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Speaker 1 (00:25):
DMV.
Welcome everybody to anotherepisode of the Absolute DMV
Podcast.
It's your man, ace Boogie, andI'm here with a few good guys.
I'm here with my man, mark.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hey, what's going on
everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
And Ego on the board.
I'm on the board, man.
Before we get started, I wantto wish a special, special happy
birthday to two people in mylife my cousin, my younger
cousin, Nongo Tamadina.
Tamadina, Love you, cuz.
And also my baby Well, not mybaby, but she is my baby One of
(01:02):
my babies.
Mikayla happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Happy birthday,
michaela.
She got to say her birthday isyou know, uno, as this guy this
guy.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's my birthday, it
is Ego's birthday, happy
birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yo, yo yo, Thank you,
thank you, thank you.
Everybody send some commentsand shit.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Spam.
A happy birthday for my man.
That'd be appreciated.
And shit Spam.
And happy birthday for my man.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That'd be appreciated
.
The old head's getting a yearolder.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Hey, I'm an old head.
Old head, new feet.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't know.
And before we get fully into it, everybody remember, like I
said, like comment subscribe,definitely Hit the notification
bell so you can get thenotifications when the podcast
drop.
That'd be greatly appreciated.
That would help move thepodcast in the direction that
we're trying to see it move in.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
No, definitely.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But, yeah, thank
y'all.
Thank y'all, for you know whatI'm saying.
It's another year conquered,you know what I'm saying.
So you know, but better thingsare going to come.
You know what I'm saying.
The podcast is going to be onfire, uh.
And also, you know other things.
We got things we were talkingabout.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I mean another year
forward.
Uh, we got big things thatwe're working on and you know
we're all here together gettinguh a little older and everything
.
Eric, do you?
Uh, do you notice, like, cause,I'm about to turn 35 in
November, so I know, I think I'mthe youngest out of us here.
I'm a young buck here.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I'm a young buck here
.
I wish I was 35.
In some circles I'm ancient insome circles.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm young, that's how
I go too.
Yeah, I noticed because I workwith kids for the therapy job
that I do, so there's a lot ofmoving around, a lot of moving
in sensory rooms and pickingkids up and whatnot and playing,
and part of the thing I noticed, I started doing this last year
, just totally involuntarily,without me being aware.
If I'm on the ground, I get up,I put my hand on my knee now to
help me boost up sometimes.
(02:52):
Been there, done that.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Is that just like a
subconscious thing you just
start doing at a certain age,that's when you get older?
You need to brace yourself justin case you fall the other way,
Because what happens is whenyou put your hand on your knee
you feel like all right, I atleast got this knee good, I got
this knee supported, I meanbecause the thing about it is
most of us we were really activeas kids or when we were younger
.
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And now that we're
older, we're just not doing that
anymore.
We're not spending three hoursoutside playing a day type thing
running around, just you know.
So, yeah, once you stop doingthat, you stop using those
certain muscles.
You just end up getting up likeme, I, I sound like I sound
like a bag of chips every time Istand up.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's crazy everything
is crackle crackle pop, I know,
and the mo like the, the gruntsoh yeah, the grunts too,
because you like.
Even though it's not thatserious, you just make it more
serious.
You're like oh damn, and mygirl will be like you, all right
.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'm good, ain't
nothing wrong.
Ain't nothing wrong, ain'tnothing wrong.
It don't really hurt, it justfeels better.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It's funny because
when I go to the gym I'll be
lifting weights and I'll be justdoing my thing in my zone, not
making a lot of noise, but thenwhen I get home, I'd be like
getting up off the sofa, be likeyou know, like.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'll be there when I
am there.
I don't know what happens, it'sjust like.
It's like it's like a rite ofpassage, I think.
So I'm allowed to make soundswhen I sit down and stand up.
Now I'm just allowed to.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And then when you
become a grandpa, you get old,
you get to make noises, justlike sitting and breathing, oh
yeah like grandpas will besitting in a chair making a
whole ruckus just not doinganything.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
They're at a point.
They don't.
They're not there.
They're impressing nobody.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I ain't gonna lie, I
am not gonna lie.
