The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show - 61.) J. Cole Speaks + Akademiks Responds To Ebro (3/23/26)

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

Today on Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg - Ebro, Laura, and Rosenberg are  discussing Akademics responde to Ebro, J. Cole's recent interviews, Flex and Pete Rock speaking on ELR , ICE and the TSA meltdown, and so much more! (3/23/26) Support the show on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just don't call in a podcast. The Ebro-Lara Rosenberg shows. Okay, we're kind of ready on a Monday. Let the record show Bascom was going. Are you all ready for at least the last three or four minutes, though? Yes, yes. But is he ready? For us to broadcast, yes.

Okay. But is he ready? You mean it's the money? Nah, it's all good. We hear, man. It's a little rainy in our situation over here. state but we hanging out man see bro laura rozenberg make sure you hit the like button and you subscribe and you do all of the algorithm things to get us popping and lose favorite king luci and

results from the hype button right lu he gave a thumbs up i did not expect a thumbs up on the you thought you thought he thought he was going to give us a sarcastic and then hit you with uh what's your favorite no what listen ibrough listen regardless of the hype button The fact of the matter is, you know, if you look around the world last week, we were hot last week. We were. Talk to us. People, people wanted to chat. Everyone, everyone needed to get in on the Rosenberg, New York conversation. That's your fault. The, hey, you mean, Mike, you mean Rosenberg, I give you credit.

Thank you, Laura. I take it. Number two, Ebro, Ebro having a big back and forth. Academics has challenged him to a debate. I don't know if you've seen this. I didn't even, wait a minute. When did this come out? Like there's a couple days after you said you felt sorry for him and he was and he was depressed and alcoholic. All right. A video came out from that.

Okay. Of him watching. You didn't see this. I saw him watching our video while mixing a drink. While me. Well, you saw that, right? I saw that. He's scurring a drink while I missed the debate part of it.

I didn't see any of this. I didn't watch it, but I saw the headline said academics challenges Ebro to a debate. on any topic. I don't know how he landed there. I think somebody sent it to me and I think that he wanted you to go to his studio. Yeah, he didn't want to come to Arbummy Studio. Got it.

But he, I don't know why debate. Because, like, it wasn't really a debate issue. What are we debating? It was more like an intervention. It wasn't a debate, but he landed on debate. So I don't know what you're supposed to debate, but if you're interested. I don't know.

I'd love to hear more. I don't. I want to make sure I prepare for said debate. Someone also sent me a clip this weekend too where DJ Vlad apparently was having a conversation with Adam 22. Yeah. About white guys and hip-hop. Yeah, it was the culture vulture summit. I don't know.

And, um. Oh my God. The culture vulture summer is wild. And Vlad also said he wanted to fight. He wanted to box me. Wanted to put on gloves and bite and box. Wow. What's his problem?

No, no, no, no, no, wait, wait. That's what I heard. So this far, this goes right into my, my, everything's a promo. Everything. Everything. It falls right into it. Like, why would, what would I be debating academics about? I don't.

I don't even know. I don't know what the issue. What's the debate? What's the combo? What's the conflict? What are we disagreeing on? Yeah. What are we going to solve through an argument?

Hey, hey, yo, act, if you're watching this, please articulate. What are we disagreeing on? What are we going to debate? What are they? the terms of said debate. And because this is clearly promo, maybe it's a shared platform thing. Shared platform.

Yeah, maybe there's a way for us to be on both. So you could be open to it. You could be open to it. Yeah, but, you know, I guess I don't know what's in it for our platform. I don't think our audience is big academics fan. Yeah. And vice versa. And I don't they were getting a lot of people from his crowd.

No, I don't think they're interested in our content. No. Or who we are or how I look or what hip hop I like. Really nothing. No, I agree. But I do appreciate the promo act. No, so I'm just saying last week was a good, like we were out, I'm saying a lot of people, a lot of people have a lot to say about the program.

That's right. I'm saying a lot of people have a lot to say about flex got into my thing. Flex got into my thing. So I will always consider him one of the greatest producers who ever lived. I will celebrate his music till I'm no longer. longer on this earth. I don't care what the man says or does. All right. I love his music. His attacking of us is among the craziest things. So I've ever experienced like I'm saying literally crazy. I read what taken back when I started seeing him in the comments. I was like Pete but we just

had to in the studio promoting your album. That way but that Laura he was in that laughing and smiling. I brought him a apple. I had him at Apple. Syf and I had the one at live with him in common at S. All of us. The lie, he's got a lie. Guys, you don't remember us? Laura. Laura. Hold on. You're not from New York, Laura.

Not from New York. But you remember us kind of even getting in trouble because they were like, yo, you're not prime time. What about Pete? Yeah. Oh, and we wanted to air it prime time. We would play songs on the album. Oh yeah. We were playing the record all the time.

Played the day live, played him in common all day in the morning. Like, well, I don't care. We're supporting him. And his thing is, Pete Rock's thing is that he said in no uncertain term. and and Seif hit me like Yo bro this debate has been It's fun and not that deep And then he showed up with the all caps

Aggressive And I'm like Pete Are you sure? Are you sure he's being aggressive Or he just writes in all caps Because I'm not quite sure all the time With older heads And people who don't Well this all I know is

All I know is it was all about how we ruined radio We don't support good music We play the Bullish We ruined Hot 97 and the station is better that now that we're gone. Okay. Bro. First of all, our show, we support every project and we talk about,

so one thing people don't appreciate. We on a morning show, which is very mainstream, you know, like you're catching a drive to work kind of audience. We were just talking about the legends casually all the time. Like they were in our world all the time, talked on great beat. But I specifically have played every Pete project, bro. Rosenberg. I mean, here we are on week two.

Smoke Dizz. We're on week two now. What I've done and I did. No, is that about that? It's not about that. It's just what's wrong with you. You're like begging. You're like begging.

I'm not. I'm not. Yo, I got to say this is one thing. I went along with the whole game of it was a good play on the validate me thing. I really, just so everyone knows, last week did not upset me. I promise I'll let you all know if I'm actually upset. That debate is an interesting combo. It's not upset.

I'm not, but I don't even, I slept great. I did not feel I needed the validation. We're still talking about it. No, a legend who we love who shakes our hand and hugs us and then jumps in the comments and leaves paragraphs on how much he hates us is worth note on our radio program. No, no, that's interesting. We're not on the radio. I was a little sad on our podcast program. Yes, on the podcast.

But I was a little sad too when I said, I was like, Pete, like, I. It's Pete Rock. I couldn't believe it too. But you know what? So I wasn't sad. I thought Pete was kooky for a long time. And so I saw what he said. in the Saigon post.

