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Episode Date: September 24, 2024

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Hey, y'all, I appreciate y'all. The biggest four in the world. D-D-J-J-4. Come on, have a seat. Let's do it. on, have a seat. Have a seat. Have a seat. Let's do it. Whatever you want to sit. Wherever you want to sit. How you doing?

I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I don't know if people know this, but you're from the Seaport. You grew up about three hours south of here in Savannah, Georgia. Most definitely. Most definitely. R.P. Camouflage.

That's what we do at the Seaport. Let me ask you this. How do you balance the two? Because obviously you're good at this rap game. You play basketball at an elite level. What's the schedule? How do you find time to? Because basketball, you're on a basketball scholarship.

Yeah. But you still, this is your passion also. So how do you balance that? I mean, it is hard, but I mean, it's not impossible, right? You just got to, it's just time management. But I know in the summer I got to take full advantage of my time in music. You know what I'm saying? So I just try to go full throttle while still working out

and trying to get better in the offseason. Because, like, during the season, Coach Mokey like, all right, this is my time. You know what I'm saying? That was kind of our, like, you know, that was kind of our deal. Like, you know, you give me everything you got in the season, and in the summer, I'm going to let you rock and do your music. Tell us the story. I saw you over at Cairns, and you was telling the story that you had a concert one night. You had to do the concert, but you had to fly back, got back early in the morning.

You was sleeping. You was tired, but you know you had to get it because Coach Mulkey was going to be on your you-know-what had you not. Yeah, no, so what happened was Rod Wave, he gave me the chance to open up for him in Atlanta. So we had a game that night. The next day after games, we always have off days. So I flew to Atlanta on my off day,

and then I drove back seven hours to go to BR, right? And, like, I'm already knowing it's a stigma of, like, nah, she can't do both for real. Like, you know what I'm saying? So I don't even want to give people a thought to even be like, oh, she came to practice and she was tired. No, when I came to practice, I was, like, bouncing off the walls for real. Because I knew that I had to come in and kill. You know what I'm saying? And I was the first one in the gym, last one out, like always.

So, I mean, my mindset, you know what I'm saying? I think the first one in the gym last one out like always so I mean my my mindset you know I'm saying I think it's more mind over matter I think your mind can make you do things that your body sometimes won't allow when you determine and that's how I feel like I work all the time you know what we all have dreams as when we're growing up as kids obviously my dream I want to be an NFL player one of your dreams I sure, is to play in the WNBA. Will you continue your path as far as, I don't want to word the right way, actually wanting to rap as well and be able to balance both at the highest level? Yeah, I think it'll be easier, honestly, because, you know,

I don't have as much commitment. Yeah, like, oh, my gosh. School, you got school, first of all. Then you got tutoring sessions and all of that. And you got weights. And you got all the other, you know, requirements of an athlete. Practice. Practice, everything. So I think it'll be easier, you know what I'm saying,

to be able to build my schedule and how I want to do. My goal is to, like, play in an arena during the day and then sell out that same arena at night, like playing basketball. That's loud. That's not what I'm talking about. That's loud. You have to work that out with the coach. I don't know if she's going to be going for that one.

She better go. Flage, you just dropped your project called Best of Both Worlds in July. It's a nine-song studio EP. What was your process? Have you always wanted to do an album? It's an EP, not really an album. I want to save the album title for when I do my big one. But yeah, I mean, just putting together a body of work, you know what I'm saying?

That's always been a goal of mine. And having Lil Wayne on it was just like, I knew I needed that big stamp, that big cosign, right? Like this girl, she dropped a project. Okay, it's cool. Like she go to LSU. That's a vibe. But like when you got Lil Wayne on, it kind of holds some weight.

You know what I'm saying? And so it was just important for me to put that out. And the title was important because it was just like I really got the best of both worlds, you know? When did you realize that you could rap? When I was on America's Got Talent. I was on America's Got Talent, I was on America's Got Talent when I was about 14 and I got the golden buzzer.