I cannot wait to get old, so Ican kind of just be that grumpy
old man.
I'm already there.
I know you are I've been therelike for 20 years 10 to 15 years
I've been that grumpy old man Ijust want to be grumpy man, I
just want to hate everything,just just, you know, just hit
that point in life because Iguess, you know, as we're at the
(04:55):
age we are right now, we stillhave to be understanding to
almost everything.
We got to be understanding tothe people who are younger than
us and be understanding to thepeople older than us, true, but
when you hit a certain age, youdon't have to understand shit,
no, but what you understand andyou could just be like you know
what.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I hate that and I
think stop doing that I think at
a certain age you get to thepoint where people just kind of
write you off too.
So even if you like right now,like there's a certain societal
pressure that we feel to not saysomething, like obviously no
one wants to say anything crazy,but if you're like 80 years old
and you say something crazy,people just be like, oh, he's
(05:33):
just a crazy old guy.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Like he's just senile
, Like he would just write you
off.
That's what y'all say about me.
Sometimes You're like yo, Eric,just that's just.
Eric, Eric, just be wild, eric.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Just, that's just.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Eric, he's just the
old head, that old head talking.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Dementia kicking in
Early onset.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Alzheimer's, like
Earl, I'm going to go ahead and
let y'all know now.
But no, it's crazy because,like you already been through
some things or whatever sinceyou were young, you went through
your trials and tribulations.
So when you get older youpretty much say, all right, I've
been there, done that youngbuck.
You know what I mean.
So the way you carry yourselfis I'm not here to impress you.
I've already been impressed.
(06:11):
I did my years of impression.
So I feel like I mean I'm thetype of person like you in front
of my dude, somebody gettingnext to my house, like what you
doing, like you better move thatdamn dog.
And they'd be like, damn, I'mjust walking by.
I'm like that's that old head,you know how like it's, kind of
like I got to protect my own.
You know what.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm saying I did my
junk.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You know what I mean,
samuel.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Jackson and Black
Snake Moan.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yep, that look
Exactly that face Just staring.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh, anybody, oh no,
people park in front of my house
.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I'll be standing in
the doorway like uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
See you like this
black snake mode yeah, I saw a
tiktok, where this lady pulledup to this dude's house, plugged
in, not only blocked thedriveway and then plugged in her
tesla into his charging stationand he came out with a phone
being like I said.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Can I help you?
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
and she's like oh,
like my battery's almost dead
and and I'm pregnant, so like Ijust need to charge it for like
10, 15 minutes.
And he's like so polite, he'slike well my wife's about to be
home.
This is our parking spot andit's our charging station and
you didn't ask, so I'm going toneed you to leave, please.
She's like, but do you know?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
what the messed up
part about.
That is the reason why she evenknew it was there is because
Tesla on the map put that as acharging station.
Oh shit.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Tesla did Damn it.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Elon, that's what
they do Anytime that they're
like all that stuff is GPS.
All that stuff is connected.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So anytime they do
that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Everybody knows.
People with Teslas know hey,this is where a charging station
is and it'll pull up in yourneighborhood, pull up in your
driveway and start charging yourstuff.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Anybody watching
who's got a Model S, y or 3, or
a Cybertruck.
Have you?
Ever had anybody pull up inyour driveway and start charging
due to something like yourhouse?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
is on the map.
Yeah, leave the car man, thatwould be wild.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, let us know if
this is a thing that anyone has
experienced, because that's wildto me that's an excuse to
freaking.
That's invasion of privacyright there.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I've heard it because
I had a friend who had a Tesla
and at the time they would tellyou every time you start looking
for charging stations you couldend up in a neighborhood
because somebody's house isshowing as a charging station.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You have to turn it
off or something like that.
Maybe there's some privacysetting that you have to opt out
of.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, I think you
have to turn off the setting or
something like that, for it tonot pop up.
But if you get it done, you gota Tesla.
You want all your settings on.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's what rich
people think.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I mean Teslas are
pretty affordable.