Oh, yeah, yeah. And I was like, hmm, and I've seen him say this before, but he still came and supported my show. So you know what I responded and said? Thanks for supporting my show. Right.

Sure. That's nice. It's really you supporting him, but sure. No, but he doesn't have to come. Yeah, but he's promoting an album. But there's other, I mean, maybe there's other things that are better.

Maybe there's more New Yorkie programs. There are, but guess what? I mean, if you want to get super in the weeds, but Chris Atlas and Yvette were managing that project and smartly brought him to our shows. So good friends of us. And he was nice. And he was still nice and enjoyed it.

Totally. But that's weird. That's just really weird. And that's why I went with Kooky. It's all Kooky. No, no. It's Kooky. But it's a great word choice on this.

It's Kooky. Like, I don't understand. What are we doing? Like, and I can understand you being passionate about New York. And I can understand you thinking. I mean, but you already saw Flex's comment, though. You're from Mount Vernon. You're not even from New York.

You're from upstate. No. But it's all ridiculous. And it's also like another thing. where Pete and others like him think that the music that's being played on mainstream radio, right? Is not popular or something.

Like, that they're in the business of just like playing records to be like as true to the culture as popular as possible. It's not what happens on morning radio. By the way, by the way, by the way, on any station. And there's also, for all you, you know, keeping it real New York Cats,

There's more than one New York radio station. That's right. So what's the other one playing? That's so different. Oh, no. It's much more mainstream. They're not throwing in the random Pete Rock records that we would throw in. Facts.

I don't know. And then you would say, well, they're not hot 97. They're not hot 97. There's no expectation. Right. Okay, fine. But it's hot 97's in business. The play was popular.

But the. And I ask. Pete knows better, though. Keep in the music for 35 years. No, no. He knows how radio works. Yeah, he's been producing. He hasn't been in media, though.

And Pete and the rest of y'all, let me know how your listening experience changes. Keep us updated since you're so passionate about it. Yeah, we'd like to. I would love to hear how much New York music they're playing all day, every day. And oh, the other caveat you guys like to put in there. Oh, yeah, because they're said it's going to be better now. It's going to be better. So now that it's better, let us know if the music changes.

I love to hear about it. That's great. It's a great point by you. I'd love to hear about it. Now, Laura, you got a big rundown to it. Yes, yes, yes, yes. We're going to get to that. Anything in the super chat, Pete, let us know as we roll.

Griff, are we going to have, I think this would be, we've got plans 2.1-ish. Where are we in the we got plans? I don't know. In 1.5? We have a phone number. How far are we from the phone number? The company that we bought it from?

Yeah. What do you mean? We bought something that we can't have. understand what you're saying. They're trying to get like our business names. Okay, okay. What sort of company is this?

Something you just found on the internet. All right, all right. Okay, so we, working on it. We have a phone number, but do you say we're a week away, two weeks away,

a month away? I was on the phone with them on Friday, so hopefully I solved it today. All right, we may have a solve today. The technology exists in the building. Oh, we have,

you mean, technology is here for us to have phones. Okay. So we could have phones where you guys could call us as well as chat within a week. I'm excited about that. I will say that.

The phone element will be a new, because if we're being truthful, we barely even utilized phones, like in the recent iteration of the show, we would do phone topics here and there, but like, I don't know, it's going to be fun in this setting to have phone calls. Yeah, we'll see how plays out.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, it'll be interesting to see how we sift through, how we sift through trolls and that whole thing, you know, because it's YouTube now. So you throw up a phone number, who knows.

Yeah, but you're also removing some of the contest pigs, Laura's favorite term. Uh-huh. Yeah, I never understood why you disrespect that people want to win a contest. Because it's annoying.

The professionals who have like 10 lines at home and are constantly trying to win. And they get through and you can clearly tell there a 75-year-old white man who never listened to them using it. And it's prize pigs.

They probably also participate in Nielsen ratings too. Probably. So for those of you out there disrespecting your people who win prizes, people who like to win stuff are the ones who really drive radio listening.

I get it, but I believe in the other ones who are actually dialing the number. Yeah, there are regular people who try to win. Sure, but they're just likely, you know, not participating in Nielsen. That's all I'm saying. We don't know. We don't know. I just know that the, I used to try to get win radio contests. It's hard, it was hard to get through back in the day.

You're a prize. She called you a prize. No, that's not what she's saying. I was a listener who would try to win the contest. That's who I'm fighting for. The people Laura and I are talking about, they literally time their light. No, but they don't know. But they time their life around.

They're on. They're on Z-100. They're on power. They're on hot. They're timing and trying to win every. It's like a job. Yes. Especially if it's a cash prize.

That's when you, that's what it's crazy. Yeah. No, no, no. Winning contests and like going to casinos, figuring out how to win things, couponing things, playing radio contests. They could probably,

and then winning things reselling, buying and reselling, buying tickets reselling. Those are all the same people. They're hustlers. Yeah. Bro, they could probably clear like $3,500 a month, bro.

Just at the crib, hustling phones, playing contests, whatever. See, it seems like a lot of work. The deal doesn't seem as worth it to me. The juice is not worth the squeeze. Sorry? The juice. Oh. It's not worth the squeeze.

Not at all. What would you say? Well, no, because we're doing this whole thing about these. You thought he said the Jews? Because he's talking about this contest and people being cheap and reselling. And I'll say, here we go. Wait, would the Jews win contest? The juice.

You said the juice isn't worth the squeeze. Yeah. Yeah. You're sensitive about the Jews right now. All right. Welcome to the show. Welcome to Ibril or husband. No, it was a joke.

But I don't think the Jews worth to squeeze either. Yeah. It seems like a lot of work. And you can only win into place once a month. Yeah. So they got to keep rotating around.

So if you have a good month by week three, you're down on stations. I don't even know if they have contests how far down the dial you're going. You're trying to win on NPR. I don't know what they give away. Well, speaking of the Jews.

Oh, all right. Can we look up, can you bring up clip seven? I don't like this start. The deed crisis in New York. Why is this Jews? Because all the comments on these things are it's all the Jews. Oh, wow. They're saying it's all the Jews getting the, are they correct or no?

I don't know. I think a lot of the reports have shown that. Guys, guys, guys. They're bad people. It's not because they're Jewish. No. They happen to be Jewish. And you're in New York City where there's a lot of Jewish people in real estate.

That is a fact. Let's see the video. What do you got, this really boils my blood. Okay. I'll show you. Wow. You are arresting this homeowner on Eid of all days. Step off the property, please.

