August 4, 2021 • 29 mins
Episode 151 - "The Culture Deserves It" Feat. Ferrari Simmons & Su Solo Produced by: @iHandlebars
with special guest: Dreamville Recording Artist "Bas"
Topics: Working with J.Cole, New Music, the Berzuz Battle & more.
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":The Culture Deserves It"
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Ball All. Welcome to the Ball Alert Show podcast available
everywhere you get your podcasts. I go by the name
Ferrari Simmons, Hey, best friends, is your girls, Su Solo
And like my dog Barber said, welcome back to Ball
Show podcasts. A little minut it. We missed you all,
but we're gonna catch all up on the teeth. We're
gonna get into in case you missed it, Baller mail
and we got a dope ass interview, but we'll tell
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you all about that. How was your weekend? I know
it was pretty good, I I know, but are you
gonna care to share? For baller Nation faller Nation? Um,
I had a good weekend. I have a I have
a crush on somebody and we're having a good time
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getting to know each other. And that's that. But for
our sentments, how was your honeymoon? My honeymoon was amazing,
except for day two. Day two, I got bit on
my forehead by something, and uh it swoll up really big,
almost like when Will Smith had that allergy reaction and
that movie. I forget what it was. And I got
bit in my left fingers. Yeah, well I was clumped up,
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so I had to go. My wife took good care
of me. We had some ointment from the er room
that we wouldn't saying we should super dope, and I
was super happy to spend some good quiet time with her.
Got a little spicy with her, and yeah I am back,
and I see. Did y'all try anything now for the honeyball?
You know, I'm always trying to try something new. That's
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just what we need. Three finger snaps for y'all. Let's
get into the case you miss it with your shout.
He I hadn't got his crazy tail self arrested in
Amsterdam on the third Okay, he said he was taken
into custody for using his phone while cruising through the
town and did not stop while crossing the streets and
(02:33):
his handlebar broke off a cop side in here, child
and anybody you could have hit. He hit a cop
in Amsterdam. Okay. He hit Instagram Lives to explain a
bit of what happened. Take a listen. So I'm locked
up now, I'm obviously not supposed to have my phone
as I'm biking, and and because the policeman ran into
me and broke his uh what is it his reviews,
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you know? And because they don't didn't have my passport
on I don't know the rest, and didn't even put
me in handcuffs. We just opened the door and invited
me to the bank seat. See. I need the officers
in America to take a little less and okay, don't
use handcuffs into the back of the squad car, and
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maybe we will just oblige as easily as he I did. Okay,
now living lesson, I see has a five year old
with his wife, the infamous Coco Austin. So the couple
has been all over the blogs the past two days.
I know y'all have seen it because Coco says that
she's still breastfeed there five year old and something I
don't like that now. Most people feel like the breastfeeding
stops when the baby can walk, regardless of how much
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nutrition breast milk may actually be giving the child. But
what Coco said was, my child eats steaks and hamburgers.
She just likes a little snack every now and then.
It's and it's more about the bonding for her than
it is about giving her breast book for nutrition. I'm
not really sure if that's helping people persuade their perception
or not. But my question is, well hurt. What she
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said was Coco is saying that it's less about the description,
more about comfort her daughter wants it. So best friends,
my question to you is do you think people are
over sexualizing the fact that I see and Coco's five
year old child still gets breast fed. You'll be right
back with more of the Baller Alert Show. You're listening
to a special edition of the Baller Alert Shows. I'm
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kicking in with Ferramri Simmons and Sue Solo on the
Ball Alert Show podcast. Man, the I don't even know
how to do the proper introduction this guy. You know
what I will say, I don't think that you get
the flowers that you deserve. Definitely been doing a lot
of things behind the scenes. I heard you've been ghost
riding for some famous people. What's going on? Man? Thanks
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for having me, and you know, thank you for the flowers.
And you definitely deler total means totally in your business.
I hope that's okay. Now let's talk about it. But
everybody listening, just so y'all know we are talking to
dream dream bills. First need is that correct? Yeah? Yeah,
that is corrects. The name is Boss. Don't forget it,
don't mispronounce it. It's boxed there you go kill that.
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What's the full name? Because I need to give people
some context of where Boss comes from. The Boss is
my first name, my birth name. Um. It means lying
in Arabic. My family is from Sudan, Um, you know,
so that's like Northeast Africa for those that don't know.
And and Arabic is the primary language there, so you know,
that's like we grew up speaking Africa in the house
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and that's where my mother named me. See now, I'm
not gonna let that go without saying that before my
family came to America, they were into them. My family
had a business out there. They made a life for themselves.
So I'm here to see Africans really break out of
our tradition, which is what I told you on a
sidebar conversation, because we are very creative. We come from
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the Motherland where where black greatness comes from. So shout
out to you, especially being signed to Dreamville. How did
that happen? Yeah? Yeah, So I was raised in Queens
from when I was about seven eight years old and
Cole ended up coming to St. John's University for his
undergrads and my brother Eve was attending St. John's at
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the time, and I was like a towny I had uh,
I had pretty much just dropped out of Hampton University.
Shout out to all the h b c us out there.
Um was. It was definitely a very enlightening experience. But
I got back home and you know, I started hanging
out with my brother again, running around whooping with claim
like at the local basketball court. You can whoo I'm alright,
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I'm a I'm a great role player. I won't even
gash like I've set a good screen. I rebound, I
hit the open jumper, you know what I mean. But
you know, everybody loves playing with me. Like as asked
Cole about my screens, I said, the best screens in
the game. I say that much. Well that's probably that's
probably how we got tight, honestly on the basketball court.
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And then just like that, have you j Cole played
on one on one because we know that he went
and played back home for a couple of minutes. Well
he see, he's he's he's going all the way with it.
I mean, Cole is like training, he's I think back
in those days, we're all just casual, you know, casually hoping.