Maybe not that Cybertruck, Imean the Model 3, honestly is
cheaper.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's like the
starting price with the tax back
credits from Maryland.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Hey, this is not an
ad for Tesla alright.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
It's not If it is we need money.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Sorry to cut you off,
but I just wanted to make that
clear.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
No, no, no, not at
all.
I'm just saying, like some ofthem, unless Elon you sending
over some Teslas for us tofigure this out, Just not the
hold on to the Cybertruck.
I don't want that shit, hey no,go ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I mean I don't like
it, but you can send it to me.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I'll figure it out,
Dude.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I'll tell you right
now.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
If I have a
Cybertruck and another
Cybertruck pull up to my crib tocharge, I might not be mad.
I might not be.
I might be like.
You know what it's like Jeeps?
We're in a little special clubnow.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
It's weird, though,
but don't you get charged?
I mean, you have to pay thatbill though.
Oh yeah, you pay yourelectricity bill, so that's.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's.
The other thing about this guyin the video is like, not just
are you taking my space andyou're coming up on my property
without asking, but like you'rerunning up my electric bill too.
So like the end of the day,like I still have to pay what my
house uses, I'm just takingmine.
So like Target.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
A lot of the public,
lots around here in DC and stuff
have the charging stations.
Yeah, I'd take it leave it andwalk it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Come back Real quick.
I mean real quick.
I know this has now become aDMV thing.
It used to be a Baltimore thing, so it's now become a DMV thing
.
What's up?
How familiar are you guys withRoyal Farms chicken?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, I mean not
really.
I know that there's the royalfarm royal farm chicken.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Boy, you a fan of it.
I mean I don't eat chicken, butwhen I did eat chicken, okay I
was about to say you're vegan.
I'm gonna be like you outingyourself right now no, no, no,
no, no, no so I, I mean I, Iwell, it's like crack
technically, I think it's somekind.
I don't know what they put inthe chicken, but I, I do have
the waffle egg.
I'm not vegan, I'm vegetarian.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh, that's right.
Is this like the same sort ofthing?
Because I'll let you speak,because I don't really know much
about it.
Oh, the gas station, it's a gasstation.
Royal Farms yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Royal Farms.
So technically it's kind oflike a Wawa or a little mini
convenience store at a gasstation, but it serves chicken
Like that's their thing.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And the chicken is
really addictive or really good.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
They call it world
famous chicken Dude Bro, I mean,
I mean there's people thatpeople order cater order chicken
from there Like every time I'min Laurel I go People walk up
and they're like yo, can I getmy order?
And it's like back crazy.
They said yo, you have to waitabout 20 minutes for you.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Look, I just know
some people really get into you
know, and then again there's anart like I had.
I was telling you guys I thinkoff the, off the camera or off
the mic.
The other day, like I know, Iwas over my buddy uh annabelle's
house and a friend of hisbrought in, uh, chicken from the
hip-hop chicken where they putin like they fry it, so it's
like fried chicken wings, butthen they they put on sugar and
stuff in the fry once it's done.
(11:45):
And it's so salty and sweet.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Isn't it called crack
?
They call it crack.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Which.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I feel like is
controversial.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I'll be perfectly
honest Hip-hop chicken and fish.
Y'all should not have done thatshit.
I stopped eating y'all after Ifound out that shit was called
crack, because how the hell yougoing to come up with hip-hop
chicken and fish feed it toblack people and then give us
crack.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, name it hip-hop
or primarily black genre.
Bro and put it in the hoods.
It's only in the hoods and thencall one of the ingredients
crack.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Until you put a
hip-hop chicken and fish in
Bethesda.
I do not want to hear thatbullshit.
Nah bro.
Hip that's bullshit.
Nah bro, I'm sorry, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You know Hip hop
chicken and fish.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Count your goddamn
days, all right, oh, they ain't
going nowhere, they not.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm just making a
high up but even it out.
Put some shit in, put some shitin Potomac, put some shit in
Bethesda.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You know, even it out
, See Potomac.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
They.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Except the Tesla
charging people, though
apparently.
They all drive Teslas.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
But I'm sure they
turn it.
But if you're in Potomac andyou have a Tesla, I'm sure they
don't mind, or they got gatedcommunities to keep out the
low-battery Tesla people All day, all day the low-battery the
people.
