The Joe Budden Podcast - Episode 942 |"Universally Cool"

Episode Date: July 1, 2026

The JBP kicks off this episode with a discussion about Atlantic City (29:00) before turning to their thoughts on the 2026 BET Hip-Hop Awards hosted by Druski (39:30). The crew also shares their reactions to the D'Angelo and Lauryn Hill tributes (1:05:14), Bow Wow's Tiny Desk appearance (1:28:05), and Amber Rose on the message she gives to her kids (1:48:32). Also, Jussie Smollett appearance at Harlem Pride (2:03:27), Malik Beasley has been indicted in sports gambling probe (2:25:05), former Titans running back Chris Johnson's ALS diagnosis (2:47:18), and much more.  Become a Patron of The Joe Budden Podcast for additional bonus episodes and visual content for all things JBP! Join our Patreon here: http://www.patreon.com/joebudden 

The thoughts, views, and opinions expressed by this podcast as well as its hosts are for entertainment purposes only. I repeat, it is not serious. It is not real. No one is exposing, revealing, indicting, or telling you anything about themselves. Also, we do not encourage you to try this at home. We are trained professionals who do not have your best interests at heart or our own.

Enjoy the show. Yeah, we're going to enjoy it today, but don't look me up. and down. You're your man right there. Your man, Parks. What I do? That is my man. Yeah, make sure he remain your man, nigga.

What's like? He always going to remain my man. That's it. That's it. Am you not, pardon me? Yeah, what's your name? Yeah, you always going to remain my man. I don't mean that.

Tell him that. Oh, you think you're not going to remain my man. Oh, you know. Oh, good me. Yeah, don't play. Yeah, I'm playing. Yeah. Fuck is popping.

We in the building. Day 19 of the next. Championship Summer When this bitch was popping though What up y'all? What up? What up? Mark Parks What's probably?

Yeah, Joe is the classic Why you ain't tell me later When you told them first That year earlier I think you're full of shit Oh We all We sat up here a year ago

And said it already And said lab diamonds We didn't have three episodes About lab diamonds They did shit Don't spend your money on nothing else Blah blah blah I never heard that

Because you don't listen to You only listen I'm not saying You don't say it attack my fucking character. I'm saying I just don't remember. Yeah. We've said that.

I thought we was all on something. Oh shit. That's just me. Yeah. Okay. So no way to. Yes. Yeah.

It's happening now. It's happening. After this little thing. Yeah. Nah, it's lit. I ain't. I'm late. I'm late to the labs.

It's change your life. I'm late to the labs. I'm late to the labs, works. I guess I am too. Stupid-ass me running rail and fucking fucking with real, man. Man, it's real. It's real.

It is real. It's manufactured. That's y'all problem. I'm talking about the real expensive shit. You're talking about the shit that my man had his arm cut off. Yeah, that's what you're talking about. The old school shit. That's old school.

The one of the ones in the mountains. Yeah. Go to the mountain. Go get that. Some they can make in the lab. Some they are mining for that are made. We want the miners. And some they buy.

No. We don't. We don't want the minus. Take that back. That sound crazy. But, yeah. I get what you saying. Lab diamonds is.

Yeah, they're good. They save you money. You just got to get you a good Yeah, you got to. The same is like having to get a good jeweler. You got to get a good, lad, lady. I don't think they had that when I bought mine. They had it, but it ain't nowhere near as popular.

Gotcha. They weren't as popular. And they was frowned upon. Today is the day, boy. Niggas looked out of my game. That's a quick. He called it, boy. It's a difference.

It's a difference. No, it's not. I was just telling parks outside. Like, I'm stressed with, like, a million things that have nothing to do with my girl. And it's not real stress. I don't want to, I'm super blessed. I'm super blessed.

It ain't like a real stress, but all of the, like, I ain't having to be responsible. I'm a kid, yo. Yo, responsibility is a hell of a thing, you. I'm a kid. Growing up sucks, too. Adolting. It does.

People be calling me, trying to rely on me. Oh, that's the worst. And I don't wanna do, come on, yo, don't call me. I should be, that's a lot. I shouldn't be in your top five of reliable people. now if I'm six or seven I feel like I show up all right I show up when niggas ain't got nobody

when niggas ain't got nobody I stand tall but you don't have got nobody you don't be playing A because ain't got nobody How would you know? How would you know Being plan A is tough

Yeah I said if you ain't got nobody You're playing A nigga If you don't got nobody nigga you're number six No one I'm fucking talk about I show up better

If you don't have nobody Some psychological shit from my childhood because none of my friends had their parents. So it was my hood, my house that was, and that kind of just carried on. Yeah. I can relate. Even y'all with parents. I don't meet your parents?

It's better to me if I think that you all are like a man. I know, but don't let me meet him. You've met my mom's, Joe. Wait. I'm at Park's parents. Yeah, both of them. I bet your mom dids me. Tell the mom do.

You ain't mean mama flip yet, but yeah. I mean, um. Again, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine, it's fine. You're like, no, it's fine, man. I'm so happy to see y'all. Happy to see you too, man.

How's everybody's the weekend? Good, man. Was it the weekend? It was. It was. It was. I was good. Mine was great.

I didn't do. What did I do? I went out to eat with, with Angie Martinez. Nice. Shout to Angie. The legend. That was great.

Angie, oh my God, man. I'm such a sap today. Oh, it's so good. Angie always pops up when people are relying on me. Okay.

Like, oh, she's so good to talk to when things are just heavy. That was great. That was great. Nice. Lady friends,

you need them. For sure. You need them. For sure. Like, yo, my, you know, but we ain't. I know.

You know. You're right. You're right. But your good, good, good, good girlfriend. Oh, boy, do I'm spilling in me. Oh, I'm sitting there talking shit about anybody in my life. Oh, I needed to unload. Oh, she just listened.

I love you, and shit. Oh, my God. You're special, yo. I'm in a good mood. Come on, let's talk. Let's talk shit. What y'all want to talk shit about? You give me my chain.

What do you mean? The powder of the month has been announced. Nice. Who won? Joseph Anthony Button. I don't pay attention to the Joe Button. Junior. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah, it was Joe Button more. Oh, congrats, man. Congrats. It was Joe Button. Dan, salty, congrats from freeze. I know that. I ain't like, you got to work on your happy.

Congrats day. You were thinking to running, actually. Hey, Mark. Cool. Congrats, bro. He was in the running, too. He fucking cut class. Talk about some Zoom gort.

Oh. They didn't believe it either I don't care You y'all do y'all think I don't give a fuck I would rather Y'all be mad and not believe it Then I get a warrant

For not showing up for court You know what I'm gonna go on Instagram That's driving around on Zoom court And the judge He's gone to say So you're saying One day cost him the whole month Well remember the day before

He got sick from the rain Oh yeah then he was sick So the two days That rain is motherfucking month He's gonna fuck with shouts to the rain Raine's a weekend I'm not fucking with you Marks, why you got on your fucking saucy shorts?

Because it's fucking 90 degrees outside. It's supposed to be 100 this Friday. I can't wait. It ain't supposed to be. No, 104. God. That's what I put on my summer jeans. Come on.

These are my summer jeans. The summer jeans. The summer jeans is my summer jeans. Mark, do you wear shorts? So like, what is your, it's hot outside of attire on your... That's hit right there, nigga. It's hot outside of wearing this. You just suffer?

I don't suffer. So being in a coat, we weren't allowed to wear pants. Mark Mark you know Mark Mark Mark you're not

You're talking about Nick you're in a flashback You're fucking freak Are you good You're good You're not I said that wrong

I said that I mean we assumed that We weren't allowed To wear shorts Yeah And black keeps your cooler I guess I think that was

Just some weirdo She is We didn't wear jeans Either we wore I told you you wore like them Skirts We wore rayon

We wore rayon We wore rayon pants in the Chinese collars and stuff. So I'm used to wearing black all summer anyway. And then... You should try shirts. It's going to change your life. It's the other thing. You know invention.

Along with lotion and some other things. He going to wear dress socks with his shorts. He don't know what to do that. Watch your legs first. It's not just... Oh, shit. That's how it starts. That's the gateway wax.

The next thing you know, your whole shit going, I'm good. That's the kid. My legs is too small, man, so I can't... We got dress socks on now. I told you. What's my man? George Costanza. My calves is too small.

My calves are too small. My cat's too small. My legs are you ain't white. What that mean? Black niggas don't care about calves? That's the problem. We'd be looking like action figures all big up top and twilight. I don't look like your big cats.

Shut up. I don't have big calves. I don't have big calves. I looked into them. I actually know some of the guy. Wait, wait. You look into calf implants? Yeah.

You shouldn't be, you shouldn't say nothing. I can. You don't have hair below the Mason Dixon. Like, you shouldn't say. That's just hair. I still got my actual fucking. So do I. I was up and decided I didn't want to.

Because I couldn't. One, I can't believe that you all thought about these calf and plant shit. Why do you know that the white boys do that? You niggas become more of bitch-ass things. The older than you get in the stupid shit, they can be lonely, yo. Number two, freeze legs do look like arse was body slamming that nigga over that house. No, he looked like he was slamming ice against glass. He looked like they had a glass of glass of,

A glass living room table. Nah. He was running through the bushes. He walked his legs. He looked fine. He was looking at chicken parts. You look like. You look like them.

Those are the shaving. Shaving scars. Nah. He got legs like my old. He got legs like my old cutter bitch. That's huge. My old bitch that ain't want to live. We had to watch after.

That's fucked up. We had to look after. That's just from years. You had one of them too, right? Bidtsin, it was fired. Me too. That's the shriereem. That's what years of bickin' wrong.

Yo, what's wrong with you, yo? Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Let's do the thing of trees. I'm saying, I'm talking about, I'm talking shit about freeze. My barber come every morning and Tuesday morning now.

You do your legs, though? And sometimes he's tired from traveling a lot, and he was tired this morning. And I know what that means. And he'd be like, Nah, you good. Boy, that nigga commenced to cut my old fucking

Yeah, my shit is stinking over here. I ain't got to add up. Yeah, nothing you could do. Nothing you can do. Oh, shit. Oh, my bad. You're going to put that shit on there. Then go spray.

Oh, shit. Wait, first they do a little, they put the cork on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They put the barber cork on it. Then they get to spray. Fuck my borough. Shout out the middle.

That's my man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, man. That's the word. Here for a good time. Here for a good turn. That is hilarious, Joe. Here for, absolutely.

Mark, you didn't get the change. Yo. You tried to hold on to that shit. No, you took it two episodes ago. I shouldn't get extra couple days with this shit. I took it the other day. Yes, we do shoot two episodes. Exactly.

It was two episodes. You're my memory. Y'all niggas still honoring that after them niggas that are doing some bullshit to them? That nigg is still sucking up to them niggas? Suck up the move. Yeah, go ahead, y'all. Put it on them.

Wake it up. I'm good with them flip. No, no, I'm going to fucking. Listen, I only charge him 250. I only some clips. I'm talking to this nigga. Put it on his neck. They mad at them.

You made it some crazy. You got mad at these niggas. They mad at these niggas. Yo, they hate him. They got flogging all right. The clipping feet. Look it's up there. We'll get into it.

Can I get my chain, please? Yeah, I know. Yeah, give my chain. Can I get my chain? Yeah. Yeah. Real simple, dog. Just game my, come on.

Take it time. There you go. Don't just flop it on me. Place it gently. You're putting it on them? There you go. Place it gently. It's the reverse of how I used to get robbed.

Niggins ain't never just yanked my chain off me. I had to stay still. You just, you know, don't move. You're going. You're lying. Yeah, look what I'm all. Come, come. Come on.

He's right out. You don't. Nick, that's hilarious, my nigga. Yo, that's funny. I'm not good with that stuff, man. Nigger says stay still. You still still? Joe, can you say something to the people though?

Yeah, wait. Oh, nigga, yes. He said, fuck the fans. Back to you, yeah. He's been a tough shit. And they got them. No, I never seen it before. I had a gun on me.

They said stay still. I was live. I don't know what happened the day that they pulled out of you. Yeah, you tried. You thought you were bastard. I just never seen that. I just see a dickas gone.

Oh, hell no. They got me. They don't want damage to merchandise. Oh, please. They knew he weren't resistant. He just, yeah. Oh, you know, okay. They knew.

They took my shit off me at 2 p.m. in Georgia City at a light. At a light. You know how I feel to get robbed and half the power wing on your window down? What did you from Jersey City? What that mean? I was feeling good, had web jewelry on. You got it back? Yeah, we got the same back.

How much you paid? You went to store, got another one. And then you got it. No, no, no. They got a bad. I wanted to look. Oh, shit. I remember that.

They got it back. You know, they got it. They got it back. Shout out to the guys, man. They came home. Got it back. Now, web chain that they took off me on 145th Street. No.

They melted it. They mouthed that bad boy now. Somebody had to feel that one. Yeah, yeah. All right, here for a good time, not a long time. Let's have some fun. Let's have some fun.

Yo, I got to tell you how funny freeze was before you got you. That's my man. Hold on a lot. Let me tell you. All right. What's going to say? Hey.

Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, niggins is outside. Is that the car washing all that? Niggins is out with their. Ladies, niggins, it's at the restaurants, Ian, outdoor eating too. Yeah I mean? Let me get that table outside.

You're, hey. Too hot for that, actually. Rest in peace, Tony Thompson. Fourth of July week ain't coming up. Give you $1,000, if you can guess what song I'm playing names. That's the people that jack the beat. Who jack the beat? Now, now, not freeze,

not Fri, though. Flip season, queued up. So, there's no cheating, right? It's queued up. Because Freeze said that my mix was predictable. So I just want to know what song you think is coming in. I don't got it, but. All right.

I know what it. Well, I changed it from whenever freezer did. Yo, shout to high five of our RP. What up, boy? We got to get up soon. I changed it. I changed it. That's not what you have.

Freeze, freeze tried to call it. Verify and predictable boy Don't ever play with Don't you ever play with verified nigga you're fucking about you're welcome You're welcome my nigga I just help you out let's go

Everybody at work all the entrepreneurs 9 and 5 anybody on the West Coast 6 wouldn't have been predictable Oh shout to rock on man That's a good guy It's a good guy man I ain't gonna hate my blood Shout to dough boy Shout to fucking swab

Oh what's my man what's my man from Jersey I with the dreds with the dreds Oh, y'all horrible, man. My memory is bad now. My 97. Hula! That's a song it was. That's a song it was.

Motherfucking supermarket closing down, man. I can't get my motherfucketheed my coffee. What's my supermarket? Acme. The big one. I was in the street. You get your coffee from Agme? It's over, dog.

I know this is a jersey business. don't nobody care about. Yo, shout to everybody in town for the World Cup. Yo, couple of you niggas keep coming to the motherfucking strip club. Talk about, do you got a trend, a Ecuadorian trend. Nigger, no. We don't have a translator. That's the fucking, man.

Nica, fuck are you talking? Get away from the door. Nica, move. It's word, word. Moola. Choch, y'all, look at the Spanish word. It's nat. Y'all, tell you.

Pitch him a bunch of girls, too. We got to hop in a sprinter, and we got to hop in a sprinter. And we gotta go over there and find that little sex ring, y'all. Yeah, they picked up a couple of people. That little World Cup, I'm sure we know some of them girls. There's a World Cup sex ring going on. It's a big of eight of them. It ain't far.

It ain't far from here, right? Oh my God. You know my dad. She's two with a sex with her. You right? You're right. Gap, gna, gna, gna, gna, gna, gna, what's part?

What's that? What? Woo! You, I see. Air. It's marked to my help. What is this? 942.

Welcome to episode 942 of the Joe Button podcast. I am Joe Button. You're happy to be here. Fucking super grateful extremely. What's that? I got that, man. Happy to be here. Yada, yada, yada, yada.

All the good stuff. This episode is brought to you by, fueled by power, by prize. Pick, Price Gang. Next to me. Queens get the money. Queens flip in the building. Flip, how you doing, man?

Good. I'm great. I'm great. Next to him, our good brother, Philly's finest. Our good brother, Dr. Mark Lamont Hill is in the building. Mark, how you feeling, man? Great, great, great. Great. Just not ventilated. I'm good. My calves. They ain't got no air circulation. Next to him, man. Stop playing with him. Stop playing. Straight from motherfucking. What's that story that was on 4? The Pretty Boy Niggers went to the, with the plastic, where they got the plastic containers for

The container store. You know, it's straight from the container store. Stop playing with him. Big-ish, Mr. Thousand Doors and Up, ish, how you doing, man? I'm good. Yourself? I'm great. I could not be better.

Absolutely wonderful. Next to him. Debo Jackson's. Yeah. And, your Mark can't see nothing we grew up with that was cool. Like, he just seeing these. He's like, I got to get me a bit. I just said they're classics.

Oh, okay. You know, my Mark. I think Mark. I don't know what every first niggas. They had them shit to Boston College wherever Fuck he was at As I grew up

Rhode Island Wait what You went to Temple right? Yeah Got it North Philly I feel like I should remember that My cousin

My cousin temple Olimber now I should go into temple Alumnus You said what Alumnus I don't fucking know You should have went with

You're trying to clam me I'm not I didn't hear Whatever I said I whispered in Nobody heard Now you want me to say it again That's why I said

I couldn't hear you So you could tease me No I didn't really hear you I thought since you said you said you should have went to. There's a lot of colleges I should have went to. My head was on straight when I was young. I was a wild boy.

In the streets, niggins. You don't know about, boy? Robberies, stickups. You don't know by boy? You know, playing knock out. Stealing cars. All that shit. Robbing.

Robbing pretty boy. Hooligans. Boy, you was over there fucking talking looking for daddy. We were outside getting to the fucking mother calling another nigga. Noggin' dad was four foot nine. Oh, shit. I had no dad's, nigga. My dad was traffic, nigger.

One father. A Jamaican man, nigga. Oh. Niggas that was 4'5'9 with light eyes. Robbing them niggas. Oh, poor. It's robbing them, niggas. You, nigg.

You, nigger. Vick. Vick. Vick. Got robbed a one. Hey. Vicki. You got robbed before?

I did one. Oh, okay. I got robbed before. Hell, you about my shit, man. It's a difference, nigger. Everybody is got robbed at least once, right? I'd rob one time. Come my shit right back.

I rob and attempted robbery. Freeze. Mm-hmm. Mark? You never got around? Yeah, once. Yeah. That was young boy.

They jumped me and took my chain, yeah. It's the cause of being outside, Nick. We raised and we- You know what that robbish? Niggas took your sneakers and socks. Then they come to your door and take your shit? Take off your boxes too, nigga. As an adult.

No, I was 12. What the fun? They came to your door and took your shit. I was nine years old, my nigga. That's the same, that we are around. Yeah, that's not a robbery. He didn't say no. It's not a robbery, y'all.

You got robbed that now, dude. When you were like 15. Yeah. He's just making shit up to make it sound cool. I got rob that night. No, nigga. Why do you think that... You didn't rob that nine years old.

You went to school, with a book bag, Nick. Stop, bitch. This do we had just some old bail on his funny. Life was so corny that another nigga got to be embellishing. You're right. You said, yo, it's dooby.

No, dick, I lived a life. You was enforced and flex at nine. I know. The shit that you did. You wanted to do I was really doing. I did it already. No, you did it. I was in Brooklyn.

The niggas, you worship. I was doing the shit today was from New Jersey. They don't know you, nigga. You was out here boosting like a fucking doof, getting told to go boof, me. That's what they told me, nigga. You was boosted for niggas, niggas.

I am self-funded, nigger. I am out. Niggas beat me up because I wanted to sell drugs. Watch your fucking mind when you told the guard, now I'm gonna let you finish. Nick, when I was boosting, I was getting $1,500 a week from Macy's. I wasn't boosting for nobody.

You know what? I didn't hear you say it? eight hundred a week from Macy's. Give it to somebody. Who? Giving it more than half, nigga, give it eight, nigga. What fuck you talk about,

nigga? Give it to a truck, man. You wasn't settling on your own, nigga. Watch your mouth when you talk to me, nigga. See, you just want to yell. I do.

I'm smart. So I was taking it back to Macy's getting a mail check refund for the items for full price. I wasn't, I wasn't doing 50% like I was to fame. If y'all keep it up, they're going to call me Vlad.

No, never. If y'all keep it up, they're going to call me names. No, no, I have a brain in my head. I'm glad no charge for clips. Fuck you talk about. Fuck as you talk about, watch him out, niggins.

And, and. Do your New Jersey research, nigga. I ain't never held a pack for nobody. Never heard of it. I don't got to worship no other, niggas. I can worship myself. Don't to the fucking truck. I ain't from nobody ever.

I'm from it. You don't have an error. You got shot and laid there, and cried. He probably told him, that shot you. I laid there. You know what you're talking about, nigga?

