out.

You have CDs still? Yeah, I've still my whole big booklet and everything. Yeah, I've still got a lot of my CDs. I still got my Space Jam. I definitely still have no way out for sure. It's broke though. Like, you know when you open it and the front comes off. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's broke.

It's all good. But yeah, shout out to Puff for receiving a lifetime achievement award. I'm pretty sure that medley is going to be dope. I would hope so. So many hits under Puff's belt at the bad boy imprint. Are you going to network? Am I here to network in L.A.? It's a PET weekend.

No, I'm not here to network. Are you going to hit the events? Well, there is one event that I think I'm doing Friday. I'm going to Friday. Rock Nation is having an R&B party. Oh, wow. Interesting. They hit me about that.

Are we invited? should be interesting. Um, yeah, sure. Why not? I'm pretty, Roy, they didn't, they didn't hit you?

I, I think I'm on their shit list right now. Oh, God. Never mind. Never mind. Yeah.

I think they left me off that. I don't even want to know. I don't even want to know why. Well, I know why. But, yeah, I get it. I'm gonna still go.

Yeah, I might do it. Why not? That's the best. Show up anyway. Even if I'm not invited. I'm fucking outside. What are you going to do?

Tell me I can't come in. Yes. My name's, That's exactly what they're going to do. Nah, you could get into the Rock Nation R&B party. Who's DJ? I believe D-Nice? Oh, and I got to go.

And I ran into Sherry at CVS. I believe that D-Nice. And she didn't bring up the R&B party. Now that I think about it. Damn, you really did. Toiletries. Yeah, I think it's... Oh, Friday I'm definitely down then.

Why not? Because I've been getting a lot of invites to shit that I just, I don't foresee me going to... Too cool for a now? No, I don't think I'm cool enough. Oh, Millie, Jay Murphy, and D. Okay. I like those people Yeah

Speaking of events And we don't have to get into Like full event mode and everything They said food open bar band and vibes I need to be there Come on open bar and vibes Whenever you say vibes it is Like I'm going

What are vibes It depends on what your vibe It depends on how you feel How you flow you know what I mean Can you be the vibe? Absolutely you never been to vibe Adding you're a DJ I've been the vibe

That's why I get paid for Bro you're in a cuck hole You were the vibe I was always in a cuck-hound. That's the difference. Yo, you was definitely the vibe in a cuck-haw. If y'all was seeing her face,

she was like, no one judge me. What are they talking about there? You've definitely been the vibe, Ed and you're a DJ. They texted each other, yo, where's the vibe tonight? And you ended up being the vibe.

They sit the picture editing in the chat. It was like, the vibe is right here. But yeah, so who else are we looking? Who else is performing a chant? Chance the rapper. You got Roddy Ridge. You got Jack Harley.

You got Lizzo. I mean, come on. We got to see Jack Harlow perform live. I've never seen, have I ever seen Jack Harlow perform? I don't think so. I don't think I've ever seen Jack Hallop perform. I don't know if I have. Yeah.

Okay. I'm interested to see Jack's stage show. See what he gives the people. Black's birthday is today. Ooh. Speaking of like invites. Her birthday. And Blacks, we have to find the flyer to put it in like the corner.

It's his 30th birthday. And they're posting online. It's not like it's some secret shit. Nothing about the photo they picked says Black wants to come out and celebrate his 30th birthday with other human beings. Black is like he's so anti. It's like Big Bat 30 celebration bash and is Black just like. Just staring at the cameras. Yeah, Black doesn't want to have a party.

Get existence away for 30 years. Is it out here? Yeah. Black is not going. He's not showing up. Oh, no fucking way. There's no way black shows up to his own 30. I'm going to go just because they'll probably play some black, but I don't expect him to be there. Yeah, Black won't be there.

He'll probably be in his own birthday party? No, Black? Why would he go to his own birthday? Black doesn't like anybody. He doesn't want to talk to you guys. So why they throw this party? What you mean? It's just so they have, it's in the budget.

Contractually, they have to throw his birthday. They have to throw this party. They have to use the money. He won't be there. I'm betting Black will not be at his own birthday. You're not betting on Black? No. I'm betting on Black not being there.

Oh, okay. For sure. He won't be there. He won't be at his birthday party. But happy birthday of Black. And where's the new album while we had it? Yeah, Rory, where's the new album? I think Black speaks to me?

He doesn't speak to anybody. Actually, that's a good question for justice, actually, when we talk to him. What's the new album? That as well. Black and I's text conversations. A lot of blue on my side. Tell you that much. A lot of blue.

A lot of blue. You're talking to yourself in there, fight for your life? That hurts a lot. So we've had about almost a week to live with all of this new music that's out. Yeah. And we haven't recorded since the Beyonce record. came out right? Yeah, we have not recorded since the B'allon. Yeah, since it was

just the album was announced or the fact that the album was coming. So, do you all want to talk about that single first? I mean, I'm kind of scared of the Beehive, but and now that I might be going to a rock nation party. That's probably like the best song, I think, probably ever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you think about it. If you think about it. When you're

really sit and listen to it, it's the greatest record ever released. She does it again. It's a continue. So are we- Smash. So are we all on the same page of this whole dance

vibe that is now here? It's never, I mean, it was never gone, but it's now like, it was there. It's now like, it's now at the forefront of

our conversations and our culture and our playlist. But please don't tell me you're one of the conspiracy theorists that I see all over Twitter that they're trying to get rid of hip-hop. Oh, no. I'm like,

because Drake made one album and Beyonce made one. song, it's over for hip hop. I saw, I saw, I saw a video of Irv Gotti landing at the airport and TMZ caught up to him. And Irv said, yo, that's, that hour

make me want to go in the trenches and find the next X and the next Jarlahul and the next, he's like, yo, that's not hip hop. What is that shit? But my thing, Irv is, it was never supposed to be a hip hop album. It says dance. Yes, it's dance. Irv was so pissed off, like,

what is this shit? And it's like, But fam, he wanted to make a dance album. He made a dance album. But that is what made you decide. Let me go find the next DMX. But that's what, that was the one. Because I guess he's trying to say like, nah, hip hop is being like turned into something else. So I have to go find, like, the real grimy hip hop, like going back in the trenches.

Go to Flatbush. But they're all there. Flatbush, go to the Bronx. Drill is fucking. Yeah. I'm about I said, go to the Bronx. Like, the way them young boys are shooting and tearing up and terrorizing the neighborhood. Like, I'm pretty sure it's the DMX in there somewhere in the fucking crowd.

Dem kids would have made X go, hey, hey, relax. Yeah, so, so Irv was so pissed off because I guess he felt like since Drake is a rapper and he put out a dance album, I guess Irv Gotti felt like they're trying to turn hip hop into something. But it's not like, it's not like sticky fingers put out a dance album. Drake was already making music that wasn't really great as aggressive as DMM. And he's put out dance songs before. He said, quote, unquote. Earth said, quote, unquote. I just wasn't expecting a whole album of that shit.

None of us were. And that was the thing that was the thing that we talked about. None of us were expecting an entire dance album from Drake. And the fact that he did it during Pride Month to me speaks to the calculation. I don't think there's a correlation. What do you mean? There's a correlation. It could be correlated.

It could be one correlated. It's absolutely a correlation. I don't think he did it because it was Pride Month. I'm just, even if he didn't, If it's by accident, that means he's more locked in than we know. If that was an accident, like, oh, shit, and it's prime month? Because I'm saying the same about Beyonce, because when I was listening to break my soul, I could picture myself if I was in New York skipping down Fifth Avenue with a rainbow flag.

It felt like the month. Listen, you can't, you can say what you want about the album. I think I was spinning in my hotel room. You were spinning around? Like a top? Oh, the drill artists are doing that these days, too. They spin around. Oh, mine was much free.

No, I didn't do any of this. But they usually spin because they're trying to. not get hit by the bullets. Death drop. Yeah. Yeah. No, I was, it was a dog.

You know how to do that? No, I thought Rory did. I mean, there was a soft bed there. You would tear your whole your knee cap. Every ligament in my lower back.

You try to do that if you want to. Your whole knee going to pop out your fucking hamstring. Listen, man, those boogers are agile. So. No. See how awkward it gets when you say, can I ask you a question?

No, go ahead. What's your question? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I apologize. You won't break his soul. Go ahead, Ed.

It's okay. we were in Mexico when that drop do y'all feel like that we were able to enjoy the album because we were away from like New York, L.A. and all that.