The hybrids.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You have a hybrid.
You can't get in here.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You need a full-on
electric car to get to Potomac.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Tesla Model S are up,
no 3s allowed.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well, since we forced
that DMV segment.
That was a force.
That was a force.
I mean hey.
But now y'all know that Potomacdon't allow people in, that
ain't from Potomac.
Now y'all know that hip-hopchicken and fish be feeding
people crack in the hood.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
And then Royal.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Farms.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Royal Farms has now
touched Gaithersburg oh really
that's who you're trying to getat.
There's one in Gaithersburg.
I have to look at that.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And it has a whole
Tesla charging bank for the
Tesla.
That was the tie-in.
That's why I thought about it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Royal Farms is out
there, I know.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Wawa, they got Wawa.
I think they got's pretty much.
Baltimore, or if not,pennsylvania, is now moving out
this way.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I mean, Royal Farms
is huge, though Apparently it's
huge the arena in Baltimore nowis called the Royal Farms Arena.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I will say this If
anyone is watching from Sonic
you guys need to do better andrepresent the DMV better.
I got to drive all the way outto Delaware to go to one of your
stores.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No, you can go to
Frederick.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Frederick.
They're going to Frederick.
Do better, though.
Come to Germantown.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Frederick is still
far People from.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
DC.
That's far as shit.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Actually, isn't there
a Sonic in?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
DC.
There's a Sonic in Frederick.
There's a Sonic in I want tosay it's District Heights.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh, okay.
Well, you've done a little bitbetter.
That's good, but still.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I'm just waiting for
to bring Bojangles.
I don't care about it.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I saw one of them
raising canes the other day and
I was so lost.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Apparently chicken
tenders.
Yeah, they're in gas stations.
There's one raising canes inone of the Walmarts.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
now this is fat,
sorry, all right, no, this is
fat, nah.
So this episode, once again, isthe happy birthday episode for
Ego.
We want to give Ego his flowers, you know what I'm saying.
Or at least allow Ego to givehimself his flowers on his
birthday, you know so I won'tget into it because ego is the
(15:13):
man on the boards.
This podcast would not move ifwe didn't have ego.
I cannot be here.
We will move on, mark and I behere, we would move on, but ego
not being here, we won't have apodcast.
Ain't nothing happening thebackbone.
Right, I have the back,definitely old ass bone though,
but it's okay definitely want togive us that's a pause, but
definitely want to give this manand and eric has got a lot
(15:35):
going on.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I mean, I don't know
if y'all a lot of y'all know
this, but he's a dope producertoo.
He's produced, uh producedrecords, uh, dope records.
Uh, we did a record together.
We got a whole album coming outtogether.
Yeah, definitely, um, he's donerecords with a lot of really
talented artists from the DMV.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, Priest Nomad.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Priest Nomad Shout
out to him yeah, we got some
stuff happening out with mybrother.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Hold on, hold on,
hold on, before we get into all
that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Before we get into
all that I like that, I mean
because we're going to get tothat I want to know, but real
quick, let's get it started fromthe beginning.
You know what I'm saying?
I want to know what?
Because we all, of course.
Mark is a rapper.
He's currently rapping.
He has a song out.
(16:18):
Y'all should go check it out.
I forget the name right now,which is I'm being an asshole.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
On and High, on and
High.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Sorry about that, but
I was a rapper.
Ego got into beat making,producing.
So I want to know I mean,because hip hop obviously is a
big portion of all of our livesand very influential genre of
music when, how did you get intobeat making?
(16:45):
Like, when did you realize, hey, I can't rap, let me make some
beats.
Beat making like, when did yourealize, hey, I can't rap, let
me make some beats?
Or when did you realize that Iwould rather be behind the the
boards?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
than so it took.
So the boards didn't come intopretty much my my 20s.
What it got me into pretty muchbeat making is the rhythm.
I actually used to break dance.
So I used to do like hip-hopdance and then breakdance.
And you know how, back in theday, when everybody wanted to be
like you know, dancing, likeNew Edition, new Edition had the
(17:16):
like you know, the fancy stuff.
Whatever I did it when I was akid.