I think now he's just he's just far faring above
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ahead everybody. I mean guys doing dribble drills and linking
up with NBA trainers. I got nothing. I got nothing
for him. Now that's over all right, So wait, go back,
he was you saying you linked over? So I used to.
I used to throw a lot of parties, things of
that nature. We should just hang out and then you know,
one day my brother Eve, who went on to manage
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Cole and co founded dream Ville with him. Um, along
with Adam Rodney, who was was Col's roommate back at St. John's.
We were all just homies at that time and we
started just you know CDs back then, mixtapes were handing
handing Cole's mixtape in the neighborhood like all around Queens
and New York, just trying to put people on and
you know, they were doing the same, and you know,
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eventually they landed a situation where where ho. And then
when I when I took to wrapping, um, it was
like purely accidental with some some friends of mine like
just convinced me to do it on on the MacBook
one night, like one random drunk night, to be honest,
and you know when you got like a rational confidence,
and uh, it just kind of sparked a bugging me.
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I had never had, you know, an outlet for creative
expression before, and so I just I caught the itch.
And then I would just wake up every day and
work on my craft and then you know, I would
send my brother some records and then you know, one
day cold called me like man, like, you know, do
you do you understand what you're doing, like because it
was just so raw at the time. He was like,
this is like completely you. I hear I hear you,
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I know you, and this, you know, that's the most
impressive part of of like finding your artistry. And he's
like everything else is just like a developmental process. He's like,
you know, just start coming on on the road with me.
And I started hitting the road with him. I started
working with like his band, his keyboard player Ron Gilmore Um,
his stage manager Cedra Brown, who was a childhood friend
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of Cole's. Um. They were like kind of aspiring producers
and I was like the aspiring rapper on the bus.
So we kind of started forming my sound um and
you know, like three years later, when cold of the
Interscope deal, He's like, you know, I want you to
be my first artist, and you know, it was a
no brainer. So it's really a family affair, like from
the ground up. It honestly just seems you know. My
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question to you is, I wonder what was so different
about you that made you his first signing. I mean,
we've seen J Cole work with so many talented people
support them, but why were you the first sign you know,
it's it's interesting because, um, the familiarity works for you
and it works against you in a lot of ways,
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you know, because you don't want to be biased, especially
when there's a lot of things at stake and money
being invested in all types of things. So um, but
you know, I do vividly remember around Cole's second album,
Born Center, he was going to play songs for guys
who really looked up to just playing his album for
like No Idea and salam Remi and you know, just
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guys who are have an incredible footprint on our culture
and an incredible legacy, and he would play their album.
And you know, this is a true testament to Cole
that that after he was done playing his album, he'd
be like, Yo, you know there's just kid from Queen's
I'm rocking with, Like I want to play you a
few songs and see what you think type of deal.
And you know, both times he played it, uh, you know,
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both of them were we're just we're very impressed and
we're interested in in signing me at the time, and
I think that was like the first purely objective co sign,
you know, because we all just came up together and
I think that kind of changed a lot of things
because from then on I just saw like a different
a different fire in a sense of a different level
of of belief. But obviously at the time, Cole hadn't
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put out Born Center yet, so those you know, no
labels gonna give you a full label situation off of
one album. But then you know, right after that he
dropped Born Center, and then it was like, you know,
every label wanted to be Dreamville's home. So, um, you know,
I was just blessed to be in that position, being
that situation, get to really developed as an artist, as
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a performer, um, you know, and learn learn a bunch
of things from the guys around me who had really
put in, you know, ten thousand hours and mastered their craft.
Let me inter Jack, because you said you right at
the end was with me. Be my next question. You're
around Cole, You're around Coal, and the whole situation came.
You're around Cole and he becomes one of the best
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lyricists of our time. I always say this to me,
I feel like he's my jay Z. You know, I
didn't grow up listening to jay Z like that, but
I grew up listening to Cold You know what I mean.
And I loved how Cold carries himself. And I can
kind of tell like, you're very well diverse, You're you're
a nice, calm collective. The energy seems really genuine coming
(12:04):
from us. You know, we interview everybody, so I can
tell you have a very high level of competence. My
question to you is how much is that you? And
how much is that what you've learned from being a
fly on the wall and being around the Cold. A
lot of that is definitely what I've learned, um from
being around Cole and even the whole dream billers. There's
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so many talented musicians and producers that are part of
our camp that really helped speed up, um, you know,
my my learning curve in a sense, just because I
was able to be around and be a sponge and
sit in these sessions and even the first tours Cole
brought me on, I wasn't performing. I was just riding
the bus and working on music and watching him perform
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every night. Or you know, one of those tours was
the Club Paradise tour that Drake did that one summer
and it was like Drake, Cole, Meek, mill Walker, Flocker
to change French Montana. You know, it was like a
be there to run and I'm just on that tour,
watching everybody every night, you know, taking notes, seeing what
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parts of songwriting you know, are is the crowd resonating
with you know, what moments you can create in a
live show, like all those things were invaluable for sure.
So I mean that that gave me a lot of confidence.
And then once you start doing it and you build
your own fan base and you start selling your tickets
to your shows and they show up and they know
every word, you know, every step it away, Um is
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a confidence builder even even now, you know, even like
doing a song like the Jackie, which which to me
is like I had the intention to want to create
a bigger record, you know. I think usually I make
my album and I'll pick the single out of it afterwards.
And this is one of those times where I had
a lot of the album done and I said, you
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know what, I want to make the singles. I want
to craft them specifically for what I'm trying to do,
for the effect I'm trying to have to to kind
of reach a new frontier in my career. Like you
said earlier about you know, giving me my flowers and
kind of being slept on, Like I'm aware of that,
and in ways like I want to break out of that,
you know, I want to I want to put my
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stamp on it. I want to create these big records
that you need to to reach a certain audience and
and reach a certain level of you know, a claim
and notoriety. So you know, I try to be intentional
about all these things. I think the difference is you're
actually creating in an organic following. You know what I'm saying,
people are really getting to know who you are, not
only as a person, but as an artist in his
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purest form. You are. You don't seem to be one
of those artists who was tainted, somebody who was trying
to be pulled in directions that he doesn't want to
go in. So what are you thinking is about your
sound that's really drawing people to you because you you're
really selling our shows like you you you are selling
shows that yeah, well, you know, I think the beauty
of it is like having a very like multicultural background.