No. I would have enjoyed that. I like that. I like music. And you know, I see everybody online. Oh, y'all are riding, Drake and this. I saw a really funny meme about that. It's a good album. It's good music. Like, if you're from New York or any of the major cities,

like dance has been in your neighborhood. part of your culture, forever. So I was just more impressed that he was able to create that album being a, we know Drake as a rapper. He's not a singer. He's not. He can do a lot of these things. But we know him as a rapper.

So the fact that a rapper can create an album like that, and it sounds like it wasn't, like, forced, like, it sounded natural for him. Yeah, I can feel that. Would you say you're more impressed that he could create some like that or that he actually put it out? no I'm I'm more impressed that he could create it you know what I mean like it's it's it's good me and then this is the thing that I don't think people

when they first came out because everybody's they didn't like the content is still toxic like he's talking toxic shit like on once on he said I found a new muse that's not good news for you why would I keep you around it's like how do you tell a girl like you listen I found this new chick it's over for you I'm writing just fine without you yeah like it's like fam

That's like, ignore the fact that the music and the tempo is dance and it's a different BPM than you're probably used to. But it's really not because when you listen to a lot of it, you can hear the hip hop. You can hear the drill. You can hear all of these different sounds mixed together into music. So that's why when people were killing it when it first came out, I'm like, yo, but this is, it's still good music. Away from the fact that you didn't expect it from him. Right. This could be anybody.

Say it was an artist we never even heard about. you would still be like damn like this is a good sound project like he really put put out some good music and that's all i was saying is that is good music i stand by my review i just i do have to put some pushback i didn't realize that mole called him brave i would have gave it i feel bad now for last episode i ain't that's not brave of an artist like drake to take a chance on a whole dance project he wasn't on the front lines of normandy he just put out music no but that's but fam they was killing him for his last two albums drake caught flak for his the c lb It would have been brave to put out CLB part two.

That would have stunk. That would have been brave. This was, nah, you're bugging. This was you. No, Brave is just like, all right, so what, what do we call the first responders at 9-11? It's the same as, we just can't use the word brave. Why, we can't? In music, if you put out, if you put out your R&B album tomorrow, right, that you're doing?

808s was more brave than this. Why do you say that? Because there had not been. Kanye wasn't on the front lines in Normandy to you. So why do you say that was more brave? No, I agree. I'm saying if we're going to use the word brave. Yeah, like, well, I was 808's braver than fucking putting out a dance project.

He put out a dance project, bro. Dance music. I know. I just feel like if I saw a plane go into a building and I'm a firefighter and I run up the steps when everyone's running down, I just wouldn't go, ooh, this feels like a Drake album. But you know, you compare it. It feels like Drake's last album. But you compare, you're comparing the word bravery to so many different things. Like, what do you, I'm talking about it's brave of him to take that chance in his career.

that he's at right now. Because people killed him for his last album. But he's dropped tracks like that before. I'm talking about a full project. He's never done that, bro. He has the number one dance album. A rapper has the number one dance album in this catalog. You know how crazy that is?

I think it's dope. It is dope. But it's like he took a chance. Like, people, what if everybody killed him? Like, get this shit the fuck out of it. That's brave taking that chance. They do it now because, but not. But a lot of people do like the album as well.

Yeah. I'm talking about he didn't know. That, he didn't, going into it, he didn't know if his fans were going to accept this and how they were going to take to it. Like, that's brave for an artist that's as big as Drake to take that chance. Like, you're taking the chance on losing a lot of your fan base with this project. I don't think he'd lose anybody. If he would have done this like around, nothing was the same era.

He lost some of his fans on the CLB project. They killed him for that. But he's still, at this point, it doesn't. Kanye is not affecting. He's in that mode too because when he put out the gospel shit It was like I mean we're still Kanye fans We're just gonna move on to the next project That was brave for Kanye as well to put out a gospel project

But I'm saying if he would have put out a dance album around The Nothing was the same time like when he was Going upward in his career and not already the icon that he is That would have been more brave to me Like that's why I think 808 was more brave Because he had not made any music like that at all And you went from graduation Where you could have done graduation part two

And went even higher in your career And said here take this fucking sad electronic music You don't think Yeez is more brave? I think he was so established at that point that it, it, yeah. So, all right, if we're going to use the word brave, which is ready to face it, endure danger or pain. Thank you, Mary Webster. Well, it hurts when you read comments.

It hurts when you read comments about yourself. Like, this album's fucking sucks. We have to, like, put some words aside. So what's the word? Is it risky? Risky. Risky is a better word. Yes.

Okay. Confident in your craft. Okay. I didn't know I was sitting here with semantics, man, today. Okay, risky. So I take, I take great. I think there's some words we should just leave alone. I just don't know Brave is the one.

Okay. So it was a risky album for Drake. I feel like even risky is kind of a harsh word. I feel like being a punt returner in the NFL is much more brave than putting out a dance album. You're talking about one of the biggest hip-hop artists in the world making a dance album. I'm not even talking because Roy, he just being funny. He just playing it off with a word. He's seen people online killing me for saying brave and now he came in here and he must laugh at me.

I get it. It's okay. Like, I'm secure on myself. Yeah, I said it. It's a fucking brave project. I'm on three shots of DayQuil, all right? Yeah. But then Beyonce came and she doubled down on the brave.

Well, it wasn't as brave for Beyonce because they kind of, she already. She was the second platoon in? Yeah, yeah. Second platoon. It doesn't count for Beyonce because, you know, people are going to love and praise Beyonce no matter what she does. The track was great, though. The song?

Yeah. I hope the whole album doesn't sound like that. I don't think it will, but I think Drake definitely knew. and was like, Oh, for sure. Let me drop this shit now. Him and Joey Badass made the best decisions ever. 100%.

Joey Badass is still, he's doubling down that he had, that wasn't why. There's no way. Hey, Joey, I love you. Listen, man, you got out the way. No, he got a date. And then Beyonce put her date out and he said, you know what, man? That was probably that. He's Frankie Bethlehem.

Just can't get cleared. But, okay, so Beyonce drops the record. I believe the dream, the dream wrote this record? Tricky Stewart and Dream. Tricky Stewart and Dream. One of the best duos in music, in my opinion. Agreed. I like the song

I do too it's gonna play everywhere and I'm gonna enjoy it when it's played I'm indifferent in it and they're gonna call me a cop out here I don't dislike it I don't love it

it's cool like it's cool I like it I'm with you on I think it's a lazy dream and tricky beat I think the writing is good I just think it's a lazy beat

and the beehive's gonna kill me if you go through Drake's project and look what 40 and then did, that's not lazy house music. I, this felt for what I know dream and Tricky Stewart that we all know the geniuses for them to be, it felt like a lazy beat. But the song in itself, sometimes lazy beats are smashes. Now, you say you don't want a whole project from Beyonce that sounds like this. This type of house or dance.

Oh, just that particular. But you wouldn't be mad at, you wouldn't be mad at a full dance project from Beyonce. No, I wouldn't. Now, if you told me that this honestly never mind project was a full dance project, before I heard anything, I would have been like, oh my God, like, what is Drake doing? I wouldn't know because some of my favorite songs from Drake are dance records. Yeah, but a whole project? I actually would love the idea.

I don't think, I wouldn't, I would have definitely been like, oh, shit. Well, I was looking at all the whole time. I buy my wife's from H&M. So we're in different thing. I know you hold them up to the light and you bop your head to the music. I get it. I know how you shop. That's disgusting.

I know how you shop. You hold it up. Yeah, you wait for somebody to come see you like, oh my God, they don't have nobody working in here. You complain about not being any staff walking around. For sure.

I like the Beyonce record. I am. I do want to, I don't know if I want a full dance project though from Beyonce. Well, the rumor. I think more R&B. The rumor was, and this isn't like the insider rumor.

This was just people talking online. so it's got to be true. That the three acts would be dance for the first one, R&B for the second, and then country for the third. Ooh. I like that. I would love a Beyonce country album.

So she's giving us a smorgas board of music. Yes. Which I think is what Drake is going to do as well, just not in the act one, two, and three way that Beyonce is. Because I think Drake is going to give us this year a full-blown rap project. Well, he did say there's another project coming.

Scary hours. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe that's a whole drill, drill project. Oh, I don't know. See, I don't know if I would want to hear that personally. I don't want you. I don't want to hear drill, Drake.

I didn't want to hear Drell Drake. And I've been in the shower jamming the fucking massive and sticky. That's nasty. Dancing in the shower to Sticky. Texco Green. And it asked you the same guy that couldn't listen to Forrest Gump in the shower. Look at how you've progressed as a human being. Listen to the content of Forrest Gump.

