September 18, 2024 • 45 mins
Can you imagine discovering a serious health condition out of the blue? Join us as we catch up after a three-month break, sharing personal stories and life updates that have kept us on our toes. From Jeff's move from Jersey to Pennsylvania to Ant's alarming hospital visit that uncovered elevated blood pressure and a kidney infection, our return episode is packed with revelations. Ant opens up about his new health regimen and how he's staying resilient despite the diagnosis of cirrhosis of the liver—proving the importance of a positive outlook in the face of adversity.
Our conversation takes some unexpected turns as we debate near-assassination attempts on former President Trump and the gun culture in Florida, then transition to the rich tapestry of Hip Hop's influence. We reminisce about iconic albums—Biggie's "Ready to Die," Nas' "Illmatic," and Lauryn Hill's "Miseducation"—and share our excitement for upcoming concerts. From heated discussions about old-school hip hop to the impact of these legends on today's music scene. Also, the story of Lauryn Hill popping up at a local bar.
As the episode wraps up, we explore lighter yet equally engaging topics. From the comfort of hoodie weather and a fantasy football bet to a recent incident involving NFL star Tyreek Hill, which sparks a dialogue about compliance and racial bias. Finally, we critique Super Bowl performer picks and the dynamic between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, pondering the possibility of a future collaboration. Tune in for a heartfelt and spirited episode filled with gratitude, shoutouts, and a promise of new merchandise for our loyal Culture Crew listeners.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, yo yo, we're back .
Yo, we're finally back after along hiatus, the longest hiatus
that the culture has ever taken.
We've been gone for what, ant?
About three months.
The summer, yeah, no, it's beenlike three months since the
last time I recorded.
(00:20):
You haven't recorded in longerthan that.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, it's pretty much been off the whole summer.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, because I did.
I think I did one or twoepisodes with Mikey G.
You know what I'm saying.
Like it's just a lot has beengoing on.
You know what I'm saying, withyour help, if you want to touch
on that.
I moved.
I moved from Jersey to PA.
Be in your house in the PokemonMountains.
We out here.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, you're right, we out here.
Yeah, you're right, I did Got anice little pool or anything
else like that.
I'm going to come out theresoon enough.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So that's keeping me super busy.
You need to come through though.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, but since the health thing, that shit's sorted
out, I was in the hospital.
Yeah, fine, I was in thehospital.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
People were worried about you, brother Like yo,
where at now I'm like yo, so Iwas at work and I was like I
felt off.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I couldn't like describe it, but I felt really,
really off.
And all of a sudden I felt likethis hard-ass beat in my chest
and I was like I got to go now,like I need to leave, I need to
go to the hospital, like he said, and I wasn't going to call,
wait for them to give me anambulance.
I know it's stupid, I know it'sdumb, but I drove myself to the
(01:34):
hospital, dangerous as fuck,jesus Christ.
Well, because the whole thingwith the COVID thing, my brain
got a little bit twisted up.
I'm going to control my ownlife.
If I'm going to go to thehospital, I'm going to go to the
hospital.
So it started there.
I went there and then all of asudden, they got me strapped to
(01:55):
machines, they got an IV, theyall had all kinds of nonsense
going on.
So they do that, run some tests.
And they was like we just wantto make sure you're okay.
I'm like, okay, what seems tobe the problem?
And they were like well, one oftwo things, you okay.
(02:17):
So they gave me something formy blood pressure.
It's not extremely high, just alittle bit higher than usual,
but it's okay.
But then all of a sudden it waslike well, we did your blood
test and kidneys is a little meh, like okay, I'm like what do
you mean?
They're like well, the guypokes me in the back so he's
(02:37):
feeling a thing here.
No, pokes me again, so he'sfeeling a thing.
I says no.
They're like okay, so it's likeokay.
So it's going to be one of twothings Either A, you got a
kidney infection that you can'tfeel which is surprising, most
people do feel it or two, you'reat the beginning stages of
kidney failure.
Now like huh, interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But he looks at me.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But that's the whole thing.
I don't drink like that.
I have a beer, but you know mewell enough.
If we have it, I get together,Let me get another, get another,
get another.
I might have a shot your sisterpoured and that's really it.
The rest of y'all keep ongetting down, but not really so.
They put me some medication forlike three weeks.
(03:22):
I'm trying to get myselftogether.
I can't sleep, I'm in and outof it.
Then they find out like it waskind of like a, really it was
like a bad infection.
The doctor said again, that'sstrange, you get a slight kidney
infection, Like you're hurting.
You weren't like okay, allright, it's good to know.
And then I'm going to tell you,and I'll tell everybody
(03:45):
listening for the first time.
Everybody's going to know.
I go for a follow-up and adoctor.
Then he says okay, yourkidney's fine.
Okay, we want to send you forsome follow-up blood work.
And they do it again.
(04:08):
Then they say, well, this is abit elevated.
Like, all right, doc, what thefuck is it?
He's like well, we're going toneed you to send you in for a
biopsy on your liver.
And I'm like really, so youhave to go inside, take out a
little piece.
Yeah, yeah, It'll be fine.
(04:30):
They go ahead, they do thebiopsy.
I think four days ago they saidwell, you don't have liver
damage to that degree, but itlooks like you have cirrhosis.
I said of the, but it lookslike you have cirrhosis, I said
of the liver.
How the fuck does cirrhosis ofthe liver?
I'm not an alcoholic.
He's like we don't know.
(04:50):
We're going to do some moretests.
So if you look at my face, yousee a little thinner and shit
like that.
You look like you lost weighttoo, Motherfucker, it's hard to
eat and drink and shit like that, and keep fucking with your
body.
So yeah, I lost it and yeah,I'm with you, but not like that
Bunch of vegetables, bunch ofchicken, shitload of water,
(05:12):
stuff like that.
So they're going to see what'sgoing on in my liver.
Now it's nothing to worry about, and I was like yo man, you
said that before.
It's nothing to worry about, soI'm not bothered, it's just
some other shit's going on withme.
I ain't dead.
I mean, I did that before.
This shit wasn't cool.
So outside of this, I justgotta take care.
I mean, just enjoy my lifewhile it is and not trip out.
(05:33):
So I won't trip out, Just keepbeing here and do what I'm doing
.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Welcome back, brother .
Thank you.
Happy that you're back, happythat you're healthy, somewhat
Getting there, at least Yo.
But a lot of shit has happenedsince we've been gone.
Fucking president almost gotassassinated.
Well, former President Trumpalmost got assassinated.
They saying twice, not once buttwice All right.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But the second one I don't agree upon calling it an
assassination.
I don't.
It's Florida.
They said they saw somebodynear the golf course, 400 yards
away, with a GoPro and a rifle.
Now Florida's an open carrystate.
They never said the guy took ashot at him.
If you shoot at somebody that'san assassination attempt.
(06:24):
They never attempted toassassinate him.
He just a white guy walkingaround florida with a camera and
a gun.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
that's not really that unusual if you think about
it I mean, if you ask me, bro,to me the whole shit is a hoax.
That first one was a hoax, ifyou ask me.
But you know we're not tryingto get too conspiratorial.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No, that's the shit you look.
You look conspiratorial.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know what I'm saying?
Not today, but what elsehappened, man?
Yo hip hop made it to theOlympics.
You talking about that bitchpop locking With the break
dancing.
The women's shit wasembarrassing, but the men's shit
was alright.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, but it got so bad they eliminated it at the
one year.
They're like we're not doingthis shit, no more.
Yeah, we out.
But they should do it next yearbecause if it's going to be in
LA with all the crunkers andeverything else, like that, it'd
be perfect.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
They should bring freestyling bro to the Olympics.
Yo, battle rapping and someshit, have a.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
A rap Olympics, the battle rap team.
They got too many priors.
They can't have them on anational stage.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
They probably can't do shit like that because of the
language barriers.
You know what I'm saying.
They can't do that.
They could do the dancing,because it's universal.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The language barrier is the cursing.
That's the barrier.
Can't be out there spittingballs Talking amongst my mamas.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
When I saw that shit, I was like yo, hip hop is
everywhere, man.
And speaking of hip hop iseverywhere, biggie made it into
the Marvel Comics and I got mine.
Only 3,000 copies were made andyou got one of them, and I got
one of them.
Biggie trying to separateWolverine and Deadpool from
(08:06):
fucking each other up.
He's in the middle like yo,fellas, this ain't it.
I haven't read it yet becauseI'm afraid to open it.
I don't want to fuck it upbecause this shit might be,
worth one day.
I do want to read it, though.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I want to see what Biggie got to say in this shit
oh, that's what you got to say,speaking of that, you, what
Biggie got to say in this shit?
Oh, that's what you got to say,speaking of that.
You know it's the 30thanniversary of Ready to Die.
Where does that fall?
All time for you, not him.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Just that album.
Ready to Die?
The album.
It's in my top 10.
It's probably.
I mean, we've done the top 5before.
It's not in my top 5.
Because we know I got DMX,lauren Hill, wu Tang Nas.
I forget what my fifth one is,but I think I have, yeah, I got
(08:59):
big in the top 10.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Ready to die, I mean the fact he writes that album.
He's what?
22 years old Because he's deadby 25?
Yep.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Come on now, as grown men, 20 plus years later, as
grown men, we're in our 40s andwe're still talking about an
album where the guy was 20 yearsold and we're still putting
that.
I guess all of them, even Nas.
What was he when he droppedDillmatic 19?
Yeah, and these albums areprobably forever going to be in
(09:34):
our top five, our top tens.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Like I always say, I always hated that Nas' first
album was that.
Oh, it's still Because it'shard, like I mean he's made some
very.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
that's not even my favorite Nas album I am is but
the fact that he set the bar sohigh with his very first album,
fucked a lot of people up howmany people do you know, with
their first album, come out witha classic?
Not many, and everybody wasgoing platinum in the 90s.
That that's the joke.
Everybody was platinum.
But no, he set the bar so highthat it's hard to top that, and
(10:11):
everybody's first album isusually their best album.
But that Illmatic is probablybetter than everybody else's
first album.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I know it's a lot of first albums, but the
whole thing with something likethat comes down to the fact that
you have that million right.