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Um as far as my ties to the African continent,
you know, I spent five years and in my early
childhood in Paris, um and then I have four older
siblings who spent you know, varying degrees of their life
all over the world. So my my oldest brother's name
is DJ MoMA he um, he's probably my biggest musical source.
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He spent you know, eighteen years in France by the
time we left, and he was putting me onto like
you know, French house and UK garage and you know,
now he put me on a like ma piano out
of South Africa and like a bunch of like African
artists and things of that nature. Um. So I think
when I create, when I've realized this, all of those
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things come out in my sound, all of those textures,
all of those influences, Um, they've they've become my sound.
So I think it just keeps me out of a box,
that keeps it open, and it keeps it exciting for
my fan base that they never really know, you know,
what they're gonna get, and that that's the beauty of it.
Like even you know, with the Jackie, I'm conscious also
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to make those records without my core being like who
the hell is this guy? Who is this guy? I
don't know this guy? This isn't a guy like I
grew up with, I've been listening to since I was
in high school, etcetera. It's all natural, it's organic. But
but again it still has to be an evolution. Now,
let's talk about the Jackie a little t J. J.
J Cole. Of course we know that J. Cole. Where
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did the little T J Coo come from? You know?
I just thought his he I wanted a New York
artist on it um because it's kind of like a
New York summertime story. And then t js Cadence his
melodies I just thought would fit that like bright sonic
sound that that t I that T minus set up
for us. Also, I don't think I've ever really heard
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t J on a on a beat like that, you know.
And and to me, that's the funnest thing about collaborating
is how do I how do I bring these artists
into my world, you know, in a way where they
fit organically, they don't sound out of pocket. And that's
always like the puzzle and and the and doing it honestly.
And and you know, the kid's twenty years old, he's
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ripping it up. One of the biggest artists out of
the city. You just love to see something like that
and and support it. We know that afrobeats is on
a high right now. You know a lot of people
are starting to tap back into the motherland Africa, But
you don't fall into the afrobeats sound to me. Of course,
being African, I hear your influences, which is why I
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asked what I asked. But I think going back to
you know, you wanting to have that record that helps
you reach different crowds. I get that, But I will
say I stand firm on the fact that what you're
doing I think has a lot more longevity because it
is really organic. It is the people that are attracted
to you are attracted because of the creativity. Like I
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don't even know what I don't know what to call
your style, you know, And I love that. I love
that it doesn't fit into one mold. Yeah I do too.
I do too, and and and I agree. And that's why,
you know, that's the art in it, you know. It's
it's trying to set these goals for yourself creatively and
you know, execute them in a way where you keep
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your artistic integrity, you know. And I've never felt like
ot straight from that, and you know, hopefully I never
willed all right, that's that's the goal. But it's been
it's been a lot of fun creating these records a
little differently. You know, when we made the song at
the time, we were working on the off season. Um.
Obviously the content and the sound of that album is
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is a bit moodier and deeper, and and it's you know,
we wanted to make a lighthearted record during those sessions
because we're just like really deep into this like soulful album. UM. So,
you know, it's just good to have diversity. Like you said,
I if you can't put me in the box and
I'm doing something right yeah, wait, wait, wait, don't don't
think you're gonna get up out of here, but I'll
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be asking you. You know, let's talk about this hair man,
like I'm always used to grow you know, uh, what
made you man? A few things? You know, I'm missed
wearing hats first and foremost. You know, I'm miss wearing
my good Yankee you know New York with that had all.
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Let me just say that, you know, like I've missed
this part of my life right here. I'm gonna keep
it on for the rest of this um. But no, also,
just you know I had to throw for like four
or five years. Man, I'm a Gemini. We may getting
pulsive decisions and just go for change. I can't be
in the same space for too long. Um. And I
was just something I just felt like doing one day.
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And for the first three days I woke up like, man,
what did you do? And then on the fourth day
I was like, man, that's sly, I'm liking it. And
now I'm all the way converted. I don't know what's next.
I guess the answers My question, is Boston a relationship?
But you kind of already said you can't stay nothing
too loud, you get coming every No, that's I mean,
that's that's not true. I am, I am, I am committed.
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We like you are in the committed relationship. I am, yes, sir, okay, yes,
go ahead and say her name then since you commit. No,
you know, I like to keep things probably, but I'll
give you that much. You know, we with and we
with it. Now. Is she somebody that we would know
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if you were to say her name? No? Did she
from New York? Nope? I wish you from New Orleans?
Then that somebody from the south. Huh about this versus
last night? Did you think that deep set was gonna
wash the Locks? And got surprised with Jada, you know,
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never surprised. You know, I'm from New York. Like, let's
let's talk about it. You know, Jada's Jada is one
of the best we've ever had, you know, And and
I'm happy that he's he's getting his flowers amongst the
whole new generation and amongst it's like you know, digital
digital media age. I don't think the Locks really had
a viral moment until last night, and it was well deserved.
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And it was a showcase. Man, they put on the
clinic as far as performing stage presidents confidence like you know,
and not not not to even like disrespect nobody, but
you watch a lot of clips from live shows and
all the festivals are coming back now, and you're like, man, like,
there's a lost art of performance that's that's kind of
missing them amongst a lot of the youth these days,
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where they're just playing their record. They got their vocals
in the record. It's not even like a TV track,
it's not a show track, he said, no vocals. Yeah, yeah,
look at look at Jade up there, breath control like
he's he's he's he's older than all these young cats,
like breath control, all of that spitting flawlessly. Um. I'm
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happy that that was really appreciated. That was good for
New York too, by the way, it was big. It
was big for sure. I want to see gen unit
on the verses now. I I want to see fifty
cent versus. J'all rude. Oh, that might get spicy, that
might get like Gucci Jeezy levels of spicy. That's what
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we need. We need at this point. That's from last night.