So NYPD is out there and these are people... While the world is distracted with the egregious war crimes being carried out by the United States in Israel, they're annexing Palestine, while they're doing the same exact thing here in New York City. The NYPD has just showed up to a property owner's home, an elderly woman who has been in her home for over 20 years, for over 20 years. Multiple NYPD cars here, multiple NYPD officers. They are suiting up in riot gear to carry out an illegal eviction. They are in riot gear to carry out an illegal eviction against an elderly woman and her family and they're threatening arrest for everyone inside. Oh my god.

So this is a big going on. They say, lawfully arrested, Samantha. We are in Queens, New York. They are annexing New York City. speak under Zionist billionaire real estate heiress Jessica Tesh and this is the true purpose of the NYPD all right well I need I'm gonna need a little more info than that video all right so I'll tell you this because I've been paying attention to this because this is happening heavy in Brooklyn too and they target Latino and black folks that's what I've seen I've seen people who are like grassroots activists talking about this just I want you to look up deed theft oh no I know what it is it's bad so that I want to shout out that woman uh

Jennifer Kings. Go to number 26 now. Here's a better explanation. That was what was happening. Shout out to you, Jennifer, but give us more information. Did you know that 47 homes worth $34 million were stolen from elderly black families on just one street in Brooklyn last year? Welcome to Eastern Parkway and Crown Heights,

where criminals turned six blocks into the most dangerous place in America to own a home. Here's how the scam works. Fake health aides befriend elderly homeowners, visiting daily and collecting personal information. Meanwhile, scouts monitor Kings County Hospital records, waiting for medical emergencies. The moment grandma goes to the hospital, three office buildings between Bedford and Utica Avenue Spring into action. Corrupt inspectors create fake violations.

Phony social workers pressure families to sign papers, all using the same crooked notary with identical forged signatures. Within days, shell companies flip these stolen homes to luxury developers for millions. They call it the Eastern Parkway Pipeline, a complete third. theft to gentrification machine targeting the most vulnerable. The worst part, you cannot even call police to report deed theft as a crime. These families lost everything while their loved ones fought for their lives in hospital beds. So I've heard there have been some arrests. And I guess there's something in the real estate laws of, I don't know if it's the city of the

state, when you get these like violations on your home, this hasn't been kept up, you get this sort of thing that needs to be fixed, this needs to be fixed, et cetera, etc. That piles up and there's something there's a loophole for them to be able to take ownership of your property. Um, but yeah, if you look in the comments of these things, obviously people want to go full anti-Jew, anti-Semitic in the comments because a lot of the people who are running these scams on these older people are Jewish. Well, the first video we showed was the woman just saying this is just Zionist. She got into no information. She just and by the way, chat, I'm angered by theft. It's real and disgusting.

I'm just saying in the first video, she just goes, this is a Zionist plan. She didn't give any information that I thought she was going to say, no, it's literally tied to something Israel-related. It sounds like she's saying it was just tied to Jessica Tisch, who is also a rich Zionist. That's right. But this is evil.

It's so evil. I do not like, and there's, so is there no way to fight back against this at all? People are fighting back, but some of this stuff is already, it's done. It's said and done. It's gone. These people have lost their homes. And it's still happening, by the way. As we speak, it's happening. I'm gonna.

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of who not not see tendences, but of who is bar records. Yeah. And so look, if you're in the chat and you know about this, if you live over in Brooklyn or any neighborhood where this is happening, we love to hear more about it.

But I do think some laws need to be passed. It sounds like people are really ramping up on it. But as of yet, you have elderly black and brown families losing property because of whatever these legal loopholes are that are being used. I thought the first, that seems even more complex a scheme than the first things we heard about. Because I've heard that people, I guess you can find deeds online and they just forge signature. Yeah. That's, yeah.

Or they come and convince them of stuff. Yeah, I guess. So this is more complex. But like, this is most, this is definite, listen. This is done by a super big company. No, it doesn't have to be super big. If you work in a hospital or you have a, you're a notary public, you know, people who have that little stamp to sign you thing. And somebody's going to slip you $100 here, a couple of $100 there.

Hey, if you notice this person comes in and a lot of, people are doing things for that. You can get somebody killed out here for $1,500 if you find the right person. It's not, like, you know what I'm saying? So to pay people who have access to things, a couple of hundred dollars, $1,000, whatever, to get info and run a scheme, it's not tough. But, but, like, I'm just, it does require, like, a bunch of different people. Like they said, you have to have a nurse who's going there every single day and they're reporting information and then you have to have the people.

There's levels. There's levels to it. This is sad, bro. It's so bad. With that and the whole squatters rights, the whole squatters rights thing is insane. I saw a video of a woman. We went on vacation. She went away for the summer, came back. There's people living in her home.

They, I guess, you know, found a way to get a bill sent to that home with their name. And when she came back, she could not get them out. Police arrested her. Because they got a bill sent to a house that wasn't there. They ran the squatters rights scam. We've been living here. This is our home. It's wild.

I don't understand how people could be this evil. I just don't understand it. I hope the city. Congratulations. You plagued yourself. People have no shame, bro. If we're watching, bro, if we're watching what Netanyahu and Trump are doing, this is small peat, this is peanuts. It's terrible.

It's evil. We're watching people get murdered, bro. We watch Gaza. We watch children get murdered. Our country killed little girls out of school because they used old technology, lied about it, and they're still trying to sweep it under the road. And then when it's all said and done, and I saw someone speaking about this online, and I thought it was a really great point. they they not only did did it lied about it etc it then just gets tossed out the window as a footnote like things happen in war if god forbid that happened here 150 school girls killed in one moment

it would be like 9-11 our whole country should be as it should be our whole country would stop however when it's in another country with brown little girls that we don't know and haven't scene. It's just a war happens. Brown little girls don't matter here either. Look at it Walde. True. Look at how many children were murdered and nobody cared after a while. Oh well, the officers are free. Nobody. Nobody has been held accountable. I think they're going after a teacher blaming her for leaving like a door open or something. I don't know where we're at but last time I saw they were blaming a teacher. It's and that was the mass shooting if you forgot. There's so many things going on. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right guys. I just want to remind you guys that as of

Monday, ICE is supposed to start entering to help, quote unquote, help TSA workers. Oh, yes, great. I got, by the way, finally America's getting great again. I knew it. Ice workers at the airport, what could go wrong? Congratulations. No, listen, it's going to go great. It's going to go so good.

