Episode 437 | 2025 Rap Up

Summary

New Rory & MAL – Episode 437: "2025 Rap Up" (December 30, 2025)

Hosted by Rory, Maul, and Damaris

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Overview

Theme:
The crew closes out 2025 with their annual year-end wrap-up, delivering a deep dive into the past year’s best (and most overlooked) rap and R&B albums, songs, verses, and standout pop culture moments. There's plenty of laughter, list debates, and personal reflection—as well as classic back-and-forth between the hosts—plus a touch of gratitude and intentions set for the new year.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. End of Year Reflections & Traditions

• Gratitude for Listeners: The hosts kick off by thanking their audience for ongoing support.
  • Rory: "Thank you to everybody that has listened this entire year." (03:17)
• Tradition: The year-end wrap-up is a tradition, even as it evolves without certain recurring guests (such as Elliot Wilson) and with less tequila, more relaxed energy.
• Changing & Growing: Reflections on personal growth, particularly from Damaris:
  • Damaris: "I grow every year. I recognize my growth every year." (05:43)

2. Year in Review: Music & Album Lists

Top 10/20 Rap Albums of the Year

• Mall’s Top 10-12 (no particular order) (12:16):

  • Conway – You Can't Kill God With Bullets
  • Mobb Deep – Infinite
  • Freddie Gibbs – Alfredo 2
  • JID – God Does Like Ugly
  • Chance the Rapper – Starline
  • Wale – Everything is a Lot
  • Clipse – Let God Sort Them Out
  • Ghostface – Supreme Clientele 2
  • Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony, Leaflets
  • Dave – The Boy Who Played Harp
  • Kodak Black – Just Getting Started
  • Nick Grant – I Took It Personal

• Rory’s Ranked Top 20 (15:07):

  1. Clipse – Let God Sort Them Out
  2. Chance the Rapper – Starline
  3. Wale – Everything is a Lot
  4. Larry June, 2 Chainz & Alchemist – Life is Beautiful
  5. Mobb Deep – Infinite
  6. Freddie Gibbs – Alfredo 2
  7. Mac Miller – Lunarism
  8. Little Simz – Lotus
  9. JID – God Does Like Ugly
  10. Mike – Showbiz
  11. De La Soul – Cabin in the Sky
  12. Nick Grant – I Took It Personal
  13. Lloyd Banks – AON 3: Despite My Mistakes
  14. Dave – The Boy Who Played Harp
  15. Conway – You Can't Kill God With Bullets
  16. Ghostface – Supreme Clientele 2
  17. Saba & No I.D. – From the Private Collection...
  18. Reason – I Love You Again
  19. Nas & DJ Premier – Light Years
  20. billy woods – Gollywog
  • Favorite EP: Ransom & DJ Premier – The Reinvention

• Commentary:

  • Rory: "There was too much music. I would feel weird just doing a top 10 and not mentioning all the other albums that I thought were incredible." (14:59)
  • The hosts reiterate their lists are personal favorites, not definitive rankings for the whole genre.
  • Damaris shares that she was less engaged in hip hop this year but gives props to Clipse’s project.

Top R&B Albums of the Year

• Damaris’ Top 10 (18:15):

  1. Mariah the Scientist – Heart Soul Separately
  2. Drake & PartyNextDoor – Some Sexy Songs For You
  3. Coco Jones – Why Not More
  4. SZA – SOS Deluxe
  5. Summer Walker – Finally Over It
  6. Giveon – Beloved
  7. Mutt – Deluxe
  8. Destin Conrad – Love on Digital
  9. Durand Bernarr – Bloom
  10. Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon – Come As You Are

• Rory’s Ranked Top 20 (19:10):

  1. Dijon – Baby
  2. Mareeba – The Breeze Grew a Fire
  3. Durand Bernarr – Bloom
  4. Durand Jones & The Indications – Flowers
  5. Justin Bieber – Swag
  6. Drake & PartyNextDoor – Some Sexy Songs for You (Full list continues through 20, including entries for SZA, Givēon, Coco Jones, Alex Isley, etc.)

• Mall’s R&B Picks (No Particular Order) (21:50):

  • Drake & PND – Some Sexy Songs For You
  • Sasha Key – Act Right
  • Bryson Tiller – Solace on the Vices
  • Naomi Sharon – The Only Love We Know (EP)
  • Elhae – Heat the Streets
  • Destin Conrad – Love on Digital
  • Summer Walker – Finally Over It
  • Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon – Come As You Are
  • Coco Jones – Why Not More
  • Sailor – Florida’s Finest

3. Songs & Verses of the Year

Rap Song of the Year

• Damaris: Clipse – “Mike Tyson, Blow to the Face”
  "That's my favorite. It's also my verse of the year, too..." (25:30)
• Mall: Jay Electronica (feat. Quinn) – “Who Killed Michael Jackson” [unreleased version]
  "That might be one of my favorite..." (26:03)
• Rory: Chance the Rapper & Vic Mensa – “Back to the Go”
  "That hook is the melody on that is incredible. ...might be one of my favorite records of the last 10 years." (27:54)

R&B Song of the Year

• Unanimous: “Folded” (multiple votes, centerpiece record)
  • Rory: "It's one of those records that's gonna go over there with 'Cranes in the Sky' ... It's gonna live forever." (29:03)
• Damaris: Also considers Leon Thomas's “Not Fair” and Coco Jones’s “Thang for You” as close contenders.

Verse of the Year

• Damaris: Pusha T’s verse on "Mike Tyson, Blow to the Face"
  • "How you come in? No confessions. Come on now!" (31:26)
• Mall: Malice (Clipse) on “Fico”
  • "That Malice verse on Fico is crazy ... He was talking crazy on that whole verse." (32:27)
• Rory: Nas on Big L’s “You Ain’t Got a Chance” and Chance (on the Starline intro).
  • Discussion of how tough it is to narrow to one, several verses from Clipse, Nas, and Chance in contention.

Lyricist of the Year

• Consensus: Nas for rap.
  • Rory: "I think it's between Nas and Malice." (40:56)
  • Mall: "To me, the lyricist of the year would have to be Nas." (41:02)
• Damaris: Shouts out Mariah the Scientist for R&B; SZA and Leon Thomas also get discussed as top pens.
  • Later, Drake & PND and Jesse Reyes are also praised for R&B lyricism.

Producer of the Year

• Rap: Alchemist (multiple top albums produced).
  • Mall: "For me, Alchemist is probably producer of the year." (49:38)
  • Rory: "If you just go off my rap album list... it's mostly Alchemist." (49:20)
  • Havoc of Mobb Deep also given credit.
• R&B: No clear consensus, but James Fauntleroy is mentioned as inescapably influential.
  • Damaris: "James Fauntleroy is on 'Not Fair.' So you can't escape him for nothing." (50:55)

4. Notable Pop Culture Moments & Interviews

Favorite Interviews of the Year

• Damaris: Young Thug interview ("So you go to jail for the rest of your life ... whoop de doo.") (52:27)
• Mall & Rory: Dame Dash on Breakfast Club ("I'm not gay." / "You are.") (52:45)
• Other favorites: 85 South, Ms. Pat, Day26, Godfrey, Bryson Tiller, D-Nice, Chance the Rapper, De La Soul, Ms. Pat, Godfrey, Donovan McNabb, and Joey Badass.
• Most viewed: DJ Head episode, followed by 85 South, Bryson Tiller, and Poor Minds.
  • Rory: "A lot of the interviews that probably got our lower views were some of my favorite, which sounds nuts." (55:45)

Funniest/Most Memorable Podcast Moments

• Joey Badass vs. The World moment (“me and Rory were running rounds around my own living ... we felt like a child again...”) (83:32)
• Falling in the pool: Damaris’s accident cited as a top personal moment. (57:46)
• “Hoes for the year” conversation—debating which hosts were/weren’t acting wild.
• Numerous inside jokes and real-life oversharing, e.g., the “abortion clinic” story from Maul (97:07).

Moment of the Year (Music and Cultural)

• Joey Badass & Jadakiss (“Lux”) record – biggest "music moment."
• Commentary on New York being "back" due to that song.
• Rory and Damaris recalling running around the living room when the track dropped.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Personal Year & Growth

• Damaris [05:43]: "I grow every year. I recognize my growth every year. ... But I definitely grow. I don't become perfect from one year to the next."

On Not Arguing About Tastes

• Rory [11:21]: "These are our personal favorites. If you want to argue about my personal favorites, have a blast. Bark at the moon."

On the State of Rap

• Rory [10:00]: "I don't care what the streams say. ... If you’re saying hip hop is in a bad place, you’re just not listening."

On Standout R&B Song

• Rory [29:03]: "'Folded' is one of those records that's gonna go over there with 'Cranes in the Sky' ... It's gonna live forever."

On Standout Interview

• Mall [52:53]: "A man telling you he's not gay and you just like, 'You are.' Like, shut up. ... You don't even know you gay."

On Producer of the Year

• Mall [49:38]: "For me, Alchemist is probably producer of the year."

On Lyricist of the Year R&B

• Mall [41:57]: "If we do R&B lyrics, it’s Drake and Party, bro. Them niggas was talking crazy that whole [EP]."

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Year-in-Review Opening / Reflections: 03:17–06:00
• Top Rap Albums: 12:16–16:17
• Top R&B Albums: 18:15–22:23
• Songs of the Year (Rap & R&B): 23:58–29:47
• Verses of the Year: 31:26–33:06
• Lyricist of the Year Discussion: 40:56–42:34
• Producer of the Year: 49:20–51:08
• Top Interviews and Guests: 52:27–56:29
• Most Viewed Episodes Recap: 73:09–74:11
• Biggest/Funniest Moments of 2025: 83:12–85:54
• Reflections and Thank You Messages: 91:46–94:48
• Health & Age Jokes: 94:10–95:52
• Ending Reflections / New Year Wishes: 102:01–103:28

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Tone & Vibe

• Laid-back, warm, irreverent, and fully in their element, the hosts blend real music criticism with real friendship and plenty of playful banter.
• The energy is celebratory but reflective, poking fun at themselves and each other while also dropping real insights on culture and music.

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Final Thoughts & Sign-Offs

• Each host expresses gratitude for the team and fans.
• Looking ahead: They each share plans to focus on health, abundance, positivity, and personal peace for 2026.
  • Mall: "Make 2026 a great year... a year of just trying something different, doing things different... At the end of the day, this is all just life. It's all meant to be lived. Let's not take ourselves too seriously."
• They end with a toast to the coming year, encouraging listeners (and themselves) to be safe, live abundantly, and stay blessed.

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Episode Summary in a Nutshell

If you missed this, you missed some top-tier camaraderie, unfiltered music nerdery, and the kind of reflective comedy/realness that's known New Rory & MAL for years—complete with hot takes, hot lists, and the promise of more to come in 2026.

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[Damaris]

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[Mall]

The Volume no Worry at Mouse Last.

[Rory]

Episode of 2025 Yay. Thank you to everybody that has listened this entire year.

[Mall]

We wouldn't be here. Oh God, I said we wouldn't make it.

[Rory]

Bow wow. Thank you. With Jagged Edge is an underrated record. Yeah, man. Last episode. How you feeling? This is 2025. This year flew.

[Mall]

It's a great year.

[Rory]

Not believe, but yes, it was a good year, highs and lows. I do want to thank everyone that listened this entire year.

[Damaris]

Everyone.

[Rory]

And we are going to do what we've been doing for shit last 10 years. We're going to do a wrap up of the year episode. Got to do that this one without our brother Elliot Wilson. And you know, few few shots of tequila. All of that is gone. But I do have my end of the year cup. I got a little rose in here.

[Mall]

I got a little peppermint tea water.

[Rory]

Damaris is still hungover from two weeks ago. So we are here to wrap up the year and go through all the great music moments. Producers, verses, lyricists, everything. I like this type of shit. It's nerdy list stuff. But, you know, I think it's important.

[Mall]

Yeah, you do. Cause we said we agreed on top 10 rap and top 10 R&B albums of the year. And of course Rory has to show everybody his musical taste and wants everybody to know what he was listening to.

[Rory]

It's pretty much teacher's pet. I'm the person that says and all.

[Mall]

I know what it is.

[Rory]

You couldn't, hey, are you gonna collect the homework?

[Mall]

You just couldn't pick 10. You just couldn't pick 10. So you couldn't narrow it down to 10. It was like one of Tupac's albums. You just didn't know what to cut. I get it. So you just picked 20.

[Rory]

Well, there's nothing really on All Eyes on Me that you needed to cut. That's true. No, don't do that. Because every year I do come in here with 10. But I feel like rap this year was so good that I couldn't just do 10. So much came out and because I did 20 with. With rap. I just was like, all right, I might as well do.

[Mall]

No, this shit deluxe. Like LeBron. Another you only. Here go two more for you.

[Rory]

Two more. Ironically, two changes is pretty high on my rap album. But with that said, where do we want to begin? Is there anything you guys want to say to wrap up the year? Like, what you're thankful for, what you're looking for? Any 20, 26 goals? New year, new me back in the gym.

[Mall]

People still say that.

[Rory]

Yes, that's definitely new Year.

[Mall]

Can we start keeping track?

[Rory]

I'm gonna be a completely different person come January 6th.

[Damaris]

I'll change.

[Rory]

No, that doesn't have to do with January 6th. I want to make that clear. That's just the marriage. We're coming back.

[Mall]

Wait, hold on. The marriage? You said what?

