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Simba
The volume.
DJ Wells
All right we back man. Another episode of Club 520 podcast live in the Bay with it since we in the bay Mitchell and Ness is only right man. Bay area is finally in the building with a special he ain't even a guest I'm all this family already in the building.
Simba
I'm a roof family of the show. I ain't a friend of the show. I watch every episode, man. I love what Teague did on the court. I fuck with my nigga be hen. You know what I'm saying? My nigga. DJ Wells, what y'all doing for the culture is important. I wanted to bring my brothers through because they run the culture out here in the Bay Area. And sometimes in the Bay Area, a lot of us don't get the platforms we deserve. So I wanted to make sure we highlighting our culture during All Star Weekend. Y'all allowed us to do that, so we appreciate that, you know what I'm saying?
DJ Wells
It's all coach and Mitchell necessary. It's all tied in for sure. To my far left, my dog Bishop B. He out the priest. How you would nasty cool.
B. Hen
And Ashley got one of my guys on here, man. So I'm excited for this one for sure.
DJ Wells
Hey, man, we never thought that S behead be one of my favorite backwards man.
Simba
My new best friend, legendary duo B H had a good time last night, man. I will say Behan is very disciplined. Yes, he's very disciplined. And I'm not.
B. Hen
So you let the church. That's going to be a real N.
DJ Wells
Luis, cut that out. But show it to my right. My dog, Young Nacho. Young Teague.
Young Teague
How you what cooling, bro? Excited. Me and Behenn was talking about this a minute ago. How we used to send each other the raps, the reals, the freestyles, and like how this moment is huge for us, bro. We excited cause we was fans. So to have him on the show, this is gonna be dope.
Simba
Nah, Teek, I've been a fan of you since Wake Forest, man. You gotta remember when I dmed you, I sent you them basketball clips to show you I was a real Hooper. Yeah, I really watched your come. I'm really a fan. Like I know what it take. That's why when Gilly was in here yesterday talking that bullshit, I said, gil, you know how hard it is to score 12 points in the NBA? Nigga, you talking about you just gonna dog these niggas like it ain't gonna go that way.
Young Teague
Not at all.
Simba
Matter of fact, Gil canceled the game today, didn't he?
Young Teague
Yeah, somebody was dodging.
DJ Wells
You see the flyer?
Young Teague
Somebody was.
DJ Wells
See the flyer? It's posted.
Young Teague
Somebody was dodging.
Simba
How have you guys experienced been in the bay this weekend?
DJ Wells
It's been cool, bro.
Young Teague
It's been cool.
B. Hen
Been great for me, man. Especially last night, we can't speak too much, but I told the guys, I said, yeah, every time I enter California, period, I'm tapping in with my guy.
Simba
Yeah.
B. Hen
So I appreciate that love. Shout out to Hennessy. For sure.
Simba
Shout out to Hennessy.
B. Hen
Them is our people over there, for sure. But now, the love you show last night, bro, it's for real.
Simba
No, we appreciate it, man. It's a lot of things that's going on behind the scenes to make sure we keep everybody safe, keep everybody feeling welcome just having y'all here, right? Gilbert arena is my big brother. Gillian Wallow, everybody. Like, we want to make sure when you guys come to California, especially to the Bay Area, y'all taken care of. And y'all feel appreciated because we appreciate what y'all do for us as a coach.
Young Teague
Appreciate that.
DJ Wells
And shout out to the Bay, man. Especially, like the last couple weeks, you've been seeing everybody giving the respect they supposed to. Tupac talk about how he came to the Bay and got his hustle. Master P talked about how he came out here, got his game, and took it back to the no. So you know what I'm saying? Especially for our people, the real culture, black people, Bay mean a lot, man.
Simba
Man, I brought. I brought one of the most ignorant Bay Area niggas with me. Okay, Rab, explain to him how we live as a culture out here in the Bay Area.
Rab
Well, first of all, we players, you know what I'm saying? We players. And we come from that panther cloth, you know what I'm saying? So we come from that panther cloth. And a lot of drug dealers, big time drug dealers, you know, that crack era hit us hard, too. So, like, we just full of gang. So when y'all hear Tupac saying he got that gang from here, that's what it's about. It's about the game. And we on an island. So in the whole United States, it's the only place that probably don't have no gangs. So we don't have no gangs. Not no black gangs. So ain't no Crips, no Bloods, no gds, no Vice Lord, none of that. We just straight niggas.
B. Hen
Nah, for sure, for sure.
Draymond Green
Turf wars, though.
DJ Wells
No, it get tricky everywhere, though.
Draymond Green
It get tricky. I got a question on that. Big, big fan of y'all show, too.
DJ Wells
Appreciate it.
Draymond Green
Draymond is one of my best friends, and I've been talking shout out to shout out, and I've been. And I know y'all over there at the volume, and I've been watching Y'all rise. But one thing I like about y'all show, though, is one thing I always tell you. I love the way y'all get on there and say what the fuck y'all want to say. That shit fired me.
B. Hen
I appreciate that.
Draymond Green
That right there is what this shit supposed to be like.
DJ Wells
You know what I'm saying?
Draymond Green
So I appreciate what y'all, but I got a question. What did y'all hear before y'all got out here on y'all way to All Star Weekend? Like, what was the things I was going through. Y'all here when y'all got off the plane. Like, this is. We about to see shit.
DJ Wells
We pulled up shout out to Henny. We did Henny arena last year in San Francisco. So we had pulled up. But what we remembered was if we get a rental to make sure the car unlocked or don't or don't put shit in the motherfucking view, because that. That will be your liability is going to be used in that. In that claim.
Young Teague
Yeah, that's a fact.
DJ Wells
Somebody put us on game. We pulled up. Yeah. Remember no rentals.
B. Hen
Kept hitting that lock button, walking down the street.
Draymond Green
What they fail to tell y'all is y'all caught the tail end of the bipping. That was like a trend.
Young Teague
Okay, right.
Draymond Green
So y'all caught the tail. That shit didn't, like, died down. We. We might be close to a year past that, right, Red? Because what happens is once everybody starts, you, like, not leave nothing in the cars leaving their windows down so that. Because the broken windows was the headache. You know what I'm saying? Then all the bippers was like, we ain't making no money now. So this started to go away. In my opinion, we ain't really had a whole lot of that within the.
DJ Wells
Last year or so, but shout out to progression. Boy, it was a little wicked last.
B. Hen
Time before them said show respect is getting Uber stamped.
Simba
Uber get bit. We bi in the Uber out here.
DJ Wells
Y'all got Ubers with no drivers. Y'all got the remote cars.
Simba
Way shout out to Waymo.
DJ Wells
Yeah, way don't wipe me down in a way mo. I can't even.
B. Hen
Can't even pull off.
Young Teague
Can't do nothing about it.
B. Hen
See, for sure now that we got a relationship with you now, we just getting car service through you now.
Simba
Are you good?
B. Hen
You good?
Simba
We going to make sure y'all straight, man. Anytime y'all make sure you straight.
Young Teague
Facts, Facts.
B. Hen
Nah, bro. We know the world. Know you as a rapper. I you love ball. Who like, what was Your position in.
Simba
High school, I was a two guard, man. I still hold the point record at my high school, I dropped 47 and three quarters. I was very passionate about basketball, but I got caught cheating on my SC SAT test, so I didn't pass Clearinghouse Rules, okay? That's how I ended up becoming a rapper. I was like, I gotta do something else. Because I didn't talk too much shit to go to the 13th grade, you know what I'm saying? I'm not going to a JC and go ball at a JC When I done told all the girls I was going to Duke, lying my ass off. But rapping worked out for me.
