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Damaris
My father's been listening to this podcast. I just thought about that.
Maal
Sup, pops? Sup, Damaris out here taking in. That's the funeral, the marriage. Taking it in the caboose. I don't know if you know that or not, but she took it in the caboose.
Rory
Smacks you when he sees you. I'm not breaking up.
Maal
I didn't say. I'm repeating what his daughter said. Don't kill my vibe, bitch. Don't kill my vibe, bitch.
Damaris
Don't kill my vibe look inside of my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists I can feel the changes. I could feel a new life I always knew life can be dangerous.
Rory
I feel naked today. No laptop. This feels weird to just have space right here.
Maal
Oh, you said you had to get a new laptop, right? Well, they was charging you make room for your BBL new laptop prices to fix it.
Rory
Pretty much, yes. You might as well just buy a.
Maal
New laptop, get a new one.
Rory
Yeah, I spent almost five hours in Apple.
Maal
Why?
Rory
Well, because I had to transfer a bunch of stuff that wasn't on my icloud from my computer to an Apple computer that was there, and then buy a hard drive to put that on there. And it was like, oh, okay. Yeah, pro tool sessions.
Maal
Took a lot of time to transfer.
Rory
Whatever. Then I was like, all right, I'll take this time and finally get a new phone because my phone was ready to go.
Maal
Is that the 15 Max?
Rory
It's 15 Pro. What? I don't even want to plug Apple like that because we're. We have a lot of Apple to get through.
Maal
Well, Apple is taking over. Well, they've already taken over the world, but.
Rory
So I'm like, oh, all right, I'll just get a new phone.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Figure out the laptop thing. Like, yeah, we're just gonna have to take it for, like, a day.
Maal
What year is your laptop?
Rory
2019.
Maal
Okay. So it was getting close, but then.
Rory
I. I tried to do the phone transfer thing, and it says six hours, and I had to get to awake.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
And they took my service off my old phone, so they were like, yeah, you're probably gonna have to go, like, use your own WI fi to transfer this amount of stuff.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
So then I just left Apple with no phone or laptop. Not a phone working.
Maal
You was really off the grid.
Rory
Yeah, but, I mean, it was. It was nice because I didn't pull my phone out of the wake. Like, I felt good.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Oh, look, I'M here to be respectful. No, I just don't have a phone that works.
Maal
It's kind of cool being off the grid for a little bit, though.
Rory
That sounds good. On paper.
Maal
No, it feels good on paper.
Rory
On a Tuesday, Wednesday, whenever it was. Not a lot of anxiety.
Maal
Well, you got anxiety anyway whether you got your phones or not.
Rory
Yeah, but on a weekday, I'm like, what am I missing that's gonna. My life up.
Maal
Nothing.
Rory
And then also, like, with a kid.
Maal
Well, that. That's. I was about to say, now that you have a kid, that's a little different.
Rory
Yeah. So. Sent a message to Kia, hey, won't have a phone for the following.
Maal
Oh, that never. How does that work? Telling your girl you won't have a phone for five hours.
Damaris
Now I'm gonna send.
Maal
You gotta send a picture. You gotta send a picture from behind the Genius bar desk. Like, yo, listen, I'm here with.
Rory
Yeah, you gotta buy a ring cam location right now. I'm here.
Maal
I'm here.
Rory
Would you like to speak to one of the specialists? He will let you know.
Maal
Yeah, how long?
Rory
This is not. This isn't gonna transfer. They already took my service off my old phone without it transferring. So I cannot use any phone at this point.
Maal
You tell a girl you're not gonna have a phone for five hours, she texts you back, have a good life. Immediately, like, who? Not what. What you mean you're not gonna.
Damaris
You're not gonna have a five minutes.
Maal
This is going in 10 seconds.
Rory
You can't even doze off, let alone not have a phone. Yeah, no, like, damn, I fell asleep early.
Julian
When's the last time you guys got one of those off?
Rory
Yeah, very long time.
Maal
It's been probably a couple months, but I actually did fall asleep, though.
Rory
No, we're saying no.
Damaris
You're 42.
Maal
I'm listening. I don't. I don't know.
Rory
I fell asleep early last night.
Maal
Yeah, like, I don't fucking. Those days are over, bro. Like, all that lying. I'm not lying to nobody. Look, this is what the fuck I'm doing. This is what I did. This is what happened.
Damaris
So you be telling your other bitch, like, yo, I was eating pussy last night.
Maal
I mean, come on. I'm not doing that.
Damaris
I'm doing.
Maal
No, but I'm just saying, I'm not lying. Yo, I fell asleep and I was in the bed eating.
Rory
He's not gonna volunteer information that's not being asked. Yeah, but he's not gonna lie.
Maal
I'm not gonna lie.
Damaris
So if she said what were you doing? What would you say?
Maal
What was I doing?
Julian
You know, Chilling, Eating sushi.
Maal
No, I had takeout. Went for some takeout.
Julian
She'd understand what that means.
Maal
Yeah, come on, man. You was take out before. You know what that means. You know, me take you out.
Rory
And you know who even uses that for food delivered?
Maal
Who was that that said their battery? Who said that the other day?
Julian
Clay Mobile device charger. Yeah.
Maal
Clay is a fool. Clay is a fool.
Rory
But, yeah, it was very, very uneventful between our last episode. Now, outside of my. My phone and computer.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
But outside of that, we got another list. And we fall for it every fucking time.
Maal
Listen, I'm going to be honest. I didn't look at the list because I just refused. Like, I know what these listings are. These listings are like the new pyramid schemes. They're like. They get everybody riled up, get Engagement online, Everybody talking about it.
Rory
Is it new, though?
Maal
It's not new, but it's like, I think by now everybody knows what these.
Rory
Lists are for, but we continue to fall for it. I tweeted out, resist the list. Apple's trying to divide us. We should all come together and ignore it. And then I ignored my own advice five minutes later and started debating about the list. Why haven't you fallen for the time?
Maal
I didn't look at it. I only went. I went straight to number one. And once I saw what the number one song. I mean, the number one album on Apple's Best Albums, Best 100 Albums. Once I saw what number one was, I refused to look at anything else. That's usually what I do when I see somebody's list, I'm like, okay, who's at the top? Once I see who's at the top, if it makes sense, I may dig a little deeper into the list. But once it doesn't make any sense, I'm like, all right, I'm cool.
Rory
So you think Lauryn Hill being number one, is that. That egregious that you wouldn't even look at the rest of the list?
Maal
Absolutely.
Rory
Really?
Maal
Absolutely.
Rory
Well, first of all, before we get to that, I will say I think this entire.
Maal
And it's crazy because we have Lauren's album cover right behind that was in.
Rory
My bedroom as a kid.
Maal
Yeah, but.
Rory
And then I got it framed.
Maal
Miseducation. It's a great album. I think anybody. Anybody with ears and a brain and a certain taste for music will say that it's a great album.
Rory
But I do feel like, different energy on Mike. I see Damaris over There, quiet, you guys. Now all of a sudden, Miseducation is three minutes ago. It's crazy once we hit record.
Maal
I mean, it's crazy that you cut me off while we recording. But I will say this. The Miseducation is. And I've always felt like this, it is an overrated album. And this being being number one on this 100 albums of all time list just further proves that it is overrated. I think Miseducation of Lauren Hill is one of those albums that so many people have heard. It's one of the greatest albums that everybody just falls in line and says it's one of the greatest albums, but people don't truly feel like it's one of the greatest albums they've heard. It's a great. It's a good album. It's a great album even. But to be number one, it's an amazing album. I think everybody can absolutely agree that Thriller is the greatest album of all time. I don't think there's many people that are gonna debate that, argue that.
Damaris
Where's Thriller on this list?
Rory
Thriller would be the closest thing. But I think this entire concept is stupid.
Julian
It's dumb.
Rory
If you want to do genres, cool. I'm in a debate all day about specific genres. You want to R and B list, hip hop list, rock list.
Maal
Right.
Rory
The idea that there could be a greatest album of all time in all of music ever is nonsense.
Maal
It's all subjective.
Rory
This is. This is stupid. But this isn't even like when we. We get mad at BDO's list or like, you know, complex year album shit. Cool. I'm fine with those because it makes sense. At least the concept makes zero fucking sense.
Maal
But the reason why I don't think it's because obviously I think most people, if you give a survey across the world, most people would agree that Michael Jackson is the greatest artist of all time. I think most people would agree to that.
Rory
You have some people that are the popular. Yeah, I would say so.
Maal
So it's only natural that the greatest artist of all time, his best album is probably the greatest album of all time.
Damaris
No.
Maal
Why is that a no?
Damaris
Because I.
Maal
If I'm the greatest artist of all time, whatever my best album is, is probably the greatest album.
Julian
That's not the case for Drake. Drake's best selling album isn't his best album.
Maal
I didn't say best selling. I never said best selling. I said if I'm the greatest artist of all time, my best album in my discography, the best music I'VE ever collected. Collected collection of music that I've ever put forth is probably going to be the greatest album of all time.
Rory
See, I don't know. Because if I think HOV is the greatest rapper, I don't know off the top of my head if I would have a hove album at my favorite rap album of all time.
Julian
Yeah, no, yeah.
Rory
I'm not sure if it would work that way. I do get what you're saying with Thriller in itself, I think it should be number one. To which if we're going to do this, this dumb ass concept, Thriller checks every single box. Number one checks.
Maal
Everybody gets across.
Rory
It's the number one.
Maal
How many generations has it crossed like Thriller? Yeah, it came out, what, 80, 82, 85?
Julian
I don't remember, bro. It's expand. Yeah. 40.
Maal
What do we talk if this, if this album came out in a streaming error? This would shatter every.
Rory
I mean, it wouldn't, you know, I.
Maal
Mean, like, so what do we.
Rory
Well, that. All right. Mike's not around for Apple to give him the award that they just made up yesterday.
Julian
True.
Rory
They needed to hand the award to somebody.
Maal
Yeah, I get that. Hand it to his family.
Damaris
Janet's still around, bouncing around.
Maal
Hand it to his family. Hand it to you. I mean, like, his family. Janet is still here, healthy, looks great. Happy birthday.
Rory
Hand it to Blanket.
Maal
Had a birthday last week, May 16.
Rory
Blanket could have accepted it.
Maal
Handed to his kids.
Julian
Paris.
Maal
Yeah. Like, I mean, Nicole Richie. Yeah. I don't know if Nicole Richie.
Damaris
Yeah, you good?
Maal
Hand it to what? Hand it to his. Hand it to his kids.
Rory
Lionel Richie and Michael.
Maal
Thriller is the greatest. Hand it to Quincy Jones.
Julian
Mm.
Maal
Have Quincy accepted.
Rory
Okay, but then there'd be a microphone in front of Quincy's face.
Maal
And then we get. We get some of the greatest stories of the fucking recording of Thriller.
Rory
That's the EBRO interview I want to hear.
Maal
Absolutely. Y'all want to talk to somebody? Get Quincy up there to talk about Thriller.
Julian
Before we go through the list, there. There was some criteria that I just wanted to put out there before we talk through the rest of the top 10. And furthermore. Okay, so this was posted by Ebro. There are six criteria that qualifying album for this list. Albums that represented a cultural moment for the artist or genre. Albums that were complete thoughts, not just collections of hits. Albums that thoroughly represent culture and production, lyric and production and lyrics. Albums that inspired a generation to want to create more music. Albums that represent the best in storytelling, musicianship, recording and production. And last, albums that are timeless and reach far beyond the genre categorization.
Rory
A lot of cool buzzwords.
Maal
Yeah, cool buzzwords. But I think Thriller checked all of those boxes.
Rory
I mean, we can go through this. I do want to get back to this miseducation thing. Something happened. I think it's Twitter's fault. When Twitter came around, everyone just started to have these egregious music takes that people caught onto. I didn't know Tupac was whack until Twitter existed. There is a huge community that is like, yo, Tupac is trash.
Julian
Funny, I never, like, I didn't know.
Rory
Tupac was trash until Twitter happened.
Maal
Tupac saying Tupac is trash is crazy. But I do overrate it.
Julian
Tupac.
Maal
Tupac does have a lot of songs that people don't listen to and don't pay any attention to.
Rory
Okay, fair. But to just.
Maal
Let's just be. Let's be real. It's a lot of songs Pac has that is like, I'm not listening to that. But he has some records that you. Every generation is going to listen to. So, you know, sometimes I think things.
Rory
Are just cool to say, and it catches on to say that Tupac being trash is insane to me. The other theory is the one that you guys have. Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is an overrated album. Well, in what world?
Damaris
But when we say that. No, no, no.
Julian
When you say you guys. It's them too. Not me, by the way.
Damaris
When we say that. Right? It's not. It has nothing to do with the album. It has nothing to do with the actual quality of the album. The album has the quality. It's the praise that it gets and has gotten for so long. Like he said, it should not be number one.
Maal
It shouldn't be number one.
Damaris
It shouldn't be number.
Rory
I'm not saying it should be number one. Nor do I even really give a what Apple thinks as far as it's an amazing album.
Maal
They attached the names to the people that created this list. Right.
Rory
It was Zayn, Ebro, and, like, three or four other people, but cool. And I'm not saying Zayn and Ebro aren't music nerds and could put together a good list. Again, just a stupid concept.
Damaris
I think if Lauryn Hill had created two more albums after this, we would not talk about this album as much as we do.
Rory
Why do you say that, though?
Damaris
Because it's kind of like when artists die and they suddenly become a legend. This is her only album, so it is heralded as the only Lauryn Hill album. And that's why I think It. It's a great, amazing, flawless album, but I don't think we talk about it as much. Has she released two albums after.
Rory
Okay, I'm with you on the concept of it. When, like, artists die early, it kind of just puts them in this legendary. But there was a time when Nas was putting out, and it didn't mean people didn't love Illmatic. And it was written like, when Nostradamus came out, nobody was like, yo, Illmatic's really not like that anymore. So she could have put out 15 shitty albums.
Damaris
I didn't even say they would miss.
Rory
Education even if they were good. Flawless.
Maal
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a great album.
Damaris
It's an amazing album. I don't keep it focused.
Maal
When I say it's overrated, it's because I hear certain people talking about this album, and I know they probably haven't listened to that album in 14 years.
Damaris
Rory's not one of those people. He listens to it every time.
Maal
I'm not. I'm. Rory aside. Rory's a music guy. But what I'm saying is, like, when the masses. Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, I'm like, I know you, fam. For real? For real. You don't listen to that album. You don't play that album. Who? I'm not. I'm just saying people that I know in general, when I hear them talk about this album, like, oh, my God, the mis Education. I'm like, you don't listen to that album. Like, you don't play that mute. So how is that album? Because if an album is like that for you, you're gonna find time most of the time, sometime in your life to go back to that album, to go back to some songs off that album, to put some of those songs on a playlist that you create on your phone.
Damaris
Well, being that this is all genres to go against that mall. An album can be absolutely phenomenal and just not be for you, but you can recognize musicality and the quality.
Maal
Yeah, but if you Black and the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is like that for you, you're listening to that album.
Damaris
Okay.
Maal
If you're from this culture, you're listening to the Miseducation.
Julian
I do think that there's something interesting.
Maal
I listen to her Unplugged album more than I listen to the Miseducation of Lauren Hill.