I know me personally, I wouldn't be triggered if I was at the airport dealing with an annoying security situation. and some ICE officer started interacting with me. I know I personally wouldn't maybe lose it and get dragged out of the airport. I'm sure this is going to go really well. And I'm also worried about, you know, my green card holder friends or friends who have been naturalized, you know,

because even though they've been doing everything right, I could easily see those ice guys be like, oh, great card, what great card, arrest her. This will help us meet a quota. Now, Rosamor, you were just in the airport over the weekend. I was. I was in Newark and I was in Orlando. How to go?

It went fine. I took the last flight out of Newark on Thursday. It was empty besides one. You know what every once in a while? You're watching your bags go through the conveyor belt. Not the bags you're bringing with you. Yeah, the security line. Security line.

And you're watching the bag to see when it gets to that point, is it going to go the wrong way? Yeah. Or keep going straight. I have one of those people. I got there as my flight was boarding. And each bag, she was like, Oh God.

You mean doing our job? But like, fam, we're going really far right now. Each bag took so long. Anyways, it was fine. And then on the way back, Orlando was a little crazy. Orlando, you could see the effects of what's going on. But it was the first time since I've had it. And I've talked mad-ish about Clear.

That I think Clear is such like a flawed, dumb plan. What? Clear jump me past. Honey. Everything. Claire comes through sometimes. What are you talking about? It can be awesome.

It can be whack. It can be wet. But TSA breach that can too now. Yeah. Right. Right. So if you have both. No,

it just feels crazy to me that the only system they have basically to like make things faster if you're willing to pay the money is the same as jump the line at the amusement park. Yeah. That's crazy to me. All they have is we walk you in front of everybody else. You're like, sorry, I'm rich. Like that's crazy. I paid my $150.

I paid my money or in my case, my M. It's concluded with my Amex. Thank you. Like they don't have a separate. They couldn't just do another lane for clear to make it not feel so. It depends on how much space they got. It's the space issue. It's disrespectful when you're just cut in front of everybody.

But guess what? It saved the day. I'd say the pre-check line was like, it looks like 30, 40 minutes. And the regular line looked back. But now you said that you feel like this whole Trump, I said airports. You're like, you're convinced that this is a game against the Democrats to force them to sign that.

That and a distraction. It's twofold. It's number one. They have it all wrapped up in one, as we talked about. DHS and TSA are all together when they don't need to be. The Democrats have offered like seven different versions of like, hey, let's separate out the TSA and get that done. Republicans don't want to do that. They don't want to do that because they want to always do what they do.

And people believe it. They will just say, yo, the front, yesterday the New York Post, lines, lines crazy among Dem stoppage. It's not a Dem stoppage. The Democrats simply don't want ice agents to wear masks. That's it. To be better trained, to wear body cameras. Oh, you mean operate like other law enforcement? Have real warrants to enter people's private property.

That's what they want. They want people to follow the rules. And it's all tied in there with our TSA workers stuff. So as a result, now we don't have enough TSA people. They're blaming the Dems and in a genius move because, man, they know how to, their evil moves are incredible. now bring the ICE agents to the airport and have them involved. Congratulations, you plagued yourself.

This could have all been avoided. I just want to remind everybody, all of this could have been avoided. Well, if we didn't vote, the country didn't vote for Trump? Yeah. You could all of it. None of this would be going on right now.

Oh, and also, how your gas prices look. Are you, have your grocery prices drop? You make it more money? And by the way, and you guys hate when I do it, you guys hate when I do it. Don't say I'm going to be all right. I told you I was going to be all right. Oh, my God, nobody wants to hear that. I know they don't, but I'm just letting you know.

I'm not telling you things because it benefits me. Right. No, I know. I'm trying to help you, but you would rather listen to the marketing from billionaires. You would rather listen to people who don't live in cities like you. You would rather listen to people who are taking money on the low. You know what I mean? all of the, you know, two sides are the same people.

Are both sides the same? I hate when people say that. Literally, what you're looking at right now. Yes, are there things about Democrats you could dislike and are there things about Republicans you could dislike? Whatever sides you're on, yes, you can pick it. But if you're just looking at it, would a Democrat president be allowing what is happening right now?

It's a great and very interesting argument. The people who fundamentally don't believe. even voting. It goes against their like they don't want to sign up for any of it. Now, Ebro's response to that has always been strong which is do you pay taxes? Because if you pay taxes, you can't say you're not involved

with the system. You're in. You're in. You're in the worst way possible. You're paying your money. You're paying them. You're paying for it. Yes. So the question is since you're already paying for, because if you're living between, so Ebro, you could show so are you saying you would have more respect for someone who says I literally

make cash only I don't pay taxes? I don't live in the margins. I'm hustling the government altogether. Okay, cool. That you could respect. Absolutely. I don't vote. I don't do any of it.

Now if your kids go to school. Well, now you got problems. You got problems. If your grandmother needs support and you need to go to the pharmacy, you should probably want to participate. So I don't know the, the ciphous sounds of the world, the shawnee cultures of the world. These are just people that are in our universe, but many others who just simply believe that like voting, the whole thing is a charade so they don't vote. And by the way, I don't disagree with. of that. Right. I know. That's true too. But there are local politicians, state level politicians

who are really trying to do work, man. But even in this situation, even if you thought the whole thing was absolutely crazy. So one person is saying, hey, we have a book, a step-by-step booklet so we can get this country into full Nazi territory. And someone else is going, hey, I'm kind of just a run-of-the-mill Democrat. I'm probably not going to change the world, but at least everything will stay basically the same and your principle of not voting was bigger than the principle of being anti-Nazi yeah that's a crazy level congratulations you plagued yourself yeah and i look i get it i get it it's all confusing it's hard i don't do the research i don't follow it i don't know who to believe blah blah blah all of that is valid i'm not invalidating

any of that but if you are a mature adult human being and you have responsibility to your family and your children and your community at any level and you're paying taxes out here you got to pay attention man you can't just throw your hands in the air and act like you don't care and I will say to our audience because I've had people you can wave them in the air that people have a spoken oh well you know mom donnie hasn't done this hasn't done that first of all I just want to say none of us blindly support people. You're allowed to criticize everybody. You have to, especially whether you elected them or not.

But please look deeper into where you're getting your information. Because there's so many people, Ibro, that are sending me all these crazy videos. Like, but look, I'm like, have you even looked at this person who he aligns with? What he's regurgitating. And sometimes quick Google searches will show you. Yeah. Like, hey, this is not happening. Well, the other thing I really would like to.

to say to everyone out there, man. You know, I realize this says I got older. And maybe you're not here yet, and maybe you will get it. Here we go. I like rules, man. Big rules guy. I like them. I like when we all collectively decide on them.