I wanted to be cool because Iknew I was dark Back then, you
know, dark dudes didn't get thatmuch love.
That was I'll be short phase.
You know what I mean.
So the only thing you can do isto have a talent, either sports
, either sports.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
When you said sell
crack rock, I have a wicked jump
shot, yeah, wicked jump shot.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So what it was.
I didn't have both.
I wasn't, I didn't have both.
And then my mom there's no way,you know whatever, a cell crack
or whatever.
So the only thing I could do isto keep like I started dancing.
I used to go to the dances andlike, start doing the things,
the running man and everythinglike that.
I mean I had hammer pants, Ihad the outfits and everything
Y'all got to understand that.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I'm sitting here I'm
laughing inside because he's
kind of dating himself, becausehe's showing that he grew up
really, really in the 80s 80s Iwas a huge 80s baby.
He grew up really really in the80s Because in the 80s is when
it was cool to dance.
There was people who would gettogether.
(18:19):
They would have gangs Ofdancers.
It was gangs of dancers andthey didn't fight.
They would go to the clubs andthey would dance against each
other.
Dude that's how you pulled girls.
That's how Beast was handled.
That's how girls decided whothey were going to go with by
who was the better dancer Likey'all got to understand the era
(18:41):
that this was.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
The era was so fun
Like it was a fun era.
You didn't have to worry Likeyour parents didn't worry for
you to go to a party, and it wasbefore AIDS AIDS dropped.
You didn't have to worry, likeyour parents didn't worry, for
you to go to a bar, and it wasbefore.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
AIDS?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It was AIDS, hold on.
Aids just dropped yeah it justbecause that wasn't AIDS.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It was definitely
AIDS, I thought I thought, yeah,
it was AIDS, but it was almostlike it was almost like rappers
later, you know, would get intocyphers.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It was almost like
everyone's sort of like you got
a beat going and you got youknow dancers in a circle and
taking turns and showing off.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
No, that's break
dancing.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh break, dancing so
break dancing, was that?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
No, like dancing.
Like school you had to go tofunctions.
Like you had to go to littleparties.
Like in high school you hadpeople hold house parties or
they'll hold like a block party.
And that's when you will getready Like it.
And that's when you will getready Like it'll be an event for
kids like, say, under 16, 18,under 18, definitely High school
kids, High school kids.
And you will go and you will getready.
(19:34):
You knew like I need my outfitready, I need my crew with me
and I know the what.
Like I practice all dance movesfor every kind of song that go
on and then, yeah, please,Please also understand that I'm
dying inside, it's the truthdude this nigga is 6'4" Dude, do
you understand?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I'm just thinking of
this dude.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I will go to post
Terry Cruisin' no, I'm going to
post some old.
I have some old photos I foundin my parents' house.
I had a high top fade.
Oh shit, no, no, no, no, it wascrazy, I had.
So my boy you remember.
So back in the day they had arapper called Kwame.
I was about to say you had theKwame, the.
Kwame.
(20:13):
I had the.
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
The polka dot phase
was what happened the polka dot
phase, the three hole punch ify'all don't know what we talk
about.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Please look all this
up so you can really understand
what we said right, I'm speakingso much history.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So what happened is I
had me and my boy B Chon, barry
Chon, he was my best friendback in high school.
He had the high top fade withthe blonde streak on one side,
but he had also his hair kind ofhad a point.
He had the Gumby.
The Gumby too.
He had the Gumby.
So he did his Gumby, he did aGumby, I did a Gumby.
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But my Gumby was different.
I had dreads on one side.
Oh, with the Gumby on the dude,oh, it was fire.
Yo, it had like the half PM Donslash.
You know, yo had the Killmongerbefore.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Killmonger.
Yeah, yeah, I had the.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Killmonger.
I had a dreaded and it wasblonde, and then the other side
with the top fade, and thenimagine having polka dot shoes
and then the empty hammer, theempty hammer pants, and then had
those shiny ass shoes.
Uh, what's it called the emptyhammer shiny shoes when?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I was dancing.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So imagine having
that flavor and anything that
came on.
You had to kill it and you weretall.
At that point too, dude, I wassix.