B. Hen
Did some school. Some schools checking you out, though. Like, did you take shit?
Simba
I had a lot of offers. I just was a hardhead, bro. I didn't listen. Yeah, I was very spoiled as a kid. You know, I come from a rich culture, a rich heritage, and I didn't have the work ethic. I always say, if I have made it to the league, I'd have been worse than Teague. I'd have been a nigga that would have been in the strip club right after the game. I know Teague used to go to Magic City right after them Hawks games. I would have been there at halftime.
Young Teague
Magic City was my spot. My. My spot was Diamonds of Atlanta. It was right by my crib.
Simba
Okay, okay, okay.
Young Teague
My challenger used to be posted up. I was legendary in there.
Simba
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
DJ Wells
I got a question for you. You know what I'm saying? You up on your hoops and stuff. I got to ask you, who the best PG out of Oakland?
Simba
Oh, Jason Kidd. Jason Kidd, 1,000%. Shout out to Gary Payton as well.
Young Teague
Y'all think Dame gonna catch him?
Simba
Man, Dame. Dame still got work to do. Dame still got work to do. Still got work to do.
Draymond Green
If J Kid played in Alameda, does that count? Oh, high school ball. St. Joseph and the Rexon, I bet.
DJ Wells
Oh, he was outside. Okay, okay. Respect.
B. Hen
I ain't mad at that. It's just. Yeah, I got GP for sure. Definitely. Shout out to Gary Payton.
Simba
Shout out to Leon. PO Too.
B. Hen
Shout out to Leon.
DJ Wells
Okay.
B. Hen
Yeah, but Dame, dame Lillard. Different dame dollar different bro. Like, Jason Kid was one of your traditional PGs. But Damon Lillard, bro, is probably the best player to come out of Oakland, bro. But y'all probably know better. You know, I wouldn't disagree with you.
Simba
I only said J. Kidd because of the heritage and how we grew up watching J. Kidd. So I know Dame is still fulfilling his career. He got A lot more to go. I just talked to him the other night, and I know he want that ring. But J. Kidd is somebody we seen playing high school, go to the NBA coach. Like we've watched this whole thing. And he's also big in our community out here as well. So it's just a different level. Level of love and respect when it come to J. Kid. But salute to Dame as well.
Rab
I wanna say this about Dame, too, y'all. I used to be at all Dame games. Cause my brother played against him. He's the same dude. He's the same. Nothing has changed from high school to the pros. He was pulling from logo in high school. Most niggas get benched for that, you know what I'm saying? Especially at them times. Kids just throwing that motherfucker up now. But Dame was pulling and he had the green light. So, you know, he could shoot. But shout out to Ohio, man. Dame was a fool up at that school.
DJ Wells
Yeah, most definitely, man.
Draymond Green
But on top of that, to see what Dame did, he probably. Cause I might had to agree with that. He might be close to the best player to come out of here that didn't have the most hype coming out of here. He went to Weber and shot the piss out the ball. And the way he turned it up there, I don't think nobody thought Dame coming out of Oakland High, you know what I'm saying? Was finna turn into what he did. He went there, he was shooting lights out. You couldn't deny him. And then. Then he kept going, you know what I'm saying? It never leveled out. He got to the league and just turned the fuck up. So shout out to Dyn, because I don't. In high. When he was in high school, I don't know if he had the hype that some of the other dudes he did. I think Ray Young had more hype coming out of high school than.
Young Teague
I don't know Ray Young.
B. Hen
How does he do?
Draymond Green
Ucla?
Young Teague
Nah, they only. Nah.
DJ Wells
That's why he trying to put you a Baron Davis 91.
Young Teague
Goddamn. I had a Baron Davis jersey.
B. Hen
We grew up watching me.
DJ Wells
Yeah.
Draymond Green
I'll be tripping on what made Dame decide to. I'd be curious to find out from his people how he decided to go to Weaver.
DJ Wells
That's what he said. His. His assistant coach, he was fly with back from the crib. He was just like. He was out here was just like, hey, like I got a shot for you out here. He said he rocked with it.
Simba
Yeah.
DJ Wells
He came and talked about that for sure? He said we were saying one of the few places he could go. Yeah, he said it was a direct correlation from the city. He tapped in.
Draymond Green
That was an excellent choice.
B. Hen
All right, Simba. So, you know, I mean, hoop didn't work. You was a damn fool, so you can't hoop no more. What was the rap?
Simba
I was undisciplined, being. I wasn't a fool. I was just undisciplined.
B. Hen
I know. I got you, though. That's why I'm in your life now. I got you. My. Nah, that was a. For real, though. Like, what was the. What was the rapping influence, though, man.
Simba
Bro, just you guys.
B. Hen
Take you to the studio, you know what I mean? Did you randomly freestyle around the team? Like, how you get into it, man?
Simba
Honestly, bro, it was something we started, like, hooping. Like, we used to be in the locker room just freestyling and rapping. You know what I mean? Just having fun. I'm sure y'all did the same thing coming up. Just having fun with it, being on the team bus. My name is Simba. Yeah, I got them bitches. Yeah, boy. You know what I'm saying?
DJ Wells
That's the first part we cooking.
Simba
That's where it started. That's where it started from. But I just kept going. And I fell in love with the craft. And I'm somebody that, like, I love the process of things more than I actually do, the beginning of it or the ending result. So I love going through the process. And rap for me, was something that was like, the first thing that I was never good at, that I had to work to get better at, right? So, like, hoop. I was a natural athlete, so I could literally get in the game. And my C list effort would be a lot of people's a work, you know what I mean? But music was something I really had to learn and really get into the craft of it. And I just fell in love with it from there.
DJ Wells
I got a question for you. I ain't gonna start by, like, who you feel like, who, like, influence you musically, like basketball, who you play like.
Simba
They call me Lance Simbuston. Me. That's what they call me at LA Fitness. They call me Lance Simba.
Young Teague
So you Bolivar?
Simba
I'm. I'm a defender, you know what I'm saying? I knocked down a couple threes, but I'm gonna irritate the out you.
Young Teague
So you Pat Bev?
Simba
Yes, sir.
Young Teague
Okay.
Simba
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'm gonna get all in your ear. I'm gonna talk that I'm Gonna steal the ball from you. I'm doing. Pause. I'm gonna do whatever I'm supposed to do to make sure we win the game.
Young Teague
Okay.
B. Hen
See, I never thought she was a defender.
Simba
Nah, nigga, I lock niggas up.
B. Hen
Pause. I'm just saying you said 47. I thought you was just a pure score.
Simba
Yeah, that's when I'm ball hogging and nobody out there guarding me. So if I got some defenders on me, I'mma adapt and go the other way. And I'mma knock down some threes and.
B. Hen
Play some defense off the gate.
Young Teague
I know we talked about music. Who influenced you to rap? I know you said you started off on the hoop tip rapping on the bus and stuff, but when you got serious about it? Nah, even before that. Who was you listening to? That's my shit, man.
Simba
Bro. Jay Z. Like, Jay Z was always Jay Z. J, the Kiss. I seen Jadakiss last night, which was crazy. Cause I had my best friend with me and she told him, this nigga never happens without you. Cause we used to ride the song school to Jadakiss. Like she told him how we used to be late to class to go buy his albums and things like that. So I always was inspired by like reality rap. Not just people that could rap because it rhyme. Yeah, People that really said something that spoke to our culture and spoke to our community and pushed us forward as a culture is what I always related to. So the Jada Kisses, the Kendrick Lamars, the Drakes. Let's get into that subject.