And Simon Cowell came to the back and he was like, one day you could be a superstar. And I'm like, bro, that's Simon Cowell. He don't even like singers for real. So him telling a young black girl that she can, he sees some type of superstar power in her, that kind of just gave me the confidence that I could do it because like right before America's Got Talent I was on a rap game with Jermaine Dupri and I lost and so that was like when I lost that

I went into my room and I just wrote all day and then America's Got Talent called and I was ready for the opportunity and I got that that validation that I kind of needed as a 14 year old right and ever since then nobody could tell me nothing for sure. Who are some of the artists, as you continue to grow in your career, who are some of the artists, female artists, or male, that you would like to collab with? Man, I'm like, I want to be like, I don't want to just do rap. Like, I have an R&B project out. I don't know if y'all heard that. It's called For the Lovers.

Y'all can go listen to that. It's dope. But I want to work with like Adele. Like dope. But I want to work with Adele. Like I said, I want to work with Rod Wave. I want to work with Meg. It's a lot of people I want to work with. Kehlani, SZA. A lot of different people in the industry.

But people really love the craft. That's who I want to work with. That's live. That's live. You've already won a national championship. So what would mean more to you? Winning a Grammy in rap or winning a WNBA title? Ooh, that's a good one. I think being – I've done that.

Being an Olympic gold medalist. Oh, you want to be on – okay. 2028? 2028. Okay. Yeah. I think, and don't, you know, the WNBA, that was like the best players in the world to me.

But I think like, you know, when I sat down on my podcast with Clea Copper, she was telling me like, that's elite, you know, playing the best players in the world and saying that you're one of the best in the world. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, that's dope. But that Grammy is something that's special to me, only because I got into music because of the man on my shirt, my dad.

So I always felt like music was our bond. And he was murdered before I was born. And I felt like his legacy got cut short. And it was always my job to continue the legacy and make sure people know his name. And so getting that Grammy would kind of just be like that way to just cement his legacy. I like it. Off-season, what is Flage working on?

What is she doing to improve her basketball game? Yeah, for me, this off-season, I mean, I've been working on it a lot, but, like, I keep getting better. Like, it's crazy. Like, you know the process of you seeing that leap you take? Like, from my freshman to my sophomore year, I took a beautiful leap. And, you know, it was more so my confidence. And then this year I just learned that it's like 90% mental and 10% physical, right?

But it's just been getting my cardio together, just getting my ball handling together, and just being more consistent on my shooting. I think I've become a better, a smarter player just watching film, but for me, it's been my cardio, just been working on that, because last year, I feel like I was kind of out of shape. I'm a freak athlete, so my endurance, my energy carries me, but I still feel fatigued. I don't want to feel like that, because I play both sides of the ball, and I want to be defensive player of the be defensive player this year,

defensive player of the year as well this year. So I'm going to have to be in immaculate shape to do both. Can I ask you this? You won the national championship. You guys beat Iowa. The next year you guys come back and you play them in the semifinals, and you face Kaitlyn Clark again. Was there a difference between her and the national championship game

in which you guys won and the semifinal games in in which you guys lost um no she's the same player um i feel like a player like caitlin you can only contain her it's not like no we're gonna make her score 10 points this game like that's not gonna happen you know what i'm saying but it's just like i feel like our team the year before was just more equipped. To deal with it. Yeah, and we had more of a strategy. We had a better, like a fuller roster. We had a deeper bench. Like our bench won that championship game for us that first year. You know what I'm saying?

It wasn't even really the start. So I think we needed more depth, and we didn't have that. But I feel like we gave it all we had. But this year, you know, we're coming different. You know, I wish Clark was still here, but she's going dominating the league now. So this next year, we're coming for it for sure. If you think about what you're doing with rap, what you're doing with basketball, outside of that, what do you like to do?

You've got to have something that you enjoy that you would consider. I don't consider you rapping. I don't consider that a hobby. That is something that you can do you would consider I don't consider you rapping I don't consider that a hobby that is something that you can do as a profession right so what outside of that what is your piece your safe haven my little brothers I've had four of them four yeah I have four little brothers and just being a good big sister man like you know I know I'm a role model for a lot of kids but like those babies in that house they like they look at me like I'm just, like, the best person in the world. Like, you know, like Queen Sheba, for real.

So, like, just trying to be the best person, you know, that, you know, because it's, like, I feel like now kids are being raised on social media. You know what I'm saying? And it's true. It's, like, nothing you can really do about it. Kind of, like, all they're doing is on the iPad. So, just being that person that they can really look up to. You know what I'm saying? Like, off the camera.