We need a I need a shocker. Yeah, yeah, I
would love to see it. I would love to see it.
I'm just shot that nobody got to swing in on
the versus battle, which they said in the lot, because
because it was really aggressive for me, and you know
how y'all New Yorkers do, y'all, y'all, Yeah, I just
got nature. Yeah yeah, I mean that was like to me,
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that was like a barbershop argument about sports. You know,
in New York they get that aggressive. So I think
people know how to get aggressive in New York without
getting too physical. It's just part of the nature of
just how we communicate, y'all. Yeah, y'all stay out of Atlanta.
Please all that aggressive look look you Africa, you from
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New York. You know I'm twice as fast. Then we
appreciate you. Gotta to think us soon, Plea, get at
it much much love, Thanks for having me. Later, We'll
be right back. Stay tuned with more of the baller
Alert show message And now it is time for a
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baller mail. Oh my god, I could be. All I
gotta do is go through my d M and you
can feel free to DM me. It's all of course.
Um uh, you know I'm not gonna tell a soul. Okay, privacy,
disclose your alert. Hey, Rory, I am a middle aged
Caucasian woman and I am addicted to black man. I
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am currently a relations with relationship with a Caucasian man,
but I can't stop fantasizing about African American men. I
am heavily, heavily considering leaving my man to experience making
love to an African American man. What are your things
I could do to get over this or to get
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through this yourself? Well, what I'll tell you, Sandy is
it is not uncommon to um to thirst for an
African American men because our men are amazing. Okay, African
American men are are the creme de la creme. Okay,
they are the kings of all kings. So I can
understand why you want to get your rocks off with
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an African American man. Now, I can't tell you how
to get over it, because I don't think that's anything
you can get over. Okay, Well, when you want a
black man, you just want a black man. They're just
that amazing. What I can tell you is, I don't
know if you need to be leaving your relationship, you know, uh,
just because you have this fantasy of being with a
(24:40):
with a black man. I think maybe you talk to
you a man and see if you can need the
hall pass. Just need give you the hall pass. Don't don't,
don't destroy your home, you know, just to go see
what a man didn't go talking about, because it's probably
really what you want. You're probably really looking for the
men didn't go this. And you know what, Sandy, I'm
I'm gonna leave it at that. That's all I'm gonna say.
That's all I got. Yeah, I really don't have nothing
(25:03):
for you. Besides, you know, if you decide to leave
your man, just be prepared for whatever happens with that.
I feel like, if you have a happy, stable, good
relationship and your feticizing, I don't know if that's a
smart decision to make. And you're a middle age woman,
so that means you know, responsibility. I don't know if
you have kids or stuff like that, that ain't nothing
(25:24):
worth uh you, you know, trying to figure out this
is something you probably you to figure it out when
you use earlier on in life. Now, if you're just
so happen to be single and you can do whatever
you want with your box, Um, yeah, you might want
to ask for a hall pass, you might want to
ask for all pass or something. Uh, but I don't
know what to tell you. This might be the first
(25:46):
ballermail or when I really don't have no advice, be um,
don't throw away, especially if you have something good at home.
I don't really think you should be over here worried
about stuff like that. I mean, the grass is any
where you water it. Say that, say that what I'm
saying necessarily good advice. You know, you might get your
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rocks off and be like, oh my god, oh my god,
the hell? You don't know what what that may bring you?
You know, on the other hand, so I don't necessary.
I'm not wanting the person to tell you to leave
the person in relationship with just to go find how
that feels. I don't think that's a good idea. Now,
if you're still happened to break up and you want
to go get your rocks off yet, go ahead, definitely
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do that. But I wouldn't recommend breaking up with your
guys just I'd rather you just keeping one hunter and
be like, hey, this is what I feel, this is
what I want to do. Can you help let me
get through this. I don't know how to tell no
white woman how to get so I don't I don't
want nothing for her, but y'all yeah, stay yeah is
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that okay? But I said for her, but want to
get the ball official podcasts, Thank you so much. Yeah,
let's go on, let's go a head, get up out
of here too. So any last words, my friend, my
last words are ladies, just when you think ain't no
good fish left and to see and comes swimming upstream. Okay,
(27:17):
that's all I got this one. I'm gonna give my
last word to all school teachers and all the principles
and school faculty staff. You guys should be paid more,
especially school teachers. You guys are basically, um teaching the
future and helping set up the future. You guys are underpaid, underappreciated. UM.
(27:42):
I just wanted to take time out to shout out
to all school teachers. You guys are amazing at your jobs,
especially the ones who care and put in extra hours.
You guys definitely do not get the credit that you
guys so rightfully deserved. So to all school teachers this year,
I plead I pray that you have a blessed you
year uh COVID free, uh sick free as as you know,
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to maintain your health as much as possible. And UM,
you know, I'm gonna pray over you guys to make
sure you get through your school year without any blemishes
or any issues, because you guys are really, really, really
one of the most important people besides doctors and nurses
and people like that. UM. School teachers, especially the young,
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especially the ones to the you know, the elementary school teachers.
You guys men, you guys have to deal with a lot.
I know because I got too in elementary school, one
in middle school, and uh one more on the college.
So all professors, school teachers stoculty and staff. You guys
are much much so graciously appreciate it. I don't have
(28:46):
a future free band statement today. This is strictly for
faculty and staff and all people in the education department.
