August 10, 2025 • 8 mins
Get ready for a lively chat as hip-hop legend Ice Cube drops in with the one and only DJ Pup Dawg! They're diving deep into the explosive growth of the Big3, with Cube revealing just how much intensity and passion the players are bringing to the court. But the real fun kicks off when Pup Dawg hilariously teases Ice Cube about a potential career change – apparently, Cube once "kicked DJ Pup Dawg out" and flawlessly took over the afternoon drive show! Beyond the Big3 buzz and playful banter, Ice Cube gets serious (in the best way possible) as he passionately defends the enduring power of radio. He's got no time for anyone saying "radio is dying," calling that notion absolutely "crazy." Cube champions radio as the original, still-reigning king of media, reminding us it's fought through every challenge thrown its way – from the rise of CDs and 12-disc changers to burning mixtapes, iPods, and now the streaming era. Tune in for a dose of sports talk, laugh-out-loud moments, and a spirited defense of a timeless medium!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, straight from Pakistan to La to Boston. Man, I
got Cuba. It takes over my radio station, kicks me
out of the studio last week. You're you're an actor,
you're a rapper, established everything, and now are you gonna
take over Radio two?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
You know I'll talk about it with your program directed
a little later and talk about that right now. Appreciate you,
uh you know what I mean. Letting me jump in
there and entertain the folks and pump up Big three
and uh you always show me love, So I appreciate
the pub dog of course.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Man, you're cube. You did a great job. Man, are
you would you ever think about that?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of course? You know.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
It's like I think it's a great you know, medium
to talk to the whole city or you know, everybody
just can hear your voice, to be able to you know,
to play good music. But you know, I think guys
got an amazing way to speak to the public.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Every day.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
You know, they count on you guys to like make
their drive home from work better or going to work
or you know, they may you know, they want crazy
stuff happening in the world, and you know, you guys
got to kind of put it in perspective for the
people sometimes, so it's a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
But I salute y'all. You know, maybe one day you
have cube.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Man, you you thank you for saying that, by the way,
because you know, we thought through it all. Remember when
the CDs came out, Everyone's like, oh, radio is going
to die. Then CD changers and then there's twelve disc
changers in the car and then iPads on all that. Like,
everything kept saying that radio is going to die, and
it's still one of the biggest mediums out there.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean people are crazy. You're always going to have,
you know, people that would not just want to hear
the music, but want to hear from the personalities. You know,
it's almost like comfort food in a way. You want
to you want to hear from the voices you hear
every day talking about the topics that you want to
you know that you're interested in. So it's uh, it
ain't going.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Nowhere there it is, man, cub I know we could
talk about that all day, but you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Got the Big Three this Sunday Man exciting yo, eighth
year man.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I remember when we first started this.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I'm sure you remember too, but I remember too and
talk about just sticking with it and how big this
thing has gotten.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Man, you know, it's just a testament to the league
and to fans who really wanted you know, we couldn't
do this without people, you know, coming to the games
or checking us out on CBS. You know, now we
on Vice with our non CBS games. You know, you
can hear it on iHeart, you know what I mean,
hear the games. So it's just expanding, it's growing, it's
(02:28):
doing what I dreamed it would do because I felt like,
you know, these these players and coaches have have spent
years cultivating you know, millions of fans, and you know
they could.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Still play at this level.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
You know, we got ten games to fifty and these guys,
you know, give it they all and it's just a
great way to still see guys like Dwight you know,
play and Mike Beasley, you know, Paul Mills, Sap and
Jordan Crawford. Just getting a chance to see these guys
will and deal. It's been it's been fun and you.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Know a lot of times, you know, I know, we
do this for the family and everything like that, but
these these guys aren't these they're taking it just as
serious as they were when they were balletballing. I mean
I saw what's been happening the last couple of weeks.
Like the intensity is insane.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, these guys they got pride and passion or they
wouldn't be playing right. You know, people, I get offended
when when people call them retired players. These dudes are
active and they they got the fire, they got the game.
They still owing their skill set, right, these dudes still
practice on their game. You know, they might not be
(03:38):
able to play an eighty two game season, you know,
with back to backs and three games and four nights
and all the crazy stuff. But you know, once a
week to fifty half court in this style, you know,
they go all out. You know, it's a full out sprint.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's super exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Big Three is at the TV Garden back again, legendary spot.
You got actually a team for us this year too.
How does a team of development happen? Like, what are
you looking for when it comes to because obviously going
to keep adding more teams now when you got the
Boston one for the first time in our city, So
talk about the process of getting a team together.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
The Boston ball Hogs. You know, they need to win
this week they up against l A. So no perfect here, right.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
No, But it's because the city has embraced the league.
Is the reason why Boston has a team over other cities.
You know, from from year one, you know, to to
our last year to our championship. You know, it's always
been embraced in Boston and there's no reason for us
not to come back every year. There's no reason for
(04:45):
Boston not to have a squad to root for every year.