You're not going to always get everything you want. But as a collective, hey, we decided here's the rule. Now, you can decide to break the rules, maybe you get away with it here and there, maybe they hit you with a ticket once in a while. You can get together and change them. I like that. You know what? Let's get together. This isn't working out.

Let's change them. Rules, laws. You're saying all those things. I'm okay. I'm okay with it. Are there laws I don't like? Absolutely. Are there people in charge of making laws that I don't like them and I don't like what

they want for black people? That's absolutely true too. But I like some rules. And so I'm willing to do the work to change some rules or play by the rules. I am with you in lockstep. I had a similar thought this weekend, too, about how complicated the world is and how like necessary laws are. Like it's crazy.

They came up with laws. Like, for instance, if Netanyahu and then was following laws. Oh, that's why I was thinking about it. They wouldn't be doing the things that they're doing. That's why I was thinking about it because Trump attacked the president of Israel. Because Israel has a president and a prime minister. And the president, obviously, as we can tell, doesn't have the same power as the prime minister, but he doesn't have power. And he will not give up that they're going to continue to prosecute Netanyahu.

So Trump called him weak and stupid and all the names. It's actually the opposite. Because he says, we have laws here. There's no precedent for us to throw out Netanyahu's case. There's no precedent for that. We can't do that. And I was like, oh, man, even in Israel, which at this point you'd believe has no rules whatsoever, they have these laws that are being ignored and broken the same way we're seeing constitutional ideals broken and thrown away here.

It was great. I ran into this Israeli who I work with somewhere. I won't say more than that, but I work with an Israeli somewhere. and we had never spoken. All we'd done was the generic, oh, my wife's family's Israeli. Oh, where's your family from? You know, we've done kind of that game,

but I'd never broached anything. And I saw him recently and was like, how's your family? And he was like, oh, you know, like they're in shelters all day. And we like, it was so funny, like we were doing this slow, feel each other out game.

Try to see what you said. Yeah, and I was like, I was like, yeah, man, he's like, I just hope that, you know, this ends soon. And I was like, I don't know, man, with Trump. I kept it light. But I was like with Trump and Netanyahu And all I had to say was that

And he's like Netanyahu is the most Evil worst thing that's ever happened to our country And this is insane And he just like, this is a young Israeli And he just completely went off And it was just nice to like I don't have a lot of personal interactions With stranger Israelis on the street

And to see that we were in lockstep about this thing And like his family's in shelters every single day How could you? Terrible. You know, even just being selfish, I get it. Netanyahu doesn't care at all about Gazans or Iranians or Lebanon. It seems like he wants to annex all of it. You don't even remotely care about the life and well-being.

These missiles are starting to get through, by the way. The Iron Dome isn't Iron Doming all the time. So I have a friend who just got back from Bahrain. He told me I could talk about it. His name's Chris. And he was teaching English over there. Okay. And he would go back and forth, go over there for like four or five months,

come back to his family. He's in Bahrain when it's getting bombed. four miles from where bombs are going off and he's an American citizen and you know as an American citizen they say call this number we'll get you out of it. They call the number no help we can't help you

he had to get himself out of Bahrain missiles flying overhead he had to drive to a little he told me I you know I probably shouldn't give it all he had to drive to a specific place get himself there and pay $6,000 to get an airline to get a commercial flight to get a flight out. Corey Booker and other state legislators in New Jersey

received a letter from his wife and other family members who had family members there. They wrote to them to help him get out. Those state legislators, federal, you know, Congress went out in the media and said, yes, we've spoken to the families. and they're going to get home safely. They never spoke to the families. They just received a letter and didn't do anything. She was like, we never spoke to anyone.

No one reached out to any of the family members. Even though we reached out to them. Even though we wrote a letter to them. We have this basic fundamental idea that in the worst situation, America will like help you. Now more than ever, that's just not a realistic thing. No way. That's just not.

Well, and when you're in regions where, like, remember, Iran is sending, so we're calling it bombing. They have these small, this is according to my friend who was there and saw it. They have these small drones that can avoid, like you said, things are getting through. They have these like few thousand dollar drones with bombs on them or explosives on them, whatever, that can avoid. the Iron Dome or whatever these interceptor missiles are. Have you and there's report by the way this isn't even information that's like this has been reported on where we're spending millions of dollars to drop bombs and Iran is spending thousands of dollars to use better technology to use technology that gets around our super expensive stuff and and I told you guys this. Where is a let's see um clip number. 12

Rassan Club 12 folks And we get to the rundown next Yo The United States has stated That we will no longer Be allowing cameras To record coffins

Coming from the Middle East Of soldiers who have been killed And before you happy From my goddamn comment saying Oh well that's out of respect for the families Let me tell you something I was in the military And I also used to do funeral detail

we have they usually bringing them to large international airports like oh hair thousands of people have cameras that means they are going to probably be sending bodies back to the states in private aircrafts at private airports where they will strictly prohibit camera footage of the coffins coming off these planes because we are at that stage everybody where the united states of america is going to hide how many soldiers are dying in war for another country. Oh man. That's who is King Triv on Instagram.

And so, you know, Rosenberg and I joke often because to get like information or to, you know, bring in videos for, for what we're going to talk about here. Sometimes it's just people from IG. It's because all of the media outlets aren't either don't have the capacity to cover how much stuff is happening in detail, right? or they've been taken over. Yeah, or they're intentionally not. You know people who work in these places have mortgages and children

and children's daycare and trying to keep their job. Right? Absolutely. Right. So to be some like hero who's going to like throw out a story on a social media feed or something to try to get the truth out, you're donezo. Dunzo. Yeah.

And just because now Paramount is taken over by this one and this one, what are you going to do? And just like you saw there who is King Trivi did put up according to Fox News are going to stop doing that. Why would they stop doing that? Who's going to go against that story? Are you guys seeing this story? And it plays into what I told you guys weeks ago that people are saying more than this. Because at this point, how many people do we know have died in the situation who are in the U.S. military?

Are they still running with seven? We don't know the number. We don't know the number. I can tell you that there are hundreds of soldiers stationed in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, There's families over there where these people are staying They're flying these explosive drones into these places with precision That's being reported and so you mean to tell me there's no casualties from that Also remember there's threats from the FCC saying that if people if broadcasters don't report

The war the way they wanted to be released your license they're gonna pull your license It says, congratulations. Gemini. I told you all that when Trump got back in there. Everything I've been telling y'all, I hate to be that guy. No, you don't. The first thing I said when he got back in office was, watch. They're going to come for us, and then they're going to come for all the media.

