November 18, 2024 • 40 mins
In this interview with EverythingOshaun, we dive into his journey and building his place in the Canadian music scene. Known for his punchy lyrics and unique sound, he discusses the evolution of his artistry, the personal experiences that shape his music, and his commitment to staying true to his vision. With a blend of hip-hop, R&B, and a sprinkle of Afrobeat influences, Oshaun opens up about the creative process behind some of his most recent tracks, giving us a glimpse into the stories and emotions that fuel his work.
Timecodes:
1:55 Ice Cream flavour of choice
4:30 The Ice Cream is wet
5:10 Working in Nunavut
9:55 Oshaun is about Energy
14:55 Album has something for everyone
16:53 ‘Tricking’ on DESTINATION
21:50 QUANTUM ENTANGLE MIND
24:32 A song he is most proud of
27:52 That project that never comes out
28:35 Top NBA players to watch
36:54 Adopting an exotic animal
37:47 Ice Cream check-in
38:24 Wednesday Wisdom
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Timecodes:
1:55 Ice Cream flavour of choice
4:30 The Ice Cream is wet
5:10 Working in Nunavut
9:55 Oshaun is about Energy
14:55 Album has something for everyone
16:53 ‘Tricking’ on DESTINATION
21:50 QUANTUM ENTANGLE MIND
24:32 A song he is most proud of
27:52 That project that never comes out
28:35 Top NBA players to watch
36:54 Adopting an exotic animal
37:47 Ice Cream check-in
38:24 Wednesday Wisdom
LISTEN TO THE RADIO SHOW
You can listen to the radio show every Wednesday @ 11 AM EST
1280AM on your Radio 📻 metradio.ca Online 💻
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The old Man. Hey everyone, this is Neo.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's your boy, Funky, the coolest teen rapper online.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up? It's me Alfie. You're listening to the Cool
Table with.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
A listening to You're listening to the Cool Table. You're
listening to the Cool Table. And I'm not sure if
you know this, but right now you're in the cut
with my man, Adriel Smile.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Welcome
to the Cool Table. My name is Adriel Smiley a
k a. Adosmiley dot Com a k a. Adril Smiley
Official a k a. The Godfather. Now Here in the cut,
we challenge our guest to finish type of ice cream
before the end of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
This one has this one has been a long time coming.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Wait what Yes, the challenge to finish it before the
end of the conversation. No pressure, of course, of course
I have I have reasons. Okay, so can we get
the gum spit out before we even introduce you. Let's
let's get we got XP in the building, I got
I got reasons for there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Everything else Seawan, it was brother, good to thanks for
having me Yeah, howpack we we finally do this. This
is actually time our second interview technically, because we did
do one in person. I was looking at my old
notes for that and I was like, I can't ask
any of those things again. I mean, it was such
a blur too, literally, such a such a black whole night.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Wasn't blur the whole night. The recording is. It's so separate,
you know, was going on.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I thought the KP about it since and I
was like, she told me about like, you know, how
things went for y'all, And I was like, I have
my own drama on my side, and I'm like, it's
like we're all black professionals because.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We all just soldier through. Like I'm telling you, it was.
It was a night. It was. It was crazy, but
we had to, you know, we did what we did.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So tell her about the flavor that you chose, and
what are your chances you think of getting this finished?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, I'm being honest. Can I be honest? Yes? First
of all, Oh, tell you about the flavor. Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm not an ice cream guy, Okay, but when people
offer me ice cream, I take vanilla. I just think
it's a safe flavor. It's not too intense. You know,
generally it tastes good. But I'm just not I'm just
not an ice cream dude, right, that's number one.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Number two, I'm not a dessert guy. Wow, So a
dessert guy.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Now, I'll eat certain things, like if you give me
a little cupcake, you know what I mean, I'm gonna
have a cupcake. If you give me a like if
a cake comes out a whole big ass cake, I'll
have like a little slitherin.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Unless it's now Christmas time and we have black rum
cake or whatever. Then then I'll the reason for the season,
for the receison. And my Auntie, my Auntie kills it.
She's the best in the whole world when she does that.
But besides that, I'm not really that cake.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh my god. Let me tell anybody that tries hers,
you're gonna hear from me the number Auntie Silvia, Aunti Silvia.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
It's it's literally legendary, better than anywhere you've had in
your life. So that's number two.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Number three. This I haven't eaten yet today.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
So to have a tub of fucking ice cream on
an empty stomach is not gonna be good for your boys.
So now now let me let me ask you this question.
Can I substitute someone to eat this for me?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Pause?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yes, yes, okay, I still want to taste it. So
they do it on the other part. They do it
on what's his name podcast? Drink Champs.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They get somebody else to drink the alcohol one an
you know what I mean. You know what's funny, you
guys said this.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So also, you guys know, we talked to a a
little while ago and she couldn't finish it, and we said,
maybe we shouldn't. Maybe we should do something where people
have someone have it for them. Yeah, about about it
about a champion, and we called it bring it. We
called it bring your best eater. Now you know what,
Now I think after that, maybe you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Do this heavy pause, but it's my brother. You can.
You can. That's technically it's me doing it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, yes, okay, so XP so then we'll check in
with you in a little bit, Yes, sir, but I
think this is the only way for this to get done.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
This is the only way. It's the only way. Let
because it's it's between Yes, it's for the whole Yeah. Yeah,
So we'll check in with you periodically.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But yeah, also, this is off to a crazy starts
off to a crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
What did you just say?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
God, damn, y'all, don't okay, X is telling us off.
MI ice cream is wet?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
This is crazy? Is water wet?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Like at this point? Oh my god, Okay, that's crazy.
I actually want to go back in time. I think
we got to do a little world building here, but
I want to hear first and foremost about your time
working and none of it. I think just picturing you
working none of it. Is this a visual that we
were not ready for. Yo, I wasn't ready for you
(05:02):
to ask me that. What the hell about?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That's crazy? Wow?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
My time working in none of it? Man, that's the
first time I went anywhere outside of outside of Ontario
in Canada. So besides this tour that we just wanted,
that was the first time I went out there.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But so to go all the way.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Where people that look like us are not really there, Yes,
that was intense. The weather's intense, The seasons are intense.
So they'll be a time period. I can't remember all
the time periods, but there'll be a time period where
the sun is out for like twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Of the day.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
How crazy is that? That was amazing. I can't even
lie to you, like it was amazing to look outside
at three am and it's it's just looks like.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Bro, I'm telling you it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
It's like I felt like because I'm such, I'm such
a creative, Like I never felt like I was at
work when anytime those type of things, right, I felt
like I felt like I was on set of something.
I thought like I was. I was in my own
world and it was you know what I mean, I'd
be acting shit in my head while I'm moving around
like it's four am, three am, the sun as bright
as hell, or twenty four hour darkness. There's twenty four
(06:18):
hour darkness all day, all night. It's dark.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's kind of wild, Like, I think the one thing
I think about when I think about none of it.