I was six, I was six foot.
When I was freaking out ofmiddle school I was tall the
whole time.
So then that, moving on, I waslike we're going to go then.
And so after that I got intopretty much.
I met some break dancers.
(21:40):
One of my home actually one ofmy teachers who was one of the
biggest break dancers in theindustry, is now Flowmaster.
Flowmaster came from Pooleville, maryland, pooleville, maryland
.
He went to New York, joinedRocksteady crew and now he's in
California.
He dances for Usher Nice.
He dances like he's an officialdancer.
He actually was one of thecoaches at the breakdancing US
(22:02):
event for the Olympics.
He was part of that.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Was he one of the
judges?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
No, he was a coach.
He olympics he was part of that.
Was he one of the judges?
No, he's a coach, he was one ofthe coaches.
I'm not mad then, because see,all right, I'm sorry, I cut you
off yeah, well, I know ray gunwasn't.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
He wasn't coaching
ray gun.
I know that that break.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Dancing shit at the
olympics was was embarrassing.
No, it was embarrassing and Idon't even want to say, and
truthfully I don't want to sayyeah, see you, gotta you're
digging't want to say yeah see,it's all, ray got you dig it.
I'm going to say it, I'm goingto say it, say it, I'm going to
say it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I am ashamed that we,
as the US didn't even top as
the.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
US didn't even top
Top three, but not even just
that, bro, I mean.
And three, but not even justthat, bro, I mean, and this is
terrible and this is terriblefor me to say because I don't
even really be like this, butthough, where were, where were
the black people who were breakdancing?
So we have lost the culture, somuch it's.
We didn't even have the blackpeople break dancing, like.
(23:05):
But I see the youtube clips, Isee all the other dance
competitions where we're thereand we're dancing our asses off
and we look great, but why werewe not able?
to represent yeah, in theolympics so let me why were we
not able to represent allthrough the world?
Because I get it, japan, I getjapan, so I get it that they
(23:29):
love the culture so much.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
We talked about that
in one of the episodes.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Recently there was a
rapper named Lecrae who said the
difference between Drake andKendrick is Drake is a fan of
the culture, while Kendrick is aproduct of the culture.
And I felt that Is a product ofthe culture and I felt that,
(23:55):
but breakdancing at the Olympics?
Let me know that that statementisn't always accurate, because
Japan is a fan of the culture,yes, and they won.
So that lets you know.
Sometimes fans can respect theculture more than the people who
are products of it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
So that, yeah, so
sorry to cut you off, but like,
coming from all the people, allthe breakdancers who talked
about this, the real people whoactually do breakdancing,
competition year on, year ondidn't want to be part of this
because they knew it wasbullshit.
Like, to be honest, it's likekind of having a rap battle at
the Olympics.
Even though, yes, it bringsawareness of hip-hop, it doesn't
(24:34):
bring the real awareness ofhip-hop right by just rap
battling.
It's like having what's thatrap battle?
What's his name?
Sprit, sprint, smack, smack.
What's his name?
Imagine them going to theOlympics right and having the
top, like you know, don, don orwhatever.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
No, no, I'm just
talking about.
I mean, but see, but even withthat I got to counter with.
So you have an opportunity togo mainstream and you decide not
to.
You have an opportunity to gomainstream and you decide not to
.
Like you have an opportunity toget more eyes, get more
sponsorship get moreopportunities.
But do you like you're so, youwant to gatekeep your culture so
much that it's so weird,because us is a mixed pot anyway
(25:17):
.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So what can you?
You couldn't put a whole blackteam versus everybody else,
right?
Why the fuck?
Not?
Because it's US's mix, with notjust black people.
There's black people who aregood, but there's white people
that's just as good or evenbetter than who you pick how
many white people are on theOlympic basketball team.
I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
All right, then,
that's my point.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
But the thing about
it is just like you said about
Japan won.
Japan won because their skilllevel is.
They weren't there in thebeginning, it's just their skill
levels is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, I think part of
it also is that the I mean it
could be that there were a lotof break dancers who are really
dope didn't want to partakebecause this is again, this is
the first time it's beingincluded.