You know what a nigga happened that shot me, nigga? He's gone. May God rest his soul. You ain't do it. Don't matter. Don't matter. No, you were.

Because I'm going to check. No, and you, you might. You might try to get some problems. Fuck you talk about. Next is... On intro. Little man. You're going to stop playing with me, bro.

You're going to stop playing with me, bro. You're going to get a man. Y'all ain't got such and I was driving in the red-kiddle's, knick. No, fuck what you're talking about. My name is in the street. This is serious. Hey, y'all with the nigg. Rest and peace, Fox.

R.P. Fox. I'm never trying to be down with nigg. Go get me a ring ding in the milk. Fuck you talk about me. Keep the change. From Elizabeth. 17, nigga. Police called me with my first gun charged.

Are you watching my. Who are you talking to? Go get some skills. Straight out of Newark. Your man that only saved you, nigga. He was a blessing to both of us. Remember that.

I had money when I got you, boy. When I met him, I had money, you better do your research on me, Nick. Straight out of Newark. Fuck you talk about, boy. So have your money there. Straight out of Newark. Fuck you talk about that.

All right, nigg. You better watch your fucking tongue, nigger. Mr. Take it further himself. None other than Freeze is in the building. I don't think he can claim that title after this. They took it fur or further. I'm good, man.

I'm good, man. I'm great. Jesus. Amir's fine. Hey, guys. I knew that was going to happen. Once I see him flip outside with Adrian Broney, he's going to come here and start fucking, you know what I mean?

Wilding on niggas, man. No, I don't know. Why you suck your T4? You know what I do? Know what I do think it's funny? And then I'm saying this I'm moving on, please. But it's a few of y'all, I'm not naming names that I've heard make statements that lead me to believe that once you started working together, you made calls in the street to check and see house. Yeah.

It ain't. It ain't, it's right. Yeah, no, no, for real. And ain't just in them. I'm not just talking about them. Y'all running back girl checks. I've heard it a few times and I'm flabbergasted almost every time. Because you didn't even run back road checks.

Clearly, clearly. The job, though. Oh, man. Would we have a bond if I ran back around, tell you? No. Don't be still. Would I be here?

That's why you got to start your own shit. I worked hard to erase all my shit. I made a change for the better. Holy shit. I grew up. Parks is here. Poe is here. Cors is here.

is here, Erickson is here, Savon is here, Tanner is here, last but certainly not least, each and every one of you, very important people out there. Most important, you guys are here. Yo, listen, the nigga Al-Azei called me with the Atlantic City mayor on the phone. Oh, yeah, they type. Like, come on, yo, I told me.

I got a lot of phone. Nice guy, too, shout to Al-Azay. They called me on three-way. I said, you have to call Ian Swartzman. Or he's saying I'm a call Corey. Okay, because Angela Yee had texted me and said, hey, the Atlantic City mayor would like to get in touch with you and speak to you about some shit that you all said up there.

Then she sent me a clip. I wish that the group chat still had the list of everyone that you've caused beef. You forgot that you said that? Like back in the old days, remember how long? Oh, yeah, we kept adding names to the group chats. That was funny. That was funny. I was here.

Then Duff, shout out the Duff. He DM me, say, yo. Duff, text me. The Atlantic City mayor. Y'all, y'all kind of. They just had WWW over there. They just hosted that. So I did hit Angela Ye this morning and say, hey, can you send me the mayor's number

in case I do want to speak to him? Nice. I'm just not sure if I want to speak to him yet. Why? Scared. No, I don't think it's scared. Because unlike. Unlike when we, and mind you, I don't remember nothing that was said about Atlantic City.

But if somebody asked me tomorrow about Atlantic City, I know what I'm a, I would know what I would say. So I ain't fighting whatever they said, I said. Whatever they said, I said. Who was it that barked on you from Gary again? The mayor. There was a singer or something. Yeah, it was, because she hit me up. She's a, it was so dope.

It was my dope. Yeah, it was a few people. It was a legend. It was a legend. Yeah, I'm trying to remember what it was. Anyway. Well, unlike when we talk, well, when I talk, because when I talk shit about other places,

I'd just be up here running my mouth. I don't really feel like that about New Jersey. New Jersey, I've been here, nigger. So if I'm saying something, I'm saying it as a New Jersey resident and representatives. But it can change, Joe. Shut the truth. That it changed.

Well, I'm open to speak. That's why he's calling. They changed it completely. Listen, and they could tell that to you, because you're from New York. I don't know. I'll be there more than everybody in this room. You've been there recently.

My dad is there every weekend. Let's they change it this week. My dad is there every weekend. So it's ICE. Ice is there. I'm always there. So that's why I'm saying, I don't know if I really want to speak to him

because it might be a real honest conversation. Like, me and him might be able to get a lot done speaking behind the scenes. Maybe there's something I could do to help. True. I don't really want to purposely shit on Jersey.

And I do hear that he's a great guy. A lot of people know him. He called a lot of people. He clearly got a lot of phone number. He's a lot. I don't know. I was on the phone on. I just call him right now?

Call him right now. Call him right now. Call him right now, nigga. Let's go out for the mayor. I'm looking at issue. Mark, what are doing? I haven't texted him. I haven't done anything.

I got you back. I'm staying with you. Let's go, Mark. That's funny to call a mayor live. Call him right now, nigga. They don't think I said no. It's the mayor of Atlantic City. Oh, do that.

What do you think he's doing? Mark, don't do that. See? You can't do, you can't make them jokes. Ooh. Only Jersey, yeah. Jersey could just make jokes about Jersey. I live in Philly.

We close to Atlantic City in Yards. You don't. You don't live in Philly. Number one. You don't live in Philly. Oh, did I'm in? No, you're not. No, you're not.

You on a probationary period. Jersey saved his ass. Jersey saved his ass. Nigg. Your queen is from Jersey. That's true. Yeah. That's true.

He don't play with that. He'll play with that. None of us do. He's the air LA. Yo, watch Joe about 24 hours flip. And Atlanta. No, you're now.

It's the first of the mud. Wake up, wake up, wake up. I think he's happening already. And he's smelling out of tip of cologne on. Right. I'm in a great mood. The fuck out of here. I didn't get a move.

He forced the mood, right? Out of the house, right? Oh, shit. Freedom, freedom, freedom over me. Give us free. And I think he's never leaving his bed here. He'll be out there at midnight. Yeah, who we doing?

So behind the scenes for the behind the scenes for the rewind. We rewound their 17 times. I mean, or I can get a PO box like some of the experts. You can't live in it. You can't live in it. Well, I can get a PO box that's right there about a little hotel. All right. Damn.

That bummed ass hotel that we used to go to 20 years ago. That's why niggas can't, yeah, I mean. I just get a side bump. You know what I mean? It's cool. I shot you down. Yeah, nice city. Yeah, nice city.

Yeah, nice city. That's true. Oh, shit. Did I introduce everybody here? You ain't, white, bow, black core. What would be serious? No, I got your back.

Bro, he could be in the middle or something. Yeah, he can be in the middle or something. Yeah, he won't answer. Give him a call. How many, is it more? It's, it's, it's. He really caught mad people. He called a lot of people.

He wanted to have a real professional behind the scenes conversation. He don't want to be on air. Well, he can start hearing that. He'll talk behind the scenes. If he's at the tables, we'll wait for his hand to be over. I don't want him to think I'm talking no smoke. What? Hit me.

He said, he'll answer. You have reached. You have reached Marty Small. Oh. I should have left a message. You should have. Yeah. The funny shit, I bet he called back.

I bet he called back. He had somebody. He knows. He knows what he's my number. No, he don't know what his number. So text him and say it. I just answer. Should I text him for, come on, man.

We got shit to do. He'll call back. We'll get back to that. We don't want to start the BET Awards. Yeah. The B.E. We got a choice. No.

Oh, shit. All right, the BET Awards happened the other night. I want to congratulate all the nominees and the winners. I want to shout out. I'm sure Jesse did this. He did.

Yeah, it was beautiful. Shout to Jesse and Connie Orlando. That was great. I told you he wasn't doing that. He just needed to finish that hand. Come back. Hello. Hey, what's up, man?

How you doing? Is this the mayor? Yes, it's Mayor Marty Smok Singh. What's good, bro? Oh, man. How you doing, Mayor? It's Joe Button. I'm live on the air.

I just wanted to call you and let you know that I'm not ducking no smoke. Okay. I'm not done. Go ahead. I just want to come on, come on your podcast and tell Atlantic City story. That's all.

All right. You know I've been to Atlantic City a bunch of times. I just want to tell you that before you come. Okay. Listen, listen, I'm, I'm, Atlantic City born. I'm Atlantic City Braden. When I die, I'm going to be Atlantic City Day.

So that's George. Okay. Well, do you have an open door to come up here and talk? I think that would be a real good conversation, actually. Okay, all right, just let me know, shoot me, text, and I'll come up to New York in the heartbeat. All right, I'll text you behind the scenes, but you called a lot of people to define me. Listen, man, listen, I'm connected, bro. Oh, so glad.

Congratulations on your success. Thank you so much. I'm connected. I'm for the culture. That's a threat. By the culture. He stopped up in the Massachusetts. He called me. Well, he's connected.

He's connected. He is. All right, so listen, let's talk about on the scenes. I can't wait to make that happen, man. That's going to be a good talk, Mayor. All right, cool. Thank you so much. Peace.

You know, that's not going to be good. You're going to be honest? Yes. You're going to gain an understanding. I can tell by the way he was talking. You're going to get understanding. That sounds like a Jay Prince call. That shit sounds like Jay Prince on the phone, man.

He sounded exactly how I think the band of the city was down. And guess what Joe's having like. Exactly. And he found out he was on it. Yeah, that was a giveaway. Yeah. When he called, so somebody gave me a number. They played.

Somebody gave me his address. Somebody gave me a number. That nigga answered from down. You were caught right now? Oh shit. You stole with me, nigga. You started with me, did I do this some shit like that? You said, hey, he started up, dog.

He didn't know what was a business. He didn't have his business voice on. He like, what up, dog? He knew. That's some other niggas. Yeah, I know. Somebody tipped him off. Someone gave him off.

him his number. It was two-way street. It was two-way street. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. I'm not crazy. I never do that. Oh, wait.

You just gave him his number at inside? Let me guess. I congregated with y'all on the elevator about it, right? Fuck out of there. That's what them TMZ calls. You know what I mean? He knew who it was. What up?

Hey, how are you? It wasn't none of that. What up? What up? What up? Oh, you're live? Oh, okay. I'm connected.

You made sure. Does that make us toxic that somebody's saying, what a mayor is saying, I'm well-connected. we do take like What a nigga tell you he well connected You know he said?

I'm connected 17 times to let you know Right I'm connecting with me my nigga There's a certain amount of history in the gray city of You know what's funny You know you bitch-ass niggas you talk about Oh he was letting you know

He was letting you know We are at something to say It wasn't me I mean I'm gonna take the heat for it Because that's what a leader does What is your show? But it wasn't just me I told you I got your back

Yeah we hold you down It's just when he started talking They're gonna hold you down Mark can sell me out for a seat in the office somewhere. Not in Atlantic City. I see it to tables. Oh, shit. I get the hammers myself.

Oh, my God. All right, so the BET Awards, awards happened in L.A. Yada, yada, yada, yada. We all sort. We're here with takes. Where do y'all want to begin with it? I'll start that it was hard as fuck to fight. They said it was going to be on Paramount Plus.

It was not. It wasn't. I didn't know. And there's no BET plus app no more. I had to resort to some alternative methods to watch the show, which I didn't. Me too. I had to cut cable on. That's what I did.

I ain't turned cable on in ages. And I ain't know what channel BET was. I just guessed on some muscle memory shit, but it was VH1. That's how I'm going to older now. You close. I know the VH1 channel and I don't know the. So VH1 was shown at Nickelodeon. was showing it, all of the sister channels,

was showing it. It was hard to find on streaming, I'll say that. The re-broadcastle of the replay is on Paramount. That's how I got it. Doesn't have much, it wasn't. Doesn't how much it was Sunday at 8. Yeah, enough. But the show, I thought it was,

so I'm officially at the age where, like, a lot of the acts, I guess, like, who the fuck is that? Because I might know their name and their voice, but I don't know their face right away. Okay. So I had a couple moments where I was like, I feel like the old head in there with some of the younger acts. But the performances were good.

I thought Drusky did a great job. I thought so too. You know. I love Drusky. It was his first go. Posting is different. It is. What's your...

This is a skits weren't that funny to me. They didn't lay... Like his skits usually do in internet format, I guess I would say. Oh, I see you. I think all of us... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, let's stay here for... Respectfully, because I love Drusky.

Listen, we absolutely love Drusky. That's my prize pick's brother. He's on his way... He's already did, but he's on his way to do even more amazing things. And I'm super happy that he got that opportunity. It did feel good to see a fresh face. It felt good for BET to acknowledge internet lore.

And I guess we'll talk about that later on. But Druski was like BET saluting, not just Drusky, but the digital era in the internet and what's going on. So I absolutely love that. But the awards, this was one of those times where you see the difference in internet. internet and hosting is different.

It is. It is. It is. This was live, right? And you know what gave that away for me? Like when Kiki Palmer made her joke about, hey, I should host this, why they even asking you? And they all stood up in class for her? Yeah, but when she took the mic, she sounded like a host. Yeah,

that's some 10,000 hours. Yes, exactly. Shout out there. And I did enjoy Drewski, but I'm okay if I don't see him host there again. I I think he could get it again. I think he'll go home, watch film. Yeah, watch film, see the areas that you could improve, see the areas where you might have missed.

And I wish they just would have came up with new skits. New shit. That's the thing for me. He kind of rehashed the same skits that we already died laughing at. So they're not going to hit the same exact way again. I think you would be a great co-host with someone like Kiki maybe. It's like the main MC kind of, and then he's the comedic relief. Yeah.

She put out of vibe. And she put her bid in that. Like, they're saying she got a sold up for next year. I mean, they kind of, the crowd kind of got behind her. Do you think that the, yeah, the crowd wasn't really receptive to some of the stuff. Do you think that it's because they really didn't identify who, but they know who's going to be in the audience, but do you think that, one, that they saw it already or two, it just wasn't the time in the moment.

That crowd was, have seen the skits. Yeah, but which one do you think you lean on? Like, it wasn't a time, because it's a time in place to do certain. I don't think everybody's seen them skis. I was about to say that, too. I think that. I think a lot of them, like, again, some of them was older in there. Everybody ain't watched them skits and shit.

I hadn't seen some. When he flew in. I saw their faces. Yeah. They were like, what the fuck is this? And a lot of people didn't like that church making fun of the church. So you led with that. Yeah, that ain't the crowd for that.

A couple people the wrong way. You can see it in their faces. They was like, you know, what the fuck? What are? Yo, black people are over, over religious. A lot of them don't play about that church. Yeah, they look at that shit is blasphemous. I get it.

To Mark's point, me, you know, I ain't, a bunch of the motherfucker. I'm like, who the fuck? So some of those people might not necessarily identify with Drewski, because to Joe's point, he is a internet star. More so than

a network star. He's an internet star. A lot of older people don't really play the net like that. You know what I'm saying? So they're not... And again, I'm not, again, I want to make it clear, I'm not really putting it on Drusky that he did the same skits. Because it's a

famous corporate... Hey, we see what you did was hot online. Come do it over here in front of more eyes. We were amplify it. Exactly. But even like when he did the walk down the aisle before he got to Kiki Palmer, when he was talking to Ray J. Ray J.

Like, I think that's hilarious. I thought that was great. Because Ray J., you lie, does. And I've heard Druski say that to him before. But in a room full of stars, I don't really give a fuck about Ray J lying to me. Not with the host. The host is there to nigger Pins.

pinpoint the heads in here. Ray J. not even really dressed for this shit. He got a black t-shirt on. It's just not. That's a good point. I mean, I still, I separate the skits from his hosting,

right? And I was like, I didn't love all the skits, but I thought in terms of, like, his crowd work, his moving, he looked comfortable, but he could get better.

But I thought he did a good job. His energy was on a million. Oh, for sure. His energy was on a million. It carried it for me. I didn't love the fucking, the whole ice cube. That,

that, it didn't hit right. I thought it wasn't funny. That didn't connect. And not because we're HoV Ingers. I just didn't think it was that funny. It didn't hit. It didn't connect.

Sometimes you miss. It just, that just did not hit. Yeah. I'm so old. I ain't even know that he was doing Hove. I thought he was doing fucking rent or one of the other than. Yeah.

For real. It did. Until he kept saying. That's funny shit. But he was doing rent. He's stupid. Yeah. No.

It's not crazy. It's just like, I feel you. Like Ice Cube was there. You're thinking that he emulating a jerry curl until it hit you that he's talking about Jayson? Yeah. It wasn't. That one missed.

I'll peep that right. And doing that next to Ice Cube, that's why I didn't get it. It just didn't make sense. Ice Cube ain't never. Don't give a fuck about none of that. Yeah, that ain't bad. And if you see Ice Cube anywhere as of late, he don't really be on no jokey joke shit. Like, he'd be super serious.

He never really been on joking. So it's like you coming out there and back at that day, he wasn't on Jockey. He's a straight man on Friday, really. Like, you're coming out there doing that next to him, it just. Yeah, I don't think he was joking when he said, uh, all right, you can sheep it up up here. They're going blackboy. You're going to cancel. I don't think that was Ice Cube joking.

No, he wasn't. The fucking, I did, no, I did laugh at all. Some of that shit, the choir was singing back there. But again, I've seen that. He said, we saw the bar back. Yeah, the BBL rapper do. But shout out the Drewski, amazing opportunity. I'm sure there's a million more at your door.

And it was just a room full of beautiful black people. Every time they kind of showed the drone shot of the crowd, I was dreading coming to work. I'm like, I'm going to come here and say anything about this. is just beautiful black shit. I ain't come. They ain't going to be me. We're coming here and try to throw

rain on the parade. Is there something to say? Yeah. First of all, real quick, we've been complaining about, I guess it was the hip hop. The hip hop and the BET Awards are two different things. Very different. So let me say that.

But I felt like BT as far as production-wise, they did a great job. They did. They did. I thought it was put together well. For sure. The energy was wonderful. Performance is good.

I think the people on this is dope. They're going to show them. That's the important part. What we said, I'm sorry, go ahead. I want to know some of the critiques because I left there satisfied. Like, oh, this was nice. This was real good. Now, maybe I'm looking at it from a different lens.

I have very small critiques, bitch, that are significant to me. But they're not like, they might feel nitpicky. Okay. All right is, I think all the awards have this problem. But I find the BET Awards has this problem. The banter between hosts, between presenters is often awkward and weird. And it feels like some of them. just don't read before they get there.

Now, sometimes it happens. It's a very clear Ice Cube, for example, he did a great job with the first thing he presented. Second thing, he was very clearly filling in for somebody when he was reading the Lauren Hill thing. Like, he had never seen that before. That's not his fault. So that's the thing where, like,

you can't do nothing about that. That's a war show. He was a G for even stepping in. But some of the banter, I thought, just wasn't... If you were on scripted, it should be funny. And if you're not going to scripted, then let it be loose. And it felt like it was scripted and not funny sometimes.

I didn't love that. All right, Mark, open the door right there. So I'm going to follow. follow-up. It's scripted. It's scripted. The bantam... Yes.

I've been a lot of these shows. You can see it on the property. You can see them reading the script. Well, if that's the case, I agree with you. That shit seemed like it was awkward and it's... That's my point. I thought it wasn't scripted. And there's a rehearsal the day before.

I was going to ask you. Well, you just answered my question. I'm sorry, but good. No, I'm going to say, is it possible that, yeah, it's scripted, but the person reading the script is new to them? And that's the point. That's what it felt like. That's a production question.

Like, if I'm presenting, I should be. there the day before or I should be really good at reading. Or I should be reading. There has to be something, you shouldn't first read it online. You shouldn't be reading it in front of it. I agree. 10 million people. That's what that shit felt like. Yeah. Um, I hate to say this, but kind of to Mark's point, some of the

presenters, and BET does this more than anybody. The presenters, they about to come out, got a show coming somewhere. Oh yeah. They got, they got, they got them. And they come out there as the show, trio or duo and be like, all right, this fall at 9 o'clock, what do you think, Trevor? What's the name of our show? And it's just like, A, B, T.

I damn there didn't give a fuck about y'all being on. He said, I can't about two dads in a baby. I don't care what the fuck, Cole for Martin. And he looked great. He looked fantastic. He looked amazing. He looked amazing. But guess who is not.

going to watch the new Cole show. And that was my man, I'm derailed it. That derailed family friend of the show. I'm not watching none of this shit. I'm sorry. Save it.