And so you know it's been it's because Boston has
been so great to the league.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's the reason you got a team there.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It is, man, it's going down this Sunday at the
TD Gardens. Special performances too. Last year we have to
great performances.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This year.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
My guy Mems, you got him on on the on
the ballot. This is why I'm yeah, man, that's awesome. Man.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
You know, people gonna enjoy that. And then we got
the ogs. You know, we got in the building, so
you know, slam was made. We're gonna have fun with it.
And and you know, plus the dunkers and dancers and
DJs and great atmosphere, great games. You know, our players
are approachable you know, it's just uh, I can't wait
to come.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Back, do you do you tell all the players like, hey,
this is you guys can be intense as you want,
but there's gonna be a lot of like, you know,
fan interaction and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Is that like one of the criterias or they just know?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, I mean we take the game deadly serious as
you can see, but we have fun with everything else.
Everything else is fun, like getting a chance to hang
with the fans. You know, it's basketball, it's entertainment.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Taking it too too serious, you know, takes the fun
out of it. So we encourage our players to interact
with the fans, especially you know, before and after they games.
But doing the games, you know, we want them to
go out there and try to win. You know, it's
all about first to fifty win. I win by two though,
So I got it too.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Old school was the street ball right there.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I love that is you know, at the end of
the day, it's how we grew up playing the game, right.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We got our.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Wrinkles that make the Big Three unique, like uh, bring
the fire and our four point circles. For the most part,
it's a game you.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Recognize definitely man, nice cube, Thank you for always checking in,
Thank you for taking over my station.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Looking forward to having you back here in Boston.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I know I know La and Boston, but you you smile.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I love the way when you walk in this garden
you enjoy yourself out here, though, I.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Do, you know, because greatness, you know, really respects greatness.
So I love, you know, being in the garden. You know,
I love you know. My father want to come with me,
you know, he was like, I want to see you
know the city that Russell.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Did it, you know, right cool?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You know we uh we respect the history. We know
it's a great sports town. Right, We're glad you got
a room for one more team, you know, the the
Boston ball Hogs, and come come, come this Sunday and
cheer them all to win.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You know they need to win. You know they won
and two right they need to.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Go on and uh, if they lose on Sunday, they're done.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, No, They're still gonna play all the way. Got
all eight.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Games, but you know they want to make the playoffs
and uh, you know they up against Dwight Howard.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You know they got they work cut out for them.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
But you know coach Gary Payton, you know he's moving
them in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Nice the glove. The glove is out here. Yeah, there
it is, Man, Cube looking forward to it. Safe travels.
Thank you for everything, Man, Big three at the TV Garden.
You know we always do this. What song am I
going into? What classic Cube? Are we dropping right now?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean you should drop? You can do it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Let's do it. Go for it, man, Let everybody know
in Boston go for it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What's up to sha? Homeboy ice Cube? You know what
it is.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I'm rolling with the homie pup Dog and this is
you can do it one of the og jams from
your homie.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, Yan, Let's do it Cube. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I love respect man. I'll see you on Sunday. Thank
you for everything, Man, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Later Bro Later
Yes, straight from Pakistan to La to Boston. Man, I
got Cuba. It takes over my radio station, kicks me
out of the studio last week. You're you're an actor,
you're a rapper, established everything, and now are you gonna
take over Radio two?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
What are we doing?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
You know I'll talk about it with your program directed
a little later and talk about that right now. Appreciate you,
uh you know what I mean. Letting me jump in
there and entertain the folks and pump up Big three
and uh you always show me love, So I appreciate
the pub dog of course.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Man, you're cube. You did a great job. Man, are
you would you ever think about that?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of course? You know.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
It's like I think it's a great you know, medium
to talk to the whole city or you know, everybody
just can hear your voice, to be able to you know,
to play good music. But you know, I think guys
got an amazing way to speak to the public.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Every day.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
You know, they count on you guys to like make
their drive home from work better or going to work
or you know, they may you know, they want crazy
stuff happening in the world, and you know, you guys
got to kind of put it in perspective for the
people sometimes, so it's a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
But I salute y'all. You know, maybe one day you
have cube.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Man, you you thank you for saying that, by the way,
because you know, we thought through it all. Remember when
the CDs came out, Everyone's like, oh, radio is going
to die. Then CD changers and then there's twelve disc
changers in the car and then iPads on all that. Like,
everything kept saying that radio is going to die, and
it's still one of the biggest mediums out there.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, I mean people are crazy. You're always going to have,
you know, people that would not just want to hear
the music, but want to hear from the personalities. You know,
it's almost like comfort food in a way. You want
to you want to hear from the voices you hear
every day talking about the topics that you want to
you know that you're interested in. So it's uh, it
ain't going.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Nowhere there it is, man, cub I know we could
talk about that all day, but you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Got the Big Three this Sunday Man exciting yo, eighth
year man.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I remember when we first started this.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I'm sure you remember too, but I remember too and
talk about just sticking with it and how big this
thing has gotten.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Man, you know, it's just a testament to the league
and to fans who really wanted you know, we couldn't
do this without people, you know, coming to the games
or checking us out on CBS. You know, now we
on Vice with our non CBS games. You know, you
can hear it on iHeart, you know what I mean,
hear the games. So it's just expanding, it's growing, it's
(02:28):
doing what I dreamed it would do because I felt like,
you know, these these players and coaches have have spent
years cultivating you know, millions of fans, and you know
they could.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Still play at this level.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
You know, we got ten games to fifty and these guys,
you know, give it they all and it's just a
great way to still see guys like Dwight you know,
play and Mike Beasley, you know, Paul Mills, Sap and
Jordan Crawford. Just getting a chance to see these guys
will and deal. It's been it's been fun and you.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Know a lot of times, you know, I know, we
do this for the family and everything like that, but
these these guys aren't these they're taking it just as
serious as they were when they were balletballing. I mean
I saw what's been happening the last couple of weeks.