You guys are so appreciative, and you guys really helped
shape and mold the future of the earth. An okay, well,
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And like my dog Barber said, welcome back to Ball
Show podcasts. A little minut it. We missed you all,
but we're gonna catch all up on the teeth. We're
gonna get into in case you missed it, Baller mail
and we got a dope ass interview, but we'll tell
(01:07):
you all about that. How was your weekend? I know
it was pretty good, I I know, but are you
gonna care to share? For baller Nation faller Nation? Um,
I had a good weekend. I have a I have
a crush on somebody and we're having a good time
(01:29):
getting to know each other. And that's that. But for
our sentments, how was your honeymoon? My honeymoon was amazing,
except for day two. Day two, I got bit on
my forehead by something, and uh it swoll up really big,
almost like when Will Smith had that allergy reaction and
that movie. I forget what it was. And I got
bit in my left fingers. Yeah, well I was clumped up,
(01:51):
so I had to go. My wife took good care
of me. We had some ointment from the er room
that we wouldn't saying we should super dope, and I
was super happy to spend some good quiet time with her.
Got a little spicy with her, and yeah I am back,
and I see. Did y'all try anything now for the honeyball?
You know, I'm always trying to try something new. That's
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just what we need. Three finger snaps for y'all. Let's
get into the case you miss it with your shout.
He I hadn't got his crazy tail self arrested in
Amsterdam on the third Okay, he said he was taken
into custody for using his phone while cruising through the
town and did not stop while crossing the streets and
(02:33):
his handlebar broke off a cop side in here, child
and anybody you could have hit. He hit a cop
in Amsterdam. Okay. He hit Instagram Lives to explain a
bit of what happened. Take a listen. So I'm locked
up now, I'm obviously not supposed to have my phone
as I'm biking, and and because the policeman ran into
me and broke his uh what is it his reviews,
(02:57):
you know? And because they don't didn't have my passport
on I don't know the rest, and didn't even put
me in handcuffs. We just opened the door and invited
me to the bank seat. See. I need the officers
in America to take a little less and okay, don't
use handcuffs into the back of the squad car, and
(03:18):
maybe we will just oblige as easily as he I did. Okay,
now living lesson, I see has a five year old
with his wife, the infamous Coco Austin. So the couple
has been all over the blogs the past two days.
I know y'all have seen it because Coco says that
she's still breastfeed there five year old and something I
don't like that now. Most people feel like the breastfeeding
stops when the baby can walk, regardless of how much
(03:40):
nutrition breast milk may actually be giving the child. But
what Coco said was, my child eats steaks and hamburgers.
She just likes a little snack every now and then.
It's and it's more about the bonding for her than
it is about giving her breast book for nutrition. I'm
not really sure if that's helping people persuade their perception
or not. But my question is, well hurt. What she
(04:03):
said was Coco is saying that it's less about the description,
more about comfort her daughter wants it. So best friends,
my question to you is do you think people are
over sexualizing the fact that I see and Coco's five
year old child still gets breast fed. You'll be right
back with more of the Baller Alert Show. You're listening
to a special edition of the Baller Alert Shows. I'm
(04:24):
kicking in with Ferramri Simmons and Sue Solo on the
Ball Alert Show podcast. Man, the I don't even know
how to do the proper introduction this guy. You know
what I will say, I don't think that you get
the flowers that you deserve. Definitely been doing a lot
of things behind the scenes. I heard you've been ghost
riding for some famous people. What's going on? Man? Thanks
(04:48):
for having me, and you know, thank you for the flowers.
And you definitely deler total means totally in your business.
I hope that's okay. Now let's talk about it. But
everybody listening, just so y'all know we are talking to
dream dream bills. First need is that correct? Yeah? Yeah,
that is corrects. The name is Boss. Don't forget it,
don't mispronounce it. It's boxed there you go kill that.
(05:08):
What's the full name? Because I need to give people
some context of where Boss comes from. The Boss is
my first name, my birth name. Um. It means lying
in Arabic. My family is from Sudan, Um, you know,
so that's like Northeast Africa for those that don't know.
And and Arabic is the primary language there, so you know,
that's like we grew up speaking Africa in the house
(05:30):
and that's where my mother named me. See now, I'm
not gonna let that go without saying that before my
family came to America, they were into them. My family
had a business out there. They made a life for themselves.
So I'm here to see Africans really break out of
our tradition, which is what I told you on a
sidebar conversation, because we are very creative. We come from
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the Motherland where where black greatness comes from. So shout
out to you, especially being signed to Dreamville. How did
that happen? Yeah? Yeah, So I was raised in Queens
from when I was about seven eight years old and
Cole ended up coming to St. John's University for his
undergrads and my brother Eve was attending St. John's at
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the time, and I was like a towny I had uh,
I had pretty much just dropped out of Hampton University.
Shout out to all the h b c us out there.
Um was. It was definitely a very enlightening experience. But
I got back home and you know, I started hanging
out with my brother again, running around whooping with claim
like at the local basketball court. You can whoo I'm alright,
(06:36):
I'm a I'm a great role player. I won't even
gash like I've set a good screen. I rebound, I
hit the open jumper, you know what I mean. But
you know, everybody loves playing with me. Like as asked
Cole about my screens, I said, the best screens in
the game. I say that much. Well that's probably that's
probably how we got tight, honestly on the basketball court.
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And then just like that, have you j Cole played
on one on one because we know that he went
and played back home for a couple of minutes. Well
he see, he's he's he's going all the way with it.
I mean, Cole is like training, he's I think back
in those days, we're all just casual, you know, casually hoping.
I think now he's just he's just far faring above
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ahead everybody. I mean guys doing dribble drills and linking
up with NBA trainers. I got nothing. I got nothing
for him. Now that's over all right, So wait, go back,
he was you saying you linked over? So I used to.
I used to throw a lot of parties, things of
that nature. We should just hang out and then you know,
one day my brother Eve, who went on to manage
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Cole and co founded dream Ville with him. Um, along
with Adam Rodney, who was was Col's roommate back at St. John's.