People say, like all therappers, they all had a million,
but it doesn't mean thatthey're going to be memorable,
like just the fact that his bestwork is one of the best works.
The Lauryn Hill thing One album, one shot, one kill, and it's
(10:51):
University of Cleveland, one ofthe greatest albums ever.
No matter what she didafterward, if she decided to
make a follow-up to Miseducation, it's going to pale in
comparison to Miseducation,because you're going to compare
everything she does to that.
That's why I was so excited tohear a verse from her on a Nas
thing Like, oh man, that's theLord I remember, but you still
(11:12):
don't want.
You don't want a follow-up, youdon't want something to fuck up
.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
My sources are telling me she's working on
another project that she wantsto drop before the year's over.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh, I'm going to tell you a story.
I didn't go.
I didn't go.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But um, you didn't go where you went to the Usher
concert.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh, hold up, we're going to get there, all right.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You went to the Roots concert.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, but I always go .
But I didn't really like itthis year, like it's way too
many people who are fucking hotand crowded.
That's why I didn't want tofucking talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh, you didn't go to the Lauren shit that she was
doing here.
Which, lauren Lauren Hill,we're getting there.
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So it's this bar and restaurant near West Orange and
they were having.
I think it might have.
I think it might have been likeMaplewood, nah, maplewood.
I think Maplewood might havebeen having like a class reunion
sometimes like that, and LaurynHill casually walks in there,
(12:17):
does a couple songs, takes apicture with a couple people,
she leaves.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Wait unannounced.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Unannounced.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Oh shit.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Remember she's from the Maplewood, South Nigeria.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Was she trying to do a little trial run to see what
the reception is?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No, it was like they were holding a class reunion
there and I guess word got backto her.
She walks in, says hi to acouple people, goes by the DJ
booth does like three songs.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Wait, this was her high school graduation class.
That was there.
No, no, it was like an allreunion class.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Oh Right, it wasn't like she was a guest or anything
, she just popped up, pops up.
I gotta find a fucking.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
She was like give me the mic.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah and does a couple songs, chills with the
people, and then she just leavesGod damn Like on some
friendship so they got a freeLauryn Hill concert.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That would have been a night to remember For them.
It probably was.
I'm sure the fucking venue waspissed.
They're like yo.
I wish you would have beencoming.
We would have charged somemotherfuckers at the door.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I know you could have , but the thing about life is
sometimes you got to createmoments, and this is just one of
them like it's one of thethings that you get older.
You tell somebody like one day Iwas in a bar somewhere and we
were celebrating class reunionand lauren hill shows up.
What you're hoping is that yourkid says that's cool and that
your kid doesn't say well, who'slauren hill?
Then you have a problem.
(13:38):
But this shit was awesome.
Okay, the usher shit was dope.
I randomly got tickets for mycousin my cousin can't fucking
drive and it was like I want tosee Usher.
I'm like I don't really want tosee Usher because I saw Usher a
couple years ago in a park forBruce's picnic.
He's like, yeah, but I gotthese tickets.
My homegirl can't go.
Whatever Usher puts on the show, he's on his roller skates.
(14:03):
They're having a good old time.
The funny part it was likeAuntie Fess 2024.
It was, but it was a lot ofolder ladies there.
It was like older than me.
It was like a lot of auntsthere.
It was like a 30 to 1 male tofemale ratio.
You forget Usher's like 50.
No, he's 45.
He is, he's 45 years old.
(14:25):
So he's about your age.
Yeah, he's not that old.
But there was a lot of oldwomen in with some very young
girl outfits on which.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I found kind of hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Like I said, the ratio is about, I could say, 30
to 1.
That's probably low.
All the dudes in there werejust kind of pissed.
They just looked disappointed.
They didn't want to be there.
The girl wanted to go, so theyjust kind of sit back and cool.
But some songs they had to getup, man listen it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I don't want to go.
I bought two tickets and I tellwifey to take one of her
homegirls or whoever.
You know what I'm saying.
I bought wifey two tickets togo see Marc Anthony.
I didn't want to go see MarkAnthony, but I bought him for
her.
I wasn't.
No, I ain't go.
She went with another shorty.
Oh, you didn't go.
No, I'm not going to sitthrough with Mark Anthony.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I thought you would Well.
Mark Anthony ain't Usher though.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You know what I'm saying?
I know the man can sing.
He's talented, I'm not going tosit through that.
So I know she likes MarkAnthony.
So I got her two tickets andshe chooses who she wants to go
with.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, but Mark ain't Usher, Mark ain't Anthony Mark
ain't Anthony.
Nah, but Usher.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'll go see Usher.
I'll see Usher.
He can, he could dance.
You know what I'm saying.
I definitely would see thatshit.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like you know, he does his shit, but apparently
the Barclays show was live.
He brought out Swiss, hebrought out Timbaland.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But no Swiss.
But that's the thing you expectthem to bring.
You expect these guys to bringpeople.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He does it every city , whoever the person in the city
he did Like in Detroit, hebrought up Big Sean.
He brings out the rap.
Back when I was in Philly hebrought out I think the first
night it was Freeway.
I think he was there for twonights in a row.
I think the second night.
I don't think he brought outFree two nights in a row, but
someone else from Philly.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You know what I'm saying.
He got songs with most of thesepeople.
If he's in Atlanta, he couldbring out Jerm of dudes that he
got songs with.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
But that's the whole thing.
If I was him and I'm in AtlantaI'm not bringing out nobody
else.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I'm the king of the city, but I'm saying he can,
though he can, because he gotsongs with all the legends from
Atlanta.
But anyways, yo, I just wantedto talk to the Patreons real
quick, the Culture Crew man, atleast the ones that stuck with
us through this time.
First of all, I appreciatey'all shout outs to the coach
crew.
Um, I'm gonna put a hold onyour patreon, so I'm not gonna,
(16:43):
you know, I mean, so y'all,y'all, you're not gonna get
dubbed it for at least threemonths debited you ain't got to
pay put it that way for at Forat least three months.
You know what I'm saying.
As a thank you, I also gotmerch right now in the bag
that's being prepared for y'all.
(17:05):
Got some ill merch beingprepared.
It's winter time, winter timeis coming, so I got some hoodies
coming your way.
You feel me.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Are you a summer dude or a fall dude?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I like fall.
I don't like too cold, I don'tlike too hot Spring and fall is
perfect, right.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I mean that's 60, 70 degrees.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You know what I mean.
Hoodie weather I could throw ahoodie with some shorts.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, mine's going to be spring, no fall, spring,
fall, spring, winter, summer,always said over there, but hit
me too high yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Shout out to the culture cool, appreciate y'all.
I got merch coming through.
Shout out to mikey she, hisbirthday's coming up.
Hey, son, getting big as fuck,big as a motherfucker.
All he do is post videos ofthis little motherfucker eating
just eating shit.
He a savage and playingpickleball.
Shout outs to Kaiser Kaiser,two things.
(18:04):
First of all, y'all got anongoing bet on the fantasy right
.
Head to head $100 head to head.
Y'all got two head to headmatchups, alright.
So I'm just reminding both ofy'all throwing that out there.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I don't need to be reminded man.
Just tell a man when he lose,zell me that evening so that
Monday whatever, whatever theclosing is just give me my money
because I'm not going to haveto pay you when y'all play y'all
.
Play next week, right, it's aweek or week after, it don't
matter.
Like yo, I'm going to get thebest deal.
I made the bet.
He agreed to it.
We're going to pay fair andsquare If he lose.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Don't sleep on your laurels, bro.
He picked up Lamar Jackson.
Lamar Jackson can go off at anygiven week.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I don't give a fuck.
Have my money, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And Tyreek Hill.
Oh, we could talk about TyreekHill too, but the man also has
Tyreek Hill.
Any given game.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What you're going to talk about the cop being a
little bit too aggressive withhim.
I could go either way, come on,I don't need you to cuff me.
That dude was super cheap.
He was crazy as fuck.
Man Don't do that.
There's the thing he wasspeeding Sure.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He didn't have a seatbelt on.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Great.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That being said, yeah , it might have been a little
excessive.
My thing is this and I'm notdefending the police, by no
means.
Sound like you're about to know.
And I know he was on his way tothe game, but it was like he
still had like a good two hours.
You know I'm saying, but youknow, you got to get there, prep
, you know, do your scrimmagesand practices and go through the
(19:36):
plays.
Yes, so he was probably runninglate, so he was speeding.
Okay, just pull your windowdown, man.
I'm just saying you know hecoming over, he's gonna ask for
the paperwork.
Just pull the window down, bro.
Pull the window down if youtell the police.
The guy it seemed like hedidn't even know who he was.
(19:58):
He ain't know who.
One of the cops identified him.
The initial cop who was tappingon his window.
Like yo put the window down,I'm going to break the shit.
He ain't know who Tyreek Hillwas, bro, and he sounded like he
was some Spanish motherfucker.
But yo, just put the windowdown, give them the paperwork if
you have it, and be like look,officer, my bad, I was probably
(20:19):
speeding.
I'm on my way to the stadium.
I'm about to be late.
I got a game.
If you don't recognize wham,I'm tyreek hill.
I got a game in a couple ofhours.
I gotta get to the stadium, mybad.
The policeman would haveprobably been like oh shit, my
bad, yo here, man, let me giveyou an autograph.
You want to take a couple ofpictures?
Let me be on my way?
And that would have probablybeen like, oh shit, my bad, yo
here, man, let me give you anautograph.
You want to take a couple ofpictures?
Let me be on my way.
(20:39):
And that would have been it.
But you get belligerent.
You don't want to pull thewindow down.
Like why you tapping on my shit?
You know what I mean.
Like, all of this shit is notnecessary by either party.
You don't got to getent ifyou're, you know, I mean the
(21:02):
driver.
Like you know.
I mean, pull the window down,show him your license, tell him
what's going on.
He would have been like oh shit, yo, can you give me an
autograph?
All right, my bad, they'llprobably escort you.
They probably would haveescorted you to the stadium and
gotten you there even faster,and that would have been it.
But now you know when we dothis whole shit.
I thought he was gonna get.
But it turns out he played hemade it in time, actually played
that game.