[Damaris]

I change every year? You don't change every year.

[Mall]

No.

[Damaris]

Oh, that might be a problem.

[Mall]

You think you change every year?

[Damaris]

I do. I grow. I grow every year. Every year. I recognize my growth every year. I don't change my personality. My personality is my personality. But I definitely grow. I don't become perfect from one year to the next.

[Mall]

But, yeah, that's what's up.

[Rory]

I do want to run through. Because we did the prediction thing on Patreon, there's something I did want to bring up in the regular episode. Remember when Damaris said at the top of this year, this was going to be her mysterious year?

[Damaris]

Oh, my God. I did not say that.

[Rory]

Yo, I could find the clip. Maul, am I lying? Did she not say this is going to be her mysterious years?

[Mall]

I don't know if y' all noticed. I don't listen to Damaris. Her saying she changed everything. No, the fuck you do not. Yo, what are you talking about?

[Damaris]

I said I was going to be mysterious.

[Mall]

Oh, my God, man.

[Rory]

And you still.

[Mall]

Hold on. Look how surprised.

[Rory]

You that unmysterious.

[Mall]

She told her no, let's go do her year. Can we talk about DeMarcus year?

[Damaris]

No.

[Rory]

Can we talk about her?

[Mall]

She told us she wasn't drinking. Then it moved to, I'm only drinking on Fridays. Then it moved to some lint. Yeah, it's like, yo, what are we, nasty? Hungover? And it ain't even Friday. It ain't Saturday. If it was Saturday, then I'm like, you know what? Maybe they only drink on Friday here.

[Rory]

It's kind of a Friday. Sort of.

[Damaris]

I take breaks. So I'm taking a break again from. I'm doing dry January again, and I'm gonna start wetting it up in February, but it's not gonna be, like, extreme.

[Mall]

Damaris is one of those people that all of the workout people date.

[Rory]

Oh, yeah. The gym is packed the first two weeks. Get out my way.

[Mall]

Alcoholics hate the marriage. Don't give me dry January. All right, don't just not drink for January. Don't drink if you're gonna not drink for January. What's not. What's not drinking for January? What does that do?

[Damaris]

Well, it's to reset yourself so that.

[Mall]

You can drink the rest of the electricity.

[Damaris]

Well, I have to prepare myself for March. My birthday's in March. I have to prepare myself. Clear out your body.

[Rory]

Well, wet and wild. February is gonna get you ready.

[Mall]

No, that's like.

[Damaris]

No, that's. It's.

[Rory]

Damn.

[Mall]

You can't just. You gotta. You can't go cold turkey. You got to wean yourself off.

[Rory]

No, but she's going to do a whole binge of heroin in March. She's lining the stuff.

[Damaris]

Are y' all coming to. Y' all coming to Houston with me this year?

[Rory]

If you actually, like, give us. Are you saying that's definitely happening? Like, I'll book my flight and get my, you know, affairs in order. Okay, I would do that. Yeah.

[Mall]

Houston with Baby D for her birthday.

[Rory]

I would definitely do me. Allison, Alex, Alexa, are you doing your actual.

[Mall]

I'm going to birthday?

[Rory]

Like, where does it land?

[Damaris]

Oh, no, I won't P.E.

[Mall]

I'M going.

[Damaris]

I won't be at P.E. said he going, Baby D. Me, Allison, Alexa, Alex, N. You flaked on them.

[Rory]

You supposed to be with them the other day.

[Mall]

Who?

[Rory]

Her friends. Yeah.

[Mall]

Was I. I was supposed to be with you the other day, Baby D. When?

[Damaris]

No.

[Mall]

What you mean? Talking about.

[Rory]

Didn't you tell me that your song.

[Mall]

No, no, no.

[Rory]

See, no. See, sometimes this is what I don't like in this podcast. I be saying, that's true, and y' all be ignoring it. You definitely told me Ma was supposed to link at some point with y'.

[Mall]

All.

[Rory]

You and your friends. Today.

[Mall]

Today.

[Rory]

Okay, Got it.

[Mall]

See, there you go.

[Damaris]

Also, we out minding other people. Business.

[Mall]

Minding other people. Drink your sauce. Here.

[Rory]

It's Rose.

[Mall]

Oh, I'm sorry, Rose. Oh, he's a. He's. He's a Republican. He's a Republican. It's Rose.

[Rory]

Listen, man, Nikki showed me the way.

[Mall]

Don't do it.

[Rory]

See, my bad, my bad.

[Mall]

You want to go?

[Rory]

No, send it here, man. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not at all.

[Mall]

Let's stick to the top 10 in top 10.

[Rory]

Nikki. Nicky. Nicky.

[Mall]

All right, Y' all start telling my Nicky, I'm gonna go crazy. I'm gonna go crazy. It.

[Rory]

We are going to end this a calm way, not like we did last year.

[Mall]

Okay?

[Rory]

This is why there's Ros here. No, no shots of tequila in the morning. We're ending this in a calm music, musically nerd type of way.

[Mall]

Yeah, but wine, wine, Too much of wine. Get you to tequila levels too, though.

[Damaris]

That is true. It's worse.

[Mall]

So. So pace yourself.

[Rory]

I mean, where we going tonight?

[Mall]

I'm going home.

[Damaris]

I'm promise you. I'm going home.

[Mall]

Yeah, I'm going home.

[Rory]

Oh, all right, well, then I'll go out with them.

[Mall]

All right. Have a fun for y'. All. All right, cool, cool.

[Damaris]

What about y' all year out of here? Y' all trying to press me about me, Trying to be mysterious and all that extra. What about y', all, what y' all said?

[Rory]

I don't want to talk about anything that happened to me this year. I just want to get to 2026.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

I don't even want to be here right now talking about this, but we have to be here. This scared, terrified still probably. I just. Let's. Let's just leave 2025 where it is.

[Damaris]

Yeah, I'm stepping over them steps for sure.

[Rory]

Yeah. No, yeah.

[Mall]

Wow. 2025 was great, man.

[Rory]

I had some great, great year.

[Mall]

Great year for rap.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

You know what I'm saying? Even though statistically they say it's the worst year, but, you know.

[Rory]

Yeah, I mean, once you go through music, some really good music. I don't care what the stream said.

[Mall]

I don't care what the streams say. Streams, the streams. Listen, man, they took the streets and the streams, the street streams, street streams are made of. Everybody's looking for something. Y streams are made of these with.

[Rory]

Us Bodies, looking for bodies.

[Mall]

There you go. There you go. Street Streams, y'.

[Damaris]

All.

[Rory]

That's the name of the episode.

[Mall]

Yeah. Street Streams.

[Rory]

Street Streams.

[Mall]

Street Streams.

[Rory]

All right, so I guess it makes sense to start with your top rap albums of the year.

[Mall]

I'm so excited. Nobody has more taste than I do.

[Rory]

Have you seen my Spotify wrap up? My age is 55. Y' all were so happy to be fucking old.

[Mall]

Oh, man.

[Rory]

Yes, again. I was the teacher's pet and I did 20 just because this year in rap I thought was so fucking amazing. I have no complaints at the end of this year where hip hop is.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

I thank you guys. Thank you to all the artists that put music out because mine is lengthy. I believe. You did 10, right?

[Mall]

I did 10.

[Rory]

Okay. Do you want to start with your top 10? And which. Which camera? Give me the closest camera. Everybody. I know you don't listen to anything that comes out of our mouths, which is fine, but I'm saying this is our personal favorites. Look at me again.

[Mall]

Specify personal.

[Rory]

Look at me again. Let me go to the wide. Our personal. Back to this one. Favorites. Thank you, Peach. These are our personal favorites. If you want to argue about my personal favorites, have a blast. Arc at the moon. This is not the top 10, top 20 of the year. This is what we personally felt. Personally.

[Mall]

Yes.

[Rory]

I'll never argue with you guys about your personal taste. We could argue about some other shit, right? This is what I personally liked this year.

[Damaris]

Are they in. Are they in order from.

[Rory]

Oh, I have one to 20 in order.

[Damaris]

Okay.

[Rory]

And I just want to be clear that this list does not include any of the Jay electronica projects. Only because I was too close to those. And even though this is our biased favorite albums, I was too close to those. I don't have the same view as a listener the way I do with these albums. So this does not include J Elect. Let's start with Maul. Top 10 Rap Albums of 2025.

[Mall]

Top 10 Rap Albums Of 2025. Drake. Take Care. No, I'm just joking. This is in no particular order. This is just the albums that I like this year. Conway, you Can't Kill God With Bullets, Mob Deep, infinite Freddie Gibbs, Alfredo, 2 jid. God does like. That was the name of it. God does like ugly, right? God does like ugly. Chance to Rap, a Starline Wale. Everything is a lot clips. Let God sort them out. Ghostface, Supreme Clientele, 2 Jay Elect, a written testimony, leaflets. Dave, the Boy who Played Harp. Kodak Black, Just getting started. And Nick Grant. I took it personal. I like the top 10. That was 12.

[Rory]

They look at you overachieving like me. No. Get to the front of the class with me.

[Mall]

I wasn't counting. I was just, you know, just my. Off the top.

[Rory]

Just my favorite stars from the teachers. Yeah, right there with me.

[Mall]

We got some really good rap this year, man.

[Rory]

Could you rank the top three? Yeah.

[Mall]

At least give us an order on my top three.

[Rory]

Cause I'd like to know what your favorite rap album of the year was.

[Mall]

Top three in order. Like number one?

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Oh, shit.

[Rory]

No, not just name three.

[Mall]

Damn, that's tough, man. Cause it changes. It's like week to week. It's like last week, Wild was my favorite Album this week. Conway is my favorite. Like, it's.

[Rory]

I will say with the rankings that I did, like, I have Conway, he could be higher by the end of the year. It just came out.

[Mall]

It just came out. So I haven't lower than it, probably. That's what I've been on since it dropped.

[Rory]

I tried to look at the whole year.

[Mall]

Yeah. So I did my best. But this week, I'll say, Wale, Everything is a lot. Conway, you can't kill God with bullets. And who was I listening to this week? Supreme clientele, too. Cause we just sat with Ghost.

[Rory]

Okay, so that's your top three of the week. Not of 20. 25.

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I can't, man.

[Mall]

It's tough, bro. I can't because I was listening to JID album when it came out, which is spinning that heavy. But I haven't gone back to it in a few months.

[Rory]

That's what I tried to do with my list of what I was constantly listening to. Like, that didn't just fall to the wayside.

[Mall]

Yeah, but the yla. The yla. The clips, too. Clips I've listened to. Like, you know, I'll make sure I go back to that at least once a month. Twice a month.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

But Wale is. He's been consistently, like. I've been consistently styled. There's a lot of good, good music on Wally's album, man. Like, I don't See Enough. I don't see enough. I would like to see more people championing that Everything Is A Lot album. I don't know why more people aren't talking about it, but that album is really incredible.

[Rory]

I mean, it's just the times, man. All right, well, I. I did rank mine, and sorry that it's. It's 1 through 20, but, you know, again, there was too much music. I would feel weird just doing a top 10 and not mentioning all the other albums that I thought were incredible.

[Mall]

Yeah, somebody gonna get left out right at that point.

[Rory]

Yeah. I mean, shit, even when I got to 20, there was a few I had to like, kind of put to the side.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

I even made a category of favorite.

[Mall]

EP on my R B. I got some eps on my top R B albums.

[Rory]

Oh, I left some off because they were EPs, but we'll get there. All right, so my number one rap album of the year was clips. Let God sort them out. Number 2, Chance the Rapper, Starline. Number 3, Wale, Everything is a Lot. Number 4, Larry June. 2, Chains Alchemist, Life is Beautiful. 5, Mob Deep Infinite. Number 6, Freddie Gibbs, Alfredo. 2. Number 7. Mac Miller, Lunarism. Number 8, Lil Sims, Lotus. 9. J.I.D. god Does Like Ugly. Number 10, Mike Showbiz. Number 11, De La Soul, Cabin in the Sky. Number 12, Nick Grant. I Took It Personal. Number 13, Lloyd Banks, Aon 3. Despite My Mistakes. Number 14. Dave the Boy who Played the Harp. 15. Conway, You Can't Kill God with Bullets. Number 16. Ghostface Killer, Supreme Clientele. 2. 17. Saba and no ID from the private collection of Saba and No ID. 18. Reason I Love You Again. 19. NAS of DJ Premier Light Years. And 20. Billy Woods. Gollywog. I can never pronounce it correctly. I think it's gollywog.

[Mall]

Okay.

[Rory]

And then my favorite EP of this year was Ransom at DJ Premiere, the Reinvention.

[Mall]

Good project.

[Rory]

So I'm actually. I'll probably wake up in the morning and want to switch some of these around, but I. I was. I felt okay with my. My 20. I think it's in the correct of how I feel of what I listen to constantly throughout this entire year.

[Mall]

Yeah, I would. I would have probably did put more, but we said 10, so I was trying to.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Keep it.

[Rory]

I was sitting there when I was just going through all the albums. I was going through my.

[Mall]

There's a lot.

[Rory]

My Apple music. I was like, oh, there's a lot even like how I. I can't leave banks off this shit.

[Mall]

There's a lot of good albums this year, man. I will say that. A lot of good music.

[Rory]

Yeah. Damaris, I know you mentioned you didn't want to do rap albums. You're boycotting hip hop.

[Damaris]

I'm not boycotting.

[Rory]

You hate hip hop.