Listen to the lyrics. I know the lyrics to Forrest Gump. It's actually a beautiful song. Beautiful record. I just, I had to take it off my playlist. Your shower play. Why? What?

Running through my mind boy, that, that's why. Listen, I love all people, bro. Same. I just don't want to hear certain songs when I'm in the show with soap, suds running down my back. That's all. That's all I'm saying. I mean, what if you had like a male dog or something and you just kind of equated it to like. Name Forrest.

Where's gum? Yeah. I'm singing to my dog. from the shower? Yeah. You love that dog. Bayes sits right at the door when I shower. You'd be singing to Basley? Sometimes. Sometimes it perks her ears up a little bit. Now listen, man, you do what you do. He's just not just not. Forrest Gump is my go-to.

And Bees is a girl. Well, I think Bayes identifies as a girl. Yes, you don't want to put that on Bay. You don't know what she or he identifies that. I don't know. She, I think Bayes, I don't know what she identifies as, but she does get behind dogs like she has a dick all the time. I think dogs just have this thing in them where they just hump. They just don't care. No, but she like mounts boy dogs and I'm like, Bays, it goes

the other way. No, she's the dominant one in the relationship. That's all. No, she's very much, she's Peggy. Peggy. So when is Beyonce's album coming? 29th. Yep. Next week. The first one.

29th. The first act. Yes. 29th of July. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, so that's next month. I'm still surviving 12th. Yes. July 29th.

So a month away. I think we'll get another record. Oh, you think so? You think so? You think it'll be another record in the same act or different act? Same act. Huh.

I think different act. Yeah? I think different act. That'd be hard. And which one would you rather hear the country or the R&B one? I want to hit country. If she goes on, I actually am. We know what R&B Beyonce sounds like.

I want to hear country, country Beyonce. She's from Texas. She got to go full R&B though for that R&B one. Like not for or dangerously in love

because there's a bunch of like traditional R&B records on those albums but they're not R&B albums or pop albums. I want her to go full, full R&B.

Like give me 10 traditional ass R&B records and just shit on these bitches. Wait, all these whisper singers, get them out of here. No, I like the whisper singers.

I love them. But it's a little different when a singer shows up, and Beyonce is a singer. We, um, do we know who's producing on these projects? No. None of that has been released. Yeah, and then producers, you know, they, like, we, they don't even talk to you when they're working with Beyonce. No, of course. They just don't answer your text messages.

They don't answer the phone. You see them out in public. You say, hello, they don't speak. They don't even look at you. And you like, ah, B got you locked in. Oh, B got you in camp. Oh, okay. I get it.

Can't even look at some eyes anymore. How many songs are y'all expecting for each act? Because you just said 10 songs, and I'm like, the idea of 30 songs. Well, Beyonce hasn't, she hasn't put out any music in a few years. Yeah. A 30 song? I'm guessing. I'm guessing it's just going to be at least 13, 14 tracks each album.

I think five each act would be lit. Just five songs? Each act? Nah. But five really good songs? Yeah. You got to be more than 5. I think 30 total.

If it is three acts. I can't see her not doing four, because four is like her favorite number. I think she would do four acts, but. was there four box sets? I didn't go to the set. I think it's three box sets. So maybe four songs each three box sets? That's not enough music.

From Beyonce? But 30 songs? No way. Why? I mean, self-titled Beyonce album was what, 18? Something like that. 18 and 30s?

She shot a video for everyone. You don't think Beyonce can make 30 records? Oh, no, no. And the amount of time that she's been off? Like, 300 already, like set. I think this will be at least 13 to, 15 songs each project. I can see that.

And I think she'll probably put them out each month. Oh. Yeah. You don't think all three will come out on July 20th. Well, no, it did just say act one. Yeah. I think, I think it'll be three months. Renaissance is a very odd.

Oh, wait. We can answer it right now. I'm on Apple Music. Renaissance, July 29th, has 16 songs. Wow. There you go. That's just break one act? Number six.

Yeah. Act one. Renaissance is a very odd title for a dance album, but. Isn't it? Nah, that sounds like that actually goes apart. I guess. What does Renaissance mean, Rory? Is it a word that we can use today?

It's like bravery? Well, I heard act two is actually called bravery. Renaissance is the revival of art. And then I heard act three is never forget. No. forget. What we just talk about? Oh, Renaissance.

I don't know. I feel like the R&B act would be called Renaissance. I don't know if the... I don't know. The revival of art and literature on the influence of classical models. There's remember dance music and what, I guess? I mean, dance music all throughout, it's just always been popular.

Let's say a big epitone was the 90s, you know, that kind of dance music. Eddie, you're a DJ. Do you feel like you can play that entire Drake album and just walk away from your... you said. Would you believe me if I told you

that I definitely did something like that just to see it and I was like oh this I can't, I don't even have to touch it yeah

really? Yeah, 100% until you get to the last track obviously that's a whole different vibe but it's great it's great

I haven't I haven't been at the Stumble in you know I was about to ask you like you haven't so you haven't played it yet in front of a crowd

no I feel like people will eat it up though at least a couple of the tracks okay and plus the Beyonce but you can't I don't know

I feel like I don't know I feel like I I would hate to see somebody do both of those back to back. But what is... So do we feel like, because these are two of our biggest artists. Yep. That are, that have put out this type of music, this type of energy.

So what do we think is happening? Like, do we think that there's something going on in the studios that we don't know about? I'll say from the DJ perspective, there's a buddy of mine. and her name is Dayton Lou. And she was just kind of on Twitter the other day, talking about, you know, we're getting tired in the clubs of just getting 65 to 70 BPM tracks that people are not dancing to. Yeah.

They're not really bump into it like that. But it hits. They're great tracks. They're fire. But it's not the club hits that really get people going into the running to the dance floor type. They make for great Instagram videos. 100%. Yeah.

So, no, I can definitely see. So it's time for it. Two artists like that having parallel thinking of we've been inside and we look at the clubs now and this should. Nobody's dancing. Nobody's having fun. Everybody's just taking TikTok videos. Everybody's just taking Instagram videos of them rap into drill and whatever else is popular right now. So the two biggest artists now is saying, okay, we're going to change the BPM.

We're going to change the energy in the party. We're going to change the energy on the dance floor. We want to bring the dance floor back. We don't want just VIP tables and people just standing around taking pictures. want you to start dance and start moving. Use both feet. I like it, man. Because it's just, we have the drill, we have all of that other sound, we have all of that,

which is cool. Like, no, I listen to a lot of that too. But you do need something different. And when your two biggest artists are now blatantly changing the direction and changing the energy, you've got to expect that, okay, something is happening. Like, they see something and they're trying to make, like, oh, where we're trying to change this. to change this dynamic in the clubs.

I don't expect other people to follow suit though. I hope they don't. Yeah, same. And I don't think this will become, because the two biggest artists did it, it's not a wave per se. Exactly. So like the way certain sounds will come

where it's not the most prominent artist doing, it's just a bunch of like the middle tier artist doing it becomes the wave. Now that the two biggest artists did it, you're going to look super corny if you were never making dance music. And it's like, well, I think I'll try. Like, you're just going to look weird.

So I don't think dance is going to be the wave per se. I think they'll add in certain elements. I think up tempo will start to come back a bit more, which I'm happy about to him. And let's be clear. Dance has not gone anywhere. No. Dance has always been around. It just hasn't been part of our culture.

Part of hip-hop. And it's... As a recent. As a recent. Because dance is hip-hop. It comes from that... Break beats are just... It comes from that.

But you know what I mean. Just in our culture meeting like the places we go, the places we party, the places we frequent, we don't really hear dance music as much. Now we have the two biggest artists obviously putting out dance music. You know, it's like, okay, they're trying to change something. That's a, we know that. That's obvious at this point. But even like I love the balance, whereas I don't think it'll become the wave shit.

I know Chris Brown just did the Afro beat shit, but the, uh, the warm embrace. Crazy record, by the way. Amazing. But the warm embrace record is a fucking amazing, perfect. R&B record from Chris Brown that came out this same week. And that video is nuts. I don't know why more people aren't talking about that. Him and Normani smoked

that shit. I don't know who directed it, but that whole water sequence, like, I'm excited for this Chris Brown album. It's a lot of features, but I'm still excited for it. Rafael Sadiq is confirmed to be a producer on Beyonce's album. I like it. I don't even know what it sounds like yet.