Oh, do we have? Do we have that slide? Do we have the tweet that summed him up perfectly that I sent yesterday, Baskin? I just copied this. I saw someone post this, and I was like, if this doesn't nail. Trying to provoke both a world war and a civil war at the same time while demanding a no Nobel Peace Prize is a level of insanity never seen before. That's really it.

World War on the brink. Civil War growing every day and give me my Nobel Peace Prize? Nah, bro. Nah, we, this, it may be worse than I thought it could have been. Maybe worse. Well, congratulations. You were about to retail Rosenberg? Was I?

I thought you were going to go to the... Oh, Gemini? Yeah. Gemini says 13 to 15. 14 service member fatalities. That's what they're reporting. They're reporting. But they won't let people film their return home.

The body's returning home. The problem is, is we can't believe y'all. We never really could, in my opinion, but other people are on my side now. So maybe y'all believe me. I got more people. How could you believe? How could you believe them? Under what?

They lie about literally everything, to your face. Trump they never Trump Trump lied about the happening to the school With the girls in Iran Even Hegg Seth was like And they still never came back And corrected it and said anything They just

They're like oh they'll forget about it They'll move on There'll be another headline And they do now we'll be talking today About the ice at the airport Yeah This is the play they told us they were going on It's all Project 2025

You should just do so much stuff at one time That we're all dizzy But he didn't know what project 2025 was No I never heard of it Never heard of it Let's get to the rundown Laura got the run down Turned that up

Screen's on glow When she pulled up Headlines heavy But we still cut up Life still flashing We don't slow up I know this promo hit your algorithm And honestly

It got me Did you see Cameron and J. Cole? Yo, I only saw it because you sent it But I was like Ah Let me give you guys a clip If you missed it

A girl can't be a styleist Neva When she's fixing somebody Call her in next searchie. What's up, man? I'm just saying, like, a lawsuit, bro? Lawyers.

You know, it wasn't like that. I'm just saying, bro. You got... Cam going with the wrestling with the WW. Yeah, walk-in. Walk-in joint? So it begs the question. Was the whole lawsuit fraudulent?

Or this is the... Or it was real and this is to make good? I think it was real and this is to make good. Okay. That's what I'm going with. I can see Cam being. the kind of guy who's like, nah, bro, we made a deal. You breaking it? I'm suing.

Yeah. And then Cole's like, hey, bro, I just didn't get around to it yet. Can we not do this? And he's like, sure, come in. I can, I believe that. You go with that way. Because the tradeoff with verse, if I remember correctly, was either a verse for Cameron or a sit down interview on a show. Yeah. That's all he was asking for. So maybe now they're like, all right. I'm not buying. I don't know. I know Cam. I don't think Cam takes any of this stuff that serious. Um, but, you know, I think he's down for these. type of shenanigans. He might have been plotting this the whole time.

Cole might have told him, yo, bro, I'm about to drop my album. He's like, yo, let me run a play. I'm going to act like we got a lawsuit. And then that way, when you come in after the album's already out, it's got a little, you know what I mean? I hear you, but I think I could also see Jay Cole be like, nah, man, too much negativity. I don't want this.

I don't know. We'll see. But speaking to J. We had a treat over the weekend. Our girl in the Deska had a sit-down interview, the first interview since dropping his new album. She went all the way down, okay, inside his childhood home, which was super vital. Yep, she went down to North Carolina.

This is literally 2014, Forest Hills Drive-Hoff. Yeah. Oh, the actual house. Yeah. Actual home, which I thought was super cool. That's super dope. During the conversation, of course, J. Cole talked on the, uh, on the Drizzy Kendrick beat now.

Check this out. So you're on the stage at Dreamville Fest, and I always wondered what was going through your mind in the five seconds before you made the apology, the, five minutes, the five hours before. Was it something that you had really thought of and planned? Or did you get on the stage? I felt like, I need to do this. No, it hit me an hour before.

Okay. But before that, I was stressing the fuck out for, for, uh, but in the moment that the idea came to me, like via God, it's like, oh man, I lifted and I got light and I got excited. I got so excited because, you know, to tell you the two or three days before that, it was, it was like, oh, no, this was terrible because I felt like I misrepresented myself. You know what I mean? It's like all of a sudden, I'm giving life to division into a negative, to negative storylines or negative perceptions on somebody that I and got love for.

You know what I mean? Somebody that I like care about. And it's like, oh, shit. In my mind, of course, I mean, I could take you back to, we know why that happened in the first place, but just to answer your question, that's me feeling terrible because I'm like, oh, my God, like, this shit. nasty, this feel right. And of course, leading up to it, in a moment where I wasn't clear, I chose to, to go this way,

four reasons that I can tell you about. But all you need to know right now is like, yo, I felt miserable about it. Like, literally, like my whole demeanor, my whole shit, my wife could tell. And so I'm like, oh, my God, I got to go on the stage and like come out here and pretend, almost. Like, people think that I'm representing. Mike DeLead later had just dropped. It's the biggest news. Not saying Mike Delete later is,

but just the drama of all of this is the biggest news happening. And I'm coming out as a representative of what the fuck they just heard. I love, first of all, great job. Biden, Deska. Great conversation. Yeah, that's a treat.

But, um. Available on Apple Music, by the way. I love that he felt exactly how we sort of assumed he did. You know what I'm saying? Like, we were on the big, uh, defend J. Coltrane. Yeah.

When everyone was, like, looking for a reason to, be angry about that and my whole feeling was like he obviously wasn't good with this it went to a place where he was like ah I thought we were play fighting I was down for some play play play I didn't know this was gonna be yeah so I was slap boxing and y'all brought

out oozy yeah and so I'm not with this so I just the fact that there are two kinds of people in this world bro if you're the kind of person who really dislikes Jay Cole because he decided to do what was right by him and man up and get out of it your childish

I'm sorry, you're childish. You never been through real things. You haven't made big, big boy and big girl decisions in life. You believe you just have to stand ten toes deep. Ten toes down no matter what you do. Well, I mean, there are people who consume hip hop as just fandom. So they're not, there's zero for some. Zero empathy for the actual humanity of the artist.

Right. They're only here for the shenan. Man against the battle they're not interested in your human like that's just a thing that people are all just like Characters and a show they're just product on a shelf. Yeah it's a product on shelf characters in a show Yo there's a battle going on it's hip hop you're supposed to battle but they've never had that level of They just have never been on a level of of gravitas where they've been responsible for You know being in front of millions and having to make a decision to either put positivity out or put negativity out

You know what I mean? And until you've been in that, it's tough to empathize. Yeah. And obviously. So we're going to be closer to that. Yeah, I've never been to anything like Jay Cole was through. But we've all been through our share of things where it's like something I've said or done is out there. And you're going, well, it's being received now.