[Damaris]

No, I just. I had to be honest with myself when I sat down to do it in this year in rap, I didn't take in as much rap as I probably should have. With the job that I have, I didn't take in as much rap. I was very R and B focused this year. So I don't want to rate albums or rank albums when I haven't listened to enough to even be able to compare them to the other one. So I just don't think that that is fair. But Let God Sort them Out is obviously my favorite rap album of the year with Cardi B being that that was really the only rap I really listened to. I didn't really listen to a lot of rap this year.

[Rory]

I mean, shit, even like with the Big L album I want to put on here and the Cardi one I did want to put on here, but I felt it would have Been disingenuous. Like, if I were to make a top 10 rap album list, that wasn't my personal favorite. Yeah, Cardi would have made that list for sure. I just went off my personal stuff, but Cardi would make top 25 for my personal. I did like it. I just wasn't in the environments where you hear Cardi like that this year. But I do think it is a very solid, solid album. But yeah, I mean, I think it was probably one of the best years for rap. Maybe not on a global level, but in my world, this year was incredible. Like, I don't want to hear anyone say hip hop is in a bad place because at that point, you're just not listening. Yeah, whatsoever. This shit was. Was crazy. So then, do you want to pop off R and B, since you did?

[Damaris]

I will. I did do R and B and I did rank them. I'm pulling it up right now. I really enjoyed R and B this year. Like, I really was. Was in my R and B bag, you know, we won't talk about maybe why or why not, but whatever. So number one for me is Heart Soul Separately by Marita Scientists. That album is incredible. There's not a skip on it. Top to bottom, the writing, the melodies. It was the perfect fucking album. My number two would be some sexy songs for you. Again, amazing fucking album. Three would be why not More by Coco Jones. Four will be SZA SOS Deluxe. Five will be Finally over it by Summer Walker, six, Beloved by Givon, seven, Mutt Deluxe. Eight, Love on Digital by Destin Conrad. Nine, Bloom by Duran Bernard. And ten. Come as you are, Terris Martin and Kenya Dixon.

[Mall]

Three. Okay, okay. I like that last one. That's one of mines.

[Rory]

These are my R and B top 20 ranked. This list does not include any Avant Garden projects. I want to make that clear because I'm. This is me. As a fan, I can't name Avant Garden projects because I'm too close. I don't have a fan perspective of them. So I left them off. Number one, Dijon, Baby. I think that was by far the best R B project this year. Number two, Mareeba, the Breeze Grew a Fire. Number three, Duran Bernard Bloom, which I didn't even know you listened to that Damaris. I would have texted you right away. We could have talked about that album. That's my number three favorite album of the whole fucking year. Yeah, it's a good Duran Bernard. Yeah. Duran Jones and the Indications Flowers. Super underrated project. I probably listened to that album more than any other album. This Entire year number five was a big pre production conversation, man. I got Justin Bieber's swag at five. Y' all trying to say that's a. That's a pop album. It charted on the R B charts. Okay, I have Justin Bieber swag at number five. Okay, Number six, Drake and Party Next Door. Some sexy songs for you. 7. SZA SOS Deluxe Lana. Number 8, Odile the Summer that Saved Me. Shout out to LVRN number nine, Kamari to to dry a tear. Number 10, give on beloved. Number 11, terrace Martin and Kenyon Dixon, Come as yous are. Number 12, Isaiah Haran concubina. I can't pronounce the. But that. That whole project is fire. I can't pronounce the name, the project. I just see the. The artwork and click it right away. 13. Leon Thomas, Mutt Deluxe. 14. Jesse Reyes, Paid in Memories. 15. Let Us See the Crown. Super underrated project. 16. Kirby Miss Black America. 17. I also this name up. I think it's spelled K W N. I think it's. I think it's the.

[Damaris]

What Quan is it?

[Rory]

I know K. K1.

[Damaris]

I think K1.

[Rory]

It's K1. I always it up same way we up. 6. Flack. 17. K1. With all due respect, that project is fire. 18. Coco Jones, why not more? 19. Neo Jupiter and 20. Summer Walker finally over it. My favorite EP of the year was Alex Osley Win.

[Mall]

Okay, love Alex Osley.

[Rory]

These lists make me look at. I actually thought it was kind of a dull year for R B until I put this list together. There was a lot. There was a lot of great R B, a lot of great R B. And I counted deluxes because Lana and the Mutt Heel. Shit, those are new albums.

[Damaris]

Yeah, completely different albums.

[Rory]

Mall, where you at with R B?

[Mall]

All right, R B 2025 again, no particular order. Drake Partner's do some sexy songs for you. Sasha Key will act Right. Bryson Tiller, Solace on the Vices. Naomi Sharon, the Only Love We Know. That's an ep, but I'm gonna say it was one of my favorite R and B albums of the year. Sailor from Florida's Finest.

[Rory]

That was gonna be top one.

[Mall]

El Meen, Elmine, Heat the Streets, Destin Conrad, Love on Digital. That project was crazy. Summer Walker finally over it. Terrace Martin, Kenya Dixon, Come as yous Are and Coco Jones. Why not More. All right.

[Damaris]

Yo, Mariah, not making N list out. It got me ready to shake. I don't know.

[Rory]

I would have fired, but you just.

[Mall]

I'm new to Mariah you just put me on. So I just been, you know, and.

[Rory]

I know I like the project a lot and that first week it came out, I did listen to it. I just. I don't know, I never got back in the mode. It speaks more to me, not to her. Like, I just never went back to it. Not because it wasn't good. I just. For some reason.

[Mall]

It's you. It's not Mariah. It's you.

[Rory]

That's what thugs did.

[Damaris]

Yeah, she got left off a lot of year end lists too. And I. I don't. I don't, I don't. I just. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe we all value different things in music because I value, like I've told you guys, I value lyrics more than anything. And her lyrics is number one for me.

[Mall]

Great year for music though, all around though.

[Rory]

What. What would be your. Your top three? Because you said no order. We're gonna do the same thing with R and B album.

[Mall]

Well, number one, some sexy songs for you, I think is the best R and B album this year. Number two, that Naomi Sharon, the Only Love We Know ep. Love that. And then probably that Destin Conrad love on digital.

[Rory]

I have to live with that one. Yeah, I'm definitely going to go back to that for sure. Mario put out a good EP this year. Melanie. What's. What's her last name, Melanie?

[Mall]

Fiona.

[Rory]

Fiona. She put out a great EP too. There was cool eps for this year. All right, let's get to a rap song of the year Mall. We already know Nokia. Number one greatest song that's ever existed. It goes Thriller 1A, Nokia 1B.

[Mall]

Favorite rap song.

[Damaris]

Rap song.

[Mall]

Oh, that's such a tough one. Favorite.

[Rory]

But it's not an R B song.

[Damaris]

It's pop, honestly.

[Rory]

Yeah, it's a pop. Yo, we didn't bring up that Chappelle joke of saying that he quietly has been helping all the homeless people. And he said, not the way y' all think y' all about to get it. I just really teaching them how to do it.

[Mall]

How to do the Thriller dance. That was hilarious.

[Damaris]

I didn't see that.

[Mall]

He was like, y' all in for a treat. He said, y', all.

[Rory]

I wasn't really helping them. I just taught them the thriller.

[Mall]

Spending $2 million to teach a bunch of homeless people the Thriller dance.

[Damaris]

What randomly even made you think about that?

[Rory]

Of just saying Nokia is most Thriller.

[Mall]

Yeah. So this is song of the year?

[Rory]

No. Your favorite rap song of the year.

[Mall]

Oh, my favorite rap song of the year. Yeah.

[Rory]

Cause, I mean, yeah, Nokia, to me, I'm with Damaris. That's a pop song. It's not R B or rap, but I do think it leans more rap than it does R B. Yeah.

[Mall]

Damn, that's tough. What was my favorite rap song of the year?

[Rory]

You would sing that shit every day when you came in here.

[Mall]

Fico, that was my favorite song of the year. You said I was singing what every day? Cause you might be right.

[Rory]

I'm. No, I'm thinking R B. I'm sorry.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Oh, R B. Yeah.

[Rory]

I know what your. Your R B one's gonna be.

[Mall]

I don't know my rb. What's my favorite rap. I can't think of my favorite rap song of the year.

[Damaris]

Like, I don't.

[Mall]

I can't think of a rap song that I kept rapping like. I kept saying.

[Damaris]

Mine would have to be Mike Tyson, blow to the face.

[Mall]

Mike Tyson, blow to the face.

[Damaris]

Bad.

[Mall]

That's clips, right?

[Damaris]

Mm.

[Mall]

Okay.

[Damaris]

That's my favorite. It's also my verse of the year, too, which makes sense. But my favorite verse of the year.

[Mall]

So you know what was one of my favorite rap songs of the year? The one on Jay's album and it got taken off.

[Rory]

Oh, who Killed Michael Jackson?

[Mall]

That was my. With Quinn. That was my.

[Rory]

That was one of the best rap songs.

[Mall]

That was my. Right there.

[Rory]

Shout out to Jay for putting on his Instagram the we transfer file once it got taken down.

[Mall]

That was my. That was my.

[Rory]

Some of y' all have it.

[Mall]

Yeah. That was my.

[Rory]

I might real. I might throw that on my. My ig.

[Mall]

Yo, I need to give y' all the.

[Rory]

Course I send it to.

[Mall]

Yeah, I need that. That was. That might be one of my favorite.

[Rory]

Our Patreon. And on our Discord. I'll put that. That record in our Discord.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Because that.

[Mall]

Yeah, that. That was my. That was my. That was one song I was rapping like. That was my.

[Rory]

I was there for that session, and when they had brought that beat up and started rap was like, oh, this might be one of the best JLX songs I've ever heard.

[Mall]

Yeah. That was my.

[Rory]

They was in a different mode.

[Mall]

And the other one that got taken off Japan Airlines, that was my, too.

[Rory]

There's another version of that on the Godfather of Harlem soundtrack.

[Mall]

Okay.

[Rory]

Okay. Which is called Leaflets, ironically.

[Mall]

Okay.

[Rory]

Godfather. But it's.

[Damaris]

It's.

[Rory]

That was the original demo.

[Mall]

Okay.

[Rory]

That we put on leaflets.

[Mall]

Okay.

[Rory]

Instead of the Godfather Harlem. But yeah.

[Mall]

Yeah. Who Killed Michael Jackson? Might be my. My. My favorite Rap song Japan, We. That.

[Rory]

We did that in. In Mexico. That. That was earlier. That was around the time you was down in Mexico. Okay. That joint. Yeah. Well, as I said before, like, I didn't include any JLX stuff in my list because it's. Even though it's our favorite and it's biased no matter what, I don't have.

[Mall]

The same lens inside of trading. Yeah, I get it.

[Rory]

It's not even inside of trading. It's just. I'm too close to that. It was there for the creation of the entire thing. But Blood Libel, like, probably. Blood Libel was probably my favorite.

[Mall]

Okay. Another good one.

[Rory]

Song of the year. But if I'm taking Jay Elect out of everything and I'm just telling on myself or just where I'm at in my life, that Chance the rapper Vic Mensa. Back to the Go. I don't know if you've been back to those lyrics. No, that's my favorite rap song of the entire year.

[Mall]

Back to the Go.

[Rory]

Back to the Go.

[Mall]

Okay, I gotta go listen to that again.

[Rory]

Yeah. I mean, essentially, it's after Chance's divorce, he goes back to his mom's crib to just regroup. And that hook is the melody on that is incredible. It's some of the best rapping Chances ever done. That Back to the Go record. As somebody in their mid-30s, it. That might be one of my favorite records of the last 10 years. Like, chance went nuts on that. That's a big reason why I even have Starline so High and where it's at outside of all the other great records. But that's. I even texted Chance when he sent me, like, the early version, everything I said, yo, that Back to the Go record might be one of the best records I've heard in quite some time.

[Mall]

Chance album is dope, man.

[Rory]

That intro is nuts.

[Mall]

Chance album is dope.

[Rory]

I mean, we. We can. We'll get to verse of the year, but I want to bring. Bring up that again once we get there. R and B song of the year folded, obviously, again. If. If we were doing.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

If we were doing a list that wasn't just our personal stuff. Yeah, it goes without question. Yeah. Folded is the best R B song.

[Damaris]

It's still my. Even personally, like, it's just. I.

[Rory]

You know, personally, too. It's. Right.

[Damaris]

I was just singing it, like, five seconds. That's all I do is sing that song all day, every day. Like, it's.

[Rory]

It's one of them. It's one of those records that's gonna go over there with cranes in the sky like, it's just Miguel Door. It's one of those.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

It's just one of those records.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

It's gonna live forever.

[Damaris]

Yes.

[Rory]

I have Leon Thomas. Not fair.

[Damaris]

That was going to be my sneak pick. If I had to pick something different other than fold it, it would be not fair.

[Rory]

It's fucking.

[Damaris]

It's a perfect song.

[Rory]

It's so good.

[Damaris]

It's a perfect song.

[Rory]

It. It's one of those shit. Like, you cannot get that out of your head for months.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Like, you just walk around with the not fair hook in. In your head.

[Mall]

So you said folded. Not fair.

[Damaris]

Thang for you by Coco Jones is a sleeper. Just want to put that out there.

[Mall]

This R B song of the year thang for your. Mm.

[Rory]

Ain't mad at it.

[Mall]

Somebody loves Me.

[Damaris]

That's. We knew what your answer was gonna be. That's why I'm just saying.

