My thoughts on Draymond’s comments, another disturbing Diddy lawsuit, NBA playoffs, more

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
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Speaker 2 (00:56):
But before I.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Do that, I gotta get into a plethora of subjects
that are just simply unavoidable, and I just want to
get some stuff out of the way, some stuff I've
spoken on already, something some stuff that's going to be fresh. Obviously,
I'm going to preview the conference finals a little bit
later on in the show, But if you saw me
anywhere yesterday, you know that I wanted to quickly get

(01:22):
started with talking about my man, Draymond Green of.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
The Golden State Warriors.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
A few days ago, Draymond went on Shack's podcast talking
about media critics and specifically pointed the finger at me.
He essentially accused me of not defending him and going
with the public narrative about him following his last suspension
back in December. After he was suspended indefinitely, a smack

(01:50):
use of Nurkic, if you may recall, smacked him up
side the head in December that led to an indefinite
suspension around December twelfth. He was allowed back into the
lead to play for the Golden State Worries around January sixth.
But before I get into anything that I have to say,
let me show you what he said on Shack's podcast.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
First, Steven A. Smith really pissed me off, and the
reason he pissed me off was because he hit me.
He's like, yo, it's been hard for a lot of
us to talk about you these last few few days.
And you know, for me, I'm like, Okay, it's been
hard for me to watch, but I'm watching it because

(02:31):
I want to see everything that everybody have to say.
I know you got a job to do. I know
you gotta do your thing and say what you gotta say.
But now one point, did you say, Well, y'all are
saying this person is up and this person needs help.
Now I know the person. Say what you want about
the basketball player. That's fine, but I know the person.

(02:51):
And by the way, it just wasn't him to sit
back and see those that claim to know and appreciate
me as a human being just flow with the narrative
because it was easy to do.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I lost a lot of respect for a lot.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Of people, as I articulated yesterday over the national airwaves,
along with appearing on the flagship station for the Goldenen
State Warriors in the Bay Area, Draymond Green is the
only one that lost respect for people. I've lost respect
for him, and that don't mean I don't have love

(03:27):
for the brother. It doesn't mean that I still don't
profoundly respect the brother and the man that he is,
but I don't appreciate selective amnesia. Now, I'm not going
to get into a whole bunch of details about everything,
because I already did that, although I didn't do it
on this podcast. Boy is he lucky I didn't have

(03:52):
a podcast yesterday because obviously I'm going to say stuff
here that I wouldn't say over FCC airwaves.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
In most instances.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I'm glad I had a little bit extra time to
reflect and to think about what else I wanted to say,
because I really don't have much more to say other
than what I've said already. I thought that Draymond Green's
assertions to Shaquille O'Neill were utter bullshit. I thought that

(04:21):
it was unbecoming of him, and my disappointment with him.
I don't even know if it has any layers or
any boundaries at you know now, because I can't believe
the bullshit that he spewed out of his mouth. For
the record, whatever narrative he's talking about obviously entailed people

(04:44):
saying that Draymond Green was a problem, that Draymond Green
needed help. If you were recall a month earlier, he
had choked Rudy Gobert and when he slapped Nurkic, Nurkic

(05:07):
went and talked about that.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Guy needs help.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
If you recall, Kevin Durant came out start for the
Phoenix Suns, former two time champion with Draymond Green in
the Golden State Worrias his former teammate. Draymond Green came
out and said, yo, I hope the brother gets the
help he needs. And there was an individual screaming over
the national airwave saying I don't like that. I don't

(05:32):
appreciate that. First of all, that's a brother. Secondly, that's
a black man. And we know when you talk about anger,
management and help and things of that nature, that connotates
something far more serious than that needs to be I
know Draymond is a good brother. I know Draymond is
a good man. I know Draymond is a loving father
and a loving husband. I know this brother and have

(05:53):
come to notice brother over the years to know what
a good.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Man he is.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Which are things that I've articulated repeatedly. And so the
one instance where you're watching television and I might not
have screamed to the high heavens while other people were
laying into you because they were entitled to their opinions.
That it negates all the months and years I've come
to your defense. Recall, Draymond Green's been ejected from games

(06:22):
twenty different times in his career. No one other than
Rashid Wallace, who had twenty nine injections, eclipses him. No
one has been ejected from more games than Draymond Green
in NBA history. Draymond Green, over a nine month period,
had been suspended four times, and still I defended them.

(06:44):
Ask Joe Laker for the Golden State Warriors. Ask Steve
curta coach for the Golden State Warriors. Ask Bob Meyers,
the former president of the Basketball Operations GM for the
Golden State Warriors, who's my colleague on NBA countdown?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Now?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
They would accute me, damn NEIV, compromising my integrity because
of how often I came to the defense of Draymond Green.
Yet somehow, some way, while you sitting on a couch
chilling with Shack, my name would come out of your
mouth and you would say some ridiculous nonsense like that.

(07:21):
Never mind the fact that I had no knowledge, ladies
and gentlemen, I did not see that video of him
talking to Shack until yesterday morning. I had no idea
all of these monks that have gone by when I
didn't speak to Draymond Green. I wasn't bothering him. He's
a professional basketball player going through the regular season and
then the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Why am I bothering you? Four?

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I didn't bother this man. I had no idea that
he felt this way. I was given no clue whatsoever.
And that is what really has me feeling rubbed the
wrong way. If you have a problem, you know my number.
You know how to holler at me. If I sat
up there and talked with Draymond Green, and then others

(08:03):
all of a sudden stopped speaking with Graymond Green, and
Draymond Green never knew. And then I go on a
publication or a podcast or broadcast and I talk about
him and say stuff that he had no clue about.
Considering the relationship we had, you would think he would
have caught me and say, Yo, this is my problem
with you. That's what men do. And Draymond Green prides

(08:26):
himself and being a man, but that wasn't accorded to me.
I had no clue. I had no idea. So it
is what it is. But I bring that up because
I got something important that I want to say. I'm

(08:48):
sick of some of these dudes, and I'm not gonna
mention any names, but I've about had it up to
here with people smiling in my face. And I'm not
talking about Draymond here, because he clearly did not smile
on my face and talk behind my back. I hadn't
seen him or heard from him, and I wasn't looking
for him, so I didn't know anything that was going on.

(09:09):
But I've been through a lot.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Over the last.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Month or so, you know, the whole thing with people
misconstroying my comments about you know, Trump in the black community.
When I was only talking about black Trump supporters and
what they say to him.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I wasn't talking about black people.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I certainly wasn't connecting Trump and his you know, the
criminal accusations against him with that of black people in
a criminal element. I'm a proud black man. I would
never do that to my community. And you do what
you want to do. I damn SUO ain't voting for
him because I think that you know where I stand

(09:53):
with Trump.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think the.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Presidency as a statesmanship position is about bringing people together.
Not about being divisive, and I think he's the bits
of But in the aftermath of all of that, I
got people from all over the.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Place coming at me.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I had friends that I've known for years letting people
come on their platform and talk about me and call
me everything but.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
A child of God. For three hours.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I got colleagues that smile on my face and went
behind my back.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
To the bosses talking shit.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
When you've been around for as long as I've been around,
let me say something to all of you out there,
Let me say something to my employees, let me say
something to my colleagues, let me say something to my contemporaries,
let me say something to anybody. When you've been around
in this business for thirty years, like I have, you
find out everything. It might be in an hour, it

(10:53):
might be in a day, it might be in a week,
it might be in a month, it might be a
few months from now, it might be a year from now,
but you always find out.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
I'm that connected.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
There's not much that people are gonna say about me
or try to do towards me that I'm not gonna
find out about.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
And when I.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Tell you, the hypocritical bastards and sons of bitches that
are that have tried to hurt me.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
I don't even know what to say now.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'm a Christian man and I'm a God fear an individual,
so I'm not gonna sweat it too much. But what
I want to say is it was disappointing that Draymond
went the route of talking to Shaq and revealing to
a public audience something.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I never knew.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
He was wrong and what he said because I did
not go along with the narrative. I've been defending Draymond
Green's character for years. If anything, he owes people like
me an apology for doing so, because of the continuous
predicaments he found himself in where we'd have to defend
him because of the ammunition he provided to others to
come at him.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
But it wasn't me. Wasn't me.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
So maybe we'll talk again, maybe we won't. But either way,
I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it. No am
I gonna lose sleepover friends who's proven themselves to be otherwise.
Nor am I gonna lose sleep over professionals that don't

(12:39):
want to talk to me. I got love for anybody
who got love for me. For those who don't. It
was nice knowing you. Let me be very clear about that.
It's like that for me. It's like that. Now let's
get to some other news, because earlier this week I
spoke about Sean P. Diddycone's apology following that viscous assault
video see and.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Released last week.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
We all saw what he did to then girlfriend Cassie
Ventur back in twenty sixteen. Well, Cassie finally responded yesterday
following the outpouring of support from around the world. We'll
get to that in a moment, but I want to
address you. Had another lawsuit filed yesterday against Diddy.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Jesus.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
This latest suit byle a woman named April Lampros, claims
she was raped by Diddy, who also promised her connections
in the fashion industry. Lambrose, now fifty one years of age,
claimed she met Diddy while studying at the Fashion Institute
of Technology in New York City. I actually went there,
studied advertising and communications before I went down to Winston
Salem State University. By the way, played on the basketball team.