We were all just homies at that time and we
started just you know CDs back then, mixtapes were handing
handing Cole's mixtape in the neighborhood like all around Queens
and New York, just trying to put people on and
you know, they were doing the same, and you know,
(08:01):
eventually they landed a situation where where ho. And then
when I when I took to wrapping, um, it was
like purely accidental with some some friends of mine like
just convinced me to do it on on the MacBook
one night, like one random drunk night, to be honest,
and you know when you got like a rational confidence,
and uh, it just kind of sparked a bugging me.
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I had never had, you know, an outlet for creative
expression before, and so I just I caught the itch.
And then I would just wake up every day and
work on my craft and then you know, I would
send my brother some records and then you know, one
day cold called me like man, like, you know, do
you do you understand what you're doing, like because it
was just so raw at the time. He was like,
this is like completely you. I hear I hear you,
(08:44):
I know you, and this, you know, that's the most
impressive part of of like finding your artistry. And he's
like everything else is just like a developmental process. He's like,
you know, just start coming on on the road with me.
And I started hitting the road with him. I started
working with like his band, his keyboard player Ron Gilmore Um,
his stage manager Cedra Brown, who was a childhood friend
(09:05):
of Cole's. Um. They were like kind of aspiring producers
and I was like the aspiring rapper on the bus.
So we kind of started forming my sound um and
you know, like three years later, when cold of the
Interscope deal, He's like, you know, I want you to
be my first artist, and you know, it was a
no brainer. So it's really a family affair, like from
the ground up. It honestly just seems you know. My
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question to you is, I wonder what was so different
about you that made you his first signing. I mean,
we've seen J Cole work with so many talented people
support them, but why were you the first sign you know,
it's it's interesting because, um, the familiarity works for you
and it works against you in a lot of ways,
(09:49):
you know, because you don't want to be biased, especially
when there's a lot of things at stake and money
being invested in all types of things. So um, but
you know, I do vividly remember around Cole's second album,
Born Center, he was going to play songs for guys
who really looked up to just playing his album for
like No Idea and salam Remi and you know, just
(10:12):
guys who are have an incredible footprint on our culture
and an incredible legacy, and he would play their album.
And you know, this is a true testament to Cole
that that after he was done playing his album, he'd
be like, Yo, you know there's just kid from Queen's
I'm rocking with, Like I want to play you a
few songs and see what you think type of deal.
And you know, both times he played it, uh, you know,
(10:35):
both of them were we're just we're very impressed and
we're interested in in signing me at the time, and
I think that was like the first purely objective co sign,
you know, because we all just came up together and
I think that kind of changed a lot of things
because from then on I just saw like a different
a different fire in a sense of a different level
of of belief. But obviously at the time, Cole hadn't
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put out Born Center yet, so those you know, no
labels gonna give you a full label situation off of
one album. But then you know, right after that he
dropped Born Center, and then it was like, you know,
every label wanted to be Dreamville's home. So, um, you know,
I was just blessed to be in that position, being
that situation, get to really developed as an artist, as
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a performer, um, you know, and learn learn a bunch
of things from the guys around me who had really
put in, you know, ten thousand hours and mastered their craft.
Let me inter Jack, because you said you right at
the end was with me. Be my next question. You're
around Cole, You're around Coal, and the whole situation came.
You're around Cole and he becomes one of the best
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lyricists of our time. I always say this to me,
I feel like he's my jay Z. You know, I
didn't grow up listening to jay Z like that, but
I grew up listening to Cold You know what I mean.
And I loved how Cold carries himself. And I can
kind of tell like, you're very well diverse, You're you're
a nice, calm collective. The energy seems really genuine coming
(12:04):
from us. You know, we interview everybody, so I can
tell you have a very high level of competence. My
question to you is how much is that you? And
how much is that what you've learned from being a
fly on the wall and being around the Cold. A
lot of that is definitely what I've learned, um from
being around Cole and even the whole dream billers. There's
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so many talented musicians and producers that are part of
our camp that really helped speed up, um, you know,
my my learning curve in a sense, just because I
was able to be around and be a sponge and
sit in these sessions and even the first tours Cole
brought me on, I wasn't performing. I was just riding
the bus and working on music and watching him perform
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every night. Or you know, one of those tours was
the Club Paradise tour that Drake did that one summer
and it was like Drake, Cole, Meek, mill Walker, Flocker
to change French Montana. You know, it was like a
be there to run and I'm just on that tour,
watching everybody every night, you know, taking notes, seeing what
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parts of songwriting you know, are is the crowd resonating
with you know, what moments you can create in a
live show, like all those things were invaluable for sure.
So I mean that that gave me a lot of confidence.
And then once you start doing it and you build
your own fan base and you start selling your tickets
to your shows and they show up and they know
every word, you know, every step it away, Um is
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a confidence builder even even now, you know, even like
doing a song like the Jackie, which which to me
is like I had the intention to want to create
a bigger record, you know. I think usually I make
my album and I'll pick the single out of it afterwards.
And this is one of those times where I had
a lot of the album done and I said, you
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know what, I want to make the singles. I want
to craft them specifically for what I'm trying to do,
for the effect I'm trying to have to to kind
of reach a new frontier in my career. Like you
said earlier about you know, giving me my flowers and
kind of being slept on, Like I'm aware of that,
and in ways like I want to break out of that,
you know, I want to I want to put my
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stamp on it. I want to create these big records
that you need to to reach a certain audience and
and reach a certain level of you know, a claim
and notoriety. So you know, I try to be intentional
about all these things. I think the difference is you're
actually creating in an organic following. You know what I'm saying,
people are really getting to know who you are, not
only as a person, but as an artist in his
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purest form. You are. You don't seem to be one
of those artists who was tainted, somebody who was trying
to be pulled in directions that he doesn't want to
go in. So what are you thinking is about your
sound that's really drawing people to you because you you're
really selling our shows like you you you are selling
shows that yeah, well, you know, I think the beauty
of it is like having a very like multicultural background.