There's a lot of incense. It's a lot of silk scoffs, a lot of big hats. I mean, a lot of guitars. Does Salange feel away? No, she probably got one, too. You know, you know. I mean, he did most of a seat at the table. Mm-hmm.

No, he probably got some, some new stuff for us. He won older sisters just be biting this way. Damn. Older sisters? Yeah. Is this the first time they were together? Beyonce and Raphael Ced? Uh, I would think so.

I don't know, maybe like way back in Destiny's Child days. Mm-hmm. But not that I can think of. Um, well, we got to wait for the first act. 16 tracks? Yeah. And that's according to Twitter, so you know it's true. Yeah.

Speaking of Twitter, Elon's must acquisition of Twitter has been approved. Elon Musk's $44 billion bid to take over the company has been unanimously approved by the company's board of directors. So you know what that means, fellas. Donald Trump is coming back. And I can't wait. Bring the Don tweets. Y'all got to be honest.

Like, presidency aside, was Donald Trump not entertaining on Twitter? Yes. That's all. Absolutely. Kaffeef is one of my favorite tweets. So I just, we just bring Don back. Freedom of tweets. Not freedom of speech. Freedom of tweets.

Elon Musk wants freedom of tweets for everybody. That's gross. I mean, he's a good comedic writer. I just don't know if I'd want Larry David to be the president. Ronald Reagan was. He wasn't a comedic writer. He was an actor.

He was acting like he was a president. So like a president? Yeah. Like every other president. They just sit there and act like they're doing something. You ain't doing shit. Doesn't Donald Trump have his own Twitter? Well, he has a, he has a,

has a platform, yes, a social media platform. But I believe Elon Musk's, his main thing with acquiring Twitter was because he felt like everyone should have the freedom to tweet and you know, it felt like that was being

taken away. And buy Tesla. And I believe that him and Don are, I believe he said he's voting for Donald Trump next time around. I think he said it and he said watch how many people now turn their backs on me. I mean, I'll place semantics again, I think he was saying that he was done with the Democrat Party. I don't know

if he straight up said I'm voting for Trump because it hasn't been announced that Trump would be the Republican. Are you still one of those people that think Trump is not going to run in 24? I know he's going to run. Okay. You know he's spinning the block. He can't wait. Yeah, he's running back. I'm just happy that somebody that has the power and obviously the capital of Elon Musk feels that way about social media that people should be able to tweet and, you know, freely and things expressed themselves and things like that and was able to buy that company and say, listen, man,

you know, I own the company now freedom of tweets. Out of all ways to make people free, though. And Kanye too, because I'll believe Kanye's account is suspended as well, right? For what, harassing Pete Davidson? No, it's still active. Is it? But didn't he have, didn't they suspend his account at one point? Probably. Probably for talking to him. People have

said way meaner things to me than Kanye said to Pete. I was going to say. Why are they still No, I can go in my most recent. Oh, my, my, my, my recent. Oh, my God. Like, they call me all kinds of things. I'm like, I'm just trying to talk to the people every week. Well, listen, you want Elon to take over.

It's just going to get worse for you. No, no, no. I want Elon to take over because Elon is going to make sure that I can say what I want back, and I will not be suspended. But out of all things that spend all that money on to make people free, did it really have to go to Twitter? I think I'm with Edding on this. Like, I think that's great in all, but, like, 44 billion,

just so people could fucking tweet 140 characters while they're taking a shit. shit. Like, I just feel like that money could have been used elsewhere. Like, to compare to another millionaire, like, you got Mark Cuban who made a whole, like, pharmaceutical company that, like, lowered the, basically, like, I guess, the cost of medication, let's say he cut it to maybe, like, an eighth almost. Like, that sounds way more productive to me than, like, Donald Trump could tweet. Well, I mean, it's not just Donald Trump could tweet. It could be other things coming with the acquisition.

of Twitter as well for Elon. Like, we don't know what he's going to implement. We don't know what other things he's going to do with the platform. Like, you know, if we know anything about Elon, we know that he sees down the line. He sees the future. He understands what's coming. He's trying to create the future. So, I mean, you know, just another toy for him to just talk to the world.

I don't want Elon must have more toys. Yeah, he has a flamethrower. He has an iPad in his car. Like, what more does it? He has a SpaceX. He just goes to the home on weekends whenever he wants. On weekends. He has a train.

in Los Angeles and no one's seen. Yeah, he's the only one that can get on that train from L.A. to Vegas. He's the only person that can ride that train. Last train to Vegas. I'm with Edding on that, though. Like, yeah, I get it. It's very much important that people should be able to say whatever the fuck they want to say, I guess. You'll see how, like, Tesla is self-driving?

What Mark Cuban is doing is. It's crazy. Yeah. More impactful than anyone being able to tweet whatever stupid things pop up in their head. We're talking cheap. Yeah, but that's, you know, again, that's what Mark Cuban is doing. I'm not saying that that doesn't mean Elon now. Elon has to jump into the medical field because Mark Cuban did.

Oh, no. No, that's just an example of something that will positively impact people's actual physical health rather than me being able to say whatever is in my dumb brain. In a hundred 40 characters. Let's see. Let's see what Elon are the things he implements to the platform. Let's see maybe he made a Twitter hospital. And if you need some emergency medical services, just tweet 911. You just tweet 911.

That's not a bad idea. idea, yo. And they just pop up right at your location. Like, yo, you good? Like, Elon said, Elon said you needed something. Elon? If I get shot and open my phone, like, oh, thank God, Elon, I can, yo, I'm shot.

Elon will come right to you. He'll send the Twitter birds right to you. Yeah, absolutely. A self-driving Tesla pulls up. Watch what happens when-hads, alcohol swabs, everything in the backseat. Watch what happens when that fucking Tesla gets caught in traffic when I'm trying to go to the emergency room and Elon's underground zooming to Calibazas. No, no, no.

He's on SpaceX. He's going up. is SpaceX. He's out here to the moon. Yeah. What are we going to do when we get to space? I don't know. I've never really thought about that that far. Like you get to what?

Mars? And then what do you do? Like I get it. We should learn about what's going on and shit. Like what? They've gotten up there. Now what? Like, do you think the food would be good there in space?

I mean, Matt Damon grew, uh... Yeah, he grew potatoes. Yeah. He had fucking starches and carbs for life up there. So I'm pretty sure if you're doing something up there. I feel like you can't be. vegan in space. I feel like that's the only thing you can be.

Yeah, there's no animals up there. That's true. We don't know. Right. It could be a whole fucking bunch of cattle on Mars. We don't know. Let me ask you that something. Tesla's, you know how like,

you got a lot of questions today. I know, I know. There's the cattle on Mars. Where's the cattle? We don't know. Is it free range? Yeah, absolutely. As long as it's free range.

It's grass fed too. Absolutely. From Matt, Matt grew the grass. Yeah, absolutely. Tesla are self-driving, right? What if Elon, right, got an AI, for like Twitter accounts. So like they could be an AI

mall tweeting and an AI Rory. Like what would they say? The Russians created them. Yeah. Right. They influenced our election. Would you trust those AIs of yourselves? I mean, we trusted Joe Biden in office.

Same. I don't know what that means. I think Joe Biden is AI. I don't think that's really hell. Oh, you don't think that's really. No, I mean, it's just an old ass man. Yeah. I think that's artificial.

I think that's an old fucking dude. That's artificial intelligence. I'm telling me, I know artificial intelligence when I see it. When he stepped to the podium, check him out. Check him. Check his swag out. No. That ain't, that ain't a real dude up there, man. That's not a... No, it's a heavily medicated 95-year-old man.

Artificial intelligence, exactly. Did you see that 95-year-old man fall off his bike? Oh, my God. I just, man, sometimes my foot... It gets caught. It gets caught. He just didn't know to take, like, to just pull a whole bike over and kind of like hop step. Like, he didn't know. He ain't have that in his artillery. You know what you're doing?

What? Trump. Trump on his Twitter account? You did what he did? His Twitter? No, what do you do? Bro, he, he, he, somebody, his, his, I guess his team spliced a video of him hitting a golf ball. And then the golf ball on the next video hits Biden's bike and he falls. I can't lie. I can't lie.

I didn't see the video and I did laugh. Yeah. Like, how do you not love that? I love that. These old white men throwing shots at each other, I love that shit, man. Yeah. Absolutely. I hate the optics of what a president has to do.

Like, daw, that's an old man. Yeah. Get him off a bike. Yeah. Why was he riding that bike? No, this is not smart. I don't feel like, oh, look at my president, athletic. Hell, y'all looks stupid.