(13:41):
We were thirty five and four as a junior college,
number fifteen in the nation. But that's neither here nor there.
Lambrose back to her alleged she sexually assault He sexually
assaulted her on four different occasions. On one occasion, she
claims did he forced her to take ecstasy and have
sex with girlfriend Kim Porter, who's now deceased. Lamb Prost's

(14:02):
suit comes a week after that disturbing footage released by
CNN showing P Diddy Combs viciously beating Cassie Venturer in
the hallway of the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City on
Avenue the Stars back in twenty sixteen. The embattled music
mogul has been slapped with several other lawsuits accusing him
of rape, sexual misconduct, and other federal crimes. All I'm

(14:26):
gonna say is this because my man show Baz that
I played the video the other day. Folks talk about
kicking somebody while they're down, Naw, Diddy ain't down. Cassie
Ventura was down, by the way, she was the one
being kicked. He was the one doing the kicking. That
adage doesn't apply. But I respect my man should bads
and understand where he's coming from. Here's the bottom line.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
With P Diddy. Your name is Sean Combs.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
P Diddy is dead. Never to be heard from again.
It's over p Diddy, Diddy, puff daddy, all that gone.
Anybody want to hear it. You're Seawan Combs now. And
by the way, I have inside knowledge that some people
close to them actually have told them that you Sewan
Combs now. Ain't no p Diddy, ain't no puff daddy,

(15:11):
Ain't no Puffy no more.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
There's a party. You ain't throwing it. There's a party.
You show up too, It'll stop.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Ain't nobody trying to see you, Ain't nobody trying to
hear from you. That's the reality of the situation. Because
what you did on that video was so reprehensible. There
are countless men who want to kick your ass because
they got daughters, they got sisters, they got a mama,
they got aunts, they got female cousins, they got female

(15:39):
friends and stuff like that, who would never do such
a thing, and they found themselves ashamed of him. That's
the reality of the situation.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
And now you hearing about.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Rape, sexual assault and all of this other stuff. It
doesn't get any better. It just doesn't. Puff Daddy, p Diddy,
Puffy is over. Sean Combs, White, those other names. Just
get rid of it. Get rid of it, kill it.
You better hope somebody. Hopefully you didn't copy write it,
even though I know you did, but hopefully you're uncopyrighted.

(16:09):
If you're canceled, somebody else could call themselves that. That way,
they won't associated with you.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Maybe I just want to say that it's just the
way it is.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
As mentioned, however, Cassie Ventura released a statement in response
to the seeing an exclusive video release showing a beating
she took from Diddi back in twenty sixteen. Here's what
she said on Instagram quote, thank you for all love
and support from my family, friends, strangers, and those I
have yet to meet. The outpouring of love has created
a place for my younger self to settle and feel
safe now. But this is only the beginning. Domestic violence

(16:43):
is the issue.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
She says.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
It broke me down to someone I never thought I
would become. With a lot of hard work, I am
better today, but I will always be recovering from my past.
Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to
take this matter seriously. My only ask is that everyone
open your heart believing victims the first time. It takes
a lot of heart to tell the truth out of
a situation that you were powerless in. I offer my

(17:07):
hand of those who are still living in fear. Reach
out to your people, don't cut them off. No one
should carry this weight alone. This healing journey is never ending.
But this support means everything to me.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Thank you. And quote you.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Notice how she said domestic violence is the issue, and
so as a result, intentionally or not, she's rallied victims
of domestic violence together and she's made her issue their issue.
And by the way, she was right to do so

(17:43):
and very smart to do so, Yes she was. And
so there we have it. It is what it is.
There's no coming back from this from Diddy professionally. Right now,
he's got to hope he doesn't end up in jail
and they'll be able to live the life of free civilian.
But in terms of being somebody that's gonna get endorsement deals,

(18:05):
that's gonna be a brand ambassador and all this stuff,
those days are over. Make no mistake about it. Ain't
no getting around this, ain't no getting by this, ain't
no getting past this.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
It is over. And now that she has.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Attached herself accurately so to the domestic violence issue, there's
going to be a tsunami coming down upon him.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
It's just the beginning. It's just the beginning coming up.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Could we be on the verge of two conference finals
sweeps in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
We'll get into that.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Plus the NCAA is going to look a lot different
going forward after an historic agreement announced yesterday.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
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Speaker 1 (18:44):
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Right, Kyrie Irvin for the Dallas Mavericks more or less
than twenty three and a half points. You know I'm
gonna say more. Man called him out. You show what
he did in the first half of the game. He's
home oud in his business, chilling with his children and
his wife and all this other stuff, and then a
man called his brother I He's like, nah, I ain't
having it. Let me remind you who the hell I am.

(20:12):
And that's what he did. Twenty four points in the
first half alone. That's what Kyrie Irvin did. Do I
think he gonna do it again in game two.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
You're damn right.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
I think he's gonna do it again in game two.
He's gonna score more than twenty three and a half points.
I'm going with more on this one. And man himself,
the man who was not is great, but he's young
and was foolish to call out Kyrie Irvin when you
got the guard you talked about, you want to guard
that man. I know you think it twice about that
now that same Anthony Edwards more or less than twenty

(20:39):
seven and a half points. I could see him scoring
more than twenty seven This game, Game two is a
month for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
He's the leader, he's the star. They're gonna free him up.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
They know what's at stake, and I think it's one
of those situations where Anthony Edwards is gonna answer the
call because that's what he does. He'll be ready, I believe,
and we will see what he does. I think he's
gonna score more than twenty seven points. I can see
that happening. We're gonna go with more on that one.
Luka Doncik First Team All NBA, although some people felt
like Jayalen Brunton should have been up in there, but

(21:12):
they'll remain nameless. More or less than twenty nine points
for Luka Dncik, I could see more. I can see
him and Kyrie Irvin for combined combined for at.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Least sixty points in this game. I think Luca's gonna
get his I think Luca's gonna do his thing.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
You cannot dictate this man's pace. He's big, he's strong,
and he moves at his own pace. Ain't a damn
thing you could do about it. That's Luka Dncik. And
I think that he's gonna score more than twenty nine
points in this game.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I'm going with more.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Carl Anthony Towns Minnesota timbolves more or less than twenty
one points.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm gonna go with more with.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Him as well, because this is a must game for
the Minnesota Timboleves. They lose this game, I can't see
them beating the Dallas Mavericks for the next five games
to win the series. I just can't see it. They've
got to win game two. It is that simple. I
think man knows that. I think he knows he's got
to play better. I think he's gonna score some points
to some put backs, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
And I think more is the order of the day.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
The answer is more, more for Carl Anthony Towns, more
for Kyrie Irving, more for Luka Dancik, more for Anthony Edwards,
more for Carl Anthony Towns.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
More and more and more and more and more.

