EP 25 - LIVE! with Jrue Holiday (New Orleans Pelicans Point Guard) & Curren$y (Rapper)

Welcome to the LightHarted Podcast with Rising NBA Star Josh Hart (New Orleans Pelicans) & Rising Business Mogul Matt Hillman (Cut + Sew). This is our first LIVE Podcast episode in front of a packed house at Republic Nola! To start Josh & Matt discuss: Thanking the fans, Louisiana sports, The grind of a NBA season, playing against James Harden, falling in love with New Orleans, WBD, Heart 2 Hart in person fan questions & Raising Cane’s for the crowd & more. Then it’s an honor & a privilege to have New Orleans Pelicans Point Guard & Team Leader Jrue Holiday on the stage for a LightHarted conversation to discuss: Not knowing what he was getting himself into with this show, his upbringing and growing up on the South, going to UCLA & being drafted to Philadelphia, Having parents who were basketball players & the sports he grew up playing, the grassroots of L.A. basketball, almost ending up at UNC & being a one and done, NBA Draft Night Green Room Experience, where Josh thought he’d be drafted, getting traded to New Orleans, re-signing, moving to New Orleans & neighbors, favorite moments as a Pelicans, WBD, Heart to Jrue Fan Questions & more. Then it’s time for the Venmo & Turtle Beach Trivia Live Giveway!  Finally it’s an honor & a privilege to have New Orleans’ own legendary rapper Curren$y on the stage for a LightHarted conversation to discuss: His older music, his car collection, growing up in New Orleans & break dancing in The French Quarter, allergies on Bourbon Street, when he started rapping, linking up with Master P, Rap influences, not having beefs, promoting his music on the internet early on a stolen computer & being reached out to by the government, gaining traction online, The Freshmen 10 in 2009, advice, getting pulled over outside of D.C., his entrepreneurial spirit, getting Josh a low rider, the New Orleans music industry, leaving Cash Money Records to start Jet Life Records, Heart to Curren$y fan questions & more.  Presented by Venmo  (Friend @lighthartedpodcast to enter the $1K Giveaway) Produced by DBP CORP Subscribe to the Podcast on  YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/lighthartedpodcast?uid=9MKM2VD_IhWse0bjkNHrnA Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lightharted-podcast-with-josh-hart/id1469286394 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2WjlP2bXcUnFYJyjyv2bSU?si=cxhEUFlDQNqAy3st4J6MbQ