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Simba
Kendrick how y'all feel about that?
B. Hen
This guy wicked.
Simba
How y'all feel about that? It's going I like that new Drake album.
DJ Wells
I say this on another part. I wish Shout out to pnd. I just wish it was future on some of them songs instead of him.
B. Hen
Really what you like about the album?
Simba
I love to give me a hug.
B. Hen
Song hard imagine future hard just Drake alone though.
Simba
Do we really need Future on that? And shout out to Pluto.
DJ Wells
No, he don't need.
Simba
He didn't.
B. Hen
Nah. Give me a hug. It's crazy.
DJ Wells
I fuck with the type though.
Simba
I rock with it, man. Shout out to Drake, shout out to Kendrick. But yeah, those guys, bro, J Cole, anybody? That was a great. Like I've always been a friend of people. That's great. You know what I mean? I used to argue with people when I was a kid that would say Gucci mane was better than Jay Z, but they just didn't understand Jay Z at the time because they was living the Gucci man. Like niggas in the street.
B. Hen
You gotta cause it's all an opinion. But when people when you really in that life, not saying y'all Wouldn't. But when people. Some people are programmed like that nigga is talking about. Literally.
Young Teague
That's how he was with Boosie, though.
B. Hen
Come on, bro.
Simba
What was Boosie like on y'all side? Cause y'all from that Naptown Jay Z on your side.
DJ Wells
He was like, boosie got Naptown a little different.
Simba
What was it like having Boosie over there?
Young Teague
He was like. Like you said, he was like.
DJ Wells
He was homo. Yeah, bro, if you a trap artist at the switch at that time. Jeezy Webby, Boosie Gotti. Hey, bro. Baby shower. It's debatable.
Young Teague
If Jay Z there and Boosie there, it's like, who you going to?
Draymond Green
What's up? I don't know if y'all too old, y'all. CD CDO. So y'all remember when we used to have the CDs in the. In the binder?
Young Teague
Yeah.
B. Hen
Oh, yeah. They we old, bro. I'm doing her 40s.
DJ Wells
See?
Simba
Okay.
Draymond Green
Bet, bet, bet.
DJ Wells
Right?
Draymond Green
Niggas look good. But look, that was when you. Cause right now, somebody could just send you a song. You just add it to a library. Take a second. But back then, the CD binder told me everything I needed to know about who you fuck with. So you had to physically go to the record store, buy this. He treated it different. So if I open a CD binder up, whoever's in there. Oh, that's who you really with?
B. Hen
Nah. Yeah, for sure.
Draymond Green
If you open my. It was gonna happen.
Young Teague
I had Lime wired up. I was burning the out.
Simba
I.
DJ Wells
Damn, I went to jail for that.
Draymond Green
That's what the game up.
B. Hen
Yeah.
Simba
Limewire was the beginning of streaming.
DJ Wells
Y.
Simba
A lot of people don't know is Spotify was the first paywall that the industry could put streaming behind. You had Limewire, you had Bear Share, you had Napster, you had all these different platforms. And in 2006, Spotify came with a creation that Steve Jobs tried to give them in 1999 that the labels wasn't interested in. But it all ended up turning into streaming.
B. Hen
Oh, yeah. Cause y'all had too short. But that was the real freaky tales over there on that lawnmower boy that had them movies going.
Young Teague
It's only one freaky on this podcast.
B. Hen
Had that QK DVD that was download.
Young Teague
For three days, bro.
Simba
I always wanted to ask Teague something just because he one of my favorite people that I love to hear, tell stories and speak. What was your favorite city that you love to play in? Like that you wasn't on the team in. But you love to Go there and.
Young Teague
Play as far as, like the outside world or like hooping.
Draymond Green
Hooping.
Young Teague
Oh, I like to play in Utah.
Simba
Ooh, Park City.
Young Teague
Yeah. Cause it's nothing to do. You can just focus. They gonna be. I love when people against me, like, they booing me and shit. I'm fine with that. And that's how it is in Utah. So you can lock in, have a good game. I played great in Utah every time.
Simba
Would you say you somebody that performs better under adversity?
Young Teague
Yeah, my back against the wall. I probably play better.
Simba
That's how I am as a rapper. Like when I be feeling like n got me fucked up. I write my best shit in the world, so I can relate to that.
B. Hen
Outside of the bay, what's your favorite place to perform in Utah?
Simba
Park City. Shout out to Jasmine Rose.
DJ Wells
Okay.
Simba
In Park City, Utah.
Young Teague
Oh, he did it. I was like, damn.
DJ Wells
Utah. Every month.
Simba
I love Utah. We just left Sundance festival out there. I actually got a movie coming out called Freaky Tales where I played too short. 1987. It's called April, bro. Yeah, we just premiered it in Sundance. In Utah. We gonna be dropping the trailer real soon. I think it's Andre Iguodala's Jersey retirement night. Where we dropping the trailer? I'm not supposed to say this, but it's Club 520, so it we here.
DJ Wells
Come on. You playing short. That's. That's fire.
Simba
What was 87, baby?
B. Hen
What was like, I don't know about. Well, celebrity or artists that put you on a platform, like, introduce you to the world, man.
Simba
The N. LeBron. LeBron changed my life, like, literally. Bron the reason I'm here. That's why, like, when it come to Michael Jordan, I'm biased. Every time they want to have that goat conversation, I'mma run with LeBron. Because LeBron changed my life, man. That's one person to where it's like, he put my song in the front of Space Jam too. You know what I'm saying? He made sure I was taken care of on the red carpet. He made sure I was seen. He made sure I got with John Legend. And he just rocked with my freestyles so he didn't have to do that, you know what I mean? And Draymond as well. Shout out to both of them. They both played a part in my come up. So I'm forever embedded to them and forever love them forever. They're my big brothers right there.
B. Hen
Nah, that's right.
DJ Wells
Listen, I know, like, making mixtapes, making albums is different, but that movie Score.
Simba
Oh yeah.
DJ Wells
That's a different situation.
Simba
Oh yeah. Especially when you control the music in there too. Especially when you do that. It's a lot of fun. One thing that making a movie taught me is like why the music industry is not thriving right now. Because as a movie, it's a production. I think one of the hardest things to do is get your team on one accord as a whole. You know what I mean? And when you shooting a movie, you got the camera guy, you got the director, you got whoever it may be, they all in sync. And music is not like that. So I really enjoy shooting a movie because I can appreciate the process of the production for sure.
DJ Wells
It's like a lot of ego involved in music that kind of hinders people from those. When you go to movie sets or even podcast productions, everybody got a role. Everybody ain't trying to outsound each other movie. Everybody gotta be in sync or the movie's terrible. Everybody getting fired, facts, music, too much ego involved and people just go straight with stuff. That's why you see like legendary rappers and producers break up. It's like y'all been making crack forever. But little bitty stuff getting away.
Simba
Facts. What's that like in sports, T? Cause I know it's tough when the team ain't on one accord. Break that down for us.