I'm watching those commercials as much as the blatant like I wish they could find a cooler way to do the corporate sponsors. They're nasty. It's like we see Verizon. Recipe, Sunny Rollins presented by Doritos. That was crazy. They could do that shit a little bit.

And because of that, because of them doing, on what you said, I paid attention to that shit so much more. At some point in the broadcast, I'm like, yeah, these niggas is getting all the money. Hyundai Doritos. D-Rizon, duh. They was out of here.

Yeah. Shit went up. They shot a liquor commercial mid-show and took a shot. Yeah. When Kiki went up there, she said, and Verizon, we're going to get the chip. Verizon is right there. We're saying it. Right.

Oh, my God. That's what I said. It was too much. It was like Verizon's here. And then we're going to say the Living Legend of War presented by Verizon, with Verizon already sitting there. Like, we get it, Verizon. Like, it's too heavy-handed.

All right, I'm going to say some more shit, that I shouldn't say. I'm right. I got your back. Just like with the mayor. I wish they'd stop asking Martin to do shit. Yo, thank you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

As a black person with one of our better black actors and comedians, come on, yo. Just stop. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Enough. Yeah.

Am I off? No. No. No. I walked in, remember? I was like, yo, is it me or what's up? Something, something's, something. Why he can't just sit, sit, let him sit down, chill, bring him some water, something like.

He didn't get a camera. Yeah, just shout when you do your, who's in the building. Oh, we got the legend Martin in the building, like something, just something. You don't have to have him on stage like that. Yeah, because I don't like seeing him. I don't like hearing him talk like that. I don't like seeing him. He just doesn't look like his best self and he's such a legend.

We love him so much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That whole bit didn't. It just, it felt off.

Yeah, it's awkward. That's what I mean. That's the thing. I love the show, but I just think sometimes, again, the dialogue, the bit, they just, they don't be, they just miss the mark a little bit sometimes. And they make me uncomfortable. Yeah. That's what it is. They make me uncomfortable when I'm watching them.

Overall, I did enjoy the show a lot. Yeah. We did a long way from overall. I know, I know. I know. I don't like shit and they're not, like. I enjoyed it too. I didn't recognize, and then it was a good show.

No, it was a good show. Can I ask a question? Everything I got is a nitpick. How many awards did they give out? Four five. That was my whole thing. I'm like, who's what, like, I can tell you. It wasn't many.

But that's the case with most major award shows. Yeah, but at least, like, even with the Grammys, they'll do the pre-show. They'll let you know who won years away. Like, I didn't know who. It's no time to give out awards when you're counting money. And that's what you're talking about. This is not really an award show. We in the back.

It's a concert. Count all the money. Yeah Awards It's a concert I was surprised Every time an award game out

I was a hell of shit Cardi got an award Yeah clips got an award TI opened up with a performance He was great I enjoyed all the performances K1 Even though her fans

Was mad that they went to commercial But that's what they do That's what they do They do that Yeah But she was great I do have a problem With people just not

Singing or rapping Live Yeah Like the TV track Every year gets louder And louder And only it like. Max and French was

very, like it was the song. It was the song. It was the song. Yeah. But they look great up there. They looked like absolute money up there. Again, Jasmine didn't want to kiss. We got to ask jazz why she won't kiss this nigga. Every time he go for some sugar in public,

she turned her head. And he's such a boss-looking nigga. It don't ever face him. He don't give a fuck. He don't never, he don't give a fuck. But she won't... I got to get some tea. And she's on down, too, she don't tell the tea. I tried. I tried.

But Max and French look absolutely great. When they put the fun, when they put the mix on, yeah. They did. I was glad that there was that New York representation up there. What else happened? Cardi B was hilarious. Yeah, to me.

Beard this song was. And then asking them on the internet asking them to lay off a beer. That was the funniest thing in the world. They did it because you did it. she went right on line and said, yo, I'm not a bully I don't condone bullying

and I don't mess with people if they stop messing with me. Meanwhile, Beard just put an album two days before. So leave her alone, yada yada yada. Which I do like though. I'm not going to hold you. I like her saying it even if it's...

I agree. You know what's funny? And again, my men should be acting up. But I swore Cardi B came out, did a verse from that song, moved on.

did some other songs. Came back as like the grand finale with the bea discs from the song that she opened up with. So you went out of your way. And listen, Cardi didn't say Lotto's name. But she said

she said Bea with the strongest beat to her. She walked to the front of the stage. Also, can we do something about hip hip, backup dancers. Like, when I came in the world,

we had crazy legs. Scoo v. Scuba scrap. You know what I'm saying? What the fucking is this? Wait, we had, what was Big Daddy came, brother? Scoop and scrooons. Scoovin scrapped. Oh, there's somebody, heavy D.

What was heavy? Oh, the boys. The boys. The boys. But he's about T. Roy. Yeah, T. Roy. Chau. Like, yo.

Rest in peace, rest in peace. Rest in peace. Like, that's who was there. Today, do y'all look at these background dancers? Yeah. Every nigger is fucking just fucking gay. I knew you were going to say that. See, I had some things with him.

It was gay, though. It was. It was. It was. That sounds like I got a problem with it, and I don't. But I'm just saying, can we hire, like, more people? Straight dudes don't dance or more. Yeah, they can dance with the dances that they're asking them to do behind these rappers.

Because I was looking. The niggins is dead. Shy rating the shit in. They're playing with each other. No. They fucking grabbing dicks up. They grab me his dicks up there. I'm like, yo, dog.

All right, I'm going to go make a coffee. Pride month is definitely over, yo. No, honestly. Like, honestly now. Cardi B did amazing up there. Shout to Garry. Who else performed? Kalani.

Kalani was great. She bodied. Kaylani was after. I love that song. I loved the performance. She looked great. I love Thames, too. Slow down.

Slow down. Slow it down. Slow it down. Flip. Hey, Timmy. They're going to clip that up. Hey to me. Timmy.

Now it's a good time to ask you a question that you're in. Mm-hmm. What was the question? About during Kalani's performance, Jamie Fox. Thank you. Jamie Fox and his daughter didn't seem like they were playing the guitar. That guitar wasn't plugged in for shit. That guitar wasn't up here.

I don't play around people's children I remember watching it like I'm trying to wait to hear the guitar sound I also had to say as a guitar player it wasn't being played Have you seen a guitar? No, that's not nice I think that she knew the notes

but I put my ear to the laptop too I didn't use the television but I don't know what is that whole thing about I don't know why do you think she knew the notes I used to play guitar as a kid. Okay, that's why I don't. So that's what I'm asking. And it seemed like she did.

I'm sorry. How old were you? That as a kid is vague. I played guitar from like nine to 12. How many times did you play the guitar? How many strings did the guitar have? I forgot. I forgot.

I played the guitar. How do you hold the guitar? The banjo. Vennjo. Euchar. Yeah, he played the, he had the tiny guitar that they have. No. And the kids go.

Put it in the cart, son. No, no, no. You're talking about the guitar here, I'm a lot of it. Wait, you're talking about the shit that had the speakers. With the speakers on it. No, I was at the guitar school

at Cameron Heights. That's what something. You went to the guitar school. I did, man. My mom put me in there, man. I was giving trouble. Yo, why? You, black parents.

Now that are we older, I know all the time, you're trying to get rid of us, yo. I call my mom right now, nigga. Yo. Guitar school, piano school. That's good. That's a good thing.

I'm not lying. He did it to me, too. I played the recorder. I don't believe you. You can't read sheet music? Sometimes. Sometimes? I used to.

I used to. I used to know how to read it. I used to know how to play. Give me a guitar. I'll show you. Okay. You borrowed by before. You should be part of the game.

We're talking about doing a band here. We used to do this part in a room where guitars were just hanging everywhere. Yeah. I never saw you touch it. I wasn't around. He let me his guitar for video. Yeah. Really?

He played that for a video. Yeah. He's a comfortable. I played a recorder. I play that. How do you hold a recorder? Like this, man. Show me again?

I remember that shit. Hold on. Nigger. All right, there's musicians listening. Yeah. They don't play no instruments. Who don't play no instrument?

Who don't play no instrument? They let you get away with that. You don't play no instruments. Don't talk to me about the nigger that played instruments before. Go play a drum somewhere or something. What did you say you play the drum? drums are an instrument?

No, I know. I'm making a joke. His father played the drums, he said before, I think. So I might say, don't take Pop's credit. That's where I was going and see our niggas, put your cape on for this nigga. I don't need them to cape for me. I play piano by ear.

I don't know what that mean. I'm sorry. It means if I hear it, I can play it. Joe's mouth is an instrument. Oh, shit. Oh, all right. That's what they said.

With the male organ. I don't like that. What you mean? That's what they said. You was talking to him. Is he a cunolingus? You look at every corner. You flew.

Yo, I've used up all of my jokes about this topic. Okay. I want to join in with y'all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fine. We can acknowledge that it may not have been plugged in. Yeah, yeah. I think the performance was good.

I don't really, I'm not a fan of, but. Let's get it to the tribute. So, Jamie didn't play the piano neither? I don't think so, but maybe. But we know he can. We know he can. He mined it really good if he wasn't playing. And there might be, and also, there might be a reason.

There might be a technical reason why they weren't playing. Yeah, I think you're actually not allowed to play. I forget. And live, I don't think it can be live. It has to be back in tracks. I forget the FCC rules, but there is some. That's what I'm saying? There's a technical reason why I just don't know it.

That makes sense. When I worked at BT, they used to say that I'd been in some of the rehearsals. I don't know. There is a FCC rule about live instruments. I don't know when and where. I think it's live TV, but we can move on into the live series. So the tributes. Before we get to the tributes, because I want us to close with the tributes.

Tiana, I cried. Oh, she spoke. But I'm also biased. I love her. I love her. I love her so much. A Rose from Arlom, friend of the show. She's great.

Amazing. It's Janet. It's Janet. I told you how Tiana feels about Janet and kind of see that jumping off of the screen. Every one of those tears was real. She didn't know. Every one of those tears was real. That was, yeah.

But I saw some people saying, should Tiana be getting this icon award? And I guess they're saying that She's young Because she's so young But no And they don't really understand The award No

The award was for the year Oh okay It was a lifetime It wasn't a lifetime Achievement Award It was award for the year Well that's why they need to do a better job Name in some of them

Awards because at least for them I thought was the same award No it was icon of the year The Sylvia Rhone Award Yeah That's the ultimate Icon award Yeah All right see

I was one of the voters So like I remember they sent us Like descriptions Although we didn't vote on those two things, but they told us what they were going to be. And I was thinking, like, you, like, this doesn't... Ultimate icon versus icon of the year could be

confusing if it's not really explained well on camera. It makes sense on paper, but when you say it out loud, it necessarily doesn't translate. And so a lot of people thought it was like a lifetime award for Tiana. In fairness, the Grammys does similar things where it's kind of unclear what the fucking award is for. So I don't want to... No, that's not a BET issue.

It's just an award shows don't do a good job. But yeah, but a lot of the... All right, actually, I do have a few more topics before we get to the trip. So let's kind of rapid fire. I don't want to drag the E.T. Awards too much. What did you guys think about the Siza Dochi saxophone moment? I think it was another bit that didn't go over well. I think it's just, again, I don't think Siza or Dochi knew,

but they didn't have back to me asking how many awards were presented. It's clear they wanted to use this to saxophones getting louder thing at some point in the night. But they ain't present no awards, really. And people got up there and got off quick. now I've got two people on stage this is the perfect opportunity no matter what they do to just get our little saxophone getting louder shit off down

because it's them two it's gonna I have some pushback Yeah it's gonna be received a certain way They also didn't know what was going on So they didn't know On the joke like you gotta make people be in on the joke I think for it to

I don't you know I thought Dogey handle that shit like that she's smoking I like it I love the shit after that shit ain't no joke Yeah When you up there presenting it ain't funny You know I mean of you up there talking It ain't funny He did say in the beginning like,

yo, I'm gonna get y'all 30 seconds. If y'all don't get off in 30 seconds, this the music you're all going to hear. So I think maybe to get it in one time during the show, they pick that time. But if you're the person, you ain't with that shit.

If you don't know. You're mad with that shit. And I think they try to keep people from knowing what's going on for a genuine reaction. Okay. Because again, this is the internet shit and that's how I be with a lot of skits

and all this. Like, I'm trying to get a real reaction from y'all and maybe we can make it funny. Right. Freeze, how did you feel about Best Male Hip Hop, Freeze and Parks? Who won who won? Who won Clips won?

Oh, no. They won that. They won the artist of the year, too. They won't album of the year. Oh, then that's the one I'm thinking about it. They want the overall. I think about album of the year. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with it.

That was album of the year to me. That was album of the year. I just wish they'd been there. I'm not blaming them, I'm just saying. They're on tour in Europe. No, no, no, no criticism of them. I'm just saying I love, one of the Beatty Awards was typically the people who won showed up.

And they were very intentional, at least back in the day, about making, let me not say it. Coincidentally, the people who won the awards were there. And so I was kind of expecting them to pop out, and they didn't. So I just wanted to see them. That was the only thing I didn't like for such a big award. And they seemed, again, they seemed surprised when they presented it. Yeah, but they kind of were looking around. It was like 17 people.

It was a few. I also think it's weird if you were biased towards just giving it to someone that's in the building, too. So it's a double-edged shorter thing a little bit. I agree. I don't know. Well, you know, before, I mean, we can't prove it, but that was how they got you in the building. Right. You got to perform.

Right. And that's why they started the academy. Wale, I think. J. A lot of people was. It was a bunch of good hip hop albums this year. It was. Clips is a favorite.

Clips is number one. You can't mark you at that Clips album winning. I wouldn't. Yeah. Even if you, even if another, like, if Walee album won, I wouldn't have been mad. I would have been mad. I love that. I love that.

That's my favorite. I love that. We're killing this rapid fire thing. Let's get to the tributes. You have more? No, tributes. Okay. So there were two tributes.

Following Mark Lee. Let's start with DiAngelo. Good of Mark. Okay. The DeAngelo won. I thought, first of all, it was the second tribute we've seen for DeAngelo because the Grammys did one. So you have to look at it and get in that context because the Grammys already covered

some of the big hits, the stuff that people, I think, in that crowd may have known more. Because that crowd did not seem to be kind of locked into the songs or the music. Mark, you're going to start with a cape. No, I'm just, I'm about... And do you believe that what you're saying? Even if Jesse Collins is responsible for both productions, I still am not holding the BET tribute up against the light for what the Grammy tribute was. No, no, that's not what I'm saying.

I want to hear him finish. That's what I'm saying. First of all, I'm saying it was a good decision to not do the same thing the Grammys did. I like the fact that they had Vanguard perform and that they didn't just do Brown Sugar Lady and all that shit. I'm saying that was a good thing. I'm saying that was a good thing where I thought they went wrong. wrong was I didn't necessarily think the personnel was right. Yeah.

And so the crowd couldn't really you know what I mean? For example, I'm a huge Ari Lennox fan. I don't think that was the right song for her for that performance. It didn't match the vibe of DiAngelo and it felt a little bit awkward to me. Couldn't agree more. Yeah, it wasn't, again, it wasn't the song choice

if you're gonna go back. And she looked and sounded great. Nigger. But she shouldn't have been doing that then. I don't think it would have been the worst if she if the rest of the show went well. You know what I'm saying? If she was lead off.

Yes. Yeah. And it got better. And it got better. Correct. Yeah. But it did. Caca.

And listen, DeRaminar, I thought he was the highlight. Friend of the show? No. I enjoyed seeing him every time he popped out, which was a lot of times.

It was. He did it. He did. He was doing this thing. I couldn't be happier for him. He shouldn't have been singing shit damn, motherfucker. And he killed it.

Yeah, but he should not have been singing shit damn motherfucker a song You know the song is about That was the problem And he up there Which just not this song Yeah, he killed it But that's why I said my issue with this was the personnel

Not the song choice All talented people Listen the next brother I'm about to say something about I feel like it's one of the most talented musicians out Who BJ? Yes They absolutely destroyed the pocket of devil's pie, by the way.

They put that shit up to like 120 BPM or something stupid. That shit was like... That was another... That's what I'm saying. Again, I understood that they didn't want to just do the same thing that had already been done. So I get the vanguard to say... I actually think that was kind of cool. I ain't even mad the people they chose.

Just the wrong... George Clinton... No, they chose the wrong... The legendist of legends, but his involvement was... It was weird. Yeah, it was weird. And saying George Clinton's involvement is weird, it's like what he's going for most of the time. Right.

But it didn't hit. It didn't hit. I couldn't agree with you all. You couldn't agree with you all more. Y'all are being nice. I would give it a C plus. I wouldn't give it a C plus. I wouldn't give it a C.

maybe. You know what I like? I thought Vanguard sounded great. I thought the band sounded a fucking amazing. That's actually what I like. I like the, except for that one. Devil's Pie.

Yeah, except for Devil's Pie. I thought they sounded good. So that's what gave it a C plus for me. Because sometimes the band don't sound good. Vanguard was going to sound good. Yeah. And that was the rock. That was to me was what held it.

I think that DiAngelo has enough music to where They could have even chose some more, more songs or better songs. Yes. Some of them songs didn't need to get done. And I don't give a fuck how many DeAngelo tributes was done before. Get Bilal over here. Yo, that's. Let's go.

I'm not going to lie. I feel that. Below should be present at every DeAngelo tribute for me. That's, niggas was like, but the Grammy. So? Fuck what they did. Right. Like, yo, we don't have to be modified.

They did. They did it so good, though. I'm with you, I agree. It's enough black musicians that are talented enough to have smoked that shit. Like, we don't, nah. Did the Grammys do Smokey Robinson with cruising? I think so. Oh, wait, we can't do for Smokey Robinson because cleaning company.

Yeah, that one wasn't great. How did you guys feel about Lawrence? I like Lauren. Much better than that. I love, I love them. I love that. I like that. There's a light.

I love that. it. I loved the, let me rephrase. Jersey people in a building. I loved the rapper, singer, combinations in Lauren shit. Yeah. A lot. We can't say we gave that common, queen of team. The Angelo shit was C plus

and we didn't like that. That's weird. I got a lot of feelings about the Lauren one. Yeah. But you liked it DeAngelin? I gave it a C plus. Let them, let them. Go ahead. Who was the person that's, the law one was much better. I'm not saying it wasn't. I'm just saying it was, I enjoyed the Angel one I wasn't even always entertained by.

I was kind of, I was always thinking about what was wrong with. The long one I was able to settle in and like it. There were some big hits and there were some misses, right? I thought starting with war. Smoked it. War. Ready or not? That's what they started with.

No, no. The country group, the husband and wife. Yeah, they started with the sister-hap. Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right. Joyful, joyful. You're right. No, no, it's war and they were one country duo a couple years ago.

I swear they started with it. War and treaty. the war and treaty because it was a gospel song Joyful though yeah the song Joyful Joyful I'm saying I was trying to think of the group

I'm going to shout them about the Warren Treaty They killed it They killed it And honestly if you watch it Before it You can see when Lauren was really feeling It had a great time

Versus when she was trying To not do the Mariah But was feeling it in time When she got on stage She got in dival mode We'll get to that in second That's a whole other conversation Don't you ever call that the Mariah again

That's with admiration That's the Prince It's called the Prince Yeah you know Oh, I see. He has a friend. With drawn, Your Honor. Yes, it's definitely the print.

It's definitely the print. Yeah, why don't fucking am I? And she looked great, but why don't look at the Doja Cat right now? See, I thought, so part of my issue was, Lauren got so many amazing songs when she's rapping and singing that it's hard to find people that can do that, so you had to have some combos. Well, we can find a black girl to do it.

No argument for me. No argument for me. I don't want to look at this little white girl while we celebrating Lauren. But I'll tell you something. But I'm married. She did better than some of the people who I saw the good. She did a great job, Joe. And I'll tell you, for example, for example.

I'm just saying I didn't want to see her do that. I'm not talking about her talent. No, because she did, she did a good job. She had a good job. Cizza and Dochi absolutely bodied. Yep, they did. Cizzo and Doce fucking killed it. Absolutely.

Yes, they did. They killed it. That was one of my favorites. Tierra and Thames smoked. Body. Tierra Wack and Tent. I like that one a lot. I didn't like, and I'm a Tierra Wack fan.

Super fan. I just, I wanted to see a little more, a little more energy from her. Okay. I did like her stage energy that night, but I thought she killed the rap. She did a thing. I liked the ad for the hat, all that shit. I thought she was flawed.

I thought she was dope. I just, it just felt a little low energy for me compared to what was happening on the stage. And when I watched Common, who's like 50 out there, like killing it. Energy was. That's a different issue.