Like, because they really know me for real. So, that's just important to me. And, you know, I just saying? Like off the camera, like, because they really know me for real. So that's just important to me. And, you know, I just like to chill, do regular kid stuff most of the time. But I'm really deep into the community too. Like I got a lot of big stuff planned for the community. So you gave backpacks or something back in Savannah, back in your hometown? Oh, my gosh, yeah. Every year I do like this six-figure give back, right?

And like all of my NIL partners, I like um i tell them put in the budget i need all of this you know i'm saying i need i need jbl i need speakers headphones for the kids puma we gave away like a thousand shoes jam sports we gave away a thousand back wow that's live that's live that's amazing yeah and so we do that every year this year we gave away thousands and thousands and thousands of stuff for kids and and they were sending me their pictures. It's so important for kids to go to school looking good, like, you know what I'm saying, and having that confidence. Like, it means the world, and so I know that.

And so just doing that for the community, it just does something for me. And also I just became an ambassador for the K-Y'all Fund. Okay. And, you know, my grandma died from cancer. My cousin died from cancer. And, you know, I was just sitting down with them, and they were just saying how cancer is three times more likely, it's some type of gene in black women.

It's three times more likely to affect black women. So I'm partnering with them, and we're going to send a bus down to Savannah to give away, like, free mammograms for all women and things like that. Certain things in the community, I just try to do. That's amazing. That's awesome. You see what's transpired with the WNBA. There are more eyes.

The viewership is through the roof. The sponsorship, the advertising, the sales and you see what's going on. How does that make you feel to see the transformation? Great players, Asia Wilson and we got Stewie and you see what's going on, how does that make you feel to see the transformation? Great players, Asia Wilson, and we got Stewie, and you got Inescu, and you got all these, and then obviously you get Kaitlyn Clark, and you get Angel Reese, and you get Raquia Jackson, and Cameron Brink,

who's injured, but that's what you're about to go into in the next year or two. Yeah. No, I think it's beautiful, and I think it's even more beautiful how it's like trickling down. Like that last weekend I was coaching overtime select where it's like a bunch of high school girls they get in this national media attention and it's capping them because of what's going on in the WNBA and what we're doing in college and just giving them that experience it's gonna be a time in the league where a girl is gonna go into a league and she's gonna have a million dollar deal like that's going to be crazy.

You know what I'm saying? That's awesome. Nobody would have thought of that. It's probably not going to be me, but it's going to be that next generation. I think it's just about us inspiring the other little girls that's coming. It's beautiful to see. I'm excited to be a part of it for sure, but they're the best of the best for real.

It's live. I like it. Short term goals, long term goals. Short term goals, I want to lead my team to a national championship. Yeah. For sure. Short time goals. Before I graduate, I need one of my songs to at least go gold or platinum. So I got to... Yeah, when I say stream, I mean that.

Go stream. But no, yeah, just continuing to build my music portfolio. I think it's just, you know, I got to set the bar high. You know, I feel like I won a national championship. And then I got a feature with, you know, Weezy. So that was like my national championship in music. So now I just got to keep building on that. But I definitely want to win another national championship. There's no feeling like that.

Like, I did it my freshman year, right? So I didn't lead my team to a national championship. Although I did start all the games, I was freshman of the year, but I didn't lead it. Like, you know what I'm saying? I want to actually lead my team and show that I can be that kind of player. Right. Other than yourself, what's on your playlist?

Ooh, Adele. Real bad. I love Adele. I don don't know why she's unbelievable in concert you went to a concert i did i've seen her several times you didn't have to do that um um uh there's so many people i I don't know. Adele. I'm going to just leave it at Adele. You're leaving Adele. Ooh, I got a good one. Favorite female rapper. Right now.

Who the best female rapper right now? Who's the best female rapper right now? We know that. I really like Flo Millie. Okay. I like her swag. She's got that swag. She's a pretty chocolate girl.

She's making waves. I love that for sure. But I mean, I feel like the women putting on, like, Glowrella's going crazy right now. Listen, they all going crazy. You got Meg. You got Nikki. You got sexy red. I mean, I love them all. And it's like now. Listen, they all going crazy. You got Meg. You got Nikki. You got sexy red. I mean, I love them all.