Of course, there's a cold, yeah, and I think, like
we've experienced levels of cold in Toronto, of course, but
that's like a different level where you almost feel it
in your bones.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I think the thing is too is because you dress
appropriately for the weather, you don't really feel the intensity
of how cold it really is, because you know, you
don't really notice it like that compared to compared to
when you're at home and you open the door and
it's fucking minus the windshiels like minus thirty you know
(07:00):
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You run to the car and your shore.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, so I would I would test the I would
test the weather like I'd be like, it's minus I
look on the apps as it's minus thirty, minus forty.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I just take my face out there on my hand
and it's like, wow, it's it's cold as hell.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Don't get a twisted. But it's not as bad as
like I imagined it. But I think it's just because
you're dressed. Yeah's probably prepare for it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Prepare and then yeah, so it doesn't it doesn't feel
as bad, you know, it doesn't feel as bad. The
people were great there. The locals were great there. They
they look at you when you're especially black people when
you when you come up. They haven't seen black people
in real life. So when they're seeing me over there,
they're like I'm like an alien to them, Like yeah, bro,
They're like trying.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Can I touch it.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I had people literally they would call their girl and
like put them on FaceTime and be like look, look,
I'm like they like a celebrity without even knowing can
I do anything besides working.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Here, like besides doing music or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
They're they just want to show people back in there,
you know, their islands that I know a black guy
and this this that can I touch his hair? And
oh my god, you're so like all this alien ship bro,
Like it's bro, It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It reminds me of when a Jamaican comes to Canada
for the first time and they got their first bit
of snow and they just kind of you know exactly
what I'm talking about, and they lose their marbles and
they just go right into the snow like the first snowfall.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
They're not even dressed, like they put jeans on, like
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Like that's what because I think too, we are so
spoiled here in Toronto and being so multicultural, especially in Canada,
like I've been i think almost every province Canada other
than the northern ones, and you see like how little
black people that are very quickly like you go through
like a tim Horns drive through, and it's almost as
(08:52):
if they're like yeah, you know what I mean, it's like,
oh my god, they're here, so yeah, yeah, and it's
a whole different ball game.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It's super extreme, bro like literally based, like everybody would
do it like it was wild.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It was a wild time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I think that there's something about kind of that difference
in like style of living, we'll call it. Yeah, that
that is is kind of honest, very earnest. But I
think there's something kind of about your music that has
a bit of that, because I've heard people talk about
your music in some of different ways where you're like,
(09:30):
is this the same artist?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Like you know, you know what I mean, Like I
know you've heard it to it. I know exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Someone will someone will call you an Afro artist, someone
will call you a rapper, someone will call you R
and B. And you know, I talked to your boys
move and I said, listen, I'm talking to Oshan. You
know anything you want to to build the beans on.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
He kept the G.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He kept the G, but almost the first words out
of his mouth is ocean is about energy, And it
was almost if it was like company line, you.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And the funny thing is he kind of realized that
he said it himself and he's like, yo, I didn't
even mean to do that. How it happens. So it's
like energy being part of you is like literally just yeah,
flowing through you. Is that something that you feel like
you've always had? And when did you decide to kind
of make that part of you know what? It's part
of your image.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's a great question.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I think I've always had it. Now did I know
that that would be the connection of what I'm trying
to do. No, that was through trial and error, doing things,
creating different waves and including how I am in my
everyday life, putting it into music form, and only recently
(10:49):
we realized that, yeah, we can brand that because that
is what you are.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
If there's one thing that people know me for is energy.
I can feel the energy in the room.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I know that. You know, people could be down around me,
and I'll be the one that picks everybody back up,
you know. I'll be the motivator. I'll be the the
guy that people come to to get a spark because
they got to go do something and they want to
get you know what I mean, that that juice, that feeling,
that feeling, that feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
They're like, yo, you make everything sound so you know
what I mean? So extra, you know what I mean?
Sometimes something else some people want to say I'm extra,
but I call I call it. I call it having energy.
I thought it.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I call it, you know, having creativity, having having a
spark on life and spark on possibility.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'm very optimistic, I'm very.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I'm very persistent, consistent those type of things that require
energy to do anything. Like even if I don't want
to do something, I know that I gotta dig deep
to find the energy, uh to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So when others see that, and others saw that, that's where.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
That you know, that term what we say, you know,
we got to call that the album energy is everything
because how else can we how else can we tie
everything in? If you do all these different things, what
is the one common idea or you know, a word
that we can surmarize everything together with. It's like, well,
(12:11):
the energy is he's the energy I want to perform.
People talk about my energy. When I'm in conversations with people,
they talk about the energy. So yeah, man, it's it.
That's that's I like small. I appreciate you for you
know what I mean thinking about that. That's really dope.
That's really dope.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It's fitting because I think that why when I want
want to ask movies, because people don't treat energy as
like a higher level of art in the same way
they don't I think when someone has that kind of
energy to their music, it's almost like it's not as artistic.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's a little bit you know, less thought out.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, he talks a lot about how intentional you are
with your music, and that's something I've seen as well,
where I'm like, you know, him putting the intentionality and
the thought process into the music mixed with the energy,
it's like still binding yourself with energy is like that's
a big thing.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So, you know, he put the all together. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I appreciate there's different levels of energy, you know what
I mean, Like, I think that's that's that was the
purpose of how we put the journey of the album
to be. It's to get there's different energies or different
feelings for different scenarios of your life.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And since I.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I expressed that a lot with people just through everyday life,
I wanted people to be able to catch that with
the music, you know what I mean. There's a there's
a setting for there's what do you say in the Bible,
there's a time for this. There's a time for that.
There's a time for this, there's a time for that,
and I want my music to be like that. That's
why it's like, yeah, you could put me on that
playlist or that playlist or that show or after that artist,
because I put myself in those positions.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Like one thing I always ask people is what's the
soundtrack for your album? Like, if your album was for activity,
what would it be? And before you answer, I think
what your album has is it reminds me of like
the back to the back to school days, Like you're
in the summer, it's cool, but now that you're in school,
(14:01):
you're listening to music on the bus on the walk home,
and there's only a certain number of artists where you're
like I can listen to y'all from the time I
leave the school, from the walk to the bus to
when I get home.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
There's been an artist where like, once I get home,
I gotta change. It got to change.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, yeah, no, So yeah, what do you think is
the activity for your music or for this album in particular?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh no, this this album is for your twenty four hours.
It's for your twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
My favorite albums are the albums like you just described that,
you can play something from the album at any point
of the day, you know what I mean. There's there's
artists that you know you want to hear in the morning,
but you don't want to hear when you're getting ready
to work out, you know what I mean. Or there's
songs that you want to hear on the ride home,
but not necessarily it's not going to get your juices
(14:51):
flowing in the morning, on the way, on the way
to work or on the way to school. So I
call my album it's a twenty four hour. It's a
twenty four hour. There's something in the morning, there's something
in the afternoon. There's something to get you through your work.
There's something to get you through your gym session. There's
something to get you ready to go out. Girls with
a message, I played this to get ready to go out.
Oh I heard a song in the club that helps
me party. Now there's another song for you on the
(15:12):
way home. Like it's twenty four hours, at some point,
there's something there for you on that particular albums.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
More specifically, No, I actually agree with that because I'm
the kind of person, if you know me, I listen
to anything anywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'll smoke a blunt does and Kurk Franklin.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, yeah, yesterday I was in the gym listening to
past to Shorty Caesar on repeat on treadmill.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
So sometimes it happens. Nod be like, no, I agree,
You'd be surprised some of the things. I'll be listening
to what I'm on the treadmill. Y'all think I'm going.
I'm like, I'm like, I might be listening to Mozart
at that time.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, yeah, you know. Sometimes when I'm on the gym
on purpose, I will like.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Put it really loud and take the headphones off so
they could hear that I was like listening to Scientists, Coldplay.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Or or whatever, like just just just to be like, yeah, yeah,
you think you know what I'm listening to.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You don't know what the I'm not going to lie though,
those like slow Down, R and B like playing in
the gym.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Bang yeah you know.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And here's the thing. I think that, like it's almost
like a higher level. I'm watching to say we're better,
but it's like a higher level because it's like the
music is like kind of calming you down and you're
finding your center while you're while you're while you're exerting
your body and having the mix of those two of
like my body's pushing.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But this is I'm telling you. I'm telling it's a
good it's a good contrast. I do that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I do it to I need to explain some things
to me. Okay, there's some lyrics that I have for
you that I want. I want you to explain.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yo, I can't. I can't tell you that.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I don't know if i'll be one hundred saying accurate
depending on which session we're talking about, what song you're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You know, if I was, if I was not, I
don't know. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So I didn't know this before, but I think you
might be a trick On Destination, you talk a little
bit about tricking. Now, if you are, you're bout of
your choice. If you are, you are. If you're not,
you're not. But you say this on destination, you said
you told me that he cheap. If you don't help
you with your bills and your nails and your toes,
(17:15):
you know that he cheap. You don't need to name names,
but talk about that lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, that's crazy. You know, should have fun out X
me bro so am I a trick? No, I want
to say I would, I would to say that part time,
part time, part time.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I just I just I feel like, Okay, in my life,
I've just heard. I've heard women complain to me about
like very simple things that I feel like men should
take care of them, and I would know that they
have a man. So anytime I hear like, they'll be complained,
but like some small shit like that, like yeah, I
(18:01):
haven't got my nails done in two months, three months
or something like that, and I'll be like, did don't
you have a man? Like cause I'd be like, don't
you have a man? Or you haven't got my hair
braided in solo? Or oh I was at the store.
I was trying on some things and I said, what'd
you get? I didn't get anything. I'm like, why out
(18:22):
hear these type of general things. I've even heard a
girl bro I one time. One time, this girl told
me she was dropping her man home right dropping him
from the west to the east. I said, Oh, that's crazy.
What happened to is? No, she said she drove to
(18:43):
the east, picked him up, brought him to her house.