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Syle usually works with people in terms of pattering their
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Speaker 1 (22:30):
Welcome back to Steven A. Smithshow right here over the
digital airwaves of YouTube. Let's get to the NBA and
the Eastern Conference Finals please. Between the Boston Celtics and
the Indiana Pacers. Last night, Jalen Brown, the three hundred
and four million dollar man, dropped forty points on the Pacers,
while Jason Tatum and Derek White added twenty three points
each in the one twenty six to one to ten
victory over ind To make matters worse, Pacers All Star

(22:51):
guard Tyrese Halliburton, a third team All NBA player by
the way, left the game in the third quarter with
left hamstring soreness, the same hand hamstring that cost them
ten games in January. The Celtics are takeing that Celtics
have taken a two ozero series lead heading into Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
This weekend. Series is over. Let's get that out the way.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
First, Secondly, it's just a matter of whether not Indiana's
gonna get swept or not, or they're gonna win a game.
They're gonna be a sweep. Literally, is it gonna be
a gentleman sweep? Because I don't think Indiana is winning
both games in Indie. I don't see that happening. The
Boston Celtics are clearly the best team in the Eastern Conference,
and we get all of that. There's no intrigue here. Okay,

(23:33):
even with Porzingis out. The Celtics are doing their thing.
And I'm of the mindset that Indiana, I mean, they're
just limited and what they're gonna be able to do
because they're not a good defensive team. Now, obviously, when
we talk about Jalen Brown, that's a different subject. This
man is the highest paid player in the NBA. He's
got the largest contract in the NBA. Rather, he dropped

(23:53):
forty last night. He hit the big time three point
shot from the left corner and regulation the game won
to send the game in the overtime.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
He showed up in the finals two years ago.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
On a level that's indicative of his star power and
star caliber abilities. Jason Tatum did not when he got
the three hundred and four million dollars, everybody and their
mother was talking about how Jason Tatum is going to get,
you know, his three hundred plus million dollar. You're gonna
have two players taking up six hundred million dollars, all right.

(24:23):
Remember Celtics went on the twenty to nothing run late
in the first quarter into the second quarter, twelve twenty seven,
twenty two before the run. You see it right there.
This is what they do. Boston Celtics are that elite.
But we've had questions about whether or not they'll win
the championship because they engage in too much one on
one basketball. They seem a bit too sporadic at times.
On offense, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum still haven't learned

(24:46):
to play off one another.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
It's my turn, now, it's your turn.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Now it's my turn, as opposed to them playing with
one another two man ball against some competition which they'd
usually dominate. So that's unfortunate and that's challenging. But nevertheless,
the Boston Celtics, as predicted, will represent the Eastern the
NBA Finals. I don't think anybody's doubting that. Barn A
catastrophic injury. I can't see anybody beating the Celtics in

(25:09):
the meaning the Indiana Pacers, because that's all that's left
in the Eastern Conference. Can Dallas in Minnesota beat Boston?
You damn right they can. So it's gonna be real
interesting to see what happens. And that's what we have
to stare at. Here's the real story.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Though.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Jaylen Brown is pissed off that he didn't make the
All NBA team.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Now I'm looking at this right now.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
I want to be fair to him because the brother
is special.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
He can ball. But I'm looking at the first team.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Shay Gilgess, Alexander My MVP, Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncik, Jannisantha
to Kumpo, Jason Tatum, his teammate. Who's the Boston Celtics
best player. I mean, look, what are we saying here.
You're gonna remove Jason Tatum, You're gonna remove Luka Doncik,
You're gonna remove Janna Senta to Cumpo for Jaylen Brown.
You ain't doing that, so he don't belong to the
first team. The second team, Jalen Brunson, Anthony Edwards, Kevin Durant, Kawhi,

(25:57):
lennartt Anthony Davis. I think you could make a legitimate
argument for Jalen Brown versus Kawhi Leonnitt. I think you
make it legitimate. Not Anthony edwas not the way Minnesota
was looking most of the season, and he's the leader
of the.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Squad in Jalen Brown is not.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
But if you wanted to keep Jaylen Brown off of it,
right then we gotta look at the third team Lebron James,
Steph Curry, Demontes Sabonis, Tyrese Halliburton, Devin Booker, Well Devin Booker,
and then got swept in the first round. Sacramento didn't

(26:39):
even make the playoffs neither the Golden State, and the
Lakers squeezed in as a play in and got bounced
in the first round in five games by Denver.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Boston.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Somethings had the best record in basketball all year long.
He's the number two option. I understand this. I just
don't know who you move off of this in favor
of a guy who's the number two option on a
team universally recognized as the best in the game. You
got Derek White and Drew Holliday in your backcourt, you

(27:14):
got Porzingis as your center, you got Horford coming off
the bench, you got Jason Tatum as the number one option.
So Jalen Brown is absolutely pissed. I just don't know
who you move off of this. So it's gonna be
interested if you're Jalen Brown. Here's how you resolve all
of this. You go to the finals, and whether it's

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Kyrie and Luca or whether it's Anthony Edwards, you bust
their ass.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
If you do that and you win the championship.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
And dare I say you play better than Jason Tatum,
because you've been playing better than Jayson Tatum throughout these playoffs.
But you do it in the finals and you win
the championship, we won't be able to leave Jaylen Brown
off a note All NBA list again not in favor
of cats that were in the playing tournament or didn't

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even make the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Can't happen or get swept in the first round. Can't happen?
Could happen now? Though? Could happen? Now?

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Moving on to the West, where the Minnesota Tumboes lost
Game one of the Western Conference Finals at home.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
With Game two.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Tonight, the t WOS was somehow out rebound of forty
eight to forty by the Dallas Mavericks, who also dominated
sixty two to thirty eight points in the paint. Y'all
know all of this. Minnesota's got a home playoff record
of three and three. Right now, they're five hundred team
at home, which is not great. Meanwhile, look at Donchik
and Kyrie Irving are taking claims to be in the
best offensive backcourt duo some would say in NBA history.

(28:44):
I'm not going that far as of yet. We'll see
what happens, but they are special, no doubt about that.
Minnesota's gotta win this game tonight. You are Anthony Edwards.
You the ant man. This brother is the face of
the future, face of the NBA. He's spectacular. I love
him dearly, but he's twenty two years of age going
up against Kyrie, a guy that he called for.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
He said, I'm guarding him. That's who I'm guarding him.
Called out Kyrie.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Like Kyrie said to Charles Walker in the TNT Crew
the other night after the winning game won. He said
he was at home, out of his business, sitting with
his kids and his wife watching the game, and what
happened was they sitting up there talking about you're gonna
hear this man say he won.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Kyrie, Well, be careful what you asked for.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Kyrie is a magician on the basketball court. Offensive wizardry
is associated with his name, his ball handling skills, his
shot making ability. The greatest finisher at the basket by
a little man in NBA history, That dude, Kyrie Irving
is nothing short of spectacular.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
You don't call him out?

Speaker 1 (29:48):
And aunt man, did it you? Twenty two years of age?
Did you see how gassed Anthony Edwards looked going up
against Kyrie Irvan Kyrie every thirty two years old? Do
you see how gassed Anthony Edwards looked. That's something to
pay attention to. That's something to not ignore, no question
about it. So it is what it is. You know

(30:09):
now that you learn your lesson CP three, who's doing
NBA Countdown on ESPN and ABC with us pointed out
something very astute the other day. He said, just because
you asked to guard the brother and just because that's
your assignment, doesn't mean you have to stay on that
assignment all game long. You can start off the game
guard and Kyrie Irving, but you don't need to stay
guarding him all throughout the game. He's too spectacular to

(30:32):
expend your energy doing that, because if you do so,
it's gonna compromise you offensively and you're not gonna be
able to give us what we need, which was evidence
in game one when ant Man only scored sixteen points.
CP three's right about that. So that's where we are
with it. And because that's where we are with it,
here is the deal in the end, here's the bottom line.

(30:55):
Anthony Eva's got to show up tonight game two, no excuses.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Gotta get it done.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
And while he's doing that, guess what, not only does
he have to get it done? Okay, Karl Anthony Town's
gotta help him. You can't be jacking none three pointers. Man,
you're damnedar seven feet tall. There's a mismatch every time
you touch the ball. Take advantage of it. Gotta do it.
You gotta do it. Mike Conley, be steady man. Stop
making mistakes. Jada McDaniels, hit you three point shots, you

(31:25):
two nas read. You're gonna need a concerted effort. Because
I'm here to tell y'all, I got Minnesota winning this
series in seven games.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
It wouldn't surprised me if Dallas one.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Not to mention the fact that Dallas could win the
championship too, because with Kyrie playing the way that he's
playing and leading the way that he's leading, and having PJ.
Washington and Derek Jones playing the way that they've been playing.
Not to mention this kid Gaffy.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Dallas got all the requisite tools and Jason Kidt is
coaching his ass off. He deserves that extension. Niko Harrison,
the man running basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks. Look
at what he's a symboled. Look at what he's pulled together.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Look at the two trading deadline deal he got with
getting Gaffey and PJ.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Washington.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
I can't say enough about the brother. He's doing big things. Obviously,
had a long standing relationship with Kyrie Irving. Kyrie trust him,
Kyrie loves him, loves being there in Dallas. Look at
what has happened. Minnesota's gotta win this game tonight because
if they don't win, they win in this series.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
This is not Denver.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
You're not beating Dallas four games in five, in four
out of five games.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I don't believe that.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
And you ain't going on the road and winning three
games in the playoff series in Dallas, Minnesota one's games one, two,
and seven in Denver. I can't see them winning. If
they lose tonight, they gonna.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Win two, four, I'm sorry two or was it three,
four and six? I can't see that. So let me
just get that out the way. Now.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Let me go to some big news involved in college sports,
because y'all need to hear about this.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
The NC Double A and IS five Power Conferences of.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Agree to allow schools to directly pay players for the
first time in the one hundred plus year history of
college sports. The NC Double A and its leagues of
moving forward a multi billion dollar agreement to settle three
pending federal anti trust cases, sources told ESPN the NCAA
agreed to pay more than two point seven billion in
damages over set over ten years to pass and current athletes.