Rory
So do I. But it's. It's. So I'm not comparing it to Thriller, but it's similar to Thriller that, like, We've heard every song on Thriller is a hit. We've heard it all. So I don't run back to Thriller because it's like the most popular music I've ever heard. It's been ran into the ground forever. You don't run back to it. Miseducation is similar to that, pretty much. Out of 16 songs, 14 of these are like timeless hits that have been played non stop. So I can see someone. Yes, yes, yes. It's similar to Thriller in that. That way that I don't think people are running back to it because it is one of the most popular fucking things that's ever existed. Those songs, X Factor, it plays everywhere, all the time.
Maal
Yeah, but you're not.
Rory
You don't need to run back to it. It's in our world all the time.
Maal
Yeah, but I don't see, like, I.
Damaris
Think it's in your world all the time. I think for the average person, they don't hear it at all.
Maal
Like, you still see kids now today making TikToks and shit like that to songs off of Thriller. I don't see that from the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill album. Like, I don't see Girls, Nothing even.
Rory
Matters would be a weird TikTok.
Maal
TikTok's a weird TikTok. But I'm just saying, like kids. I see kids that are five, six years old, dancing, dressed up like Mike, performing like Mike.
Damaris
Well, that's a different level. Lauryn Hill. Like Lauryn Hill. It's not that type of music. It's not pop music. So it's not really something you would dance to.
Maal
But even if even at the pop shit on Thriller, like, I mean, you listen to a lot of shit on Thriller. Yes, it's pop because it's from the most popular artist of all time. Get that? But there's some songs on there that's not the prototypical pop song that people still to this day you will hear playing. Like you go to somebody's house, a party, a birthday, something. Somebody's playing something from Thriller. I don't hear that from, from the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I don't just randomly walk into places and hear the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill playing. Not, not to say that doesn't mean it's not one of the greatest albums. I just think that without just talking about this list that these people have put together, I just don't. And I get you want to put Thriller second cut the shit. Thriller is the greatest album of all Time.
Julian
But I think it had to do with Lauren being alive to be able to accept it and make a moment out of this list. I think that's solely because of that.
Damaris
And I think they wanted to do something that would cause debate. I don't think Thriller would have caused.
Maal
Well, the list causes debate, period.
Julian
People were saying with Lauren being on here, and I was doing a little more reading, that there's no Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston album on the. On the whole list. Not.
Damaris
Obviously not the top ten with. With Whitney. Right. This is the thing. This is what comes into where Mall said, if I'm the greatest artist of all time, you would think that my best album will be the greatest album of all time. Whitney has hits on top of hits. She does not have a solid collection album that would be in the top 50. I think she should have been on the list, but I can understand why she wouldn't be in the top 50.
Rory
I'm glad you went on the list because I was scared to say it. Yeah. Whitney, like, what is the Whitney album? Album.
Damaris
Whitney album. Exactly. Whitney.
Maal
Listen, man, if you can find. If you can find space and no disrespect, I love her. If you can find space to put Solange on this list.
Damaris
All right, you at the table.
Maal
If you can put a seat at.
Damaris
The table on this list, you can.
Maal
Put the Bodyguard soundtrack on it. You put something on this list. Something from Whitney can go on this list. We not doing that sound. Everybody has graduated to Whitney song. Everybody has crossed the graduation stage.
Damaris
But we're talking about that alone.
Maal
Put the album up there.
Rory
Okay, but do they go back?
Damaris
Album as an entire concept. An album as an entire concept. And I'm a person. I listen to Whitney more than I listen to any other artist.
Rory
Song list. Whitney Houston's making a song list.
Julian
Yeah, sure.
Rory
She would be.
Maal
Is Janet Jackson on this list?
Damaris
And I don't even want to get into that because people consistently sleep on the fact that Janet makes insanely good.
Julian
Janet's control is at 42.
Damaris
And where's the velvet rope? Where's all for you? I'm not even gonna get into that because I get upset.
Julian
I could be wrong, but I. From what I've seen, I haven't seen a repeat artist on here. It looks like it's just one album.
Damaris
I get upset. Every artist album, but whatever.
Julian
But I do want to say it looks like it within the top 10, because again, we said this is a general list, so it covers all types of genres outside of Nirvana.
Maal
It man. Good kid. Mad City is not number seven of all time. Let's stop the.
Damaris
It's not.
Maal
Let's stop the, bro. Let's stop the. It's Spotify with these fake streams. Stop this, bro.
Damaris
It's not even number seven of the rap album.
Maal
Stop this. We all with Kendrick, but stop the number seven of all. Yo, he's five slots behind Thriller. Are you kidding me?
Rory
I'm starting to think there is something personal. What did Kendrick do to you?
Maal
No, there's nothing personal, but good kid, Mad city is a number seven.
Rory
No, it's not. That's all I'm saying.
Julian
I won't take the angle. Mall taken, but if we're going to put a rap album in the top 10, it's my beautiful dark twisted fantasy or nothing. Stop playing with this like the best rap, but that's it. Don't put Kendrick at seven in My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Like 26.
Maal
Yo, good kid. Mad City. Good. Great album. Number seven. Like, what are we doing here?
Rory
I want to argue with you all, but they also have Blonde ahead of songs in the key of life, so I don't even really know where to go with this.
Maal
Like, that's what I'm saying.
Rory
It's like, what we five and love Blonde.
Julian
That's criminal.
Rory
Blonde me is one of the greatest written albums I've heard in my lifetime, but it's to put it on a list above Stevie Wonder song.
Maal
Stop this, bro.
Julian
And whether or not this place.
Rory
It was an Apple exclusive.
Julian
That's.
Maal
Yeah, that Apple exclusive. It's gonna about it being an Apple exclusive.
Rory
He was. He was the other Apple exclusive.
Maal
Chance better not be on this.
Damaris
Y'all think Blonde is better than channel Orange?
Rory
Yes.
Damaris
Oh, okay.
Julian
It's a far more mature album, but I think I enjoy Channel Orange's songs.
Rory
Channel Orange is much. But it has so much more range. Like, Channel Orange is a fun listen. Like, you could throw that on and go about your day.
Julian
Yeah.
Rory
Blonde is like a. Going from your 20s to your 30s mind.
Damaris
Are you like, you sure?
Rory
It's like, I know it came out when I was 26, and then I lived with it into my 30s. I have been on this podcast saying I didn't like blonde when it first came out. When I turned 30, I went back to that. I was like, this is probably one of the best written albums I've ever heard. Number five, though.
Maal
Nah, number five is crazy.
Julian
Well, there's about.
Rory
It's a classic, but there's about a.
Julian
Dozen R B albums on here, and what I was gonna say earlier, RB.
Rory
Did not get any on the.
Julian
On the top 10. There's only really two albums in the top 10 that aren't like R B, hip hop influence. I would say that's like Nirvana and the Beatles. But outside of that, the rest of these are pretty much like, within our culture.
Maal
When you were scrolling through the list earlier, I just. Like, again, I didn't look at this once I saw what was number one, but I saw that they had Missy super duper fly ahead of Usher's Confessions.
Julian
And Missy's at 75. And great album. Usher is at 95.
Maal
Come on, fam.
Damaris
Quick question.
Rory
Which.
Damaris
Which number is 21 by Adele? Because 21 by Adele should think it made number 15.
Julian
I was gonna say top 20.
Damaris
Okay. All right.
Julian
Blueprints at 13.
Damaris
Y'all putting that. That high up. That needs to be up.
Julian
Oh, Radiohead has two albums on here. Okay. Computer. And.
Damaris
Man, why the is Taylor Swift 18? Why? I'm not talking about this list no more.
Julian
And Kid A, I just.
Rory
I would have loved to just be a fly on the wall in the room for this.
Julian
Like, we know.
Rory
How do you.
Maal
How do you know what it turned out?
Julian
How do you go horse fly for?
Rory
Oh, yeah. And an annoying ass. You know that gat that just can't get rid of.
Maal
Want to be the fruit fly in the room? Yeah, that's what you want.
Julian
All the windows open. Still can't find his way out.
Maal
Yeah, exactly.
Rory
You ever smack yourself by accident with a nat? That's what I would have been.
Maal
Absolutely.
Rory
I just want to know how you get to the place of going. All right, the chronic. 19. Let's put Taylor Swift at 18. How do you even compare those two to list it that way? I'm not even here to debate which album is better. How do you even get to that conclusion of putting the Chronic? And then Taylor Swift 19 and 18.
Maal
You could tell which one. You could tell which songs Ebro fought for, like, which albums. You could tell.
Julian
Discovery being Daft Punk's album on here is crazy. I would have done Random Access Memories. Like, even with some of the artists they picked, I would have picked a different album.
Maal
Yeah, I don't know, man. Listen, and I get with these.
Rory
I think Beyonce's on there twice.
Maal
Oh, that's. That's. That's Atlantis. Morris said Jagged. I thought it said Jagged Edge. I was about to. Like, I'm yelling, but I love Jagged Edge. What are we doing here? What are we doing? What are we doing? I thought they had jagged edge at 31 I'm about to be like, yo, what are we doing here?
Damaris
That's actually very funny.
Julian
Yeah, Beyonce's on here a couple times. Lemonade and self titled at 36.
Rory
Every time I listen to 36 Chambers, I go right to Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen right after.
Maal
You have to. That's just.
Rory
You know, how algorithms work.
Maal
How else do you listen to that music?
Julian
This doesn't make sense. I don't get this. Like, how do you put. Look at this run.
Rory
Like, we have to hold Ebro's feet to the fire a little bit, though. Because I remember vividly when he smoked the Complex staff, they did a Hot 97 interview and I appreciated Ebro. He was like, yo, enough with this list shit. I need to see the people that did it. Come in here for an interview. Three people from their staff writing list came in, and Ebro tore them the fuck apart, as he should have. Everything Ebro tore them apart about, I feel like he did on this list.
Maal
Yeah, but that's how I go.
Rory
You became everything. You fought against Ebro.
Damaris
Yeah, but Apple came to him and told him to do his job and he had to do his job. Which would you expect him to do?
Maal
Well, he fought for the Low End theory, you know, he had to get that on there. That's the first album I bought my.
Julian
Oh, Flower Boy's on here. That's cool.
Maal
Is it?
Julian
That's a great m. That's a great album.
Maal
Ahead of Confessions. Cut the bro.
Rory
I wouldn't know how to confess.
Maal
No, I'm just saying I'm looking. That's what I'm saying. This list is crazy.
Julian
Combing through here in terms of recent albums, it looks like the most recent one, at least to my knowledge, is Sizz's SOS at 72. How do you guys feel about that?
Rory
I. I mean, I think it's a great album. I think it will be revered as a classic as time goes.
Damaris
Yes.
Rory
But I. It's better than Confessions. I'm not ready to make that. Make that claim.
Maal
That's. That's just insane. That's insane.
Rory
Yes. A lot of. With lists like this too, is. Time is kind of the enemy. Like, it's hard to even compare what Low End Theory has done in the last 30 years as compared to what Good Kid Mad City has done in the last 15. Like, it's.
Damaris
We.
Rory
It's not even fair, is it?
Maal
Because the. I mean, the top two albums on this list are a lot older than a lot of these albums up here.
Rory
I just feel like the new artists, you can't even bring them up yet because time hasn't even told us if this is the best.
Maal
And that's why, again, seven for Good Kid Mad City. Like, come on, man, I get it, but come on, dog. Like what we like. Let's just. Let's just be. Let's. Let's try to be a little real. Just a little bit. We ain't got to be all the way real.
Rory
All right?
Maal
But at least let's be a little real.
Rory
Why not number seven?
Maal
What you just said, it hasn't been.
Rory
Long enough to say that I'm going off the credentials that Ebro tweeted. As far as Impact, it is the modern day last rap classic that we can speak to. It defined a generation. It will be heralded the same way. Illmatic, I used to say. I guarantee you, in 50 years, they'll have that van on urban Outfitter shirts. It's going to be the quintessential real hip hop album that also sold the way a pop album did. I could argue, yes, it could be in the top 10.
Julian
My beautiful dark fantasy. I think going the hip hop route, My beautiful. It's not even close. My beautiful dark twisted fantasy is better than this. If we're taking the hip hop classic, the most recent hip hop classics, if you put those two head to head, get. I love that Kendrick album. It's not fair. It's not close.
Rory
I. I wouldn't say that Kanye west was already a superstar by that point.
Julian
And that doesn't matter where they're at in their career. We're talking clearly on the album.
Rory
I'm saying the impact of what Good Kid Mad City did in 2012, where rap was at, was insane. That a hip hop album like that could create a superstar like Kendrick Lamar, that would have been deemed an underground album five years prior to it. It wouldn't even been talked about. It defined an entire generation of. Of real hip hop.
Maal
It's a good. It's. Listen, I like. I love the album. I think the album is dope. I'm just saying. Number seven.
Rory
That's just a little in the totality of. Of what. What's the oldest album on here?
Julian
Oh, I don't know.
Rory
Whatever. There's Beach Boy on. So we're talking about decades on decades. Yeah. For a generation, Good Kid Mad City was one of the most impactful for hip hop, period. It was.
Damaris
Can you talk about the impact? Like, what impact did it have?
Rory
We went. We went from the Snap era. It really looked like hip hop, which.
Maal
Was the worst era in rap history.
Rory
It was crazy.
Maal
That era was nasty.
Rory
The block the blog era came after. But that was the blog era. That wasn't anything. That was on a huge pedestal. There was still good music coming out, but that type of rap was just underground bullshit at that point. Nobody want to hear lyrics. Shit. If you want to go listen that shit in your computer by yourself. This was a. I hate to say. What's another word for real hip hop?
Julian
Authentic.
Damaris
Real hip hop.
Rory
Authentic.
Maal
So you think Good Kid Mad City has.
Rory
It was the first authentic album in God knows how many years that also superseded any type of underground stereotype. Like, it sold crazy, it toured crazy. It became the single moment where people were like, oh, rap still exists. You think on an A list level.
Maal
You think that Good Kid Mad City asking you fuck this list. You think that Good Kid Mad City deserves to be number seven and Illmatic is number 48 or whatever it is?
Rory
No, I don't. Okay, don't put me in that corner.
Maal
That's what I'm just. I'm just asking. I'm just asking.
Rory
And listen, I know I'm. I'm ranting because I didn't really think about this. I am arguing kind of for the sake of arguing, but I do really understand Good Kid getting the credit. It does.
Maal
It's a great album.
Julian
I don't. A number seven.
Maal
Not a number seven.
Julian
Purely based off the example I've said three times now, if we're talking one hip hop album, get it the fuck out of it.
Rory
It's not like when Illmatic came out, it kind of flopped. No.
Maal
I'm not gonna say flopped.
Rory
We're not talking about how great the album is.
Maal
But yeah, like, as far as sales.
Rory
It wasn't like a big.
Julian
It did a 60, 60 to 63,000 copies.
Maal
Yeah.
Damaris
And that was back when people were.
Rory
Buying in 94 and it was on Columbia. Like, it was viewed probably not as impactful to the masses because he was rapping even like that in 1994. Yeah, but rap wasn't Kendrick Lamar to rap like that in 2012. He was not like some sought out star. He didn't look like a star, he didn't act like a star, he didn't talk like a star. To make an album like Good Kid. That I think is similar to an Illmatic of Genius in 2012, at a time when people thought authentic hip hop was dead, puts it in a different type of impact for me.