I'm not talking about it before. It's just the energy. She was. She was. Yeah, she killed. Yeah, she did. Good job. She smoked that shit.

She smoked that shit. Latifah and Comin, they closed it. I thought the opening and closes were great. Rhapsody and Lizzo killed it. When Lizzo started rapping When she was killing the singing Rhapsody was so in pocket On the fucking rhymes

And then Lizzo came in on some back and four shit And fuck that shit out That was my problem It should have been Rhapsody rapping And Lizzo singing Correct Rhapsody did great

She was so in pocket I love Rhapsody I think they killed that show I didn't love Lizzo or Who's a lady that son Killing me softly? I don't know who that was actually Because she kind of

I didn't really Like there was a part She smoked it but I don't know She did a good job I'm so happy you ain't know. You thought she smoked it? No. No, yeah.

There was a part where the ad lit part that she didn't do correctly. That kind of bothered me. The bridge. She cracked a little bit. Yes, thank you. She still killed that shit. She killed. Now, the bridge bothered me.

I mean, I was like, ah. Yo, to give the DiAngelo performance to me a C plus, that Lauren, that Lauren tribute had to be a A. I gave a B. Her name, her name, her name is Alexia J. Alexia J. I like to you, Jared. Shout third. I think that shit was fire.

I didn't love the bridge on that. But I would give the Lauren one a B plus A minus. That's for me. Lauren had a couple surprises. I agree with you, B plus A minus. Yeah, I'm with John. They had a couple surprises for the Lauren thing, including her children. So when they say we're going to, now, Zion, I expected to hear.

Zion. Yeah. A song for Zion. To Zion. Yeah. You know, how beautiful. There was nothing more. You know.

Instead, he came out. It fucked me up. Right. First of all. I'm old as fuck that Zion is. Because I was there at Tower Records in 1998 when standing there waiting for the album to release. And for Zion to now be this grown-ass man, like, damn there 30.

It was crazy to me. I would have... Look, it's her kids, it's her performance, cool. It's not what I wanted to see. It's not what anybody in the building wanted to see. It's what she wanted to see. It's a tribute to her. It's a tribute to her, so do it.

And I think they did a good job. We can nitpick. They did fine. And that's what I said, well, who's they? The organizers. No, no, that's not what he's saying. Go ahead. Come on, Barks. Come on in.

Who's they? I think the kids did fine. There were two kids, right? So, hold on. Why G performed. He bodyed it. YG performed. And then there was Sela.

Her daughter. Marley, her daughter, who came out and sang. She looked great. Beautiful gowns. Selah is a model, a singer, an entrepreneur, wonderful young lady. She's like 28 now. Forget how old these kids are. She sang for her mother.

Um, I thought that that was, uh... Tough shoes to fill. Yeah. For anybody. Yes, but they're especially tough shoes to fill. My mom is Lauren Hill and my grandpa is Bob Marley. Yeah. That's a really tough.

I mean, why we, I'm trying to throw the cake to you, but I don't think we're going to make it that part. It was bad. It was a bad performance. But, well, okay, we're going to highlight the bad, but highlight the good that YG did a good job. Why did you, I thought I didn't stay on that. He came out and he represented for his grandfather. He represented for his grandfather. He sounded great.

He did. He took the son. We got to highlight that before we get to the daughter coming out there and just doing a tribute to her mother because her mother wanted her to, you could tell us. She's the little surprised, by it. I just think that out of... She said, I'm doing this for you, Mom. It seemed like her mother always told her the...

It was something between them. That's how I took that. Well, you can see with Lauren, like, even when she did the Kanye show, she's at this point where it's like, yo, if I'm involved, I want my kids involved. Yeah, that's how it. And that's how it should be. You know what I'm saying? If you got me here, my kids.

are performing. I think Saylor, again, who I think is very talented. And I was very happy to see her on stage to have a tribute to her mom.

And again, I love to see her mom that happy. She was like, elated. He elated to see a baby on stage singing to her at the beat.

I mean, it's fucking amazing. I can't even imagine with that one. She chose, or it was chosen for her to sing the miseducation

of Lauren Hill, which is a vocally somewhat challenging song. And so some of the runs in that, some of the, that's not

easy song for a really, really experienced vocalist to do. Sure. And it wasn't the best fit. That's what I'll say. The shoes got fit. It might not even be about that. Like, again, that's her kid. That could be her mother's favorite song. And she's like, you know what? I'm going to do that. I'm doing

mom's favorite record. At this point, this ain't about the fans. This ain't about the viewers. This is about my kids up here are singing to me. And as a parent, that's some fly shit. I don't care if you get up there fuck it. I don't know how you sound. I don't know. I'm mad at it. My job is to say what I felt Out of 12, 13 performances, if we didn't strike gold on two of them, we got to eat that.

Yeah, like, I thought that shit was amazing. If you ever do a tribute to me, put my kids up there. I don't get fuck if they ain't got a talent. I don't care. I'm going to fuck. Let them go up there and bang some pots and pans. Be the drummer boys on the buckets. Whatever.

Yeah, like I was. I see what you doing, Joe. Like, I think that shit was dope. What? Leave me on this island. Yeah, you're there. I'm fine? Well, that's why I am on the kids.

You see I muted up even on the Jamie Fox kids These are young kids Yeah Well they're not that I mean if it was They ain't my kids My kids I can't do that to no kids

Go ahead I'm not I don't care what you sound like Yeah I just didn't like love it before Again I'm a big fan of her I'm a huge fan of Lauren Lauren's my idol I just didn't That wasn't my favorite performance at a bunch

What did comic rap? Did common rap lost ones? Uh he Yes That was weird I don't want to hear a dude Rap with Lost ones Yeah

Yeah, I feel you. You know, Comments. The lyrics are you snuck in. Common is popping up everywhere. A clue legend, but I just didn't need him there. That's all. There is, I was okay with him at a Lauren. His energy was great.

His energy was great. I thought him and Queen Latif had great energy. I would have rather had one more jersey artist there on that stage instead of comment. I would have rather he did retrospect for life or something like that. Like that actually would have made sense. But that's his song. So I get like, you know, and I love that song.

I think the nah shit was fire. Naz toured the fuck. I think God shit was fire. And they brought Thames back out. You know what I mean? She sang on that. Yo. They put that back out.

I love that. Came out every award. Yeah. No. I thought overall, I thought the Lauren tribute was like, again, B plus A minus. I thought it was great.

And then after that, there was a commercial. We come back. I still saw MLH up there. And I was like, wait, she going to perform? Because sometimes people perform at the thing. Sometimes they don't.

Right. I thought you was coming out. Yeah. That MLH may be fucking me up. I didn't go. I don't feel in the way about it. I was like, oh shit, they got Mark. And then she sang.

X Factor. It was closer to the original arrangement than she usually does. Closer to the record. Someone in that background, vocal group or band was getting fired, though. The whole time she was just yelling at somebody. Someone got sparked on backstage. Yeah, she was happy. Every time she do X Factor live, I love every version of it.

Really? You can't fuck that song up. It's impossible. That is one of the greatest song. ever made any time I hear it. That's normal. For me, that song is up there with damn near Purple Rain.

Like, it's up there. It's up there. See, I like the original. I don't like sometimes some of the renditions. I hate these renditions. Yeah, I don't like some of the renditions. I like renditions. But the song is a song.

I see Lauren. Her killing that shit, and she did it better where I've seen her at the last time. But different. It's always different. Yeah. But, yeah. Yeah, different.

But her doing it reminded me that nobody else was performing. Right. She is what, I want to hear the, where this is different, or you didn't hit this note, or you changed the run, or you did. I want to hear your live variation. That was 30 years ago, and I might not have it no more at 52. I want to hear all of that. Although she sounded as good as I've heard her in a while.

Yeah, she sounded great. She sounded great. She sounded great. She sounded great. She sounded great. Look great, too. And it's tough. It looked amazing.

I said this, I'd say this every time I see it, kill some shit. But that album, that album is hard to find. Yes. It's past that. That's almost underselling it. Yeah. You got to go get thriller. You got to go get.

It's rare air. You got to, yeah. It's up there with that. And, yeah, across genres. Like, take whoever your favorite artist is. You can't do it. Whoever it is. Mm-hmm.

And take all the albums. Mm-hmm. they ain't got that it's about five albums that I can say are hands down better in like the 20th century I'm talking about like songs in the key of life

amazing grace I'm talking and yo dog and some of them you're gonna get an argument from some people for sure no lie like that shit is that it's yeah

yeah and that gave me grace for the people who had just performed like I watched a performance and I was like it was a B plus A minus then I heard her and I was like no one can do this like this shit is another level

this is a Stevie Wonder level this is like Aretha this is like some other shit. The album's so good, she didn't have to make another one. Yeah. Yeah. She did a little acoustic set.

No, it's the scary shit. That's it. She was like 22 years old, 23 years old. She was maybe a little bit. Yeah, maybe, yeah. She graduated high school in my year. Oh, okay. She was younger shit, bro.

And to put that project out at that. You know with high school together? No. Okay. She went to Mark's wife's high school. Oh. But I used to just be around. But no, what I'm saying?

No, all jokes aside. But, yo, early 20. You gave the world that in your early 20s, bro. Here you go again. Fucking legend over there. Right. There's a path here that I'm just not going to take. Yo, dog.

To give the world that in your early 20s, bro, is remarkable. You know what I'm saying? Yes, it's even more remarkable. Because doing it at 70. No, but I'm just saying, if you were a seasoned musician, you had three or four albums, this was your fourth album. My nigga, she did that first album, first solo album. rather, in your early

20s. Like, that shit is unparalleled. It's amazing. It's a pretty amazing. Yeah, that shit is crazy. You know, Lauren and Wycliffe are fucking musical geniuses. Yeah. Could you imagine what they're supposed to be like? We know some prize

versus. Yeah. Battle in. We know from John Forte versus Pax full five. Rest of peace, John Forte. Just reading the patch made the studio. God damn, John Forte, darned. Yeah.

Yeah. It's fucking sickening. That album's dope too. And shout to Jerry Wanda two, man. And Jerry Wanda, shout out there. Undappreciated genius in this world. Another one, man. Wyclef just had a front porch performance. Y'all, y'all on a YouTube series, Front Porch.

And he absolutely smoked it. Wyclough's one of the best performers. He's amazing. Again, you realize he's a beautiful. Because the Carnival is, again, one of the albums, it's not miseducation, but it's one of those albums that is so good. And 30 years later, it's even better when you see the diversity. And he's been doing nothing but touring globally ever since.

That's a killing it. you're all saying is offending. That's a fact. That is 100% true. Come on. Where's the shade? Come on. Come on. There's the shade. That's White Clef. It's a great. He him. But don't say the carnivore in miseducation. I just said it's not

miseducation. Don't even take it. That's a great album. But it's an elite. It's a classic album. And I'll put it. It's a classic album. It's a great album. Don't say it with miseducation again, though. That's long. It's not the same sound. It's not the same block. I don't do that. I said it's not the same clip. I said it's not. I said it's Not if it's education.

But don't even, you don't need to say that. You don't know. Because if I don't, if I don't, if I don't, the nigs in there, Mark said the carnival in the carnival. Yeah, we could just say, you know, a carnival, classic, dope, it joins in 830 years.

Nobody said, hey, nobody, nowhere. We'll ever say that. No, I agree, we're on the same page. And yet this will still turn it to a mark's head. The carnival's, well. Nice one to hear. Right. Oh, man.

Oh, so we enjoyed the awards again. Shout out to everybody who flew out I didn't hear no stories of violence. I didn't hear nobody getting right. I did see Jim Jones talking to security rather aggressively. It was some near violence. It didn't TI too, but he's seen violent when he was here. It wasn't.

Tip kept walking. It was his crew. It was going ham on a symbol. That's what I mean. That's what I mean. Kevin Gates pushed somebody off of them. Yeah, you know, sometimes people will be too close. Yeah, it.

Y'all think they missed it with not having Carisha perform? Kind of, yeah. The way the crowd is the same. went off on that shit. Yes, they missed it. They missed it a thousand percent on that. I reckon, they didn't miss it. They didn't.

Is that a, because her performance maybe? No, I'm saying, no, no, no, no. They've been working on awards forever. She put this song out of fucking an hour ago. You could make it work. Oh, they could have felt it in.

We're not, we're not rearranging our award show for Carisha to come here and fucking do this. We ain't even let her do it outside. We're not letting it do it in time. But I love that she took a second and let the audience. Brief.

Singna. I love that. That was great. And that was organic. Like, you couldn't pay for that. You know what I'm saying? Which was fire. True.

And that song. Sponsure by Dahl. By Trojan. It was dumb. That song, I'm trying to tell you. You know what I told you. That song is so hard that when I was in the spot the other night and it got to like 145. 2 a.m. and it didn't come on.

Like, I called the DJ names. I'm like, it's fucking 215. I'm like, it's fucking you know what, the play the fucking, you know we have one. The bartenders on their phones, nitty do something. Play the, play the shit and it's going to get this shit going. God damn.

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rather sad. It is. Fucking Malik Beasley is an absolute dickhead. But we'll come back to all of that. Was there anything else in music? Music, music. Well, prior to the BETT Awards, airing, they did Bow Wow's Tiny Desk, which I think they said was the first one to air on television. Okay.

Because it aired at 7.30 and led right into the awards. Okay. And he absolutely killed it, man. He killed it. And he reminded a lot of people. It was, you know, the Tiny Desk is quick. He did out of my system, fresh as I'm is, surety like mine, bounce with me, let me hold you, and like you. That's a strong.

That's a strong six. Yeah, me. But, yeah, they did a real, it was a really good, I enjoyed it. I watched, I actually tuned in to watch that going into the wars. And he smoked it. Like, it's a good reminder because people keep playing with Bow Wow's name when it come up. Yeah. Like, yo, y'all forget that I got these records, you know.

His background vocalist was killing these shit, all of them. And I'm like, hey. Hey. Yeah, it's groovy. Yeah, groovy with the band. That's right. I know when I ran into this one, she'll be the red room on my pippin.

Look, a rapper rapping during a live performance. I'll be by his hair. I'm going to go with her. I got it. Whistle. Round here we pop them collars. Round here we get them dollars.

Every girl I see that look right, nigger like me. Who's that just in the back? A just? Oh shit, shout out J. DJ Juss, I love you. I'm looking to the S-O-S-O-D-F-M-O-B. Hey, this is all right. Hey, it's hard.

Hey, I've been watching for a man and you're going to go to me and so. Yeah, I mean, if you listen to with your loved one, go and get a little sugar. Go can't get your love with a little bit of sugar. Look at you. You used to be a dancer, yo. You be dancing on a low.

Why you stop dancing, yo? I'm gonna get back to it. You're telling him motherfuck going to low, man. It's gonna hurt me. You know, man. Oh, wow, I'm standing. With a man. You sound good, yo.

See, dude you wait. So, yeah. He sound good, yo. He does. He's sound real good. Wow. Wow. Salute, man.

I know why Bad Weil ain't been up here yet. When do they, as musicians, right? right both of you guys when do an artist get to a level like that is it continuing is it continuously is it touring

when do they get to a level of the breath control where they sound good they sound coherent where does that come from? From doing it so it's just continuously working reps reps he's been doing it

for a long time yeah bad while got a lot of years in this shit yeah to keep his image as clean as he has for this long

for his demo for those those young kids, all of them fucking ages on BET. Bow Wow's a host. Bow Wow's an actor. Yes. He's an entertainer for real. Yeah, he's a pro.

He's Balawat, the millennia tour. He's got, he's, Balwile is kind of him a little bit. That's what I'm saying. I wrote it up that said more respect need to be put on Bow Wow's name. It does. Like for that reason. Even an actor on an act in front, he does well on all the shit he's been in. He just kind of not trying to be funny.

But why isn't more respect to them? Why isn't? Why isn't? I think people always remember that's a kid. Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing. No, no. Tag corny. That's the second.

That's all it is. That's tied corny. That's it. When that happens, it don't matter. Because he was doing that shit. Is Valwell tagged corny? Yes. Yes, he was.

Okay, but is that the airplane shit? A lot of that shit. All of the, all of the, all of the. That was bad. The airplane shit was bad. It was funny. Yeah, I thought it was all like. We understand, but I'm just saying that's when they view you a certain way.

It's not about your talent no more. You're looked at through a certain lens, and that's where they hold you. I agree with that, but I think a lot of it is he was a kid artist, a very tiny artist. Like, I mean, age, age, and physically. And even when he grew up, he became Mr. 106 in Park. So he was still, even as an adult, he was still doing like shit that was targeted to a young demo. I don't think people. Even now when you look at him, his physical frame and status.

isn't really one, no disrespect. Don't give grown-ass man. Yeah, don't give grown-man. So from his acting, no, listen, from his acting thing, like, it would be hard for them to really cast him as an adult grown. You can't really see Bow Wow's suit briefcase and all the other shit as an actor. Look at Mr. Man going to work. Yeah, he almost looks like a kid still.

Like, you can see him in a college role today and it would fit if you didn't know it was him. I agree with all of y'all. I agree with all of you. I agree with you. I agree with you. I don't think that's the number one. Like the number one thing is not corny for about it. It might be the age.

Like when you think of Nick Cannon, the first thing that they say is this thing is just corny. I disagree with that too. I disagree with that too. But again, even with the Nick Cannon, even with the Nick Cannon example, no matter what Nick Cannon has done afterwards, guess what? It goes back to the corny. Yo, we not past that era.

Why we can't embrace our corny? But what makes niggas? I ain't the coolest niggie out, but I love myself. You know, I tell you how that shit every day. My self-esteem is high. My confidence is high. The corny shit ain't down again. Now, that badwash in the plane, that was a lot.

But, I mean, it was still funny. If you're going to be corny. And he owned it. Do you try to say all child actors? Because Nick Cannon, I'm saying all humans. Was he on the show before when he was younger? Nick Cannon? He was on a bunch of shit.

Yeah, he was on. A lot of child stars have a difficulty. You really want the truth? But there was a no, who's the guy that we had up here? They don't look at him coin. Leon Thomas. Yeah, he don't look at Leon Thomas, Corny. He wasn't as big as a star.

He popped. People don't think as a child star. That's why. God, a lot of them are. They're a peak. It's hip hop too. Okay.

Like in hip hop, we look at our rappers like they have a edge to them. So if you're not an edgy rapper, a lot of times you get typecast. You're street. You know all that. We watch this nigga, Nick,

put mad people on and all that shit, do sold out shows and all that, and they still labeling us that. A thousand baby mothers. You know, something that some of these nicks look up to out with us. Yeah. You know, it's tough it is to be,

to be universally cool. Nah, you know really what it is, yo? Real talk. It's because Bow Wow, Nick Cannon, any of them types never ran around here trying to act tough. That's it. When you're not acting street or tough, the street and tough niggas make you cool.

I'm not negating that. You're right. Also, it's tough to be universally. It's a small sector of people that across the board... It's universal. Yeah, that's not... Nause. Nause is universal.

You might be too. Nause. Nause is up there. That's a huge misconception that everybody is cool. Most people aren't corny. No, no. There's a middle area, though. It's not cool or corny.

Like, there's people that shit's not cool, but they're not corny. He's right. That's what I'm saying. I'm talking about the way hip-hop looks at niggers. If you are not street, tough, gangster, all of that shit, you are corny. I'm saying hip-hop is wrong. No, I get, but you're saying universally cool. You can be fine.

exist without being cool. It's a few. As long as you're not corny. There's a third lane that you met left out. That's what I'm saying. He did play a gangster role? Who? Kendrick.

When he first came back, he wasn't gangster. He's cool. Kendrick also rapped about a lot of seeing a lot of that shit though. Even though he didn't partake, he rapped about witnessing a lot of that shit. So it's still resonated with a lot of people. Yeah, same with Niles.

It's still resumed more to the hoodside. Common is one. Common is probably one of the few. that don't get stamped corny but he ain't the most and the street dude who's talking to the deaf girl

in the window comment oh come on he biased you back the girl to the window I was like oh shit she can't

she can't even hear you and you got that's lit to me as a kid nigga had a chicken nugget on the postcard right Nick he's back the girl come on

yeah yeah that's fucking no common is one yeah I never looked at Call Comic Courtney. Yeah, no, he's one of the few.

And, Nick's... Somehow, I'm listening to y'all and I still think I'm trying to say something different. Yeah. I get what you're trying to say. I've never heard that. It's extremely hard just in the world

to be universally... Yeah, what we talk about... Common is great, and if we're just having a talk, then... Cool. He's cool. But the word, cool. No, comment, sorry, buddy.

It's a small group of people. Who would you say? Do you know how much it takes? to be like cool? Well, for me, for me, nigger, you gotta walk to the fridge, get your water cool, slam it with your bat, bong, awesome, just flushing.