Let's see how this go. Do I want to stand by that? Yeah. And then you're like, I don't want to stand by it. I contributed to something that I don't want to be a part of. Yeah, I'm going to say sorry. You know what I'm saying? We could do a top five sorry's list.

Oh, I'm down for you. Because sometimes you get it wrong. And he obviously felt he got it wrong. And I've always wondered, too, why people were like, it's not like he didn't show up to get in the battle. He put out a record to get in the battle. And then realized, and we've heard behind the scenes, he was informed that it was going to unfold in ways

that weren't just a battle. Right. Of lyrical prowess. Deeper than rap. It was going to get deeper than rap. And that's also, which, like, you could see in that conversation with Nadecca where he was like, look, we could talk about those things, too. Uh-huh.

But just to answer your question in that moment, right? You know what I mean? And so, a great interview by Ndeska. Yes. Also, you know, that J. Cole album, I don't know if you guys are still playing it as much as I am. But I love it. I love that he's, I love that he's on Cam Show. I love that he sat with Neska.

I love she went down. I love the Honda running around. Didn't the Honda break down? Yes, yes, yes. The Honda finally broke down. They had a good run, though. They had a good run, though. They just left it.

Who knows, but I like, I liked it. It's at the shop. All right, well, yeah, shout out to Neska again. Go check out the full interview. It's available on Apple Music. It's a real treat. Also, congratulations, Tolado. Big Mama is expecting her first child.

Okay. Now, she dropped a song called Business Department revealed her pregnancy and her new album on the way. There you go. I like the new record, too. Wow, that's a really cute. I'm looking at the left. I know, I know, very cute.

So really cute. Is that a leopard? It looks leopardish. Cheetah. Could be a cheetah. You know, her whole cheetah. It's giving cheetah in the face. Oh, it's.

Yeah. So is a cheetah? Yeah. Cheetah has the thing he's under the eyes. I gotta tell you. You know, she leans into the cheetah print thing. A baby cheetah is a cute animal. There's no way around it.

That's a very cute animal. Very high level. Um, I, I would encourage everyone not to get a pet cheetah. They will scratch your face. Nah, yeah, you don't want to do that. A wild animal. I mean, look, there was a lot of conversation because, you know, Obviously, everyone, you know, says that speculates,

or some people feel like they're sure that the father is 21 Savage. Oh. So everybody was kind of digging through, like, visuals to see. Wait, wait. There's speculation that the father's 21? Because, I mean, no one has ever really come out and said, this is my partner. It hasn't come out for, a lot of hasn't said it or 21. Even though he has two kids and they were saying that he's married. He's married to another woman who liked the post, Laura.

I know, but I Google. Well, listen, I googled it and I said he wasn't technically married, but people are going to hit the lowdown drop. You got to hit the drop. People are saying that he is married because of his immigration status, remember? It's not a real, it's not a marriage like that. And also, I wish everybody would quit chatting, including me, like, stop chatting because if it is what everyone's speculating it is, if they did do that, that's against the law. I mean, they have two kids together So I think there was a relationship at one point

I'm proud to say I don't know what anyone's talking about Didn't know there was a thing about the two of them I know not my name's Paul Rosenberg Yeah my name's not Paul but this is between you Shouts to Paul Also guys we got so caught up we didn't even talk about JC Yankee Stadium Yeah we hit us with the button

Yeah we got so caught up A lot happens every day on this program Well listen we've been talking about what it's going to be Yeah we were so far we haven't been 100% right, but we've been pretty right. Like there's a lot going on. We got the Roots Picnic happening. Yep.

They put out the full lineup over the weekend. I saw a flex on there. Yeah. Who else? Kilani. Baidu. Listen, I really want to go. Yeah.

But now? No, no, no. In my brain, I really want to go. No, but you're not going to. Because now the Jay thing's happening up here. But I want to go to that too. So you're not, well, I'm just here to tell you. You're not doing all of it.

And then the next time I want to go to the thing. Yeah, I think. Babe, can I go to all the things? Can now reasonable doubt the first night the Friday. Yes. And blueprint the Saturday. It feels like we got to go to both. Feels like it's got to be like a weekend.

Is this like a whole weekend? This is like a, this is the best kind of festival. Yeah, I'm in there. We're going to do a family festival where we go to all of it. But in between, you just go home. I love that. So you guys are you going to reach out to your Rock Nation contacts?

No, we're going to rely on you. I wouldn't do that. No, we're going to have to. I'm not doing that. No, we have to. Why? Because my connect isn't good. Well, and I already saw the people that I do know already put up.

You can't hit Lenny. Yes. Lenny already put. They want to be left alone. Lenny posted about Philly. Leave me alone. No, no, no. Yeah, I think you all.

About this too? Uh-huh. Leave me alone. Let me alone. Leave me alone. So, my ticket. Well, that is a real thing you do.

I'm buying tickets. Pre-sell is today if you're a city. I buy tickets. A city card holder. All right. Well, I bought. I buy for everything. So there's no free.

Well, then fine. Well, I'll all buy. But we just need to go through a year. I don't have like, I'm not a rock guy. The rock has never loved. I'm good, I'm fine. It's not bad with the rock, but you guys saw. I didn't get invited to the museum.

I don't get the rock treatment. They don't think I'm. Yo, rock nation, y'all don't rock with Rosenberg? It's crazy. You know, it's crazy. No one's been down with the rock longer than me. And for some reason, I'm not non-grada. I'm non-grada.

I will get, we're going to figure it out just like everybody else. Congratulations. You played yourself. Maybe, maybe I missed the note. You know, when you got the thing where you had to start like, when people had to start wearing their, paper planes hats on the low to like show their You didn't wear your paper plane hat?

I didn't wear the paper plane hat. Oh, come on. So I didn't, I didn't show. But we're going. We got, here's my question. We got to go. I am. No, no, we're all going.

Here's the question. How much do you think they run for a sweet though? All right. More than I. That's going to be able to. You love sweets. I like being able to move. Me too.

I like being in the mix. Do you? Yeah, I do. You're sure? I'm positive. You're sure. Two nights in a row. You wouldn't rather just have a nice comfy.

I don't think I'm going to do two nights. I think I'm going to do one. I'm in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sweets where you can come outside. I got to ask my lady which one she wants. Well, she's going to go to both, right? Yeah, I don't know.

But, you know, she's going to get, so when jazz wants to go, she's got to, she's outfitted up. She's, it's a night out on the town. It's not like me where I just throwing a t-shirt and I'm like moving and grooving. I got, you know, she's got heels. I got a whole hands. I got to make sure. So you're saying you don't want her both nights. No, that's what I'm saying.