Julian
242,000 first week for.
Rory
That's crazy.
Maal
But that speaks to that speaks to when Illmatic came out on paper. Technically, hip hop was only, what, 20 years old? 21 years old. Now in 2012, where hip hop was at is one of the biggest.
Julian
Yeah, it's like first peak, though. Like early 94, approaching its first. I guess that's kind of.
Rory
Yeah, I mean, rappers were selling in 94. And I'm not taking anything away from Illmatic in its impact as time went on. That's why I was saying some of this is kind of unfair because we saw the impact of Illmatic now for sure, and over the years. I'm saying good kid out the gate. Like, this is something that has changed music, hip hop specifically, forever.
Maal
I don't know if I'm ready to.
Rory
Give it all at that point was so commercialized.
Maal
I ain't ready to say good kid Mad City changed hip hop forever. I'm not going to say all of that. I think hip hop has always been what it is. Obviously some artists come along and push it forward. Kendrick being one of those artists. But I'm just saying number seven is just kind of hot.
Rory
I'm not that part.
Maal
That's all I'm arguing. I'm not saying it doesn't belong on the list. I'm just saying number seven is very high for that album.
Julian
What are your thoughts on a Take Care. Drake's at a number 47.
Maal
At number 47. I mean, again, it's subjective, man. But, I mean, I think that that's. That's kind of low. That's a little too low on the list for me.
Rory
Again, it deserves to be in the top hundred. I wouldn't know where to place it. Yeah, like, it's definitely as far as everything Ebro said.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Take care should be on this list.
Julian
Rihanna's anti is at 55.
Rory
Love that album. But I mean, yeah, great album. I. I don't know how to compare it to Guns N Roses. I just don't.
Julian
This run is crazy. It goes Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads, Janet Jackson, Outcast. Like, how do you even come. How do you compare them?
Maal
Because everybody knows if you listen to Stevie, you got to end it with some. Some Talking Heads after that.
Rory
I know they weren't, like, sequencing it. They were right. But again, how do you even put them together?
Julian
Bjork on top of that than Bob Marley. Yeah.
Maal
Aretha Franklin, Nas and Carol King is sick.
Rory
Wait, where is Bob Marley at?
Julian
He was at 46.
Damaris
I thought they'd have put him at one.
Rory
I'm. Yeah, the way we were arguing the Thriller.
Maal
Wait Wait, did you say Bob Molly's overrated?
Damaris
No, I didn't say that.
Maal
Yeah.
Julian
She didn't know exactly what she said.
Damaris
I didn't.
Maal
You said Bob Marley overrated.
Julian
Exactly. What the man that is.
Maal
He was talking about police brutality back then. We. We still get our ass kicked.
Damaris
Yeah.
Maal
Still.
Damaris
Why are you laughing?
Maal
This was in the 70s, just laughing at you. That's Bob Marley. Being overrated is a crazy thing.
Rory
You should have never got Twitter. It's made us so bold in our takes. Julian said the Beatles were trash. Off Mike.
Julian
I think the Beatles are trash. I'll say.
Maal
Beatles being trash is crazy. That's a crazy.
Julian
I think I. I understand.
Maal
It cannot be for you.
Damaris
Okay. It's not for us.
Julian
No, it's definitely not for me. But to Ebro's list, I think.
Maal
But see, I don't even understand how you say that. Because you listen to.
Julian
You listen to, like, I listen to everything. I, I very.
Rory
You were playing the Beatles today and.
Julian
Then said they were trash playing. I was playing Tom Petty in the Prince.
Rory
Okay.
Maal
All derivatives of.
Julian
But like, I look, I. I think to Ebro's criteria. I understand in the moment impact. Like, you can go back, watch those Beatles. It's like, well, used to pass out from Michael Jackson. Same effect. I get that they were torn before that was even a thing. So I get it. For impact alone, they obviously deserve to be on the list. Personally, I think the music sucks.
Maal
Where's Jodeci on this?
Rory
Listen, I don't listen to Beatles like that at all and wouldn't pretend to, but I don't have.
Maal
The diary of a madman is a.
Rory
Classic boldness to say, yo, their tr. Their music sucks.
Julian
I think it sucks.
Maal
The Beatles crazy.
Julian
Yeah. Is yesterday yellow Submarine?
Rory
That day in the lights sucks.
Julian
Like, it's all like bubblegum pop kid music.
Rory
No, that's the hits that you probably like.
Julian
Yeah, that's the. That you listen to when you're young.
Rory
A day in a life.
Maal
You should listen to Sir Paul's B side. You don't know Sir Paul's?
Rory
You think all the lonely people sucks?
Maal
I cry every time I hear that.
Julian
No, like, I get like, yeah, the introspective records are dope. I'm. I'm hating on the commercial records. I think they're awful. I hate their records.
Damaris
But somebody could say that about your favorite artist.
Julian
Of course, I'm not saying they shouldn't.
Rory
To a whole generation of people. I want to hold your hand is their Thriller.
Julian
Believe me, my mom.
Maal
Yo, that's. But that's the thing.
Julian
My mom was playing this until Thriller came out. Then it was like, all right, bro, we are.
Maal
Then it was like the. The kids with the bowl cuts.
Rory
If you get my. My mom. My mom's oldest sister started. I want to hold your hand is the greatest song of all time. And there's a whole generation that, like, feels that way about the Beatles to say they suck. I can't do it.
Julian
I don't think that.
Maal
And I ain't gonna lie. Strawberry Fields is crazy, and I ain't gonna lie. Mike cleaned up Paul McCartney up on the Girl is Mine.
Julian
Frank's version of Strawberry Fields is better.
Rory
He cleaned up his life when he took his puff. Yo, Mike is diabolical. Paul took his. He took his puff.
Maal
Yeah.
Julian
That's a crazy one.
Maal
That's how you do that.
Julian
I don't know.
Rory
That is how you do it.
Maal
That's how you do that.
Rory
Mike said, I bet I got you. Yeah.
Maal
Wow.
Damaris
Rory, whose pub can we buy? And by we, I mean you buying.
Maal
Rory's pub is sick.
Damaris
No, but who? No, we gotta buy somebody else's pub, though.
Julian
Somebody else's.
Rory
My finances right now, though. Mims.
Maal
Don'T do that.
Rory
But never mind. It's too many samples on that song. It's not even worth it. You put, like, six hit records in the background of that.
Maal
Hey, Apple. Fuck this list and stop pushing this shit to me. Every time I open Apple Music. Apple Music on my phone. I don't care about this list. Stop doing that.
Rory
Would you ever try to make a list?
Maal
Nah, my list will look crazy.
Julian
You ready? My list per money bags.
Maal
Oh, my God.
Rory
You'd have Benny over miseducation.
Maal
Yo, Tana Talk 4. Really? You know what I'm saying? It really did something to me, man. I mean, I just got to be honest with y'all, man. Reasonable drought. Oh, Jesus Christ.
Rory
Motivated drug dealers worldwide.
Maal
Wow. Classic. Classic.
Rory
But, I mean, listen, we fell for it. Apple, you got us. Yeah.
Maal
It is what it is.
Rory
This wasn't personal. I want to mend our. Our. Our friendship one day.
Julian
You hate that, man.
Rory
I don't hate Zane. I made no. Zayn is a gangster.
Maal
I have you on audio. I think we have you on audio saying you hate.
Rory
I was mocking him in his accent after an interview. Yes, I know exactly what I did, but I thought I was making just a light joke. I didn't know the moment you and I stepped on the Apple campus in California, they were like, listen, if it wasn't for Nikki, you're banned from here.
Maal
That's sick. That was funny.
Rory
How did they even know we were in that van? That door slid open. They're like, rory, we need to talk to you. How'd you even know it was us?
Maal
This is a regular black van. Like, that's it.
Rory
I read and az. Text me. What did you do? What did you do to him? Question mark. Question mark. Because there was some EO shit that was going on at the same time. I was like, I didn't know there was a beef here. Well, you didn't want to meet about EO shit because of that.
Maal
Yeah, but you mocked him and you kind of, like, on his interview style and the questions he asked.
Rory
I just said that he should just interview the artist with them on his lap. It would just go better.
Maal
All right, so you don't see how in you saying that somebody would be like, yo, him, don't let him on this campus. Yeah. All right. That's all. That's all I was trying to get to.
Rory
I'm sure doing this with Zayn was really tough, because according to Zayn, every artist in every album is the greatest.
Julian
It's amazing. Yeah, it's the best thing.
Rory
How could he even narrow down? Because anything you mentioned to him is the greatest. Or whoever he's talking to.
Julian
He's like the Jimmy Fallon of these interviews.
Damaris
You're not on him. Even though I said you want to mend the friendship, keep on him.
Maal
Sure.
Julian
But, like, you know what I mean, Rory, like, every joke's the funniest joke he's ever.
Maal
We'll talk. I'll smooth everything over with you and my guy.
Rory
The actors song, don't even make a. A joke. And Jimmy Fallon's like.
Julian
His drunk ass is like.
Rory
Just asked me how I was doing.
Julian
You took a call here. Shut up.
Rory
Listen, jokes aside, I think there is a. An important lane for journalists like Zayn, though.
Maal
Oh, absolutely.
Rory
Because we talk about. I hate that everything has become. We have to grill every artist and make a moment and, like, be mean to artists. I enjoy his interviews. Just sometimes they go a little too far.
Maal
Okay.
Rory
I mean, there's no way every artist you sit with is, this is the greatest thing you've ever heard. That's all.
Julian
Yeah, Michael, he has.
Rory
He has good interviews because people feel safe and they can say, shit, Rory, you also.
Damaris
But, like, you're, like, the opposite of Zane Low. Like, not everything. You don't need to hate on everything because every five seconds you come here and say, this is the worst shit I've ever heard. Not Everything is the worst shit you've ever heard.
Rory
Am I like that? Yeah, I'll take a self awareness check. I don't think I do that.
Damaris
But when something's bad and we'll be like, all right, it's bad, or I.
Rory
Feel like I get a lot of flat for not doing worse, this is.
Damaris
The worst I've ever heard. It'd be like, bro, it's not that bad.
Rory
Well, I mean, I. I definitely use. I exaggerate.
Maal
And saying something is the worst. If you saying something is the worst you've ever heard is crazy. Like, you've heard worship.
Rory
That's like saying the greatest album of all time.
Maal
Like, I don't want to be. I don't want to be the artist where you'd be like, yo, that's the word. I'm like, me. Out of every artist that has ever come through this world, I produce the worst shit you've ever heard.
Rory
Can you think of an example of.
Damaris
Literally just two weeks ago or whenever we did our ice, but you said that ice spices give me the light Flip was the worst song you've ever heard.
Rory
I stand by that.
Maal
See, that's fucked up. That's a Bronx legend. Don't do that.
Rory
Not saying she's not. Legends put out bullshit too.
Maal
That's a fact.
Rory
I'm. I'm on the grounds again. I exaggerate things. That is up there with one of the worst songs I've heard. Yes, definitely. I'm fine. If you have another example, I'd love to continue the self awareness, but I still stand by that.
Maal
Damn, that's up, man.
Rory
Yeah, that song is. Have y'all heard that song?
Maal
You don't think it's gonna go.
Rory
Have y'all heard that song since. Well, I'm sure it's gonna do streams, numbers. They'll dictate all that.
Maal
I'm sure Damaris has heard that song since the marriage. I feel like she'd be outside.
Rory
I think people.
Damaris
I don't know why you.
Rory
Plenty of ice by songs.
Damaris
I've never. I haven't heard that. I don't be outside.
Maal
You don't be outside?
Damaris
No, Julian be outside. I'll be at Sahara once a week or once.
Julian
That is outside.
Rory
That's not the music. And you're only gonna listen to Jay Z Blueprint, so.
Damaris
Yeah. And I go there and I put on Jay Z right along with him. We be battling Jay Z songs. Like, that's not really outside.
Maal
It sounds like a place I never want to be at.
Julian
Molly should pull up with us once.
Damaris
Or he did before.
Maal
Yeah, I'll be over there sometimes, you know, but I can't. I can't sit down and just hear niggas battle Jay Z Records in the spot.
Julian
No, I'm good on that part.
Damaris
Why?
Maal
Come on, fan me. You know how many times I've heard that record that you're playing? God, no. I don't want to hear that shit.
Damaris
Well, we'll battle. Well, sometimes we'll do like. We did, like, a Jeezy night where we were battling Jeezy songs. We did, like, Fab versus TI I think one time. Like, you know, it's not always just strange verses.
Rory
How did that go?
Maal
Who was. Who's victorious in that battle and who's controlling? It was you and Low y'all be doing that.
Damaris
I think I was T.I. i think I won. But just because he picked.
Maal
I think I was TI Is hilarious.
Damaris
Shitty Fab songs. He doesn't have good discography taste. Kind of like Fab in his own battle.
Rory
Yo, Pre. Pre Pandemic. We were doing, like, a Jay Z battle shit in there. And two hours into it, I looked over to the right and Boogie Dash was on a date. And I felt so fucking bad. I was like, damn, son. I was like, oh, he probably thinks we just did all that on purpose. I didn't even realize.
Maal
That's funny. That's hilarious. That's almost like a movie. Like, that's hilarious. Like, what are y'all doing, man? Read the fucking room, bro. That place is small. You didn't see Boogie sitting right there.
Julian
A table next to you?
Rory
We were in the back.
Maal
Oh, okay. Okay.
Rory
Yeah, we're in the back.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
That was, like, when the back was cooler.
Maal
Okay, got you. Okay.
Rory
But all right. Also, though, there wasn't a lot of people in there. I very well could have just looked over.
Maal
That's funny.
Rory
But why have to read the room before playing Jay Z?
Maal
No, no.
Rory
In New York.
Maal
In Manhattan.
Julian
Yeah.
Rory
You're acting like I was about to sneak an R. Kelly song.
Maal
Like, yeah.
Rory
Is anyone watching? Yeah, I felt bad for Boogie.
Maal
It's all good.
Rory
I'm sure he enjoyed it.
Maal
Oh, man.
Rory
He was in the studio with you during all those.
Damaris
Ma. If you and Rory started beefing, right? You stupid. Wait, what if you and Rory started beefing?
Maal
Yeah, like.
Damaris
Like, let's say y'all beefing like it's business. PA broke up. Whatever. Me and Julian, Jobless, homeless. So let's say you and Amara previously had a good relationship, right? Let's say amara's this is 10 years down the line. Amara's 10.
Julian
And Uncle Maw Maw.
Damaris
Yes. And. Ugh. And you and Rory break up. Whatever. Roy, would you still allow Amara to have a relationship with Ma, even if you hated Ma like, Ma? You over stole 50,000 from the company?
Rory
No.
Julian
Why would he let her do that?
Rory
Yeah. What?
Damaris
Because. What if he was, like, a really good uncle? Like, he was a shitty friend, but a great uncle.
Rory
She has a great father.
Maal
Yeah, I think that's pretty. I think that's.
Rory
She doesn't need that. She doesn't need another good uncle. That's a piece of shit.
Maal
Yeah, he's a piece of shit to.
Damaris
You, but, like, just, like, somebody could be a great dad but a shitty father. Like, I mean, I'm a great dad but a shitty husband. Like, if you still.
Maal
50,000, I better not ever see you again in my life, let alone fuck the relationship you and my daughter have. I better not ever see.