They chilled, then she went back to the East dropped
him off and went back to the West. And I said,
that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yoh.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
She's like, I'm well, you know, sometimes that happened. Maybe
he doesn't have a car, maybe this license blah blah blah.
I'm like, did he he got you some?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Right? Said no? I said, wait, wait, maybe I'm with
you on this. Maybe maybe are you hearing what I
just said?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
She drove back and forth, back and forth to hang
at her house and he didn't give her a gas money.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's manipulation. That's manipulation. And I said, I'm like, I
don't undertand I don't understand the how is that possible?
She's like, oh, well, you know, I didn't want to.
I'm like, you don't have to. He didn't offer it.
In reality exists, exists.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
He should have went to her place and took his
ass back home himself. That's what I'm saying. That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So like, everybody's circumstances different, but the fact that I
would hear these stories and that one really pissed me off.
So I just sent her, you know, I sent her,
you know, I send her something. I'm like, yo, hear that.
Hold that for your hold that for your mad you
know what I mean. But yeah, I literally said you
apologize for Menyo, here's that for your guess.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Take that. Okay, Okay, So you're not not completely a trick.
I'm not a trick, but sometimes you know, I may,
I may, I might hold somebody down if I can.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
But but you do believe in some of the teachings.
Hell yeah, okay, okay, I do. I do because it's ridiculous, QUICU.
I think you got me a little bit convinced because
some of the things that that you told me. I'm like,
these some crazy things and I can't lie. Yeah, I'm
one hundred percent not a trick, if you know me,
like I'm whatever. The opposite of a trick is is
what I am.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You're a no spend, yeah, Like I'm a a no
spend for sure until we're until we're deeply in love.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Okay. I just sad stories, sob stories. They get me sometimes.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
But I'm actually with you on this because I think
some of those things is like if you have someone
like you know, they can help you out with the
nails or help you out with you know, with the hair,
like for sure that that that is like a non starter.
Automatic what I'm telling you, Okay, this one. I believe
this was on things maybe Cleopatra, I'm not. I'm not
(20:52):
sure you said it. Bad dreams keep a nigga grounded?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I think bad dreams are not necessarily dream dreams, but
just thoughts of the negative for me, keep me on
my toes, so they keep me from falling for any
pretty dress or any promise that somebody gets tells me,
(21:25):
I don't allow it to have me floated, like you
know what I mean, doesn't it doesn't. It won't have
me floating like yeah, you can. You might say, yo,
I'm gonna I'm gonna do this for you, or she
might say, yo.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I did it. I'm grounded.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I'm not letting the the the that possibility, you know,
keep me off my off my game, off my toes.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
You easy, yeah, yeah, quantum entangle mind. I want to
know kind of the thought behind that, Like when I
heard that. When I heard that, I was just like,
where does this come from? Like I almost said name
names when when I heard it originally, But I want
to notice the behind that.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I let miss Singer, I let Miss Singer take the
helm on that. So basically, we gave her the idea
of the album, We gave her my thoughts of the album,
We gave her the you know, the imagery of the
album in terms of where we wanted the direction of
the album to go, you know, surrounding energy, and she
(22:31):
just won in bro, Like she took. She took, She
took the ideas of that that we had great conversations
about it. She's heard some of the records before, but
she just took that and just went to a whole
new world with it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
And it's like, sometimes as a creative, I like to
let people interpret what they think I mean instead of
me just telling them, yeah, what to say for everything. Now,
sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. I'll admit that and
then I'll step in. But she just nailed it out
the park. I'm like, yo, you you spoke my language
(23:08):
like you spoke my like we wanted. We wanted those
interludes in the intro and the outro just to feel
so beyond here, bro, like you know what I mean,
Like really just beyond and just be thoughts and ideas
and imageries all trying to fold in together to create
this bright light on this project.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And that's what she did.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I think it holds a project together because I think
the project is a certain tempo where everyone could kind
of get lost in that and to be like, Okay,
we just and what did she do going? I think yeah,
she basically like brought it down, brought it together, and
I think that helps to me the album kind of
live on its own aside from the single, Yes, we're
in a single world in a.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Single, We're we're where you know, you know what it is,
single world.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
But people are not really putting our projects anymore albums anyway.
But shout out shout out and singer shout out pe
shut out, shout out KP for really bringing those ideas
together and making sure that we we made this album
complete and feel a beginning, middle, and end.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And she did it. She did her things.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
She's incredible. No, I think it definitely works because I
think you have both, Like I think you have both.
You have those songs like I bet at Big Batty Boom,
but you still have this like body of work where
someone's a new Oshan fan they can have something to
go into. Yeah, is there a song that you're most
proud of on the project where you're like, Okay, this
(24:36):
is where you know I did my thing on here.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's but that's like saying what you have a favorite kid.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
People have favorites, I know, and and if you were
to ask me my top three favorite basketball players of
all time, I'm gonna put like a hundred of them
in there.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Like I I I can't, I can't, I can't. I
can give you that, bro pause. I just to be
proud of all of them.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm proud of this project. Like this project, it just
gets me so excited when I put it on, Bro,
Like when I put on like It. This is the
first project where like I feel like I get something
new every time I hear it, you know what I mean.
I'll put it in the rotation of when I'm listening
to over Yay or or Drake or whoever it is.
I'll put that like because sometimes with other previous projects,
(25:25):
I might listen to a song or two from my
from my album and then I'm I move on to
something else. This one, like I I just usually just
let it go, just let it go, and it's go
on that journey and I'm trying to understand what I'm
trying to put myself in different people's minds of like
what they what could they possibly experiencing when they listen
to this album?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is this is for sure your best project, I think,
and I think I appreciate that. Brother. I think it's
gonna age.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Like in a way your other projects haven't, like this
is a project I think you know, two three years
from now, when you're an even bigger artist, Yeah, they're
gonna be able to go They're gonna go back to
that and be like, oh, like that still slaps. And
I think that's something that a lot of artists take
almost too long to figure out in a sense where
it's like you don't create your actual like great body
(26:10):
of work until you're you know, far along in your career,
and it's like, no, you can do that now, Like
you don't have to wait, you can do That's why
I think you've done that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Thank you with this. I thank you. I feel I
feel it too. That's good. It's a good uh reassuring here.
And you say that, but we definitely feel like that. No,
I definitely feel like that.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I could talk talking to KP talking to you, I
could feel how proud you guys were of this project.
And I think like that is something that like even
though I rock with you on a personal level, like
see how proud of you guys are of the project.
It's something that I love, love to see because it's
it's scary to put music out, Like.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Tell them them put out a body of work, bro
that shit is. It's scary.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It's hard, it's difficult, it's stressful, it's time consuming, it's
energy consuming, it's money consuming, it's there's there's a whole
out of negativity if you want to call it, or
a lot of way, a whole lot of obstacles wanting
to put out a song, let alone a project. So
for us to go through this process, this, this whole
(27:12):
this how many years it really took for us to
put this project together? Ups and downs, a lot, We've
had different circumstances that would have delayed and and and
songs that maybe didn't make it, songs that we had
to push to other Like, there's a lot, there's there's
a there's a docu on what what code or what
people who were supposed to be on the album that
(27:32):
ended up not being on the album that could have
took it to a whole other level. There's there's a lot,
there's a lot, you know what I mean, But so
just to hear it and be like.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Man, we you know, we got through that. Thank god,
it still sounds as great as it as it as
it does. Yeah. I think that's the thing. I see
so much of the artists that don't put the project out.
But if I tell you how many projects I've heard
that aren't out, that never came out.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, and that bang Fire not coming out, and it's
kind of like you have to kind of let yourself go.
You have to and let it come out regardless, Like, yes,
I know you thought that this was the better song
and it could have been the single. It's it's okay,
let it, let it go, let it come out. We're
(28:17):
gonna switch gears a little bit. We're getting towards the end,
but before we go, we gotta do a top five
top five.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I try and tailor my top five to my guests,
something that they can be excited about.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And we're gonna do this together. Okay, thank god. The
NBA season is coming out.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
We're gonna go NBA with it, okay, and it's just
top five players you're excited to watch for this season. Okay,
this is for the present. Top players try to watch
this seas. I'm gonna give you a couple of mine,
just to kind of get the juices flowing. Number one
for me is John Moran.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Oh, so this is an order for you? No order five?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
John Moran excited to see what he has going on.
Obviously he was moving crazy a couple of years ago,
but excited to see what he has going on for sure.