The policeman might get fired.
(21:23):
He got sent home.
Yeah, there might be a lawsuit.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
It's unfortunate, whatever Okay, but I mean all of this shit
could have been avoided.
Man, I just don't understand,like why?
Why, you know?
Just comply, just put yourwindow down.
You was speeding.
My bad say you was speeding.
I gotta be at the stadium andthat's it can I make a
(21:46):
counterpoint?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
go ahead when you're on your free time, right.
What I want you to do is go togo to YouTube, right, and just
type in white people while inover tickets and like, remember,
he's a, I know what you'reabout to say.
No, go to YouTube right andjust type in white people while
in over tickets.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
And like remember, he's a multi-millionaire NFL
star.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
He's a multi-millionaire NFL star.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You're about to say that white people do the worst
and don't get the treatment.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
They don't get cuffed , they don't do shit.
I get it.
Offices bitch clean up and themwhite people be going to fuck
off of them cops.
They be motherfucking up anddown, tearing up tickets,
driving away.
You don't see them in cuffsTalking about being
disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I've seen videos of white people telling them to
leave Like, alright man, justleave bro, I don't got time to
deal with you.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But him you're going to go ahead and pull him over.
You're going to go ahead and gothrough this whole thing, but
him you're going to go ahead andpull him over.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You're going to go ahead and go through this whole
thing Like Tyreek was wrong.
His people, his mans in them,got tickets too, because those
motherfuckers wanted to bebystanders and they ain't want
to leave the scene.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I was amazed Calais Campbell didn't get shot.
If you see some six foot eight,30 pound black man walking
towards you, most times you getpopped doing some shit like that
.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It wasn't flawed and and, like I said, he was trying
to figure out what's going on hedetained him.
Let me play devil's advocate.
Police told him to keep itmoving about seven times, I
count it he's blocking traffic.
Okay, this ain't our beef,ain't with you, just keep going.
About seven times, they toldhim he stays there.
Then, when the cop is like, Iguess I'm gonna have to give you
a ticket too, no, no, no, it'stoo late.
(23:16):
Now, man, I'm going to give youa ticket now too, because
you're obstructing traffic,you're obstructing the justice,
all this type of shit.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Anyway, go ahead and the ticket's fine.
Like I'm a millionaire, it'sfine.
Like I'm worried about give mea $300 ticket.
Like I'm making $6 million thisyear, it's fine.
It's 20 cents to me, but themoney's not the matter to worry
about.
It's this Like if it's atraffic stop, okay, it is what
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it is, but the level ofaggression in regards to it?
But, like I said, I'm seeing itfrom the perspective of a black
man, seeing way too many copsget way too aggressive for the
most basic of things and it'snot because they are violating
the law.
They feel that they areviolating that officer's
authority.
So the cop?
And, like I said, white peopleask the cops all the time and
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they just drive the fuck away.
They don't get put in handcuffsand get sat on the ground.
Is it one thing that bothparties can be wrong?
Absolutely Sure.
But the whole thing is thatwe're not going to talk about
Tyreek Hill the athlete, talkingabout Tyreek Hill the person.
If his name was Tyreek Jonesand he was driving a supercar or
some shit like that, I don'tthink he'd be deserving that
(24:30):
treatment either.
Like I said, I understand youfeel entitled because of who you
are and you want to get thefuck up on him and bite your way
, Then he's right.
We already know he's feeding.
He just take it, get the fuckon Everything else.
After that, interaction betweenhim and the officer seemed
unnecessary.
He exacerbated a little bit andthe cop took it a bit too far.
Again, it's a situation thattwo people can be right and can
(24:50):
be wrong at the same time.
I think this is what you'refalling into.
I think this is what you'refalling into.
It's fucked up that it happened.
It's worse that everything'sgoing to come of it.
And the worst part is that ifthe cop just acted like he had
some sense and stopped actinglike he was in authority, he
might still have his job.
It's more likely he's going tolose his job because it's too
high-profile a thing right nowto kind of let it slide Like I
probably is not going to sufficeat this point.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
All right, all right, but you sidetracked me, man.
I'm still trying to give myshout outs to my culture crew,
our loyal culture crew membersshout out to d block hellwick,
owner of in motion courierservices out of kasimi, florida.
Every time florida's mentioned,you can cringe a little bit,
right, because you know somewild shit be happening over
there.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Because I truly believe there's something about
the humidity and that moisturegetting in people's brain.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's a combination of things, bro.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I think it's a combination.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
It's the traffic, the humidity, the gators, the
hurricane, the racist people andall the mass shootings that
take place down there.
I think it's a combination ofall that shit that got people
going nuts.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's all the time, man.
Every time it's awesome.
Like I say, they allegedlytried to shoot this man in
Florida.
That's all you got to say.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
But we got a few coaching crew members out in
Florida, so we love them.
Shout out to Melly Mel.
Shout out to Taj.
Shout out to Anonymous.
Shout out to Remain Nameless.
We already gave Mikey Shea ashout out.
Am I missing anybody?
But oh, and one last thing.
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Going back to Kaiser, we stillgotta do the Wu-Tang versus.
He reminded me to remind youabout that shit, because it was
supposed to be meth, ray andghost, correct?
Yes, it was supposed to do theversus.
I had meth, I think you had Ray, maybe you had ghost, I can
take either.
And then he had the other one.
So we got to do that.
We got to do that soon.
(26:54):
So we got to do that.
We got to do that soon.
That could be a.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Patreon exclusive Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But when we got to get back to him He'll respond to
this Okay, fair enough, getthat shit popping.
I mean, I don't know.
I think Mef got the most hits,not because he's the most
popular in the group.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
But maybe because he's the most popular in the
group, I mean you say that, butremember it's got to be high
place Because you got to findthe songs and, like I said,
you're like, ah, Because thething is that with you, because
you like meth so much, like Ilike this song, that's the thing
.
It'd be some random track fromthe meth lab volume two.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But that's the thing with the Versuses too, who the
audience is, who's voting.
You know what I'm saying,because it could be somebody
that just likes the love ballads, the him, and Mary J joins.
You know what I mean.
But another listener could bechecking for the shit that Ray
do, the gutter shit.
You know what I mean.
But also, we got to establishthe rules too, because there's
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songs that all three of them arein together, or there's songs
that a couple of them might bein together.
Is it all fair game?
Whoever plays it first?
We're going to have toestablish these ground rules,
because if I play a song withall three of them on them, I
don't expect you to play thatsame song.
You know what I mean, because Icould play just the meth part
(28:20):
Right, so you can set the rulethat way.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So you basically say everyone got their 20, right?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
No, we're not doing 20.
That's too much.
How many you want to do?
We'll be there all day.
Let's just do 10.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Make it 15.
15 each, come on, but you ain'tgot to play the whole song.
Right, right, right.
So what you're going to do isthat you can make it 15.
Of the 15, 10 that got to beoriginal songs and the other
five is basically you just pickthe verses.
So that way, like I said,because we all well, like me and
Kaiser, might pick Ray and goesfrom.
(28:54):
Maybe that, like for the IceCream verse, for example.
I'm not saying it's going to bea thing, but they've done a lot
of shit together.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And then Mev got the hook on that.
Right, so it's going to be likethis, bro, whoever plays it
first.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Whoever gets to it, gets to it, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Whoever plays the song first, that person is going
to get credit for it.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
The other two are going to have to adjust, but
right now we're selling our rapshit, right?
What do you mean?
Right, what we're talking about, mm-hmm, all right.
So I mean I know we're kind oftailing off Twitter entries,
want to get people what we'regoing to get back to doing.
So let's make this easy.
Do you think Wayne deserved todo the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
No, and the only reason is that has nothing to do
with political, has nothing todo with affiliations, with
violence, with nothing Racism.
I got nothing to do with noneof that.
And this is just me.
I don't know what the truereason for them choosing not to
elect him.
My personal reason is because Isaw him perform this year at
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Wrestlemania In April In Philly.
Did you watch that shit?
Yes, and that shit was trash.
That was one of the worst liveperformances I have ever seen.
Any hip hopper partaking, doyou agree?
Yeah, granted, he was probablydrunk high.
(30:20):
He was all types of shit.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
There's a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But the shit was horrible.
He sounded bad.
He definitely lookeddisoriented and I'm not saying
anybody on the NFL committee orJay-Z, whatever committee that's
put together that's in chargeof the halftime show.
I don't know if they waschecking for this.
You know what I'm saying.
I don't know if anybody fromthat committee was watching
WrestleMania and saw Wayne'sperformance or it was a
(30:47):
culmination of things that ledup, but for me, I saw this
performance and I'm like, yeah,I'm good, I'm good on Wayne.
You know what I mean.
We could find somebody else.
And right now, kendrick Lamarwith his whole beef with Drake
and shit.
He's right now.
He's more popular at this pointin time.
He's hotter right now.
(31:10):
They're playing his music onthe radio right now still.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Outside of Taylor Swift, he might be the most
influential, important artistgoing on right now.
Correct.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Now, I was a little surprised that they went to him
this early, because he was heperformed with Dre.
What was it a couple years ago?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
What year or so ago?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, that's a whole thing he performed with Dre, so
I didn't think they were goingto go back to hip-hop right away
.
You know what I'm saying.
I figured they would do poplike a pop person.
I figured they may, you know,and I'm sure they did reach out
to Taylor Swift multiple timesand she's like nah, I'm good,
I'm too big for this, but Ifigured they would go to
somebody else I don't know who'spopular right now that they go
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here's a problem on the level ofthe Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
How many acts out there are there that you know,
that are like Super Bowl worthy?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
there's not a lot, yeah, but I just didn't think
they would go back to hip-hopthis soon not, and especially
not Kendrick, who just performedwith Dr Dre not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I don't think they were actually aiming for
Kendrick.
I think just the way that theyear has gone, his availability,
you had to kind of like do it.
You know what.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I'm saying you had Usher last year with Alicia Keys
and all of that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
So I figured they would do a couple of years of
that, get like maybe a popperson, an R&B person, somebody
more quote, unquote, safe.
You know what I mean.
Right, but who Like who's left?