Like the intensity is insane.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, these guys they got pride and passion or they
wouldn't be playing right. You know, people, I get offended
when when people call them retired players. These dudes are
active and they they got the fire, they got the game.
They still owing their skill set, right, these dudes still
practice on their game. You know, they might not be
(03:38):
able to play an eighty two game season, you know,
with back to backs and three games and four nights
and all the crazy stuff. But you know, once a
week to fifty half court in this style, you know,
they go all out. You know, it's a full out sprint.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's super exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Big Three is at the TV Garden back again, legendary spot.
You got actually a team for us this year too.
How does a team of development happen? Like, what are
you looking for when it comes to because obviously going
to keep adding more teams now when you got the
Boston one for the first time in our city, So
talk about the process of getting a team together.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
The Boston ball Hogs. You know, they need to win
this week they up against l A. So no perfect here, right.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
No, But it's because the city has embraced the league.
Is the reason why Boston has a team over other cities.
You know, from from year one, you know, to to
our last year to our championship. You know, it's always
been embraced in Boston and there's no reason for us
not to come back every year. There's no reason for
(04:45):
Boston not to have a squad to root for every year.
And so you know it's been it's because Boston has
been so great to the league.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's the reason you got a team there.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It is, man, it's going down this Sunday at the
TD Gardens. Special performances too. Last year we have to
great performances.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This year.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
My guy Mems, you got him on on the on
the ballot. This is why I'm yeah, man, that's awesome. Man.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
You know, people gonna enjoy that. And then we got
the ogs. You know, we got in the building, so
you know, slam was made. We're gonna have fun with it.
And and you know, plus the dunkers and dancers and
DJs and great atmosphere, great games. You know, our players
are approachable you know, it's just uh, I can't wait
to come.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Back, do you do you tell all the players like, hey,
this is you guys can be intense as you want,
but there's gonna be a lot of like, you know,
fan interaction and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Is that like one of the criterias or they just know?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, I mean we take the game deadly serious as
you can see, but we have fun with everything else.
Everything else is fun, like getting a chance to hang
with the fans. You know, it's basketball, it's entertainment.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Taking it too too serious, you know, takes the fun
out of it. So we encourage our players to interact
with the fans, especially you know, before and after they games.
But doing the games, you know, we want them to
go out there and try to win. You know, it's
all about first to fifty win. I win by two though,
So I got it too.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Old school was the street ball right there.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I love that is you know, at the end of
the day, it's how we grew up playing the game, right.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We got our.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Wrinkles that make the Big Three unique, like uh, bring
the fire and our four point circles. For the most part,
it's a game you.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Recognize definitely man, nice cube, Thank you for always checking in,
Thank you for taking over my station.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Looking forward to having you back here in Boston.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I know I know La and Boston, but you you smile.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I love the way when you walk in this garden
you enjoy yourself out here, though, I.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Do, you know, because greatness, you know, really respects greatness.
So I love, you know, being in the garden. You know,
I love you know. My father want to come with me,
you know, he was like, I want to see you
know the city that Russell.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Did it, you know, right cool?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You know we uh we respect the history. We know
it's a great sports town. Right, We're glad you got
a room for one more team, you know, the the
Boston ball Hogs, and come come, come this Sunday and
cheer them all to win.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You know they need to win. You know they won
and two right they need to.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Go on and uh, if they lose on Sunday, they're done.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, No, They're still gonna play all the way. Got
all eight.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Games, but you know they want to make the playoffs
and uh, you know they up against Dwight Howard.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You know they got they work cut out for them.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
But you know coach Gary Payton, you know he's moving
them in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Nice the glove. The glove is out here. Yeah, there
it is, Man, Cube looking forward to it. Safe travels.
Thank you for everything, Man, Big three at the TV Garden.
You know we always do this. What song am I
going into? What classic Cube? Are we dropping right now?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean you should drop? You can do it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Let's do it. Go for it, man, Let everybody know
in Boston go for it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What's up to sha? Homeboy ice Cube? You know what
it is.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I'm rolling with the homie pup Dog and this is
you can do it one of the og jams from
your homie.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, Yan, Let's do it Cube. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I love respect man. I'll see you on Sunday. Thank
you for everything, Man, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Later Bro Later
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