And it's like I love them because they're so different. You got Lotto. You got Lotto. You got so many people. They're going crazy. All right, y'all. Here she is, Flage Johnson.

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What's good with it, oh man, I'm cool born raised bred Dallas, Texas we talked it back in the green room. We're gonna talk about what we talked about later I'm sorry a cowboy, but we're gonna talk about them later. We gonna start off with that right we ain't gonna do that Check this out. I want to know what's growing up in Dallas. Dallas is really not known. There's not a whole lot of rappers. I can't think of anybody else from Dallas that rap besides yourself.

Who was your? Come on. Dallas. What is he talking about, man? Who you got? Get him together. Get him together, yellow man. Get him together, man.

Got a lot of stuff going on, man. Give me a little homework. Who you got? Who you got? We got Dero. We got to check it out with Dero. You got to talk about Erica Badu. You got to talk about Post Malone.

That ain't rap. Hey, we talking about everything. Drug dealers, killers. Sharks and gorillas. Oh, that's it. D.S.O., Puka, Lucha. You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of greats out here, man.

Big ass to plug. Y'all shout them. I'm going to say it. Just shout it. I'm going to say it. Who? D.O.C. them. I'm going to say it. Just shout it. I'm going to say it. Who? D.O.C. Of course.

O.G. D.O.C. Okay. Yeah. Nemesis. Moe 3. So those were your influences growing up that made you want to get into the rap, get into the music industry?

Yeah, the old ones for sure. The old ones for sure. Gatorade. Low Dizzy. You know, the old ones for sure. The old ones for sure. Gator Man, Lil Deasy, you know, it's a line over. What about sports? Were you involved in sports

when you were growing up as a kid? Football. Football. What position, what position did you play? Running back, and I was like that. You was like that?

I was like, I was him. Him. Well, something made you go, you know, start getting on the mic instead of,

you know, taking them licks. I was getting in trouble. It wasn't like that, man. We ain't going to act like that. I was getting in trouble, getting kicked out of school. That's what that was. I had to let it go. So when did you make a decision, say, you know what?

Okay. The music thing. The rap. That's my calling. Probably like 17, 18. I was in school. I had a song, and it kind of went crazy when I did it at a talent show, so I was like, I'm going to take this shit serious. Hey, to me, your breakout hit, that's on me. Put you on the map.

After that song, how did your life change? So for me, real quick, a quick story to give you better context on why I'm asking you. When I got drafted, say if I got drafted on Tuesday, my Wednesday, life was completely different. When that hit came out, boy, life had to be completely different. So for you, how did life change after that? I was on the road like 24-7, like going places. I was meeting cousins I ain't never met, people with ties. It was just, you know, it was just like a life-changing experience, bro. I ain't going to lie.

I was out of town more than I ever been. I was just like, man, I knew it. You know, I made it then. When they started calling back from out-of-town shows, I was like, yeah, I'm doing something. How do you, I think the thing, and Ocho can attest to this being like how we are, is that friends, how do you like keep that inner circle, the people that you came up with, that you know, that you trust?

Have you had to put some people by the side and go on this journey alone by yourself? It's a couple new ones, but mostly everybody that's around me, I've been around them since I was about 13. So we like, years in, I don't really hang with a lot of new people. I like that. I don't like energy like a lot of new people I don't I don't like energy like that different energy you know I don't trust people right another thing we have as athletes once we do make it do you have a problem with family members

and everybody always asking and asking and asking and what people would do is they would continue to ask and ask until they bleed you dry do you have a problem saying no because i noticed with most rappers everybody has an entourage yeah and most of the time the person that takes care of that entire entourage is that one alpha right that's leading leading the way no i ain't got no problem saying no like i'll tell you like you ain't i look out for a person but

you're not finna just keep on doing it just because you know I got it. Right. Like, if you ain't gonna do nothing with the money, it's like I'm giving it in vain. You know what I'm saying? I'm only gonna take care of the people I'm supposed to take care of. Yes, sir. You know what I'm saying? Home, my mom, my granny, like, stuff like that.