Young Teague
Yeah, it's different in the NBA. Cause it's a money based league. So if you on a max deal, obviously you got more pulled than somebody on a minimum deal. So it's never gonna be like one accord. Cause I'm trying to get paid. I'm trying to get where you at. So when I'm in the game, I'm trying to get my extra five shots. I'm trying to do whatever I do that I can get some more money for my family. So you never. That's why when I played in the NBA, I didn't look at it like that. Like I always make jokes about the league and stuff and it was fun or whatever, but I knew it was a business. Like I'm on a fast break and I got somebody that can jump behind me. I'm not throwing the ball back. I need my two. Like the crowd not gonna be feeling it. Like throw the ball. No, I need my two. I average eight, I got six. I need my eight, you know what I mean? So it's kind of a weird league if you find a groove with a team that everybody got paid already. That's when you see the good team. That's why when y'all had Oakland with the warriors, everybody had already been paid.
Simba
Man, that's another conversation that we've been having out here too. Cause since the warriors left Oakland, it felt like the warriors lost that culture. When we walk into the Chase center, we love it. We appreciate everybody there. But when they were in Oakland, I knew the security guards, you know what I mean? It was never a time where I was standing outside and couldn't get into the players interest or couldn't get into the arena because people in Oakland knew who I was. So shout out to everybody at the Chase center, but we are really missing that culture of what we had when we were in Oakland versus what's at the Chase center now.
Young Teague
When y'all played in Oakland, the vibe was way different. Like, I felt like we could win when we came in the Chase Center. When you played in Oakland.
Simba
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Rewind that, rewind that, rewind that. What you mean you felt like you could win?
Young Teague
Like the vibe ain't the same. Like when you used to come in Oakland, especially when y'all. That run first started when Stephen Clay, Mark Jackson, that whole era, you knew you was losing when you came here. The crowd was too much. Like they had gone 15 point runs so easy. The crowd was too much. When they got to the Chase center, it was green.
Simba
What was it like? What was it like? Like having to go against that. You got Clay on one side, you got KD over there. You got Draymond pushing the ball up to kick it to Curry.
Young Teague
That was cheating.
Simba
What was that like as a. As a player, as like somebody that's really out there on the floor with them niggas? How confusing was that?
Young Teague
Your goal was just to make it to the fourth quarter. If it was a close game by the fourth, then you got a chance to win it. Like, we just gotta stay close to the fourth. Man, that first quarter, if they go out and going a 20 old run, they could do that. They could hit five, six threes in a row and it's over with you done. They gonna win by 30. Cause you can't shoot with them. You couldn't keep up. But if you can get to the fourth quarter and make it interesting, that's how you had to think about it when you play here. But if that halftime, you down 15, it's over.
Simba
Make it four or five.
Young Teague
Hey, you start making your plans, bro. Where I'm going tonight.
DJ Wells
Interesting you brought that up is like the situation with Dallas, like they trying to get that resort right. So all the fans who've been around that organization is pissed because they hardened souls into this. But you look at the organization, it's like, nah, we about to build this resort. We about to get this bread. So it's kind of the same situation. It sucks when you successful because now it's time for more opportunity. But you said the people along the way to build the stuff, they get lost in the situation. But then people don't get looked at as people. They get looked at as numbers in the situation. Right?
Draymond Green
That's what I try to tell me. And Rad was having this conversation. I was talking about Raiders leaving and going to Vegas, how that kind of fucked the city up. And, you know, the tailgating and all this shit around the surrounding Raiders was like. That was like a lifestyle. It was a part of our.
Simba
You know what I'm saying?
Draymond Green
The fabric of Oakland. And then when they left with them, when you look at. When they go from one of the, like, worst value teams in sports to, like, worth billions of dollars, and then when you look at it from that aspect, like, how do you hate? How do you not do that? You know what I'm saying? Let me ask you a question, though.
Rab
So how do y'all feel, all y'all in this room? So when we was having that conversation, I asked him, because sports has fans, though, right? And so the fans have to be into it. Are we heading towards super corporate? To where, like, I look back at old games and fans didn't even have jerseys on. They didn't even have team gear on. Like, if you look at old NBA videos in the 80s, it wasn't. The apparel wasn't even selling like that. So do y'all feel like sports is moving to that? Just, like, we gonna be big and the team is gonna be worth this, but we don't care about the championships.
DJ Wells
Well, I mean, championships don't necessarily make you valuable unless you're trying to sell the team to an extent. I mean, of course you wanna have a successful organization, but look at the Dallas Cowboys. We ain't won a Super bowl since I was elementary school, but they're the most profitable business in sports, fan. Unfortunately, bro, it's a narcotic.
Rab
Somebody had a Jheri curl in that house, shout out to him.
DJ Wells
He had a little side hustle and a job, Feel me?
Draymond Green
Help us say that in the Raiders is the AFC equivalent to the Cowboys. We like, we really the same friendship.
DJ Wells
No, our fans is different.
Draymond Green
I don't feel how they feel.
DJ Wells
Y'all friends, the Raiders fans, y'all respect y'all y'all move differently than Cowboys fans. Cowboys fans. They. Whatever.
Draymond Green
Raiders fans. But what I'm saying, Jerry Jones is really out. They philosophies in the way they. Jerry Jones was a better businessman. But out. They philosophy on the. On the team owners ownership of it is the same. They in all the business.
Young Teague
Yeah, they are.
Draymond Green
You know what I'm saying?
DJ Wells
All in the videos.
Simba
You know what I'm saying?
Young Teague
True.
Draymond Green
Jerry Jones, all the luxury box.
B. Hen
Damn. For real. Oh, yeah. It's over. Come on, bro.
Young Teague
That's gang.
B. Hen
He on the Raiders.
Young Teague
That's crazy.
DJ Wells
Come on, bro.
Draymond Green
Some of the. I see Jerry Jones, do I be like, damn, Al Davis is living through.
B. Hen
He.
Draymond Green
He would have did that same exact.
B. Hen
Nah, for sure.
DJ Wells
I mean, look at the NBA, bro. Look how long it took him to get old boy from the Clippers away.
Simba
Yeah.
DJ Wells
From the.
Young Teague
Like, he bought that for. With a hundred.
DJ Wells
Come on, bro. Look how long it took. How much blatant had to happen for them to make him sell that team.
B. Hen
Yeah.
DJ Wells
Yeah, bro.
Young Teague
Let me ask you a question, man. How y'all feel about the Niners, though?
Simba
Let me say this. I'm a niners hater. Them 49ers, man.
DJ Wells
Say it again.
Young Teague
Hold on.
Simba
We Raider fans.
DJ Wells
Can I join Raiders?
Simba
Hold on. Get my good side. Y'all ready? Y'all ready? The 49ers, man. We Raider fans.
DJ Wells
We your favorite team.
Young Teague
49Ers.
Draymond Green
But they go deeper than that because, you know, Oakland is the blue collar city.
Young Teague
Yeah.
Draymond Green
And San Francisco is like just. They like the princesses of the.
B. Hen
You know what I'm saying?
Draymond Green
They kind of like the way we.
Young Teague
Just got racist money.
Simba
Don't get us canceled again.
Draymond Green
You gotta realize we from Oakland.
Young Teague
I thought you was gonna say, like, the king.
Draymond Green
And when I say princesses, I'm not talking about. They are princesses. I'm saying the way they're treated. You know what I'm saying? They apologize for the. We like the writers. We like the stepchilds of this shit. You know what I'm saying? Iron workers, blue collar, that type of shit. You know what I'm saying?
Simba
We get Marcus Russell.
Draymond Green
We get the worst of everything.
DJ Wells
Real finesse.
Draymond Green
But we wear all the culture at, you know.
B. Hen
Yeah. Fuck with Colin Kaepernick.