Another one for me is Josh Giddy. I feel like
he got a rough end of the deal in Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
See. I think that everything was blamed on him a
little bit too much.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Wild we're not talking about but as a hooper, I
hate it when a team's failures it's blamed on one person.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I hate that too. That I think is like an
NBA meet, It's only it's only a basketball. Yeah, So
just because of that, I want to see him do
well in Chicago. It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And then, last but not least, it's Klay Thompson. Dallas
is my squad. If you look at my score app,
the team has a start beside it it's a Dallas Mavericks.
So I want to see how Clay Thompson does.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I can't tell if he's washed or if all he
can do is shoot. I don't think he's washed. But
Clay also never had a bag to begin with. Clay
was not doing the dribble dribble crossovers. It's not ever
been so seeing him now not do that is like
it kind of feels the same, But I can't. So
I want to see if you really you're going to
(30:08):
find out so has it. Who are the guys for
you that you're excited see this year?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Five guys not the Burger Joint that I'm excited to
see this year that are playing this year.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I got John on there too. I got Jaw.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
He hopefully he's you know, he stays on the straight
and narrow because what we fingers as crossed. Because he's
exciting and we need to have that excitement back in the.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
NBA with you. I mean like like yeah, like that,
like man, I remember when I.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Was little and when VC was doing what he's doing. Man,
we need we need that action back in the game.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
So I got Jaw, I got I got the King. Okay, Okay,
I got the King.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
The King is because you said I'm excited to see
this year, because this year he's in this twenty second season.
His son is on the team. He'll be going back
and forth from the G League, and there's that excitement.
He just came off the Olympics. He was named the
best player in the Olympics. He I watched most of
those games. He played fucking incredible. His preseason. I just
watched a couple of days ago. He played fucking incredible,
(31:18):
he says, I probably who knows. I got a lot
in attack. Like when you start talking like that type
of talk, you got my atten, you got my attention.
And he turned forty soon, and he's turned forty and
he's playing and he's a top the worst top ten
player in the league right now.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
And that's at his worst. And the craziest thing is
he's probably the best athlete on his team. No like no, no, no, no,
like not possible, like he is, Like that is crazy,
Like he's And you know what's funny, I think about
him aging because I'm a clumb mark Kobe guy. Yeah,
so I have to warm up to being a Lebron fan,
especially on the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh yeah, he one of those.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah yeah, it took some time, but thinking about how
athletic he is at this age. Made me think of
all the older players in the league and the rules
they have. I think about someone like Kyle Lowry, like
exactly player in the league and it's not even never
so to see how he compare something like PJ.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Tucker.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah, Andre Dollar when you're still playing, it's like niggas
is taller than him that that can't get up, like
how he gets up.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
So I got, I got, I got, I got him, now,
I got now, I got Carl Anthony, Okay, yeah, I
need to I need to see what that is. Over
the day, I wasn't sure about the trade, but I
mean him in the big city with my guy.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I don't know, it could be, it could be something,
it could be, it could be something. I think it's
gonna be good like the next lot and it could be. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
It feels weird to have to, you know, cheer for
the Knicks because with for Toronto. Technically, yeah, we shouldn't
really in a way, but when the team looks good,
I'm I'm gonna rock with the possibility. I want to
see what Victor is gonna do this. Yeah, yeah, to
see this pairing now with Paul over there, he seems
to be rejuvenated and excited to put this guy in
(33:06):
a different level. And if he if that pick and
Roll and whatever they do with Pop, if that starts
to go the way it goes and Sky, then that
that's I want.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I want to see that. That's three.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Fourth man, he might have four Victor Lebron joh Oh, Joe, Okay, yeah,
who's this?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Who else? Didn't you know? I say someone just now?
Carl oh? Carl oh? So fifth?
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, this is crazy to say, because I'll say I
just want to I want to see what the fun
Paul George is gonna do over there.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Okay, all right, I'm mad at that. I'm mad at that,
and only because I want to see what he's gonna
do over there.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Because the same way that y'all talked about Hardened and
the way y'all talked about Westbrook having all these multiple superstars,
all stars around.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Him, but Paul two though, Yeah, he's had guys around
him too, and where's he going with it? So I
need to see now if he goes with MB and
that's another thing, and Bead's health is he going to be?
Is his health going to be?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Like I heard a lot of weight. Yeah, a lot
of weight. So I'm excited to see what that would be.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
But I gotta see. I gotta see power with I
gotta see pow with Maxie.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I gotta see. Is he the third well, yeah, going
to he did third option before, didn't he? No, he
never did a third option. But he's second.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
He's a second option because uh yeah, okay, see you
with second option and clear.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I guess Clippers his second.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
But but you know what, I think the Sixers I
don't believe in because I just don't think that Joel
Ebid wants to smoke.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
And this is like maybe a Hooper thing, but there's
guys you see and it he doesn't want to smoke.
You think he doesn't want to smoke.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'll tell you why. And I rewatched some of the
playoffs last year and I still forel right about this.
At the end of the game, he doesn't want the ball.
There's there's an end of the there's the end of
I think it's game too or Game three where Tyre's
Maxi has it, they double him and he passes to
Joel Embiid and Joel and bi as a pump take
party before he puts it up and the game is
basically done.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
PTSD from the Raptors games. So soon, too soon.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
But I was a Clippers fan for a long time
and it was CP and Blake there og Clippers fan.
CEP's my guy, so I was going to be I
love CB. But DeAndre Jordan on that team, when he
played in the clutch, he would literally run away from
the basketball. Joel embiid has a little bit of that
in him, and I think that not Ben Simmons bad.
(35:29):
Ben Simmons is a different level, but Joel embi definitely
has like he will screen you, but don't pass it
to him. And so I think that your team is
not going to go far when you're best guy is
kind of like scared of the moment.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Maybe MAXI will take We'll take over now, maybe MAXI
will it will take another lead forward this year.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I think if Maxi becomes the leader in the locker room,
then I believe in them. But I think it's a
character thing of like your team is going to follow
the mode of your best player. And it's kind of
like Giannis is a hard workers, is always ten toes down.
Milwaukee's always gonna follow in that footstep. Jimmy Butler, same way.
It's always works hard, it's always playing defense. Is he
in his last his last year was contract.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah, so Jimmy I want to see get traded. I
want to see him get traded too. But I think
those are the guys.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I'm like, well, we'll see, we'll see what we gotta
be resist maybe in April, Yeah we should.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah, we'll come back and hope Raptors continue. I hope
we we uh we tank this season. I don't know
if that's gonna happen, but I really hope.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I really hope.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
I really I don't I'm not an advocate of tanking,
but this is the best opportunity.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
For us to turn right now.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
What I'm hearing, all the rumors and highlights I've been
seeing of all these guys that are in this particular
class that is coming up.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, I think we should chill. I think we should.
You know, we we should, we should. Let's just bench
Scotti for a little bit, yeah, because you know he yeah,
come on, man, like god, damn man.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Okay, this is a question we asked everyone on the show. Now,
when you get a hundred million dollars, that is I like,
that you get an ex animals.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
That's just the rules. Everybody does it.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I don't know why, Justin Bieber with his monkey, like
Tyson with his tiger, Michael Jackson with his monkey. So
when you get that chance with your hundred million dollars,
what animal are you bringing.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Into your life? Panther he knew right away, just just
the one. Yeah, okay, okay, panther.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
The panther's so they're big cat, but they just look
so fucking majestic beautiful.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
They can kill.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I don't know, man, I just know I'm with you.
You get you get cat energy with protection. Yeah, so
I think that that's the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And like the black it just looks. So it's just
don't know. I'm with the panther all right. XP Where
are we at with the ice cream? Nowhere? Nowhere near.
I kind of stopped because I'm like, no, I can't,
I can't do all this nigga work, man, they're crazy?
Are you serious? Look how much is left though, and
show the camera he killed actually killed most of it. Yeah, okay,
(38:01):
you kill.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
That's mostly done. That's mostly done. I won't say that's
a full finish, but it's it's pretty it's there the
five yard line.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
So we have the segment on the radio show called
Wednesday Wisdom as for a motivational quote or saying, either
you remind yourself of or the people around you. Now,
you can't use one who used before, because we do
remember what I did before. Son better, what's that? What's
that quote for you? Either to remind yourself of or
the people around you? Oh oh, then I remind myself
(38:34):
to either either or either or. I don't just do
this for me mm and we got family in the room.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I like that. I like that I don't just do
this for me. I do it.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
I do it for everybody who believes in me, everybody
who's working with me, everybody who spends their time, money, energy, resources.