Damaris
You know what? I'll leave the money out because the money affects Amara. But y'all got into it real, real bad. Like, y'all just don't fuck with each other, and him and Amara had a really close relationship. Would you stop Amara from seeing him minus the money?
Rory
No, I'm. I'm cool.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
You're not doing that no more.
Damaris
Really?
Maal
Yeah. I would tell my daughter he died, but. Yeah, no, he died.
Damaris
Like, he's dead, and then she get an Apple music.
Rory
He still posts on Instagram somehow.
Damaris
Oh, yeah.
Maal
No, he's dead. Like, it's. He just died one day. It's over.
Rory
I mean, I could see that being weird if they, like, actually formed a real relationship and, like, spoke every single day, and then she's, like, kind of in the middle. Like, damn, this is weird. But, like, if that happened now.
Maal
Yeah. 10 years old.
Damaris
I bought that up because of the dame conversation you guys were having where it's like, it's weird to play Jay Z. I'm like, ain't that still, like.
Maal
No, no, but if Jay sees boogie, he'll give him love. Like, and that's what.
Damaris
But that's what I'm saying.
Maal
You know, it's not.
Damaris
That's why I bought that up. It was random.
Rory
I mean, I don't know if. If mall was at the level that Jay Z was of rapping, then. Yeah, I mean, that's fine.
Maal
Oh, if I had it.
Damaris
I think if he was talented.
Rory
Yeah. Amara could play.
Maal
Yeah. If I had that skill set. If I'm playing at the Garden tomorrow, like, she can Go.
Rory
Yeah. Amara can listen to the Black Album. I'm fine with that.
Maal
Yeah.
Damaris
Because I've had. I've had fallouts with people, and they. And I have relationship with their kids, and they would sever the relationship with the kid, and it's like, that's up. Because, you know, I don't mean no harm to your kid. You know, I love your kid and would do anything for your kid. So you're taking away. You're taking a person out of your kid's life who you know for a fact loves them and has their best interests at heart.
Rory
I don't know that anymore because I once thought I knew you, and then you me over. So now I don't even know this person. I don't. Now I don't know if you're gonna be great for my kid.
Damaris
Well, not. No, that's why. That's why I wanted to bring a.
Rory
Different perception of you until you do this.
Damaris
But sometimes you can just get into a fallout with somebody, and that's just that. It doesn't mean that they're not the person you always thought they were. But you just got into a big fallout. You.
Rory
Yeah.
Damaris
No more.
Rory
I just feel like Amar's probably want to hang with her friends and, like, not mole.
Maal
Yo, babe.
Julian
In 10 years, time doesn't.
Rory
Hang out with me. I don't think he's gonna hang out with Amar.
Maal
That's up. Don't say that, man.
Rory
Because people really think people will run with that.
Maal
Yeah, like, yo, they don't even. They don't with each other. Like, yo, cut it out. I don't hang out. To be fair. I treat. I don't hang out with none of.
Julian
I was gonna say. Are we. Are we saying. Don't say that? That is if you guys hang out because you don't.
Rory
No, I don't hang out.
Maal
I don't hang out.
Julian
Yeah, but that's. Yeah, that's.
Maal
That' don't hang out. I am trying to get better with that, though. Like, I am trying.
Julian
Said that in the beginning of the.
Maal
Year, and I am trying to. I am trying to get better with that, though. I am trying to.
Damaris
Like, why are you trying to get better? Like, what's the effort in you.
Rory
It's just going to look like a midlife crisis if you do it now.
Damaris
No, it's not.
Maal
Like, if I hang out with y. On Sahara.
Rory
Yeah.
Damaris
No, it's not. That's not true. L older than him.
Maal
Is he. Is l older than me?
Damaris
Age?
Maal
Same age.
Julian
Yeah.
Damaris
You care about the Way you look. Low does not.
Maal
He does.
Rory
I was. I was gonna say it way nicer than that. Maybe you should bleep that.
Maal
Yeah, you're asking your peach bleep that. No, and insert the. I said, yo, you know how crazy the marriage. You don't know how crazy that is. What you just said.
Julian
That's a low.
Damaris
How is that crazy? I would tell that to his face. I'm not even trying to be funny.
Maal
Because you're crazy, so. Yes, you would tell him that. You would tell him.
Damaris
He doesn't care about. About like, that. He don't put that on.
Maal
Yes, he. But the marriage. You're not making it any better.
Damaris
He doesn't. He would say that. He don't.
Maal
I understand, but you're not say the same thing. We love you.
Rory
I'm so sorry for that.
Maal
That's my. That's my. That's my. But he said some crazy. I was like, whoa. And then he thought about it. He was like, yeah, I'm bugging. That's why I. With him. Cuz. He thought for like, two minutes. He was like, yeah, I'm bugging out. I was like, all right, cool. As long as you cleaned it up. Like that. That's.
Rory
That. That's where Low and I are similar. I'll say some shit that I believe for like, five minutes and then think about it and realize that I was losing my mind.
Maal
I didn't. I didn't see Rory's face during that clip when he was talking about, is Chris Rock an A list? Yo, that face you made. Are you. Are you okay? Like, what's going on?
Julian
Yo, Rory was trying to. He was about to fight.
Maal
Yeah, like, I know that face he.
Damaris
Was about to swing on you.
Maal
That face is the face a kid makes before he shoots the school up. That's the face where he made before.
Julian
He punched that moment where you were in Pre K. What you do, you punch that kid.
Rory
That was more of a push.
Julian
You pushed the kid.
Rory
It was down some steps, though.
Maal
That was funny as.
Rory
No, that surprised you guys. That terrified me more than I think anyone, because I don't remember making that. I don't remember even feeling that way. That's why I didn't even know that was inside of me.
Julian
I'm gonna do that again.
Maal
Yo, that is definitely school shooter energy right there.
Rory
I. Like, we weren't even talking about anything remotely that could warrant that face at all.
Maal
At all.
Rory
No, it scared me.
Maal
We were just debating if we thought.
Julian
Chris Rock the panning of the eye.
Maal
We were Just debating if Chris Rock was an A lister or not. That's all. And you gave us one of those faces that if I saw that face and I was at a post office, like, I'm leaving. I'm like, all right, I don't know what post office. Yeah, I don't know what homie is on right now, but I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go ahead and get up out of here. That's.
Rory
That's the type of rage that you're. You're born with.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
That's a hereditary race.
Maal
Yeah. You can't teach that. You have to. Yes.
Rory
I don't care what, what happens to you in your life.
Maal
Yeah. I want that guy you're born with. I want that guy in a foxhole with me. Like if I'm in the foxhole and surrounded by Charlie, I want that guy.
Rory
If this is what he does for a Chris Rock, a list.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Imagine what he'd do.
Maal
Exactly.
Rory
In wartime.
Maal
Exactly. Gotta. Gotta protect that type of energy. Speaking of protecting energy, Cassie finally released a public statement. You know, in light of everything that's been going on in, in light of the. The Diddy apology or I'm sorry video. And it's good to see Cassie receiving love. Seen a lot of women in the comments supporting her and, you know, it's just, it's just good to know that Cassie is doing better. She did state that, you know, this healing journey is never ending, which I'm sure most women who have been victims of domestic violence can attest to. But it was good to, you know, just get some, some words from Cassie. So I don't think. Should I read it? I don't think.
Damaris
No, no, no.
Julian
I did want to draw attention to one line in here that I think is at least to me stood out the most. She said, my only ask is that everyone in all caps open your heart to believing victims the first time.
Maal
Yeah.
Julian
To me, that's where this all begins and stops. I. There's too much speculation. Why does everything need to be on camera? These, these women are people too. Like, things are happening and most of the time they're happening behind the scenes.
Maal
If.
Julian
If there's smoke, there's most likely fire. Just believe the women. I'm not saying bury the guy under the first fucking accusation, but just there's patterns.
Maal
I think that, yeah, it's because it. We can imagine how much it takes for a woman to get to that point of wanting to get help, talking about what she's going through, what she's dealing with. And it's very, you know, I can only imagine how hurtful and how alone somebody would feel if they were to come out, like, finally gain the strength and courage to come out and talk about what they're going through and only to have people kind of dismiss it and, you know, kind of just move past it and not even paid any mind. So it is important to listen to anybody, not just women. Listen to people when they are speaking on what they're going through, what they're dealing with, what they're feeling, especially when it's, you know, somebody that is suffering some type of physical abuse. I think that it's important to be there for people and to, you know, if you're able to help people, I think that's our responsibility just as human. I think that's human nature. That's just something that. I think that, you know, if you're a decent human that, you know, you feel when people are going through something, you can kind of feel that energy, like this person. You know, a lot of times people start talking to me like women to start talking to me that I don't really know like that. Like, we would be cool in passing, and they'll just start talking, talking, talking, spilling things. And I. I start to notice that, oh, you just need somebody to talk to. Because we're not like. Like our relationship is not like that, where we don't have deep conversations. But sometimes I've been in positions where women will be talking to me, and I don't even know how we got on this topic, and I'm just like, oh, they feel safe.
Damaris
You have a very safe energy. Women feel safe with you.
Maal
Right? So. Well, thank you for that, Damaris. But, you know, and I think that in that. In those times, it is important to just recognize when people are trying to say something to you and trying to tell you something. Maybe they're not using the words verbatim, but they'll. You know, women have a way of telling you things without actually saying what it is. I just think you need to be open and. And, you know, to receiving those type of conversations, that energy, it doesn't take much to just be there to listen to somebody and to talk to somebody. And I just think that as humans, it's our. It's our duty at times to just be there for others and help if you're. If you're able to. So for sure.
Damaris
And also, it's. It's. I'm sorry. And I know we. Every legal, legal, legal. We talk about all that legal shit. It's a red flag for a 35 year old man to be dating a 19 year old. So I don't see why people are sitting up there saying, oh, why didn't she just leave? Why didn't she just this and that. When you're Talking about a 35 year old millionaire man and a struggling 19 year old artist, if you can't see the power dynamics in that in so many different ways, then you're being blind on purpose.
Rory
Yeah. I mean, what stuck out to me in her response was domestic violence is the issue because I, Yeah, I think over the last week that's kind of gotten lost because it was Puff and it was such a icon. All the conversation has went to so much else besides this is domestic violence. Like this is about a victim. It's not about Puff.
Damaris
Rory's been texting me that all week. Like nobody cares about Cassie. Like everybody's arguing about who's beating on who and who did this and who did that. Everybody's talking about the abusers. Nobody gives a. About Cassie.
Rory
Who's gonna reply? Is, is, is Breakfast Club gonna say, does anyone care about Cassie, like at all? Yeah, it's been insane, the reaction to this in media, social media, everywhere.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
I think we're kind of missing what's going on right now. This woman was viciously beat. I, it was puffed. So I know conversations are going to go elsewhere.
Maal
Yeah. Because of who it is. Yeah.
Rory
Yeah. That doesn't change that. The issue here is domestic violence.
Maal
Right.
Rory
Just because they're popular, it doesn't mean we stray away from what actually happens.
Maal
Right. But, but continue prayers to Cassie and any women that are victims and survivors of domestic violence. You know, if you, if you're able to talk to somebody and get help, please do know that you are strong enough. I know there's times where women may doubt themselves and the situations they're in and feel like they don't have many options and feel like they don't have, you know, many ways out of their situation. But you are, you are somebody that somebody cares about. You are somebody that someone needs. You are somebody that someone loves. So, you know, continue prayers, strength and healing to any victims of domestic violence and physical, sexual, spiritual, verbal abuse. It's just time to, you know, hold each other accountable and again, just be more, be more kind, be more caring to each other and just display some, some, some decency and more human nature. I think that we have enough information, we have enough examples of what not to do and what to do and how to Move and how to treat each other. So let's just try to do that because, you know, it's time to. It's time to make changes. Like, real changes. Like, not. Not just therapy and shit. Like, it's time to make real changes. And I think that we have the information and knowledge and the education and the resources to make that change. So it's just time. It's just time to stop hearing these stories and, you know, having to see videos like that and things like that. It's just. We should be way past this type of shit. I know it's a big ask, but we should be way past this type of shit.
Rory
Sure. And I mean, kind of. What I was saying is why I have mixed feelings about the Cameron thing. Cameron went on cnn. I mean, are we allowed to play some of it? Will we get flagged for that?
Julian
No, we can play this.
Rory
I. I hate to come in here as the in the middle, mixed feeling guy, but let's talk about it.
Damaris
Thanks for being here first. When you saw that video of Diddy Cassie in that hotel, did you recognize that? Sean Combs.
Maal
What I want to say, first of all, when I seen the video, everything in the video was egregious. I'm against.
Rory
I don't support.
Maal
All the charges that's alleged against him. I don't support any of that. Trafficking, minors, domestic violence. I'm totally against it. So when I seen the video, yeah, I was kind of upset with it, being that I know him. He's not necessarily a friend. But, yeah, I was upset when I seen it. But did you recognize everything I just said?
Damaris
Did you recognize that kind of anger at all?
Rory
Can we pause this?
Damaris
Because she pissed me off. Right, right. I know she's trying to be a journalist, but you asking that question and you not understanding the ramifications of what you're actually asking. You're asking me, did I know that Diddy was an abusive person? That's what you're asking me on camera in front of hundreds of thousands of people. But did you know that Diddy was an abuser? That's what you're asking.
Rory
But we know that based off what we talked about last episode when we got a request to go on something just as big as cnn.
Damaris
Yes.
Rory
And it was like, now you're just asking people in the music industry if they knew about it or saw it. That's your only goal here. Both people, I think, are completely wrong in this situation. I even came up last episode and was like, yo, I thought about just taking that shit and then just getting in old boy's ass pause with some other shit that wasn't Diddy related. But then I'm also making a mockery out of this situation.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
It's back to who does anyone care about Cassie?
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
And I'm on the side of cnn, too. I've always loved Cam. Anytime he's went up when he was. Did Bill O'Reilly. I even laugh when. Classic the 60 Minutes snitch. But I think that all came from an authentic place. This is just. I feel Cam, you guys, don't call me when it's not Diddy related. You don't. You don't ever talk about the good that I do. So I feel his spite on that. But then to go up. But then to go up there and start taking, like, honey pack. When we're talking about sexual assault, like, just don't go up there.
Damaris
And I'm about to get some cheeks.
Julian
Yeah, that was a little unnecessary.
Damaris
That was very cringey.
Julian
Very bad.
Maal
Do y'all know who Cam is?
Rory
Yeah, but that's what Cam. But that's what Cam said. He was like, have y'all. Did they not research Cam was being Cam?
Maal
Like, that's.
Rory
I felt like it came.
Maal
I understand what you're saying. Because of the situation and the subject at hand, it should be. Take. It should. It should have been taken a little more seriously. I agree with that. But again, you can't be mad at Cam for being who Cam. Cam gonna plug whatever he got going on. I. I knew he was gonna have pink horsepower up there and take a sip like, yo, he's marketing his brand and his products. But bad timing. I understand it. It's Cam, and he's being himself. So I can never be mad at somebody for being themselves. Which is why we love Cam, because unapologetically, he's Cam. You know what I mean? But in this situation, under these circumstances, under this subject, I think that there was a little. You know, he kind of missed the mark with this one a little bit. Big platform cnn. You want to be Cam. You want to plug your dipset shirt on pink horsepower. I get it. But, you know, we're talking about a woman that was abused in some. In some, you know, egregious allegations in her lawsuit that came out a few months ago. I just think that it's. It would have been dope for Cam to still be Cam, but to show that side of Cam where it's like, yo, that's wrong. You know what I mean? And this ain't a Time for, you know, trying to go viral and trying to plug shit, you know? Cause you could still do that. He could have still got his plug shit off. But I just think he just missed the mark a little bit with this one.