Simba
I got a theory about Colin Kaepernick.
DJ Wells
Oh, do you?
Simba
I got a theory about Colin Kaepernick. And I never said this, but we on Club 520. I'm with my Teague, my DJ Wills and my BE. Hand out the Pearlies. I'ma say it. I think that got on that Blackity Black. Cause he was playing terrible.
B. Hen
I think.
Simba
I think it started going bad, and he was having a bad season. And he just started taking a knee to take attention off his performance.
Young Teague
He wasn't even playing, though. But he wasn't playing at that time, though. When he started, he was. He was coming off the bench at that time.
DJ Wells
It was definitely.
B. Hen
That ain't where I thought he was gonna go with that one. But I'm a Sigma side.
Young Teague
I thought he had some Bay Area info.
Simba
I.
Young Teague
Like.
Simba
I just always felt like it came out of nowhere. Like, it was just like. Like he just started taking a knee one day out of nowhere. And it was just like, where this come from?
DJ Wells
Yeah, the timing could be, you know, be impeccable. But, yeah, the play was definitely declining.
Young Teague
So when Deion Sanders was on the Niners, y ain't with him either.
Simba
Hell, yeah. That's prime time. We love him.
Draymond Green
I did fuck with prime, but I was a big Rod Wilson fan, so one of my closest homies, back and forth, Martin Hanks. Huh? I thought Rob Wilson was a better DB than Dion.
DJ Wells
I can say. Yeah, I bought me that. Yike.
Simba
Oh, no, we gonna start that one.
DJ Wells
Say it again.
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Simba
What you say?
DJ Wells
No, no, no.
Draymond Green
Rob Wilson did it all. Y'all remember Rob Wilson, right? Most definitely. He did it all. A lot of Deion. We really didn't get to see a lot of Deion. Cause they were scared to go his direction.
Young Teague
That's my fault. If you can make plays and I can't. Cause they not throwing my way, I'm probably better.
Draymond Green
But I just wanted that one clip where I seen Deion just stick his head.
Young Teague
Oh, no. You wasn't getting that.
Simba
He wasn't.
B. Hen
Nah, nah.
Young Teague
You gonna get shoes.
DJ Wells
Now listen. We ain't Mitchell and estimate that Rod Wood pussing. One of the hardest throwbacks of all time.
Rab
Oh, yeah, yeah. Them sneakers was hard. First sneakers with white laces. First black sneakers with white laces.
B. Hen
They was. That was all the way over here, though, nigga. I'm the first. Shout out to Ron. Shout out to Ron D. We gotta give.
Rab
We gotta give prime more light on his rap career, though. Y'all gotta stop.
DJ Wells
Must be the money. Come on.
Rab
Prime got a few. Prime got a few classic verses. He might get Shaq in a battle, too.
DJ Wells
You out of pocket of pocket. Sha out of pocket Shaq Can't Stop the Rain. One of the hardest rap songs.
B. Hen
Yeah.
Simba
Sha Platinum, the greatest NBA rapper. Might be the greatest NBA Rapper, you right, Dame. You right. You right, y'all right, Dame. Shout out to Dame.
DJ Wells
And Jello about to clean Shaq up.
Simba
Jello looked terrible last night at the All Star Game.
DJ Wells
I'm just say I'm out of pocket. My pocket.
Simba
Jell looked terrible last night.
DJ Wells
Hey, man, you see my keep for real. The reason why they lost.
Simba
It looked terrible.
B. Hen
He performed in front of 70,000 people his first show.
Simba
That wasn't a good one.
B. Hen
He do. Yeah, he got the swag.
DJ Wells
He's so disciplined. I feel like that.
Draymond Green
If Dame didn't hoop, y'all think he could have took on a full. You think he got the charisma to take on a full rap career?
B. Hen
Yes. You got the whole demeanor. He showed everybody. Oakland, like, where he from, like. And people gravitate, and it goes across the world, like, we really fuck with Dane because, yeah, he who. But he feel like one of us. And he from all the way out here, bro. You know what I'm saying? So I think he more relatable than everybody else that rap to the masses that played in the league. Nah, but Terry Sabalas is my nigga on some other shit, though. Off the court, the real CC don't get Mark.
Young Teague
He was on Living Single.
B. Hen
Which one? He was on everything, nigga.
Young Teague
He's on a TV show.
DJ Wells
Khalid cameo's.
Simba
Yeah.
Young Teague
Was it hanging with Mr. Cooper?
B. Hen
Yeah.
Simba
I got a question for y'all. How did y'all all meet?
Young Teague
Me and DJ went to high school together.
Simba
Okay.
Young Teague
Yup.
DJ Wells
I went to Butler and Hen. Neighborhood is where Butler is. If you don't know where Butler University is, it's right next to the ghetto.
Simba
They told me you had no left hand.
DJ Wells
Oh, me?
Draymond Green
Yep.
DJ Wells
Nah, I got a burner, though. I'm a One Street Pony, baby. But he paid the bills. God damn it. Him and Shell was super cool when we licked up on campus on some shoe shit. So me and him tapped in that way. Me and Freaky Mike worked at Foot Locker together and B hen cater his wedding. So, like, it's crazy. 60 years of separation type shit. For real?
B. Hen
Yeah.
Simba
That's dope, man.
B. Hen
I've been my guys for a minute, man.
Young Teague
I met B hen. He talked shit all day. Yeah, so he talked about shoving, Mac. Me and shoving end up being real cool. But he said shoving was better than me randomly.
Simba
Yeah.
B. Hen
I made these niggas like best friends. So I'll tell y'all the story.
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B. Hen
So we coming around. I've been on him for a while because I used to open up the Butler gym and they used to have when he was in high school used to come and kill like all the old heads like him, Jeremy Mixing Husy, all them, you know what I mean. They was some good killers but once we got grown and kind of circled back around, you know everybody like T like T my shell in the league nigga, but just Popping shit. But he was shitty. Cause I had met him outside. We used to go do shit called music Mondays. Everybody like, nah, bro, T cold. I'm like, he is cold. But Mike Young is coming up, so my nigga, he got drafted to the Wizards.
Simba
Yeah.
B. Hen
And we got like a pro am gang. So Jeff don't give a about nothing else. Zach Randolph, John Wall, and awesome cousins. Like, for real, you know what I mean? Everybody thinking he hooping because he in that for the city. Nah, it's like videos of him pointing at me like you said. So my Shelby called a quick. I don't know what this had. Best game of his life. He didn't even know me.
Young Teague
Like, what's up?
B. Hen
Why you so aggressive.
Simba
Michelle Ain't no b. H was.
B. Hen
I'm not even. I'm not even really paying attention. I'm like, man, that's what he supposed to do. Rookie. I'm arguing with Oscar Robertson. People in the crowd, his nephews and like, talking. Talking to them about how sad they uncle was.
Young Teague
All he do is talk.
B. Hen
No, but then that's just. That became. My God, man. You know, we've been locked in damn near 15 years.
Young Teague
2012, too. What was that?
DJ Wells
Yeah.
B. Hen
So that's 13 years.
Simba
Teague, I heard you welcome to the NBA moment before, but what was the moment where you was like, damn, I wasn't ready for that. Like, what was a moment that just caught you totally off guard in the NBA.
Young Teague
How much money people really got? That's the thing that caught me off guard. Like, you hear people make millions and stuff. So one day not to tell this bit. Fuck it, I'm gonna tell you. You can look it up. So we used to get check stubs.
Simba
Right?