[Rory]

That's why I said you walk in singing it every fucking day.

[Mall]

I mean, if we picking it, that folded to me, definitely. But if you gonna say fold it. You said Leon Thomas. Yeah.

[Rory]

Here's the thing. If we were doing an actual real list that wasn't our personal favorites, it would go folding then probably somebody looked like Somebody loves Me.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Is is right there for number two, I think of this year. As far as R B songs go, not fair is just my shit. I wouldn't put not fair above that. If we were making a list like the way B Dot does.

[Mall]

Yeah, yeah, I got you.

[Rory]

Because that.

[Mall]

Yeah, that was all three great songs though, that folded record.

[Rory]

If folded doesn't come out, that could be the best R B song of the year.

[Mall]

Like, folded might be the best R B album of the year.

[Damaris]

Dead ass. Dead ass.

[Mall]

The folded pack.

[Damaris]

The folded pack with all the remixes.

[Mall]

Folded pack. Like, yo, fold it again. Fold it tw.

[Rory]

Chopped and screwed. Folded.

[Damaris]

And I. I do want to give a shout out to out the Window by Kehlani, which is also like such an amazing song, but it's just like Folded is so big that she, like, if she would have released out the Window without fold it being there. Like, out the window is out of here. But we still folding clothes.

[Mall]

Like, yeah, yeah, it's.

[Damaris]

It's rough. But out the Window is really good. The video was really good. She took it back. Classic R B. So I don't know. I appreciated R B this year.

[Rory]

Yo, are you capable of doing verse of the year? You can do R B though. Verse of the year. I went rap, but I Don't think R and B should be excluded from verse of the year.

[Damaris]

I went. Yeah, I went rap, too.

[Rory]

Okay, what'd you go with?

[Damaris]

Pusha's verse. Mike Tyson blow to the face. That's my favorite verse.

[Rory]

I'm not mad at that whatsoever.

[Damaris]

That how you come in? No confessions. Come on now.

[Rory]

No, he went just.

[Damaris]

And then the beat drop.

[Rory]

All right, that's the pro. Like, that's the problem with that Cliffs album. Trying to pick one verse of the year. There's like three on there.

[Damaris]

It's crazy.

[Rory]

Malice with Fico is nuts.

[Mall]

That's my verse. Malice and Fico, then.

[Rory]

Even if you get into the weeds of it, the malice versus the malice POV verse, when the beat switches up is easy. I was debating between POV Malice and Nas's verse on Big L. You Ain't got a chance. To me, that was, like, kind of the craziest verse of the entire year. But then if it sounds nuts, if you go to Chance's Starline intro, first verse and second verse, those could both be up there. His intro, that. That when he just rapping throughout the whole shit. You could throw Chance there too.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

But I still think you ain't got a chance. Nah. It's like, if we were allowed to play that, I think I could convince y' all that that's the best verse of the year.

[Mall]

Nah, that malice. That malice verse on Fico is crazy. Like, he was talking crazy on that whole verse. Like that from start to start to end of his verse. Like, the way he painted that. He was talking crazy. That whole, like, that verse was so impressive to me that when I first heard it, I was like, yo. And to think that he took time off of rap. Like, he just was, like, chilling for years and was like, yo, I'm cool to be able to come back and do that. Very impressive.

[Rory]

But even then, shit, what was it? 20. When was the Last Push album? 2022. I think Malice had the best verse in 2022. I pray for you. The outro on Pusha solo project.

[Mall]

Yeah, I think we talked about that when I came back.

[Rory]

Had the best verse that year. Like, that was nuts. Mall, I know. All you want for Christmas and for New Year's for that matter is the all new iPhone 17.

[Mall]

It's happening.

[Rory]

You've been talking about it for the entire year. It's happening now.

[Mall]

It's happening now. Christmas time.

[Rory]

Is that because it's designed to be the most powerful iPhone ever?

[Mall]

No, that's because I don't have to worry about traffic. They'll come to my house.

[Rory]

Holiday traffic at that.

[Mall]

There you go.

[Rory]

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[Mall]

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[Rory]

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[Mall]

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[Rory]

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[Rory]

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[Mall]

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[Rory]

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[Mall]

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[Rory]

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[Mall]

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[Rory]

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[Rory]

But yeah, there was a lot of great verses. I'm still landing on Nas in the Big L joint, but that does get us the Lyricist of the year. And again, I think it's between Nas and Malice.

[Mall]

Nas for sure.

[Rory]

I mean, it's Nas, but Malice. I don't know man. Malice went no, he had a great year.

[Mall]

That album was really good. He was really rapping his ass off. But to me, the lyricist of the year would have to be Nas.

[Rory]

Yeah, I don't think you can.

[Mall]

Yeah, I don't think it's Much argument. It's not much argument there. I mean, Mariah science is what she did this year. Baby D. Her lyrics.

[Damaris]

You know who. That's who I'm going with.

[Mall]

Her lyrics was crazy this year. We not slighting. We not slight Mariah at all. We support Mariah the scientist.

[Damaris]

All right, all right.

[Rory]

I have a hot take here, even though I have Nas. All right, let's split it. Rap lyricist of the year. I think it's Nas. R B.

[Damaris]

You gonna go Leon.

[Rory]

It's between Leon and sza. SZA was rapping all over that deluxe. Like, if you get into the lyrics of Delana SOS Deluxe, she was talking to that. She might. She might compete with Nas as far as output and lyrics.

[Mall]

Nah, we gonna do R and B if we doing R and B lyrics. Nuts if we do R and B lyrics. It's Drake and Party, bro. Them niggas was talking crazy that whole ep.

[Rory]

I'm not mad at that. If we going lyrics.

[Mall]

R and B lyrics.

[Rory]

Not mad at that at all.

[Damaris]

The city is pretty when his dad is like a flower.

[Rory]

No party and Drake went to.

[Mall]

Now that Drake verse on when he's gone.

[Damaris]

Oh, please, please.

[Mall]

Like, that's the R and B lyrics of the year, bro. What?

[Rory]

You're not wrong.

[Mall]

Oh, you crazy.

[Damaris]

They have. Okay, so. Yes, but they have a leg up because they're also rappers. So I feel like.

[Mall]

Yeah, but don't do that. Don't make niggas prisoners of their own talent. Don't do that.

[Rory]

I don't think that's fair. That's not fair.

[Mall]

That's not fair. That's not. It was R B album.

[Rory]

That's not fair. Yeah, it was the greatest lyrics.

[Mall]

Party is not a rapper. Party is an R and B artist.

[Rory]

Could if he wanted to be.

[Mall]

If he wanted to be. Drake just happens to be. You know, he does a little bit of everything. He give you dance, pop, rap, R and B. What they did that album top the. The. The. The. The Chanel record. Come on, fam. Like what we talk. If we talking about R and B lyrics. Not singing. Not singing R B lyrics.

[Rory]

All right, but even, like, when you get into the. I don't know how much you went back to the Lana Deluxe, but if you even get from 30 to 30. BMF. Scorsese's baby daddy shit another life.

[Mall]

No.

[Damaris]

Yeah, she was talking on that Crybaby said no cry.

[Rory]

You know Crybaby, my favorite joint. She went her pen. This is a hot take. Her pen might be better on her pen. I'M not saying the music. Her pen is probably better on Lana than it was on S.O.S.

[Damaris]

Okay, I think you need to go back and re. Listen to S.O.S.

[Rory]

I think S.O.S. is a classic.

[Mall]

I feel like Crybaby.

[Rory]

What song was that she rapped.

[Damaris]

Cause all I. When she was like, I'm so sick. You're so sick of me too. Call me Ms. Cry Baby.

[Rory]

No, she went crazy.

[Mall]

I just wanted. I just wanted to hear Baby D get her shit off. That's all.

[Rory]

Yo, like, granted, it's Kill Bill obviously. Snooze. All that. I think snooze is one of the greatest. R and B.

[Damaris]

The intro. She comes in on the intro, rapping the champagne.

[Rory]

Poppy sample. No, she went. She might outboard. Well, nah, that's not fair. But she barred up on the SOS Intro.

[Damaris]

She went crazy.

[Rory]

I just feel like even drive. Drive is crazy lyrically. That line of that pen is nuts.

[Damaris]

Goes. Wow. Shout out to her.

[Rory]

Has she been doing, like, jam sessions? Have you have. Has that entered your algorithms? They look like they're in, like, some loft in downtown la and it's just some jam sessions. I scroll past it and just quickly watch the video. But I think she's been doing jam sessions in la that would be like, just freestyling. Like, you know, give me a mic and I'll just start trying. And she had a whole live band there. Sorry if this was already somebody's platform and scissors just happened to show up, but.

[Damaris]

Oh, I saw that. Yeah. Scissor performs live at Pop Up Jam session at LA with Lizzo.

[Rory]

That's fire to me. I think art. Cause I know obviously artists do that at studio sessions. I think that's cool if they do that more to the public. Like, even on live streams. Who cares? We just creating. I'll mumble through and just find a melody. I think nerdy fans like me would appreciate to watch that type of process. Let's do a jam session. And I may not even say real words, but I'm gonna find a melody and we just gonna rock out.

[Damaris]

Oh, it was a meditation night, too. Meditation. And that's fly.

[Rory]

To me, that's the coolest thing.

[Damaris]

Meditation, yoga and pop up jam Se.

[Rory]

Yeah, that's. See, that's cool. All right, look, Sizzle could turn into to the female Chappelle with that type of thing. You know, Chappelle bought that barn and just got Princess Band to just do jam sessions every night. And just. People fly into West Bubble, Ohio and just hang out. Like, that's the Coolest in the world to me. Yeah, that's.

[Damaris]

That's way cool. Nice and barefoot cool for you. That is very much your vibe.

[Rory]

Hell, yeah.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Mall]

What?

[Damaris]

Yeah. So what are you guys gonna do for producer of the Year?

[Rory]

Well, where do we land on lyrics? Lyricist of the year? Nas, Nas with rap. I'm saying with R B, we have Sza, we have Leon.

[Mall]

I'm going.

[Rory]

Is Drake your party a package deal?

[Mall]

I mean, that album. That's just the R B that I'm referring to.

[Rory]

I'm surprised you didn't bring up Giveon.

[Damaris]

Giveon's at my top list for.

[Rory]

I know, but he was talking on that album.

[Damaris]

I was about to bring up Backup Plan. Y' all already know Giveon was talking on that shit. In the way you yell. Something's missing, baby, I can't tell. That nigga said, and I've been treating you well. You must got a backup plan.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Nah, if he. He would have got. See, he would have got R and B lyrically, if he said something's different in the way you smell. Cause you know that would have.

[Rory]

You should have been at the jams.

[Mall]

And that would have really been like, okay. He pulling for real life shit. Like, he really went through that.

[Rory]

Anytime Loyon calls during the holidays, I just think. I just think I'm broke.

[Damaris]

I'm so scared, actually.

[Rory]

I mean, Summer, this wasn't my favorite lyrical album of her, so it wasn't.

[Damaris]

Complex enough for me.

[Rory]

Yeah, she could be in that.

[Mall]

That mix wasn't complex.

[Damaris]

The lyrics, No, I love the album, but it's. The lyrics weren't.

[Rory]

I felt like the whole approach wasn't even a tragedy.

[Mall]

I can't even open my phone without hand. Smell good, taste great. God, all of y' all don't smell good and taste great. God damn it. We got to stop this shit.

[Damaris]

Large fried chocolate shake.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Like, we gotta stop this shit. Like, all of y' all do not smell good. It tastes great. Like, come on.

[Damaris]

Well, I don't know. I can't relate.

[Rory]

My sleeper lyricist of the year, Jesse Reyes. R and B. If we talk about bars.

[Damaris]

Oh, she's really good.

[Rory]

She said. Just told my therapist. We called it quiz. Gotta be honest, that bitch is legit. She held her tongue for a bit, then she kept it real and said, jesse, that boy wasn't shit. It's just your pattern that's making you trip. Just cause he pulled back is making you grip. And if I'm honest, he wasn't the smartest or intellectually matched for the Kid. After that, she apologized and said, don't sweat it. It's cool, all right? It's not like it's news. I was just snoozing on shit. She went fucking nuts on this first song.

[Mall]

Yeah, but the way you read that was trash. I ain't telling that. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna go play that song.

[Rory]

We can't play shit.

[Mall]

See, that's why. But this goes back to why you need the music, yo. Cause see how Rory just read that? I don't wanna go listen to that, the way he read it.

[Rory]

Cause I can't.

[Mall]

I didn't think that was so profound and prolific. I don't think Jesse was giving us entendres right there. But now if I listen to her, I might be like, oh, that's the same shit you just read Rory. Like, okay, she killed that.

[Damaris]

Yo, Mal is an asshole, right or wrong?

[Rory]

No, Mal is right.

[Mall]

Like, what's the cadence? Like, I don't even know the cadence.

[Damaris]

Like, I don't even know the cadence.

[Rory]

Cause I didn't want to try to disrespect her cadence or how crazy she went on that odor.

[Mall]

Now Rory just think everybody is going, you know, like, delivers his heart. Whenever they say they sat down with a therapist, you know, that's Rory's shit right there. Whenever you say that, he like, oh, nah, they in. They bag. They in a therapist bag.

[Rory]

Got to be honest.

[Damaris]

That is legit. She held a tongue for a. I.

[Rory]

Didn'T deliver the same one.