His old ass should not be on a bike. Nor have a driver's license. I didn't understand. Or operate any vehicle. He just didn't have a license? No. How old is Joe Biden? Let me tell you right.

What's his industry age? What's his real age? Let me ask, first of all, what I think? How old are you think he is? 88. 84. 79. Yeah, at least 90.

80 this year, though. 80 this year. Yeah. That's probably like 90. I know 90 when I see 90. T-9. Joe Biden 90, man. That fall off the bike, that's dumb 90-year-old knees.

I know those knees when I see it. That's 90. You said what, 70 what? 79. He's not 70 years old. No, he's 90. They cut 10 off his age. That's nice.

That's Wikipedia he was on? That's Google. Oh, yeah. So what year would that make that he was born? He was born in 1942. I feel like it wasn't it a game at the arcades called 1940? Yes. He's to shoot him up.

Yeah. That was a game, right? I remember that. Why we got someone that was born in 1942 pretending to be progressive. Isn't that crazy? Listen, man. Just go be the old racist man, you really are. But you voted for him.

You don't know that. Trump is 76. I knew you was with me. I knew my God was with me. I did not vote for Donald Trump. I didn't vote either. I know you didn't vote for Biden either. I knew he was with me.

I didn't vote in the Trump and Hillary won and then y'all destroyed me. And I was like, wait, hold on. I thought the right to vote, also meant the right not to vote. That's what I thought. But then they told me a vote for no one is a vote for Trump. I'm like, wait a minute. I don't want to vote for anybody. I'm a resident of New York.

You all know how this works? Bro, they made me feel so. You were next to me the whole time, Roy. They made me feel like shit. I said, wait, I didn't vote for nobody. Well, no vote is a vote for Trump. I'm like, who made that slogan up? Like, y'all just make these slogans up every day.

And then y'all flubbed my mentors with me. Y'all make me feel bad. And y'all hope that I'm depressed, but I'm not. Aha. It's like, man, and I don't care. I'm voting for Trump in 24. I'm saying it. I'm saying it.

God damn it. Fuck that. Y'all vote for Biden. Y'all voted for Biden in 2020. I do not call it. Or was it 2021? We just lost $20,000 downloads. Oh, whatever.

Fuck them. No, no, no. We need those. No, yeah. Don't worry. When Don comes back, watch those numbers. Oh, it's going to be great. It's going to be great.

The proud boys will start listening again. You've adopted his language of. Not saying anything of substance. It'll be great. It'll be great. Everyone will be happy. Everything will be fixed. But was it not great?

Was it not great when Trump was in office? Everybody had money. Listen, everybody was getting to the bag. I don't know dudes that had got small business loans. He's the thing that's never graduated high school. I was like, how do you have a store?

I got a small business loan. When Trump was in office? Yeah. Well, I mean, he was the only person that would have been in office when COVID hit. Yeah. But I try to get one now. Oh, no. If you are in business and shit.

No. I mean, we went through a whole pandemic. I've had Loyan push my taxes back. We do. Yeah, tell him what's the last week? Yeah, tell him what's the next week. Man, listen, I paid some... Quarterly payments would have to do.

Listen, I paid so many taxes. I think I almost have to vote for Trump. I don't know if that's... I paid a good amount of taxes when Trump was still in office. Of course you did. This is just a whole other level. It's nasty out there, bro. Because you guys are upper class.

I'm not upper class. You're talking about. Yeah, I'm not middle class. I am middle class. I'm black. I'm always middle class. No matter how much money I got. I'm always right there in middle. Not too good, not too bad, just right there.

I mean, I did definitely have some pushback and reality check. Like, damn, why once I start to get money we have to have the most hated Republican president of him? Fuck! Just when I was going to vote for a Republican

and keep some of my money. It's got to be this fucking asshole. Listen, man, I understand it. I get it, man. I get it. But all jokes aside, we hope that Biden is okay. We hope his knees are all right. He's okay.

He's okay. He's okay. I mean, you're 93 and you take a fall like that, and that's not an easy fall. He's 95. Okay. When you're 97, you take a fall like that, it's not, you know, you can really hurt yourself.

Yeah, part of a hundred three-year-old man. He did pretty good. Who are the Democrats going to get? And I don't want to make this a political podcast, but it's getting real close to that time. It is. I don't know. Is he not?

I think he is going to go again, though. Joe Biden is not running for president He's running again He can't even bike for president He's gonna go again Run for president He's gonna wheel for president Man get the fuck out of here man

They better not show up to the polls of Biden On that ballot again man If Biden runs for president I could run on the Republican bill And win I got a feeling we're gonna get somebody like Dwayne Johnson, the rock If we get to rock

Yeah the rock is going He's gonna go on a run You know how stupid I felt I was like, oh, I'm so out of touch with politics. I don't know this Democrat, Dwayne Johnson. Where is he in Connecticut? No, Hawaii. He's a senator in Maine.

The Rock. I believe people will, I believe that's the only candidate that could be Donald Trump in the next election. It's somebody like the Rock. So would Vin Diesel be the secretary of state? No, Vin his window, his window closed. The people would not vote for Vin like that. Nah. When were they voting for Vin?

When Fast 2 came out. Fast 2, 3. When that first came out, Yeah, Vin had a shot. Now they're like, Nah, Vin. We don't know if your shoulders still work. Well, I mean, they'd have to interview Tyrese about how the Rock could keep the family together.

Is Kanye going, you think Kanye going to run? No. God, no. I hope not. Because he gave us a, he stepped out there a little bit. If the Rock runs for president, who's his VP? Kevin Hart. I knew he's going to say that.

Come on. Come on. What are you talking about? I don't know how I'd feel about Kevin Hart being my vice president. Why not? Kevin Hart? Yeah. How do you feel like Kamala being your?

your vice president. You haven't seen her from her since she said we did it. And what did she do? She's the confidence in which she says things. Why not Kevin H? Why not? I don't think the vice president matters. I just put somebody in the chair.

Because I don't trust Kevin Hart's ability to choose scripts at this point, let alone politics. Nah, Kevin has some good scripts. Don't do that. It's been lately. Really? Which one didn't you like? Jumanji 7.

They did do a second Jumanji and that was in shit. But The Rock is in there too. The Rock and Kevin Hart, they do every movie to Kevin. The Rock has consistently made some shitty movies lately. No, the Rock always saves the world. Don't do that. He saved us at least 17 times from mass destruction. Nah, you know, that ain't like true story?

I don't know if I saw that. What was true story about? That was the one where he got the head shots off at the end. Oh, no, I love that. Oh, yeah. It was, no, no, we spoke about that. We had covered that. That was, it was good, but that.

I'm not a Kev hater either. I just wanted my vice president. I killed that last scene. Yeah, yeah. All of a sudden you get this strap and you just got this impeccable aim. Two shots. Two head shots? Clean.

Come on, man. Don't need secret service. Like, there's no recoil on that gun. Yeah, I didn't like the way that. The ending was the storyline leading up to it. Great series on Netflix. But was it a series or a show or movie? It was a series.

I mean, the rock also. It was a movie or series? I thought it was episodes? Yeah, it was episodes. Nah. Yeah. I feel like it was episodes. Yeah.

Drama series. Yeah. Okay. It was episodes. You just binged. It's okay. You just don't know your camera. What was Shorty's name that set the whole thing up?

I was going to say. She was the girl? The girl that died? Fake, what she? Fake died? Well, her name is Daphne. In real life? In real life is Ash Santos.

Go to her Wikipedia page and then go under personal life. That's where you got to find out. You do all of that. That means you're doing way too much, bro. She's from the Bronx. Really? Mm-hmm. Does she currently reside there?

It doesn't say. She has a spouse. Why didn't you start with that? Yeah, leave with that next time, Eddie. That's why I said personal life. Oh, you're right. Well, yeah, I guess the rock could work. He got juvenile delinquents to play football with Exhibit.

There you go. I would vote for the rock. That would be the only person I would vote for over Donald Trump, honestly. That would be the only person you would vote for over Donald Trump? Yeah. The only person you'd vote for? Yeah. Is there any musical artists you'd vote for?

No. I don't trust these artists to drop the albums when they say they will. I feel like the rock I'm sure the rock has made a rap song before there's no idea of not he was in the song with um God what was that song he did Who would you vote for Edna? Myself. Oh with Donald Trump

Who would I? I don't know I mean I think Will and Jada would at least keep things spicy in the White House God no Fuck no They would put Bill and Hillary to shame They wouldn't even speak to each other That would be the first time the president

The Vice President don't know each other They don't even speak. They don't even speak. Are you kidding me? Nobody wants to say Jay and Will don't like each other. Turn on the Oval Office into the red table would be the funniest shit ever.