DJ Wells
Right.
Young Teague
And you a rookie. I got my check stuff. I think mine was probably like 86, 000 for the two weeks or whatever. I'm like, damn. So I just grabbed Joe's. Let me see what Joe look like that said 2 million. 2 million.
Simba
Shout out to Joe Johnson.
DJ Wells
I'm like, legend in the bank.
Young Teague
I'm like, yeah, I gotta figure some shit out. Like, this is my life. You getting this in two weeks. I was like, yeah, that was like the first thing. So I. Cause I couldn't understand it. Like, you. You a young dude. You coming in, you coming to money. My mom and dad didn't have money, so I ain't come for money.
Simba
I just told one of the young homies last night. He was trying to. He was trying to get some soft legs that belongs to somebody that play on the Celtics. And I was like, man, that n got a max contract. Leave her alone.
B. Hen
It's quiet.
DJ Wells
Next level, bro.
Simba
You can't compete with that max contract, buddy.
B. Hen
He experienced a lot of that in atl.
Young Teague
Yeah.
Rab
So you saying it ain't nobody out here knocking down nobody girl that got a max contract. It's a broke with some good out here. The out of max contract right now.
Simba
I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
Young Teague
Like, short.
B. Hen
What's my favorite word? Y'all come on our show Akafu. Everybody else answering questions all proper.
DJ Wells
Yeah, you gotta.
Draymond Green
Yeah, you gotta watch yourself out here. They will back dog be selected. Where you take your girl with you out here? These were back do, man.
B. Hen
Outside of that. We in the party yesterday, this talking to me. He said, yeah, it's 20 of them that can't get in. They rob everybody in here. I'm like, well, nigga, make sure get in here.
Simba
Stay with us.
DJ Wells
I have my wallet right here.
Draymond Green
I got my snug. What thing y'all be forgetting is how much it cost to live out in this motherfucker.
DJ Wells
No, no, you don't.
Draymond Green
One of my guys live out here.
Young Teague
He's like, man, y'all gas only $3, man.
DJ Wells
I'm like, yeah, what the is $6 for gas?
B. Hen
That's a different shit. So he like, it's 20 beautiful things outside ready to touch you. I'm like, nigga, who what. What they fashion nova dress look like? Who got on the.
Simba
I really want to send a shout out to a lot of the big homies who've been working behind the scene to make sure this weekend was beautiful. It's a lot of things that could have went down that didn't go down. So we want to send a shout out to them and shout out to the whole Bay Area, the NBA, everybody that allowed this to happen, man, we don't get this a lot. It's been 25 years since we had the all Star game here. I was a kid when I seen Vince Carter go between the legs. Pause. But to have this back in the city just to. To see my people, you know what I mean? My brother Rad was with the head of the NBA last night. My brother Brownie was at the Chase center hosting an event for us to be able to have this, for y'all to be here, you know what I'm saying?
B. Hen
That's why we appreciate it.
Simba
When I seen you, I'm like, bruh, whatever y'all need. Y'all straight. Cause we appreciate y'all for even getting on that flight and coming out here and fucking with us, bro.
DJ Wells
We feel the love too, man. Shout out to Mitchell and this, man. You talk about the 25th anniversary. That whole caption. I mean, excuse me, the whole collection that they have for this. Like, you see the Vince jersey up here, you see the OG Shag jersey with the tag? Like, like, that's a real big All Star game for a lot of members, people growing up. So. Especially for y'all, who y'all saw it firsthand. We influenced 25 years later still being here, man.
Simba
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That was a big game for us, man. Vince did a lot for us with that shout out to Jason Richardson, too. Cause he was. The following year, 2001, I think it was in, like, Philly or something like that. He went there and did the crazy between the legs joint, but he had that warriors jersey on and he was repping for us. And that really held the city down. So shout out to that whole We Believe team. Jay Rich, Baron Davis, I seen my brother Matt Barnes last night. Stephen Jackson, Al Harrington, even my nigga Gilbert Arenas, who played for the warriors before, man. Shout out to everybody that ever came to the city and fucked with us.
B. Hen
I wanted to ask you too, bro. Back to the music Shit. Like, what's your favorite freestyle you done done so far? Cause your Justin incredible shit is crazy.
DJ Wells
Yeah, straight up.
Simba
Nah, nigga.
DJ Wells
Freestyles, right?
Simba
They all be different. They all be different. For me here, everyone means something different, you know what I mean? Like, I probably was pissed off one day when I wrote the LA Leakers joint, but I was feeling myself when I wrote the Fire in the Booth joint, you know what I mean? So it's just everyone be different for me. But if I had to pick one, I would say the Funk Flex joint.
B. Hen
Okay?
Simba
I would say when I went to funk Flex. And not the Tupac part, but when I broke down, just what happens to us as young black men with success?
B. Hen
Yeah.
Simba
You know what I'm saying? We get money. We come from these impoverished communities to where a lot of our friends have the sin of familiarity. A lot of niggas be hanging with the next Michael Jordan and don't even know it. Be with the next Jay Z and don't even know it because they your friend. You know what I mean? And I was rapping from that perspective just to show, like, how it ain't fair to where we get in these positions. And we had a dream of certain people being in that dream. And then you get there and it's like, oh, you can't go. You know what I mean? Everybody ain't meant to go. So if I had to pick one, I would definitely say the Funk Flex.
B. Hen
What's the process with that though? Is you going in like, hey, I'm gonna do this beat. Or you already kinda know what you gonna say. Or it's just more so like on the spot.
Simba
I'm a. I'm one of them people here in the. Where I just let life happen, bro. Yeah, like I don't try to calculate nothing. I just let it happen. Like, I wrote that Funk Flex verse three days before I found out I was going up there.
B. Hen
Okay.
Simba
You know what I'm saying? So I'm in Philly on tour with my nigga Joyner. Lucas shout out to Joyner. We on tour. And then my label had hit me like, yo, Flex wants you to come up rap. I'm like, what BD want me to do? They like Wu Tang Cream, bet. Say no more. The whole way from Philly to New York, I'm writing. You know what I'm saying? I'm writing the verse, I'm rapping this shit in the phone. I'm getting to the hotel at 4 in the morning, trying to rememberize this shit. Cause I gotta be there at 7am, you know what I mean? So it was. It's, it's, it's. It's a different process. But I take my craft serious. And when I lock, I don't think it's too many people that could with me.
B. Hen
Nah, you one of them ones, bro. Like I said, it's so crazy that like me and you building a relationship for sure. But bro, I used to post your all the time on ig, bro. A couple years ago, for real.
Simba
I was watching the episode and somebody had yelled out, simba know how to hoop. And Teague was like, no he don't. I seen him at the Monster and he was like, nah, that's my. I'll with him. And I had went back to like go DM you. And I had seen like you tagging me and before.
B. Hen
So before bro, like n. This is the one. And you from all the way out here, I didn't even know where you was from. Yeah, but my brother used like, nah, bro, tap in he sent me. I forgot the first one I sent you. It's in our DMs for sure. But I was tagging you all the time. Cause I was really like, nah, he one of them bars.
Simba
Oh, and I'm on everybody ass this year. Pause Like I said, we on Club 5 20, so I'm letting it be known I was in a crazy situation that I just got out of, and I'm a free man now. And I think all y'all should be afraid. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
B. Hen
Speaking of, we don't have to talk about the label or nothing. What did you learn from that, though?