But I don't have people around me who feel like they obligated either. You know what I'm saying? My partners all kind of want to pull their own way to try to do their own thing. Yes, sir. But if they need me, they know I got them. You know what I'm saying? So it's already understood. I got real people around me like real friends so it ain't never been nowhere it's like everybody just wants something just wants something but i

tell a nigga like yeah like you know you just you're on your last one you ain't finna keep on doing it now do you do because a lot of it's hard to tell family no because like you said you a lot of your partners have been with you since you were 13 and 14 family's been with you since day one and sometimes they can make you feel guilty because if it was me i would i would do it for you i still know how to say no like you can't you can't you can't butter me up like you know what i'm saying i know who's around i I know who really, like, supported me. Like, that's cool. You know what I'm saying?

But, like, if I say no, I say no. And I ain't going to lie. Like, a lot of people don't even got my number. Like, if it's some extended family members, my mama kind of, you got to go through my mama anyway. Because she ain't have, like, my mama ain't trying to hurt none of that. To this day, like, she ain't trying to hurt none of that. You opened up for Jay-Zz and beyonce on the run tour too what was that experience like it's like it was different like 70 60 000 people like that

was something like i ain't never experienced and then when i came out like the hometown just show love hometown i always gonna show love so it was just like a beautiful thing is it everything that you doing what you did because for me like all i want to do is make money to get my grandmother get my family out of that environment i mean i really didn't think about like 70 80 000 fans cheering for me that wasn't what i really wanted i wanted i wanted the fortune the fame i could i could have done without but obviously that's a part of it is it everything that you imagine that when you like in your bed and you're thinking about man I'm going on this journey and one day I'm gonna be 60 70 000 in a in a stadium not arena a stadium is it everything you thought it would be yeah like

it's like a bittersweet feeling because like you pray for a lot of stuff and then when you actually living your dream bro like you got to understand like it's a lot of people out here praying to be in your position you know I'm saying it's a lot of people been chasing dreams 30 40 years and they seen no success with it so I'm one of them that can actually say that I made it so every chance that I get but I'm gonna pray about it I'm gonna thank God and be grateful for everything because like it's a lot of people that want to be in my position. What are some of the things that came along with this fame that you came with that you didn't expect?

Yeah, for sure. A lot of hate. It's one of those situations like damn if you do, damn if you don't. It's one of those situations where you got to just really just, you got to be built for it because a lot of people, if you're not damn if you don't. Right. And it's like one of those situations where you gotta just really just, you gotta be built for it because a lot of people, if you're not built for this like, success will turn you down too. That's the side

that they don't tell you. Like there's a lot of critics, like they gonna critique everything you do, they gonna think whatever they think about you, you know what I'm saying? If you wanna change that narrative you can, but at the same time you gotta have tough skin because people gonna hate, they gonna be jealous, they gonna envy you, they gonna just say anything. And if you let it get to you like it'll turn a motherfucker down, you got to have tough skin because people are going to hate. They're going to be jealous. They're going to envy you. They're going to just say anything. And if you let it get to you,

it'll turn a motherfucker down. You know what I'm saying? But I ain't never been the type that let it turn me down. But I didn't know it was going to be so much bullshit to come along with it. You know what I'm saying? Yes. Yes. The funny thing with the bullshit, it only happens because of success.

So now that you have this success, what has continued to inspire and motivate you to continue to want to climb that mountain and ladder in your craft? I just want to shit on motherfuckers who don't think it's still in me. Everybody that hate, I'm glad y'all hating on me. I'm glad that

you feel like it's something sweet because I love proving motherfuckers wrong. I'm here for a reason. God ain't bringing me this far just to turn his back on me. I damn sure ain't finna let no motherfucker tell me otherwise. You know what I'm saying?

Listen, you've collaborated with some dope ass major artists. Is there one person you haven't had a chance to collab with that you want to besides me? I gotta get one with the light skin nigga, man. Drake, I got to, bro. It's just, we got to, you know, dark

skin. Y'all, you know, y'all, I'm dark at heart, but you know, y'all been picking on us since we was, you know, since the beginning of the time. So I got to do one. I would have been in the 80s, though. In the 80s, y'all ran in the 80s. Yeah, I probably, yeah, I ain't gonna lie. I definitely would have been shitting on y'all in the 80s. I ain't gonna it. I would have been in the 80s, though. In the 80s, y'all ran in the 80s. Yeah, I ain't going to lie. I definitely would have been

shitting on y'all in the 80s. I ain't going to lie. I would have had a different type of attitude. Michael Jackson, Prince, El DeVos. Yeah, he's a weako. Yeah, y'all had them all.