[Damaris]

No, actually, yeah.

[Mall]

No, the way you delivered that. No, that wasn't. It wasn't.

[Rory]

I thought I could deliver it so well that it would get flat. They would think it was really Jesse. So I tried to just read the lyrics. Yeah, it sound.

[Mall]

It sounded. It sounded a lot better than the way you delivered it.

[Rory]

Jesse, I apologize. Jesse's whole joint to pitch how great begging for love is. But I think if you go through pale memories that she getting bars off on that, that shit could be a rap album.

[Mall]

Shout out to Jesse Reyes, man.

[Rory]

She's up there with lyricist of the year, R and B side for me. For sure. Producer of the year. If you just go off my rap album list, the top 10, it's mostly Alchemist.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

I have. I have Larry June 2, Chains Alchemist, Mobb Deep, Infinite Freddie Gibbs, Alfredo 2. That's all in my top 10 right there. Like, it's. That's all out and Shout out to Havoc as well with the Infinite stuff. But, I mean, it has to be out yeah.

[Mall]

For me, Alchemist is probably producer of the year.

[Rory]

But, I mean, I was very happy with what. What havoc did on that as well. R B wise. It was an interesting year. I don't know if there was, like, one standout. There was a lot of standout writers and MKG and like, those guys that wrote the Swag album and then obviously the baby album. There was, like, writers of the year to me. Dixon, obviously one of the writers of the year. Aunt Clemens. I. There was those R B producer of the year. I'm kind of stuck on that one. But that's not the same way rap is, where it's kind of just. Here's one.

[Mall]

Yeah. I don't know who my R B producer of the year would be. Yeah.

[Rory]

But I have Al there as far as producer of the year, Damaris for.

[Damaris]

Yeah, I can't. I agree with everything that you said. I can't just pick one. No, for real. I can't just pick one. I can't. I never was good at that anyway. When it comes to, like, producers and shit. Some people sound I'll recognize, but usually I'll have to go look it up. Like, who did this? I'm not good at recognizing good producer signature songs, but James Fauntleroy is on not fair. So you can't escape him for nothing. Like, even when you're not, like, trying for him to be your favorite. It's just natural.

[Mall]

Even when James don't produce a record, he might be producer of the year. Even if he don't put nothing out, his name is in the hat.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Still James follower. Like, he hasn't been active in seven years, sir. Still one of the best.

[Rory]

I mean, he's the goat. Yeah. You guys know that's like my man crush Monday.

[Mall]

Yeah, Yeah, I get it, Okay.

[Rory]

I went like this when I saw him.

[Mall]

You don't know what to do with your hands when you meet people that.

[Damaris]

Did you tell him you he changed your life?

[Rory]

No.

[Mall]

He didn't even tell his father he changed his life.

[Damaris]

He told Nas.

[Mall]

How you tell Nas he changed your life but not your dad? Like, your actual.

[Rory]

He gave me life. Well, sort of. He my mom, who then gave me life. And no, of course I found my father's. My father's a good dude, man. Yeah, I like my father. I love my dad, dude. My dad is my guy. He's gonna be at my house tomorrow morning. I can't wait to see my guy. I already got the weed set up already in his drawer in his room.

[Mall]

My God.

[Rory]

Which Used to be Damaris's room. Now it's my dad's room.

[Damaris]

Yeah, he took my over at school.

[Rory]

And it smelled like weed in there. Now I've been putting that in baggies, everything. How do you keep weed from smelling up?

[Mall]

Jars. Mason jars.

[Rory]

That's what I gotta do.

[Mall]

Yeah, Mason jars.

[Rory]

My dad would take the old when tolls used to be like coins, and he used to take that and put all the weed in there. That was his go to.

[Mall]

Oh, my God. Mason jars.

[Rory]

No, it was those little plastic things you used to have, like, tokens in.

[Mall]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Rory]

Yeah, he was in the Bronx. You guys didn't have tokens.

[Mall]

I know what you're talking about. Yeah. I know exactly what you're talking about, though. Yeah. Mason jars.

[Rory]

Okay, that's good to know.

[Damaris]

Interview of the year. I know what mine is, Young thug. So you go to jail for the rest of your life. Whoop dee doo.

[Mall]

Whoop dee doo.

[Rory]

Whoop dew. That was an incredible interview.

[Damaris]

The fucking interview was perfect. Perfect, bro. That interview is perfect.

[Mall]

Nah. Dame Dash on Breakfast Club, though.

[Rory]

That's what I have as mine.

[Mall]

Really?

[Damaris]

Oh, yeah.

[Mall]

He's like, I'm not gay.

[Rory]

You are.

[Mall]

Yo. A man telling you he's not gay, and you just like. You are like, shut up.

[Rory]

Like.

[Mall]

This is on radio. Ur is crazy. Like, yo, shut up. You don't even know you gay.

[Rory]

Like, the fact Charlamagne would ask a legit question about, like, how assets work. And he's like, you wouldn't understand because you're gay. Charlamagne sitting there like, wait, what? What does it have to do with what I just asked?

[Mall]

Yo, Yeah, N. Dame on the Breakfast Club is definitely interview of the year. Without a doubt. That's the interview of the year.

[Rory]

Charlotte may be like, all right, well, tell me more about the family office. You're a bald girl.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Damaris]

I never watched that full interview. He said that you're a bald girl.

[Mall]

You never watched that full interview. No.

[Rory]

You tripping.

[Mall]

You gotta go watch it.

[Rory]

Shout out to the Breakfast Club.

[Mall]

That's everybody.

[Rory]

That was the funniest inter.

[Mall]

That is the interview.

[Rory]

That's close to Ray James.

[Mall]

Dame got interviewed a year.

[Rory]

How the fuck they even topped the first or. I'm sorry. Yeah, the first Dame Dash interview. They've had three. How you top the first one? I don't know how you guys did that. Like, salute to the Breakfast Club. Yo, Charlamagne, you have the patience.

[Mall]

I'm not gay. You are. Yo. That was so cr. I could not believe that was A radio interview.

[Damaris]

What will be. You guys second?

[Rory]

That thug shit is right there.

[Mall]

Thug shit for sure. Yeah, Thug is up there.

[Damaris]

Other than that. So let's say top three.

[Mall]

I feel like Ray J got one.

[Rory]

No, Ray J just had wild live streams.

[Mall]

Well, live stream, that's considered interviews, right?

[Rory]

No, no, he just said. He just on stream saying wild shit. Nobody was interviewing him.

[Damaris]

Yeah, he was just talking.

[Rory]

Yeah, he was playing Uno. Just saying crazy.

[Mall]

And who had another.

[Damaris]

Who that was this year. He said Bobby Altoff and Drake.

[Mall]

That was a good one, though. That was a good interview. That was a good episode.

[Damaris]

So what was you guys favorite interview that you've done this year? You had some good ones this year, I think.

[Rory]

I think as far as RPOD goes, 2025 may have been my favorite interview year. I mean, obviously the Ghostface one that we just did was incredible. The Daylight one was so much fun. I wish this is the only pushback I'm giving our listeners. Sometimes I wish I would would watch interviews, even if it's people you don't typically listen to. Cause that day Lock conversation, I don't care if you're a rap nerd or not, was just like one of the coolest fucking interviews ever. Like, if you're just interested in learning shit, that Daylight interview was incredible.

[Mall]

That Daylight was one of them. The D Nice episode.

[Rory]

D Nice one was great.

[Damaris]

That was great.

[Mall]

Yeah. Great conversation.

[Rory]

It's funny, like, a lot of the interviews that probably got are lower views were some of my favorite, which sounds nuts. It'd be like, like personals.

[Mall]

Personal conversations. It's personal, you know. Yeah.

[Rory]

And I'm not expecting everyone to. If you just like to hear us banter, I love and appreciate that. And if you just want to be like, I don't like I with D Nice, but I don't really care to listen to an interview. I get that perspective. But if you. The stories D Nice had, like, it's incredible. It was nuts. 85 south was. Was. Was really good.

[Damaris]

85 south and Ms. Pat, I think.

[Rory]

Was that were those interviews though, like Daylight and Ghostface, I felt like was an interview we were chopping it up with. 85. Yeah.

[Mall]

85 show.

[Rory]

Oh, Miss Miss Pat.

[Mall]

Miss Godfrey.

[Rory]

Godfrey was.

[Damaris]

Oh, Godfrey might have been your best Godfrey. Ms. Pat.

[Mall]

That is crazy.

[Rory]

Maul made the best call ever. Godfrey was supposed to do that shit over Zoom and Ma was like, don't he live in the city? And we just waited an hour and a half and Godfrey just got in the car and drove here.

[Mall]

Zoom and he lives right up the block. Like, what the fuck are we doing here?

[Rory]

Like that. That was such a good call, that Godfrey interview. Speaking of Zoom, though, Donovan McNabb was this year, right? I wish. If that was in person, that interview would have went fucking nuts. That was such a good interview with Donovan McNabb. I really liked that one, the chance one. I mean that outside of, like, wild shit, just a straight up interview, I think that was one of the better interviews in the entire space this year.

[Mall]

Which one was that?

[Damaris]

Talk.

[Rory]

Which hands? The rapper.

[Mall]

Oh, yeah.

[Rory]

No, I'm not looking for salacious mode, Just a straight up great conversation and interview. I think that chance one could rival any real sit down interview.

[Mall]

That was a good comment. I'm not saying the conversation was dope too, though.

[Rory]

Which one?

[Mall]

Bryson?

[Damaris]

Yeah. He was very vulnerable.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Damaris]

Oh, I'm sick. I missed that. I'll never forgive myself.

[Rory]

Didn't you have something to do? Why didn't you? Why couldn't you go?

[Damaris]

Bryson, I was in the hospital.

[Rory]

Oh, yeah, My bad.

[Mall]

Yeah, that's when she went on vacation.

[Damaris]

I went on vacation.

[Mall]

She hit that back, remember?

[Rory]

No, she fell in the pool. That was my favorite 2025 moment. When Damaris fell in the back wall. No, we're talking about the pool. No, she fell in the pool.

[Mall]

All right, my bad. Yo, y' all on vacation, you be trying, you know, like.

[Sponsor Voice 2]

Yeah.

[Rory]

In the pool. Yeah. You fall now.

[Mall]

You want to sit on top of that.

[Damaris]

Yo, can is you cool? I can't.

[Rory]

No. We can take all this. We're taking all this. I was trying to switch the subject. Yeah, you're making Peach have way while he's at home. He can't.

[Mall]

Once the clock strikes midnight, all of the things are.

[Rory]

That never happened come midnight.

[Damaris]

Y' all hoess for the year.

[Mall]

Who, me? I'm bringing in.

[Rory]

I was not a hoe this year at all.

[Mall]

You wasn't?

[Rory]

No. Not even a tiny bit. This probably the least.

[Mall]

Yeah, I wasn't. Definitely. I wasn't. I wasn't a hoe.

[Damaris]

This for sure. Me, I wasn't either. I should have been.

[Rory]

Relationship doesn't. Doesn't make you a hoe.

[Mall]

But, I mean, look at Damaris here. She got kicked out of ice by show after she twerked on stage.

[Damaris]

That was last year.

[Mall]

That was last year. Was it this year?

[Damaris]

That was. That was a couple years ago, actually. Year and a half ago.

[Mall]

It wasn't no couple years ago.

[Damaris]

It was a year and a half ago.

[Mall]

Was last year, man.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Was it August?

[Damaris]

It Was like August of last year.

[Mall]

So that's not a half. It's a year, though.

[Damaris]

Okay. August is. Is exactly six months ago. It was exactly a year and a half ago.

[Mall]

August is six months ago.

[Damaris]

Yeah. 04. Sorry, my bad.

[Mall]

That's that. That's that. Syracuse Education Department. Happy Math and sometimes the Syracuse Department of Education.

[Rory]

No Child Left. Is there any other interviews that. That. That we missed this year that, that we thought were great? I mean, I don't consider the Ms. Pat an interview. That was just more a roasting intervention from my life.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

But no, we had a lot of. A lot of great conversations this year. A lot of. A lot of conversations I didn't really care for. Yeah, but we don't need. We don't need to, like, go down that path.

[Damaris]

DJ had a mall thing. Was this year.

[Rory]

That was this year.

[Damaris]

That was this year.

[Rory]

Oh, yeah, because it was a year anniversary. Holy.

[Damaris]

It was May. It was top of May. End of April, top of May. Yeah.

[Rory]

Josh, this is why you need to create a timeline of all of our interviews. I would have guessed that was last year, but I forgot it was. It was a year from the beef, which was 2024. Was that an interview, though? Or was that. It was a debate.

[Mall]

It was a funeral.

[Damaris]

Yo. It was a funeral. It's crazy.

[Rory]

You know what? Let me be objective. Since Damaris and I were the moderators obituary. Both of y' all said a bunch of nothing.

[Mall]

Yeah, how.

[Rory]

Both y' all said a whole. It was an amazing episode, but both y' all said a whole bunch of nothing. Everyone said, I know the real. Because I speak to Drake, I speak to Kendrick, and nobody said a fucking thing.

[Mall]

Yeah, but that's because I'm not clout chasing and looking to say something.

[Rory]

I don't think Head was cloud chasing.

[Mall]

I didn't say he was. Yeah. I'm just saying I would never say nothing. I had, in a personal conversation on Mike and Head said the same thing. Yeah. So, yeah, when I was going to say Drake told me, it was very.