(33:22):
The parties have also agreed to a revenue sharing plan
allowing each school to share roughly twenty million per year.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
With its athletes.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
You can see some of the key points of the
settlements right there on the screen. Between the NCUBLEA and
the Power five Conferences. Athletes can be paid directly by
schools for the first time in college sports history. Ruling
settles three and pending federal anti trust lawsuits. The number
is two point seventy seven billion to be exact revenue
sharing plan.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
All Division one.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Athletes dating back to twenty sixteen are included. Athletes can
no longer suit NCUBA for anti trust violations. This is
not the end of this. Let's get this out the way.
This is long overdue. The nc DOUBLEA and these respective
institutions under their umbrella have been taking advantage of student

(34:08):
athletes for ages. And I know that all ethnic groups
have been included, and I get that, but we all
know what we talk about here. We talked about basketball
and football, which is vast majority of them happened to
be black. You were taking advantage of the disolate and disenfranchised,

(34:29):
and in flagrant fashion. You had an institution, you had lawyers,
you had administrators, you had educators, You had everybody on
one side going up against a bunch of kids. They
didn't stand a chance. And if you the nc DOUBLEA,
you should be ashamed of yourself. You've been exploiting these
kids for years. This ruling is important. It's not just

(34:55):
because you want a case for hundred two point seventy
seven billion. It's the fact that you have to retroactively
go about the business of compensating athletes from the passion
took advantage of. And that's gonna give us a look
into exactly the insidious things that you were doing to

(35:16):
get your way at the expense of kids and their families.
Pocketing all of this money, keeping all of this money,
taking all of this money. But if a kid went
into a damn bookstore and his name was on the
damn jersey and the book clerk or somebody wanted to

(35:36):
give him a jersey, that was an NCAA violation.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
See how extreme they were.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
You making all of this money, but a kid couldn't
get his family to fly into town to watch them,
or pay for gas for them to drive to see him,
or a fly home for Christmas or Thanksgiving to spend
time with his family. But your old asses were doing it.
You ain't bounce the ball, you ain't catch a touchdown.

(36:06):
And in the process of doing all of that, you
were denying them representation.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
They didn't have representation.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Like they're about to have. There were no agents allowed
like it is now with name image and likeness and
the transfer of portal. There was no union, there was
no representation. You got away with everything, and now chickens
are coming home to roost. The NCAA brought this on themselves.

(36:36):
They brought this on themselves. They brought this on themselves.
Everybody talked about arrogance, arrogance. My man Paul Farnbaum was
on the show Would be Gonna First Take My Day
job on ESPN every weekday morning from ten am the News.
He was on the air with me and Jason and
Jay Williams this early this morning, talking about the arrogance

(36:57):
of the NCAA, the arrogance of them. It wasn't arrogance
that kept them fighting this fight until they had no
more fight left than them. It was fear, because they
knew that once the Pandora's box opened, we would find
out all the damned skeletons they had up in there.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Were about to find out a hell of a lot.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
More about what the NCAA and the institutions under their
umbrella were doing to exploit and take advantage of the
of these athletes. We're about to find out a whole
lot of dirt, and I'm here for it.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
I want to know it all.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Because I'm not speaking about individuals, but as an institution,
they ain't worth the damn They never have been. And
now we're gonna see college sports, essentially, particularly college football, reduced,
the two power conferences essentially. Eventually it's gonna happen. Don't
give me the Big twelve and all of this. It's
the SEC and the Big Ten. We all know that's

(37:57):
what it's gonna come down. Swell, the money's gonna go.
Everybody else is gonna have to have it name, image
and likeness. And by the way, don't give me these
mid level schools. You got twelve playoff teams a lot
or whatever. I'll be damned with tenor that may gonna
be from the SEC and the Big Ten. We ain't
trying to hear it because we know that's where the

(38:17):
best team is gonna be, because they're gonna have the
best talent that money.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Can buy, and it's gonna be totally legal. They brought
this on themselves.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Hopefully the NC DOUBLEA comes tumbling down, tumbling down to
a level of humility that they will have to not
only accept but fully embrace because their dirt will be
exposed We're seeing it happen with P Diddy right now,

(38:50):
and then the legal financial apparatus, we're seeing it happen
to the NC double A before very eyes.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
They brought this on themselves. They brought this on themselves.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Coming up, Iconic Woo Tang Clan MC ghost Face Killers
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Speaker 4 (39:13):
He's here.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
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Speaker 1 (40:26):
Smithshawd right here over the digital airways of YouTube. My
next guest is a founding member of the legendary rap
collective We'll Tang Clan. He's also a Grammy nominated solo artist,
now out with his twelfth studio album set The Tone
Guns N' Roses, and a new memoir called Rise of
a Killer. We'll get into all of that and more. Please,

(40:46):
Welcome to the show, the one and only ghost Face Killer.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
What's up? My brother?

Speaker 4 (40:51):
My brother, My brother, my brother. Everything is good over here,
God blast, everything is good. How about you?

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Damn right, I'm doing good. I'm talking to you, that's all.
I'm doing real.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
Good right now.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Let me let me let me get this out of
the way. Man, how are you feeling about life? Right now.
You got a memoir coming out, you got an album
coming out? What's life been like for you?

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Bro? I made it?

Speaker 5 (41:14):
Vid Yo, I'm blessed man, you know what I mean.
I can't ask for nothing more right now. You know,
I worked hard on on the album, you know, in
the mix of the Boutang tour and stuff like that,
so I have to run in the studio, come back out,
you know, get the time off, go back in and
work that out. And then at the same time, when
the COVID kicked in, I was writing a memoir and
rogserp Attilla and everything's just so happened to come out

(41:36):
at the same time.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
And then my first interview with you. You know what
I'm saying, Yeah, there.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
You go, Well listen, but you know our privilege. You know,
I'm privile. Ain't mad at you at all. This is
honor and the privilege. My brother ain't nothing to fuck with.
I know what topic is, I know who I'm talking
to right now. But but but let me ask you.
I mean, when you thought about when you thought about
writing a memoir, and you know what what inspired you

(42:02):
to do it?

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Was it just covid?

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Did you just have a lot to say, was there
a lot of shit that you was holding in over
the years?

Speaker 4 (42:07):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (42:07):
What was it?

Speaker 4 (42:08):
More or less?

Speaker 5 (42:09):
My manager was like, yo, you know, people love when
I tell stories, and especially in my raps and stuff
like and then my sense of humor. So they always
been telling me like, yo, you need to do a book,
need to do a book. So a couple of my
guys in the Klan they dropped the book Racon and
you God had dropped the ridger had dropped it first,
and then it was like you guys.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Manager was like, yo, you need to do one.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
I'm telling you. So they were always against me. So
I'm like, yo, you know what, I'm gonna ge ahead
and do it. Just so happened when COVID came around,
they got the riding and we just started just going in.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
So what about the album though, because it's not just
a memoir, it's not just a memoir.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
You got an album coming out? And then what what what?

Speaker 4 (42:44):
What?

Speaker 2 (42:44):
What's that about the time? I know, this is what
you do?

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Yeah, the album.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
The album was already in the in the making for
a little bit of a minute, because first I was
gonna you know, I'm I'm a sold baby.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
So I was gonna go to R.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
And B route a little bit, but then I thought
about it. Happened, gave my fans Ghost States in a minute.
So I'm like, you know where I gotta twitch it up.
So I kept the R and B songs, a couple
of them, but I had to make it more more
with my for what my fans know me for, so
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
So I mixed them all together.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
That's why the guns and roses, the females kind of
female side.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
It was kind of the roadside. The guns was.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Kind of like you know from the streets, you know,
because it's called set the Tone because I'm setting the
tone for my next album is called Supreme Clientele Number two.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Because I did the first one already, so this is two.
So I put I said, you know.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
I'm when's the Preme Clientele coming out? What's that coming at?