Absolutely. So if you don't know, it'd just be a red table. You're trying to say they're going to be Republican? It would be the Red Oval table. Why not? That might be interesting, actually. Jayden & Will Smith is president and vice president. Well, which one would be president and vice president?

Jade is going to be president. Well, I don't know. couldn't control his temper. He might hit the nuke button. Jada seems like she'll sit back and she'll, you know, but Jada's in like, she seems, she seems like she would poison the waters again in Flint. Oh my God. She would do like some like low key like she would sit there and watch. Like back in belly like nasty. Yeah, she would watch you like deteriorating like you wonder why you're sick, huh? That's exactly. That's exactly what it was. Yeah. That's the look Jada got like,

oh, you wonder why you're coughing all week. Yeah. that fucking poison I put in your fucking souffle last week. How y'all made Jada the supervillain? You know what? She is. She would treat everything like, you know, in Breaking Bad when Walter White put the rice in and Shorty's drink and cold her.

Like, do you feel sick today? How are you feeling? How's your day? Do you have a temperature by chance? Yeah, you think she's really concerned. How's your day? How's your day? How are you feeling? Is your head spinning?

Are you vomiting? She says to the whole country? Yes, actually, that's exactly what it's happening. She probably brought COVID here. Damn, don't do that. We're not going to put that on Jada. All right, so if you have Will and Jada as your president and vice president, who's your secretary

of defense? No, I just have her as first lady. Oh, Jazzy Jeff would have to be vice president. I'm not mad at Jazzy Jeff. I'm not mad that, actually. I forgot about Jazzy. And De Nyes needs a break from DJing all the White House parties. That's the secretary.

That's him, D. Nice. A defense? Absolutely. Because, you know, if you got a good DJ, like, you kind of forget all your problems and shit. So you just put some good music on. You're like, yo, we're surviving here. We jamming.

Like, you forget, like, yo, the country's in the recession. We got good music. Fuck it. We inside. He took care of us doing quarantine, right? D. Nice. Why not? More than I think any other political candidate.

That's fucked up. It was great. It was him and fucking Torrey Lane. Yo, you, I just said, all right. We know what happened after, but I'm saying at that point, it was Tori Lanes and D. Nice. Yeah. And SBA loans.

It's what kept us afloat. We lived through some crazy fucking times in that quarantine, man. Great time, dude. Where are we going next? Cardi B is going to drive. Wild tangent. Michelle's going to run and Moore's going to be upset. Michelle Obama?

I don't think that's going to happen. No, I don't see that. No way. No, I don't see Michelle Obama running. I think the Obama's a day completely done with being in a public guy like that and politics and they want to enjoy life. I also don't think they want the world to remember that they introduce. the Bidens like back into the mix.

No, they didn't forget. The Obama's for legacy purposes. Like, let's just go over here. Yeah, let's do that way. Yeah, let's do this podcast real quick. Which did she? How many episodes did Michelle do? Let's see.

For a podcast? Yeah. Yeah. Nah, they put out, shoot, I think she was putting out episodes pretty frequently. With who? I guess by herself. I don't know if she had any guess. Oh, she had a good amount.

Oh, no, she didn't have that many. It was like, it's definitely less than 20 episodes. I figured that. The Michelle Obama. podcast. Wait, what was the Okay. What was the terms of her

contract? Be Michelle Obama. Yeah, basically. So she didn't have like a, she didn't have like a certain amount of episodes that she had to do? I mean, I think Randy negotiated it. Ask her.

Oh, no, there's like 10 episodes, not including her trailers and introductions. Yeah, I told me, right. Wait, who else got a podcast?

Was it Kim? Kim Kardashian got a, got a podcast deal. Amy Schumer got one. Amy Schumer. Conan O'Brien got one Conan. Well, Conan is more frequent, I think.

And he's our label mate. We love him. Oh my God. It's more frequent. What a pod. Love Cohen. It was somebody else that got a major podcast deal. And we like, I don't know.

When do they put out episodes? I remember Kim. I don't know if she ever put an episode out, though. And Michelle did about a week. And Amy Schumer did half a year. That's insane. I remember seeing those posters, too. And here we are fucking doing it twice a week.

Yeah. And I have a fever of 103. Wait, don't say that. If you die, I kill you. That's why you can't even see the guys in the engineer room. It's just a dark window. No, that's who drew the contract. That's the squid game up there.

That's who drew up the contract in there. Yeah, Squid Game Podcasts edition. Guys, Cardi B is going to drop soon. How do you feel like that? Cardi coming back? I don't think so. How soon? How soon?

The summer? She didn't say she didn't give a date. all she said was, and I quote, just a little reminder, feeling like 2020 when I had to come out and step, all caps, to remind them. All caps again. P.S., I'm going to stop this time around. She's coming to summer. End of the summer, maybe a single. Yeah. Maybe single?

Yeah. You have no faith in Atlantic like that? I know I'm surrounded by fucking Bronx residents, but I just, I feel like it would be a bigger announcement. Watch your mouth. Yeah. Right? I love So bro. I love So bro.

They tried to get that all. That's not, we're not calling the South Bronx So bro. It's going to be the South Bronx forever. Then there was Norbro, bro. No. I feel like it'd be more of an announcement.

It'd be a thing. So I think single maybe end of summer, but I don't see an album coming out. I think we get a Cardi B album before the summer's over. I think so. Yeah, but then when? It's July.

the end of June, yeah. August? Dang. I mean, that's possible. Cardi's going to let some shit rock for a little while. She has to catch at least two before they put an album out. I think mid-August, because if Beyonce is coming July 29th, I think she might come maybe a couple weeks after that. A whole album?

Yeah. I don't see that. I don't see. Y'all know this better than I do. Is that a good idea? I always think it's a good idea when you put music out on the same day as big, big, well, Cardi B's a big artist or so. I mean, Joey Badass definitely didn't agree with Joe. Yeah, but Joey Badass and Cardi B is not the same type of artist.

Like, Cardi B is a bigger name, bigger artist than Joey B. If she doesn't have like an undeniable single, I could see it making sense to announce two weeks out and just put an album out. But that's not how Cardi B works. Especially because this is her sophomore album. That's not how Atlantic works. Oh, no, yeah. That's not how that. But does it really matter for Cardi?

Like, they're going to put the whole building behind her. The whole machine is going to be behind it. So I don't, I just think different artists is different rules. like this, the same rules that apply for other artists don't apply for Cardi B. Well, I mean, they did a lot of post album. They did what, two singles after the album came out, maybe even three. They did do a lot of post shit when, what is it, privacy? Mm-hmm.

Whatever the fuck it was called. It's a great album. I just can't see them doing that because she put out two singles that were good, but they didn't really do nothing. That's why they didn't put an album out. She needs an undeniable single. She's still Cardi B. Don't get a twisted.

I'm not saying this in a negative way at all, but the way she operates. I can't see just a Cardi beat album coming. With this whole uncunfew mess going on, do you think that the first thing that she comes out with is with Allset? Yes. I do. No. Why?

I think, I don't think, I think Cardi's going to try to stay as far away from that as she can. Obviously, she's in the middle of it. It's her husband. 100%. You know, it's, you know, it's family. So she's, she's in it. But I don't think she's, I don't, I don't see her getting into it like that, not on the music side.

I don't see that. Well, I mean, why would that affect them? I mean, it's just the optics of it. It sends that mess. Like, you just bought it up. It just sends like that, like, basically it's us against them type of energy. And it's like... Wait, so he could go make a song with his nephew or cousin.

Right. Husband and wife can't make a record together. What would the name of their group be? Husband. Mr. and Mrs. Set? I don't know. Yeah, there you go. What's off this last name?

Mr. Mrs. Set. And it'd be the Mr. Smith trailer with Brad Pitt and Angelina, I could already see it. I hope. And they're shooting at Cuevo? I hope not. Oh, nah. That'd be crazy.

I don't want to see that. Yeah. Because I do want the Migos to get back together. And I feel like once you start doing that, because it's kind of like, it's kind of like if you and your girlfriend are now like mad at me and Edin. That would be weird. But are we unconfir? Like, we would be like, like, like, Jorge. I don't know.