How you walk in is cool, how you pay a check is cool. How you call for the waiter is, hey, is every single, like, damn, that nigger is not gonna miss a beat in nothing. Everything they do is just. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. But who would you say it's cool, John?

That's not true. That's his. definition. Oh, well, yeah, your definition. Because there are niggas that are still looked at as kind of like universally cool that had some moments that wasn't, you mentioned, you said, Jay Z and Nas, JZ's

had some moments where he did not look cool. All that athletic shit, he did not look cool. And niggas laughed at him for, but his whole that's kind of back to my... Musky shit is flat. And it was all shit that was like out of context and behind the scenes. It wasn't like he came out in the world and did some uncool shit. That's private.

You catch a nigga's diving to the world. You gotta do everything cool. No, I'm with you. You got to dive in. into the water, cool. You got to ride the jet ski, cool. Somehow y'all changing what I'm saying again. Let's stick to that example. No, but I just want to make sure I'm

going to understand. Maybe Desil universally cool. Jay-Z ain't in the heat's cool. He'd do anything cool. I don't put him in there either. Who's in your and the car? They said those two names. They said Jay Z and Oz. That's what I said. And Nas to me is actually probably, as we thought

about it more, probably the one who's like to me I ain't seen a little bit of cool. You know it's cool? Like, we're talking about cool. And again, y'all can give your own examples. Don't tag me. What's Park's arch nemesis? Jeff Goldblum. Cool. He's cool.

I don't fuck with Jeff Gold. Every single thing he'd do is cool. It's just Elba. Every single thing you've ever seen. Anything he's saying, he could be trying to play a goofy. It don't work. Actors got it lucky. Because they don't have to go out and perform.

You got to go to music. Don't do that. Go to a musician. You guys. A Z's cool. For sure. A Z's cool. And off camera is cool.

Jada kiss is cool. That's another thing. Jayda kiss is cool. Yes, okay. Can you give one? In rap? Yeah, like, who do you think of when you think of? Hmm.

Hmm. Hmm. Let me think. Let me think. Ghost face? Because it's some niggas that I thought it was corny, but I mean, I mean that the world might think is corny. I don't think they corny at all. Like, I'm a fan of a most deaf.

I think most deaf is amazing. That's another one. That's cool. I think most is always cool. Yeah. You know what I mean? But everybody, everybody won't say most deaf is cool. because I think most of that's cool.

Bleak is cool. Yes. That's another good one. Memphis Bleak. That's a good one. Not the biggest name. Maybe not the biggest catalog. But anytime you see him well-dressed,

whatever he's talking about, even if he's trying to tell a bad story, he's cool, he's cool. He's cool. But whatever. I don't want to fucking cool you all to there. Ooh, can I talk about something uncool? Please.

Like nobody else. Fuck you, Mark. I'm trying to say better than anybody. the bikeers the cyclists bicyclists oh what are you going on bicyclists the bicyclists because when you say bikers you could be talking about yeah cyclists sure yeah are they both right I think so bicyclists and cyclists yeah the niggas in new jersey on sunday who wake up bright and early in the morning calling and they goop chat together and ride because it'd be nine W ride a bicycle down

major New Jersey streets, avenues, roads, and highways. As a gang, no, they take it over. As a gang, as a unit, as a conglomerate. Hey, hey, other hoods out there listening, I don't know if y'all are going through this. Maybe it's a garden state thing. But this wellness tip, this health and wellness

tip that everybody's on, and over here it had been happening for a while. No, no, no. Actually, over here, that was happening before the health and wellness shit really took over. Yeah, niggins. Because everybody can't afford $12,000 bikes. Them bikes ain't cheap.

They're not. N. N. N. N.V. Jonathan. Amani Tumor. All them niggas got their $8,000 and $9,000 bikes. But you had the fucking Oosier names.

No, that's the thing. It's a black, it's a black bike riding club around here. He's right. In this neighborhood. They didn't invite you? I'm not a cyclist. He don't even drive. You think you're going to ride a bike?

I thought there's a crew of people trying to get into it. Can you ride a bike? No, all jokes aside. It really is. Yeah, I could about it. When was the last time we rode a bike? Like a bicycle? Yeah.

Yeah, Nicky. Not in the gym. Five years ago? Oh, okay. That's not, that's a good thing. Not an electric one. And boy, was I mad. Why?

It was a standard bike? A regular fucking mom got this stupid old-ass used bike. I don't know where she got this fucking bike for you. Remember that bike downstairs? I go down there. I try to be healthy. I fucking take the bike. The bike got some gear shit that I can't work.

Oh, I think that's what we first got on the pod. Did you wear a helmet? Or it stuck or whatever. I had a helmet. You start on the pipe. Yeah, so I start riding the bike down. And I go, I go a little bit because whatever gear was on, I could go. And by the time I got to Saboor or two miles down, it was on a different gear and I couldn't turn it back.

So you had to you jails. It was tough. So you had to you could. Oh, so you need the $8,000. You could. Yeah, yeah, you need the $8,000. I'm never doing this shit again. She helmet on with the bike.

But that shit is fine. But anyway, back to these bike riding niggas. I want to talk you about the cyclist blinker. which is a nigger on a bicycle taking his hand and doing this in front of a moving vehicle. I think you're supposed to respect it.

No, nigga. You haven't took driver's at? No. They teach you that. They took you that, yeah. They did teach you. One of this? This, this.

Wait, when do you take driver's at? School. That's all right. 11th grade. No way I think of the job. Go ahead. They didn't get them English. They teach you that when you go to take it.

Niggas is lame. That's what I was doing. It's corny, right? Corky. Yes, that's corny. Yes, that's corny. You should have been out robbing, niggas and bringing their houses.

Learn how to drive and drive it's ed. You corny. And seeing, that's what I mean about niggins that shit is absolutely cool. There's nothing cool about learning how to drive from driver's ed. Nothing about it. You're not learning how to drive.

You're learning the laws. No, you're learning to get a discount on your insurance. Yes. I don't know how to drive unless you went to one of them schools that had a car but nigga in the hood

they just taught you the rules Philly we ain't had drivers there this, this, this, this this. It was easy to leave school I wish they would have to bounce out of it How you got your license? Nick of Boone Farm was out, huh?

How you got your license? I was driving without my license like all the real niggas that I know in life Like all the real niggas that I know How did you end up getting it? I went to get it I went up there

I stole the bees car, drove to see some work in a storm, felt like I had it under control, and went up there and got my shit. What are he talking like? Like a real nigga would. You know, how much time? There's a process. You can't just walk up there

and say, yo, I want my license today. I got a car from my man. What the fuck he's talking? This nigga ain't got a license now. That's the truth. Ask him to see it. Joe, let me see a license. He doesn't have a license. No, he don't. nigga. Oh, y'all real slow. It was a paper.

You had to take a test. You got a license. First, to get your permit, nine drivers. Mark is stupid. To think that this man who got a license. He didn't have a license for a long time in fairness.

And y'all don't try to act new. I don't like this new you, y'all. It's not new. It's been about 16 years now. No, you didn't have a license for over. You did not have a fucking license for 16 years. Who are you talking to, you know? I don't think it's been 10.

It might have been 10. It said license since 2023. You are on this pod talking about going to the classes. since, Lex. Since 2023 on the life. No, actually, I'm lying. How old is our Lex? Eight years.

I like eight years. This thing will be in here acting like that. This guy's crazy, son. You had to take the five-hour class. I told him. I went to take the permit test. Oh, when it was time to get the light, I told the story on it.

Yeah. Yeah, I told that story. I almost killed one of little white boys. You passed a permit test? Well, you was 38 taking the permit test? You passed a permit test first go? You have to take, you have to retake the permit test first.

If you're licensed More than 10 years, you got to retake the permit. You got it. So I went up there, no studying. I know how to stay this shit, right? I know how to drive. I did it before.

But doing it when you're 16 or 17 is way different to do it now. How many feet from the hydrant? Please answer the question. What? Did you pass the written test on your first go? No.

I failed. Because you didn't know this. But fuck driver's there, no. You know what I'm saying? Because you didn't know this. 50-some questions. Whoa. Stop the presses.

It's a million questions in that shit. No, it was a million questions. But anyway, when I went back, real nigger rules, man. Payed. You got somebody take it for you. You paid. Payed.

Come on, man. When you paid. He paid to back. What he didn't do is take it itself. I went back. I did take it myself, but I had to supervise it in. Oh, got you. To walk by.

Oh, man. She saved my, she saved the day, boy. She on. Yeah, she saved her day. I don't like when you got to go do something and somebody there like doing their job all the best.

It's like, cheat, nigga, come on. That's when you hope somebody recognized you just to get the hook up. Yeah. Anyway. So yes, I do have a license. Congrats. Fuck them, cyclists. Y'all going to get hit.

Y'all going to get hit playing around putting your arm out in front of somebody like me. You're lucky I ain't driving. They want you to wait for them. Like, if the signals say turn, they want you to wait for them. them the past. No, nigga, it says turn. You wait, you slow the fuck down.

They have the nerve. They have an attitude. I fucking open the door on one of you, niggas. I swear to God, I'll open the door in one of them niggins. I had an attitude when the bike cyclist dude going to cut off my car. We're in an escalate. He slammed on the brakes, my jar. Oh, my God.

Wait, what are you doing? Hit the gas. We're faster than the car. We're stronger than bike dude. I mean, we're faster than bike dude. We're stronger than bike dude. We can fuck bike dude up. Fuck them, bike, dude. They'd be fighting.

No, no, no, no. Wait, hold on. I mean, if we're in a car. Oh, they fight. I'm saying. They fight. They'll be waiting for a moment. Yeah, they'll be waiting for a moment.

Yeah, they win. Those niggas is a gang. Yeah, yeah. For sure. And the other bicyclists, the other bicyclists would jump you with them. And I hate to tell you,

a lot of niggas from the street reformed niggas. They ain't like back in the day. I actually know if you didn't like back in the day. And I wasn't in Newark. Billy and the niggas. Nick, a, a guy around here.

A lot of niggas are street niggas He's that role Does my license play know that? Easy Does my license play know that? Your nose might know that When you get out after you Why would I be getting out?

Why would I be getting out? You ain't going to pull off? No, bitch What if you talk about if I'm going to pull off? You got it? No, digger. You got it? What else is going on?

What else is going on? What else is going on? Can we talk about Ambrose? Oh! What she did? Find the shit. Not anymore?

not to me can your behavior change your looks yes yeah yeah you look like y'all niggas look for the wrong things in women these days yeah not what you parks you never had a woman

like they don't change your looks for me they just make change how I look at you how I look at you they still don't make you ugly it can it can it make you not as attractive you might not be ugly

but I'm not as attractive to you as I want to some people could be downright ugly I'm not saying her but It can be. Neil Long could walk in here with a MAGA hat, a pitch for it. Did you see how it go? Yeah, I did.

She looks amazing, you know. Can we pay some respect to her? Yeah, we need like a NEALO's appreciation for her. Hey, give me some fine chocolate that just never She's like, she is good. Oh, yeah. Kelly rolling up one of the joint, too. Shout out to y'all, y'all.

Yeah, shout out. Yeah, that golden Graham. Oh, is you into that? You back into, you back into blacks? I've never not been into blacks. I'm like, we got to tell me. Nah, we ain't playing the goofy joke. They never not been in the blacks.

Paul me, but she, they look amazing. Kelly Roll. It's beautiful. Like spring greens. All right, you're horny, guys. You got to be horny. And I never tell my kids they have to work 10 times harder because they're black. You have to work just as hard as everyone else.

And if you want to be, if you want to be better, you know, like let's say the NBA for an example. If you want to be like a real all-star, yeah, you got to work harder. Yeah. But you have to work just as a. hard as everybody else. Your skin color in America is not... What the fuck? This is your part of the money, y'all. So hold on, wait, real quick. No, she said some more.

Okay. She said some more. You think that's wrong for her to teach her children that she's saying that... I think she's wrong. You just work as hard as everyone else. No, it's not what she's saying. So the second part of what she said, I agree with it, and I've said up here, that first part, she sounds crazy. You shouldn't work harder because you're black?

No, she's saying that she's... She's not going to tell her kids you have to work harder than everybody else just because you're black. And she's kind of wrong in that. You think even today? Today. I think that. Today and today's society, you still think that?

Yeah. I just want to make sure. I'm not struggling. I think I think that there's an uneven playing field for us. And I think that her second part is the part that I agree with her on. You can still be great and be black. I'm not going to ever tell my kids that you can't accomplish. whatever you want to accomplish as a black person in America.

But he cut it off. But the first part of that, she's wrong. And I think she might be wrong because she never experienced it. If you never experienced it and I don't know what her walk of life is, I do know that she was pretty all her life and she started dating very rich men early on in life. And so because she did date rich men that were multi-millionaires early on in life, she might have never had to face some of the adversity that a lot of people have to, especially in the corporate setting.

You understand what I'm saying? So a lot of black women in corporate America are having a bust they ass ten times more than their counterparts so she can't make that claim because she's never had to experience that. I'm always... I thought you were saying you disagreed, nigga. Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, mom. I'm trying to tell me, yeah, that's right. I was trying to pull up a quote, but go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. I'm saying that I feel like I didn't look at it that deep, right? Surface level. So that's where I can go wrong at. But I'm saying I don't think there's an issue if somebody teaching their children to not put up

a color barrier. I agree with that. Like you'll go out there, brush your ass just like everybody else and you can get whatever you work hard for. She said that they don't have to work harder than their white counterparts is what she initially. She is teaching her kids that they're black, right? Because some people will be like, I'm not teaching you

about to see no color and all of that stuff. That's how I took it. That's how I took some of that. And that I think is wrong. Because there's systems out there either you teach your kids to black that they're black or the world is going to teach your kids that they're black. They got to know. I was looking at it just like, yo,

there's no color barrier. That's how I looked at it. That's how I thought she was teaching her kids. But there's differences saying there's like there is a color barrier. You can get past it. There's, there is no color barrier. And then there's like I don't see color. Okay. Like your kid, yeah, I don't see color thing. And everybody seems to be responding to her

as if she said all three of them things, alternately. You know what I'm saying? That's why I was trying to get a sense of what she was actually saying. Joe cut the clip. Dude, I said the impart is the part that I think is... What was the impart? The impart was basically her saying that she's not going to tell her kids, even though they black, that they can't be great

and that all of the things are not afforded to them in the world. Kind of is what she said. And that's dangerously close to saying race don't matter. No, it's not. I think it's close to it. I disagree. I think that as black people, and me and Joe have had this fight, me and Corey have had this fight.

I don't think that you should tell your kids that they can't be great. You can be great. Now, the hurdles that you might have to jump may have to. We've never had that fight. No, listen to one thing. The hurdles that you might have to jump will have to be higher. I think when we start telling people that the system set in place are preventative from them being great, I think that's a dangerous message. We've had that fight.

I think that's a dangerous message to send to your children. I agree with you. I'm saying, though, if she's saying that you don't have to run faster or jump higher, She's wrong. And I'm saying that's the part that's dangerous to say race don't matter. She's wrong. And I think, again,

there's a lot of privilege involved in that. The fact that she's racially ambiguous and probably hasn't been black her whole life. Hasn't identified black. She don't really identifies black now, right? Well, this is what Jocelyn smacked the shit out of Earl over

on College Hill. And, you know, a lot of us was riding with Amber because, you know, the homie. I like Amber. I know everyone like Amber, yeah. My problem with some of this is, hey, everybody raised their kids how they want. I'm not sticking my nose in nobody household.

What you put in the oven is what you end up getting out the oven. That's totally on you. My problem with this is I only know Amber Rose from black spaces. See, I don't mind nobody being MAGA. I don't mind nobody with their own views. But why y'all don't never say it sooner? We know Amber from Philadelphia We know Amber from

Kanye West We know Amber from Music videos Weiss We know Amber from Wiz It ain't no white around So cool now you mag it out And now yeah you're on your whole

I got it But why not say it sooner But that She would say But look I'm sorry She has said that she seen the light, that she was a liberal,

that she saw the world a certain way, she was doing slut walks, all that stuff, you know, and now she said at some point she saw the light, and now she sees the world very differently. She had a political conversion. And I would say, when I hear that, that's pretty convenient.

When I hear that, it's kind of my same take about billionaires not being for us. I think once you start playing around in certain rooms and getting around certain people, your ideology's change. And you start to adapt that.

Yeah. So you could call it C in the light. I call it, you're playing over there in another sandbox and now you're drinking that Kool-Aid. But my question is why are you in that sandbox? So that I could get that Kool-Aid. Right. That's my goal.

I want to get over there. Yeah. So what do you say to the people that don't want their children going into society or different places and having this grudge against other ethnicities, right? So if you instill that, because I've watched that coming up. If you instill that in your head, like, yo, if you instill that in their head, watch this,

watch that opportunities aren't fair. Sometimes you go into an environment with this grudge already. And sometimes that can hinder you in certain situations. So what would be the middle for you, Mark? Or prep you. Say it again? Or prep you. Yeah.

It's all about how you raise the kids. You know, sometimes when I give talks to young black men, I say there is a conspiracy against you. The world doesn't see you as smart, as talented, as moral, as healthy, as principal, you know, as capable, as desirable, as deserve. serving. There's a conspiracy to lock you up. There's conspiracy to put you on drugs. There's a conspiracy to kick you out of school. I said the question is, are you going to be part of the conspiracy by doing these things? So I begin with the structural part. And then I say,

yeah, but you're not going to school. You're helping a conspiracy. You're getting up and you're dropping out. You're not taking care of your children. You're doing these things that lots of people do. I'm not pathologizing black people. I'm just saying there's an opportunity here for us to see the game and then make a different choice. I think if you've raised a lot of people, you're your kids like that, they don't grow up hating other people. They grow up saying there's something out here and I do have to run faster and I do have to jump higher. That's the reality.

That's what I was going to say. Even if we strip all the racial aspect away from this and just strip it down to beerbone, why would you tell your kid that they got to work just as hard as everybody else? Right. I don't even understand that. You're pushing mediocrity to your kids. I just don't get it. I just don't.

I agree. Say it again? Why would you want to teach your kid to work as hard as everyone else? Okay. Well, that's a whole other conversation. You should be out working people just. That's what you should be out working people in your attempt to be great. In your attempt to separate yourself from the pack,

in your attempt to ascend past the rest of the field. That's that participation trophy argument. It's funny that she can only understand that when it comes to being an athletic all-star. I want to disrespect the lady. Yep. that's when it was that's pretty interesting that's when it was identifiable to her which again I don't know the lady and I don't want to be

disrespectful to her but that's where you see people working harder because she may have never been in a corporate setting she may have never been in a business setting where you seen people busting their ass working 16 hour days 12 or 14 hour days she might have never seen that so the only time it was relatable to her was when I might have been dating an athlete and I saw the extra work that they put in

when they're doing two and three a days and all that other shit so then it became identifiable. It's people that work extra hard in corporate. It's people that work extra hard in school. It's people that school didn't come easy for them. They did the tutors, and they did all of the extra shit where they had to work harder. You understand what I'm saying? So people that came from impoverished neighborhoods where they had to work harder.

And even in the sports context, she should get that. I mean, because she said she got it in sports. Well, she said as in sports, you have to work hard. No, she said if you want to be an all-star, you got to work extra hard. Right, to be better than average. But to get average, you have to work as hard as everybody else. And it's like, even in sports, if I come out of a D1 program and I come out of a D3 program, I don't have to work just as hard.

I got to work harder. You know what I'm undraft? If I'm 5 foot 10 trying to play in the NBA, which is like one person who's below six feet tall, like you got to go harder. And structurally, that's what we're positioned. How can we acute blame her? You can only teach what you know.

Yo, are you down with this lady? No, I'm not. Like, why you keep on us? Well, like, what you think? No, that's a good thing. You can only teach what you know. So you can't speak on a day. Yeah, you can't.

She, this is what she knows, nigga. But it's not what she not. It was over here, co-signed the slut walking on that shit that she was doing. When she was out there looking like a fucking doof, that was good. And not saying the slut was that. I thought the slug was that. John was that. I'm talking about sluts.

I'm not saying the slut war. I'm not shaming the slut walk. I'm just saying that certain thing that she was doing, we was cosigned. Oh, you look good or damn and all that shit. I'm saying that you can only teach what you know. Yeah, but flip, I don't want to give her. What do we expect from somebody that has tunnel vision that looks at something. Because she went to.

She grew up in South Philly in the hood hood with where there was like, I literally worked at the high school she went to, right? Some people want to get away from that, Ma. No, no. But that you've got to acknowledge you. Guys, please. Listen to what I'm saying. I'm saying she grew up in the heart of South. She grew up in the same hood that Beanie Siegel grew up in.