I would have had a perm and everything. Hey, we best probably got Michael Jordan, Wesley Snipes. It was over for y'all. Yeah. We on top of the charts

and they feel all sick. Denzel, man, come on, man.. Yeah. We on top of the charts. Denzel. They up there. Denzel. Come on, man. What a yellow nigga is that? But nah. Gotta be Drake. I want to do one with Nicki.

Okay. I want to do some Afro Beach, too, like with Burner Boy. I want to get on Rihanna, too. I ain't going to lie. And Vibe Quartel just came home. Free him. I mean, shout out to him. I want to do one with Vibes.

I want to do something with just everybody, bro. I ain't going to lie to you. You know what? Now that you think about the names he just named, right? Right. Like some of the biggest in the world. Man, what's the process? Like, do you get a phone and be like, hey, I got something.

I want to send it to you. I want to work with you. How does that work? I really think that go off like relationships. Like, you've got to be at the right place at the right time. I tell people all the time a relationship is worth more than money. Yes, sir. You know what I'm saying? Like certain shit you just can't buy.

Like people just got to want to fuck with you genuinely. And that's why I get like a lot of my features like people be thinking like, I know he paid for this, he paid for that, but I don't be paying for nothing. Like niggas literally be looking out for me just off the strength just because of who I am and what type of genuine soul I have. You know what I'm saying? Which is a blessing, you know what I'm saying? I don't be thinking like I'm going to get it for free, just, nigga, I fuck with you.

It would really be fucking me up, though, you know what I'm saying? But relationship is being solid, having a good face card to take a motherfucker far in life. That's awesome. That's unbelievable. I tell people that all the time in business. People think business is about money. Business is about relationship. Because a lot of times since I've been in business for myself, a lot of times the people that I've met, they're in position. They weren't in that position in the beginning. But as they've climbed the ladder, they become CFOs.

They become CEOs. It ain't what you know about who you know. And they say, man, I remember when I was such and such and the way you treated me and the way i introduced you to my dad i introduced you to my brother my friends and man and i said hey this is the guy i want to be a part of and so it's all about relationships you think it's about money and it's about relationships for you never know you never know who's going to be in a position to help you so just make sure you treat people on the way when you're trying to rise because you

never know who's going to be in a position to really help you out let me ask you this we talked about this earlier you and I were talking about this in the green room what's your expectation for the Cowboys we know you bleed that blue and silver you love the blue and silver you've been disappointed a long time though

probably your lifetime you ain't seen no championship you ain't seen no Super Bowl You love the blue and silver. You've been disappointed a long time, though. Because probably your lifetime, you ain't seen no championship. You ain't seen no Super Bowl. I was four and five. Don't do that. I can't argue with you niggas. You niggas is like y'all who y'all is. But nah, I feel like we're going to go far.

How far? Around the corner? I'm saying Super Bowl if you're leaving up to me. I'm in denial. I'm in denial. Oh, well. So well. I'm in denial. We're going to go to Super Bowl if you leaving up to me. I'm in denial. I'm in denial. Oh, well. So what? I'm in denial.

We're going to go to Super Bowl. We do got a quarterback. The nigga ain't just got to pay. He got to get a little bit more money. That's all I do. Got a quarterback, though. So you like Dak? I like Dak. So you feel Dak should be paid as well by Jerry Jones?

Bro, people don't give Dak the chance. Like, even with the last game when we played the Packers last year, do Dak play defense too? No. You know what I'm saying? He can't play both sides of the ball. We have to blame the defense for that. You know what I'm saying?

Everybody throw interceptions. It's a lot of people. You can't name too many people that's in front of Dak like a quarterback. You can't name too many. Look at that bunch of them. You can't name too many. We ain in front of that quarterback. You can't name too many. Look at that bunch of them. You can't name too many. We ain't going to do that. Come on.

Come on. Let's do it. I got time today. Let's do it. But see, you said, okay, you say blame the defense. Okay, let's just say, okay, the Packers got the ball. They go down the field, score a touchdown. We couldn't stop the run, though.