Because you had Snoop Dogg acouple of years ago, he's.
You know he was repping theCrips and shit.
You know he was repping theflag.
I was like, ah, they're notgoing to go back to that soon.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, but he also out here with Martha Stewart, right
, he stopped Cripping a longtime ago.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Now do they?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
let I mean, I guess, Kendrick has to do it.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You have to do that at least for 20 or 30 seconds.
Let some people dance.
Do they allow the crip walkingup on the stage?
Do they allow all theaffiliated members to come up on
there.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Snoop was up there whole ass.
Z-walking.
Yes, you can do it Once you hadSnoop out there.
Z-walking, anybody can do it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
But again, that just happened a couple years ago.
Are they going to allow thatagain so soon?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
But that's the whole point and I think if you're
talking about anything inregards to the influence of
Jay-Z in regards to Superbowl,we're going to disregard the
soul Kendrick thing.
It's a fact that they haveblack artists up there
performing and it kind of fits.
Like I said, the thing withusher was in Vegas at time and
the reason because he was sopopular in Vegas.
Like you know, people who liketook their time have slide to
there, go see his show.
(33:43):
That's how popular he was.
He happened to be there.
He doesn't represent Vegas, hejust happened to be there.
People are saying, well, they'reNew Orleans.
You have Lil Wayne.
The whole problem with that.
It's not what we said beforeabout his performance sucking at
WrestleMania, it's the wholething that when you think about
it and you see him, is he drunkor high?
That's their biggest issue.
Can you have you out here inthe biggest stage fucking up
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lyrics?
You think he still drinks lean?
I don't think so.
I don't know.
I don't think I might be offthat, but he might be on other
substances, and this is just.
I'm just insinuating.
I'm not saying that it's true,but the fact that you thought
that watching him atWrestleMania says enough.
So if you put that on anaudience of hundreds of millions
(34:26):
of people.
You have to be on your A game.
They're not going to pick nohalf-ass artists.
The funny thing about the SuperBowl is that the guy that
should have been perfect for theSuper Bowl, Drake, Clean enough
to get in the pits.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I was going to ask you do you think Kendrick brings
out Drake no, because I justthink he doesn't like him.
Kendrick brings out Drake no.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I know, because I just think he doesn't like it.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I don't know if you've been following.
Drake has been playing theKendrick songs in his concerts.
Because he recognizes, he'slike fuck it, if I can't beat
him, let's join him.
So he'll throw on Not Like Us,and he'll sing and he'll dance
along to the shit, which to meis kind of weird.
It is, but it's also probablylike a sign of solidarity, like
he's trying to extend the olivebranch, it's not?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
weird, you got it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Like, you got this.
You know what I mean.
Let's move on from it.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Like it's weird when you say it, but it's not really
that weird because, like yousaid, unless you got some shit
saying I'm a pedophile.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, but 20 years later you don't see Nas playing
a fucking what was the shitTakeover?
You don't see Jay playing Ether.
And they've been squashed, theybeef.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, but they're also two dudes in two different
lanes.
Nas still out here performing,jay is not.
Jay out here buying art and allthe kind of cool shit.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
he's doing, man, he got no time for all this.
Like I said, jay would be aperfect person to have at the
Super Bowl, because he has thetrack record, he has the hits.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
He won't do it, yo, but how wild would it be if
Kendrick says you know, rememberhow Jay brought Nas out when
they squashed their beef?
He's like fuck it, let's dothis for hip-hop.
You imagine Kendrick in frontof the world, this is the most
audience, the most views he'sgoing to have.
This is the biggest stage, theSuper Bowl halftime show.
More people are going to watchthis than any other show.
(36:12):
And he says yo fuck it for theculture, no, and brings out
Drake.
And then they do the one songthat they got together real
quick.
He can't do it, he can't do it,he can't.
You think he'll lose somestreet cred.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
He'll lose all credibility because the whole
thing he's trying to point out,like I am the culture, you're a
visitor to the culture.
That's the difference.
Me trying to beat crush shit upwith you is not the thing.
That's his issue with Drake.
It's not that he just likes himas a person, he just thinks
that he's.
Like I said, you're not acolleague, you're a fucking
colonizer.
You come in here, you jump ontrends, you do all this other
(36:47):
kind of shit.
You sound Jamaican, you do this, you do that and like you're
not yourself, you don'trepresent the culture I do.
I'm not even saying I am, he'sa part of it.
Kendrick loves this shit.
Kendrick, like, here's thething.
Like I said, he just had aconcert in Englewood.
He just became the moststreamed person of all time.
(37:08):
Yeah, like I said, he had thepop-out thing.
He put on a little mini concertright there, so you're giving
him the stage to do this on thegrander scale of the Super Bowl.
He's the most popular personout there.
Can you remember the Super Bowl?
They don't pay you Right.
All your shit's coming from.
Like you know you get morestreams and shit like that.
(37:29):
Like I said, that's why TaylorSwift's never doing it Like
she's a businesswoman.
She don't need that shit.
She's out here endorsingpolitical candidates.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
So you know she don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
You know she don't need money.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
She don't care if she loses fans, she don't need
money, she good.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
And when you get to that part and as you try to
figure out who's the bigger star, stars at that level don't come
out like that beyonce is notdoing this no more.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I think that's one of the universal signs that they
good, they super good when theystart endorsing candidates.
When you see a celebrityendorse a political candidate
and they lean one way, you knowthey good they bag is secure
because there's influencers andthere's influencers.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
She's an influencer when she says something.
She has millions of people thatfollow her trends Friendship
bracelets, shit like that.
If Taylor Swift says you knowwhat, I prefer Pepsi to Coke,
Coke stock could fucking plummetImmediately.
She's just that powerful.
When she says I'm behind thisperson, that means it's almost
(38:30):
like being in the union, like weall gotta vote for her.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Now that that's my people.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
So yeah, so when you talk about that level of fame,
if you got enough power to like,help, maybe possibly influence
a presidential election, whatthe fuck would you give a fuck
about?
The superbowl?
Like, I don't care, not doing,she's not doing it.
Like I said, in the whole thingthey bitching about Wayne and
being in his town.
Like yo, when the shit was inMinneapolis, they didn't have
Prince there.
No, if Prince did it somewhereelse, it doesn't matter.
(38:57):
It doesn't matter.
And, like I said, I don't wantto have an argument about Wayne.
I love Wayne.
I think he deserves a spot.
Just because it's home, he's inyour top 10?
, wayne?
Yeah, easy, easy, no hesitation.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Wayne is one of those rappers, much like Jay too,
that I've learned to appreciateas I've gotten older.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Wayne's like LeBron James at rapping.
You're amazed how long he'sbeen doing this.
This is going on what?
30 plus years?
Yeah, it's crazy.
Yeah, I mean, and it's alldifferent ones, I just have to
the longest time I had to getpast his voice.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
You know what I mean.
I had to get past the voice.
I had to get past the accent.
I had to get past, you knowwhat I mean, all of that.
And then when I started reallylistening to him and trying to
put together the words, I'm likeyo, this motherfucker nice.
He's probably the king of thepunchlines and shit.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Wayne Witty Wayne the Carter series is great.
His mixtape run is almostimpeccable.
His mixtape run might be makinghim untouchable.
No one.
Maybe fab maybe had a bettermixtape run?
Yes, easily Right.
So when?
Maybe fab maybe had a bettermixed tape?
Yes, easily right.
So when you think about himover time you realize how great
he actually is.
It's not anything negativeagainst wayne.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Is the fact like fuck , he's good, he's amazingly good
, and I don't know how he'sstill good at this the thing you
could do with hip that youcan't do in sports, though, is
you can say yo, he's the bestfrom the south.
You know, I mean you couldbreak it down like yo, this guy
is the best in new york, thisguy is the best cube or
whoever's the best out west.
You know, I mean, wayne is thebest in the south.
(40:34):
You could say that naz and jayand big they're the best in new
york but it's a, it's a greatcomparison because rappers like
basketball players, because like.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
It's like how you say someone who's the best shooter.
It's like saying who's the bestlyricist or who's the best um,
who has the best doubleentendres, or who has the best
flow, who has the best voice.
It's like the best storyteller,right, like like dmx might not
be in your top 10, but it mightbe in your top five in regards
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to like voice and personalityand how it makes you feel Like
that.
Yes, that's what's likebasketball sometimes.
Sometimes, when you're a GOATin basketball and you're a GOAT
in rap, that means you have theparticular versatility that not
a lot of people do Like.
When you say Jay, he's like oh,jay's in my top five, like, I
get it.
Like you don't even argue Nah,he's in my top five, okay, I get
(41:30):
it.
But you say LL's in my top five, ooh, but then you have to make
your case.
But that's like saying you know, vince is the greatest dunker.
Most people will say that.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
And LL's like Dominique Wilkins, you're like
oh yeah, I forgot how fuckinggood he was, and the LL album is
dope too, son.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, the Force is great.
Actually, it's surprising howwell him and Q-Tip go together.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Q-Tip produced the whole thing, whole thing.
Do you like the song with himand Eminem?
No, here we go with this.
Eminem hate again.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
LL did his thing on there.
He went toe to toe.
He did the fast shit, he didthe slow shit.
You know what I mean?
I know, but I hate that.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
It's like L they just rapping Right, I know, but I
just want L to do what he do inhis LL way.
It's not that I hated the song.
Actually I like both of them onit.
I just don't like how it flowstogether.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
My favorite song is Saturday Night.
What's that shit called?
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Saturday Night Special.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
The only thing I hate about the song is Fat Joe.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I felt like he didn't fit.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
It just felt like he ain't fit.
Ll comes on, he spits his shit.
Ross comes on he's spitting.
That's what I felt about theEminem thing and it felt deep,
it felt lyrical and then herecomes Fat Joe and he's talking
about you know the street shitand selling crack and whatever
the fuck he does like alrightman.
I felt like his verse didn'tfit well, like if they could
replace Joe with like a Nas orsomebody more lyrical, I thought
(43:02):
it would have been better youknow what I don't understand
about?
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Joe, Like you ain't sold crack in 20 years, man Let
that shit go Crack crack.
Like all right man Joey crack.
I get it.