Mall and Jorge. days. But it's like, it's like, once you and your girl get in it, like, now if we get cool again, like, it's like, now I got to get cool with your girl again because she kind of threw shots at me too. Like, it's just awkward. Now, yeah, that'd be awkward as far. It's just awkward now. But she ain't got to throw shots. Your girl's just doing what she's supposed to do. And vice versa. No, your girl, no. You know, your girl, nah. You're going to mind her business. Like it, I'm going to say, like, I'm like, yo, me and you got beef. It's her wifey my business. Okay, but what if Waifie could rap really well?

I'll smoke your wife. That's fine, but then the, okay. The criminals can't come from her, though. Let me change it a bit. What if you're beefing with Papuos and Remi Ma? You're going to say, hey, tell your wife you to relax? You're not. Me? No, I'm from the Bronx.

So is Cardi, though. I'm very aware. I'm very aware. You're not telling Remi Ma, hey, mind your business. No, no, I'm saying if I'm, but it's different for the Migos. Because I'm not. That's family. So it's different.

Like, if Remy was like my family, basically, like, then yeah, because we family. All right. Let's say you and Pat are in a rap group together. Yeah, like we cousins? Pat and Mawson. Yeah. Papin Mawson. That's sick, but go ahead.

That's a good point. That's good. That's nasty. That's nice. That's nice. Watch the Supreme Doc on showtime. Or not. We were out of town and we got invited to that for the Prime doc to like walk the carpet.

I'm like, man, I'm not walking that carpet. Who got invited to that? Me and you. Well, I did and then they said bring more. Hey, well, camera we are. Thank you. I was out of town. I was way out of town.

out to whoever. Pappy Mason was not there. Yeah, okay. But, yeah, if you were in a group with Papoose and then y'all start, y'all break up and start rapping at each other, you think Remy not going to say nothing? And you're going to feel the way of Remy does? But it's different because it's family. So I could, I could like, I could go ahead Remy in bars if I'm family. If I ain't related through marriage or whatever, then I would probably mind my business. I don't want no beef with Remy, no. But you're not related to her. No, but the Migos is. You're in a group with Pappoos.

Yeah, but the Migos. their situation is different because they're all family. Offset, Quavo, and their family. So it's different. I mean, I guess, but she's family too legally. And she's not going to throw subs. She's a lawyer. Legally, yes.

But I'm saying, when it's family, it's like, let y'all handle that. Like, Cardi got to look at that. Like, man, listen. They're in-laws. Yeah, but she's still got to let offset and Quavo and take off. He can't get a feature? Y'all have never seen in-laws, get a little too. Get a feature on the album, but don't leave with it.

Okay, if he leads to a, okay, if he leads to a sub, then fine. But what if he gives no sub? to that. Oh, then that's different. Now, I feel like he will, though. Yeah, because it was happening right now, you would have to. It's kind of like if you don't. It's a little jab.

Why is that the lead single? If y'all's the lead single, if you're not going to throw some shots, like, if it's the lead single. I guess. Either way, I think Cardi, I think caught, what is what? Stop. That was just a weird word to throw in there. I guess she's, I guess she's, you on this word thing today. Are words bothering you today?

Words have always bothered me. You shouldn't let birds bother me. Sticks and stones break my bones and words do as well. Ma, they're called spells. Spelling. That's because that doesn't even sound like a Cardi B tweet. I feel like, well, Julian left Atlantic, but I feel like Julian wrote that tweet.

Whoever's in charge of a social media. I stepped in 2020. Now I'm stomping. She's going to stop this time around. Or maybe it's another dance record. Stop. If this is another, that's a stop? Was it a Broadway play?

Maybe, yes. Oh, yeah, it's like an off probably. Maybe it's another dance record. I heard you. I'm just saying, I'm asking how what's going on in the industry. All the big dogs look like they're moving in a certain direction.

You know how this shit is. There's no way there's going to be a third time of the charm of a dance record. You don't think Cardi could do a dance record? Oh, 100%. She has. Yeah, she is. So that's what I'm saying.

But that's not as, that's not as surprising as, well, Beyonce is not the surprising either than Drake. Drake is the biggest surprise to me. Even though he has those records, but he did a full-length project of dance music. Like that's, we were not, nobody was expecting that. No, definitely not.

Cardi B better just fucking rap. Either way, either way, I am happy to know that she is recording and get ready to put our music though. Yeah. We still need the update on the black, the new black album. Whenever we talk to justice. In about 30 minutes. Yeah, whenever we talk to justice, we need an update on the black album. Some newsy news.

We got some news time for y'all. Dave Chappelle makes a land purchase to block developers from purchasing 19. for purchasing 52 acres of land in his hometown in Ohio. Dave Chappelle is the new owner of a hefty piece of property. A purchase he's made to block a land developer from moving into the quiet Ohio village that's been his home. Dave's reps confirmed he recently bought up several acres, several acres of Yellow Springs, Ohio, land previously owned by Oberlin Land developers, a company that had announced plans for a huge subdivision that would have chewed up 52 acres of the village. The council ended up approving the development, but it now appeared.

as Dave has blocked or at least curtailed the subdivision plan by snapping up some of over-risk property. According to a local report, Dave bought at least 19 acres. We're trying to confirm that because the big question is whether the comedian still at war with the developer after his latest real estate chess move. How much is 19 acres of land? A lot. Oh, apparently the auditor's website shows that the sale price of 15 parcels as 1,715,000. You read that with confidence like you knew you were saying. I have no idea what I'm saying. I have no idea what I'm saying.

I don't know. It looks like they're trying to probably put up a bunch of fucking houses or condos or some shit in the town. And he bought where was Hove when they were gentrifying Brooklyn, man? He was right there. He cut the ribbon at the Barclays.

He started the process. He had the gold shovel. I remember he had a suit on with the gold shovel. He stopped that shit right into the ground on Atlantic. He tried to distract us with five six stages. I used to sell drugs right there. Yeah, I know. I know. But they built some

it and all these niggas got to go. Yeah, there's a target behind you now. It just comes a point where it's like, yo, I love the community, but we had the community for so many years and all we did was tear this shit down. Now that they're building up some shit, everybody want to be mad? Like, you can't be mad. It's the truth. The community wasn't owned. It was rented. I'm not saying it was owned. I'm just saying, you can't be mad at it. If they, if the middle of your community is fucking drug riddled, all kind of shit, and they say, you look, we're bringing a new sports team right here. You're going to be mad at that?

no but I'm a little yeah when it comes to real estate and I wouldn't be mad I wouldn't know at that time I wouldn't know it's jobs all kind of shit like people got to work in the concession stands people got to work the parking lots it's like it's bringing opportunity other businesses gonna go up around the neighborhood

like yeah but to have that stay the hood forever like that's stupid no that's not what people want to have that same you have to build down all these old local businesses now I'm not with that I'm not with that I'm not with that I'm not with that landmarks and businesses that's been there I'm not with that increasing I understand that

But at the same time, it's what happens? What's supposed to happen? Like, leave it the way it is? I mean, a lot of these systems are built to, like, for failure, is the point. And it's not like, why do you say failure? Because the whole point is to, it's like a systemic thing. I don't think the Barclays in Brooklyn turned out to be a failure. Oh, no, I'm talking about like the neighborhoods overall.

It drastically changed downtown Brooklyn, which then carried on to the rest of the neighborhoods in Brooklyn. But do you think it was for the worst? Do you think it was for the worst or do you think it got better? I think there could have been a balance per se in it. Because it's not like the shit that they bought up was owned by the people that lived in that neighborhood. Like in the 50s when the suburbs were being created and they had the GI Bill and all that, all the white people that immigrated to America and were able to buy all that property in Brooklyn, their kids moved out to Long Island and shit and went to suburbs.

They continued to own that property in Brooklyn and rent it out. but their kids didn't grow up there and have no connection to it, so don't care. So when some developer says, I'll give you a million dollars for this fucking little storefront property that they have no connection to

to the neighborhoods and nothing because they've been renting it out from a distance, of course they're going to say yes. So the only people benefiting from it are the people that are not actually from that community. Their parents and grandparents just owned it and then they were able to move to the suburbs with no fucking down payment on a house.

So that's where it's fucked up. I was in, I was riding through I was riding on Crenshaw yesterday. Oh, you're tough. And the driver Earl, he was telling me how they're building the subway system over there. Okay. So a lot of the property, like, is there a bunch of things going up.