Damaris
You're talking about violence against a woman while you're talking violence against a woman while you're sitting there talking to a black woman on tv and you take a sex up supplement and say, oh, I'm about to go get some cheeks tonight. Yeah, it's like the levels of disrespect, granted, they were wrong. She pissed me off when she said, do you recognize this? This Diddy? Like, bitch, you ask me if I knew that this was an abuser. Like, I beat next to him. Like, that's. No.
Julian
I also don't like the esp. The espn, the CNN side of this. They like. I, they're. They know what they're doing. Putting her in this seat to have her talk to him like, this is easily. I'm guaranteed some old dusty white guy that sits in that seat every fucking day, every other day of the week. But here comes the hip hop conversation. Let's kill a black. Fuck Diddy. Fuck Diddy. But anytime it's like, let's kick hip hop just like the genre at its whole. Like, let's put two black people up there and just like fight it out.
Maal
Yeah. You know, he was beating bitches. I'm addicted.
Julian
Dick pill. Like, it's just. It just optically looked awful. And I think the biggest thing for me, the takeaway was like, these big major networks don't foster real relationships with the people in the culture. And many cultures not just related just to hip hop, for that matter, but like, they're just. They want you to be a talking head to just further explain the point that they're already trying to make, right? So Cameron is supposed to just theoretically just have been the puppet there to been like, yeah, Diddy, he's a piece of shit. So they could have been gone back to their producers, been like, we did it, Diddy.
Maal
Well, that's the reason why I didn't want to, you know, when we approached to.
Julian
But it is fuck Diddy to do.
Maal
The show that we were supposed to do that night. I just knew. I was like, all right, you know, we don't get this call any other time. You know what I'm saying? We've had some, some pretty dope going on. Some. Some dope things happened here. So I just knew it was what it was. It was like, this is the time.
Rory
Where, matter of fact, y'all mock the things we talk about on a daily basis, right?
Maal
Like, this is a time where y'all wanted to kind of just attach ourselves to people in the culture to have that conversation about what was happening. Just didn't feel right. And I just. Again, I understand. Camp's out of it. Take that time to, you know, fuck it. Y'all don't call me for nothing else. I'm gonna plug my. While I'm up here. But under these circumstances.
Rory
Wasn't the right time.
Maal
It wasn't the right time.
Rory
But my mixed. My mixed feelings on the side of Cam with this whole thing is, yeah, let's make a fucking mockery of this. Cause this is bullshit. This entire thing that we're speaking of. You would not speak to me at all. You wouldn't talk about none of this shit you called me. All right, I'm gonna make a mockery out of you too.
Maal
Right?
Rory
Cause you've been trying to make a mockery out of all of us, right? So I get that side. I just wanna know if he really had some cheeks lined up. Cause if he didn't and just took. Took a shot of that.
Julian
He did.
Rory
And was just. Was just walking around on hard.
Maal
That's.
Rory
I mean, that's like going to link mace. And.
Maal
No, I mean, I'm. I think it's safe to assume that Cam had a female friend that he was hanging out with later on that night.
Rory
But, yeah, also, I feel Cam valuetainment, which I talk about often. I watch their platform a lot. They had Dame on sort of recently when. When Puff's house was raided. And I don't think they would have had Dame on had that not happened. Because the first question they asked him was, tell me about your time with Puff. And Dame was like, bro, I mean, I knew him. I don't know him like that. We were a whole different crew. I don't know him. Why you keep asking me about Puff?
Maal
Well, you know, people think that because.
Rory
And they wouldn't have Dame on there if that whole Diddy shit didn't happen.
Maal
But people just assume that because I'm a music executive and you're a music executive, and, you know, you come from a hip hop culture and I come from hip hop culture, that we just automatically know each other and that we just automatically, like, you know, fuck with each other. So that's the stigma that comes with being from the hip hop culture. They assume that we all know each other. Now, granted, Dame and Puff know each other, but not to that level where, you know, you have me on your platform and start asking me, like, things about Puff, and I'm just like, yo, like, I don't. Are you asking me if I ever saw Puff beat a woman? No, I've never seen that. Does that mean that it didn't happen? Does that mean that it wasn't going on? No, that doesn't mean that either. Like, so that's why, you know, I chose to stay away from that platform and chose to turn that down, because I just, you know, again, it starts to feel like a mockery. Starts to feel like people using a moment in light of something that's serious, that's happening, and that happened to someone. So I just didn't feel good about it.
Rory
Wasn't. It wasn't the Bill O'Reilly situation.
Maal
Right.
Rory
That was. That was Cam being Cam for real.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
It wasn't like, an opportunistic type of thing, and they were really talking about some real shit. That was authentic Cam to me.
Maal
Yeah. This felt like, Yeah, I didn't want.
Rory
To make exploiting a little bit, too.
Maal
Yeah, I didn't want to take an opportunity, you know, in light of that. That just didn't feel right to me. I. I, you know, and I think when things don't feel right to you, it's okay to turn shit down. It's okay to be like, nah, I'm cool, or, I'm not going, or, you know, that's usually the route you should take when you don't feel good about. I'd rather be wrong and I didn't feel good about it than, you know, be right and still do something and then have to deal with the backlash. Like, yo, that was crazy. Like, I just. It didn't feel right to me, and I refused to take that opportunity in light of that moment and what was happening. Like, I just. That just wasn't me. But listen, you can't be mad at Cam for being who he is, man. He gonna be Cam. You know, no matter what platform he's on, no matter where he's at in the world, he's gonna be Cam, and I respect that. But, you know, I just think that in that moment, he kind of missed the mark slightly with that one.
Rory
And I already know the angle that most of these news networks are even taking or certain huge YouTube platforms, they're trying to make this whole Diddy shit political. Every time I've watched them cover something that has to do with Diddy, it's, oh, yeah, he did vote or die for the Democrats. Oh, He. He met with Hillary Clinton once. Oh. He knows people that were on Epstein's island. It's been this whole shift of, like, look, anyone that's tried to support a Democratic president is a sex trafficker.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
That's the angle that they're all trying to take.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
And I'm. Listen, if Diddy has sex traffic, throw him under the jail. But your angle here is just because he's aligned himself with Democrats.
Maal
Right.
Rory
I'm cool.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
You're not about to. To make this a Republican Party thing that just because Puff is. Is next to somebody who's a Democrat.
Maal
And like you said earlier, it's disrespectful to the victim.
Rory
Yeah.
Maal
Victims. It's disrespectful to them. It's. You know, I don't. I. I just don't understand how these platforms want you to talk about something like that. And, you know, has any of these platforms, like, you know, checked on the victims and their families and things like that? Like, I. It just. It just seems too opportunistic for me.
Rory
I get the whole journalistic integrity thing, and there's. There's unwritten rules to that stuff. CNN owes us a explanation.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
How did you get the tape? Who from the hotel was complicit in this entire thing? How did you get the tape?
Maal
Was it CNN or tmz?
Julian
CNN received the tape for this one.
Maal
Okay.
Rory
Listen, I'm glad it went out, unfortunately, but, you know, it added.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Credence to a lot of people that needed it. Your journalistic integrity. How the. Did you get that tape? Because that's a crime.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Like, you got to tell somebody. Yo, I got this from this hotel employee.
Maal
Oh.
Rory
I got it from the raid from the cops. Like, please tell us what. What this came from.
Maal
Yeah, I mean, it's just a weird time, man. It's just, you know, all of this going on, I'm seeing a lot of. On social media, you know, a lot of people saying some weird shit. You just got weird comments around this timeline.
Rory
This week has been insane.
Maal
Yeah. It's like, yo, what the fuck is insane? People are really like. Like, either people are just not smart, which we know well.
Julian
Yeah.
Damaris
Yeah.
Maal
Or people just really don't give a fuck.
Rory
Both. Both.
Julian
Both.
Maal
Yeah. I think it's both. I think people are just not smart and people don't give a fuck, because the things that I've been reading on, like, Twitter and, you know, comments on Instagram and things like that, and it's. It's. I just don't again, it's so disrespectful to the victims and the people that are trying to heal from this shit. Like, it's so dismissive. It's like, it doesn't matter. Who gives a fuck? Deal with it. You didn't call the cops. What? Like, what the fuck are y'all talking about? So, again, man, you know, just. We just gotta be. We just gotta be very, very aware of what's happening, what's going on, and.
Rory
Just, you know, it's that and what. I've been texting Jamaris all week. Outside of, no one cares about Cassie. No one cares about domestic violence. They don't. It's. It's proven. It's been proven for me 100% this week. I. I kind of felt that way before.
Damaris
No one cares. Niggas do not. I won't say no one care. I don't like generalizing, but the general mass public, they don't.
Rory
No. This is just another hot topic.
Julian
My new favorite angle.
Rory
Move on to the next. Nobody cares.
Julian
My new favorite angle from all these domestic violence cases is wa. Until the footage comes out. Why does everything need to be on film? Since when is everything on film? Why is that, like, the barometer? Before we move forward, let's make sure he actually hit her.
Rory
The craziest thing about the pup is that it was on film. It was like, how the. Was that taped? Yeah, but, like, that's not how things go aside.
Julian
But to draw it back to Cassie's point, believe the victim. When they speak out, they're speaking out because you think they're just, like, how stupid?
Damaris
And it's just like, oh, well, you know, some people. Some people do lie. Some people. It's way less people that lie than people who are telling.
Julian
There are even more ramifications that come with lying. Like, why don't people think of the inverse of that? If you do jump out and lie, what can come with that? Like, it's just. It's so asinine, this whole, like, I think we're so desensitized because I was saying to you guys before, like, the war in the Middle east is on GoPros. I can watch, like, people just, like, walk into a home and just air out a family and go about to go grab a salad and soho.
Damaris
I stopped watching that footage.
Julian
This is up. We're just so, like, well, it's on camera, so I believe it because I saw it. There's mad. We're not supposed to see or should never have access to seeing. It doesn't mean it's not happening.
Maal
Well, you know, it's interesting that you have to say nobody cares about domestic violence. Because I go back to years ago when Azealia had made claims that Russell Crowe.
Rory
Yeah.
Maal
Had disrespected at a party, had spit on her, things like that. A lot of people kind of, you know, turned their backs on Azealia. Didn't believe her. Things like that. And not until, I think RZA was on it. He did an interview somewhere and he. He basically backed up what Azealia said. Like, no, that's. That's exactly what happened. Like, she's not lying. And it was like, damn. Like, so y'all. It took for RZA to say something for people to believe her.
Rory
And what's fucked up about that? I remember when Azealia was also speaking out on rza, because unfortunately, sometimes it takes a man to confirm some shit when it comes to that. That. I remember Azealia going, rza, why aren't you saying anything? Yeah, like, I'm. I'm being called crazy for this. And he was right there and saw this. Yeah, why you not helping me?
Maal
And. And even the Meg situation. You think back to the Meg situation. I took the stance. I took in that situation very early because again, a woman who the makes up somebody shot. Like, who says that. That. Who. Who makes that up? Like, yo, somebody. He shot me. Like, I've seen women lie about a lot of. I've never seen a woman lie about somebody shooting them.
Damaris
It went from she wasn't shot to Kelsey shot her to she it like that. Watching. The narrative of that is the crazy. And to this day, it's still people walking around with Free Tory shirts on.
Maal
And it's. And again, and this is just all under the guise of. I'm not trying to tie in other people's trauma, you know, together. I'm just saying on the topic of domestic violence and the topic of violence against women and men suffered domestic violence too. I'm gonna put that out there. But, you know, like Rory said, nobody cares about domestic violence, and it's fucked up. But those are examples where people seem like they didn't care. They didn't believe the victims. So, again, and you gotta be a.
Damaris
Perfect person for anybody to consider you a victim.
Julian
It's crazy.
Damaris
God forbid you use your pussy or God forbid you ever had sex with somebody's. Oh, she's a whore, so we don't care if she gets her ass beat or if she gets shot.
Rory
That was always a weird narrative. I don't know Meg's sexual past, nor do I give a if you call her a hoe. Okay. What does that have to do with this?
Maal
Right?
Rory
Okay, she's a hoe.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Now what? What does that have to do with this?
Julian
And in those two cases that you named the Azalea and the Meg one, this is always the thing that people need to consider with domestic violence. More often than not, there are no witnesses because these things are done in behind closed doors in the house because the dude's too to fucking show himself out in public. But like in these cases, there were people, there were witnesses. And even when there are other people that can corroborate literally what happened and validate the victim, there are still problems and hoops that the more often not the women have to go through to get the truth eventually told. So don't fucking tell the woman that gets beat in her closet at her home in private that well, didn't happen. No one saw it. And there's no video called domestic violence.
Rory
Sucks to sell. Domestic. Domestic. It's going to happen inside.
Julian
This shit pisses me off.
Rory
So where outsiders cannot see.
Maal
Right.
Rory
Domestic violence.
Maal
Right.
Rory
It's in the definition of where it usually happens inside your home with no one else around.
Maal
Again, prayers to all people, all victims of domestic violence or all victims of abuse. You know, don't want those people and victims to ever think that they're not thought about or they forgotten or people don't care because there are a lot of people that care. So again, continue prayers and healing to anybody that has to go through that type of traumatic shit.
Rory
Do we have voicemails?
Julian
We do. Just get into it.
Maal
Rory Moore, the marriage. Julian Loving the pod. Is he in the pool? Get straight to it. So how I got introduced to but Rory and Mo was through a IG real through YouTube. My man sent me and it was about y'all become a diaper babies. And coincidentally that was around my same time I started, you know, dabbling in that, you know, diaper change.
Damaris
Nasty D. So my first time shorty.
Maal
Had me going crazy. Like I was interlocking my fingers all types of look.
Julian
Well, you see a quick reaction.
Maal
Now thus far he's getting his diaper changed.
Julian
Yeah.
Maal
Let's hear about his experience.
Julian
Learning about this on a YouTube reel is hilarious.
Maal
Bringing the world together.
Rory
And by the way, I feel him because I had the same reaction my first time.
Damaris
Yeah, you interlock chipping.
Rory
I was squirming like I've never squirmed before.
Julian
Oh, wow.
Rory
Sorry.
Maal
Even to the Point that I was started putting near my cheeks, bro.
Rory
All right. I never took it that far.
Damaris
Ah.
Maal
The fact that this is the cleanup one.
Rory
Okay. For people that don't know.
Maal
He's on his way.
Rory
Mo and I were on an IG live and we're talking back and forth and we were talking about getting our ass ate, and Mo called it getting your diaper changed. So to add context to this, which was one of the greatest terms that you've coined.
Julian
Glad I can put Nair down there.
Maal
Me. No.
Julian
All right.
Damaris
So it just be hair, you said.
Julian
He said he's not hairy. I don't. That's a wild pause. But he's mentioned that before as well. I know that.
Maal
Here we go.
Damaris
Have you dug in between your ass to see if hair was back there?