Speaker 5 (43:35):
Oh that'll be like another twelve months though, but I'm
I'm on gonna drop a single like at the top
of the I'm ana drop a single at the top.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Of the year.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Okay, okay, I'll be looking forward to that.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
You know, when somebody says, when somebody says ghost face
Killer and they talking about you, What do you think
that should personify? What do you think that should mean?
They say, ghost face killer? What do you want to
be known as?

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Of as far as far as far as what like
the way the way they know.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
I'm just I'm just talking about your persona somebody looking
at you, somebody knowing your work, knowing your history, knowing
what you bring to the table. And then you know,
juxtaposing that to this day and age what we're living
in now, what do you mean to be known as?

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Just just for me putting that work in, just putting
that work in, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
Like when you get to know me, you get to understand,
like the name might sound stronger than than then you know,
when you meet me and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
But you know, I'm very down to earth person, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
I love to like speak on you know, good vibes
and you know, just shout out laugh like anybody else,
Like you know what I mean. But when it comes
to that music, it's like it's it's different. It's different.
It's it's just it's just a different whole new ball games.
It's just deadly.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
So I want them to respect my pen, to respect
the work.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
That I put out, and then I'm gonna continue to
put out through the grace of God and in my
vision and my legacy, you know what I mean. So
that's that's that's ghost Face right there. That's ghost Yeah,
that's the one that's in much. That's saim like that.
That's his work, you know what I mean. So I
carry that flag, my own flag well for with my
own lane as ghost Face killer, you know what I mean.

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Tony Stalks and everything. Yeah, that's there, But ghost Faces
was set it off.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
What I love about listening to you, talking to you
and what have you is like, you know you, it's
not just about wanting to have a good time or whatever.
But you're a candid brother. You're gonna let people know
where you stand. You're gonna let people know what you
think about a lot of different issues. And you've spoken
about a lot of things, including the state of hip
hop and now, if I remember correctly, you were alluding to.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
How you feel it's lost its substance.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Talk about that for a second, how you're feeling about
today's hip hop industry. And when you make a statement
like that about it losing its substance, why do you
feel that way.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Because I remember coming in and even listening to the greats,
it was like we had something to say.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
We had you know, it was character, we had topics.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
I feel that we lost a lot of that and
and like everything is more like simple now. I know,
things never stayed the same, so it was bound to happen,
you know what I mean. But things don't, they don't
stay the same.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
So you got the younger generation.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
That's like when we did Cream and all the other
songs we did, we know, we talked about the struggle.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
We talked about it and made it still where it
was still.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
Cool and and and those one o those are biggest records.
Now when you look at the generation, like right now,
everything is like you know, negative females and it's.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
Simple rap to me. You don't get me wrong.

Speaker 5 (46:36):
I'm down for a black man to always go get
his money, black woman and everything. But I think there's
ways that you can still go about it, you know
what I mean. So once you get trapped in that world,
it's like you almost you become that and that's all
you know. See when it comes to write in like
reps that I used to do that, I mean that
I do it's it takes time. You got to sit

(46:58):
at that table at least for like for me, because
I'm a slow writer.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
It takes me like to get a good one out,
maybe like full hours.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Sometime it takes longer than that if it's really good
and you got to come back to it.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
These kids get just going there and just do whatever.
As long as they.

Speaker 5 (47:12):
Mentioned and liquor, jury, cars and and women in there,
it seems like, okay, you made a record, you know
what I mean, and drugs so so so. But I
remember we had to when I was going to get
when we had nas Biggie Smalls, a mob deep declining everything.
We had to really write and it excited me when

(47:33):
I heard it now and somebody because it inspired me.
Now It's like, I know, the generation is way younger,
so I don't really get that much inspired except by
my piss. When I hear like Jada kissing these guys,
that a keep me up on point. But yeah, it's
it's really different. It's like you don't even got to
be a rapper to to to to make a hit, you.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
Know what I mean. You ain't gotta be nothing.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
You could be or nobody and somebody could write it
for you or or you just and it's like you
just a one hit wonder just because you got the
grand We didn't have the grand.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
I remembers.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
It's like fifteen of us in the fifteen I mean
in like a I mean twenty, like in a fifteen
passenger van. We slathered on each other, going to radio
and sleeping on each other's next and throats just in
an all white van, just trying to get to the
next spot.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
He's you know, it was a struggle. These guys don't
got to do that.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
You know, got you, you know. I So this begs
the question goes face is it? Do you believe they
just young, don't know no better? Do you believe the
industry is to blame for the content that we're seeing
out there? Or do you believe that the young brothers
and that they sold out to get the money and

(48:43):
that's all they want to talk about? You know, what
do you think is the rea? What do you think
it is?

Speaker 4 (48:48):
I think social media.

Speaker 5 (48:50):
I think social media played a lot on it, because
you could just be I've seen stuff that's like I
wouldn't even expect to just take off, and it just
take off, Like but where is the where's the raps?

Speaker 4 (49:06):
And it just made it so easier.

Speaker 5 (49:07):
So if everybody, I think, let me see, because if
you've got a lot of people liking it just goes
to where their mindset is at. They it's they mindset
as well, because like when I was younger, when I
was when I was like fifteen sixteen, it was like
I used to hang with the older guys and it
almost felt like, yo, you know what my mind was there,

(49:28):
Like I was like like, oh, I was like an
old young person, you know what I mean. But it
just seemed like somewhere down the line, yeah, you know
what I mean, because it seemed like somewhere on the line,
these kids just got stuck. But I can't really blame them.
You gotta blame the parent, right, you know, because that's
where it all comes from, because they looking at us
and they looking at them.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
You also blamed the media. You didn't like the way,
you know, you've been critical of the media's role in
covering music these days. What's the issue with the.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
Media, because they just they just get it's just it's
just real quick. It's like, all right, take for instance,
the media gotta you know what, even with the Draki
Kentry thing. It's like with the one one part of
the media, it's like, get they're going at it right,
those are two black you know, are dead brothers, you

(50:16):
know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
But it's like and they amping it on though, and
I know battling.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
Was always good for the soul, you know what I mean,
just just for whatever. But it's like, it's like, yo,
God forbid one of these young men go out there
and get killed. Since y'all was the one referee in
the whole situation, the media and the DJs, it's like,
then I can hear it right now, we gotta stop this.

(50:40):
We got it this and we got.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
It at right, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
And the media and then I'm like, oh, now you
want to sit there, But you weren't saying it when
it was lit and it was just on fire, and
y'all uk there saying like we got twenty four hours
to go respond, you know what I mean. So the
media it got his ways of playing it and people
followed them.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
I will say this, I will say I will say this.
I will say this to you though I get your point,
and I'm in the media. You right, hell, we ain't
gonna sit up here in front of act like you
ain't right. I get that, But what I would also
say is that you got cats in the hip hop
industry that was pushing it to Yo, this is what
it was.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
This is how it always been.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
You battle this what they were sitting up there egging
it all. I mean, they were doing it more than
the damn media was.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
What about damn?

Speaker 5 (51:26):
I'm leaning the comics and you're right, and you're right,
and I'm just looking at it like because every time
somebody passed away through violence, and it's like, yo, we
gotta but y'all was just y'all.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Was just waiting for this and wing for that. So
I'm like, yo, you know what, you know, let me
just stay in my.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
Lane and and and you know, at the same time,
I'm glad that I'm aware of the situation and how
it's because sometimes some people can't see it, but you
know what, I could see it, and I know where
it's going, you know what I mean. So, but it's
it's a combination of things with this generation that's coming
right now, like you know what I mean, And when
they doing.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
It, they getting a little bit more personal.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
They digging up receipts and this and that before when
we did it back then, you know, you know you
had l l's and this one and that one, and
it was like, okay, it seemed like it was more fun.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
It was. It was hip hop now it was you know,
it is what it is now.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
What are your thoughts about Kendrick, Lamar and Drake you
brought them up.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
What were your thoughts when that was going on and
they were going back and forth at one another to
some degree still is to a little less to a
little lesson squieted down a little bit. Hell, some people
joking they probably be on tour together in a year,
within a year something to make a mad dough over this.
What are your thoughts about? What are your thoughts about
what's going on?