And he was saying how, you know, it's like, again, it's pushing people out that have been there for so many years because the property value is going up. But like, if he own your home, he's saying, like, the one thing that people don't know is like, you choose who you sell your property to. Oh, yeah. Sure. So he was saying his dad's house or his mom's house is like, he purchased it for like 400 grand maybe and now it's worth like 1.4? Which is fine and that's okay because yes, the people that own that community have every right to sell it. But that's where it was fucked up so much in the Bronx and in Brooklyn.

The people that actually owned that property had no connection to that neighborhood. Just their generations above them did. So it was so easy to sell because it was like if you look and we're getting too localized in this, but fuck it. It's in every city. If you look in Jamaica, Queens now, yes, they put up high rises and shit by the Long Island Railroad. But if you go deep into those neighborhoods, it still looks the same because everyone owns their home for the most part in Jamaica. That's why it's been so difficult to really gentrify that area of Queens. And if they do, it's going to be to the people that have lived there for three generations.

If they want to sell it, that's up to them. But they have such a connection to that neighborhood. And that community is like, no, I think I'm going to keep this. I think it's important for, you know, when developments like that go up, it is important for the people that are behind that to just talk to the people of the community that's been there and try to come to some type of agreement of, listen, we want to bring more opportunity to the community when we're building a barclays or a subway system on Crenshaw, like talk to the people community and see how you can work together. But at the same time, like you said, a lot of the times we don't own in the community. You don't own these stores. We don't own these houses. We don't own these condos, you know, on these apartments, whatever. So when these companies come in and they're like, all right, well, we're buying all of this and we're going to build a mall.

On one hand, it's like, fuck, now we have to move out of the community. On the other hand, it's like it's going to be more jobs in the community. It's going to be more opportunity in the community for people to, you know, come together, do things, have access to learning centers and things like that. So I get it. On one hand, you have people that upset because now everybody has to move and this is where we grew up. This is the only place we know home.

But at the same time, it's like. Like, yeah, but a lot of people here don't have jobs. A lot of people here don't have opportunity. They don't have access. They don't have outlets to certain things. And these developments bring that to the community. So, you know, these developers, they talk to the community, talk to the people. I think that you find a happy medium and, you know.

And it's just set up. And I'm learning as I go, even just purchasing this crib in Jersey City, which I have mixed feelings with Jersey City. I think they've done well with knocking down a lot of the public housing and putting in new public housing that's actually livable. But obviously, Jersey City's been gentrified crazy. And in my area, they gave me a five-year tax abatement, whereas I don't have to pay property tax or a very minuscule part of it for five years because they're encouraging people to either buy there or knock down houses and build. That's a cool benefit for me.

But then I'm looking at all the people that have been renting in that community who have paid taxes in that community, but because it's a low-income area, their tax money doesn't really work for them in that regard. Not much gets done because there's not much income tax. But then my fucking white face walks in and they're like, hey, you don't have to pay property tax for five years. It's like, it's, yeah, it's benefiting the people that have money. White privilege, see? Well, I agree.

You have two cards. You have a black card and a white card. I feel if I put my black card out, it wouldn't go very well. But yeah, the programs in which they are trying with new development just isn't beneficial to the people that have lived in that community forever. That's all. T.I. Blast VH1 for canceling the family for canceling the family hustle over sexual allegations. Tia and his wife, Tamika Tiny Harris, faced a series of sexual assault allegations last year, which they emphatically denied. Even so, VH1, the network that hosted the TI and Tiny The Family Hustle reality show canceled the long run series in February 2021, just.

three weeks after it was renewed. We are aware of the allegations and what, no, let me talk like T.R. We are aware of these allegations. These egregious. And while they are egregious and not connected to our show, we have reached out to T.I. and Tamiga Harris, as well as Luke on stay officials at MTV

Entertainment Folks, person said at the time. Given the serious nature of allegations, we have decided to suspend production in order to gather more information. But over a year later, the show remains on ICE. On Saturday, June 18th, T.I. shared an Instagram post, T. T.I. says, at VH1.

13 years. No loyalty, huh? No integrity. Just jump to conclusions. False accusations. No apology. No accountability.

No closure. In the name of protecting women while unfairly without due process. Subsequently punishing women. Question mark. No problem equals middle finger. Yeah. So I guess Ti is mad that VH1 decided to cancel his show after those sexual allegations.

Oh, we love Tia. But what did Tia expect to happen? Are you still watching the show? Well, I'm pretty sure. It was just a way to be like, all right, well, ratings were slipping. Were ratings slipping? I don't know that. Maybe.

But let's say they were. Ratings are slipping, but either way, they were renewed for new season. But after the allegations came out, VH1 decided that we got to put the brakes on this thing because we have to see exactly what's going on. We have to have some more information about this sexual allegation case. I don't think VH1, and any company would have done that. It's not just VH1. Any company that signs talent or an act to do a show or whatever and allegations come out like that that are that serious with sexual assault, I think that anybody would have expected them to be like, all right, hold on, we got to stop production on this.

We can't go forward because you have these allegations, you have these charges that are still looming that we just don't have enough information about. It's weird that in any other career path that happens. but when you're a cop and you murder someone, you get paid leave. Yeah, I mean, only in America. You could put Tia and Tani on paid leave until they sorted it out. Yeah, but the only thing is they only get paid based on production. Cops get paid for not producing. Well, they get paid.

It depends on what they produce. How many people have you killed this year, Tony? A quota. Tony. Tony. Why got to be Tony? You know a cop name. Tony's going to go out and killed somebody.

You know that. I didn't even know that was still a. I didn't even know that was still a thing. And I don't mean this in a bad way. I just didn't know that show was still on. And I thought that whole case was done. Well, because they got renewed for new season. And, you know, then those allegations happened.

So T.I. is probably like, all right? 2021. I don't know why I thought it was like 2018. Very recent. Yeah, 2021. Those allegations. I believe 2021. Yeah.

I believe so. Either way, you know, it's unfortunate. We, we dubbed, damn, and it's crazy. Because before the Bill Cosby shit, we dubbed T.I. the new Bill Cosby with TV having his family on television. Oh, yeah. I mean, we did.

I didn't go straight to Cosby, but. No, that wasn't a, this is not me saying it. It was like, yo, T.I. is the new, the new Cosby. He has his family on TV. He's, you know, he's raising his kids right. He's teaching him well. He's daughters and everything, like, has his wife. Like, they was calling him the hip-hop Bill Cosby.

And he just chooses e-pills over Quayloose. I mean, it came back in a, you know, a real Bill Cosby way for him. I read somewhere that Bill Cosby was, he was found guilty of something else. There's another sexuality. It was a fine. He had to pay like 500 grand or something like that. Next episode or no, maybe not.

Maybe next week, Friday. We'll get a recap of Mall on the red carpet, how Mall moved with all the artists at the BET Awards. Why am I going to be in the red carpet? Mall asking, so what are you wearing? I have no. You ask nobody that day. What you're going to at the Beets?

I'm not. I might just to be funny. I don't care what anybody's wearing. But I think at the press room, it's like not. dress up. Like I'm wearing a white tea fruit of the loom. Yeah.

Well, yeah, we will be at the BET Awards in the radio room, press room. Whatever it is. Whatever they call it these days. I'm kicking it with some, I guess, industry friends. Some of our favorite artists. If you want to call it that.

Some of our not-so-favorite artists. Some of our not-so-favorite artists. Some of our not industry friends. Yeah. So looking forward to that. Let's make some fun out of the weekend. Good luck to all the nominees. who do you have winning

was the album of the year? Yeah, I mean, that is a category, yeah. I don't know, who's nominated? I voted too. I was going to say, like... I was going to say, did you vote? We voted for it. Chloe and Haley.

I don't know. They didn't have... Yo, listen, man, we'll talk to y'all next week. We getting out of here. We got too much work to do. Anything else, worry? No. That's it?

I think that's about it. Just see if you can get me into the Rock Nation party. I will do my best to get you into the party tonight. Oh, it's tonight or tomorrow? Well, when this comes out, it's Friday. So I will do my best to get you in a party. If not, I'll FaceTime you and just let you hear the music and see the band live on FaceTime. All right.

Can I FaceTime, Jay then, and make it a three FaceTime for the party? Group FaceTime? Yeah, let's do it. I'm pretty sure he won't be there. So let's title in and then let's laugh at you and say, look, you're not in the party. But I was in such. That's going to be the first time, too. If I get in a party and you don't, because you're like the party, industry party guy.

I'm not, but I was in such good standing with them, but a week ago. Yeah, business. We see how business gets in the way and affects everything. But either way, we'll have fun this weekend. We'll talk to y'all soon. Be safe. Have fun. God bless.

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