Simba
Never drop into your team on one accord if your team ain't on one accord, especially when you in them buildings. Every department gotta align, right? So the marketing side got to be aligned with the product manager. The product manager got to be aligned with the A R. The A R got to be aligned with the executive. If all this ain't aligned, when the executive come downstairs to spend the money, you look like you ain't got your shit together, and then you end up falling to the mercy of that.
B. Hen
Okay?
Simba
So a lot of times, I will put my destiny in other people's hands, and I slowly start taking it back. And I'll never do that again.
B. Hen
Okay. For sure.
Rab
For sure.
Young Teague
Damn. That kind of hit home, huh?
B. Hen
Niggas had a moment of silence.
DJ Wells
Anytime some go crazy to show him, it's a long silence.
B. Hen
God bless. To the new journey. So what's next? We on tour? What we doing?
Simba
Yeah, we got tour on the way. But the thing that I'm most excited about is this new movie, Freaky Tales with Tom Hanks and Pedro Pascal coming out this April. I'm super excited about it. I got the opportunity to play one of my idols too short in 1986.
B. Hen
You gonna ball?
Simba
You said, what?
B. Hen
Are you gonna cut all your shit?
Simba
I got the hat on. I had the hat on. I ain't have to go ball. But the teeth look crazy. Y'all see me with the teeth? It's gonna be crazy.
Young Teague
Yeah.
Simba
Shout out to Macro. Shout out to Lionsgate. But that was big. That was phenomenal for me. That's what I super excited about. And getting back to the music.
B. Hen
Nah, bro. You deserve all that, bro.
Draymond Green
For real, everywhere I've been going, I ain't even tripped till All Star Weekend. Feel like you could have played Anthony. This like Anthony Edwards. Everywhere I go, they be thinking this.
B. Hen
You could, though. You could look like you could probably in 2017 when you was hooting.
Young Teague
For real.
B. Hen
Hey, that'd be hard freestyling over commercial.
DJ Wells
That'd be let's make it happen.
Simba
Shout out to my dog Langston at Adidas.
DJ Wells
Okay.
Simba
Who works with ae, works with James, works with Dame. Y'all been killing that AE campaign and commercials. Everything y'all been doing, bro, y'all been killing it, man. Shout out to y'all over at Adidas.
DJ Wells
Come on, man. Adidas gonna be locked in. Shout out to Cam. Shout out to Alan. For sure. I wanna ask you this, man. I know your freestyles, they go crazy. But like, what's that feeling like? Or that first feeling when you got your stage moment? You like, all right, like that first concert was like, like, I hear that.
Simba
I still don't feel like that.
Young Teague
Really?
Simba
I still don't feel like that, dj. I still feel like I got shit to do. I got shit to prove. You know what I mean? So even when I'm up there and I hear people screaming the lyrics or one of my songs, people sing a lot when I perform is Kane went for nothing. And it's a euphoric feeling, but it's also like, I could do more, I could be bigger, I could beat this. You know what I'm saying? I hear where the drums could be better. I hear why I got lazy on the lyric. I hear where I was just trying to win the. The crowd over with the hook. And now it's like, how do I authentically be me with this? No matter what I'm doing, and I'm owning that now and I'm stepping into it and I'm not allowing no to force my process. I'm gonna take my time. Whether it take me a year, two years, three years, I'm gonna get it right, but I'm gonna take my time. And when that time is right, y'all gonna see it.
DJ Wells
Most definitely.
B. Hen
For sure, man.
Young Teague
We always ask people like they goats, Mount Rushmore. I know you said you rock with Jay Z, but like, we grew up, like we said, we listen to boosie and shit, but Lil Wayne, when we was growing up, Goat man, he was like a guy. I was wondering where you rank Lil Wayne as far as like, your rappers favorite rappers.
Simba
T, you, my nigga, man. I hate that you asked me this. Cause I can't lie to you. I love Wayne. I think it was tough for us to grow with the music as it got older. I think he has a phenomenal catalog. But it's certain things to me that I feel like could have been enhanced or could have been whatever it may be, but he's a legend. I always got Wayne in my top 10. But I'm somebody that choose quality over quantity. So when it come to artists, I'm always run. With Jay Z, I feel like his taste level is unmatched. Kendrick Lamar, the taste Level is unmatched. It's just certain Drake even. You know what I mean? It's certain people to where it's just like they put a certain effort into the music that we never heard before, we never seen. They changed the sound of things. We was just having a conversation about Drake and we was saying like, Drake created the industry standard to where, like, if you were somewhere close to that, you would be successful. Right? So it's hard to. Now that Kendrick's the guy, it's hard to follow that because it's so authentically him. But Drake kind of created a standard for everybody to kind of be like, hey, here's where we go with this thing. And I feel like Wayne do that too, though. As rappers. Yeah, as rappers. So as rappers. To me, he's one of the greatest rappers ever. But when it come to like song making, Drake took it to another level. Kendrick took it to another level. You know what I mean?
B. Hen
I see what he's saying.
Simba
You know what I mean? So I salute everybody and I don't want this to feel like I'm bashing one of my idols. Cause Wayne has done things I probably never do in my life. I look up to him, I study him, I love him to death. But I feel like Drake and Kendrick and certain people, people just took the song making ability to another level.
DJ Wells
It's like what you always say with championships, you know what I'm saying? The team will win. They set the tone, right? Drake was winning for a very long time as far as industry standards and numbers wise. So then Kendrick come in. All right, now how do you copy Kendrick? Yeah, it's like trying to copy Kawhi getting that ring in Toronto. You can't do that shit. That's an anomaly. You can build a good team. You can build a warriors team dynasty. Add to that like Drake had. But you can't go get Kawhi to go somewhere, get one and go out.
B. Hen
Yeah, I agree.
Simba
That's a fact.
Draymond Green
Like, Drake has had like three successful rap careers in one, only people realize he's been at the top of the game for 15, 16 years. You know what I'm saying?
DJ Wells
It's tough, bro. All the time.
B. Hen
Drake came in, what, 2010, 2009.
Young Teague
He came. So far gone was your rookie year.
DJ Wells
So far gone was 08. Right? Yeah. That's when shit changed.
Young Teague
That's a long time to be at the top, bro.
Draymond Green
How y'all feel about rappers at halftime performance? I've been hearing people say the Kendrick shit was not so good. But in My opinion, I be like, damn. Like, what more could he have done to make it a better show? That's why I be trying to figure out, like, what can a rapper do if he not a dancer, A break dancer.
B. Hen
That's what it is.
Simba
What could you do?
Young Teague
Yeah, I don't think rappers should. Not saying they shouldn't do halftime shows, but if it's gonna be a rapper, it gotta be like how LA did it where all those rappers gave you different. Yeah, it can't be one dude. Cause they don't dance.
DJ Wells
I think one thing people are upset about, and I'm a big Kendrick fan, is we didn't get the set list we were looking for. Right? But the dope part about it is he took a world platform and made it his motivation and what he had going on. That's the dopest shit ever to me. I don't care what y'all talking about. I'm here for one reason and one reason only. And I showed the world this shit. That's a hell of an accomplishment.
B. Hen
As though we just don't want to see another nothing like that again.
T-Mobile Representative
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Simba
Look, wait a minute.
B. Hen
I'm all for the dot. Hold on now. Can I have a moment?
Simba
Is you hating on my nigga dot?
B. Hen
No, I love dot. Swimming Pools is one of my favorite songs.
Simba
What are you saying right now? Listen, I'm all ears.