Maybe they wanted to see arethey going to represent it the
right way?
That's going to elevate theculture?
Are they going to do it?
Is this going to be somethingthat's not going to be good?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
maybe they don't want
to jump in on the first round
until they see how it's done butalso like, I'm sorry to cut you
off, but also there's probablyrules that they had to abide by
too that normally breakdancersdon't follow, because when you
do breakdance, there's ruleslike, okay, you can't touch them
, you can't do this and youcan't do that, you can't do like
gestures or whatever, which youprobably is in your routine,
right.
They're probably like nah,you're really just limiting what
(26:32):
I normally do anyways, right Tobe clean, a clean plate.
And that's what I thought, eventhe girl who breakdanced for us.
She was represented for the.
What's her name?
I met her too in DC the Asiangirl.
I forgot her name.
I can't think of her name,right now yeah.
She lost, yeah, First round andshe as the coach.
She was dancing on beat andeverything, but she didn't do as
(26:53):
many power moves as the otherone where people like yeah, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Like it's subjective
at the end of the day, and
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
It's the situation of
excuse me, yeah, it's the
situation of Olympic basketball.
Olympic basketball, they usedto send college players and then
, when the Soviets smacked them,one good time and they were
like, oh, this don't look goodfor the world.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Then they started
sending professionals.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That's when the dream
team came out and given why
would you?
You have one opportunity toreally make this, to really make
this happen?
Yeah, yeah, you have oneopportunity.
Why don't you make sure thatyou're the one that's in there
and you're the one that's goingto represent it well to?
So, when it happens and it cancontinue because, if I'm correct
(27:45):
, breakdancing is no longergoing to be in the olympics
because it went, so it was sobad well, yeah, I mean, what
I'll say is I think that, um,yeah, we should have definitely
done better.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
um, I think there's
so many talented, amazing
breakdancing artists, um, thatyou know not to take any credit
from anyone who was there, but Ithink that it should be
something that, again, hopefully, will continue in some capacity
.
I don't think so, because Ithink it can be done.
I think it's a great sport.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
No, I agree with you.
I definitely think it's a greatsport.
I definitely think it shouldcontinue.
Shout out to Ray Gunn Get yourmoney girl.
Well, yeah, I was going to sayshout out to ray gun get your
money girl.
Well, yeah, I was gonna say webeating ourselves up too hard
when I was really over there getyour money yo she is.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
She made this an
opportunity and she did the best
out of it, so I ain't even madat her.
You know she was the one.
She's the.
She's the person that votedherself in do you understand I?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
heard a little bit
about that.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
No see, I know, I
know you're, you can't hate, but
the thing about it is sherepresenting a country and they
did bad on it because you couldhave been better if you had
somebody.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I know that there's
better break dancers out there
in Australia.
I've seen Australian people howselfish that is too.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Also it's like okay,
I get it.
Get your money, girl, but thenagain you better be the best out
of the whole country to getyour money.
You can't say, oh, get my moneyand I'll be mediocre.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
She's a social media
star.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
She became social
media because of her being
horrible Because of how bad itwas.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Not because of her
skill.
She's like Hawk 2.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
She became famous
because she said Hawk 2, and
everyone's talking about her Nowshe's capitalizing on it.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
She doesn't have a
skill, she ain't a good
breakdancer.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
There were better
break dancers that didn't get
the opportunity and she got it.
And then she did that wobbling,weasel move and everything.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
People are making fun
of it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Mark.
We in America celebrate whitemediocrity all the time.
We do, we do so for that tohappen two more times.
I'm not going to kill neitherone of those young ladies for
that.
Hawk Tua, get your money.
Hawk Tua, get your money.
Ray Gunn, get your money.
But let's finish this up, man.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Ray Gunn, take some
classes, we'll get better.
Okay, next time we will bringthis back.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, we definitely
will bring this back.
We need to get Sonny on forthis.
Yeah, yeah, definitely he gooutside of the pod?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, because, yeah,
I was going to talk about it
earlier what else you got goingon?
What else are you working on orwhat do you hope to be working
on in the future?
All right, so in the past.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Like I said, we were
getting there and how I got into
pretty much making beats.