You started a thing with himout here with no shirt on
looking sexy.
Go ahead, Joe, he has somedouble D titties bro.
Hey man, you got a little flyboy flapping the wind.
Fly, pelican fly.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
But yo man, let's end this one.
I just want to let the culturecrew and all the listeners know
that we ain't going to, unlesssomething catastrophic happens,
you know, a tragedy or somethinglike that.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Jesus Christ, stop that shit.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I told you I could get this liver shit.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
looked at he's like it's kind of catastrophic Like
let me get my liver together.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Calm down.
Yo, we appreciate y'all.
We got some more shit.
Yo, the merch is coming thoughfor the Culture Crew members.
I got the merch on the way.
Thank you for tuning in.
We'll be back soon.
Peace, bye.
Yo, yo yo, we're back .
Yo, we're finally back after along hiatus, the longest hiatus
that the culture has ever taken.
We've been gone for what, ant?
About three months.
The summer, yeah, no, it's beenlike three months since the
last time I recorded.
(00:20):
You haven't recorded in longerthan that.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, it's pretty much been off the whole summer.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, because I did.
I think I did one or twoepisodes with Mikey G.
You know what I'm saying.
Like it's just a lot has beengoing on.
You know what I'm saying, withyour help, if you want to touch
on that.
I moved.
I moved from Jersey to PA.
Be in your house in the PokemonMountains.
We out here.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, you're right, we out here.
Yeah, you're right, I did Got anice little pool or anything
else like that.
I'm going to come out theresoon enough.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So that's keeping me super busy.
You need to come through though.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, but since the health thing, that shit's sorted
out, I was in the hospital.
Yeah, fine, I was in thehospital.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
People were worried about you, brother Like yo,
where at now I'm like yo, so Iwas at work and I was like I
felt off.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I couldn't like describe it, but I felt really,
really off.
And all of a sudden I felt likethis hard-ass beat in my chest
and I was like I got to go now,like I need to leave, I need to
go to the hospital, like he said, and I wasn't going to call,
wait for them to give me anambulance.
I know it's stupid, I know it'sdumb, but I drove myself to the
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hospital, dangerous as fuck,jesus Christ.
Well, because the whole thingwith the COVID thing, my brain
got a little bit twisted up.
I'm going to control my ownlife.
If I'm going to go to thehospital, I'm going to go to the
hospital.
So it started there.
I went there and then all of asudden, they got me strapped to
(01:55):
machines, they got an IV, theyall had all kinds of nonsense
going on.
So they do that, run some tests.
And they was like we just wantto make sure you're okay.
I'm like, okay, what seems tobe the problem?
And they were like well, one oftwo things, you okay.
(02:17):
So they gave me something formy blood pressure.
It's not extremely high, just alittle bit higher than usual,
but it's okay.
But then all of a sudden it waslike well, we did your blood
test and kidneys is a little meh, like okay, I'm like what do
you mean?
They're like well, the guypokes me in the back so he's
(02:37):
feeling a thing here.
No, pokes me again, so he'sfeeling a thing.
I says no.
They're like okay, so it's likeokay.
So it's going to be one of twothings Either A, you got a
kidney infection that you can'tfeel which is surprising, most
people do feel it or two, you'reat the beginning stages of
kidney failure.
Now like huh, interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But he looks at me.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But that's the whole thing.
I don't drink like that.
I have a beer, but you know mewell enough.
If we have it, I get together,Let me get another, get another,
get another.
I might have a shot your sisterpoured and that's really it.
The rest of y'all keep ongetting down, but not really so.
They put me some medication forlike three weeks.
(03:22):
I'm trying to get myselftogether.
I can't sleep, I'm in and outof it.
Then they find out like it waskind of like a, really it was
like a bad infection.
The doctor said again, that'sstrange, you get a slight kidney
infection, Like you're hurting.
You weren't like okay, allright, it's good to know.
And then I'm going to tell you,and I'll tell everybody
(03:45):
listening for the first time.
Everybody's going to know.
I go for a follow-up and adoctor.
Then he says okay, yourkidney's fine.
Okay, we want to send you forsome follow-up blood work.
And they do it again.
(04:08):
Then they say, well, this is abit elevated.
Like, all right, doc, what thefuck is it?
He's like well, we're going toneed you to send you in for a
biopsy on your liver.
And I'm like really, so youhave to go inside, take out a
little piece.
Yeah, yeah, It'll be fine.
(04:30):
They go ahead, they do thebiopsy.
I think four days ago they saidwell, you don't have liver
damage to that degree, but itlooks like you have cirrhosis.
I said of the, but it lookslike you have cirrhosis, I said
of the liver.
How the fuck does cirrhosis ofthe liver?
I'm not an alcoholic.
He's like we don't know.
(04:50):
We're going to do some moretests.
So if you look at my face, yousee a little thinner and shit
like that.
You look like you lost weighttoo, Motherfucker, it's hard to
eat and drink and shit like that, and keep fucking with your
body.
So yeah, I lost it and yeah,I'm with you, but not like that
Bunch of vegetables, bunch ofchicken, shitload of water,
(05:12):
stuff like that.
So they're going to see what'sgoing on in my liver.
Now it's nothing to worry about, and I was like yo man, you
said that before.
It's nothing to worry about, soI'm not bothered, it's just
some other shit's going on withme.
I ain't dead.
I mean, I did that before.
This shit wasn't cool.
So outside of this, I justgotta take care.
I mean, just enjoy my lifewhile it is and not trip out.
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So I won't trip out, Just keepbeing here and do what I'm doing
.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Welcome back, brother .
Thank you.
Happy that you're back, happythat you're healthy, somewhat
Getting there, at least Yo.
But a lot of shit has happenedsince we've been gone.
Fucking president almost gotassassinated.
Well, former President Trumpalmost got assassinated.
They saying twice, not once buttwice All right.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But the second one I don't agree upon calling it an
assassination.
I don't.
It's Florida.
They said they saw somebodynear the golf course, 400 yards
away, with a GoPro and a rifle.
Now Florida's an open carrystate.
They never said the guy took ashot at him.
If you shoot at somebody that'san assassination attempt.
(06:24):
They never attempted toassassinate him.
He just a white guy walkingaround florida with a camera and
a gun.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
that's not really that unusual if you think about
it I mean, if you ask me, bro,to me the whole shit is a hoax.
That first one was a hoax, ifyou ask me.
But you know we're not tryingto get too conspiratorial.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No, that's the shit you look.
You look conspiratorial.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
You know what I'm saying?
Not today, but what elsehappened, man?
Yo hip hop made it to theOlympics.
You talking about that bitchpop locking With the break
dancing.
The women's shit wasembarrassing, but the men's shit
was alright.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, but it got so bad they eliminated it at the
one year.
They're like we're not doingthis shit, no more.
Yeah, we out.
But they should do it next yearbecause if it's going to be in
LA with all the crunkers andeverything else, like that, it'd
be perfect.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
They should bring freestyling bro to the Olympics.
Yo, battle rapping and someshit, have a.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
A rap Olympics, the battle rap team.
They got too many priors.
They can't have them on anational stage.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
They probably can't do shit like that because of the
language barriers.
You know what I'm saying.
They can't do that.
They could do the dancing,because it's universal.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The language barrier is the cursing.
That's the barrier.
Can't be out there spittingballs Talking amongst my mamas.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
When I saw that shit, I was like yo, hip hop is
everywhere, man.
And speaking of hip hop iseverywhere, biggie made it into
the Marvel Comics and I got mine.
Only 3,000 copies were made andyou got one of them, and I got
one of them.
Biggie trying to separateWolverine and Deadpool from
(08:06):
fucking each other up.
He's in the middle like yo,fellas, this ain't it.
I haven't read it yet becauseI'm afraid to open it.
I don't want to fuck it upbecause this shit might be,
worth one day.
I do want to read it, though.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I want to see what Biggie got to say in this shit
oh, that's what you got to say,speaking of that, you, what
Biggie got to say in this shit?
Oh, that's what you got to say,speaking of that.
You know it's the 30thanniversary of Ready to Die.
Where does that fall?
All time for you, not him.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Just that album.
Ready to Die?
The album.
It's in my top 10.
It's probably.
I mean, we've done the top 5before.
It's not in my top 5.
Because we know I got DMX,lauren Hill, wu Tang Nas.
I forget what my fifth one is,but I think I have, yeah, I got
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big in the top 10.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Ready to die, I mean the fact he writes that album.
He's what?
22 years old Because he's deadby 25?
Yep.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Come on now, as grown men, 20 plus years later, as
grown men, we're in our 40s andwe're still talking about an
album where the guy was 20 yearsold and we're still putting
that.
I guess all of them, even Nas.
What was he when he droppedDillmatic 19?
Yeah, and these albums areprobably forever going to be in
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our top five, our top tens.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Like I always say, I always hated that Nas' first
album was that.
Oh, it's still Because it'shard, like I mean he's made some
very.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
that's not even my favorite Nas album I am is but
the fact that he set the bar sohigh with his very first album,
fucked a lot of people up howmany people do you know, with
their first album, come out witha classic?
Not many, and everybody wasgoing platinum in the 90s.
That that's the joke.
Everybody was platinum.
But no, he set the bar so highthat it's hard to top that, and
(10:11):
everybody's first album isusually their best album.
But that Illmatic is probablybetter than everybody else's
first album.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, I know it's a lot of first albums, but the
whole thing with something likethat comes down to the fact that
you have that million right.
People say, like all therappers, they all had a million,
but it doesn't mean thatthey're going to be memorable,
like just the fact that his bestwork is one of the best works.
The Lauryn Hill thing One album, one shot, one kill, and it's
(10:51):
University of Cleveland, one ofthe greatest albums ever.
No matter what she didafterward, if she decided to
make a follow-up to Miseducation, it's going to pale in
comparison to Miseducation,because you're going to compare
everything she does to that.
That's why I was so excited tohear a verse from her on a Nas
thing Like, oh man, that's theLord I remember, but you still
(11:12):
don't want.
You don't want a follow-up, youdon't want something to fuck up
.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
My sources are telling me she's working on
another project that she wantsto drop before the year's over.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh, I'm going to tell you a story.