[Rory]

But I kind of understand that, like mediators at political debates now when they. When they ask like, all right, Trump, how are you going to defeat isis? He's like, well, I can't tell you that.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Because I can't tell you the plan. Because if I tell you the plan, it was like, then why are we here, isis?

[Mall]

Yeah, I'm going to tell you the plan. And ISIS is listening. Like, well, we know they'll be.

[Rory]

ISIS is listening.

[Mall]

They'll be coming to invade the country March 8th. Like, the fuck am I supposed to tell you to give you the blueprint.

[Damaris]

As a fuck yo. As a, like, dedicated, arguing ass bitch. When, like, you would say something and it was something that Head could have said. I'm just sitting there like. And then. Same thing with him when he would say something, and it was something you could have said. It was hard as fuck being a moderator. I'm over here tapping Rory. Like, no, they forgetting this.

[Rory]

You know the shelving that we have over here where we keep, like, momentum. Like, shit that's monumental to our pod from sketches, like, certain props. I still have the script that I printed out of all the things I was writing on the back of the page to you that I wanted Maul to yell like, Tim works at Amazon and grew up with Kendrick. Yeah. Oh, my God, I remember.

[Damaris]

Yo. But we couldn't help.

[Rory]

That was biased. Tim is the head of Amazon Music.

[Damaris]

We had to be neutral. But it was. It was tough.

[Rory]

I was sitting there just writing shit to you of just things I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs. That was really funny. Shout out to DJ Head. We had a good time with that entire thing.

[Damaris]

So, okay, I understand your favorite interview. Who was your favorite guest? Because I think that that's different. You can have an amazing interview with somebody. But, like, my favorite guest was Lola. Lola and Joy. Those are my favorites.

[Rory]

Joy was great. Joy. Joy was really good.

[Mall]

Joy Taylor. Taylor, yes. Joy Taylor.

[Rory]

Joy was great. I learned a lot as someone that, like, sort of hung out with Joy a little bit before that. I learned more about Joy in that interview than when we would be out at dinner saying things we'd never say on Mike. Like, all right, Joy.

[Damaris]

Yo.

[Mall]

Yeah, Joyce. What? Joyce said she'd be tricking.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

I was like, peanut butter skin. I ain't know you be out here tricking now.

[Rory]

I was sitting there like Peanut Butter.

[Mall]

Brown all the way.

[Rory]

Like, me and Simba paid all the dinner bills in New Orleans.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

I guess this still lands on the interview side, but one of the biggest, like, personal accomplishments was having day 26 come up here at the height of all the Puff shit that was going on and any. Anywhere else they sat down. I'm not knocking any interview that asked them about Puffy or anything like that. Yeah, we created an amazing piece with day 26 that was not based off bullshit whatsoever.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

It was based off music, who they were as people. It was a great interview, great performance. All the comments were positive.

[Damaris]

Yeah, that's hard.

[Rory]

Like, to me, that shit is chappelle. Said it in his. His special. He said MLK and Tucker Carlson, not Tucker Carlson. I'm sorry. Charlie Kirk could never be the same. Because Charlie Kirk grew up in an era where the only way for you to get any type of retention is being negative. Not even knocking Charlie Kirk there. But it's the Internet era. You can't get a reaction out of anyone unless you're negative. You can't be positive and get a reaction. I felt like with day 26 and the height of the puff shit, we got positive reactions and views of doing something good.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

You know how hard that is.

[Damaris]

Clap it up for yourself. Proud of y'. All. Stand above the fray.

[Rory]

And I don't know. That was a personal accomplishment. Did it get a million views? No, but I read all those comments and we actually got some traction. And I was like, this is positive. Wait, people. It gave me hope for humanity that people still want. Still want something positive.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

So that. That was.

[Mall]

That was a good episode.

[Rory]

That was great, man. And they were all super cool. Yeah, they were great, guys. Yes. This was. There was a lot of people in the studio this year.

[Mall]

Good year, man.

[Rory]

Did we shoot that movie?

[Mall]

We had our first world champion, Jade Cargill.

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[Mall]

Women's WWE Champion. You know what I'm saying?

[Damaris]

Finding a unicorn hair.

[Rory]

I mean, and we got to go. Got to go right to SummerSlam.

[Damaris]

That was fun. We need some more stuff like that this year just for, like, our brand, period. We gotta go outside, guys.

[Mall]

Baby D, if you wanna really take this brand to the next, just let me body slam you here in the studio. We ain't gotta go to SummerSlam. Baby D, I promise you, if I body slam you on this table right here and this shit break out of here.

[Rory]

Out of everything we just named, that'd be my favorite moment of 2025. If you just body slam her over there right now.

[Damaris]

Can I fight back or do I just lay there helplessly?

[Rory]

That's not a real. It's a wrestling body slam. You have to, like, get into the motion to get body slam.

[Mall]

It's like poetry. Like, I know what you about to do. You know what I'm about to do.

[Rory]

Yin and Yang, Jada in styles, same thing.

[Mall]

It's the rhythm.

[Rory]

Where's the bean bag? You get body slamming the beanbag.

[Damaris]

Okay.

[Mall]

Nah, we gotta do it through a table. We gotta get one of them cheap picnic tables, baby.

[Rory]

Dude, we have no. We have one here.

[Mall]

Nah, that's a little. That got some. That got some. Some legs to it. We need the Cheap. Cheap ones.

[Damaris]

Okay.

[Mall]

Cause I don't want to slam Baby D too hard. Like, I just want to just kind of just drop on top of the table and that shit break. Cause once the table break, it's like, yo, Maul tripping.

[Damaris]

He's. We gonna beat the allegations this year, Ma. Because we did not beat them last year.

[Mall]

But allegations.

[Damaris]

The allegations. The me and you allegations. We had multiple moments, viral moments.

[Mall]

They gonna keep pumping that no matter what. Baby D, that ain't.

[Rory]

We can't.

[Damaris]

I'm just saying, if you slam me, it doesn't, like, really help. Like, we're not helping ourselves.

[Mall]

Yeah, they gonna call that lovers quarrel. They gon. Yo, them niggas is. You know, they don't just go somewhere and get married. Like, that's all they gonna say.

[Rory]

Love is complicated.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

This is just. They be like.

[Damaris]

You know how when you wanna. When you be like, I'm gonna fight you when I see you like that. That type flirting shit. That's what they gonna say we ain't.

[Mall]

Never see, but that we never did no shit like that. We never said no shit like that to each other. We have never done that. So for people to have this thing of me and Baby D is just stupid. Like, what are you. What are y' all ba.

[Rory]

You asked her some very HR Questionable questions.

[Mall]

I asked her questions I would ask my sister. Yo, you ovulating.

[Rory]

You tripping?

[Mall]

You all right? I asked my sister shit like that. I'm just saying, like, that's how I speak to Baby D. Like a sister.

[Damaris]

Peej's edit. Peej did that one edit where we were sitting on the couch together and we were giggling and laughing. I, like, laid my head on your shoulder. Then Peej did the other edit where I got up, spun around.

[Mall]

Juneteenth.

[Damaris]

And. Yeah, the Juneteenth one. Then the one where you licked your legs. The Juneteenth shit was crazy when I was spinning around that one. We have a couple moments when I asked you to impregnate me and fertilize my eggs. Jemaris. All of that happened this year.

[Rory]

Oh, Jemaris was a good time. Yeah, you guys would have had some cute kids. I think that was the artwork, right?

[Damaris]

Yeah, that was the artwork.

[Mall]

Jackson.

[Rory]

Nobody tells you how many random little charges hit you every week. One minute you're grabbing coffee, next thing you know, it's a delivery fee, a parking ticket, and somehow you bought a plant that you don't even like.

[Mall]

Exactly. Life doesn't come with a budget app built in. But the Klarna card kind of feels like it should have.

[Rory]

It's basically your debit card upgraded. You use your own money. No credit, no weird fees, and you get to choose how you pay all upfront or you plan it out in the Klarna app.

[Mall]

Yeah, so you're still being responsible, just smarter. It works anywhere Visa is accepted and there's zero credit impact when you apply.

[Rory]

Smarter spending, less stress. That's grown man budgeting right there.

[Mall]

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[Rory]

Nobody tells you how many random little charges hit you every week. One minute you're grabbing coffee, next thing you know it's a delivery fe a parking ticket. And somehow you bought a plant that you don't even like.

[Mall]

Exactly. Life doesn't come with a budget app built in, but the Klarna card kind of feels like it should have.

[Rory]

It's basically your debit card upgraded. You use your own money. No credit, no weird fees. And you get to choose how you pay all up front or you plan it out in the Klarna app.

[Mall]

Yeah, so you're still being responsible, just smarter. It works anywhere Visa is accepted, and there's zero credit impact when you apply.

[Rory]

Smarter spending less stress. That's grown man budgeting right there.

[Mall]

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[Rory]

Josh. All right, so what was our highest viewed episodes this year? I want to see if it aligns with, like, some of my favorite stuff. I assume the DJ Head one was probably the highest rated one just. Just because of what was going on at the time. 85 south at number two, which. That makes sense. Those guys are great, and that conversation was great. Carlos went a little crazy. That's the type of time mall is on.

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[Rory]

I'm actually shocked that has that many views. I thought he was gonna get canceled.

[Mall]

I mean, Carlos from that same cloth man.

[Rory]

He said, you can't speak to me and suck dick.

[Mall]

Oh, my Lord, the audacity of you after putting that in your mouth to think you can speak to me in such a way.

[Rory]

All right, Josh, what's number three? Bryson Tiller interview. Love that. I would assume poor minds is close, though, right? I love that poor minds conversation. And me and Lex got to solve our differences. Yeah, poor moms is great when pretty.

[Damaris]

Women in the office just drinking and smelling good.

[Rory]

Both y' all just be showing out when they hear we do.

[Damaris]

I do not.

[Rory]

I came to argue with Lex. Y' all came to flirt.

[Mall]

I was showing out. I was flirting with.

[Damaris]

Well, you're just charming. You weren't flirting. You're just charming when women are around. That's the way you're supposed to be. You're straight.

[Mall]

Yeah, but flirting? I wasn't flirting with nobody.

[Rory]

No, I didn't say you were charming.

[Mall]

No, you said I was flirting. Don't say charming now. Damaris said charming.

[Rory]

I said y' all came. You just in the package deal with Damaris. Y' all a couple.

[Mall]

Damaris wasn't flirting.

[Rory]

She represents you.

[Mall]

She wasn't flirting.

[Rory]

She wasn't flirting.

[Damaris]

I was chilling.

[Mall]

No, Damaris don't flirt. She gonna lick that carpet immediately. She'll get.

[Damaris]

Yo, what the is this?

[Mall]

That's how Baby D. You wouldn't flirt with Dre.

[Damaris]

I would. Oh, I'm not above it.

[Mall]

I'm not above it. I'm not above it. I'm no better than a man. What you talk about?

[Damaris]

Nah, but I. I like when we have the women in here. Mall's jollier. Women smell.

[Mall]

First of all, baby D. Baby D. Don't say I'm jollier.

[Damaris]

You be jollier when the women hair.

[Mall]

Because then to say I was jollier means I'm jolly at some point. Don't say I'm jolly. I've never came here jolly.

[Rory]

That might be my 2026 company goal. Well, I can't go to TaskRabbit. I'm gonna go to OnlyFans and find a woman that will be here hourly just to sit where Josh is sitting for every episode. A pretty woman. Mall's type. Just so he could show out crazy every episode.

[Damaris]

Well, you gotta. You gotta switch her up, though. Cause you know, ma get tired of his bitches.

[Rory]

It'd be a month to month type of thing.

[Mall]

Don't do that.

[Rory]

What?

[Damaris]

All right, my bad. We cutting it out.

[Mall]

No, you ain't gotta cut it out. Just don't do that, though. Don't do me like. Don't do me.

[Damaris]

Do me like that every.

[Rory]

You think a different woman a month would work a different.

[Damaris]

Yeah. Woman a month.

[Rory]

All right, thank. I don't have to do bi weekly, right? That's going to get very. My hot 97 salary. Can't cover that. Like my hourly, once a month, a new woman that could sit right there just to keep Mall, you know, motivated.

[Mall]

Y' all love painting this narrative about me. Go ahead.

[Rory]

It's not a narrative.

[Mall]

It is a narrative.

[Rory]

I don't think there's anything wrong with the truth.

[Mall]

I'm not saying.

[Rory]

And the truth is fine. Everyone's cooler and funnier when. When women are around.

[Mall]

I'm not saying I'm like, that's with Company, period. It could be. Sean C Could be sitting over there. And I'm happy to see him. And I'm gonna like, you know, it doesn't matter. Y' all make it seem like when women come around.

[Rory]

Peach, you were there for the daylight episode when Shaun C. Walked in. Did Maul get funnier? Sean C. Is a legend. We love him.

[Mall]

All right, but what woman walked in and I got funnier every mom.

[Damaris]

I ain't going to lie. They get in here, and you. You do get achieved.

[Rory]

It's okay, though.

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[Mall]

Did I do it with Joy?

[Damaris]

Yes.

[Rory]

Yes.

[Damaris]

Hell yes.

[Rory]

You were hilarious.

[Mall]

All right, look at Josh. He's in on it now. Josh. What did I do?

[Rory]

Josh is in on it.

[Mall]

Josh, what did I do? Josh, go ahead.

[Damaris]

You're very, like, courteous.