So anytime I feel down or feel tired or feel
weary of what's going on, I just think about everybody
else that's a part of it, and said, we get yours,
(39:07):
get your ass up, go to gym, go work out,
go right, go read, go do something.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I like that. I like that we're all about the
team here. You cannot do it on your own. You cannot.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
If you guys haven't for some reason, go stream managers everything, well,
you gotta we gotta let them know, get your life together.
Thank you for joining us. Honestly, it's been a long
time coming, a long time coming. Appreciate you, Appreciate it.
I appreciate everybody, Appreciate you. This is a beautiful it's
beautiful show.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
I'm happy that you continue to do it and pursue
and you know, get with the guests and keep this going, bro,
because we really, we really need this.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
We really need the platforms like this.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I'm tired of seeing platforms do amazing for a few
months and then you know they stop with internal something
and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
And thanks for part. So I love that you keep
keeping the cool going. Appreciate it, Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Welcome
to the Cool Table. My name is Adriel Smiley a
k a. Adosmiley dot Com a k a. Adril Smiley
Official a k a. The Godfather. Now Here in the cut,
we challenge our guest to finish type of ice cream
before the end of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
This one has this one has been a long time coming.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Wait what Yes, the challenge to finish it before the
end of the conversation. No pressure, of course, of course
I have I have reasons. Okay, so can we get
the gum spit out before we even introduce you. Let's
let's get we got XP in the building, I got
I got reasons for there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Everything else Seawan, it was brother, good to thanks for
having me Yeah, howpack we we finally do this. This
is actually time our second interview technically, because we did
do one in person. I was looking at my old
notes for that and I was like, I can't ask
any of those things again. I mean, it was such
a blur too, literally, such a such a black whole night.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Wasn't blur the whole night. The recording is. It's so separate,
you know, was going on.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, I thought the KP about it since and I
was like, she told me about like, you know, how
things went for y'all, And I was like, I have
my own drama on my side, and I'm like, it's
like we're all black professionals because.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We all just soldier through. Like I'm telling you, it was.
It was a night. It was. It was crazy, but
we had to, you know, we did what we did.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So tell her about the flavor that you chose, and
what are your chances you think of getting this finished?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay, I'm being honest. Can I be honest? Yes? First
of all, Oh, tell you about the flavor. Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm not an ice cream guy, Okay, but when people
offer me ice cream, I take vanilla. I just think
it's a safe flavor. It's not too intense. You know,
generally it tastes good. But I'm just not I'm just
not an ice cream dude, right, that's number one.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Number two, I'm not a dessert guy. Wow, So a
dessert guy.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Now, I'll eat certain things, like if you give me
a little cupcake, you know what I mean, I'm gonna
have a cupcake. If you give me a like if
a cake comes out a whole big ass cake, I'll
have like a little slitherin.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Unless it's now Christmas time and we have black rum
cake or whatever. Then then I'll the reason for the season,
for the receison. And my Auntie, my Auntie kills it.
She's the best in the whole world when she does that.
But besides that, I'm not really that cake.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh my god. Let me tell anybody that tries hers,
you're gonna hear from me the number Auntie Silvia, Aunti Silvia.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
It's it's literally legendary, better than anywhere you've had in
your life. So that's number two.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Number three. This I haven't eaten yet today.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
So to have a tub of fucking ice cream on
an empty stomach is not gonna be good for your boys.
So now now let me let me ask you this question.
Can I substitute someone to eat this for me?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Pause?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yes, yes, okay, I still want to taste it. So
they do it on the other part. They do it
on what's his name podcast? Drink Champs.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They get somebody else to drink the alcohol one an
you know what I mean. You know what's funny, you
guys said this.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So also, you guys know, we talked to a a
little while ago and she couldn't finish it, and we said,
maybe we shouldn't. Maybe we should do something where people
have someone have it for them. Yeah, about about it
about a champion, and we called it bring it. We
called it bring your best eater. Now you know what,
Now I think after that, maybe you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Do this heavy pause, but it's my brother. You can.
You can. That's technically it's me doing it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, yes, okay, so XP so then we'll check in
with you in a little bit, Yes, sir, but I
think this is the only way for this to get done.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
This is the only way. It's the only way. Let
because it's it's between Yes, it's for the whole Yeah. Yeah,
So we'll check in with you periodically.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But yeah, also, this is off to a crazy starts
off to a crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
What did you just say?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
God, damn, y'all, don't okay, X is telling us off.
MI ice cream is wet?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
This is crazy? Is water wet?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Like at this point? Oh my god, Okay, that's crazy.
I actually want to go back in time. I think
we got to do a little world building here, but
I want to hear first and foremost about your time
working and none of it. I think just picturing you
working none of it. Is this a visual that we
were not ready for. Yo, I wasn't ready for you
(05:02):
to ask me that. What the hell about?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That's crazy? Wow?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
My time working in none of it? Man, that's the
first time I went anywhere outside of outside of Ontario
in Canada. So besides this tour that we just wanted,
that was the first time I went out there.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But so to go all the way.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Where people that look like us are not really there, Yes,
that was intense. The weather's intense, The seasons are intense.
So they'll be a time period. I can't remember all
the time periods, but there'll be a time period where
the sun is out for like twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Of the day.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
How crazy is that? That was amazing. I can't even
lie to you, like it was amazing to look outside
at three am and it's it's just looks like.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Bro, I'm telling you it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
It's like I felt like because I'm such, I'm such
a creative, Like I never felt like I was at
work when anytime those type of things, right, I felt
like I felt like I was on set of something.
I thought like I was. I was in my own
world and it was you know what I mean, I'd
be acting shit in my head while I'm moving around
like it's four am, three am, the sun as bright
as hell, or twenty four hour darkness. There's twenty four
(06:18):
hour darkness all day, all night. It's dark.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's kind of wild, Like, I think the one thing
I think about when I think about none of it.
Of course, there's a cold, yeah, and I think, like
we've experienced levels of cold in Toronto, of course, but
that's like a different level where you almost feel it
in your bones.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I think the thing is too is because you dress
appropriately for the weather, you don't really feel the intensity
of how cold it really is, because you know, you
don't really notice it like that compared to compared to
when you're at home and you open the door and
it's fucking minus the windshiels like minus thirty you know
(07:00):
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You run to the car and your shore.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, so I would I would test the I would
test the weather like I'd be like, it's minus I
look on the apps as it's minus thirty, minus forty.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I just take my face out there on my hand
and it's like, wow, it's it's cold as hell.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Don't get a twisted. But it's not as bad as
like I imagined it. But I think it's just because
you're dressed. Yeah's probably prepare for it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Prepare and then yeah, so it doesn't it doesn't feel
as bad, you know, it doesn't feel as bad. The
people were great there. The locals were great there. They
they look at you when you're especially black people when
you when you come up. They haven't seen black people
in real life. So when they're seeing me over there,
they're like I'm like an alien to them, Like yeah, bro,
They're like trying.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Can I touch it.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I had people literally they would call their girl and
like put them on FaceTime and be like look, look,
I'm like they like a celebrity without even knowing can
I do anything besides working.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Here, like besides doing music or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
They're they just want to show people back in there,
you know, their islands that I know a black guy
and this this that can I touch his hair? And
oh my god, you're so like all this alien ship bro,
Like it's bro, It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It reminds me of when a Jamaican comes to Canada
for the first time and they got their first bit
of snow and they just kind of you know exactly
what I'm talking about, and they lose their marbles and
they just go right into the snow like the first snowfall.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
They're not even dressed, like they put jeans on, like
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Like that's what because I think too, we are so
spoiled here in Toronto and being so multicultural, especially in Canada,
like I've been i think almost every province Canada other
than the northern ones, and you see like how little
black people that are very quickly like you go through
like a tim Horns drive through, and it's almost as
(08:52):
if they're like yeah, you know what I mean, it's like,
oh my god, they're here, so yeah, yeah, and it's
a whole different ball game.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It's super extreme, bro like literally based, like everybody would
do it like it was wild.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It was a wild time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I think that there's something about kind of that difference
in like style of living, we'll call it. Yeah, that
that is is kind of honest, very earnest. But I
think there's something kind of about your music that has
a bit of that, because I've heard people talk about
your music in some of different ways where you're like,
(09:30):
is this the same artist?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Like you know, you know what I mean, Like I
know you've heard it to it. I know exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Someone will someone will call you an Afro artist, someone
will call you a rapper, someone will call you R
and B. And you know, I talked to your boys
move and I said, listen, I'm talking to Oshan. You
know anything you want to to build the beans on.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
He kept the G.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He kept the G, but almost the first words out
of his mouth is ocean is about energy, And it
was almost if it was like company line, you.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And the funny thing is he kind of realized that
he said it himself and he's like, yo, I didn't
even mean to do that. How it happens. So it's
like energy being part of you is like literally just yeah,
flowing through you. Is that something that you feel like
you've always had? And when did you decide to kind
of make that part of you know what? It's part
of your image.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's a great question.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I think I've always had it. Now did I know
that that would be the connection of what I'm trying
to do. No, that was through trial and error, doing things,
creating different waves and including how I am in my
everyday life, putting it into music form, and only recently
(10:49):
we realized that, yeah, we can brand that because that
is what you are.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
If there's one thing that people know me for is energy.