I didn't go.
I didn't go.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But um, you didn't go where you went to the Usher
concert.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh, hold up, we're going to get there, all right.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You went to the Roots concert.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, but I always go .
But I didn't really like itthis year, like it's way too
many people who are fucking hotand crowded.
That's why I didn't want tofucking talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh, you didn't go to the Lauren shit that she was
doing here.
Which, lauren Lauren Hill,we're getting there.
All right, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So it's this bar and restaurant near West Orange and
they were having.
I think it might have.
I think it might have been likeMaplewood, nah, maplewood.
I think Maplewood might havebeen having like a class reunion
sometimes like that, and LaurynHill casually walks in there,
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does a couple songs, takes apicture with a couple people,
she leaves.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Wait unannounced.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Unannounced.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Oh shit.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Remember she's from the Maplewood, South Nigeria.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Was she trying to do a little trial run to see what
the reception is?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No, it was like they were holding a class reunion
there and I guess word got backto her.
She walks in, says hi to acouple people, goes by the DJ
booth does like three songs.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Wait, this was her high school graduation class.
That was there.
No, no, it was like an allreunion class.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Oh Right, it wasn't like she was a guest or anything
, she just popped up, pops up.
I gotta find a fucking.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
She was like give me the mic.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah and does a couple songs, chills with the
people, and then she just leavesGod damn Like on some
friendship so they got a freeLauryn Hill concert.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That would have been a night to remember For them.
It probably was.
I'm sure the fucking venue waspissed.
They're like yo.
I wish you would have beencoming.
We would have charged somemotherfuckers at the door.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I know you could have , but the thing about life is
sometimes you got to createmoments, and this is just one of
them like it's one of thethings that you get older.
You tell somebody like one day Iwas in a bar somewhere and we
were celebrating class reunionand lauren hill shows up.
What you're hoping is that yourkid says that's cool and that
your kid doesn't say well, who'slauren hill?
Then you have a problem.
(13:38):
But this shit was awesome.
Okay, the usher shit was dope.
I randomly got tickets for mycousin my cousin can't fucking
drive and it was like I want tosee Usher.
I'm like I don't really want tosee Usher because I saw Usher a
couple years ago in a park forBruce's picnic.
He's like, yeah, but I gotthese tickets.
My homegirl can't go.
Whatever Usher puts on the show, he's on his roller skates.
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They're having a good old time.
The funny part it was likeAuntie Fess 2024.
It was, but it was a lot ofolder ladies there.
It was like older than me.
It was like a lot of auntsthere.
It was like a 30 to 1 male tofemale ratio.
You forget Usher's like 50.
No, he's 45.
He is, he's 45 years old.
(14:25):
So he's about your age.
Yeah, he's not that old.
But there was a lot of oldwomen in with some very young
girl outfits on which.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I found kind of hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Like I said, the ratio is about, I could say, 30
to 1.
That's probably low.
All the dudes in there werejust kind of pissed.
They just looked disappointed.
They didn't want to be there.
The girl wanted to go, so theyjust kind of sit back and cool.
But some songs they had to getup, man listen it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I don't want to go.
I bought two tickets and I tellwifey to take one of her
homegirls or whoever.
You know what I'm saying.
I bought wifey two tickets togo see Marc Anthony.
I didn't want to go see MarkAnthony, but I bought him for
her.
I wasn't.
No, I ain't go.
She went with another shorty.
Oh, you didn't go.
No, I'm not going to sitthrough with Mark Anthony.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I thought you would Well.
Mark Anthony ain't Usher though.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You know what I'm saying?
I know the man can sing.
He's talented, I'm not going tosit through that.
So I know she likes MarkAnthony.
So I got her two tickets andshe chooses who she wants to go
with.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, but Mark ain't Usher, Mark ain't Anthony Mark
ain't Anthony.
Nah, but Usher.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'll go see Usher.
I'll see Usher.
He can, he could dance.
You know what I'm saying.
I definitely would see thatshit.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like you know, he does his shit, but apparently
the Barclays show was live.
He brought out Swiss, hebrought out Timbaland.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But no Swiss.
But that's the thing you expectthem to bring.
You expect these guys to bringpeople.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
He does it every city , whoever the person in the city
he did Like in Detroit, hebrought up Big Sean.
He brings out the rap.
Back when I was in Philly hebrought out I think the first
night it was Freeway.
I think he was there for twonights in a row.
I think the second night.
I don't think he brought outFree two nights in a row, but
someone else from Philly.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You know what I'm saying.
He got songs with most of thesepeople.
If he's in Atlanta, he couldbring out Jerm of dudes that he
got songs with.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
But that's the whole thing.
If I was him and I'm in AtlantaI'm not bringing out nobody
else.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I'm the king of the city, but I'm saying he can,
though he can, because he gotsongs with all the legends from
Atlanta.
But anyways, yo, I just wantedto talk to the Patreons real
quick, the Culture Crew man, atleast the ones that stuck with
us through this time.
First of all, I appreciatey'all shout outs to the coach
crew.
Um, I'm gonna put a hold onyour patreon, so I'm not gonna,
(16:43):
you know, I mean, so y'all,y'all, you're not gonna get
dubbed it for at least threemonths debited you ain't got to
pay put it that way for at Forat least three months.
You know what I'm saying.
As a thank you, I also gotmerch right now in the bag
that's being prepared for y'all.
(17:05):
Got some ill merch beingprepared.
It's winter time, winter timeis coming, so I got some hoodies
coming your way.
You feel me.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Are you a summer dude or a fall dude?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I like fall.
I don't like too cold, I don'tlike too hot Spring and fall is
perfect, right.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I mean that's 60, 70 degrees.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You know what I mean.
Hoodie weather I could throw ahoodie with some shorts.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, mine's going to be spring, no fall, spring,
fall, spring, winter, summer,always said over there, but hit
me too high yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Shout out to the culture cool, appreciate y'all.
I got merch coming through.
Shout out to mikey she, hisbirthday's coming up.
Hey, son, getting big as fuck,big as a motherfucker.
All he do is post videos ofthis little motherfucker eating
just eating shit.
He a savage and playingpickleball.
Shout outs to Kaiser Kaiser,two things.
(18:04):
First of all, y'all got anongoing bet on the fantasy right
.
Head to head $100 head to head.
Y'all got two head to headmatchups, alright.
So I'm just reminding both ofy'all throwing that out there.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I don't need to be reminded man.
Just tell a man when he lose,zell me that evening so that
Monday whatever, whatever theclosing is just give me my money
because I'm not going to haveto pay you when y'all play y'all
.
Play next week, right, it's aweek or week after, it don't
matter.
Like yo, I'm going to get thebest deal.
I made the bet.
He agreed to it.
We're going to pay fair andsquare If he lose.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Don't sleep on your laurels, bro.
He picked up Lamar Jackson.
Lamar Jackson can go off at anygiven week.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I don't give a fuck.
Have my money, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And Tyreek Hill.
Oh, we could talk about TyreekHill too, but the man also has
Tyreek Hill.
Any given game.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What you're going to talk about the cop being a
little bit too aggressive withhim.
I could go either way, come on,I don't need you to cuff me.
That dude was super cheap.
He was crazy as fuck.
Man Don't do that.
There's the thing he wasspeeding Sure.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He didn't have a seatbelt on.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Great.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That being said, yeah , it might have been a little
excessive.
My thing is this and I'm notdefending the police, by no
means.
Sound like you're about to know.
And I know he was on his way tothe game, but it was like he
still had like a good two hours.
You know I'm saying, but youknow, you got to get there, prep
, you know, do your scrimmagesand practices and go through the
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plays.
Yes, so he was probably runninglate, so he was speeding.
Okay, just pull your windowdown, man.
I'm just saying you know hecoming over, he's gonna ask for
the paperwork.
Just pull the window down, bro.
Pull the window down if youtell the police.
The guy it seemed like hedidn't even know who he was.
(19:58):
He ain't know who.
One of the cops identified him.
The initial cop who was tappingon his window.
Like yo put the window down,I'm going to break the shit.
He ain't know who Tyreek Hillwas, bro, and he sounded like he
was some Spanish motherfucker.
But yo, just put the windowdown, give them the paperwork if
you have it, and be like look,officer, my bad, I was probably
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speeding.
I'm on my way to the stadium.
I'm about to be late.
I got a game.
If you don't recognize wham,I'm tyreek hill.
I got a game in a couple ofhours.
I gotta get to the stadium, mybad.
The policeman would haveprobably been like oh shit, my
bad, yo here, man, let me giveyou an autograph.
You want to take a couple ofpictures?
Let me be on my way?
And that would have probablybeen like, oh shit, my bad, yo
here, man, let me give you anautograph.
You want to take a couple ofpictures?
Let me be on my way.
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And that would have been it.
But you get belligerent.
You don't want to pull thewindow down.
Like why you tapping on my shit?
You know what I mean.
Like, all of this shit is notnecessary by either party.
You don't got to getent ifyou're, you know, I mean the
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driver.
Like you know.
I mean, pull the window down,show him your license, tell him
what's going on.
He would have been like oh shit, yo, can you give me an
autograph?
All right, my bad, they'llprobably escort you.
They probably would haveescorted you to the stadium and
gotten you there even faster,and that would have been it.
But now you know when we dothis whole shit.
I thought he was gonna get.
But it turns out he played hemade it in time, actually played
that game.
The policeman might get fired.
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He got sent home.
Yeah, there might be a lawsuit.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
It's unfortunate, whatever Okay, but I mean all of this shit
could have been avoided.
Man, I just don't understand,like why?
Why, you know?
Just comply, just put yourwindow down.
You was speeding.
My bad say you was speeding.
I gotta be at the stadium andthat's it can I make a
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counterpoint?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
go ahead when you're on your free time, right.
What I want you to do is go togo to YouTube, right, and just
type in white people while inover tickets and like, remember,
he's a, I know what you'reabout to say.
No, go to YouTube right andjust type in white people while
in over tickets.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
And like remember, he's a multi-millionaire NFL
star.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
He's a multi-millionaire NFL star.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You're about to say that white people do the worst
and don't get the treatment.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
They don't get cuffed , they don't do shit.