Speaker 5 (52:38):
And if they do be on tour in the year
from now, I'll be happy just to see those guys
get ahead and men that, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
But that's right.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
I thought it was gonna be on because they considered
like between j Cole, Drake and Kendrick, they like the
top for this generation, like the top three three lyricists,
you know what I mean. And this see you know,
we always want to see the best Stephen the you
know what I mean. So it's like it's like to
see old word you got can't Jake and you got Drake.

(53:09):
You know what, just's gonna get interested, you know what
I mean. But then I'm hearing it, and I'm hearing it,
and then it's real personal.

Speaker 4 (53:15):
And then they really.

Speaker 5 (53:16):
Like like going like like digging up over seats and
this one like it wasn't really the hip hop like
I know when you know you had you know.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
That's what I was trying to tell people. I said, y'all,
this is too damn personal. This is something y'all going
beyond the pair with this shit.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
We don't need to be knowing all of this.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
You ain't be knowing all of this exactly, brother, so
and I said, I took it.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Then after a while I had to.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Really like, yo, you know what it is, what it is,
and you know what I mean. All right, this is
the new generation?

Speaker 4 (53:46):
All right? Cool?

Speaker 5 (53:47):
Long does nobody get hurt. I'm cool with it, but
I don't got to like keep stick in my head
and who did this and what Drake said and what
Kendrick said and this and that man like you said.
Hopefully they get on tour together and make a ton
of money.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
You know what, when you think when you talk about
lyricists and how they they they they're at the top
of their.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Game or whatever. Uh, I'm gonna ask you to give
me five.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Five people I'm talking about all times, all times? Who
when when you when you look at it from that perspective,
I mean five godlike figures like yo, these these are
the brothers that's been.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
That should always be revered in this industry. Who would
they be in the hip hop industry? To you?

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Five? Five?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Give me five?

Speaker 4 (54:32):
You know five is really not enough? You know that, right?
I know that because I.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Know the hell I said to say. You know why
I can ask you this, right because I suffer the consequences.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
I was talking about eminem and nas and everybody was
getting on me about this shit. I'm like this, if
I'm a I'm a media person, I'm a sports journalist.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Damn it. How if they can get on me about it?
I damned sugar.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Ask those cats in the hip hop industry, who's the
real top five?

Speaker 5 (54:55):
Okay, Okay, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
give you. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you
a I'm gonna give you five, but it's way more
than five to me, So I don't want nobody take
it personal.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
But I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you five.
That that usually that will go make me right, That
makes me right, and that would be that'll be nas definitely.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
I tell him all the time, you'll use a golden child,
golden child, golden child.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
Even my brother, genius, genius.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Genius is like a walking like like a he's like
a Wall Street journal. I mean, I admire you when
you you know, because you don't taught me words, you
know what I mean, just watching you. Let me go
look that up, you know what I mean and see
what that is.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Right.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
But I'll say, no, genius, Uh. I love slick Rick.
I love slick Rick, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (55:54):
Was one of the that's where I got my Jerry from.
With Slick I gotta I gotta put him in there.
And the storytelling too, storytelling, you know what I mean,
could put you Yay? We who all right?

Speaker 4 (56:10):
Two more? Yeah? Going on?

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Yeah, two more?

Speaker 4 (56:12):
I got great, give me too more. I don't know,
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
It's like you could take a koogie rat you know
what I mean, because it was hard, but then you
still got your Cane and your rock chems that stopped
going into the other you know what I mean, Like
it's they they just there.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
I'm with Cane, big Daddy. Can't people sleep on what
that brother was doing? You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
I mean, listen, I'm an l L fan for life,
Yes right el, Because I was about.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
To say, like you, because I heard you say many
times run damn scenes was you know what I mean?
Was your gods too? You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (56:44):
And I remember coming up together, yes, right together forever,
all of them like yo, So I really just why
I said I can't stop that five.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Biggie too could be nice biggie too.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Ll you look at jay Z.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Nas is all time of people getting on me when
I talk about NAS, but mzy eminem because Eminem mainstream.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
To that white audience. But NAS is brilliant.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
I know this, You No, every being rock Kim can
never leave them out of the mix.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
No doubt.

Speaker 4 (57:16):
You know, car rest one in there too.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
No gotta put him in there. Gotta put him in there,
no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
I interviewed Snoop recently and Snoop was talking about this
is a young man's game, but he's still rapping at fifty.
How old are you and how long you're gonna be
doing this?

Speaker 5 (57:33):
Yo? And so was my time to going to dirt.
It's so much time. I might not got a talk.
But as far see, rappers always acting like David Tyant
stephen A. They be behind closed doors.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Right.

Speaker 5 (57:46):
It's like once you're once, you're a writer and you're
a real rapper, you always gonna be.

Speaker 4 (57:50):
Having something to say.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
You might see a nice pretty apple on TV and
you might just be like, yo.

Speaker 4 (57:55):
You might just say something wrong with apple. You still
round it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (58:00):
But I always tell my fans, yo, listen, man, if
I got a king, even in false if even if
I got false teeth, I'm still gonna be throwing dogs.
I'm still throwing them even if it's at my grandkids.
I'm still going in because I got love you doing
much love for.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
You doing something that I talk about all the time.
If you standing still, you ain't living. You got to
keep it moving. You gotta do what you gotta do.
You living, or you might as well or you might
as well go into the ground. You got to keep on.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Moving, you can't stop. That's what I've always said.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Let me get to set the tone again real quick though,
because let's get in to set the tone. Guns and
Roses dropped earlier this month. Tell me about the concept
and who's featured on the album.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Oh, we got a bunch of features on the album.
The concept was just something I got a sept before.
Was just it's supposed to have been an R and
B album, but I thought about it because I haven't
gave my friends and my people like this ghost face
ghost face ghost.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
Face, so I had to switch it up.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
And in the middle of me switching in that, you know,
we did like me and nas Bu tangan Na did
mad dates on the road, so I had to work
in between then. So uh uh uh yeah, that's why
I had got the rest of the other hard records,
kept a couple of female records.

Speaker 4 (59:13):
So that's the Guns N' Roses.

Speaker 5 (59:14):
But set the tone, like I told you earlier, which
just set the tone, was was just setting.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
The tone for Supreme clientele too.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
To everybody just want because they I can, they say
that that's my A lot of people say that's my
best album to date with supreme clientele too, more.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
Creative than everything like that. And I could agree to
some such some extent, but yeah and not, you know.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
On the defeatures was like, you got Nads, you got
you got Ray Kwon, you got Meta Man, you got
uh October London, you got skh Lues, Jim Jones, you
got my Man, Ice Iceman, bronch Man. I got my
Mayor Harley on a lot of the hooks. I got
Fat Joe remy Man. You know, it's just it's just,
you know, I got Sharranie Buster Rhymes, It's you know,

(59:59):
a little man Chucky. It's it's just, it's just a
list easy listen of names, a list of names.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
You made me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
You made me laugh when you brought up re me
Ma because I was.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
I was next to her at the Deontay Wilder Tyson
Fury fight.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
She was pissed off.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Poor you're mad as hell the Deontay Wilder lost that fight.
I was kind of mad too, by the way, But
you shouldn't have gotten a ring with nobody forty pounds
heavy in them.

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
And my man meth, I can't how tight are you
and myth? How much do you a method man, keep
in touch if it all whatever, what's that?

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
What's that relationship like for you?

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
Yo? That's my brother right there. Yo, we we were tight,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
I mean I love that bro, bro.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
Yo, listen, myths so cool man. It's like it's so
down to earth. It's it's like your real one. He's
a real He's that's right there. He's a real one.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
He calls me. He calls me little Stevie. He calls
me little Stevie. Gee. He uses it to tease me
and all of this other stuff. Calls me little Stevee.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
But but he know I got he know, I got
mad love for him. We joke around all the top.
But yo, yo, yo, go go yo.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Brother his acting on power. I'm very proud of him.
I'm very proud of him.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Brother. He doing a hell of a job.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
I told him too, And I congratulate all the time
because out of the whole crew, it's like, yo, he's
the one that took it there and he's done. He's
like he could do that and still get busy. Like
he just blew me off the frame on one of
my records.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
So I'm like, I'm like, yo, meth like even the
gay sit there and play a lawyer and all that, like,
and I know him, I know him, know him, but
and I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
A slick ass or a slick ass lawyer that's right
up in the alley.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
He know that exactly. But you know what I asked
her one day, I said, Joe, how do you remember
your lines? Bro them? Like?