It sounded because that's where it went at the end, right? It started with it's going to be hard for her. It lands it on it's going to be hard for me. It is hard for me. It's hard for me, but I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to do it. I feel you, though. I'm willing to do it.

Oh, no, I think if I had to choose one, though. Had to choose, it's blueprint. Me too. That's what I'm going to go. It's you don't know. It's heart of the city. Hard of the city. It's girls, girls.

girls that the fuck so there's the blueprint here's the obvious next question everybody's take over are we getting a new album this year that's obviously the next question that's all of this we're getting there's three shows booked i feel like we could and this could possibly be

the last one why the last so we got let's stop doing the last one game why yeah why does it have to be his life i look at i look at hove and i feel like he has no more interest but he obviously does he can't can't leave rap alone the game needs him And he needs the game.

I would guess he has interest, but knowing how to put it all together. Like, what's the reason? Like, I think he needs, he has interest, but it's not like, I want to be, I want to drop a number one album. I need my song on all the radios. Like, his motivation is different. No, but that's what I'm saying. Exactly.

And that's why it's like when rappers, when rap artists can stop thinking about domination and get to a place of comfort of just art, like I just want to experiment and make art. that's the next place for people to go to some artists are already there and some are already there we're loving and they live their whole life in common amazing project you're right it was a good project yeah it was great project

but like by the way no tons of people live there hove can go there bro listen man i listen paul simon can barely sing anymore his voice only is like halfway there he retired i saw his last show i paid for the tickets i went to the show we saw him at the beacon he did only the songs he can

still kind of do. That was it. He's 83. Oh, man, I can't love tears. It's over two months past. I'm running 15 dates this summer. Like, he's in his mid-80s. That's what they do. No, but also, listen, I'm 51 now. So I'm in the 50s. Congrats. I'm in there. You might as well be 80. The next 20, you're figuring out, like, how do I do what I want to do? But he already, Jay figured that out. What, that's what, can I finish my time? Oh, sorry, go ahead. And I think Jay already finished, figured that out. So why not? But that's what I'm saying.

So her saying, this will probably be his last, last what? What do we say? Yeah. Like what? He's going to sit in his mansion and wait to die? Like, what are you going to do? No, he's multiple projects going to put. Yeah, but sometimes rapping is I rap.

Like, I like to get to these bars. And I think the roots and him together, the live band set up and maybe doing smaller things or intimate things or, you know, the, like you said, more, more art, like just for the art of it. Like, I would love if he just drive. like a five-song drop, and it was just him and premiere right now. Wouldn't that be exciting? Sure, for you who Zay Pop fan?

Yeah, he could do that with mad different people. Mad different people where he's just like, yo, I'm going to throw out a little three. I'm going to throw out a little of this. Just for the sake of it. Now, I don't, you know, I don't know. It's always tough when you're used to things being such a movie when you come out to, like, not want all of that. Regalia and noise.

That's the hard part. Right. It's like, you know, this is special Roots Picnic with the Roots. Yankee Stadium, 25 years of blueprint, 30 years of reasonable doubt. This is still all top line marquee big moments taking up the news cycle. So that's the tough adjustment. That's why, yeah, even people like Jay-Z still feel the need on some level to be validated by having it be the biggest. You got maybe he'll come on your podcast before he figures out this transition.

And be like, hey, validate me. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. You don't need. Your thing doesn't have to be. the biggest thing rocking on it doesn't matter you're already it you're enough jzy you

are enough while we're at it happy birthday to DJ premiere turns 60 over the weekend still making flames happy birthday free the best man yo did he jump in the comments about the you're not from New York and be like yeah

pee me either no he saw our post but he saw the post where I talked where you and I were joking about gang star yeah because he's from Houston and gurus from Boston yeah he did hit me to correct me and I'm glad he did I said guru's dad was a minister from Boston we messed up and you co-signed it so I blame both of us okay his dad was a judge a judge so primo was like premo was like yo just want to let you know family just wants me to clear that

up judge and I was like my bad judge I knew it was a lofty like important community position but uh yeah happy birthday to primo I mean for my money for my money's probably the greatest ever but like I don't even care about ranking in that regard. He's just one of the greatest musicians. As a person, as a human, he's amazing. As a human, he's amazing. Love you, Prim. Pete rocking your top five?

Pete still, he's close. He's right on, he's right. Listen, I'm only asking to see you. To start problems. Primo, Dilla. Primo and Dilla are absolute locks for me. Pete, I'd say, is right there. Yeah, man.

Pete has so many. So many, bro. I mean, listen, shut him down. Remix alone could have put Pete. You love that. What? House of Pain that jump around remix. Let's talk about it for a minute.

That's tough. Yo, even if we're talking Jay Z, even that Jay Z, Kanye, the joy that Pete Rock, Pete Rock, let the needle drop. Yeesh. Yo, Pete, and this is the guy you was going at, man. It's crazy. You remember when I had Pete and Pre-

You didn't come, I don't think, but I had, I don't think either of you. You and I weren't close yet. I don't think you came when I had the birthday party on a boat. Do you come to that joint? Oh, no, I didn't. No. In like, oh, 9, 10, I had a boat party for my birthday

and the DJs were. Pete and Primo. But you know, you know, it would matter if you were from New York. Ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, no gurus. We'll do gurus tomorrow, I promise. Yes, love you guys. And send your emails.

We need more emails, gurus. We do, we do. Hit the like button, hype us up, subscribe. Definitely. You're gonna go with this. You're not from New York. Forever. No, he loves.

I know, it's amazing. He hit it, what did you hit it on yesterday? Oh, the picture, when I posted it for Primo's birthday. You're like, too bad. You're not from New York. Because it doesn't matter though. That's why it's funny to me because none of it matters.

Because there's people who really do things from their heart for the culture, for art, and then there's people who are just on a grift hustle and don't give a damn. You know what I'm saying? And people like who really love something and do it out of love,

I don't feel like they ever really get there justice. And that's not even the hip-hop thing. That's just the thing. Period. You know, people who do it for the front page, the headlines, the, it seems like they always get celebrated the moment. You know, me and Rory were talking about this yesterday. There are people out there who like,

they literally would try to come after you with people like us and compare what they do and they're using a metric I don't even use. And he brought up a Fonte quote of, you're keeping score of a game, I don't even play. I don't even care about the game. Right. And you're keeping the score.

Look at this, though. I made this money. I made down. I'm like, I never. That wasn't even my scoring system. Right. So. Have a good day.

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