I get it.
Offices bitch clean up and themwhite people be going to fuck
off of them cops.
They be motherfucking up anddown, tearing up tickets,
driving away.
You don't see them in cuffsTalking about being
disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I've seen videos of white people telling them to
leave Like, alright man, justleave bro, I don't got time to
deal with you.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
But him you're going to go ahead and pull him over.
You're going to go ahead and gothrough this whole thing, but
him you're going to go ahead andpull him over.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You're going to go ahead and go through this whole
thing Like Tyreek was wrong.
His people, his mans in them,got tickets too, because those
motherfuckers wanted to bebystanders and they ain't want
to leave the scene.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I was amazed Calais Campbell didn't get shot.
If you see some six foot eight,30 pound black man walking
towards you, most times you getpopped doing some shit like that
.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It wasn't flawed and and, like I said, he was trying
to figure out what's going on hedetained him.
Let me play devil's advocate.
Police told him to keep itmoving about seven times, I
count it he's blocking traffic.
Okay, this ain't our beef,ain't with you, just keep going.
About seven times, they toldhim he stays there.
Then, when the cop is like, Iguess I'm gonna have to give you
a ticket too, no, no, no, it'stoo late.
(23:16):
Now, man, I'm going to give youa ticket now too, because
you're obstructing traffic,you're obstructing the justice,
all this type of shit.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Anyway, go ahead and the ticket's fine.
Like I'm a millionaire, it'sfine.
Like I'm worried about give mea $300 ticket.
Like I'm making $6 million thisyear, it's fine.
It's 20 cents to me, but themoney's not the matter to worry
about.
It's this Like if it's atraffic stop, okay, it is what
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it is, but the level ofaggression in regards to it?
But, like I said, I'm seeing itfrom the perspective of a black
man, seeing way too many copsget way too aggressive for the
most basic of things and it'snot because they are violating
the law.
They feel that they areviolating that officer's
authority.
So the cop?
And, like I said, white peopleask the cops all the time and
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they just drive the fuck away.
They don't get put in handcuffsand get sat on the ground.
Is it one thing that bothparties can be wrong?
Absolutely Sure.
But the whole thing is thatwe're not going to talk about
Tyreek Hill the athlete, talkingabout Tyreek Hill the person.
If his name was Tyreek Jonesand he was driving a supercar or
some shit like that, I don'tthink he'd be deserving that
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treatment either.
Like I said, I understand youfeel entitled because of who you
are and you want to get thefuck up on him and bite your way
, Then he's right.
We already know he's feeding.
He just take it, get the fuckon Everything else.
After that, interaction betweenhim and the officer seemed
unnecessary.
He exacerbated a little bit andthe cop took it a bit too far.
Again, it's a situation thattwo people can be right and can
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be wrong at the same time.
I think this is what you'refalling into.
I think this is what you'refalling into.
It's fucked up that it happened.
It's worse that everything'sgoing to come of it.
And the worst part is that ifthe cop just acted like he had
some sense and stopped actinglike he was in authority, he
might still have his job.
It's more likely he's going tolose his job because it's too
high-profile a thing right nowto kind of let it slide Like I
probably is not going to sufficeat this point.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
All right, all right, but you sidetracked me, man.
I'm still trying to give myshout outs to my culture crew,
our loyal culture crew membersshout out to d block hellwick,
owner of in motion courierservices out of kasimi, florida.
Every time florida's mentioned,you can cringe a little bit,
right, because you know somewild shit be happening over
there.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Because I truly believe there's something about
the humidity and that moisturegetting in people's brain.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's a combination of things, bro.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I think it's a combination.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
It's the traffic, the humidity, the gators, the
hurricane, the racist people andall the mass shootings that
take place down there.
I think it's a combination ofall that shit that got people
going nuts.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's all the time, man.
Every time it's awesome.
Like I say, they allegedlytried to shoot this man in
Florida.
That's all you got to say.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
But we got a few coaching crew members out in
Florida, so we love them.
Shout out to Melly Mel.
Shout out to Taj.
Shout out to Anonymous.
Shout out to Remain Nameless.
We already gave Mikey Shea ashout out.
Am I missing anybody?
But oh, and one last thing.
(26:33):
Going back to Kaiser, we stillgotta do the Wu-Tang versus.
He reminded me to remind youabout that shit, because it was
supposed to be meth, ray andghost, correct?
Yes, it was supposed to do theversus.
I had meth, I think you had Ray, maybe you had ghost, I can
take either.
And then he had the other one.
So we got to do that.
We got to do that soon.
(26:54):
So we got to do that.
We got to do that soon.
That could be a.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Patreon exclusive Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But when we got to get back to him He'll respond to
this Okay, fair enough, getthat shit popping.
I mean, I don't know.
I think Mef got the most hits,not because he's the most
popular in the group.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
But maybe because he's the most popular in the
group, I mean you say that, butremember it's got to be high
place Because you got to findthe songs and, like I said,
you're like, ah, Because thething is that with you, because
you like meth so much, like Ilike this song, that's the thing
.
It'd be some random track fromthe meth lab volume two.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But that's the thing with the Versuses too, who the
audience is, who's voting.
You know what I'm saying,because it could be somebody
that just likes the love ballads, the him, and Mary J joins.
You know what I mean.
But another listener could bechecking for the shit that Ray
do, the gutter shit.
You know what I mean.
But also, we got to establishthe rules too, because there's
(27:59):
songs that all three of them arein together, or there's songs
that a couple of them might bein together.
Is it all fair game?
Whoever plays it first?
We're going to have toestablish these ground rules,
because if I play a song withall three of them on them, I
don't expect you to play thatsame song.
You know what I mean, because Icould play just the meth part
(28:20):
Right, so you can set the rulethat way.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So you basically say everyone got their 20, right?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
No, we're not doing 20.
That's too much.
How many you want to do?
We'll be there all day.
Let's just do 10.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Make it 15.
15 each, come on, but you ain'tgot to play the whole song.
Right, right, right.
So what you're going to do isthat you can make it 15.
Of the 15, 10 that got to beoriginal songs and the other
five is basically you just pickthe verses.
So that way, like I said,because we all well, like me and
Kaiser, might pick Ray and goesfrom.
(28:54):
Maybe that, like for the IceCream verse, for example.
I'm not saying it's going to bea thing, but they've done a lot
of shit together.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And then Mev got the hook on that.
Right, so it's going to be likethis, bro, whoever plays it
first.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Whoever gets to it, gets to it, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Whoever plays the song first, that person is going
to get credit for it.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
The other two are going to have to adjust, but
right now we're selling our rapshit, right?
What do you mean?
Right, what we're talking about, mm-hmm, all right.
So I mean I know we're kind oftailing off Twitter entries,
want to get people what we'regoing to get back to doing.
So let's make this easy.
Do you think Wayne deserved todo the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
No, and the only reason is that has nothing to do
with political, has nothing todo with affiliations, with
violence, with nothing Racism.
I got nothing to do with noneof that.
And this is just me.
I don't know what the truereason for them choosing not to
elect him.
My personal reason is because Isaw him perform this year at
(29:57):
Wrestlemania In April In Philly.
Did you watch that shit?
Yes, and that shit was trash.
That was one of the worst liveperformances I have ever seen.
Any hip hopper partaking, doyou agree?
Yeah, granted, he was probablydrunk high.
(30:20):
He was all types of shit.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
There's a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But the shit was horrible.
He sounded bad.
He definitely lookeddisoriented and I'm not saying
anybody on the NFL committee orJay-Z, whatever committee that's
put together that's in chargeof the halftime show.
I don't know if they waschecking for this.
You know what I'm saying.
I don't know if anybody fromthat committee was watching
WrestleMania and saw Wayne'sperformance or it was a
(30:47):
culmination of things that ledup, but for me, I saw this
performance and I'm like, yeah,I'm good, I'm good on Wayne.
You know what I mean.
We could find somebody else.
And right now, kendrick Lamarwith his whole beef with Drake
and shit.
He's right now.
He's more popular at this pointin time.
He's hotter right now.
(31:10):
They're playing his music onthe radio right now still.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Outside of Taylor Swift, he might be the most
influential, important artistgoing on right now.
Correct.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Now, I was a little surprised that they went to him
this early, because he was heperformed with Dre.
What was it a couple years ago?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
What year or so ago?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, that's a whole thing he performed with Dre, so
I didn't think they were goingto go back to hip-hop right away
.
You know what I'm saying.
I figured they would do poplike a pop person.
I figured they may, you know,and I'm sure they did reach out
to Taylor Swift multiple timesand she's like nah, I'm good,
I'm too big for this, but Ifigured they would go to
somebody else I don't know who'spopular right now that they go
(31:53):
here's a problem on the level ofthe Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
How many acts out there are there that you know,
that are like Super Bowl worthy?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
there's not a lot, yeah, but I just didn't think
they would go back to hip-hopthis soon not, and especially
not Kendrick, who just performedwith Dr Dre not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I don't think they were actually aiming for
Kendrick.
I think just the way that theyear has gone, his availability,
you had to kind of like do it.
You know what.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I'm saying you had Usher last year with Alicia Keys
and all of that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
So I figured they would do a couple of years of
that, get like maybe a popperson, an R&B person, somebody
more quote, unquote, safe.
You know what I mean.
Right, but who Like who's left?
Because you had Snoop Dogg acouple of years ago, he's.
You know he was repping theCrips and shit.
You know he was repping theflag.
I was like, ah, they're notgoing to go back to that soon.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, but he also out here with Martha Stewart, right
, he stopped Cripping a longtime ago.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Now do they?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
let I mean, I guess, Kendrick has to do it.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You have to do that at least for 20 or 30 seconds.
Let some people dance.
Do they allow the crip walkingup on the stage?
Do they allow all theaffiliated members to come up on
there.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Snoop was up there whole ass.
Z-walking.
Yes, you can do it Once you hadSnoop out there.
Z-walking, anybody can do it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
But again, that just happened a couple years ago.
Are they going to allow thatagain so soon?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
But that's the whole point and I think if you're
talking about anything inregards to the influence of
Jay-Z in regards to Superbowl,we're going to disregard the
soul Kendrick thing.