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
But you know, he said, Joe, you had to just
he was reading books, man, he had to read the
Actor's Guide and this and that and the third And
I'm just looking at him on the plane and sit
next to him.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
I want to pick it's green.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
And every time I get a chance to like, I
might come to him and I might be like, Yo, Joe,
the money was left on the.

Speaker 4 (01:02:06):
Docks, man, So what are you gonna do about it? Man?

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
They've been sitting there for like three days now, you know,
I mean, nobody ain't getting you. I need that money.
What are you gonna do? It's at the dock and
just going to acting mode out of nowhere. And he
knows how to get the feed right back into it
and come back where he just had me dying laughing
because of the stuff that he just been saying.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
He's elaborate.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Let me tell you something. Let me shock you with
this one. Let me shock you with this one. I
don't know when, but one of these days you gonna
see me and him acting together. Mark my words, Mark
my words. We don't know what You're gonna see us
acting together. It's gonna be wild. I'm telling you it's
gonna happen. I don't know how, but I promise you.
I'm promising you it's gonna happen. Make no mistake. Look,

(01:02:46):
before I let you get on out of here, man,
before I let you get on out of here, I
gotta ask you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Something, man, because WU taying.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
A lot of people don't realize that y'all made history
is the first rap group with a Vegas residency. Vegas residency.
I want to know car fans expect that in the future.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
And and that's real money in it, Vegas deminit print money.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
That's print money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
Listen, we just knocked out I think like a good
like one, two, three, like around like four shows real quick.
We got small were coming up in September though, but
if these everything and everything is selling out really well,
so they just wanted to test us, so they saying
the big goes well with these next couple of shows,
they might give us like fifty two hundred dates next
year en vague.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
So yo, it's a blessing yo, to be here like
like thirty years plus and and and to still keep
it going and and and to see that, it's like,
I can't you know, I can't even complain, Yo, it's
just work. I'll give more praises, do the most high,
and you know, and just keep the good energy, the
good vibes, and and to continue to receive with the
most high just placing upon us.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Last question for you, Last question for you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Wu Tang logo permanently etched in the minds of an
entire generation. Is no denying that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Does this surprise you to see people of all cultures
just just supporting y'all, you know, just with everything that
comes with the Wu Tang claim?

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
I mean, does that the project? How does that make
you feel?

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
Yo, I feel so happy and I feel so blessed
at the same time. Because when we first came in,
I knew that we was gonna be something as far
as like just musically, but I didn't know that it
was gonna become like a cult. When you go overseas
and you see people pull up these shorts and you
see a picture of old.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
Dirty on a leg, you know what I mean? And
and I know this people.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
I said this to my man the other day, like
I know this people, because there's so many tattoos and
so many people come up to.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
Me telling me like, yo, my man passed away.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
He was a Wu Tang fan and he had the
tattoo on him, and I'm thinking, like how many tattoos
is in that grave?

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
With that deb we wanted like this is a cult.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
You go to Australia, New Zealand and they just it's
more bigger there than it is here.

Speaker 4 (01:04:54):
But I'm totally blessed.

Speaker 5 (01:04:56):
That the most hot gave us put us on that train,
that plane where you're going to call that ride to
get to where we is right now, bro, because we
were just kids coming out of the staircase inside did
like you know in nineteen eighty eight eighty seven inside
the ever and you know me, I'm all I got
is you, baby. I came up off the oat maland
fried Bolognian fucking roaches out the Cereal box to.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
Be wearing Matt right now, yo?

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
What I tell people that all the time, we know
what the rats look like, we know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
What that's like.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
That's right, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
You know you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
So we out here now, y'all one one thing. To
the love, doucar, you know what I mean. I know,
I know, to the love, to the love.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Bro.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
What today? Bro?

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
One day and I'm here for you?

Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Yo?

Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
I wanted to get it right because it was like,
I know you love Martin and every time when you
were not every time, but when you're up there like
that and you give it like one of the revue
went behind it is.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
You had me on the floor.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
Because Timbo I watched small and now it's like I
enjoy it more better than what it did when it
first came out because I'm looking at everything and to
hear Martin say like Joe Gina or I fell off,
I fell off.

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
Like this and that it's like yo, yo, yo, yo yo.
But I wanted to ask you, what's your best episode.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
My best episode of what though?

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Or for more Lawrence and the Moon Show, Oh easily
easily the time it's two of them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
It's them. It's tow them, the one and one, the
one where he told the story about first.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Meet and Gina and not now baby, no words, Baby,
don't get happy on.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
Me, Bill b Yeah, you know you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
She comes by, So where do we go from here
to the time? If you're not afraid baby?

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
I mean that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
It was hilarious, right, But that's my that's my favorite one.
But it's tied with this one. It's tied with this one.
When he sat there and found out that Tommy and
Pam hooked up. When they hooked up because it was
it's aduction love doctor, remember that. So and he come

(01:07:07):
out of the bathroom. That's right, he come out of
the bathroom, was like, hold on, hold on, I gotta
get the camerater.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
You just put the kodak, mom, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
And and and any Tommy just came up on them,
you know, just coming. I want to go back here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
Tommy got in the face.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Show you ain't gonna be talking.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
I heard enough of that. It's so he's like you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Acting like that show woman, guss it. You know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Those are my two favorites, yo, Are you chilling? It
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
Yeah, Yo, listen, I'm just I'm just telling go ahead,
go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
I always want to ask you that, yeah, because I
want you listen.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
I watched the comedy No.

Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
He did, Yo, the best.

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
That's the that's the best, because always the ices be
like Jamie Fox Shamont, Jamie Fox Shamont and Show Martin
show blows your the weight just blows you the I
gotta say that though. But yeah, but mom just wasn't
when him and Cole was fighting in the store, remember
they fighting in the store.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that was funny. That was funny.

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
Level.

Speaker 5 (01:08:14):
Yeah, that's when it said, you went that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
Yeah, and then you know, you know, you know it's
a last one.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
There's another one too though, right when he sat up
there and try to imitate Nino Brown for now, he
tried to imitate Nino Brown from New jack.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
City when he thought they taught they stolen CD plays,
DVD plays.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
Suspicious mind, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
That's that's what I'm saying, that suspicious mind, that's right.
And it was brother man took it. I thought you'd
give my note. I thought you'd get the note I
left you under the bathroom state.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Why he the dumbest, But why would you leave a
note under the bathroom? Bathroom looked since I ran out
of all the toilet paper. Hilarious, absolutely, yo brown, bet yo,
yo bet. I know you get ready to go. I
know you get ready to go. Last question, I promised
because crag you brought up cream Crean finance. Cryptocurrency rules

(01:09:08):
everything around me. You heavily in the bitcoin. You know
you talk about releasing ten thousand bit coins of exclusive
music for your new album. You got your own damn
killer coffee brand.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
I mean, what what what you ain't just music?

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Coffee?

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
I gotta get you some coffee. I gotta get you
some coffee. Yeah, yeah, different, yo, you're gonna love it.
You're gonna love it. Different kinds of coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:09:29):
And know like Jadykiss is doing the coffee too, So
we was talking like Joe, we gotta get spone sewing.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
We can get ahead and get together and just merge it.
You know what I mean about that?

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Yeah, but yeah, nah, I gotta get you that's doing well.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
That's doing well.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
And I got the energy I gotta drink called a
drink called hard cream too, just like another energy drink
but a real nice cream drink that goes really really
well when you mix it with whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Though. Yeah, yeah, we move removes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
You gotta new you gott a new label. You're making money.
You make the hell you making money. It's legit, damn it.
You got you would try to be a businessman. The
money out there to be got, go get it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
You're right. You also fab a new label.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
Yap City, Yap City.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
You got a new label. Yeah, Yep City, good label. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:10:15):
I got a few artists, don't artists on there right now.
We just set the tone. We're gonna start moving into
the Yap city things and start putting out the artists
here and there, nice Slatin artists.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Too, everything like that. Yo. It's it's it's a it's
a movement. It's a movement. It's a movement. It's a movement.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
I got you, rise up a killer and set the
tone both out now by the one and only ghost
Face Killer. Appreciate you all, bro, good sitting there talking
with you, my man.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
You take care of yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
Love my brother, anytime, anytime, love is love.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
Appreciate Appreciate you man, all right, take it easy, all right, peace.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
My thanks to the Great ghost Face Killer. Check out
ridse of a Killer and set the tone. They're both
out now, by the way, coming out before you get
off to your holiday weekend and tonight's get games.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Of course, I need.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
To respond to a few of your tweets, so don't
go away more to steven A. Smith Show to start
your weekend in a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Welcome back to steven A. Smith Show.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Right now, y'all, before we get on out of here.
I can't start the weekend without going to some of
your tweets. See what y'all got to say, right, So
let's get right to it. Let's get to your tweets
before I get on out of here. Play the tweets
for me, please, stephen A. That looks a bit foggy
at Eric underscore IKYG, I believe right, say stephen A,
pick your top three serials. I don't even know why