I literally was a breakdancer,a breakdancer.
I got to a point that I feltlike I needed to contribute more
to the hip-hop game than justbreakdancing.
So, since I had the rhythm, Ialso met one of my homeboys
named Ben Evil Ben.
What up, evil Ben Evil Ben gotme into making beats because he
(30:33):
heard me.
Like you know, back in the dayyou used to hit the tables with,
like in a cafeteria.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, with the
pencils.
Yeah, Boom clack.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
He heard me on rhythm
doing some stuff and somebody
was freestyling.
And somebody was freestylingand he's like you, you sound
dope when you've been doing that.
So then he put me on fruityloops, fl studio or whatever you
call it now.
Then I learned from there.
I got into literally like, oh,this is a craft to learn, right,
it's not literally just puttingthings together, what you have
to literally know.
The craft got into that.
Everybody said I said sound dopewith the break beats or
(31:01):
whatever.
And then I got really good atmy craft and then, uh, I put
some stuff out on social media.
Actually the um loz beats ispart of like I said there's a
loz is a break dancing crew fromdc.
I got put on from my music andme and, uh, sunny, sunny, tran
ghost, uh, to everybody prettymuch you know we started our own
(31:22):
production.
The LOZ beats started.
I've been doing stuff whatevermy brother I did it on his album
and other people around the way, local people.
Then I met Mark.
That's a whole different mix wecan get into.
Later Met Mark me and Mark Markheard some of my beats.
He's like yo, your shit is dope, let's do an LP together or EP.
(31:44):
Is it EP LP?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
EP.
It's an EP, but honestly it's along EP.
It's a long EP, so it mighteven go into LP as many beats as
I keep coming up with.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
So I started coming
out with beats.
Mark got some beats came out.
We put out one track alreadyTikTok Tick out on streaming.
Go check it out.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
It's in every social
media pretty much All platforms,
all platforms and things likethat.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
But we got better.
I think we have way better,hottest shits coming out.
Look out for that, and sothat's going forward.
That's what I'm looking forwardto do.
The podcast is one of my babies, but also LOZ Beats is my baby
too.
You're going to hear a got somenew stuff I'm working on, as
currently we're working onfinishing on the album currently
, so hopefully, we'll put it onthe podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Oh no, absolutely no,
it's definitely going to be
absolutely mark my performance.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah I'll be happy.
Actually, no, no, actuallyhonor.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
The high wasn't gonna
be, but I did we did play it a
little bit.
Yeah, you did a little tweakingon something production to that
a little bit, but, like I said,we're gonna do some new stuff
coming yeah but uh, yeah andshout out to priest the nomad
you did that record with him anddj cool and that was really
really cool.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, I got, I got a
track.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I'm gonna talk to
priest.
I'm gonna see if I can playthat.
It's, it's.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's literally a dope
ass track it's called it's
called uh turn up the volumeright no, no, that's that's.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
That's another track
oh, uh this is called uh uh, I
forgot what it um.
Sicker than the average oh,yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Sicker than the
average is a dope ass.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Beat anybody who
think it's sicker than the
average.
They can rip on it.
That's.
It's a pretty much straight upbattle.
Beat um, I feel um, but yeah,that's what I'm planning on
doing.
You're gonna hear more stufffrom ego.
Uh, loz beats um and yeah yeahbut yeah well, happy birthday
bro.
Happy birthday to me.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Happy birthday to you
, sir.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Cheers man.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Cheers.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
And cheers to y'all.
Thanks for watching.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Thank you for y'all
watching.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
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Did you just share an empty cup?
Yes, I did, because I sipped onmy sip man.
Come on man.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Hold on, all right,
man.
What are we doing over here?
We can't be having that Shoutout to RR.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Brandy, when I was in
Armenia I saw the factory there
and had to pick up some from myman Ego.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Come on, man Get back
in your spot, man Get back in
your spot.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
This guy's a fool
Dancing around.
It's my birthday, I can do whatI want to all right, yo man
cheers cheers, cheers, happybirthday yeah, thank y'all.
Thank y'all.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Peace and love y'all,
we'll do better next time.
Once again.
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