It's a fact that they haveblack artists up there
performing and it kind of fits.
Like I said, the thing withusher was in Vegas at time and
the reason because he was sopopular in Vegas.
Like you know, people who liketook their time have slide to
there, go see his show.
(33:43):
That's how popular he was.
He happened to be there.
He doesn't represent Vegas, hejust happened to be there.
People are saying, well, they'reNew Orleans.
You have Lil Wayne.
The whole problem with that.
It's not what we said beforeabout his performance sucking at
WrestleMania, it's the wholething that when you think about
it and you see him, is he drunkor high?
That's their biggest issue.
Can you have you out here inthe biggest stage fucking up
(34:05):
lyrics?
You think he still drinks lean?
I don't think so.
I don't know.
I don't think I might be offthat, but he might be on other
substances, and this is just.
I'm just insinuating.
I'm not saying that it's true,but the fact that you thought
that watching him atWrestleMania says enough.
So if you put that on anaudience of hundreds of millions
(34:26):
of people.
You have to be on your A game.
They're not going to pick nohalf-ass artists.
The funny thing about the SuperBowl is that the guy that
should have been perfect for theSuper Bowl, Drake, Clean enough
to get in the pits.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I was going to ask you do you think Kendrick brings
out Drake no, because I justthink he doesn't like him.
Kendrick brings out Drake no.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I know, because I just think he doesn't like it.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I don't know if you've been following.
Drake has been playing theKendrick songs in his concerts.
Because he recognizes, he'slike fuck it, if I can't beat
him, let's join him.
So he'll throw on Not Like Us,and he'll sing and he'll dance
along to the shit, which to meis kind of weird.
It is, but it's also probablylike a sign of solidarity, like
he's trying to extend the olivebranch, it's not?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
weird, you got it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Like, you got this.
You know what I mean.
Let's move on from it.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Like it's weird when you say it, but it's not really
that weird because, like yousaid, unless you got some shit
saying I'm a pedophile.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, but 20 years later you don't see Nas playing
a fucking what was the shitTakeover?
You don't see Jay playing Ether.
And they've been squashed, theybeef.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, but they're also two dudes in two different
lanes.
Nas still out here performing,jay is not.
Jay out here buying art and allthe kind of cool shit.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
he's doing, man, he got no time for all this.
Like I said, jay would be aperfect person to have at the
Super Bowl, because he has thetrack record, he has the hits.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
He won't do it, yo, but how wild would it be if
Kendrick says you know, rememberhow Jay brought Nas out when
they squashed their beef?
He's like fuck it, let's dothis for hip-hop.
You imagine Kendrick in frontof the world, this is the most
audience, the most views he'sgoing to have.
This is the biggest stage, theSuper Bowl halftime show.
More people are going to watchthis than any other show.
(36:12):
And he says yo fuck it for theculture, no, and brings out
Drake.
And then they do the one songthat they got together real
quick.
He can't do it, he can't do it,he can't.
You think he'll lose somestreet cred.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
He'll lose all credibility because the whole
thing he's trying to point out,like I am the culture, you're a
visitor to the culture.
That's the difference.
Me trying to beat crush shit upwith you is not the thing.
That's his issue with Drake.
It's not that he just likes himas a person, he just thinks
that he's.
Like I said, you're not acolleague, you're a fucking
colonizer.
You come in here, you jump ontrends, you do all this other
(36:47):
kind of shit.
You sound Jamaican, you do this, you do that and like you're
not yourself, you don'trepresent the culture I do.
I'm not even saying I am, he'sa part of it.
Kendrick loves this shit.
Kendrick, like, here's thething.
Like I said, he just had aconcert in Englewood.
He just became the moststreamed person of all time.
(37:08):
Yeah, like I said, he had thepop-out thing.
He put on a little mini concertright there, so you're giving
him the stage to do this on thegrander scale of the Super Bowl.
He's the most popular personout there.
Can you remember the Super Bowl?
They don't pay you Right.
All your shit's coming from.
Like you know you get morestreams and shit like that.
(37:29):
Like I said, that's why TaylorSwift's never doing it Like
she's a businesswoman.
She don't need that shit.
She's out here endorsingpolitical candidates.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
So you know she don't give a fuck.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
You know she don't need money.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
She don't care if she loses fans, she don't need
money, she good.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
And when you get to that part and as you try to
figure out who's the bigger star, stars at that level don't come
out like that beyonce is notdoing this no more.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I think that's one of the universal signs that they
good, they super good when theystart endorsing candidates.
When you see a celebrityendorse a political candidate
and they lean one way, you knowthey good they bag is secure
because there's influencers andthere's influencers.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
She's an influencer when she says something.
She has millions of people thatfollow her trends Friendship
bracelets, shit like that.
If Taylor Swift says you knowwhat, I prefer Pepsi to Coke,
Coke stock could fucking plummetImmediately.
She's just that powerful.
When she says I'm behind thisperson, that means it's almost
(38:30):
like being in the union, like weall gotta vote for her.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Now that that's my people.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
So yeah, so when you talk about that level of fame,
if you got enough power to like,help, maybe possibly influence
a presidential election, whatthe fuck would you give a fuck
about?
The superbowl?
Like, I don't care, not doing,she's not doing it.
Like I said, in the whole thingthey bitching about Wayne and
being in his town.
Like yo, when the shit was inMinneapolis, they didn't have
Prince there.
No, if Prince did it somewhereelse, it doesn't matter.
(38:57):
It doesn't matter.
And, like I said, I don't wantto have an argument about Wayne.
I love Wayne.
I think he deserves a spot.
Just because it's home, he's inyour top 10?
, wayne?
Yeah, easy, easy, no hesitation.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Wayne is one of those rappers, much like Jay too,
that I've learned to appreciateas I've gotten older.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Wayne's like LeBron James at rapping.
You're amazed how long he'sbeen doing this.
This is going on what?
30 plus years?
Yeah, it's crazy.
Yeah, I mean, and it's alldifferent ones, I just have to
the longest time I had to getpast his voice.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
You know what I mean.
I had to get past the voice.
I had to get past the accent.
I had to get past, you knowwhat I mean, all of that.
And then when I started reallylistening to him and trying to
put together the words, I'm likeyo, this motherfucker nice.
He's probably the king of thepunchlines and shit.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Wayne Witty Wayne the Carter series is great.
His mixtape run is almostimpeccable.
His mixtape run might be makinghim untouchable.
No one.
Maybe fab maybe had a bettermixtape run?
Yes, easily Right.
So when?
Maybe fab maybe had a bettermixed tape?
Yes, easily right.
So when you think about himover time you realize how great
he actually is.
It's not anything negativeagainst wayne.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Is the fact like fuck , he's good, he's amazingly good
, and I don't know how he'sstill good at this the thing you
could do with hip that youcan't do in sports, though, is
you can say yo, he's the bestfrom the south.
You know, I mean you couldbreak it down like yo, this guy
is the best in new york, thisguy is the best cube or
whoever's the best out west.
You know, I mean, wayne is thebest in the south.
(40:34):
You could say that naz and jayand big they're the best in new
york but it's a, it's a greatcomparison because rappers like
basketball players, because like.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
It's like how you say someone who's the best shooter.
It's like saying who's the bestlyricist or who's the best um,
who has the best doubleentendres, or who has the best
flow, who has the best voice.
It's like the best storyteller,right, like like dmx might not
be in your top 10, but it mightbe in your top five in regards
(41:05):
to like voice and personalityand how it makes you feel Like
that.
Yes, that's what's likebasketball sometimes.
Sometimes, when you're a GOATin basketball and you're a GOAT
in rap, that means you have theparticular versatility that not
a lot of people do Like.
When you say Jay, he's like oh,jay's in my top five, like, I
get it.
Like you don't even argue Nah,he's in my top five, okay, I get
(41:30):
it.
But you say LL's in my top five, ooh, but then you have to make
your case.
But that's like saying you know, vince is the greatest dunker.
Most people will say that.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
And LL's like Dominique Wilkins, you're like
oh yeah, I forgot how fuckinggood he was, and the LL album is
dope too, son.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah, the Force is great.
Actually, it's surprising howwell him and Q-Tip go together.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Q-Tip produced the whole thing, whole thing.
Do you like the song with himand Eminem?
No, here we go with this.
Eminem hate again.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
LL did his thing on there.
He went toe to toe.
He did the fast shit, he didthe slow shit.
You know what I mean?
I know, but I hate that.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
It's like L they just rapping Right, I know, but I
just want L to do what he do inhis LL way.
It's not that I hated the song.
Actually I like both of them onit.
I just don't like how it flowstogether.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
My favorite song is Saturday Night.
What's that shit called?
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Saturday Night Special.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
The only thing I hate about the song is Fat Joe.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
I felt like he didn't fit.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
It just felt like he ain't fit.
Ll comes on, he spits his shit.
Ross comes on he's spitting.
That's what I felt about theEminem thing and it felt deep,
it felt lyrical and then herecomes Fat Joe and he's talking
about you know the street shitand selling crack and whatever
the fuck he does like alrightman.
I felt like his verse didn'tfit well, like if they could
replace Joe with like a Nas orsomebody more lyrical, I thought
(43:02):
it would have been better youknow what I don't understand
about?
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Joe, Like you ain't sold crack in 20 years, man Let
that shit go Crack crack.
Like all right man Joey crack.
I get it.
You started a thing with himout here with no shirt on
looking sexy.
Go ahead, Joe, he has somedouble D titties bro.
Hey man, you got a little flyboy flapping the wind.
Fly, pelican fly.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
But yo man, let's end this one.
I just want to let the culturecrew and all the listeners know
that we ain't going to, unlesssomething catastrophic happens,
you know, a tragedy or somethinglike that.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Jesus Christ, stop that shit.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I told you I could get this liver shit.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
looked at he's like it's kind of catastrophic Like
let me get my liver together.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Calm down.
Yo, we appreciate y'all.
We got some more shit.
Yo, the merch is coming thoughfor the Culture Crew members.
I got the merch on the way.
Thank you for tuning in.
We'll be back soon.
Peace, bye.
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