[Mall]

She's a guest. It's a guest in the studio I'm doing. I offered De La Soul water and tea. I offered. I made a. I made a cup of tea for D. Nice.

[Rory]

Yeah, but like, with a guy, you dab him up.

[Damaris]

What's up?

[Mall]

I suppose I kiss him on his cheek. I was a Kiss D. Nice on his cheek and tell him he smells good and make a fucking cup.

[Rory]

You're, like, smiling.

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Yeah.

[Mall]

D. Nice came in here. I was like, yo, D. Nice. What's up, man? You want some tea? I made a cup of tea for D. I put honey in it for him and all that, like, so I do the same thing. It's guests I do that with.

[Rory]

Okay?

[Mall]

I try to paint this narrative like.

[Rory]

So you're gonna say with a straight face right now in 2025. You had the same energy with Life Jennings as you did with Ashley Nicole. Lie to my face. Take the sunglasses off and lie to my face.

[Mall]

I did.

[Damaris]

Okay.

[Mall]

I did let him get his off.

[Damaris]

I argue, you know, what's up?

[Mall]

How you doing? How. How's everything?

[Damaris]

Yeah. 2026.

[Rory]

He's trying to make it a bad. I don't think it's a bad thing, but, yes, you are more charming on and off mic. When there is a pretty woman here, you just turn the charm. It's not a bad thing at all. You're friendly either way. You can call it hospitable. Whatever you want to do, I don't care. I'm just telling you the facts.

[Mall]

All right, Let me just talk to the only person.

[Rory]

But first of all, I used to be that way, too.

[Mall]

Talk to the only person I can trust in this room, Pe. Is that true?

[Rory]

Man, you leave me in the trenches, Grenades.

[Mall]

Leave me in the trenches.

[Rory]

Yeah, but listen, at a time, I was the same way, too. There's nothing wrong with that. It's okay.

[Damaris]

Oh, I get all types of funny when the hoes here. I ain't. It ain't just you. It's us. You know what I'm saying? It's us together, we twin.

[Mall]

I just feel like I treated Damaris.

[Rory]

Being bisexual has a. Also a bi personality. When it comes. When pretty women are here, she'll be that way. But when a man she deems fine, she gets super bashful and quiet. Out of nowhere, she be making the hoes laugh. But when a man comes around that she likes, I'm like, damaris. Talk like what? You be quiet the whole Episode.

[Damaris]

Y' all want to know who my favorite guest was?

[Mall]

We know who your favorite.

[Damaris]

Who my favorite guest was.

[Mall]

Joey Badass. We saw it all over your face. You was in here trying to.

[Rory]

You asked chat gbt the word count for Damaris at the Joey Badass interview.

[Mall]

She was trying to give us the, the, the, the, the knowledge, the science on the day, the mathematics and all of that. She came in here with all of that. The math, Matt. I'm like, she ain't never gave me and you the mathematics on the day.

[Damaris]

Yeah, I, I, that's my, that's the only guest this year I got a picture with, too.

[Rory]

I ain't taking a picture with none of y'.

[Damaris]

All.

[Mall]

Joey.

[Damaris]

Yo, that is so funny. Now shout out to Joey is cool. Like, I'm, I'm joking. He's obviously happily in a relationship.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

What that mean?

[Damaris]

Don't do that.

[Mall]

I mean, not for you. I'm just saying, like, in general. What that mean?

[Damaris]

I know. You know, he's just nice to look at. I don't know what the. Y'.

[Rory]

All. No, he's attracted.

[Damaris]

I showed up to work, niggas was like, you don't ever go to the interviews. Why you going into work today?

[Mall]

Trust me, we all knew when you walked in here that great Wednesday morning. We all knew.

[Rory]

Like, she ain't not hungover.

[Mall]

She getting mad. If she got it coming on Wednesday, all of a sudden, she here bright and early. She got hors d'.

[Rory]

Oeuvres.

[Mall]

She got all kind of shit. We get it. Take the picture with Joey and sit down.

[Rory]

God bless. Fresh off Pilates. Like, you went to the gym this morning.

[Damaris]

I put my nice jeans on. Y' all know I be in here. Sweats, hair be raggedy.

[Rory]

No. First of all, that's some early 2090. The nice jeans, nice jeans.

[Damaris]

I got my nice.

[Rory]

Remember when that was a thing? Your nice jeans?

[Mall]

Good one.

[Rory]

Remember when you had your nice jeans?

[Mall]

Yeah. Those in the back of the car.

[Rory]

That was such a simpler time. Remember the nice jeans? Nah. It's Friday. I know who. I know who gonna be in class. I'm gonna put my nice jeans on.

[Mall]

It's hard to find a good pair of nice jeans now. Now all these jeans look like I'm about to get on stage and. And perform. I just want good jeans, man.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Mall]

I don't want stadium jeans.

[Rory]

Don't do that.

[Mall]

I don't want Summer Jam jeans.

[Rory]

Was there anyone that I switched up with when they came to the show.

[Damaris]

That you got a little giggly around? Joy. Well, no, because I was thinking about who you were giggling around, but it's because you know them like, you know Joy, you know, poor mind. So it was like, more comfort. You weren't doing, like, your awkward thing.

[Rory]

Yeah, no, those are. Those are friends. I mean, unless you know them, then.

[Damaris]

You'Re very like, no, Rory, don't know them. He head down his phone, hey, what's up? And just walking away.

[Rory]

Well, I mean, I like to do that anyways, just because I'd rather have the conversations like, on the microphone. Because a lot of times when you do that, like, all the great stuff is sitting here while equipment's getting put together and all that. It's like, yeah, damn, we should save this. Yeah, I prefer to do some of that. Pat on the mic. I mean, Ms. Pat, I was getting, you know, a little giggly, but for other reasons.

[Mall]

Ms. Pat was great. I love Ms. Pat.

[Damaris]

Yeah, you guys do good with comedians.

[Mall]

Yeah. I mean, they. They actually know how to talk and laugh at and not yo be all stuck up.

[Rory]

And when Malt told Politically Correct, when Mal told homie, what's stand up? What's the stand up scene like in Mexico? Yo, that and he from la.

[Damaris]

Oh, my God, that was hilarious.

[Rory]

What's the stand up scene like in Africa?

[Damaris]

Exactly.

[Mall]

All right, but now. But. But can we not understand why I would ask that, though? No, I just thought that he may have done comedy in Mexico before. That's. Is that hard to like?

[Damaris]

I don't think it's hard to believe, but it's. It's just funny. It's just funny.

[Mall]

I get it. But it's like, I'm like, wait, because the preamble should have been like, comedy.

[Damaris]

Have you ever done comedy in, like, your. The country of, like, your nationality? You could have asked him that and then said, okay, what's it like there?

[Mall]

I think that's worse. I think me phrasing like that would.

[Rory]

Have been way worse.

[Damaris]

Yeah, because. Yeah, it's not that we didn't do research. It was just, like, misinformation.

[Rory]

Okay, Maybe he just read that he was Mexican.

[Mall]

All right, man, that's what I'm in here doing now.

[Damaris]

That was. I can't believe that was this year. That was. Damn. All right, so we said Wednesdays was.

[Rory]

Some of the nastiest days of this year. Yeah, I just want to put it that way.

[Damaris]

What was the moment of the year?

[Rory]

Joey Badass versus the world. That's my favorite moment.

[Damaris]

Agreed.

[Rory]

If we're talking music wise, by far, Joey Badass Versus the world being in the crib and hearing Lux come on that second verse. Oh, my God, I felt like Flex was playing Otis again. Like, me and Rory were like.

[Damaris]

Yeah, we. We had a time.

[Rory]

I was running around my own living. I felt like a child again when Joey Badass and Lux.

[Mall]

Yeah, but y'. All.

[Damaris]

Go ahead, say it. Let's go viral for the end of the year.

[Mall]

But y' all did the same thing. When that cold record dropped, you niggas sat in the front. You had.

[Rory]

Nah, we just listened to the greatest.

[Mall]

Shit y' all ever heard.

[Rory]

That's not true. That's just video footage of us listening to it and we going like this. If there was video footage of me and the marriage when Joey Badass and Lux came up.

[Mall]

Scroll back to the group chat. Y' all was going crazy in the group chat.

[Rory]

It's on my Instagram currently.

[Mall]

No, not this. The video I'm talking about in our group chat.

[Damaris]

Yeah, we love the song. We were very happy to hear it. A surprise song from Cole. Like. Yeah, we're excited.

[Rory]

We're COLD fans, and we like to annoy you. Sometimes we throw a little sauce.

[Mall]

Why would that annoy me, though? I listen to cold.

[Rory]

I know you do. I'm just saying. But sometimes we just try to make the group chat interesting by throwing a little sauce of, like, this might be the greatest song I've ever heard in my life. Like, we didn't mean that.

[Damaris]

If we were being recorded.

[Mall]

Y' all meant that. Don't do that. Don't say we didn't mean that. He said y' all didn't mean that.

[Damaris]

Oh, no, I meant it.

[Mall]

I know you meant it.

[Damaris]

He.

[Rory]

What's the name of that song? I don't even remember. Oh, yeah, I mean, Clouds is Fire, but it's not the greatest song of all time.

[Mall]

But you. That's what I'm saying.

[Damaris]

But I don't feel like we acted like the song.

[Rory]

It doesn't even top. Return to the max.

[Damaris]

I feel like we just. It was a surprise song. Cole went crazy.

[Rory]

Oh, that's. That's. That's up there for verse of the year. Yeah, true rapping wise, he went nuts on that.

[Mall]

He did.

[Damaris]

But when.

[Rory]

Yeah, that clouds verse should be up there for verse of the year.

[Damaris]

When Joey dropped, me and Rory, we. Remember we were driving. One of the songs dropped was. I can't remember, but we were driving from the studio to your house, and then we were listening, and we were.

[Rory]

But the town one with Lux dropped later. That dropped when we Were in the crib. That's where we should have had. I wish you had your vlogging shit going. Yeah, we was running laps around. We was getting behind the couch. We was running laps.

[Damaris]

Yo, we were so. We were just excited. We were excited.

[Rory]

It was. New York was back. That was my favorite fucking moment.

[Damaris]

And then we had call. I remember we called reason to clown him about Kai said, damn Kai. Tearing your ass up. Boy.

[Rory]

That whole week was so much fun.

[Damaris]

We had a ball. I. Yes, that would probably be like my moment of the year.

[Rory]

And then it came and went. We went right back to just bullshit Stan stuff with Kendrick and Drake. Yeah, no, the Internet was so much fun that, like, people actually just cared about music and not stand them for that week. That. That was my favorite moment. Shout out to Joey. I mean, even with the town joint that's up there for verse of the year year, Joey went nuts on that.

[Mall]

Joey had a great year, man.

[Rory]

That. That was my favorite moment of. Of the year by far. Joey Badass versus everybody. Not for nothing as much as.

[Mall]

The.

[Rory]

Whole BET thing with behind the scenes where that kind of annoyed Maul and I just because we. And Peach as well, because he had to come with us. That was annoying that we had to up and do that out of nowhere. But a lot of cool moments did come from that.

[Mall]

That. Oh no.

[Rory]

There was a lot of fun, fun conversations.

[Mall]

We had a good time during bet.

[Rory]

Yeah, definitely during that time.

[Mall]

Definitely.

[Rory]

Then we got Rayvon versus Baby D. That was a fun moment.

[Damaris]

Yo, I was beefing all year. All right, Next year I'm at peace. Next year I'm at peace.

[Rory]

Oh, I was beef.

[Mall]

Same thing every year.

[Damaris]

I was beefing all year. I don't know what the was going on next. I'm not beefing with no rappers and they fans next year. Peace. It's all peace.

[Mall]

I just remember she said that. Josh, let's put that on a bulletin board. And then when March comes and she start beefing with somebody, we can just scratch that off real quick. She's beefing already in March. Like three months in and she's already beefing.

[Rory]

Can I go into my soft girl era? Can I get my 2026? Like, can I be at peace?

[Mall]

You can be at peace whenever you want, bro.

[Rory]

Yeah, but I want my teeth girl era piece where, like, you don't have to do anything. And like, like, it's. That's what's expected. The whole world should cater to you. I'd like to. Can I have that year? Yeah. Is that allowed?

[Damaris]

It's not even what soft girl is.

[Rory]

It's 1000% what you guys made it. No, not the same way. Woke had a definition and then the Republicans changed. It is the same way. Soft girl had a. That was a definition. And now you guys are just like, the world just owes me everything.

[Mall]

Soft girl era means she doesn't have to lead in the relationship. She can just be at ease. She can just put her guard on.

[Rory]

My best when I have to do nothing.

[Mall]

The man to lead that type of soft girl, she doesn't have to be so hard and so like, you know, make all of the decisions and, you know, she can be on guard. Be on guard. She can trust that her man that he got it. He's, you know, everything emotionally, mainly that's emotionally.

[Damaris]

I don't have to carry all the emotional weight of this.

[Rory]

So I. E. Just sit there and do nothing.

[Mall]

The emotional weight of this. Emotional weight of this.

[Rory]

So what does the soft girl do in return?

[Damaris]

You just.

[Rory]

You just don't get it.

[Damaris]

And you're dedicated to not getting it. That's fine. I applaud your dedication.

[Rory]

This is how women work and this is why. Why he's just. With couples therapies. That's why you need somebody there to call women out on their. I just asked the question, how am I sitting here not trying to understand it? And I asked the question of what it meant going.