Okay. There's no way she didn't look around at that reality and see what niggas got to do to be successful. If she grew up in the suburbs, I would say sure. If she grew up in, in middle America and the flyover state, maybe. But she grew up in the same place where everybody she grew up with goes to jail Everybody she goes up gets shot everybody she goes up doesn't get good jobs There's no way that there's no way that she looked at all that and said every single person I'm surrounded to isn't successful just because They didn't work hard

You know what I'm saying like that she's seen too much she's too smart to be that dumb That's what I'm saying and that's why I read it cynically You know she's not saying it to mean to be clear audience I'm saying she's not dumb I'm saying she's playing she's being obtuse and she's because now it's good for business and that's the cynical part. I don't necessarily know that. It could be purposeful.

I don't know her, right? It could be purposeful, but it could just be she was a pretty-ass woman her entire life. She got into certain things early on in life and she has not had to face

some of those adversities. When she's on the set of those music videos, she ain't noticed ain't no dark-skinned people. She ain't noticed there's no non-racially ambiguous people on this. I mean, just the world she's into. You know what I mean?

When she's hosting that VH1, you ain't knows two other black people here in the whole room and the corporate office, all of them white? I mean, you think that's just a coincidence? Like, even in the places she's in, the evidence is, the evidence is there if you want to see it. And because she has, because she's had a different political position before, where she's almost articulated this stuff, it's hard for me to believe that she unremembers those things. You all think Trump beat? Not enough of this.

Which one? Yeah. Say, get to it. Yeah, do y'all think that Trump beat Amber? No, he said, which Trump? He said, which Trump? Oh, shit. That niggas is.

I'm going to say no. Main Trump. Y'all playing a different game up here. Big Don. Y'all just came home to doing like 40? Y'all just saying, what? Y'all say anything. It ain't.

They can't answer to you for asking her question. I don't know. Did Donald Trump smash? That was my question. It's not a wild I think the answer's no But I don't think it's a wild question I don't think so

Yeah probably not You're right I don't know where the sudden change And thinking and Crowd could be from It's probably just the money right It does It does work

It's a motivator It'll do it A motivator To Listen, man. All right, back to Jesse Smollett. Jesse Smollett made an appearance recently in celebration of gay pride month.

And he performed, and the internet had a blast with it. I'm not sure why, but I have Mark here to let me know. Hey, this is the music he played when he bust out. Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, got a red belt on white tank top, little golds. Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, little gold chain, little black slate. Got the gay back up there. Oh, whoa.

Between that and the bank can bounce, I was in. Wait, this is my part right here. Hey, hey. Little Tony, Tony, Tony, little feels good. Hey. Go Jesse, go Jesse, go Jesse. Hey, E, I'm a Senate. Go Jesse.

Go Jesse. Hey, wait. Oh, I thought he was giving a speech at the end. Why my clips keep cutting off? At the end he was like, thank you guys for support me through my... Whatever the fuck he said. He said, I feel... He gave a really powerful ending to it.

Yeah. Because I'm not hurting anymore. Yeah, that's what he said. I'm not hurting anymore. And I really made me feel good. I was... I'm a huge fan of the Smolet family now. Me too.

I love Journey. It's changed my commentary. I love Journey. That Journey, it changed your journey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've changed my commentary. It's just so horny. I've changed my commentary on.

on this so I'm happy to see that Jesse Smolett is doing well he's not heard anymore I was worried about him for a minute he stayed away from all Subway's Subway the sandwich I know you know we got it right now Just be safe Both yeah I was I was worried about

I booked into maybe like a couple weeks ago Oh wait you're a friend of yours We're cool yeah Martin is his man You did say that's man You know you're definitely said that he's the shadiest People I know you definitely said He's the shadiest person I know I think he is I like Jesse you know I support

I respect. I stood with him when I thought the police were overreaching. Shit. A lot of people out here to lock up, but he wouldn't be at top of my list. No, sometimes the way they come up with the list is really unfair. Yeah. But they execute the motherfuckers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When I looked at him, he looked sad, actually last time I saw him. But I was about a month ago. And I was worried about him. So when I heard him say he's not hurting anymore, I felt a lot of relief. Do you tell him how are you? Chokes just write themselves? Yeah, they were all right there. What?

What's the joke? The relief, but it's fine. What you said? What you said? The conversation went well. We talked really fast. It was my wife's birthday. We were walking out at a restaurant.

Faster than you normally talk. Yeah. Because he came up behind us. Nick, even stutter fast. And he was just like, hello, Mark. And I turned around. He had like a dark hoodie. It took me a second.

And I was like, does he watch? the show, that I say something I forgot about. But then he gave me a big hug and we talked. It was love, man. He just, he just seemed sad. I remember thinking like, hand placement on a hug. He hugged you from the back.

He could stand up on. He was walking for a hugger. He was rubbing, hey Mark in. He was looking at the back. And I'm like, not in front of my white jeans. And Mark, yeah. Mark had the spandex grades looking

like they painted on. They said, did you try this rib on? Yeah, that niggis. Y'all are immature. Not true. No, no, no, no. It was in all seriousness, you immature monsters. It was good to see him.

It was good energy. He seemed... That's good. But he just seemed... I remember walking away thinking, like, he's had such weight on his shoulders the last few years. Oh, you thought that walking out of the restaurant. Yeah, I was leaving the restaurant. Dinner was over.

And I remember thinking, like, he's had such weight on the shoulders the last few years. I hope he's taking care of himself. I hope he's healing. I hope he's doing well. So when I saw the performance and he said I'm not hurting anymore, I was like, that's dope. That's dope. I'm glad to see him in a good place. I'm glad to see him having fun.

I've gone to see a couple of his shows. You go to a lot of shows? Mark, you are a fucking double. Mark is a double agent. And I'm going to put it into that. Mark, because in our- I wouldn't see him at the Mini Rivers Festival. Fuck the Mini Rivers Festival.

Mark bring this shit up and we bring it up like he down with us and we're going to clown him. He's serving us. We was clowning for 45 minutes and then mark it on air and be a double agent. I did not clown Jesse Smolet off here. What did I say? You know what? You have full range and say whatever I said then. If I clout him, what did I say?

Hand of God, whatever I said you could say. I wasn't here. Because it didn't happen. He just be making shit up. He clowned him, but in the political way. No. You can't be. Because he did it with his facial expressions and shit.

He wanted to talk about Jesse. I'm not. That's just my face. Stupid shit. I will say the note threw me. That note he sang threw me off a little bit. Jesse, check back. We glad you're not heard no more,

but that don't make for the greatest pod banner. Check back in when you come up with another state scheming. When you come up with another vicious plot. I'll rob for my niggas. To fucking rob the taxpayers of their hard-earned money. Oh, Lord. Hey, what precinct we take to next? Hey, let's take it to another precinct.

Let's get them niggas to work. Yo. I will never. understand the That's what the dumbest lies ever told This is what gets me though about people

Whatever you think About just small innocent guilty whatever Tell the truth lying whatever you all think Lying Lying lying It wasn't a question

Oh my bad No People seem to have a special Like animus for him That I think just It'd be OD Like of all the people We could go after

To me it's just not worth the energy in time. Do I believe him? No. Do I think that happened? But like, this, niggins lie every day. Like, that ain't the one that

five years later. I'd still be chasing that. I was a big of that time. It's what happened because of his lie. I'm going to speak for myself that pissed me off. Because straight black men became under attack because of this niggas lie. And nobody walked it back. Nobody, it was

wasn't. There was. Fam, I could go pull the article up Right now, I'll show you the vibe article that was written. And there was a lot of people echoing this sentiment. Your home girl being one of them. That what? The straight bad men?

That because we didn't speak up for him. We didn't stand by him when we didn't believe him. My read, first of all, to me, the whole controversy lasted like 72 hours. I don't matter. Oh, it does. It's the fact. All right, more, you lying now. That's not true.

No, it didn't. No, no. That's what I'm saying. Before you say it's not true, listen to what I'm saying. I'm saying, I don't think there was a long protractive period of time. where the bulk of black people were in... I didn't say bulk of black people. I said straight...

I'm okay, go ahead, go ahead. Well, I think the bulk of black people were protecting him, defending him, and believing him. I think almost from the beginning, niggas was like, I don't believe this. That's not how it went. I was there. I read it differently.

Niggers thought that he got abducted and some... By MAGA. Yes. So why would straight black men be under attack from that? That's the problem... Because niggers were not necessarily coming out... Nigs wasn't vocal or not. defending him.

Defending, yes. Rodding for him, standing up for him. That's how you experienced too. That people were going off the straight black men for the Jesse Smaller thing?

Well, there were actual articles written. I don't have to take that ICE has, but ICE is not incorrect than what he's saying? No, no, I'm not saying article. But I'm saying to you, it was longer than 72 hours. Definitely. We were talking about two different things.

I was saying, I was saying, I thought you, I misunderstood what you were saying. I was saying like, it was, I thought you were saying something different. I was talking about people not believing him. Nope. I don't think people in general once they got the facts of the case

from the beginning, and people were skeptical. So I don't think there was this long attack on black men. But even to the extent that there were people saying you should stand with him, I think that was exclusive to black people. To me, I thought they were saying, Mark, it wasn't many people skeptical. Like, I think that's where you misremember it.

I actually was probably the first person, the very first person. And you stood out. How did it? Jesse Smilett's attack in the dangers of straight black men's silence. Again, I'm not disputing that people said that. This is lie. I don't call that in a case. attack on straight black men. I'm not saying that no

I'm not to speak to the articles were written about it and the people saying we should stand up. There were people saying that everybody should stand up. They were saying that lots of people should stand up. But to me the period where people believed him was so short and that's what you say I'm misremembered. Maybe I am. I don't think so. How long was it? Joe was a dick for coming out saying that he lying. He was the first one. Joe came out and said he was lying. He didn't got vilified for it. Okay so you said it was a week or two.

Yeah, about that. It was longer than that man. It was a lot longer than that. All right. Fans out there let me know. because I don't remember being that long. I feel like people almost instantly didn't believe it. No, that's not true, though. It was so long that I was able to revisit it on state of the culture. Like, as facts kept coming out, I was like, when they started getting the videos of the niggas going to buy the shit from the hardware store and all of that,

that's when the facts started power. And how long after that was it? I mean, I don't know. Again, I don't have a time long. It was years ago. But I know that's when niggas started second guessing it. It was some bullshit. Yeah.

No, I know it was a story for a while. I just felt like people were. weren't believing it. That's all I'm saying. It felt like the fact, the more the facts came out, people weren't believing it. No. Okay. Not at all. At all. Because that was peak, like, believe victims regardless of anything.

That was like, peak that. It was a racially contentious time. Yeah. Yeah. I was just looking at the timeline. He got attacked on January 29th. And the first, and those Africans got arrested on February 14th. So it's like two weeks. Fam, we tell... Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.

I'm just saying, so I just want to establish time off the fans because I didn't remember. I was just trying to make sure I understood it. I hear your point. I'm not disputing your point. I hear you. I received it. Two weeks is a very long time in social media

and just media in general world, by the way. The point was... Why straight black men became under attack because of this is because he was a gay black man. And what they were saying, a lot of people were saying was straight black men are being quiet on it because it's some homophobia involved in that. Whereas had that been a straight man, and we've seen this,

people would have been standing up ready to call up their arms and get ready to protest. Not protest, but you get what I'm saying. They would have been riding more for them. But because it was, it's like, it's the homophobic aspect, is let him go. I feel you. He ruined elaborate lies.

Elaborate lines used to be so fire. Them by and ass lies? It wasn't elaborate. It wasn't elaborate. No, that wasn't elaborate. That was an elaborate. That was a elaborate. It wasn't true.

Lie, are you crazy? Elaborate lie is one that's hard to figure out. No. No, no. You just meant it had a lot of pieces to it. It's an extravagant. That's all, it's a loud lie. Hold on.

But it's extravagant, too. Hear people, nooses. Yeah, multiple locations. You're in market country now. You got it. Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot. It was a lot.

Alabid lies is to get you out of some shit, boy. They still do. I wouldn't know. No, I don't mean, I mean, public figures, not us. I mean, like, politicians. All these people, they tell elaborate ones. You know what I mean? That's the theory.

That if you tell a big extravagant lie, people will say, it's so big that he can't be. No one will possibly make that up. They don't do that shit now. They don't go for me. You said politicians. Yeah, politicians do what they want to do. I stole it.

That shit don't work with your girl. Nicks be like, I stole it and? Right. Elabor relies on work with your lady. See, you can't tell one when you get caught. You've got to tell one preemptively. Nah, I'm telling you, nah. If your lady, if you've been one for a long time, she knows.

Because nothing about none of your other days was elaborate. Yeah. Now the second- You got mad details today. Yeah, it's tough, man. It's a trick to it, y'all. It's tough.

It's tough. You're telling you. I'm going to finally get details just to, you know, communication. Right. Fall for another thing. Like my flight got delayed back from the Caribbean.

The airport was packed. That kind of shit. Nah, no, no, no. My wife don't fall for another that shit. She'll check the fucking flights in the Caribbean. She'll check it. Do she really?

No. But she will. Oh, my girl, yeah. You guys? If I said her, a flight was delivered. Oh, cancel. Shit. Yo, I dated a girl one time that did that,

like, when I was like, you know, my train is late. My train really was late. I wasn't lying. I was sitting on the train, texting her. And she was like, no, it's not. I tricked the train time, something, something, something. And to me, that shit was so wild, I stopped fucking with her after that. No, I didn't.

I stopped. I stopped on a month later, but that was a big part. Yeah. It was still fire. Fire. It definitely bought her another month, but I knew. But I knew she wasn't the one after that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I didn't go a box. I got locked up and she called a jail. She called the jail? Yes. Yeah, that's good. That one is actually a little more common than checking the flights. That's not that bad. Like, that's-

No, that's bad still. That's concerned. No, it's not. No, it's not. I wasn't going to help you out, nigga. I'm on. I'm on- No, I was in there, but she called to make sure I'm in there.

Yeah, I'm not calling to get you out. I just want to make sure you there. No, I don't like that. Yeah, she's crazy, yo. You was probably at the precinct, nigga. She didn't have to press nothing? No, whatever jail, whatever that was, that wasn't a hun

was that over there by its trees on the nice little block 131 whatever it's not worth it yeah yeah yeah yeah all right so oh can we real quick since we're speaking of jails Mark I hate all your topics today

so let me hear you on really yes you'd like the BT Awards wow I thought you would have liked that and I'll stop go ahead over here no no no you don't get it now speaking of jails Nope. Mondami is allegedly closing Rikers.

Okay, it started before, niggas. De Blasio started closing Rikers. Yeah, they all started closing Rikers. They didn't come to fruition. Wait, is Mom Dani really closing Rikers? Supposedly. Is when you're going to come here and walk some of the Mom Darnies your bag? What did I have to walk back?

Let's go. Mom Dany's fire, yeah. Tell me, be specific before we get, feed the fire. What did I have to walk back? That he wasn't going to give free buses out to New York? I love you, Hitch. I guess I'm not necessarily talking about the free buses. I'm more so specifically speaking about his tax plan with what he did with the people that make over $5 million,

owning multiple homes, blah, whatever the conversation was before that, I think you were on the other side of it. The thing I said about Mondami was he's not going to make buses free. No, you said more than that. I did not. I said he's not going to make a bus. You know how to fight about the taxes. And Mark asked me, do you know what his plan was to make the buses free? And I said no.

And I said it doesn't matter what his plan was because I know he can't fiscally accomplish that and lose the money that the MTA brings in on a yearly basis. I thought you said the same thing about the property tax. Property tax. The taxes thing, it was something along the lines. They're not paying taxes anyway because they know the tax laws and all that. So you could implement all this new tax shit. It's still going to.

But I'm not going to put it on you if you say you didn't say that. What I'm telling you is I think if we want to talk about Mondami, I think that I think tax the rich or persecute the rich don't work. And I'm not rich. I just think it don't work.

I think that socialism don't work. I think that some of these things don't work. I think that the system is flawed. The system is really, really, really flawed. And I think you got to break it down, put it back together. But it's so hard to do with the amount of greed running around that no person can do it.

You think he's doing a good? job so far? I haven't really dug into it because I don't live in New York so I don't give a fuck but I think some of the things that he has implemented are good and I think some of them aren't so good. Which are the ones you don't like so far? I don't like

the landlord freeze. Oh, the rent freeze? Yeah, I don't like that. I think that if you're going to implement a rent freeze then you also have to implement relief for landlords. So I think that if you're going to implement a rent freeze then you've also got to stop taxation on landlords from the city.

because now you expect them people to make less bread. I think that the expenses that come along with home ownership, insurance goes up every year, maintenance goes up every year, all of these things go up every year. So if you're doing that shit to some people that aren't turning a huge profit, I think it's a misconception when we start talking about landlords that we think all of them are rich. Yeah, some of y'all don't even get paid rent.

ICE grandparents are landlords. They're retired, so that money is what they use to live. Yeah. So you essentially pull an income from these older people's pockets. I think that that shouldn't just be across-the-board thing. I think it should be individualized or a case-by-case basis. You can't just swipe all landlords for potentially making money, because, again, like to ICE's grandparents, they use that money to survive.

I think I agree with considering landlords. I think that a two-year rent-freeze is a good policy, and I think the net gain of that is worth the policy. But I do think you have to think about the income of the people who own. I don't think that that's something that should be ignored. I think that that's a separate public policy that we should be thinking about. And he simultaneously said we're going after all of the landlords that are not doing the proper things accordingly with their properties. So now you're making me some, I'm not up to.

Some of these niggas is horrible. But some of these people are not horrible. So now you're going to force me to do all of these repairs and all of these maintenance. And at the same time freeze the amount of income that I'm taking. And I just think that that's unfair. But how would that apply it to the landlord that's not horrible? Because I... If I own the building and I'm not horrible, then I'm up to cold.

So why would I care that he come and to make sure that we up to cold? Because up to cold, everything has got to be egregious. Like, it could be little shit that... Like, some of these inspectors and shits be sticklers. So let's say, I got to fix something. That might only be $1,500. Right? Cool.

I still a $1,500 expense that I got to incur. But now you freeze and me making money. every landlord don't make this overwhelming amount of money. That's a misconception. It's like every landlord is rich. Every landlord is a gazillionaire. And so it's fuck them, fuck them,

because they all out here getting our money. That's the sentiment by the people. Like they are billionaires and they all gazillionaires and it's just not true. So I think it's a case-by-case basis that it should be conducted on. Case by case is tough, but I give what you mean. Especially in the city as populace is intensely populated.

Maybe they do something, like if you own a certain number of properties. That's what I'm saying. That's supposed to keep up. I thought it was, like, for the buildings. And I thought it was, like, landlords who have, like, the large buildings and stuff like that. I didn't think it was, like, real landlord, like, not saying you, but a nigga that just bought a house and put niggas in there. I thought those niggas that own, like, got 50 floors, 30 floors in a building, boy. I mean, I'm in Jersey, but it's, so I'm with you there.

I'm not really paying all that much attention over there. But I'm in New York a lot. Yeah. It appears like. arousing success. Yeah, it looks like he doing every single thing that he fucking said. It's probably my first time

seeing that as a politician. Yeah, he's amazing. He opened the city-owned supermarkets. He pieced it up with the governor over there so they could get the right funding of like the rent freeze. Like everything that he said, he looked like he doing.

The daycare shit. Oh yeah, the daycare shit. No, that was a big one. That was a big one. That was a big one. And a championship in 53 years. I mean, he- Oh, knock it off, Mark.

No, but seriously What he did, when he jumped in the pool The other day, see, With the suit on? See, I think I have people, I think his charisma is amazing. I think that he's,

he's an orator, and I think that his charisma is just something that you can't teach. I had multiple, I had multiple older people called me to say that that might have been the flyest shit they ever saw a mayor do.

What? Jump in the pool with them kids with the suit on. Oh, I see. I had a bunch of people say, Nah, they can't fuck with him because of shit like that. That's charisma. And I think the difference between him

because I agree with people, how to get down with the people. It's the mix of charisma and policy at the same time. True. And he spoke to the needs of the people. Because some people change policy and it's not what everyday people want. He changed policy in ways that are very populist. He helped poor people

and he's likable and he's fun. That's that Nick's game speech. He's young. He's young. He's young. Young. Handsome. Like, there's just a lot.

Visible. Just visible. I think having younger politicians in general across the board in this country will do a lot of good. It will. It should be an age cap. All these 60, 70, 80 year old dudes don't got the best interest to nobody. And not to get too much in the politics, just to tie it up.