(01:11:37):
y'all got that damn listed. I'm not picking up from there.
First of all, I don't appreciate the fact that you
got Captain crunch on there. When those are crunch berries.
That's not Captain crunch Captain crunches without the berries, Okay,
Captain crunch Berry's that's what those are okay, so definitely,
so all right, you don't have my second favorite real

(01:12:00):
up there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
That'll be Honeycombs. Honeycombs, all right. Third is a tie.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
It would be sugar corn pops, all right. And it
would be tricks, Yeah, tricks of the kids. I'm always
a kid. I'm always a kid. Those are my top
three series. Captain Crunch, Honeycombs, and a toss up between
sugar pour on, corn pops, tricks. And I can't forget

(01:12:29):
fruit loops because I love my fruit loops too. I
haven't eaten this stuff in like a year, y'all. I
might have beaten one bowl of cereal in like a year.
I'm talking about life changing, but I'm a chiat eventually. Dammit,
I missed my cereal. I miss it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Let's go to the next tweet, please next time? What's up?
What's out for me?

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
At?

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
Shawnee, writes Stephen a is ass catch them the most
overrated Pokemon trainer twenty five years with one championship. With
twenty five years with one championship, I'd say, hell, yes,
that's worse than the Atlanta Braves. Okay, that's even worse
than the Dallas Cowboys, I mean, Dallas Cowboys haven't been

(01:13:06):
to a title in twenty nine years, but they do
have five championships on their dockets. So I got to
give love with lovers due, you understand, even though it
was back in the days of Roger Starbuck and then
ultimately Troy A mean Michael Irvan Emmont Smith that kind
of thing, with Dion Sanders contributing the one as well.
When you go twenty five years, you just got one
championship to show for it with the same squad. Yeah,

(01:13:29):
that's a little bit much. You should have at least
two to three. I would say that let's get to
the next week. Please get to the next week at
Lakers fanatic with two eyes Steven that I just found
out my girlfriend of six years has been unfaithful.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Should I forgive for or move on? Move on? Move on?
That's an easy one. Let me tell you why you
gotta move on.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Okay, Look, none of us are perfect, all right, I'm
I'm certainly not perfect. I mean I'm pretty close to
perfect now.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
Back in the day that wasn't the case. Uh, you know,
I dabbled a little bit too much, if I should
say so myself. Uh, but I'm older now, a bit
more mature. I'm not out there searching for anything. You know,
I found. You know I've got I got. I've got
a good one in my life. And so it's.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Sorry, sorry, you know we'll see. But ain't about me.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
I'm not talking about myself. I talking about myself. It's
burning back. Say I'm talking about you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
And let me say something to you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
About why you should dump your girl, cause you should
get rid of us.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
Let me tell you why.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
I'm not speaking for every woman or every man. This
is just a general genet everck statement. And I got
people in front of me and members of my staff
looking at me. Would rap attention because they married. You see,
I'm not You don't see what I'm saying. I can

(01:15:12):
get it rid of somebody in a heartbeat, and I
ain't got to worry about no alimony and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
You see what I'm saying. I ain't gona worry about half.
Forgive me, miss Foo Football.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
When I met your ass, you what they're broken naked
now you're one half?

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
No, don't got all worried about that? They do, Griff
Dalen Michael.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
I'm not telling nothing name. I'm not telling every right name.
But you know what I'm saying, you got it. They
got stuff to worry about. Bailly, he getting ready to
get married Lord at Mercy. But I'm not talking about Billy,
you know, saying he might start crying right now.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
We don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
Don't want to do that to him, all right, because
that brother has overachieved. I don't know who's overachieved more,
Bailly or my boy, Kendrick Perkins.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
I don't know, but.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
I don't want Billy to start crying. You're your fiance.
She ain't going no women, she loves you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
The depth don't just don't apply to you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
But were gonna get to the subject at hand and
put that tweet back up there against our America can
see what it is, so I can know who exactly
I'm talking to at Lakers fanatic with two eyes F
A N A T I I C your founch girl.
This is a generic statement. Pair attention toic statement.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
Mena whores.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Even when we're faithful, we're reformed. We always look.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Not say that women don't. But our egos get it in
a way. Do we still have it?

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
Can we do what we used to do do we
got the gift the gap? Can we shoot game? Is
she gonna be receptive to that? Are we attractive enough?
We in shape enough for we this? We got a
lot of stuff even when we don't do anything. Even
when we don't do anything.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
All the people that work for me, they go home
to that woman.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
They scared to death lose their woman. You Unsteand I'm saying,
Mike go Mike ain't trying.

Speaker 4 (01:17:17):
To lose his wife.

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
I can assure you, Kaylor. They trying to lose what
brother leve gains some pounds. He ain't trying to go
out there and start over. Hey, ain't going nowhere, he say.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
He Girl, you understand she ain't got nothing to worry about. Gay,
ain't going nowhere. Griff, you understand what I'm saying. Mister
Eskimo himself that probably ain't go nowhere.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
Ain't go nowhere?

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
Is though? Please you unstep what I'm saying. That brother
race it out to go home. You understand what he
calling her in advance. I'm not I'm gonna I'm getting
I'm leaving the office now. Ten minutes later, I'm on
the highway. Ten minutes after that. That's traffic a ten
minutes after that, I think I'll be homed by.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
The nowt he on it. He ain't trying to lose
what he got. Okay, understand then, And all of these
brothers over at tea because their wives are gorgeous dand
they know what they got, they think they're heavily stars.
Every day. I mean, nobody more than barely thanks himself
to the brother Crise.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
He's so thankful. You understand here, and he good. But
what I'm saying is is that you ain't gonna do
nothing wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
But your ego still needs to feel like you still
that dude? You still that dude? That is that? That's
all I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
When I say men or whore, I'm talking about literally
with the actions.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
I'm talking about a mentality. Women are not like that
for the most part.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
It's not to say, ain't women out there cheating, because
you know some of y'all are. It's not to say
women out there totally faithful, because you know damn well
some of y'all ain't. But here's the thing about ladies,
And you gotta understand this. When you that dude who

(01:19:11):
does it for them, they don't want nobody else you
and you just gonna have to trust me that I
know this. You can send a woman to another stratosphy.

(01:19:36):
You can take her to a level of such ecstasy
that she might be speaking in tongues. She will still
walk away thinking about what she gave. We walk away
knowing we're getting. No matter how much he enjoined us
off with you, she's thinking about what she gave to you, You.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
Not just what you gave to of course she thinks
about what you gave to her too, but she's think
about what she gave to you because she's giving.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
Men constantly think we're getting physiologically. In order for stuff
like that to happen, she has to open herself to you.
So because of that, if she decides I'm gonna go
somewhere else to give it up to somebody else, either

(01:20:42):
she harbors a level of disgust for you that she
doesn't care enough not to violate your trust like that,
or she was incentivized because you weren't getting the job done.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
Either way, you toast, you toast.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Women who love, as Chris Rock would say, loves the
crust of a man, don't do that unless they want
to exact vengeance or their love for you isn't stronger

(01:21:34):
than their need for pleasure. You ain't providing. That is
the reality of the situation. Lake is fanatic.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
That's the reality.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
I'm telling you what I know. That's all I want
to say. Good luck the believe in You talk to her,
find out what it was that went wrong, and then
bounce and make sure you correct the error of your ways.

(01:22:14):
So the next woman you give a chance to might
not do that. But this one right here is a rap.
She's not for you anymore except that and move on.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
That's it for this edition.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
To the Steven A. Smith Shall Hope y'all enjoy y'all weekend.
Hope y'all enjoy the NBA playoff action. We'll revisit a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
Of things next week. Thanks again to the subscribers.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
It's a clip to two hundred and sixty's seventy six
thousand subscribers. It'll be even higher. It'll be even higher
once this weekend is over. I'm looking at it right
now to be exact six hundred. I'm sorry, I said two.
It's six hundred and seventy six thousand plus subscribers. As

(01:23:00):
long as it continues to grow, the show grows, and
as long as the show continues to grow, I'm not
going anywhere. Just want you to know that. Thank y'all
so much. Until next time, peace and love everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
I'm out.

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