B. Hen
Yeah, so look, bro, the halftime show is a different platform. Like Kendrick doing that. He's the only one. That's what I'm saying. We want to see it no more. He's the only one that can do it and make his mark. And everybody respected we loved what he did. But, bro, we don't want to see next year. Common do the same thing. We don't want to see Lupe Fiasco the following year.
Young Teague
You know, I can't argue with that.
B. Hen
Yeah, so bring my future.
DJ Wells
No.
Simba
Will be a mess.
DJ Wells
The dance is gonna come out.
B. Hen
Y'all didn't piss these white people off so bad. Oh, they going back white.
Simba
Definitely is.
B. Hen
You. Kelly Clarkson is pulling up.
Simba
Kelly Clarkson.
B. Hen
So y'all better enjoy them Kids Lamar T shirts while you can.
Simba
Who they getting next?
B. Hen
I don't know, bro. Molly too. She done Justin B. Jay Z running.
Rab
Through his roster first. Nah, Justin B, he got that contract.
B. Hen
He do, bro. But I feel like you gotta go with somebody not as Lady Gaga.
Young Teague
Something about the.
Rab
But I think we forgot how. Real quick, how the super bowl used to look. The halftime performance. You gonna have AC DC, Metallica playing with her and some other rap. Nick McLemore coming out the cut with a little verse.
B. Hen
But if Kendrick. Kendrick could have did his thing for sure. Like I said, we all respect it. It ain't no hater. But he could have brought out more people, sort of appeased some more. Yeah, like, bro, you gotta think I'm gonna just keep it real and all you fake conscious ass rappers, y'all.
DJ Wells
Cause.
B. Hen
Cause don't keep it real, bro. On my soul, all women watch super bowl for the halftime show. My. So I don't care about all what is talking about, bro. That is an entertainment moment for people's families, bro. So they want to see they pop star. Like all of our girls listen to Lil Wayne. So if he would've popped out, bro, they would've been singing along too, and engaged in that shit. You know what I'm saying?
Rab
I think it was on brand for Kendrick just because it was a buck the system moment.
B. Hen
Oh, yeah, exactly.
Rab
So also, and we gotta remember this. He performed the songs he owned, so he was really fighting against the system with that one. This was like, I ain't trying to come back N. Don't invite me.
B. Hen
Nah. Right, right, right, right.
Draymond Green
Kendrick, he was a streaker. You know when somebody be in the crowd and they run, they run across.
B. Hen
The field with no clothes on. He just called this nigga a streaker.
Draymond Green
He said that Kendrick took that moment to do it, to protest.
Simba
So he was a streaker at the Super Bowl. You got my. I got what you say.
Young Teague
I get what you say.
B. Hen
Don't miss the message.
Young Teague
I get what you say. I get what you say.
B. Hen
Well, yeah, Crazy. Nah, bro, we ain't all that. All that serious ass shout out to Serena. Put some bad out there, man. Get. Get them cheerleaders in that.
DJ Wells
There go people out there got something. Yeah, yeah, we shout out to DOT too, man.
Simba
Kendrick been killing it for west coast culture this last year, man. That's my dog right there. He supported me before anybody knew me. So I always got love for my shout out to DOC for sure, man.
B. Hen
Appreciate y'all for slime, bro.
DJ Wells
Listen, man, we don't have a hell of a weekend, man. It's only right we wrap it up with the gang here, man. Shout out to Mitchell and S. One more time. We appreciate y'all, man.
Simba
And like I said, man, I appreciate y'all for allowing my brothers to come. This Bay Area mean a lot to us, bro. It's. It's not just about me. It's not about him. It's not about him. It's about us. So when we can move as a unit and people allow us to do that, we gonna continue to do that. And we appreciate y'all for being always welcome, bro. Appreciate what y'all do for the culture, man. We gonna continue to support you be here. And I told you when you get off the plane, I got God ready for you. Let's get it.
DJ Wells
And on that note.
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Club Shay Shay: Episode Summary - "Club 520 - Symba tells Jeff Teague that LeBron James CHANGED HIS LIFE + Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake"
Release Date: February 20, 2025
In this vibrant episode of "Club Shay Shay," hosted by DJ Wells, Simba, B. Hen, Young Teague, Draymond Green, and Rab, the conversation delves deep into the intersection of sports, music, and Bay Area culture. The guests share personal anecdotes, discuss influential figures, and express their views on contemporary issues in both the NBA and the music industry. The episode culminates with insights into upcoming projects and a heartfelt appreciation for the supportive community in the Bay Area.
The episode kicks off with Simba expressing his gratitude towards the Bay Area community for providing platforms to highlight their rich culture, especially during events like All Star Weekend.
DJ Wells emphasizes the importance of cultural representation and expresses admiration for individuals who contribute positively to the community.
The guests delve into their personal transitions from sports to music, highlighting the challenges and motivations behind their career shifts.
Simba shares his journey from high school basketball to becoming a rapper, emphasizing the discipline and passion required to excel in music.
A significant portion of the discussion revolves around the impact of LeBron James on young athletes and how figures like Jeff Teague have shaped their lives.
Simba credits LeBron James for pivotal moments in his career, from music collaborations to personal mentorship.
The conversation transitions to the state of the music industry, particularly focusing on the performances at major events like the Super Bowl halftime show.
DJ Wells and the guests reminisce about past performances and discuss the evolving standards set by artists like Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Draymond Green and Young Teague provide insights into the business side of the NBA, discussing player dynamics, team cohesion, and the impact of organizational changes like the Warriors' move to the Chase Center.
The guests critique the commercialization of sports and express nostalgia for the authentic atmosphere previously found in Oakland.
The interplay between maintaining a career in sports while pursuing music is explored, with emphasis on time management and personal growth.
Towards the end of the episode, Simba announces his involvement in an upcoming movie and discusses future musical endeavors, highlighting his commitment to authentic and meaningful content.
The guests reflect on past halftime performances, debating the effectiveness of rap artists in such venues and expressing their opinions on potential future acts.
Wrapping up, the hosts and guests extend their gratitude to the Bay Area community, acknowledging the support that has fueled their successes in both sports and music.
Simba (27:15): "LeBron changed my life, like, literally. Bron the reason I'm here."
DJ Wells (05:56): "Shout out to the Bay, man. Especially, like the last couple weeks, you've been seeing everybody giving the respect they supposed to."
Simba (58:21): "Jay Z, I feel like his taste level is unmatched. Kendrick Lamar, the taste Level is unmatched."
Young Teague (29:01): "The NBA is a money-based league. So if you're on a max deal, obviously you got more pulled than somebody on a minimum deal."
Draymond Green (59:30): "Kendrick Lamar took that moment to protest. He was really fighting against the system with that one."
Cultural Representation: The importance of representing and uplifting Bay Area culture was a recurring theme, with guests emphasizing the community's role in their personal and professional development.
Influential Mentors: LeBron James and Jeff Teague were highlighted as pivotal figures who have significantly influenced the guests' careers, both in sports and music.
Balancing Dual Careers: The challenges and rewards of managing careers in both the NBA and the music industry were discussed, showcasing the guests' dedication to their crafts.
Industry Critique: The conversation provided a critique of the commercialization in both sports and music, expressing a desire for more authentic and meaningful engagements.
Future Projects: Simba's upcoming movie and ongoing musical projects were introduced, indicating a commitment to expanding his influence beyond the basketball court.
This episode of "Club Shay Shay" offers listeners an engaging blend of personal stories, cultural discussions, and industry insights, all anchored by the supportive and vibrant Bay Area community.