Maal
It's hair, but it's like the hair that's on like. Like frog hair. You know, frogs have hair, but you don't see it. It's kind of like very thin. It's like very thin. Very like. Like you can feel it, but you can't see it. That type of thing.
Julian
That's good.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
So back to this gentleman's experience.
Julian
Yeah.
Rory
With the Nair putting there near your was crazy.
Maal
My second time, I think I left it a little too long. I got a little irritation, but I.
Rory
Took it in the chin.
Maal
I was like, fuck it. You feel me?
Julian
We don't.
Maal
So shorty slid through. She changed my diaper one more time. You feel me? And she got a little freaky with it and she slapped my cheek or paused. And bro, that shit had me jumping out. Out the gym, bro. I felt like I was LeBron or some shit. Yeah, that shit get hurt. Crazy. So my question is, have y'all ever.
Rory
Had a funny ass moment where y'all.
Maal
Realized that y'all was looking crazy?
Rory
Wait, I'm assuming that was the question based off that story.
Damaris
I'm assuming during sex that you were looking crazy during sex.
Julian
And my question is, who are you voting for? It's like through all that.
Maal
Well, I'm glad I could help you experience your first diaper changes, sir.
Rory
Now he's. He wants to get pegged.
Maal
No. Why you say that?
Rory
I've had my ass ate and I enjoyed it. I didn't think about doing Nair down there. I also.
Damaris
Well, the never let for her for than you.
Rory
I know, but I'm still like, it's not that. It's not that deep. Like, I'm not going to Nair my asshole if that's what it's going to Take to. To get my ass ate again.
Julian
Just shave it.
Rory
And then to also. Did he say he liked getting his ass slapped?
Damaris
Like, he said. What he said was that it, like, kind of surprised him.
Maal
I don't think he liked it, but I think, you know, she did it and it was.
Julian
I don't think he hated it.
Damaris
He jumped. He basically said he jumped up.
Rory
All right.
Maal
Yeah, don't smack. Don't let us smack you.
Rory
You guys aren't seeing this, this breadcrumb trail to pegging. No, he enjoyed getting his ass slapped.
Damaris
That's not. He didn't say he enjoyed. As a person who's done both, there's a significant difference between getting in the ass and getting your ass slapped, babe.
Rory
I'm just saying he continuing to take more and more steps dedicated to his dad.
Maal
Both. When you say talking about a person. Oh, hold on. I think you just got some information. When you say speaking for somebody that did both. You've had anal sex before?
Damaris
Yes, I have.
Maal
Talk about it. How was it?
Julian
Talk about it. That was our cleanup voicemail, by the way.
Maal
I mean, this is. This is a safe space.
Rory
I think I want to keep the other one now.
Maal
This is a safe space. Like, how was that experience for you? Did you enjoy it? Did you like it wasn't. Was it as painful as you thought?
Damaris
So I did it successfully. I've tried to do it multiple times. I did it successfully one time, and it was with a man with a very skinny penis. But anybody else who's had like, like a normal sized penis. No, I'm not doing that shit. Don't they call I was young. I was young, much younger than I am now too, when I was trying shit like that.
Julian
Don't they call skinny dick, like there's a term boyfriend boyfriend dick?
Damaris
No, no. Boyfriend dick is the perfect size dick. That's not skinny dick. Skinny dick is pencil dick. And all women avoid that by all costs. The long skinny.
Julian
No, his boy. So boyfriend dick is an anal dick.
Damaris
No, boyfriend dick is not anal dick either. Boyfriend dick is the just the right amount of dick you can take without. You could take every day.
Julian
Yeah, yeah.
Damaris
Like, without this becoming painful.
Rory
That's a new term I never heard.
Damaris
And so many men get so offended when they say that you're dick. Like, oh, no, it's the perfect. Like it's the perfect size. They get so mad because men want to hurt you, so they want you to say, no, your dick is so big. I can't take it. Because they just. For their egos, they want to hurt you.
Rory
Okay.
Damaris
Boyfriend dick is like the perfect size.
Rory
Have you given anal sex? Yeah, not really my thing.
Maal
Yeah, I'm cool. I mean, I don't. It's not something that I run to. I don't need to do that. But, you know, women have requested it.
Julian
I don't mind it. You need a vet, though. Don't let me break in some new.
Maal
You need a vet.
Rory
You definitely need a girl.
Maal
Yeah, you need a. I'm with Julian.
Rory
You need somebody like that, knows what they're doing.
Damaris
A pro with anal dick. Like she riding with anal dick.
Julian
Not like. Nah, that's crazy.
Maal
Now that is a woman that needs to be in the hall of fame.
Julian
It's the one in Belize.
Maal
Yeah.
Julian
What the fuck?
Rory
She could ride in anal. I should not be sticking my dick in this girl's asshole.
Julian
No, I mean pro in the sense.
Rory
That I shouldn't be doing that.
Damaris
Don't do that. Don't anal shame.
Rory
I'm.
Maal
Why we gotta be shaming everything? What is this?
Damaris
We can't say nothing because he's saying I shouldn't be sticking my dick in her if she's able to ride.
Rory
I'm not a freak. So. Yeah, I don't want.
Julian
Hilarious.
Maal
And that's not anal shame. What was anal shaming?
Julian
I mean, it's like. Yo, I meant a pro in the sense that she's done it before. This isn't like there's no worry that comes with it. There's no buildup brand. It's just like, this is something I do. It's in my repertoire. Let's just go.
Damaris
My father's been listening to this podcast. I just thought about that.
Maal
So, Pops, what's up? The Maris out here taking in. That's the funeral, the marriage, taking it in the caboose. I don't know if you know that or not, but she took it in the caboose.
Rory
Smacks you when he sees you. I'm not breaking up.
Maal
I didn't say. I'm repeating what his daughter said. She gave me the information.
Rory
You ain't need to repeat it.
Maal
I mean, rewind the episode. I don't know. God damn.
Rory
Put a trigger warning. Damaris.
Maal
Pops put a trigger warning for Demarius's dad, the marriage's dad. If you're listening to this fast forward.
Damaris
No, we're actually gonna do it. Yeah, but yeah, I think the anal.
Rory
Should be like, say that for Valentine's Day or something.
Maal
That's.
Rory
I'm not.
Damaris
Look, what you want for a gift.
Rory
It'S just not like in my regular scheduled sex Life.
Maal
So every February 14th, you want to have anal sex with your girl.
Rory
Let's actually make Valentine's day a real holiday. Yeah. And that'll be like anal sex day.
Maal
Yeah. Because you can't spell anal without Valentine, so I get it.
Julian
I feel like Van Allen Van Altine vanilla time.
Maal
That's some Terence vanilla time.
Rory
That's right there.
Maal
What they call it Galen times Gallon Galen time.
Julian
That's a lot.
Maal
Anal time. Anal time. Happy anal time.
Rory
That wouldn't make you want to look.
Maal
Also, the chocolate represents something else now. No.
Damaris
All right.
Maal
Oh, I see what you did, baby.
Rory
That would make you like, look forward to the day because, like, Valentine's Day is Rory.
Maal
It not make me look forward to the day.
Rory
We go a little crazy.
Maal
No, I'm cool. I'll stay home that day. I'm. I'm cool. I'm not going outside on anal times.
Rory
No, you can, you can, you can prep for it.
Maal
No, I'm cool. I'm cool.
Rory
Well, she can prep for it.
Maal
But I'm. I'm glad that this gentleman found our real. And you know, that's a story.
Damaris
He asked you a question. Have you ever had a moment during sex where you realized you were looking crazy?
Julian
Oh, yeah, I forgot the question.
Maal
That I was looking crazy. I'm sure I look crazy every time I have sex, so. Though I don't know, I feel like.
Damaris
That'S adulthood is realizing that I know.
Julian
For sure what this happens, like very infrequently. But like anytime you pull a char, like I get a. A knot or like a Charlie horse.
Rory
That sucks.
Julian
That's.
Damaris
Oh, seeing y'all hop around ass naked is the funniest in the world.
Julian
You're like hitting it from the side or whatever and that lock up and then you're trying to hide it. Cuz she's facing the wall and you're like. Like that. That sucks. That sucks.
Rory
That's how I know as men. We are. Are disgusting creatures. I've tried to through so many Charlie Horses. Why was I that horny? Go get some water. Second.
Maal
Just relax. Go eat some Pedialyte.
Julian
Charlie Horses. Suck that. That'll humble you real quick.
Maal
Yeah.
Damaris
You said go eat some salt. That'll help.
Rory
Yeah.
Maal
When you have cramps, like, you just put a little salt because you're dehydrated. That's what it is. Your muscles don't have any salt.
Rory
Pedialyte, things like sodium.
Maal
Sodium.
Damaris
I mean, yeah, I've definitely told a man like to like, he Was trying to fuck through the chart. Lewis. And I was like, sweetheart, go grab some water out the kitchen. Like, we have time. Time.
Rory
But when you through it and like, it. It ends up. What happens with Charlie horses?
Damaris
Stretching or whatever.
Rory
Yeah, whatever the. It does. You do feel more like a man. Like, successfully through a Charlie horse will make you feel like a warrior.
Julian
And one.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Like you feel like you want some 300.
Maal
It's like when they took the beaches of Normandy.
Julian
What are your guys supposed to die in war?
Maal
Yeah. Supposed to die in this.
Rory
I don't really have an answer. I don't know. Came too quick. Came too quick. And then just started eating her, pretending like it didn't happen.
Julian
Ah, you're doing, like, the slow stroke.
Rory
Beat up and then just trying to get hard again. Yeah, like something like that.
Damaris
Oh, no, this.
Maal
The.
Damaris
The eating the. And trying to get hard. Like, the stroking of the. Oh, I hate that. It's so embarrassing. I wish I would not do it. It's so embarrassing to watch.
Rory
How you think, what are we gonna do?
Maal
How is that embarrassing?
Damaris
That's embarrassing.
Julian
But, like, what else would we do?
Damaris
Like, if y'all go soft and you're, like, trying to eat, but I know that you're only eating to, like, try to wake yourself up. It's very.
Rory
I think it's a nice gesture because we're leaving you there horny. Like, I'm gonna eat your. Hopefully I can get hard again. But like, me just nutting quick and walking away. I think that's disrespectful. So I'll just keep eating.
Maal
Only don't get hard when they. They cheating.
Julian
They scared what that is.
Damaris
What.
Julian
Not true.
Maal
They think about. They think about their girl finding out. Yeah. Because when that's your. And you know you're supposed to be that you ain't.
Rory
Do you think all of erectile dysfunction exists because of cheating?
Maal
Well, not erectile dysfunction, but if you can't get hard for a certain girl. Girl.
Rory
Okay.
Maal
Because you ain't supposed to be with her doing something you're supposed to be doing. Get up and go home, man.
Damaris
Get up and go home is so.
Maal
Get your ass up and go home to your girl.
Rory
Well, we're talking about nutting too quick and then just trying to get back hard right away.
Maal
See, y'all still at that age.
Damaris
Oh, talk your more.
Maal
Yeah, listen, relax. I'm Gonna turn the TV on. Drink something. I'll be back to you in 20 minutes. Yeah, I'm not trying to get right back. Hard for what? Who Are you trying to prove something to.
Damaris
If she didn't catch hers yet and you. And you nut it before she.
Julian
There's one person I'm trying to impress. It's the naked lady.
Maal
And just chill for a second.
Damaris
Oh, I'll pull out the vibrator while I wait for you.
Maal
Do you think? No. Yeah. Do your thing. I'm gonna turn up the first 48 because this tripping right here, like that's what I'm on. Turn that vibrator down. Cause I can't hear.
Julian
Put on the low setting.
Maal
Yeah, put that on. On like the low vibrational or some shit.
Rory
Yeah. I've never had ego with the vibrator. If that's what it take.
Maal
Bet.
Julian
Bring it.
Rory
That's my teammate now.
Maal
Yeah, I I with him.
Julian
Shaq and Kobe.
Maal
What?
Rory
Cuz I talk to friends that like really get offended by that type of maul.
Damaris
Used to be.
Rory
Remember? Right. M did say that one time used.
Damaris
To fight us about the vibrator. She got vibrator for. She got me. It's like I said. You don't vibrate.
Rory
Yeah, that's.
Maal
I do. How you know I'm vibrate? I just start humming.
Rory
I mean, humming on the clip. That's.
Maal
Yeah, same.
Rory
Does do wonders how you think.
Maal
How you think they invented the vibrator? They had to study the man first. They didn't just create that out of thin air. They studied the man.
Rory
Eve came from Adam's rib. Exactly. Vibrator came from. From the home.
Maal
Exactly.
Rory
Yeah. Just read a Bible.
Maal
That's all you got to do. It's all right there for you. Well, hopefully we helped this gentleman.
Damaris
Y'all didn't answer him.
Julian
We did.
Maal
We did. I said I probably always look crazy when I'm fucking. I don't. I can't pick a specific time. Charlie Hall. Yeah, for sure.
Julian
What about you? What about from the woman's perspective? What's the thing that.
Damaris
Oh, I grew up thinking that like my moan and like my sex faces were the cutest in the world.
Maal
Until you found out you sound like Jadakiss.
Rory
Why? Why'd you run the kiss there?
Damaris
The next time I'm getting fucked, I'm gonna call ma and put it on speakerphone.
Maal
What?
Damaris
Please don't violated me. No, he's violating.
Maal
I'm sorry. Please don't call me like, yo, whatever I need to do for that not to happen.
Rory
Tell me I'm just any man that's cool with that. You shouldn't be.
Maal
What out of here calling somebody like, yo, all Right. Shut up and listen. I'm like, yo, who you want to follow? Damaris. She just said, I don't know. That's what my Friday night is tonight, fellas.
Rory
I probably said some shit during sex that I regretted.
Damaris
No, I saw a video of me. I saw a video of me, and I just. I was like, you. I don't know how y'all fuck me. Cause the faces.
Maal
I don't know how y'all fuck me.
Damaris
I had to tell homie. I said, I'm not gonna lie to you. Your dick is not that good. I don't know why I'm making that sick.
Julian
Why you gotta make him feel bad about himself?
Maal
No.
Damaris
Cause he was flexing like, ah, look at you. Nah, I'm just ugly. I didn't.
Maal
I'm just ugly. It's not you. I'm just an ugly bitch.
Julian
Made sure he feels bad about himself.
Maal
Yeah. Damaris said. Damaris, tell us a story when you uplifted a man and made him feel good about himself.
Damaris
I do. I'm very nice during sex. It's afterwards, like, what happens in sex Vegas stays in sex Vegas. Don't tell me what I was saying during sex.
Maal
Sex.
Damaris
That wasn't me.
Maal
That wasn't you?
Damaris
That wasn't me. Don't tell the video right here.
Maal
That was you.
Damaris
I hate when bring up some. I said during sex, like, okay. I said I was gonna buy you a unicorn. Why are you bringing that up at dinner?
Maal
You ever tell a dude you love him the first time you had sex?
Damaris
No. Hell, no.
Julian
That's crazy.
Damaris
No, no, that's wild.
Rory
It's not my swag, but I think that's more normal than people.
Damaris
Oh, people, definitely. I definitely let it slip before I was ready to tell somebody, but not during.
Maal
All right. Have you ever told somebody you love them for the first time during sex? Like that was the first time you told them?
Julian
Yes.
Damaris
It slipped.