I mean, you saw last week all the candidates he endorsed one. Yeah, state house, also the congressional seat. They gave him, though. I mean, they were getting people out of there that you thought you couldn't get out of there because of their positions on Israel Palestine. I mean, he still was able to nail that too. So, I mean, he should. showing that the country might be moving

in a different direction, at least for the midterm elections. He gives a lot of people hope that the country could be moving in a different in a little direction. I'm just talking about for the midterm elections. I'm not talking about the country I'm falling asleep at some point. I'm sorry. I said tying it up.

Let's talk about something else. Let's talk about Malik Beasley. Let's talk about Malik. He might be my favorite. I want to try to have this talk with like, it's tough to have grace in this talk. Yeah. So they put out the text messages of Malik Beasley and Ed Davis,

who they said he owed some money to, and to pay it back, he was going to go rig some games. They highlighted four games in particular, but I mean, if you go back and just watch Malik Beasley tape, there's a lot of examples. They missed a few. Niggas caught some of that shit before all of this came up. A lot of people did.

He was like, yo, yo, yo, you see that? They did. Like, when he caught that inbound and a hard ass to the other end to get that dunk, that's my favorite video after. Oh, the line was eight and a half. Yeah. The line was eight and a half. Go look.

That's as close to a smoking gun as I've ever seen from a gambling. No. The rebound. The rebound. The rebound. The rebound. The rebound, bro. Yeah.

He a hard ass again. He told him, dudes, go more on my rebounds tonight. But see, somebody I followed went back and watched that whole game. Not just how he went for that rebound, but how thirsty he was the entire quarter to get that last rebate. He wasn't playing no defense. He wasn't even playing the game of basketball at this point. They were showing him boxing out his teammates. Oh, Nick, I need this.

They showed his reaction when somebody else got the rebound. Like, he wasn't even trying to inbound the ball no more. Did you see his reaction when he got the rebound? Yes. He was relieved. Yeah. Oh, who,

keep the leg. My fingers. But that's the part where I'm lost that. Like, I saw something that said some shit. Amani, you still eating McDonald's?

It's his son, oh, okay. I'm about to judge him. Fucking, and I eat McDonald's. Sometimes. He didn't see it something, that's too big for the kid.

Why didn't give me a little double-quarter pound? That ain't just for your son in there either. Nah, give me some product. That's a shop. That's my little bag, bag, like a lot.

So I was like, Dan, shit kind of look good. Yeah. You look good. Ooh. I want something at that. That's your cold. We're thinking of a little tans,

some new McDonald's. Fuck you, nigger. What was we talking about? Boy, believe easy. I don't understand how I saw something that went around

saying the players that were arrested for this and facing charges for this made over $300 million. That's the part that's total earnings. Jesus. Like you're earning.

Nah, I get it. But how many, by how many people was it? Why do you get it? Uh, four so far I have a theory What? They had a bunch so far

I only got a couple That's 70 a pop 10 in five a pop Do they got niggas They made some Like Malikini made some money I wanted him to beat this So he could come to the Knicks last year

But again They said Malik Beasley was losing So much money to them niggas Gamblers gamble on everything That's what it is And when you got that gambling They said he wanted They want to plane

Playing cards or whatever it was And he owed Now you owe this nigga a bunch of money yo I don't have that liquid right now to get you because we big balling so I'm playing and now I'm in a hole all right well I can show you how to get down you can make some of that back and let us make some money off you

right now we make some money off you you don't owe me your state is clean because they're already in the underworld this isn't like the Charles Barkley Michael Jordan you know Atlantic City gambling this is we already in rooms with people yes who are in the underworld the games themselves are illegal so we already in that room when we lost the $5 million. Right.

And then it's like, when you want to get it back, here's two ways. Here's two ways to get it back. Yeah, either you pay it, which you don't have, liquid, without raising some questions, or you got to go in there and throw some games.

That gambling addiction shit ain't no joke. Addiction is no joke. Addiction period. Addiction period is no joke. Nope. But that gambling addiction, because if there were a way to beat addiction, and there's not.

But if there were a way to, I would think it would involve 300 million. Like if I had 300, if I had 100 million, if I had fucking 70 million, I would change my, your addiction should change. You say that because you're not having it. I think it's actually easier with drugs. If I had $300 million,

I'd like to think that I could have a functional heroin habit and not go broke. But if you have $300 million and you gamble, you just keep gambling, like you just keep one turns. The house wins. It goes up. It goes up. And you're competitive.

I've heard stories where people have lost their, marriages, people have lost, niggas put their pink slips up down, pink slips up down the list. Like all types of shit, bro. It's really bad. They got that office in the casino in every casino for a reason. You can go in there you tapped? You need a loan?

You got a marker for you need a marker here. Sign the house. What happened when you took the niggas back there Big Free for security company? Did you? You did, I can't me and told the story. Freez, you'll gamble up. You'll gamble up for you? No, he did casino security. No, he did security. Let's shake your

route in there. I was in a little. A couple of ago. Fuck his thing. And the security nigga, he watches a show, he loves a show. I actually shout to him. You was where?

At MGM. Okay. And, um... Where's that at? In D.C., in Maryland. And the nigger came up to me, he told me it's a star that was in there. You built a house in the MGM?

No. Nigger came in there and told me that it's a star that we know. He lost 14 million. It was even a 9 million or 14 million that day. That day. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I know who that is. That day, bro. I was like, man, we sat here and made all these. jokes and shit about Bruno Mars about owning all his money and why he had to do what he had to do. Offset, another one, doing what he had to do. Like, we,

when you got that gambling, bug, it got you. And you got money. Bruno Mars and Offset were never going to jeopardize their music job. Like, y'all just going to be in debt. Niggas going to cut some of your fingers off. Niggas going to make you perform in this

Vegas club for the next seven years. But when you leave, you'll be able to make a song distribute a song Yeah but These basketball niggas

playing around P. Rose was so ahead of his time you know P. Rose P. Rose was so I'm so mad at how they did P.

Roles. But yo you say that shit shit. Well tell me why. Tell you why. Yeah, what do you think they did P.

Rose wrong with? Like how was he done? For the lifetime baseball band for for for making a winning bet. But see my team is good.

I know because I'm coaching them. The problem I'm P. The problem. The problem. The problem with that is, first of all, I don't think you should be gambling on any, obviously, betting against your team is. No, I agree with you.

It's a Cardinal sin. I agree with you. He bet on his own team to your point, which is fair. My concern is that I never, and I've looked pretty deep into this Pete Roe shit. I don't know if he was betting spreads, though. Because you could bet my team to win, but what if I bet my team to win by two? And then I do something. And now I'm giving up runs.

You could still be affecting the outcome of games. You could still be, you could still be cheating the game, even if you're betting on your team to win. Or that would be my kid. I don't know what Pete Roe. I thought he was just betting on his team to win. And I'm saying it's not clear. I'm not saying that's not true. I'm saying we don't know.

Or that might be the time that I got caught. I might have bet on us to lose before. There's no evidence that he's been to lose, though. I'm just saying, I'm just giving an example. Like, yo, dog, I might, when shit get thick. See, I got Pete Rose, this is going to sound nuts as being too much of a competitor. Arrogent, competitive. He's a real.

Pete Rose, one of the great. He's him for real. He's him. He ain't Pete Rose. And you're a man. And the imagination ain't going to bet on him losing. But that don't make sense. Michael Jordan.

They said the nigger Michael Jordan would be on the golf course drinking 10 and 15 beers and be fucked up. And we'll go, I bet you I have 40 tonight. They're like, yo, you're drunk. What's up? Well, we saw Kobe bet the nigga about a free throw on the line. On the line. Half a mill.

That's still right now. Right now. That's still dangerous. Think about as a manager. Think about this as a manager. Just to give you another example. Let's say he always bet that a team of women. by the most possible.

You're down nine runs, but he's so competitive and believes in his team so much, he keeps the starting pitcher in the extra. You see what I'm saying? Throw his arm out. He might be doing,

the average manager at some point he's going to concede the game for the long term. But if I bet on that game, technically, yes, I'm doing everything I can for my team to win. Wait, hold up now. I don't want to make it sound like

I condone what he did. No, I know what you're saying. Okay, I don't. I'm just saying that we historically have said as long as you bet on your team to win, it's almost like we put an asterisk next to that kind of gambling. Like, if you bet on your team to win, that's way better than betting on your team to lose.

I see that in the big picture and I agree with it. I get what you said. But I'm saying there are some dangers even in betting on your team to win. If I got a million dollars on my team winning and we down 10 runs, I promise you, I'm keeping my starting pitching two extra innings, even if it hurts his arm. Funny shit about Malik Beasley. He's nice. Yes. Nice.

Yes. He's one of the best shooters in a league. Yes, he's nice. He just owes some money to the old niggis. And he was getting money. I think that, had they, did they clear of Rozier yet? No, he ain't getting clear. He's making 22 mil.

Like, you got to know what you are willing to give up for yearly, 22. It wasn't 22. He was making $20 million a year. You got to be in way over your head or you got to be getting threatened on another level where niggers is talking about kidnapping your family or something. And I don't think it got to be that bad. I think it should work for the first time.

And it just became easy. Sometimes that's all it takes. Yo, you know what I owe this? Yeah, I got away with it. Let me do. I got a way. Oh, that's it. And now you don't.

the snowballed unroll down hill, now it's out of control. Okay, but in it becoming easy as an athlete, you shouldn't want to embarrass yourself in front of your peers or appear to not understand the game

in front of your peers. That Malik Beasley when he ran down the court with the layup because the spread was eight and a half half to cut the lead from nine. Nine to seven. He should have told whoever he was dealing with, hey, I can't do this. Hey, we should lose so we can continue winning. Even if that's your scam, you can't go in a real game and look like that.

You can't look like that. But to do that guy, got $5 million on that. He don't give a fuck out of luck out. Yeah, he'll be a fuck about that. He's your problem. You got to take an L sometimes to keep a scam going. Agreed. You got to take the L even if that, even if that means.

You know, that's nuts. He bugged out. Then they had the text messages after he got the rebound from them. I guess it was a group chat they had. It was a group chat. Yo, he got a rebound with one. One second. Yo, we was about to be down so much money.

No, and I think, because I'm not, I don't have it in front of me, I think he said, we was about to be down so many thousands. That's what it was. We about to be down so many thousands. That's where it's confusing. We're talking about multi, multi-millionaire,

I don't get it, man. I'm better to come here and give him the idiot of the year award. You know, it could have been a couple hundred thousand, but a couple hundred thousand. at 8 to 1, 9 to 1. You get what I'm saying? 50,000 on the right bet at 8 to 1 odds. See, this is different.

Beasley and Rozier and them niggas. To me, it's different from... Pete Rose. No, not Pete Rose. Porter's brother. Jonte Porter. Nigger. That's all I'm saying.

You was a bum. No, he was a bum. Oh, you're saying, okay. He was probably shocked to ever play more than six minutes a game. He probably knew he wasn't about to be around too long. Hey, go ahead and risking, hey, gamble. We ain't going to be seeing you too much. Beasley and Rozier are nice.

Been around. Nice. They're nice. They could get a job. If not in the NBA and the fucking Euro League and the China League, any league. Why would you jeopardize your ability to be able to, yo, when I used to be on some bullshit and the stores, the stores, no, I'm coming here to steal. And I'm like, hey, all right, we can't get you can't come here no more.

Well, no, we got to slow down now because I want to keep stealing from here. So it's very important that you don't catch me because it's my favorite store to steal out. Check this out, Joe. Now let's say something you stole out of that store was because you owed it to somebody else. And they don't give a fuck, but you better come back with that item out of that store.

Now you go in the store. They see you and you can't play that whole. All right, let me chill out. Let me let the scam go. Because if I don't come out with this item that these niggas need, it's going to be some real repercussions over here. And that's worse than me getting

court still in the court still. I'm not even about to put myself in the predicament with nobody that's about to break my legs in the event that I don't do something. Because chances are I'm not going to do something and I like legs. You know what happens? Ligas don't put them in there. Legs is cool. You don't know that. You don't know that. You don't know that. You don't know that.

You don't know that. You're regular, regular niggas that you're gambling with until you're going to hold. Oh, I'm old enough. Mistake number one. True. Mistake number one then. But those be the most you get the most money. But we still talking about this different than we do other addictions. Because part, we're always talking about, we're

thing about the strategy of the scam. You, until I said it, Mark, I never even looked at it like a gambling addiction. Like, he woke me up to him. I'm like, no, this thing is right. Because that's the problem. And now I understand. Now I get it.

Because if somebody had a heroin addiction, we wouldn't be like, don't shoplift today. Don't shoplift. But I'm just saying, we also went back. Why? Just shoplift two days from now so you can keep stealing for heroin. We'd be like, dicking with heroin. Gamble had the addicts be the same way.

A thousand percent. Even when you in that scam doing an extra rebound, part of that is the scam, but part of that is the gamble. is the gambling part of it in the rush from the gambling Nick it said at the office that got shot Nick he was back in the casino yeah

there man it was rumors I wouldn't do the same because you know the same night there was one was running around and they went let Floyd leave Saudi Arabia yeah Floyd

money Mayweather like when that gets it don't matter who the fuck you are and you got there's a lot of money with these with these yeah I think they'll let you win the big

like you might bet $5 million and win some big shit and then you may think that you could still do it and they just get you wild. I've gambled money that I need it for bills. But that's why I won't gamble. Just because I know me. I've gamble money that I need.

The casino look good. The bitches is over there. Niggas can smoke over there. Cigars is lit. They're having a time. Free drinks. Yeah. If I go over there and that and play one hand,

that's the night. I'm not moving. You ain't going to be if you couldn't plaster me away from this. Oh, they got ID Claire Ward to Casino. That's crazy. I ain't played that in a while. I did play one. But I bet I'm good still.

How much you're going to put up? Nah. See, I don't play it. Like, you know, we're going to make this as simple as possible. War. Hot car, low car. And my other thing is sometimes we had to gamble in life because we didn't have it and didn't know where it was coming from.

But now that we stabilized a little bit and legit, I ain't risking no legit money. Oh, I haven't started hard. I ain't. I said, again, you got count on a person that. You're saying they're going into it thinking that. You go into it and they work one or two times, now it's quick. This is quick money. And you get hooked on that.

If you had my money, what ish? You gamble, I'd be, yeah. You'd have a problem. Oh, Iish, no. So that helps me understand. I'm a gambler. That helps me understand. Yeah.

More of a cushion, more. Yeah. Because now it's not dying. Oh, that's interesting. So you're a gambler, you're just risk averse. No, I, my logic sets in because I got children and, I, I, I, I, I, I, my, my, my, And you can't afford the loss. How are you going not?

Right. Like risk averse. Yeah, bro, if I had your money? Damn, man. I'm serious. Yeah. I'd be going crazy. See, I'm the opposite.

Yeah. I mean, I think a game... When I walk in a casino, which is very rare, I say how much am I willing to lose tonight? I don't ever go and think I'm going to win. And I'm comfortable playing that amount as an L. And if I make some, I put in my pocket and I walk away. I can play three hands of blackjack and walk away.

I play roulette, but... Yeah, too. I put my initial money back and then whatever I do afterwards is plus. Yeah. And if I end up at, I'm tapped, I still got that. Right. And if I had 50 million, that number might be higher. Right, of course.

What the principal would be to say. See, if I'm in the casino, I'm going to the Italian restaurant or the steak shop. Or the big diner where all the poor is go eat together and you got to look at each other. Like a big eating station. I know what I got. The TV is up. You can sit there all day. It's like a lunch room.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I go over there. Or I'll go to fucking Balenciago where the stores are to front on some window shop shit. Just walking around over here. Like, I don't, the actual casino? Yeah, all right. I'm in the building, bro. I'm going right to that roulette, Will.

Right there. No, I'm playing. What's the most you want? And the casinos? Yeah. 7,000, somewhere around there. How much did you walk out with? How much did you walk out with other than seven?

No, that's what I won. Oh, okay. What's the most you lost in the casino? 10, 12. I was in Vegas one time. I mean, I was in Vegas one time. I was cursing them exalt because they wouldn't let me take no more money out the bank. Damn, you trying to get your shit back.

No, it's my money. Fucking me can't get no more out. But, I mean, you were down, is what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You start chasing. And then you'll get, they'll make some accommodations for you. But, yeah. like gambling is bad bro like if i go on a casino you'll be like tomorrow you know i'm i'm

i'm a i'm a pull five you'll pull five hundred out in the beginning and you'll go back that's like to be at the strip club same shit see i see i don't do that in a strip club i'm not that's why that's why i'll try my best to not go to now i got a little more under control yeah well go ahead what you do you say i don't think it don't get on what you doing your best to do bitch. We don't care, we're talking about our gambling happens,

Nick. Fuck you're talking about that. We heard you already. You're rich, my nigga. My nigga's too much Joe in this show, man. He almost gave my home, you try to do your best of what?

It actually sounded interesting. We're talking about strip club calculate, versus. Oh, to not to not go to the fucking boxing fights that fucking me and Corey would be wanting to go to. Because it's not that you got a problem.

You might have paid a 30, 40 to go to the boxing. Cool. But what that casino look like on that, on that weekend? I got it. I got to get down there. I got to see what it feels like. Get a little bit of that orange.

Nigel. Nick, Slim thug just walked by, man. Tall, nigga. Now I'm gambling, nigga. What fuck we doing, nigga? What you're talking about, man? Barnes and Shack is here. Nigna, no.

Hey, it ain't bro. Blow on it. I got to pick a movie out this month. Sorry. So, I rather just not. Jumping on your ass. I rather not do it. I rather not do it.

Smart. disciplined. To know not, you know what, I'm not even going to play like that. Everybody don't have it.

Actually, to anybody out there that has a gambling problem. $100 gambler, yo. How much you won? They say it on everything. And we should say it

to it as being responsible. How much you won before? I won, shit, a couple weeks ago, I think I won like $4,800. That's it.

I think I got the gambling number, remember a man. They got the suicide hotline. Meperat. Damn. Who. All right, logic.

Who? Who? Who? Whoa. Oh, lost all your money. Are you alive, you bitch? Nigger, why do you think the hotel windows don't open? Yeah, why you think the hotel's going to say, if you lose all your money, he just said.

But yeah, it's connected. Yeah. It's connected. Yeah. Y'all teaching me today, boy. Hmm. And the hotel windows don't open because of white domestic violence. Wow.

Since you're asking me. That's not why, nigga. That's the fuck it is? Shoot the window out and start picking motherfuckers off. It's white domestic violence. It was like that before that. Huh? It was like that before that.

What do you know? You know white domestic violence? No. You mean domestic terrorism? No. No. You mean a white dude beating his wife? Yes.

Yeah. Okay. Push out the window. Yeah. Because y'all was talking about too. And domestic and domestic terrorism. I thought you meant to say. That's what I was talking about.

You're talking about two different things. I was trying to clarify that. White people don't need balconies. You want to go to see the ground? Yeah, they fucking. White people don't give a white people don't you

white people don't give a fuck You want to go talk to your grandmother I'll send you right to her right now Turn out and hide Yo You that's a point Trigger warning

What's the word But it's true They say crazy shit when they argue Black domestic violence in them building The nigga go to the soda machine I fuck you bitch Walk out, go get some ice with the bucket. You got to your home.

Nick's a kid. He might trip in the Bible. Yeah. I'm going to put you on. Hold on. I'm going to fucking shit the later. When we get home. Let me get away from that window.

Yo. That's stupid ass white digger. That's stupid ass. And rest of the beat. It's because it ain't funny. But that stupid one fucking white nigga. Go on wait. Yeah.

I'm mad about that. Wait, that did what? The country festival. The country festival that figure went out there and did that stupid. Yeah, I'm mad about that. Yes, I'm mad about that. I get mad when people are centralized somewhere to have a good time, listen to some music, vibe out.

You ever went to a concert? No, that feeling you get? Yeah. You shouldn't have to worry about that at a concert. I understand. You're hurt by it? You're mad or not? You're mad or hurt?

All the feelings you could have. I didn't see in the doc. They didn't see this nigga putting the gun together, the bag, walking in, not being checked, all this shit on. They got metal detectives in the schools, but a nigga could walk up in the hotel and just fucking load some shit and kill a bunch of people. Well, I think that's fucked up.

That's fucked up. I do. Joe, there's a video you were showing me before the show started that I thought we should talk about. I thought we should talk about Chris Johnson while we were on, Malief Beasley. We should. We should. Oh. Oh, man.

Oh, God. Chris Johnson, CJ 2K, one of the greatest running backs and probably the greatest, one of the greatest fantasy running backs. Oh, for sure. Yeah. For sure. For sure. But one of the greatest running backs of all time recently. came out and did an interview with his wife where they talked about his health condition and he has

ALS. A L S which I admittedly don't know very much about. But Chris Johnson is 39 years old. I'm going to play this video. In this video, he is in the chair. The voice you hear is coming from the chair and the screen and the automated shit that they fucking loaded his voice into. But this is just extremely sad. And my heart goes out to Chris Johnson. Let me try and clip. Here we go. It's fast.