I can feel the energy in the room.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I know that. You know, people could be down around me,
and I'll be the one that picks everybody back up,
you know. I'll be the motivator. I'll be the the
guy that people come to to get a spark because
they got to go do something and they want to
get you know what I mean, that that juice, that feeling,
that feeling, that feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
They're like, yo, you make everything sound so you know
what I mean? So extra, you know what I mean?
Sometimes something else some people want to say I'm extra,
but I call I call it. I call it having energy.
I thought it.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I call it, you know, having creativity, having having a
spark on life and spark on possibility.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'm very optimistic, I'm very.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I'm very persistent, consistent those type of things that require
energy to do anything. Like even if I don't want
to do something, I know that I gotta dig deep
to find the energy, uh to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So when others see that, and others saw that, that's where.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
That you know, that term what we say, you know,
we got to call that the album energy is everything
because how else can we how else can we tie
everything in? If you do all these different things, what
is the one common idea or you know, a word
that we can surmarize everything together with. It's like, well,
(12:11):
the energy is he's the energy I want to perform.
People talk about my energy. When I'm in conversations with people,
they talk about the energy. So yeah, man, it's it.
That's that's I like small. I appreciate you for you
know what I mean thinking about that. That's really dope.
That's really dope.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It's fitting because I think that why when I want
want to ask movies, because people don't treat energy as
like a higher level of art in the same way
they don't I think when someone has that kind of
energy to their music, it's almost like it's not as artistic.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's a little bit you know, less thought out.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, he talks a lot about how intentional you are
with your music, and that's something I've seen as well,
where I'm like, you know, him putting the intentionality and
the thought process into the music mixed with the energy,
it's like still binding yourself with energy is like that's
a big thing.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So, you know, he put the all together. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I appreciate there's different levels of energy, you know what
I mean, Like, I think that's that's that was the
purpose of how we put the journey of the album
to be. It's to get there's different energies or different
feelings for different scenarios of your life.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And since I.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I expressed that a lot with people just through everyday life,
I wanted people to be able to catch that with
the music, you know what I mean. There's a there's
a setting for there's what do you say in the Bible,
there's a time for this. There's a time for that.
There's a time for this, there's a time for that,
and I want my music to be like that. That's
why it's like, yeah, you could put me on that
playlist or that playlist or that show or after that artist,
because I put myself in those positions.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Like one thing I always ask people is what's the
soundtrack for your album? Like, if your album was for activity,
what would it be? And before you answer, I think
what your album has is it reminds me of like
the back to the back to school days, Like you're
in the summer, it's cool, but now that you're in school,
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you're listening to music on the bus on the walk home,
and there's only a certain number of artists where you're
like I can listen to y'all from the time I
leave the school, from the walk to the bus to
when I get home.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
There's been an artist where like, once I get home,
I gotta change. It got to change.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, yeah, no, So yeah, what do you think is
the activity for your music or for this album in particular?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh no, this this album is for your twenty four hours.
It's for your twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
My favorite albums are the albums like you just described that,
you can play something from the album at any point
of the day, you know what I mean. There's there's
artists that you know you want to hear in the morning,
but you don't want to hear when you're getting ready
to work out, you know what I mean. Or there's
songs that you want to hear on the ride home,
but not necessarily it's not going to get your juices
(14:51):
flowing in the morning, on the way, on the way
to work or on the way to school. So I
call my album it's a twenty four hour. It's a
twenty four hour. There's something in the morning, there's something
in the afternoon. There's something to get you through your work.
There's something to get you through your gym session. There's
something to get you ready to go out. Girls with
a message, I played this to get ready to go out.
Oh I heard a song in the club that helps
me party. Now there's another song for you on the
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way home. Like it's twenty four hours, at some point,
there's something there for you on that particular albums.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
More specifically, No, I actually agree with that because I'm
the kind of person, if you know me, I listen
to anything anywhere.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'll smoke a blunt does and Kurk Franklin.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, yeah, yesterday I was in the gym listening to
past to Shorty Caesar on repeat on treadmill.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
So sometimes it happens. Nod be like, no, I agree,
You'd be surprised some of the things. I'll be listening
to what I'm on the treadmill. Y'all think I'm going.
I'm like, I'm like, I might be listening to Mozart
at that time.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, yeah, you know. Sometimes when I'm on the gym
on purpose, I will like.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Put it really loud and take the headphones off so
they could hear that I was like listening to Scientists, Coldplay.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Or or whatever, like just just just to be like, yeah, yeah,
you think you know what I'm listening to.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You don't know what the I'm not going to lie though,
those like slow Down, R and B like playing in
the gym.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Bang yeah you know.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And here's the thing. I think that, like it's almost
like a higher level. I'm watching to say we're better,
but it's like a higher level because it's like the
music is like kind of calming you down and you're
finding your center while you're while you're while you're exerting
your body and having the mix of those two of
like my body's pushing.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
But this is I'm telling you. I'm telling it's a
good it's a good contrast. I do that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I do it to I need to explain some things
to me. Okay, there's some lyrics that I have for
you that I want. I want you to explain.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yo, I can't. I can't tell you that.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I don't know if i'll be one hundred saying accurate
depending on which session we're talking about, what song you're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
You know, if I was, if I was not, I
don't know. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So I didn't know this before, but I think you
might be a trick On Destination, you talk a little
bit about tricking. Now, if you are, you're bout of
your choice. If you are, you are. If you're not,
you're not. But you say this on destination, you said
you told me that he cheap. If you don't help
you with your bills and your nails and your toes,
(17:15):
you know that he cheap. You don't need to name names,
but talk about that lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, that's crazy. You know, should have fun out X
me bro so am I a trick? No, I want
to say I would, I would to say that part time,
part time, part time.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I just I just I feel like, Okay, in my life,
I've just heard. I've heard women complain to me about
like very simple things that I feel like men should
take care of them, and I would know that they
have a man. So anytime I hear like, they'll be complained,
but like some small shit like that, like yeah, I
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haven't got my nails done in two months, three months
or something like that, and I'll be like, did don't
you have a man? Like cause I'd be like, don't
you have a man? Or you haven't got my hair
braided in solo? Or oh I was at the store.
I was trying on some things and I said, what'd
you get? I didn't get anything. I'm like, why out
(18:22):
hear these type of general things. I've even heard a
girl bro I one time. One time, this girl told
me she was dropping her man home right dropping him
from the west to the east. I said, Oh, that's crazy.
What happened to is? No, she said she drove to
(18:43):
the east, picked him up, brought him to her house.
They chilled, then she went back to the East dropped
him off and went back to the West. And I said,
that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Yoh.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
She's like, I'm well, you know, sometimes that happened. Maybe
he doesn't have a car, maybe this license blah blah blah.
I'm like, did he he got you some?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Right? Said no? I said, wait, wait, maybe I'm with
you on this. Maybe maybe are you hearing what I
just said?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
She drove back and forth, back and forth to hang
at her house and he didn't give her a gas money.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's manipulation. That's manipulation. And I said, I'm like, I
don't undertand I don't understand the how is that possible?
She's like, oh, well, you know, I didn't want to.
I'm like, you don't have to. He didn't offer it.
In reality exists, exists.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
He should have went to her place and took his
ass back home himself. That's what I'm saying. That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So like, everybody's circumstances different, but the fact that I
would hear these stories and that one really pissed me off.
So I just sent her, you know, I sent her,
you know, I send her something. I'm like, yo, hear that.
Hold that for your hold that for your mad you
know what I mean. But yeah, I literally said you
apologize for Menyo, here's that for your guess.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Take that. Okay, Okay, So you're not not completely a trick.
I'm not a trick, but sometimes you know, I may,
I may, I might hold somebody down if I can.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
But but you do believe in some of the teachings.