Maal
You lying, though. You ain't love that if you didn't tell him before that. You don't mean that.
Julian
No.
Damaris
Sometimes girls, we hold in because are. And I don't need to let you know how much I like you. Every time I've let a know how much I like him too early, it backfired on me.
Rory
Well, horny brain will just have you saying wild wild.
Damaris
Anyway, I really told him I want.
Rory
To buy my unicorn. It works both ways. Watch a video back of you and man. We're both saying things that are now weird with Postman.
Julian
Say that again.
Damaris
I said, that's what I want to Buy him a unicorn. I told him I want to get married.
Maal
Oh, he must have been in there. Hey, Demerit's dad. If you're listening, press fast forward. He must have been in there drilling your ass. I'm gonna buy you a unicorn. If your girl tells you she gonna buy you a unicorn, it's like, I. I wouldn't even stop, like, yo, what you talking about right now? What the are you saying right now?
Damaris
Nah, he was with it. He said, where can we get one from?
Maal
He was with it.
Damaris
It.
Maal
Yo, what the. It's some sick.
Rory
I wouldn't even know how to interpret someone's.
Maal
I be like, yo, shut up. I would tell. Yo, shut the up. Just shut up.
Julian
No, you wouldn't.
Maal
Shut up and take this dick. Shut up.
Damaris
No, you wouldn't.
Maal
I'mma buy you a unicorn. Where you getting. Who's.
Damaris
I like that voice. That's not what I sound like during sex.
Maal
Oh, my bad.
Damaris
Damn, yomi, it's funny.
Maal
Hey, yo, tech, make some drop.
Rory
She's sitting there looking back like, yo, the frail.
Maal
Yo, yo, that is hilarious. Yo, that's some funny right there. Holy. But hopefully we help this gentleman out.
Damaris
We did not help him.
Maal
Don't nail your ass no more, sir. Just get a manscape clipper and just.
Damaris
Like, keep nearing your.
Maal
If that's crazy, just get the manscape. Get the manscape clipper trimmer.
Damaris
No, because you could cut your. For those of who.
Rory
You.
Damaris
Who don't shave your ass, you can cut your ass.
Julian
Like. No, but like.
Damaris
And that's a rough cut to have.
Maal
Yeah, because it's very. It takes a while for that to.
Julian
Yeah, you look like scar, but on your booty hole.
Maal
Yeah, but you get the manscape clippers. It has the guard on it.
Damaris
Okay, the guard. Okay, then. Yeah, he could do that. But then you got to stick the whole clippers in your ass. I feel like the nearest. Less invasive.
Maal
Yeah, but. Well, it's not probably. It's probably.
Rory
If you're that committed, just go, like, get a real wax.
Maal
Definitely not doing that. I'll just stop getting mad.
Rory
This gentleman's committed is what I'm saying.
Maal
Oh, no, he's all the way in.
Rory
So you might as well get a professional. Get your sugared or whatever it's called.
Maal
Yeah, go get. Sir, if. Wherever you are in the world, find your local sugaring center.
Julian
Get your.
Maal
And go get your. Your body sugared.
Julian
And the fact that that sentence makes.
Damaris
Sense, some people think it feels good, like getting their waxed. I'm not one of those people. I don't like the warm wax, like, in my nether regions, but I have cousins who, like, like it in between their crack and on their lips. They like the.
Maal
The warm wax.
Damaris
Yeah.
Rory
Which lips am I.
Maal
You have what?
Rory
They may have some inner issues.
Damaris
Yeah, no, they might just, like, hot. Like the hot feeling of the wax.
Julian
Yeah, but the pull.
Damaris
Yeah, no, I. They're not that big of a fan of the pull. But the hot feeling.
Maal
Okay.
Julian
Oh, that's different. Yeah.
Maal
Yeah.
Damaris
It's kind of like a pleasure.
Maal
Feels good. Kind of feels good on the skin once it dries. But. But pulling with that was that tape, whatever that is that they use when you waxing.
Damaris
So with soft wax, they use a strip that connects to it, and then with hard wax, they just rip that wax off it.
Maal
So it's just like.
Rory
Yeah, just take duct tape and just rip it.
Maal
I'm cool. I don't want none of that. Well, hopefully, sir, you don't leave the nail. You leave it, I think, for four minutes, three minutes maybe, if that. And rinse it off. Don't walk around the house and start watching the game with Nair in your ass. But enjoy, you know, whatever you and your partner enjoy.
Julian
Seems like you found something that works for you. Glad that YouTube reel.
Maal
I'm glad that YouTube was able to reach you and help you and. Yeah. And make your. Your eater more.
Rory
This woman sounds like an angel.
Maal
Yeah, yeah. No, she's. She's to be protected.
Damaris
Yeah. Any woman that's in your ass, you need to keep her because the rest of us ain't out here.
Rory
And it sound like she just pull up on site for him, the way he was describing that.
Maal
Yeah, yeah.
Damaris
Like, they're probably each other and that's a regular, like, occurrence.
Maal
She's a warrior. She's a warrior.
Julian
I hope you eat her ass, too.
Maal
I know a Golden State Warrior when I hear one.
Damaris
Jamal.
Maal
What?
Rory
All right. She real. Jason Richardson.
Maal
Oh, my God. She's a. You thought Steph was a franchise player? Jesus Christ.
Rory
The original Golden State Warrior Young contest.
Maal
Monte Ellis, if you will.
Rory
She really. She Baron Davis with.
Maal
Yeah. Oh, man. Gotta love an eater.
Rory
She Nick Van Exel.
Maal
Yeah.
Damaris
All right. Do we have one more voice?
Julian
We. Okay, this is. This is fun. We have an update on the racist baby mama.
Maal
Oh, great.
Julian
Remember that one?
Maal
Yes. Love the racist baby mama.
Julian
So, context. There was a baby mama, white woman who was pregnant by this guy's brother. The whole family's black. Everyone in the family except the guy who got the woman pregnant. Pregnant Knows that the. The baby mama is racist. Has been talking bad about his s sisters, other black people. This whole mess. And the Hulk voicemail revolved around, okay, who in the family tells the guy that got her pregnant what's happening? Because he was the only person in the dark. Our caller was like, I don't want to do it. Someone else should do it. And that's where we all left off, you know. But now he knows.
Maal
Hey, Rory, this is an update to the racist baby mama situation. So my brother, who I talked to just a wild about the situation, he told the other brother that hadn't. That had the race baby mama. And with the man with the racist baby mama, his response was, I knew she was raised. Or like I saw the post already, I don't care. Which is how everybody knew he'd react. That's why I said that. He's just, he's stubborn. He is kind of like sheltering himself off from the family now. He doesn't go out to any family events. We just had a Mother's Day celebration. He didn't come. So I think it's a self imposed exile. Like, he's like, I'm not hanging out with anybody anymore. I'm gonna just keep this myself until this baby comes out and whatever, whatever. And we have another update. Turns out he doesn't even know if the baby's his. So it's all over the place right now with like what's going on with him in his personal life. So the baby's gonna be fucked. Thanks. Have a good one. Yo. Saying that baby's gonna be to say thanks.
Rory
Appreciate the insight.
Maal
I mean this is pretty simple. She got some good when you.
Julian
That was your takeaway.
Maal
When you detach yourself from your whole family for racist.
Julian
And the kid might not be yours.
Maal
And the kid might not be yours. And you still standing on business.
Damaris
Not some white fire.
Julian
Might be. This might be some Amber Heard or.
Rory
This might be the biggest sucker on earth.
Maal
Yeah, I mean, you know, two things can be true. Yeah. That situation is just weird. But it sounds like you just gotta let that guy, you know, get what's coming to him. And he sounds like he's gonna be in a. A crazy situation. The fact that he doesn't even know if the kid is his or not and he's still with her and not like hanging out with his family, not speaking to his family. Yeah, sometimes you gotta just let people just, just run into their karma and, you know.
Rory
Or do you think he's just praying that it isn't his kid.
Maal
Either way, she's pregnant. If it's not yours, I mean, why are you still with her if you think it's not yours? And if you're praying it's not yours and she's pregnant? Why are you with this woman? Yeah, it's just a crazy situation all the way around the board. Like you just need to leave alone. Which is what I'm saying. He's not leaving alone because the sex is incredible.
Julian
Best case scenario, it's not his kid, and he gets a second lease on getting out of that situation.
Maal
And he's still in it, though, and thinks that the kid may not be.
Julian
But I think he's only in it because he thinks the kid is his.
Maal
Okay.
Julian
I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. I don't know. He's still just lover.
Maal
Yeah.
Julian
Which is crazy.
Maal
Well, maybe his best eater.
Damaris
You know, men. People. Men love women for other things other than their sexual capabilities.
Maal
It depends.
Julian
Name one thing.
Rory
It depends. It's crazy. No, that's what she's saying.
Maal
How well can you cook the important things? Can you feed me? Can you Me? Can you shut up?
Rory
When the game is on anytime, yomi, like, sits a little more forward in her chair. I know. Mall's saying some yummy said this.
Damaris
Why you single?
Maal
Me, Yomi?
Julian
The sauce.
Maal
How could you. I thought we were, like, cool.
Damaris
What the.
Rory
How could you say something bad about.
Maal
Oh, my God, and I'm single by choice? Yomi. Ha. Take that.
Damaris
That's what all the hoes say.
Rory
The hoes. Love. Love that line.
Maal
I'm a hoe.
Rory
Single by choice.
Maal
I am form hoes.
Julian
Oh, yeah.
Maal
Everybody's single by choice. If every. If anybody wants to be.
Damaris
Some people are not single by choice.
Maal
All right. Do y'all think that I'm not single by choice? Look me. Look me in my. In my four eyes and tell me that you don't think that I'm single by choice. Please tell me that it's definitely a choice.
Damaris
I think you would like to be in a relationship. You've said that you've shared that with us.
Rory
Us?
Maal
Yeah. Which is why what I'm saying now is valid by choice.
Rory
Saving yourself for India. Love. I get it.
Maal
Just like, she smells great, like cotton candy and like, first floor Nordstrom's. Something like this.
Damaris
That's specific.
Rory
Yeah.
Maal
You know, you walk in, all of the perfume clerks are there. This isn't cologne. This is a weapon. A told me that one time. I said, I almost bought that from you just now. I like that. Line. That was cool. I like that. This is cologne.
Damaris
This is a wet creed. What the was he trying to sell you?
Maal
It was. It was. It was cologne. What are you though?
Damaris
I want to start using the Arabian like perfumes. They're rumored to smell really good.
Maal
Yeah, because they got all those, all those garments on. They need to smell good up under there.
Rory
Just go to 125th and buy some oils. Same.
Maal
I tried to get into the oil thing. I'm not an oil guy.
Damaris
They all are named like Print, Jezebel, what, Coochie Dust. That's what the oils be named, Roy. Am I lying?
Rory
Who wants to smell like. I don't know what oil person you just.
Maal
All they ever try to sell me was champagne. Like that was the name of his champagne. Like pussy dust. Yeah.
Rory
The Africans on 125th definitely were not selling that pussy does.
Damaris
When I would go to like the hair stores and stuff, those would be what they would be named.
Julian
That's wild. Okay, just before we get too off topic for this caller, what would you guys do?
Damaris
I forgot about the caller.
Rory
The really asked for advice. Give us update. Give us update. But like, what it sucks to be fake family and a friend because he. Once he finds out this kid is not his, leaves that girl, he's gonna need somebody to talk to. He's gonna need support.
Maal
Yep.
Rory
And you have to be a family member and realize he did some. But if that's not who he is for real, he just made a mistake. You need to be there for him, talk to him.
Maal
Yep.
Rory
Understand that he. He was lost.
Julian
Best case scenario, he was lost to.
Rory
Some white and made some. Some terrible decisions. So yeah, just be there for your friend family as well. Even though she said some racist.
Maal
Just let people be sometimes, man. I'm a fan of that. Just let be in a relationship. Mind your business, man. I mean, let him get what's coming.
Damaris
Would you do that for Biggs though? Like, if Biggs buried like a racist, like, you would just let him rock?
Maal
That would never happen. Just that thought is so crazy.
Rory
Big Big's going, nah, I don't care.
Maal
That is so crazy. But nah, again, you could try, man. Like I said, I lost a close friend of mine just telling him his girl was cheating on him. Like, I caught his girl kissing another nigga in the club. Told him they both cut me off and went and moved and had a family.
Damaris
Like sometimes they both was fucking that nigga.
Julian
I'm telling you, you were doing too much.
Maal
They both was fucking the dude she was with. Yo, why does your brain go so crazy? Like, you gotta stop watching these Tyler Perry movies. I'm telling you, it's starting to fuck with your real life. Thinking like, that's.
Damaris
Oh, I know you not coming to me like, I got a crazy fucking mindset with this shit that you be.
Maal
Oh, I know my mindset. My mind is not crazy. I'm just from a different time. That's all you. It's like you talking to somebody. That's from the 80s.
Rory
I'm just saying.
Julian
Balls. Minds in black and white.
Maal
Yeah, it's like a racist white man. Like, can you blame him? Do you know what the world was like when he was 19? This is not his fault. He's a product of his environment. But, yeah, no, sometimes just mind your business, man. Let people be in their relationships, whatever. However crazy may be, let people be, man, because I'm telling you, the sex is great. He ain't leaving her. If that baby ain't his, I'm willing to. Yo, give us an update. If that baby ain't his, I guarantee you he stay with her.
Damaris
He is. He is. He ain't gonna tell them that it's not his baby, though.
Maal
I guarantee you he stays with.
Rory
He not said he didn't care about the racist. I don't care.
Maal
That's what I'm. He doesn't give a.
Julian
He one of those gotta be crazy.
Maal
I know people like that. That no matter what, it's like, bro, you okay? They like, I don't care. Like, all right, so then let me mind my business and shut up.
Julian
I've hate a girl before, though.
Maal
What does that mean? Because it sounds like you might be admitting to a crime.
Julian
Yeah, no, no, no, not even close.
Rory
Please clean this up.
Julian
There was a girl whose dad is a very successful right wing, like, super religious, just racist asshole for Fox News. Very well known, very wealthy. And I met his daughter. Did not know who her dad was. Eventually found out, and then I just didn't like it. Just. It irks me so much by how awful her dad is that when we had sex, I was just like. I had. Like, I had. I wasn't gonna be in a relationship with this girl, but we had sex and I was like, it feels good to this girl knowing who her racist piece of dad is. I didn't like doing anything wild or anything, but I was like, okay, this guy, I'm just gonna have sex with his daughter.
Rory
This sounds like the on Mr. Morale. When Kendrick got caught cheating, I was.
Julian
In Copenhagen, and he was like, no.
Rory
I'm Only these white. Because I'm racist.
Julian
Yeah, but that one felt good.
Rory
After you get caught cheating reading. Yeah, I think I'm just racist. He wrapped that and we all just. Just scrolled, right?
Maal
Yeah, no, we turned it up.
Julian
Gave him a Grammy.
Maal
Yeah.
Rory
Whitney had, like, the most beautiful response. Like, I think he may have, like, a sex problem. And Kendrick's like, nah, I'm just racist.
Maal
Yeah, that's usually what it is. Sometimes. Sometimes I'm not, you know, a sexual demon. I'm just.
Rory
Just trying to over people that. My ancestors just trying to do what.