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Um as far as my ties to the African continent,
you know, I spent five years and in my early
childhood in Paris, um and then I have four older
siblings who spent you know, varying degrees of their life
all over the world. So my my oldest brother's name
is DJ MoMA he um, he's probably my biggest musical source.
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He spent you know, eighteen years in France by the
time we left, and he was putting me onto like
you know, French house and UK garage and you know,
now he put me on a like ma piano out
of South Africa and like a bunch of like African
artists and things of that nature. Um. So I think
when I create, when I've realized this, all of those
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things come out in my sound, all of those textures,
all of those influences, Um, they've they've become my sound.
So I think it just keeps me out of a box,
that keeps it open, and it keeps it exciting for
my fan base that they never really know, you know,
what they're gonna get, and that that's the beauty of it.
Like even you know, with the Jackie, I'm conscious also
(15:59):
to make those records without my core being like who
the hell is this guy? Who is this guy? I
don't know this guy? This isn't a guy like I
grew up with, I've been listening to since I was
in high school, etcetera. It's all natural, it's organic. But
but again it still has to be an evolution. Now,
let's talk about the Jackie a little t J. J.
J Cole. Of course we know that J. Cole. Where
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did the little T J Coo come from? You know?
I just thought his he I wanted a New York
artist on it um because it's kind of like a
New York summertime story. And then t js Cadence his
melodies I just thought would fit that like bright sonic
sound that that t I that T minus set up
for us. Also, I don't think I've ever really heard
(16:43):
t J on a on a beat like that, you know.
And and to me, that's the funnest thing about collaborating
is how do I how do I bring these artists
into my world, you know, in a way where they
fit organically, they don't sound out of pocket. And that's
always like the puzzle and and the and doing it honestly.
And and you know, the kid's twenty years old, he's
(17:05):
ripping it up. One of the biggest artists out of
the city. You just love to see something like that
and and support it. We know that afrobeats is on
a high right now. You know a lot of people
are starting to tap back into the motherland Africa, But
you don't fall into the afrobeats sound to me. Of course,
being African, I hear your influences, which is why I
(17:26):
asked what I asked. But I think going back to
you know, you wanting to have that record that helps
you reach different crowds. I get that, But I will
say I stand firm on the fact that what you're
doing I think has a lot more longevity because it
is really organic. It is the people that are attracted
to you are attracted because of the creativity. Like I
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don't even know what I don't know what to call
your style, you know, And I love that. I love
that it doesn't fit into one mold. Yeah I do too.
I do too, and and and I agree. And that's why,
you know, that's the art in it, you know. It's
it's trying to set these goals for yourself creatively and
you know, execute them in a way where you keep
(18:10):
your artistic integrity, you know. And I've never felt like
ot straight from that, and you know, hopefully I never
willed all right, that's that's the goal. But it's been
it's been a lot of fun creating these records a
little differently. You know, when we made the song at
the time, we were working on the off season. Um.
Obviously the content and the sound of that album is
(18:33):
is a bit moodier and deeper, and and it's you know,
we wanted to make a lighthearted record during those sessions
because we're just like really deep into this like soulful album. UM. So,
you know, it's just good to have diversity. Like you said,
I if you can't put me in the box and
I'm doing something right yeah, wait, wait, wait, don't don't
think you're gonna get up out of here, but I'll
(18:54):
be asking you. You know, let's talk about this hair man,
like I'm always used to grow you know, uh, what
made you man? A few things? You know, I'm missed
wearing hats first and foremost. You know, I'm miss wearing
my good Yankee you know New York with that had all.
(19:15):
Let me just say that, you know, like I've missed
this part of my life right here. I'm gonna keep
it on for the rest of this um. But no, also,
just you know I had to throw for like four
or five years. Man, I'm a Gemini. We may getting
pulsive decisions and just go for change. I can't be
in the same space for too long. Um. And I
was just something I just felt like doing one day.
(19:37):
And for the first three days I woke up like, man,
what did you do? And then on the fourth day
I was like, man, that's sly, I'm liking it. And
now I'm all the way converted. I don't know what's next.
I guess the answers My question, is Boston a relationship?
But you kind of already said you can't stay nothing
too loud, you get coming every No, that's I mean,
that's that's not true. I am, I am, I am committed.
(20:00):
We like you are in the committed relationship. I am, yes, sir, okay, yes,
go ahead and say her name then since you commit. No,
you know, I like to keep things probably, but I'll
give you that much. You know, we with and we
with it. Now. Is she somebody that we would know
(20:22):
if you were to say her name? No? Did she
from New York? Nope? I wish you from New Orleans?
Then that somebody from the south. Huh about this versus
last night? Did you think that deep set was gonna
wash the Locks? And got surprised with Jada, you know,
(20:44):
never surprised. You know, I'm from New York. Like, let's
let's talk about it. You know, Jada's Jada is one
of the best we've ever had, you know, And and
I'm happy that he's he's getting his flowers amongst the
whole new generation and amongst it's like you know, digital
digital media age. I don't think the Locks really had
a viral moment until last night, and it was well deserved.
(21:06):
And it was a showcase. Man, they put on the
clinic as far as performing stage presidents confidence like you know,
and not not not to even like disrespect nobody, but
you watch a lot of clips from live shows and
all the festivals are coming back now, and you're like, man, like,
there's a lost art of performance that's that's kind of
missing them amongst a lot of the youth these days,
(21:28):
where they're just playing their record. They got their vocals
in the record. It's not even like a TV track,
it's not a show track, he said, no vocals. Yeah, yeah,
look at look at Jade up there, breath control like
he's he's he's he's older than all these young cats,
like breath control, all of that spitting flawlessly. Um. I'm
(21:48):
happy that that was really appreciated. That was good for
New York too, by the way, it was big. It
was big for sure. I want to see gen unit
on the verses now. I I want to see fifty
cent versus. J'all rude. Oh, that might get spicy, that
might get like Gucci Jeezy levels of spicy. That's what
(22:10):
we need. We need at this point. That's from last night.