Hell yeah, okay, okay, I do. I do because it's ridiculous, QUICU.
I think you got me a little bit convinced because
some of the things that that you told me. I'm like,
these some crazy things and I can't lie. Yeah, I'm
one hundred percent not a trick, if you know me,
like I'm whatever. The opposite of a trick is is
what I am.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You're a no spend, yeah, Like I'm a a no
spend for sure until we're until we're deeply in love.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Okay. I just sad stories, sob stories. They get me sometimes.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
But I'm actually with you on this because I think
some of those things is like if you have someone
like you know, they can help you out with the
nails or help you out with you know, with the hair,
like for sure that that that is like a non starter.
Automatic what I'm telling you, Okay, this one. I believe
this was on things maybe Cleopatra, I'm not. I'm not
(20:52):
sure you said it. Bad dreams keep a nigga grounded?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I think bad dreams are not necessarily dream dreams, but
just thoughts of the negative for me, keep me on
my toes, so they keep me from falling for any
pretty dress or any promise that somebody gets tells me,
(21:25):
I don't allow it to have me floated, like you
know what I mean, doesn't it doesn't. It won't have
me floating like yeah, you can. You might say, yo,
I'm gonna I'm gonna do this for you, or she
might say, yo.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I did it. I'm grounded.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I'm not letting the the the that possibility, you know,
keep me off my off my game, off my toes.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
You easy, yeah, yeah, quantum entangle mind. I want to
know kind of the thought behind that, Like when I
heard that. When I heard that, I was just like,
where does this come from? Like I almost said name
names when when I heard it originally, But I want
to notice the behind that.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I let miss Singer, I let Miss Singer take the
helm on that. So basically, we gave her the idea
of the album, We gave her my thoughts of the album,
We gave her the you know, the imagery of the
album in terms of where we wanted the direction of
the album to go, you know, surrounding energy, and she
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just won in bro, Like she took. She took, She
took the ideas of that that we had great conversations
about it. She's heard some of the records before, but
she just took that and just went to a whole
new world with it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
And it's like, sometimes as a creative, I like to
let people interpret what they think I mean instead of
me just telling them, yeah, what to say for everything. Now,
sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. I'll admit that and
then I'll step in. But she just nailed it out
the park. I'm like, yo, you you spoke my language
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like you spoke my like we wanted. We wanted those
interludes in the intro and the outro just to feel
so beyond here, bro, like you know what I mean,
Like really just beyond and just be thoughts and ideas
and imageries all trying to fold in together to create
this bright light on this project.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And that's what she did.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I think it holds a project together because I think
the project is a certain tempo where everyone could kind
of get lost in that and to be like, Okay,
we just and what did she do going? I think yeah,
she basically like brought it down, brought it together, and
I think that helps to me the album kind of
live on its own aside from the single, Yes, we're
in a single world in a.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Single, We're we're where you know, you know what it is,
single world.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
But people are not really putting our projects anymore albums anyway.
But shout out shout out and singer shout out pe
shut out, shout out KP for really bringing those ideas
together and making sure that we we made this album
complete and feel a beginning, middle, and end.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
And she did it. She did her things.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
She's incredible. No, I think it definitely works because I
think you have both, Like I think you have both.
You have those songs like I bet at Big Batty Boom,
but you still have this like body of work where
someone's a new Oshan fan they can have something to
go into. Yeah, is there a song that you're most
proud of on the project where you're like, Okay, this
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is where you know I did my thing on here.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's but that's like saying what you have a favorite kid.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
People have favorites, I know, and and if you were
to ask me my top three favorite basketball players of
all time, I'm gonna put like a hundred of them
in there.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Like I I I can't, I can't, I can't. I
can give you that, bro pause. I just to be
proud of all of them.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm proud of this project. Like this project, it just
gets me so excited when I put it on, Bro,
Like when I put on like It. This is the
first project where like I feel like I get something
new every time I hear it, you know what I mean.
I'll put it in the rotation of when I'm listening
to over Yay or or Drake or whoever it is.
I'll put that like because sometimes with other previous projects,
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I might listen to a song or two from my
from my album and then I'm I move on to
something else. This one, like I I just usually just
let it go, just let it go, and it's go
on that journey and I'm trying to understand what I'm
trying to put myself in different people's minds of like
what they what could they possibly experiencing when they listen
to this album?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is this is for sure your best project, I think,
and I think I appreciate that. Brother. I think it's
gonna age.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Like in a way your other projects haven't, like this
is a project I think you know, two three years
from now, when you're an even bigger artist, Yeah, they're
gonna be able to go They're gonna go back to
that and be like, oh, like that still slaps. And
I think that's something that a lot of artists take
almost too long to figure out in a sense where
it's like you don't create your actual like great body
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of work until you're you know, far along in your career,
and it's like, no, you can do that now, Like
you don't have to wait, you can do That's why
I think you've done that.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Thank you with this. I thank you. I feel I
feel it too. That's good. It's a good uh reassuring here.
And you say that, but we definitely feel like that. No,
I definitely feel like that.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I could talk talking to KP talking to you, I
could feel how proud you guys were of this project.
And I think like that is something that like even
though I rock with you on a personal level, like
see how proud of you guys are of the project.
It's something that I love, love to see because it's
it's scary to put music out, Like.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Tell them them put out a body of work, bro
that shit is. It's scary.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It's hard, it's difficult, it's stressful, it's time consuming, it's
energy consuming, it's money consuming, it's there's there's a whole
out of negativity if you want to call it, or
a lot of way, a whole lot of obstacles wanting
to put out a song, let alone a project. So
for us to go through this process, this, this whole
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this how many years it really took for us to
put this project together? Ups and downs, a lot, We've
had different circumstances that would have delayed and and and
songs that maybe didn't make it, songs that we had
to push to other Like, there's a lot, there's there's
a there's a docu on what what code or what
people who were supposed to be on the album that
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ended up not being on the album that could have
took it to a whole other level. There's there's a lot,
there's a lot, you know what I mean, But so
just to hear it and be like.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Man, we you know, we got through that. Thank god,
it still sounds as great as it as it as
it does. Yeah. I think that's the thing. I see
so much of the artists that don't put the project out.
But if I tell you how many projects I've heard
that aren't out, that never came out.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, and that bang Fire not coming out, and it's
kind of like you have to kind of let yourself go.
You have to and let it come out regardless, Like, yes,
I know you thought that this was the better song
and it could have been the single. It's it's okay,
let it, let it go, let it come out. We're
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gonna switch gears a little bit. We're getting towards the end,
but before we go, we gotta do a top five
top five.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I try and tailor my top five to my guests,
something that they can be excited about.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And we're gonna do this together. Okay, thank god. The
NBA season is coming out.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
We're gonna go NBA with it, okay, and it's just
top five players you're excited to watch for this season. Okay,
this is for the present. Top players try to watch
this seas. I'm gonna give you a couple of mine,
just to kind of get the juices flowing. Number one
for me is John Moran.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Oh, so this is an order for you? No order five?
Speaker 3 (28:52):
John Moran excited to see what he has going on.
Obviously he was moving crazy a couple of years ago,
but excited to see what he has going on for sure.
Another one for me is Josh Giddy. I feel like
he got a rough end of the deal in Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
See. I think that everything was blamed on him a
little bit too much.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Wild we're not talking about but as a hooper, I
hate it when a team's failures it's blamed on one person.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I hate that too. That I think is like an
NBA meet, It's only it's only a basketball. Yeah, So
just because of that, I want to see him do
well in Chicago. It's interesting.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And then, last but not least, it's Klay Thompson. Dallas
is my squad. If you look at my score app,
the team has a start beside it it's a Dallas Mavericks.
So I want to see how Clay Thompson does.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I can't tell if he's washed or if all he
can do is shoot. I don't think he's washed. But
Clay also never had a bag to begin with. Clay
was not doing the dribble dribble crossovers. It's not ever
been so seeing him now not do that is like
it kind of feels the same, But I can't. So
I want to see if you really you're going to
(30:08):
find out so has it. Who are the guys for
you that you're excited see this year?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Five guys not the Burger Joint that I'm excited to
see this year that are playing this year.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I got John on there too. I got Jaw.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
He hopefully he's you know, he stays on the straight
and narrow because what we fingers as crossed. Because he's
exciting and we need to have that excitement back in the.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
NBA with you. I mean like like yeah, like that,
like man, I remember when I.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Was little and when VC was doing what he's doing. Man,
we need we need that action back in the game.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
So I got Jaw, I got I got the King. Okay, Okay,
I got the King.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
The King is because you said I'm excited to see
this year, because this year he's in this twenty second season.