Hold on. This is what I'm doing. Okay, Packers, I scored seven. I got seven. I kicked the ball out to the Cowboys. Dak come on the field. What'd Dak do? Three and out i got seven i kicked the ball off to the cowboys that come on the field what that do three and out okay they kick the ball back to the packer i go down the field i score again it's 14 nothing guess what i do i kick the ball off to the cowboys again that come on the field what that do is is it that fault that we couldn't run the ball or stop the run is it that fault that we couldn't run the ball or stop the run he can't play both

he can't play every position but y'all hadn't been able't run the ball or stop the run? He can't play every position. But y'all hadn't been able to run the ball all year. I know, and that shit bit us in the ass. See? Well, we got Davin Cook now. You got Zeke back. Yeah. I mean, I think they're going to be all right.

We're going to be all right, man. Y'all don't, don't, don't. What your Broncos going to do? Whoa, whoa, we're not talking about me. No, no, Y'all don't, don't, don't. What your Broncos gonna do? Whoa, whoa. We not talking about me. Nah, nah, nah. We gonna take it there. What are your Broncos gonna do?

Hold on. Y'all remember the last time we played y'all? We had footsie y'all. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. I'm saying what y'all gonna do this year? We gonna be better than we were last year. Ah, okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. But see, we don't have the expectation. We got a rookie quarter. We start the rookie. Bo Nix is going to start. He look good in the preseason. Man, we looking good in that defense too.

Yes, we do. Who your team? Cowboys. Who your team? Green. Man, get the. Y'all just lost y'all running back. We ain't worried about y'all.

They got Josh Jacobs. Let me get... Who got the best barbecue in Dallas? Barbecue? I'm going to go to the hood. Yeah, I'm going to say TD's. I'm going to just say some hood shit. I'm going to say TD's a record.

I'm going to always say old Cliff shit for me. Soul Food. Same place? Soul Food. It place? Soul food, it's got a different variety. You got Southside Cafe. I mean, Sad House Cafe.

You got Da Vinci's. You got, I will say Sweet Georgia Brown, but that ain't right. That ain't been in in the middle right. Soul food, what y'all think over there?

Hollywood. Where the best soul food in Hollywood? Yeah. Hutchin' Barbecue? Okay, we'll go with Hutchins. Are you from Dallas? No, he's from Shreveport.

That nigga from Shreveport. We give him a Dallas pass. Oh, y'all give him a Dallas pass? Well, when we come to Shreveport, we gonna look you up there. Don't ask for no questions about Dallas. Nah, we ain't going to do that. Man. So, Cowboys record this year. Yeah, we're going crazy.

Bro, we looking good. So, the defense don't look good to y'all? Damn. Y'all some haters. I know some Eagles fans out there. That's what it is. Boo, nigga, boo. Saquon ain't beat us. He ain't going to beat us either.

Again, when he get over there. He with a better team now, though. Huh? He with a better team. AJ, Devontae, Saquon, Jalen Hurts. Ooh. They got the same. It look good on paper.

Yeah. That's what y'all do every year. Look good on paper. Nah, we got skill and talent, though. We got a lot of talent coming through. Of course, CD. Of course. Our whole roster.

Your whole roster what? Going crazy. Michael Parsons, CD Lamb. Trayvon Beck. Trayvon Beck. What are y'all talking about? So y'all really sleeping on Davin Cook like that? Y'all really sleeping on Zeke and Cook like that?

I like him. I like you. They smoking die crack. Man, it's all right. It's all right. I'll be quiet. But when I leave, I be talking again. Not this year.

Not this year. All right, guys, give it up for Yella Beezy. Yella Beezy. How long have you been working on this album? Five years. Five years. Five years? It take time. It take time. Yeah, perfection, perfection take time.

What you writing, a birthday? I've been, you know, soul searching, artist searching. Right. Uh-huh. So collabs, how many, I mean, how many features, how many collabs are on the album with you? I mean, typically, I like to get the song done and then get the features afterwards. Oh, okay.

Go ahead. She said a feature. Collab? Huh? I rap. Oh. Yeah, I rap. You do?

Let me hear something. Huh? Let me hear something. Go ahead. I'm not the one to play with. They call me Ocho. Bitch, I got an itch. That's it.

That's it for now. Okay, a little freestyle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a little something. You can write for me. It ain't nobody going to know. Okay. Yeah. Baby, I got another job.

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