We need a I need a shocker. Yeah, yeah, I
would love to see it. I would love to see it.
I'm just shot that nobody got to swing in on
the versus battle, which they said in the lot, because
because it was really aggressive for me, and you know
how y'all New Yorkers do, y'all, y'all, Yeah, I just
got nature. Yeah yeah, I mean that was like to me,
(22:31):
that was like a barbershop argument about sports. You know,
in New York they get that aggressive. So I think
people know how to get aggressive in New York without
getting too physical. It's just part of the nature of
just how we communicate, y'all. Yeah, y'all stay out of Atlanta.
Please all that aggressive look look you Africa, you from
(22:51):
New York. You know I'm twice as fast. Then we
appreciate you. Gotta to think us soon, Plea, get at
it much much love, Thanks for having me. Later, We'll
be right back. Stay tuned with more of the baller
Alert show message And now it is time for a
(23:14):
baller mail. Oh my god, I could be. All I
gotta do is go through my d M and you
can feel free to DM me. It's all of course.
Um uh, you know I'm not gonna tell a soul. Okay, privacy,
disclose your alert. Hey, Rory, I am a middle aged
Caucasian woman and I am addicted to black man. I
(23:37):
am currently a relations with relationship with a Caucasian man,
but I can't stop fantasizing about African American men. I
am heavily, heavily considering leaving my man to experience making
love to an African American man. What are your things
I could do to get over this or to get
(23:58):
through this yourself? Well, what I'll tell you, Sandy is
it is not uncommon to um to thirst for an
African American men because our men are amazing. Okay, African
American men are are the creme de la creme. Okay,
they are the kings of all kings. So I can
understand why you want to get your rocks off with
(24:20):
an African American man. Now, I can't tell you how
to get over it, because I don't think that's anything
you can get over. Okay, Well, when you want a
black man, you just want a black man. They're just
that amazing. What I can tell you is, I don't
know if you need to be leaving your relationship, you know, uh,
just because you have this fantasy of being with a
(24:40):
with a black man. I think maybe you talk to
you a man and see if you can need the
hall pass. Just need give you the hall pass. Don't don't,
don't destroy your home, you know, just to go see
what a man didn't go talking about, because it's probably
really what you want. You're probably really looking for the
men didn't go this. And you know what, Sandy, I'm
I'm gonna leave it at that. That's all I'm gonna say.
That's all I got. Yeah, I really don't have nothing
(25:03):
for you. Besides, you know, if you decide to leave
your man, just be prepared for whatever happens with that.
I feel like, if you have a happy, stable, good
relationship and your feticizing, I don't know if that's a
smart decision to make. And you're a middle age woman,
so that means you know, responsibility. I don't know if
you have kids or stuff like that, that ain't nothing
(25:24):
worth uh you, you know, trying to figure out this
is something you probably you to figure it out when
you use earlier on in life. Now, if you're just
so happen to be single and you can do whatever
you want with your box, Um, yeah, you might want
to ask for a hall pass, you might want to
ask for all pass or something. Uh, but I don't
know what to tell you. This might be the first
(25:46):
ballermail or when I really don't have no advice, be um,
don't throw away, especially if you have something good at home.
I don't really think you should be over here worried
about stuff like that. I mean, the grass is any
where you water it. Say that, say that what I'm
saying necessarily good advice. You know, you might get your
(26:07):
rocks off and be like, oh my god, oh my god,
the hell? You don't know what what that may bring you?
You know, on the other hand, so I don't necessary.
I'm not wanting the person to tell you to leave
the person in relationship with just to go find how
that feels. I don't think that's a good idea. Now,
if you're still happened to break up and you want
to go get your rocks off yet, go ahead, definitely
(26:28):
do that. But I wouldn't recommend breaking up with your
guys just I'd rather you just keeping one hunter and
be like, hey, this is what I feel, this is
what I want to do. Can you help let me
get through this. I don't know how to tell no
white woman how to get so I don't I don't
want nothing for her, but y'all yeah, stay yeah is
(26:54):
that okay? But I said for her, but want to
get the ball official podcasts, Thank you so much. Yeah,
let's go on, let's go a head, get up out
of here too. So any last words, my friend, my
last words are ladies, just when you think ain't no
good fish left and to see and comes swimming upstream. Okay,
(27:17):
that's all I got this one. I'm gonna give my
last word to all school teachers and all the principles
and school faculty staff. You guys should be paid more,
especially school teachers. You guys are basically, um teaching the
future and helping set up the future. You guys are underpaid, underappreciated. UM.
(27:42):
I just wanted to take time out to shout out
to all school teachers. You guys are amazing at your jobs,
especially the ones who care and put in extra hours.
You guys definitely do not get the credit that you
guys so rightfully deserved. So to all school teachers this year,
I plead I pray that you have a blessed you
year uh COVID free, uh sick free as as you know,
(28:04):
to maintain your health as much as possible. And UM,
you know, I'm gonna pray over you guys to make
sure you get through your school year without any blemishes
or any issues, because you guys are really, really, really
one of the most important people besides doctors and nurses
and people like that. UM. School teachers, especially the young,
(28:25):
especially the ones to the you know, the elementary school teachers.
You guys men, you guys have to deal with a lot.
I know because I got too in elementary school, one
in middle school, and uh one more on the college.
So all professors, school teachers stoculty and staff. You guys
are much much so graciously appreciate it. I don't have
(28:46):
a future free band statement today. This is strictly for
faculty and staff and all people in the education department.
You guys are so appreciative, and you guys really helped
shape and mold the future of the earth. An okay, well,
thank you guys for tuning into the ball alert platforms
all this time. I can't get enough of baller Alerts.
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