His son is on the team. He'll be going back
and forth from the G League, and there's that excitement.
He just came off the Olympics. He was named the
best player in the Olympics. He I watched most of
those games. He played fucking incredible. His preseason. I just
watched a couple of days ago. He played fucking incredible,
(31:18):
he says, I probably who knows. I got a lot
in attack. Like when you start talking like that type
of talk, you got my atten, you got my attention.
And he turned forty soon, and he's turned forty and
he's playing and he's a top the worst top ten
player in the league right now.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
And that's at his worst. And the craziest thing is
he's probably the best athlete on his team. No like no, no, no, no,
like not possible, like he is, Like that is crazy,
Like he's And you know what's funny, I think about
him aging because I'm a clumb mark Kobe guy. Yeah,
so I have to warm up to being a Lebron fan,
especially on the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh yeah, he one of those.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah yeah, it took some time, but thinking about how
athletic he is at this age. Made me think of
all the older players in the league and the rules
they have. I think about someone like Kyle Lowry, like
exactly player in the league and it's not even never
so to see how he compare something like PJ.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Tucker.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah, Andre Dollar when you're still playing, it's like niggas
is taller than him that that can't get up, like
how he gets up.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
So I got, I got, I got, I got him, now,
I got now, I got Carl Anthony, Okay, yeah, I
need to I need to see what that is. Over
the day, I wasn't sure about the trade, but I
mean him in the big city with my guy.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I don't know, it could be, it could be something,
it could be, it could be something. I think it's
gonna be good like the next lot and it could be. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
It feels weird to have to, you know, cheer for
the Knicks because with for Toronto. Technically, yeah, we shouldn't
really in a way, but when the team looks good,
I'm I'm gonna rock with the possibility. I want to
see what Victor is gonna do this. Yeah, yeah, to
see this pairing now with Paul over there, he seems
to be rejuvenated and excited to put this guy in
(33:06):
a different level. And if he if that pick and
Roll and whatever they do with Pop, if that starts
to go the way it goes and Sky, then that
that's I want.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I want to see that. That's three.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Fourth man, he might have four Victor Lebron joh Oh, Joe, Okay, yeah,
who's this?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Who else? Didn't you know? I say someone just now?
Carl oh? Carl oh? So fifth?
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, this is crazy to say, because I'll say I
just want to I want to see what the fun
Paul George is gonna do over there.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Okay, all right, I'm mad at that. I'm mad at that,
and only because I want to see what he's gonna
do over there.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Because the same way that y'all talked about Hardened and
the way y'all talked about Westbrook having all these multiple superstars,
all stars around.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Him, but Paul two though, Yeah, he's had guys around
him too, and where's he going with it? So I
need to see now if he goes with MB and
that's another thing, and Bead's health is he going to be?
Is his health going to be?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Like I heard a lot of weight. Yeah, a lot
of weight. So I'm excited to see what that would be.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
But I gotta see. I gotta see power with I
gotta see pow with Maxie.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I gotta see. Is he the third well, yeah, going
to he did third option before, didn't he? No, he
never did a third option. But he's second.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
He's a second option because uh yeah, okay, see you
with second option and clear.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I guess Clippers his second.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
But but you know what, I think the Sixers I
don't believe in because I just don't think that Joel
Ebid wants to smoke.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
And this is like maybe a Hooper thing, but there's
guys you see and it he doesn't want to smoke.
You think he doesn't want to smoke.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'll tell you why. And I rewatched some of the
playoffs last year and I still forel right about this.
At the end of the game, he doesn't want the ball.
There's there's an end of the there's the end of
I think it's game too or Game three where Tyre's
Maxi has it, they double him and he passes to
Joel Embiid and Joel and bi as a pump take
party before he puts it up and the game is
basically done.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
PTSD from the Raptors games. So soon, too soon.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
But I was a Clippers fan for a long time
and it was CP and Blake there og Clippers fan.
CEP's my guy, so I was going to be I
love CB. But DeAndre Jordan on that team, when he
played in the clutch, he would literally run away from
the basketball. Joel embiid has a little bit of that
in him, and I think that not Ben Simmons bad.
(35:29):
Ben Simmons is a different level, but Joel embi definitely
has like he will screen you, but don't pass it
to him. And so I think that your team is
not going to go far when you're best guy is
kind of like scared of the moment.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Maybe MAXI will take We'll take over now, maybe MAXI
will it will take another lead forward this year.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I think if Maxi becomes the leader in the locker room,
then I believe in them. But I think it's a
character thing of like your team is going to follow
the mode of your best player. And it's kind of
like Giannis is a hard workers, is always ten toes down.
Milwaukee's always gonna follow in that footstep. Jimmy Butler, same way.
It's always works hard, it's always playing defense. Is he
in his last his last year was contract.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah, so Jimmy I want to see get traded. I
want to see him get traded too. But I think
those are the guys.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I'm like, well, we'll see, we'll see what we gotta
be resist maybe in April, Yeah we should.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah, we'll come back and hope Raptors continue. I hope
we we uh we tank this season. I don't know
if that's gonna happen, but I really hope.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I really hope.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
I really I don't I'm not an advocate of tanking,
but this is the best opportunity.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
For us to turn right now.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
What I'm hearing, all the rumors and highlights I've been
seeing of all these guys that are in this particular
class that is coming up.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, I think we should chill. I think we should.
You know, we we should, we should. Let's just bench
Scotti for a little bit, yeah, because you know he yeah,
come on, man, like god, damn man.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Okay, this is a question we asked everyone on the show. Now,
when you get a hundred million dollars, that is I like,
that you get an ex animals.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
That's just the rules. Everybody does it.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I don't know why, Justin Bieber with his monkey, like
Tyson with his tiger, Michael Jackson with his monkey. So
when you get that chance with your hundred million dollars,
what animal are you bringing.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Into your life? Panther he knew right away, just just
the one. Yeah, okay, okay, panther.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
The panther's so they're big cat, but they just look
so fucking majestic beautiful.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
They can kill.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I don't know, man, I just know I'm with you.
You get you get cat energy with protection. Yeah, so
I think that that's the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And like the black it just looks. So it's just
don't know. I'm with the panther all right. XP Where
are we at with the ice cream? Nowhere? Nowhere near.
I kind of stopped because I'm like, no, I can't,
I can't do all this nigga work, man, they're crazy?
Are you serious? Look how much is left though, and
show the camera he killed actually killed most of it. Yeah, okay,
(38:01):
you kill.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
That's mostly done. That's mostly done. I won't say that's
a full finish, but it's it's pretty it's there the
five yard line.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
So we have the segment on the radio show called
Wednesday Wisdom as for a motivational quote or saying, either
you remind yourself of or the people around you. Now,
you can't use one who used before, because we do
remember what I did before. Son better, what's that? What's
that quote for you? Either to remind yourself of or
the people around you? Oh oh, then I remind myself
(38:34):
to either either or either or. I don't just do
this for me mm and we got family in the room.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I like that. I like that I don't just do
this for me. I do it.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
I do it for everybody who believes in me, everybody
who's working with me, everybody who spends their time, money, energy, resources.
So anytime I feel down or feel tired or feel
weary of what's going on, I just think about everybody
else that's a part of it, and said, we get yours,
(39:07):
get your ass up, go to gym, go work out,
go right, go read, go do something.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I like that. I like that we're all about the
team here. You cannot do it on your own. You cannot.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
If you guys haven't for some reason, go stream managers everything, well,
you gotta we gotta let them know, get your life together.
Thank you for joining us. Honestly, it's been a long
time coming, a long time coming. Appreciate you, Appreciate it.
I appreciate everybody, Appreciate you. This is a beautiful it's
beautiful show.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
I'm happy that you continue to do it and pursue
and you know, get with the guests and keep this going, bro,
because we really, we really need this.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
We really need the platforms like this.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I'm tired of seeing platforms do amazing for a few
months and then you know they stop with internal something
and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
And thanks for part. So I love that you keep
keeping the cool going. Appreciate it, Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
If you want to hear the Cool Table lies you,
you can hear us every Wednesday at eleven am that's
Eastern Standard time. Find us on the interwebs at the
Cool Table Live on Instagram, at the Cool Table on YouTube.
You can find me on TikTok at Adrosmiley dot com.
And until next time, know yourself, know your worth.
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