Super fast. You want to fast as 40s ever? Why do you want to share this now? Because if sharing my story helps even one person get diagnosed sooner, inspires more research or gives another family hope, then it's worth it. Johnson says he was in the prime of his life, working out daily. This is from Good Morning America. Shout to Michael Strand.

Until ALS changed everything. Let's go back to last year. When did you notice that something was off? I first noticed weakness in my right hand. At first, there was little things like my grip didn't feel right. And I wasn't as strong as I've always been. His wife, Brittany, thought it was something much simpler. Brittany, what did you think it was at the time?

I thought because football and, you know, his career, that it had to be something with that, maybe a pinch nerve or something along those lines, but never ALS. That's when I started crying because I thought the same thing. Word. About your condition. We hope there was something else, but after thorough testing, they finally came down with a diagnosis of ALS. They told us about a medication that might extend life by a few months. Then they told us to get our affairs in the order.

It was hard hearing that. watching Good Morning America and seeing Dr. Merrick with Eric Dane. We reached out of her. She was willing to think more creatively offering experimental treatments that might help and advance research. And again, in this video, Chris Johnson is smaller than we remember him to be. It was real little to start with. He lost, I know, but he's even smaller and lost some weight.

He just doesn't look like the force. that we knew him to be. This was extremely sad. I sent him in Greenhouse one time. I'm sorry. And he was icy, right? His shit was like. Why don't you wanna share this now?

Oh, whoa, whoa, sorry, that's all right. And nobody knew where he was. And he was like, who the fuck is that? And he was like, Chris Johnson. I'm like, get the fuck out of here. Bro, he was small. Like, I'm like, oh, he gotta be a different type of fast and quick and strong.

He was little, bro, like real small. He probably five eight, like, but little, little frame. I said, oh yeah, he's fast as shit. That's part of the sad part about ALS, which y'all probably knows Luke Eric's disease. You've probably heard of at least. It's a neurodegenerative disease.

So you start to lose brain function, you start to lose muscle strength and mobility to the point where at some point you often can't walk, can't move, can't speak, can't do things. Can't breathe? Can't swallow? Yeah, like it affects all of that. Everything.

I had a, Kevin Thompson, Sr. one of the great martial artists, black martial artist ever got it about maybe like 10 years ago and passed away from. it. We see athletes get it. Obviously, Luke Eric got it. It's sad when anybody gets it, but when you watch people who spent their life kind of defined by their physicality and their

body and their extraordinary athletic ability to watch them kind of waste away physically, it's even more like, I don't know for me, it's like tragic and super sad, man. The craziest part, because I was reading up on ALS, it says 90 to 95% of cases are sporadic without a clear family history. It's not like it's genetic.

Right. It's crazy. It just pops the Terrify. Remember everybody was doing the ice bucket challenge? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what they was doing. Yeah, it was. Yep. Yep. It was for that.

Yeah. Man, they was donating a bunch of the money to the research for the A. L. Yeah. That's a good cause. Would you just piss me on? Why? We was having a blast pouring ice on our time.

I mean, we was, but that's the cause. That was for something. That was what it was about. I know you told my thing. That was just doing it. That was good. That was good. That was good.

That was good. We had a blast. Hey, what this bucket of ice on me, boy. Content creators could go to hell. Yo, that's rough. I forgot. We need to go there. Go ahead.

No, no, please. Yeah, niggas is going through real shit. I don't have nothing to say because this just hurts my heart. He did put something out. He's sharing his story. He says, first, I want to thank God for carrying me through. And I'm not going to read this all because it's very long. Most of all, I want to thank my wife, Brittany.

And that's important to me because we've been coming up here telling these stories of marriages going awry once somebody goes through a health issue. But his wife was right there. standing by a side. There aren't enough words for what you've done. You've become my caregiver, my advocate, my voice when I need one, and somehow you've continued to hold our family together through all of this. I know this hasn't just changed my life. It's changed yours too.

I couldn't fight this without you. He wrote something to his kids that I won't read because I'll cry right on the air to his friends. Let me just get to the end where he says, this disease is strong, but I'm stronger than the version of me that thought ALS would end my story. I'm not disappearing. I'm here and I'm going to keep fighting. I intend to be around for a long time for my family, for our communities, and for anyone out there who needs to hear that hope isn't just a slogan. It's a decision that we make every single day. And if you've ever wondered what you can do to help, he says, please donate to ALS research. Every contribution helps give scientists the tools to move faster, bring better treatments to family sooner, and move us closer to a cure. One contribution. can be the difference between someday and soon. And he thanks everybody for watching. Thank you for loving me.

Thank you for standing with me. Chris Johnson, we love you, man. Yeah, we love you. While we're on a sad note, I just want to do a... While we're on a sad note, I just want to do a rest in peace for the great Khadija Farrakhan. Indeed. The wife of Minister Louis Farrakhan who passed away a few days ago.

A lot of times when... we celebrate extraordinary leaders, whether it's Du Bois, whether it's King, Garvey. We often don't recognize the labor and the work of the women who toil beside them, not just as people in the background, but people who help do the work of building up those empires, those movements, those organizations. And Khadija Farrakhan is no different. She was Minister Farrakhan's partner, his wife, for more than seven decades, which is crazy to imagine.

You live to be 90, and you've been married for 73 years just about, is amazing. But again, she wasn't just a wife. She was a help meet. She was a partner. She helped him. They joined the faith together. They grew together. She was originally Betsy Ross, who became Betsy, Walcott, who became Betsy Farrakato,

eventually took the name Khadija. And for those that don't know, Khadija was the wife. of the Prophet Muhammad, Salah Allah, Allah, Allah, He waslam, and somebody who helped build something. And she did the same for him. She was known as the mother of the faithful. She was known as someone who was an inspiration to women. She was someone who represented beauty and dignity and humility. When you talk about Muslim girls' training in general civilization classes, MGT and GCC, she was at the front of it.

She was the face of something that was powerful and beautiful and transformative for black people and really for the nation. Khadija Farrakhan was extraordinary, not just for nine children, not just for literally dozens of grandchildren, not just for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of women who followed her,

but for an entire world to see the example of what grace and dignity and faith can produce. And so we send love and condolences to the Farrakhan family and to everyone who identifies as a believer. And in Islam, say, inna to Allahe, and na'a'u'i rajan.

Surely we are gods, and to gods, we will return, or we are returning. Well said, Mark. Rest of peace. Indeed, rest of peace. The blackness. The black. You've never heard of Joe, buddy. Mark, you be killing the eulogies.

You're really doing. I love that you do that here. But when you stop, like, you've got to find a way to pick it up. Don't toss it to me. All right. Those are like, I don't know how to do. I'm sad. Yo, you got a hundred on you?

All right, you got a hundred on you? I want to post that clip of the eulogy on my website. And I'm going to need five, five, I'm a little, I only got a hundred. So, can y'all? Hey, yo. Hey, yo. You're a fool. Protect the people, yo.

Niggas standing against you. All that basketball ain't talking about. Y'all take credit cards. You don't think they stole for this, man. Don't get an attitude, nigger, because you mad at them. accuse you are doing that nigger take it out on them going to space and talk to them right now mafick cue up your space now nigger uh you got paid to talk to him now you know he charged a 50 dollars for every space appearance on some jbc sure you heard

oh damn with that y'all y'all try to get me in trouble i'm messing with y'all man shout to the community wherever you at which community the new one all the communities all the communities shout out to each and every one of the communities out there yeah i love that i love it's a big to the bag though yo yo you're getting to it's a business man this niggas changing the game continuously. We said thank you for your service. Thank you for your promotion. We need a high like that. Niggas always want to talk about some old shit, man. Last week. Some last week. Some last week shit. Ten years of service. We won't report you. You won't

get reported, nigga. Just break bread. You won't get reported. You won't get reported. Yeah, what else we go. Go ahead. Go ahead, Flip. That's all right. He won't change the subject. I don't want to change the subject. No, he does. Oh, yeah. I know he do. I'm with you flip. I'm sorry. It's me and Flip. Looking cheap dick. What, the Spike Lee joint?

Is that his? You see Spike Lee on the back side of the hat? No. Oh, I see it in. Oh, that's why. Let me see. These fake Nick fans, yo. Go ahead, man.

Go ahead. It's your world. There's a Knicks conspiracy that I read that says the Knicks got the worst NBA championship shirts because they were supposed to be spurs shirts. Spurs colors. Oh, God. I saw that. I like that shirt.

It says the last four champions are the champions colors in the shirt. And our shirt, it does look like a first shirt. And when they show you the last shirts and you see the last shirts, it's like, I get it. But to me that makes it flyer. I do too. To me that makes it even doper that we wasn't supposed to win this.

And this is your shirt. Send that shit. Send that shit. Did they show the... Send that shit? Send that shit. No. You don't see that.

It land over there when they send it. Oh, yeah. Go Nix, man. All right, what else needs our team? I think we had about seven hours here. We have three hours, right? I don't think there's anything else that needs. Let me see.

Amber Rose is a nutcase. Fucking Emily Beasley. Chris Johnson, my heart still goes out to you, man. I can't. I can't be at 39 years old. See, we'd be thinking sometimes that you got to be older to get some of this stuff. True, true.

Yeah. Yeah. That's great. You never know. That's true. 39 years old. I mean, shit, how can you blame Megatron? Good point.

How do you blame him for walking away early like that? I want some football fans. You'd be like, oh, that's fucking. How do you blame Andrew Luck? Yeah. Who was getting killed? How do you? You can't.

Yeah. This other side of that? You can't. Can't blame him. And I get it. You get what you get in life, but that football, shit, I mean, we're barbarians so we can't really have no real competition, but that

football shit. I'm over it. I'd be over if I had to be a player. Yeah. I wouldn't play that shit, no. I'm saying as a parent. I wouldn't play it. I wouldn't let my kids play it. My son is built for football. My son is built for football. My son is no way he's going to play with this. Can't, yeah, I can't. Not going to do it.

Unless he's going to be a kick. Unless he's going to be a field goal kicker. He'll be a big. They get fucked up too? I'm saying that. All my stepson is killing. But, I mean, that's a kid. No, but he's body in that. You got some accent on that. It's been a great show. No, I mean, football was his passion when I came into his life.

But if you're asking me, my imagination in my head, see me and my baby at a game one day, and now I got to hold her hand because somebody didn't hit her child away that they should have hit it. Right. It's football. Somebody ain't going to get hit. Yeah, but come on, Joe.

That's awful. Yeah, I'm with you. It's fucked up if I'm at the game. He played defense. If I'm home, then. Huh? You say he played defense So did DeMarhamlin

Shit That DeMarhamlin shit Yeah that don't mean Nothing That Debole that That DeMarhampton shit was so bad The bills ain't cut them yet It's been a great show y'all

It's been a great show I hope you enjoyed as much as we enjoy making Hey Hey there's one person that You ain't really been getting The production from Hey every summer I'm like Yo this thing is still a bill

They will not let him go Did they let him go? No, he's not bad either I thought they did last season Oh, please Cut that, nigga Ah, come on, all right, yo I still want him to live

What the fuck are you talking about? I mean, he ought to feed his family, nigga Yeah, I'm mad at that I want to bite I'd not be able to feed their family True, that is absolutely true Unless you're a clipper Oh shit Why?

Yo, you're right He signed the one-year-contract in March Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They will not let DeMar Hamlin go hard about it. I like that. I'm not mad, no, go ahead. That was against your team, right? My memory is bad.

Was that a Steelers game? I don't think that was... I don't think I was still this game. No, it was... Bengals, there's something, wasn't it? Well, whatever. Whatever. We'll find out later.

Okay, let's see, let's see, let's see. I'm about as well keep it here. That's different now. 50s MAGA. Can I end? with this. No, 50. It ain't okay.

50 MAGA. Alright, I'll end with it. This shit is hard. It fits you. What? You wear that. It fits you. That's all.

It fits you. Mark, why do you still have my chain on? You don't care about you left it on the ground. I've had a quick, but I have to show. I know. I just didn't want to interrupt the show with such foolishness. No, you think? I just pulled it out like 10 seconds ago.

No, it was tucked in. You think I can't tell. I want to change it's tucked in? You're an expert on it. Oh, I'm saying. I'm not. I'm walking into it all tonight. Yo, listen, man, hopefully, y'all...

He's going home, his family, nigga. You got, you stuck with me. Listen, hopefully you have enjoyed this broadcast as much as we've enjoyed delivering it to you. Keep us in your prayers, especially me, please. Lord knows we need to be there. Until the next time, I bid you a do, farewell. Adios, Eriva, Durche,

asta, la vista, au revoir. So long, goodbye. A simple head now will suffice. Remember life is a series of moments and moments passed, so let's make this one last. Give me this shit. I win it again. I'm going to put some laughs in this motherfucker. I'm about to ice this motherfucker out.

Last but certainly not least, the baddies are insecure. The stagnant women want to travel and the closed-minded women want you to teach them things. Grab you with Tylenol you might need it. Fourth of July weekend. Fourth of July weekend. What's the plans? What's the plans? Weekend or week? We're still in a week.

The weekend? I'm at the beach. I'm trying to talk my wife to go in the essence. Are you going to do the beach during all this heat? Heat, the wave shit. Yes, me, C.C. my baby moms, we're taking all kids to the beach tomorrow and Thursday. You go stop. What?

Stop, man. Leave the nigger alone. What fuck is the problem? He's a long, boy. I didn't say that what he's on. He need to tell us. He needed to tell us that in hour one, boy. So we could have some fun with him.

He's not. He's smart. Yeah. I'm with it. I think a fly. The whole family, right, Freezy? Yeah, this. Yo, this ain't that little red lobster shit y'all did as a blended family.

This is bikinis, boy. Oh, boy, you better keep your eyes. Free. Have y'all seen my woman? Huh? Have y'all seen my woman? No. Only in her eyes.

Well, let me let you know. Only in her eyes. Let me let y'all know something. She looks amazing. No, he said you got, he said you doing the other shit. What am I doing? Adding on. No, ain't nobody talking about how your missing beach looks.

No, I'm just saying. He didn't got to look no one else. He brought sand to the beach because his beach is better. Exactly. Yeah, but your taste wasn't so bad when you went to the other beach. Yeah, that's what he said. So now you bring it to the beach, now you bring the beach. Now you bring the back and the yams together to touch.

Hey! Yeah! That's a problem plus, yeah. Let's go, freeze. That's not you giving a freeze. Beach, niggas. No, no, nigga. No, nigga.

You're always making nasty. Word. Grow up. Can you all grow up? You're a legend. Niggas play with you, boy. You're taking your girl and your BM to the beat. And that nigger's, yo.

I only crack on it because we're on here. But in real life, that nigger is that boy. That's fly. I love for you kick the door down, nigga. Let go through the door. Ah! I cut my shit, bitch. You know that ain't cut.

What beach? We're on the Jersey. Don't talk about a beach. I'm not saying the name one. That's what I'm not doing it. You're getting the telly out there? Yes. Oh, freeze, you gotta dump you that hour

so I can big you up. Hey! Two rooms. For the kids. One for the kids. One for the kids to sleep. Hey, y'all go to your room, y'all. Hey, you got to talk to your mother about some things.

Your mothers. Your mother's. We got to work some stuff out. Oh my God. Well, we can't hear because y'all doing some secret shit, but we're gonna crack on here. What secret shit, this thing is you still here. Oh, my God.

Only freeze to pull that off. That boy, bad. That's what I'm saying, boy. You bringing a honey pack? No. You ain't got enough dick to still do that. You ain't got enough dick to go. He's bringing the rhino, naked.

You don't, yo. Hell. He didn't. He ain't got enough dick to go around. Nah. Yo, get a third room, yo. You get a third room. Forget about what we're talking about.

A third room. Anyway, what are y'all? Yeah, one for the kids, one for a B. I'm trying to get my wife to go to Essus Fest. She's been wanting to go. As much as I'd love, I hate to be alone for the weekend. I'm willing to. Well, you're trying to get her to go.

Yeah, it's a woman's event. It's not for me. Oh, you're going? No, I'm going to stay home. No, he's trying to send her. That's what he... You bucked me up when he said it. I thought you were trying to get her to go with you.

There's something going on. I'm going on. I'm going to get down to the bottom of you, boy. Hey, yo, you're like... This is some freaky doctor shit going on. on with you, boy. No, I just, that's some shit going on with you, yo. Mark's a swinger.

Like, yeah, you do it. Something is happening. Something is happening. I can't just wonder at a answer. Did somebody call the doctor? Yes. Let me, you got a white robe in the closet. You're a freak, sir.

I wonder why he went so hard on. No, she said it was an elite tribute. Yo, can you all stuff? Can you, Jesus. Oh, my wife said it was an Aleia tribute down there and she wished she could go. And I was like, oh, you can go. You know, I'm, I'm making some

calls right now to get the passes and Oh, shut up. You're going to rob. My girl want to go with her. My girl love Leah. What's the Leah? See if they can make some friends. I think we mean two phone calls.

See, I'm trying to figure out my Fourth of July plans, because similar to what you guys are talking about, like, Rem had a party this weekend and she was yelling a lot. She lost her voice. Oh. So I haven't heard my wife's voice in like five days. I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry. Oh, man. I know it's tough. Tell me exactly what you need to lose a voice. Like, by that. specifically detail by detail. So I just can't wait for the weekend. You know,

I think she'll be good by then. Just to hear your baby's voice again. That's it. That's it. I know you miss it. How you've been? How are you holding up? I know it's been rough

not being able to hear her in the house talking about anything. It's hard. It's hard. Sorry that happened. A lot of texting. We got a white board. You know what I mean? Like Lotto when she wrote the lyric.

You know what I mean? Same type of shit. I'm sorry that happened to you. A lot of music. And congrats. And congrats. This is what you're doing. Going away.

Oh. Virginia. Out of the country. I don't know why. You like Charlie Brown with the football at this point. For 800 episodes, you run up to it. It's going to be there when you kick it. And that's this thing of question every day.

And you know what the fuck is about to happen. You act surprised every time. You do. You Charlie, bro, with the football. You got to watch. You know what you go to look. What are you going, bro? You can't share it?

You can't share it? No, I'm chill. It's private? What are we doing? Nobody gonna go to here, nigga. Uh, what am I doing? You don't know? I'm not doing nothing.

I don't have no plans. My baby's going to see Alia. She'll even know yet. I'll probably just be home, preparing the house, getting anything ready. I might make dinner for it that night. Ooh, yeah. Chef Joe is back.

Chicken, chicken, chicken and... Joe burgers. Chef Joe Yardt. Joe Yardee. That's a great idea. Tuna fish. That's an appetizer. Yo, you play.

I know you're cracking on me, but she got a list of all my little specialty meals that now I got to make. Meals or dishes. That's fine. Dishes. Whatever I make. Whether it's burgers, she's in. Yeah, Joe Burger. I'm up there.

Give me my time. Shut up. You got to do that. I guess. Time to work. If I cook for her, I mean, I got to cook for the kids. Yeah. I'm never that.

No, yes. Never. Yes. They won't like you, boy. You can't cook one plate? Oh, I ain't good. I ain't, not mine. I'd be going out of my way to be a niggott.

They don't like, hey, listen to your mother, you little motherfuckus. I'm not, no. All right. Hey, we get into. Up, up, up, the market. It's all right. Look at that. Look at God.

Yo, happy 4th of July out there. Indeed. Please be safe. Don't pull an O.C. human. With that OC? No, that was up, JPP. Yo, and it wasn't even just JPP. Not JPP.

JPP. I just said that, JPP. No, I said JPP.P. And you know we got another show off on the fourth. We have a show on the airs on the fourth. When the weather break, I start feeling like the Tuesdays this Friday. Because you're talking like we weren't going to show up. Final Freedom Tuesday, nigga.

Side. What we're talking about. Final Freedom Tuesday. Don't quite have the same ring. Gotta, got to step out. Got to step out. My trainer think I'm showing up in the morning. Slow down.

Oh, he's going to be happy. He ain't got wrecked all the way to make smoothies. They wouldn't get paid. Massage and shoulder. Are you going to pay for the month? No, nigga. You think I'm rich. Yes, nigger.

No, nose, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you got the money for your tenants, all of them. Nigger, we're about to be in July is. Is you a liar. I swear to God. Let's her, so text him now. He's still texting him, nigga. Text him right now. No, no Joe, no, Joe, bud.

I'm not so daddy. JVP, JVP, JVP, JVP, JVP, JVP, JVP, wherever to be without the JVP. We'll fold that up right now. You've never heard of Joe, bud?