Maal
They did to my ancestors. That's.
Julian
Yeah, that. That's just dope.
Maal
You know? I mean. All right, well, we've come to the end of journey. I'm sorry, Damaris. Tell Dad I don't mean nothing by that. We'll. We'll.
Damaris
I'll put a spoiler alert.
Maal
Yeah, we'll give a spoiler. No, just text him. That's his spoiler alert. Like, don't listen to the next episode. Leave it at that. Any music coming out this week?
Julian
Oh, that. Well, it's out now.
Rory
Oh, we got Vince. Vince at midnight.
Maal
Vince Staples. Shout out to Vince. Vince Staples album out now. Go listen to that. Vince is one of my. One of my favorite people, man, and I hope he gets another season of his next Netflix show. Yeah, that was dope. So shout out to Vince. I tried to find the Makami album. I can't find that.
Julian
He took it off Diddy. So it's interesting. I saw this on my timeline. He took it off streaming services and is now selling it on his own thing. I love that. It was like a taste. It was like a tease. He's like, if you want it, come buy it from.
Maal
Yeah. Oh, okay. I looked for it and I was like, yo, why did they lie to me and tell me mock put an album out? And I can't find. Find it. But that's dope to note. So shout out to Makami.
Rory
Do you see Most deaths? I'm sorry. Y'all seen Bay's verse on like that? Oh, it's not like us.
Julian
Yeah, it was on.
Rory
Okay.
Maal
Or.
Julian
No, you're right. It was like the baby. Sorry. You're right.
Rory
Sometimes I confuse. Y'all seen in the baby, too.
Maal
Yeah.
Julian
All right, y'all.
Rory
He went nuts. He was on IG Live just rapping. He still. He still got it, man.
Damaris
He's still in shape.
Maal
He's rapping on the. Not like us.
Rory
Not like that. It keeps pausing because it was ever recorded service But Empire, Gladiator, Circus World. Greedy, seedy and creepy Corny, corny and.
Maal
Boring Bougie, goofy and foolish Ruthless and clueless Variations on a petty Big three A whole lot to look at but not much to see. Pimps, Bill of War Machine.
Julian
I'd love an album from him, but.
Rory
Yeah, he goes to go crazy. You should check out. I think it's just on Luminary. I bought it. But the last Black Star album is incredible. So there is recent. Yes.
Damaris
You want to hear the baby? Do not they not like us?
Maal
Nope.
Rory
I didn't listen to it. I'm. I'm cool.
Maal
Well, I want to hear it. If he don't have that double time flow. If you don't have it.
Julian
Oh no. He does about four bars without it and then goes right into it.
Maal
See, that's. I don't pull it up. Yeah, the baby is dope, man. But I just. I can't keep hearing that same flow though. Like I with him, but I can't, I can't.
Julian
I thought there was hope because he didn't start with it, but yeah, it's not like us. Not like video's cool though.
Rory
He's always has great visuals.
Maal
I was shooting craps when you play Pity.
Julian
Then he goes right into the double.
Maal
Hands on you to hit him back. And if he acting like he want to put his hands on you to hit him first. I was hopping out with trash bags and full of work. You can ask the last few to play with me. They tell you bullets hurting. I ain't talking about the pews that you sit in, but I got that wooden church.
Rory
Yes, too much double time.
Julian
He admits he's. I mean he got off and I know the case is whatever, but like he says he'll kill you about like seven times in this minute. 26.
Rory
He's killed someone on camera.
Julian
No, I know, but I'm saying like.
Maal
He'S like next to the produce section.
Julian
Just keeps going.
Rory
He murdered someone in a Walmart.
Julian
It's the most well lit. I believe him.
Rory
100. I want no smoke with the baby.
Julian
Yeah. Cash Cobain, by the time you're hearing this is this has come out Cash Cobain and J. Cole record.
Maal
Oh, really?
Julian
Yeah.
Maal
Don't give a fuck about it. Cash Cobain. And at least on Twitter, like a.
Rory
Month ago, they're finally putting it out.
Maal
Cash Cobain and Don Tolliver got a dope record out right now with Charlie Wilson on it.
Rory
Okay, so shout out to random. That's fire though. I'm sure.
Maal
I know it like, when you hear it, you like Cash Cobain? Well, Don Tolliver and Charlie Wilson already have a dope record together on Don's last album, but Cash is doing his thing right now. Man, that sound like he, you know, he got that. That sound. And I like what Don did with that.
Damaris
So you really don't want to hear him and J. Cole's record?
Maal
Who? Cash Cobain. I mean, shout out to Cash Cobain, you know, Bronx legend. But I'm.
Julian
You a hater.
Maal
I just can't.
Damaris
Well, Cole isn't talking about him being the best in this.
Maal
I don't. I don't want to hear nothing from Cole no more. I'm Just. Be honest. I. With J. Cole, I think he's a great guy, but musically and just lyrics and all that, he's just on a. It's just not. It's not what it was for me no more. Like, I just can't. Like, I can't.
Damaris
To the fact. To the point where you can't even hear the song.
Maal
I don't want to hear it, man.
Damaris
That's crazy.
Julian
All right, well, let's play something.
Rory
I mean, I don't care that much about his.
Maal
She like mine Kick Game and what.
Rory
You mean on Kick Game?
Maal
I put her from real to nick game. Now she in my phone with a nickname. It's.
Damaris
It's.
Maal
It's Grippy. Grippy? Grippy. I call her that cuz it's Grippy.
Rory
She thinking that she a hippie and.
Damaris
She think, yeah, he wrote this about.
Rory
Me and she sending a flip when she hit. That's what happened.
Maal
She miss me when she see me. She said she going to strip me.
Rory
She going to chew on his stick like it's Wrigley.
Maal
Believe it or not, like Ripley. She said she was gay until I slay.
Rory
Now she's strictly dick Quickly as soon as she paid.
Damaris
Rory, don't even. I saw your face. I saw your face.
Rory
I like J. Cole and I'm gonna continue listening to his music. I. This record is not for me, Rory.
Damaris
So Rory hates raps about sex.
Rory
I don't want to ever hear Cole say strictly.
Damaris
This the worst you ever heard.
Rory
This is not the worst I've ever heard. This I'm sure, will actually go up at the spot. He's got great tricks in their ig captions. This is gonna work. I'm just not a fan of Cole when he raps about sex. I'm not a fan of hov when.
Julian
He raps about dreams.
Damaris
There's a lot he Hates wet dreams. But that's.
Julian
I know.
Rory
He.
Damaris
You know. Yeah, but.
Julian
Wow. Wow.
Maal
You know, that's because he had. Yo, what happened to him in his wet dream?
Rory
Can we peach. Can we reverse this and do a flashback to an hour ago when everyone's talking about we should care about victims?
Damaris
I care about you. They always make fun of your shit.
Rory
I tell them they're all full of shit. Gaslighting.
Maal
You just brought it up. I brought it up.
Damaris
I wasn't making fun of him.
Rory
You.
Maal
That's making fun of him.
Damaris
No, it's not.
Julian
She said we were making fun of him. You. She brought it up, but y'all made it a joke.
Damaris
I was just like, oh, well, you know you don't like that because of. You know.
Maal
What?
Damaris
You know, I didn't even see.
Rory
Once again, no one's caring about the victim here.
Maal
He's right here. Good joke, though. He's right here. Just ask him how he feels.
Damaris
How do you feel?
Rory
I don't think. You think? When I heard jcole wet dreams, I thought about that. You know how insane that is?
Damaris
Guys, stop laughing.
Maal
Yo, I ain't gonna lie, jco. I don't want to hear this, man. I don't want to hear this. Grippy.
Rory
It's gonna work.
Damaris
Don't do that, cuz.
Maal
If.
Damaris
If Cash Cobain and on there was saying, grip it. You would like it.
Julian
Well, he does.
Maal
I'm with Cash.
Rory
I mean, clearly, too. That's his flow.
Maal
I'm. I'm with Cash Cobain. I don't want to hit Jay Col.
Julian
All right, well, it's plays on the way out.
Rory
Out.
Maal
This record love the Cash Co Bang.
Rory
Y'all don't have certain, like, rappers. You just don't want to hear talk about sex.
Maal
Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't want to hear a lot of these. Talk about nothing.
Rory
I even have Jay Z on that list.
Maal
But we'll talk to y'all soon. Be safe. Have a great weekend. Happy Memorial Day. It's Memorial Day, right?
Rory
No, no, that's next weekend.
Maal
It's not this weekend.
Damaris
Well, it's this weekend.
Rory
Oh, it is this weekend.
Damaris
Yeah, we record Memorial Day is Monday. Even on the.
Julian
I might be hosting something. Let's figure that out with the Maris. We might be hosting something together. Together.
Maal
Happy Memorial Day weekend. Be safe. Wherever you at, be blessed. I'm that. He's just ginger. We'll talk to y'all soon. Peace. New warrior mouth.
Podcast Summary: New Rory & MAL – Episode 271 | Good Kid, b.A.A.d. List
Introduction
In Episode 271 of New Rory & MAL, titled "Good Kid, b.A.A.d. List," hosts Rory and Mal dive deep into the recently released Apple "100 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. Released on May 24, 2024, the episode offers a spirited debate on the rankings, the criteria used, and the overall validity of the list. Alongside the album discussions, the hosts touch upon significant current events, including conversations around domestic violence, and engage in humorous exchanges addressing personal topics.
1. Apple's "100 Greatest Albums of All Time" List
The episode kicks off with Rory and Mal discussing their personal connections to the podcast, referencing Rory's father as a listener ([00:00]-[00:02]). This segues into the main topic: Apple's newly released album list.
Debate on the Top Album
Rory and Mal immediately express their disagreement with the list's top ranking. Mal references the number one spot held by Lauryn Hill's "Miseducation," sparking a heated debate.
Mal's Critique: "I think Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is an overrated album. (...) To be number one, it's an amazing album, I think..." ([06:03]-[06:54])
Rory's Defense of "Thriller": "I think Thriller checks all of those boxes. (...) Thriller is the greatest album of all time." ([05:37]-[07:14])
Rory passionately defends Michael Jackson's "Thriller," arguing its universal acclaim and enduring popularity make it deserving of the top spot. He states, "I think Thriller is the greatest album of all time. It checked every single box." ([06:03]-[07:14])
Criteria for the List
Julian, another member of the discussion, outlines the six criteria used for Apple's list, emphasizing cultural impact, cohesiveness, production quality, inspiration to a generation, storytelling, and timelessness ([10:29]-[10:36]).
Additional Album Rankings and Controversies
The conversation broadens to include other albums and their placements:
Good Kid, m.A.A.d City by Kendrick Lamar: Positioned at number seven, Rory defends its impact on modern hip-hop, likening its significance to that of Nas's "Illmatic" in the '90s. Mal, however, challenges its high ranking, arguing, "Number seven is just kind of hot." ([19:07]-[26:53])
Take Care by Drake: Ranked at number 47, Mal contends it's too low for an influential album, while Rory acknowledges its place but remains conflicted about its placement ([31:01]-[31:22]).
Other Notable Mentions: The hosts discuss the absence of notable artists like Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson, questioning the list's inclusivity and representation of different genres and eras.
Mal's Criticism of the Selection Process
Mal voices skepticism about the selection process, comparing the list to pyramid schemes that prioritize engagement over genuine merit. He states, "These listings are like the new pyramid schemes." ([05:13]-[07:14])
2. Current Events: Domestic Violence and Cassie's Statement
Transitioning from music, the hosts address a significant and sensitive topic: Cassie's public statement amidst allegations involving Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Cassie's Public Statement
Julian's Highlight: "She said, my only ask is that everyone ... open your heart to believing victims the first time." ([49:13]-[49:34])
Mal's Emphasis: "It's important to listen to people when they are speaking on what they're going through." ([52:09]-[52:35])
The hosts underscore the importance of believing victims of domestic violence without skepticism. They discuss societal tendencies to dismiss or question victims, especially when the accused is a high-profile individual like Diddy.
Discussion on Media's Role
Rory and Mal critique how major networks handle such sensitive topics, arguing that platforms like CNN missed the mark by making light of serious allegations for ratings and branding purposes.
Rory's Frustration: "The issue here is domestic violence. Just because they're popular, it doesn't mean we stray away from what actually happens." ([53:37]-[53:41])
Mal's Insight: "We have to be very, very aware of what's happening, what's going on." ([66:14]-[66:23])
The conversation highlights the need for media to approach domestic violence cases with the seriousness they deserve, rather than exploiting them for sensationalism.
3. Humorous Exchanges and Personal Anecdotes
Following the intense discussions, Rory, Mal, Damaris, and Julian shift to lighter, more humorous topics, including personal experiences and playful banter about relationships and sexual encounters.
Voicemails and Caller Stories
The hosts respond to fictional or humorous voicemails that delve into amusing scenarios, such as:
Rory and Mal's "Diaper Change" Story: A humorous take on equating sexual acts to changing diapers, blending wit with playful sexual innuendo ([74:23]-[82:35]).
Racist Baby Mama Update: An exaggerated and comedic update on a previous caller's situation involving a racist baby mama, showcasing the hosts' knack for blending serious topics with humor ([93:09]-[101:06]).
Sexual Humor and Advice
The hosts engage in candid and comedic discussions about sexual experiences, comfort levels, and the awkwardness that can arise during intimate moments. They offer humorous "advice" on topics like managing Charlie horses during sex and navigating conversations about sexual preferences.
Maal on Examining During Sex: "Have you dug in between your ass to see if hair was back there?" ([75:25]-[75:33])
Damaris on Sexual Faces: "I grew up thinking that like my moan and like my sex faces were the cutest in the world." ([86:01]-[86:21])
These segments provide humor and relatability, balancing the more serious discussions earlier in the episode.
4. Conclusion and Final Remarks
As the episode wraps up, the hosts recap their discussions, offer shout-outs to artists like Vince Staples, and engage in final humorous exchanges. They emphasize the importance of authenticity both in music and personal interactions, while also reaffirming their stance on serious issues like domestic violence.
Final Shout-Out: "Shout out to Vince. Vince Staples album out now. Go listen to that." ([103:10]-[103:14])
Memorial Day Wishes: "Happy Memorial Day weekend. Be safe. Wherever you at, be blessed." ([105:37]-[106:14])
The episode concludes on a light-hearted note, blending music discussions with personal anecdotes and humor, ensuring a well-rounded and engaging listening experience for the audience.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps
Mal on Overrated Albums: "I think Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is an overrated album." ([06:03]-[06:54])
Rory on "Thriller": "I think Thriller is the greatest album of all time. It checked every single box." ([07:14]-[07:14])
Julian on List Criteria: "There are six criteria that qualify an album for this list: albums that represented a cultural moment..." ([10:29]-[10:36])
Damaris on Believing Victims: "She said, my only ask is that everyone... open your heart to believing victims the first time." ([49:22]-[49:34])
Maal on Media Sensationalism: "All of this going on, I'm seeing a lot of on social media, y'all saying some weird shit." ([66:23]-[67:18])
Final Thoughts
Episode 271 of New Rory & MAL offers a compelling mix of critical analysis on Apple's album list, thoughtful discussions on pressing social issues, and entertaining personal exchanges. The hosts' chemistry and ability to navigate between serious and humorous topics make for an engaging and insightful listening experience, ensuring both entertainment and meaningful discourse for their audience.