[Damaris]

You're not going into the conversation in good faith. It's not. It's an argument done in bad faith. Because no matter what I say, you're going to twist it around. I've been explaining it. Me and Ma were sitting there explaining it. So you're like, oh, so it means do nothing. That's not what.

[Rory]

First of all, in the Bible, you can't judge someone else's face.

[Sponsor Voice 2]

Faith.

[Rory]

Their faith is their faith.

[Mall]

Yes.

[Rory]

That's not. Come on. Do you want to get to the.

[Damaris]

I'm sorry. I didn't know when you were being touched, you were also listening.

[Rory]

That was the time when I was listening the most. How could I forget?

[Mall]

I didn't mean to laugh. I'm sorry.

[Rory]

That's why I was laughing when Damaris, like you guys laughed at my pain all year. That's some nerve. No, no, no.

[Damaris]

Don't deflect.

[Rory]

Don't. No, no, no. I'm asking in good faith. Call the fuck off. You hear me?

[Damaris]

Fucking fans calling me Damaris the scientist. That's like starting to stick. And I don't fucking like that.

[Rory]

That's equal to Laughing at me being molested.

[Mall]

You laugh at me? Not even close. It's not even close.

[Damaris]

He laughs at being molested all the time.

[Rory]

That's a coping mechanism.

[Damaris]

Oh, okay. Well, I'm sorry. Fuck. Why will more laugh and miss Pat laugh and all the fans laugh, but I can't fucking.

[Rory]

I don't even know the trauma of Damaris the scientist.

[Damaris]

Anyways, Maul said, if I catch a man cheating, should I tell you? And you was like, no, tell her. That's Damaris the scientist.

[Sponsor Voice 3]

This.

[Rory]

You did say that, but I also said I would tell her.

[Mall]

He did say that, but that ain't the. Yeah, did say that.

[Rory]

And I told men that we have mutual friends with. I said, if you do anything around me, I'm snitching. I'm Damaris's friend first. I don't care about you. I said, hey, don't. Don't do your dirt around me. I'm telling Damaris. That's my best friend.

[Mall]

Don't do no dirt around me.

[Damaris]

True.

[Mall]

Play it for real. That's my n. True race.

[Damaris]

Ask Pharaoh next year. Let's not laugh at each other's pain. Let's dedicate ourselves.

[Rory]

If y' all don't keep laughing at me. Being touched. Get away from me. Ew, gross.

[Mall]

We gotta laugh at the pain, baby D. We can't never abandon that.

[Rory]

Just cuz I'm gonna be my soft girl era doesn't mean you can't laugh at my pain.

[Mall]

Rory just wants to go to pilates and get a latte after and go, you know, just try on things at alo and you know that's what he wants to do.

[Rory]

Yeah. My only wardrobe is just Lulu Lulu tights.

[Mall]

That's all.

[Damaris]

That's what y' all think.

[Mall]

That's what he wants for himself? Yeah. Pilates and lattes.

[Rory]

So asking in good faith, since I'm going into my soft girl era, I don't want to just take. I want to give as much as I take. So what should I give in my soft girl era?

[Damaris]

It's not about giving or taking. That's. That's what you're missing. What you're misunderstanding soft girl era is I'm at peace. I'm not arguing. I'm not fighting. My nervous system isn't all upset because I'm stressed out. I'm super, super stressed out over work, or I'm super, super stressed out about my relationship. Everything is balanced and aligned in my life and I'm avoiding unnecessary drama and turmoil and things that are gonna Higher my fucking cortisol levels. I'm at peace. That's what's soft. I'm in my soft feminine. I'm not on guard. I'm not, like, miserable. I'm not anxious. That's what that is.

[Rory]

Oh, you can just take a Valium for that.

[Damaris]

That.

[Mall]

That helps.

[Rory]

I think that's. If you look up what volume does and it's side effects. I think it's everything that she just named.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

All right. I'm in my. My volume era.

[Mall]

We are in our volume. We definitely are.

[Rory]

I'm definitely in my volume era.

[Mall]

100%.

[Damaris]

So this the last episode of the year. Anything y' all want to say to each other?

[Rory]

Jokes aside, I do appreciate everybody in this room.

[Mall]

Yes.

[Rory]

Really appreciate you guys. This. This was a good year.

[Mall]

Great.

[Rory]

A lot of ups and downs, A lot. A lot of crazy. A lot of great.

[Mall]

That's every year. Ups and downs every year.

[Rory]

Yeah. And I'm happy. Knock on wood. Again.

[Mall]

How would you know you're up, Rory, if you're not down?

[Damaris]

How would you. How would you appreciate the sunshine if you've never been rained on sunny days?

[Rory]

Wouldn't be special if it wasn't for rain.

[Mall]

Exactly.

[Rory]

Joy wouldn't feel so good if it wasn't for pain. Death got to be easy because life is hard. It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred. See, you can't even name that poet.

[Mall]

That poet is crazy. You can't even name that poet. You didn't even take that class.

[Rory]

Yo, they don't teach Curtis Jackson 101.

[Mall]

Nah, they don't teach that.

[Rory]

But, no, I'm very thankful for everyone in this room and everyone that's on our team that's not in this room. It's been a great year. I thank you for everyone's effort, for real. And thank you to the listeners.

[Mall]

Thank you to the supporters. Thank you to the listeners, the subscribers, the people in the comments, the fake pages that curse us out. We appreciate all of it, and we.

[Rory]

Should especially give the fans and listeners, like, a real thank you. This is the first year we haven't toured.

[Mall]

Yep.

[Rory]

And usually we get to say that to them, like, in person at the end of shows, meet and greets, kicking it after. We didn't get to do that this year, which mainly, you know, falls on me and having a child. But, you know, thank you, guys, for real. I wish we could have said it in person, but I had to give, you know, my life together. Amara can't be at every Chicago.

[Mall]

That's okay. Man, that means we just have more. Next time we do decide to go out, that just means we have more to talk about, more to catch up on. You know what I'm saying? We gotta see what people have been doing in their lives. Hopefully everybody is doing much better than the last time we saw them.

[Rory]

Everyone seemed like they were doing our. Well, I mean, outside of the relationships you broke up like, I'd like to go to Seattle and get an update.

[Mall]

Some of those was for the better. Maybe I helped. I helped a lot of people out. Maybe it doesn't look like that yet, but maybe I did.

[Rory]

That wasn't your person.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Jack Harlow was your person.

[Mall]

Exactly. Looking forward to the. The new year 2026. Continued blessings, continued health for all of us in this room. And for those of you watching and listening. Continue. Blessings and health to you all. Got you.

[Rory]

You doing checkups regularly?

[Mall]

Me? Like on myself.

[Rory]

Not like internally. Like to the doctor.

[Mall]

Oh yeah.

[Rory]

Like physical.

[Damaris]

I know. Ma stay at the doctor.

[Mall]

Why you. Damn.

[Damaris]

Not in a bad way. I know. I reckon that's a compliment. I recognize men who stay at the doctor. I know you stay at the doctor.

[Mall]

Oh, okay. I mean, yeah, I'll take care of myself now.

[Rory]

And it's. It's. It's getting to that age. It's not me making a joke whatsoever.

[Damaris]

Get that prostate check.

[Rory]

It's that time, bro.

[Mall]

Bro. Yeah.

[Rory]

Rest in peace. Of my brother, Combat Jack. His. His passing anniversary, you know, was. Was this past week.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Listen guys, this camera. Sometimes you need to get a fig in your ass. Not sexually.

[Mall]

Coming from somebody that's a man that knows. It's a man that knows.

[Rory]

I have. I have laid. I have laid on that deli paper. Just like this.

[Mall]

The deli paper.

[Rory]

I have laid right on that sandwich paper.

[Mall]

Oh, the doctor is treating me like a pastrami sandwich.

[Rory]

Many of them has been the nurse there for a witness. Cuz legally there has to be a witness when someone is putting their thumb in your ass. I have laid thumb. Oh, I. I didn't. I didn't like look back at it.

[Mall]

That was something else.

[Rory]

I thought it would be like a.

[Damaris]

Middle finger, like the longest finger.

[Rory]

I don't know why you thought that.

[Damaris]

Cuz it would be the longest finger. I don't know how far.

[Rory]

No, I don't think it's a thumb. I really don't know what finger they put in your ass. It's the pointer finger.

[Mall]

It's the pointer sisters.

[Rory]

I literally just. I try to find something whether it be the cabinet or Something to focus on.

[Damaris]

Breathe through.

[Mall]

And then Rory, on a deadly pip, like, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away. He say the prayer that Jimmy was.

[Rory]

Saying that was hilarious.

[Mall]

Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.

[Rory]

And meanwhile, forest sitting there like, I can't walk.

[Damaris]

At the Planned Parenthood, when they giving you an abortion, they got.

[Mall]

Oh, yo, yo.

[Rory]

Allegedly. It's on YouTube.

[Mall]

Yo, where are we going with this? They got, like, a picture of pro life or not.

[Rory]

They got a picture of Mall at the abortion clinic like this.

[Mall]

Like J. Prince.

[Damaris]

Okay, all right.

[Mall]

They be handing out pamphlets of me at the abortion clinic. Like.

[Rory]

Hitting the jail pose.

[Mall]

Yo, that is crazy. I'm sorry, baby D. I didn't mean to.

[Damaris]

Your story up to go off what y' all were saying at the. The abortion doctor's office, they will have a picture of, like, waves on the ceiling for you to, like, stare at and focus on the waves while you're going through that process.

[Rory]

Nice.

[Damaris]

Yes.

[Mall]

How many waves you counted me?

[Rory]

Boy, fuck you. How you asking that question, though? You talking about the waves or how many times she saw the waves?

[Damaris]

No, fuck you. This is something that I was told by people that I had.

[Mall]

Yeah, no.

[Damaris]

A friend.

[Mall]

A close of a friend. A friend of a friend. I know. I get it.

[Rory]

Would you go with her to the. To the clinic?

[Damaris]

Who?

[Rory]

Hypothetically, the girl you would be having an abortion with in 2026.

[Mall]

I went to the clinic with girls that wasn't my girls from my homies. That's a friend. I am.

[Rory]

That's sick.

[Mall]

Yeah, I got cursed. I never told that story.

[Rory]

No, no. It's the best way to end the year.

[Mall]

Holy.

[Rory]

I'm about to edge. Pour me some more rose, Josh.

[Mall]

I would never tell who it was.

[Rory]

Of course. Nobody's trying to ask for that.

[Mall]

A friend of mine, he was a high profile. He's a high profile person. And a girl he was dating. Was she. He needed to have an abortion. He wasn't. He was out of town. So he asked me to pick her up and take her. So I did. And they walked in the clinic together. All the abortion rights signs was out. Pro life people was out there.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Mall]

They have fingernails showing me pictures of, you know, aborted fetuses and things like that. I wanted to say so bad. This ain't even my bitch.

[Rory]

I wanted to say, yo, I agree with y'.

[Damaris]

All.

[Mall]

So bad. Like, I agree and I respect what you. What y' all out here doing? This ain't my, though, like, you know I'm just doing my man a solid. But, yeah, that's the only thing.

[Rory]

All right, so I guess I'm asking. His reasoning was he wanted you to do that to make sure he knew that she saw it through or just somebody support.

[Mall]

Yeah. Like, she wanted. Wanted.

[Rory]

Like, she needed somebody to be there. Because, of course, that's a traumatic. Traumatic thing.

[Mall]

Right. I went and picked.

[Rory]

I just wanted to.

[Damaris]

Sure.

[Rory]

If he was like, yo, make sure this gets his ducks.

[Mall]

No, no, no. It wasn't like that. Like, she was.

[Damaris]

She ain't got no friends.

[Mall]

She definitely. I don't. I mean, she do, but I don't know if she wanted, you know, I mean, that.

[Rory]

I don't know, keep it for herself type.

[Mall]

Yeah, but that's cool. I was like, yeah. I told my master. He was like, yo, could you do me a favor, bro? Can you just pick her up, make sure she good, and take her home? I was like, yeah, I got you. I wasn't doing but selling drugs that.

[Damaris]

Day because they won't let you get it unless you got somebody there with you.

[Mall]

Yeah, you got to have somebody to be able to take you home. So, yeah, took her. Went to go to get a prescription after and then dropped off that.

[Rory]

Yo, that's such a. Like.

[Mall]

And then I went and had unprotected sex.

[Rory]

That'd be such, like, a funny cycle, baby. Dude, to keep explaining to your girl.

[Damaris]

That you had to notice my homeboy girl. I had to take her to go get an abortion.

[Rory]

Oh, yeah.

[Damaris]

Imagine the way we would have went as a family. Oh, that's your homeboy girl. We are all gonna go together.

[Mall]

Yeah. No, I was single at the time. There's no way I could have got.

[Rory]

Because the protesters could take a photo of them all walking in with her, and that hit the Internet. And your girl like, yo, what you doing over there?

[Mall]

Yo, Imagine me in a picture, too. Like this, like, stop. It's not even my girl.

[Rory]

I was gonna say. That would be the funniest hood Larry David curb moment of taking.

[Mall]

It was.

[Rory]

It was, bro, like, the car ride home, like, when you're sitting there, like, so how you feel? Like, I wouldn't even know what to say to my homeboy's girl that just got an abortion. I'm just driving the car, like, so.

[Mall]

I know me.

[Rory]

So how was it?

[Mall]

I was in there cracking jokes and. But, you know, she was still a little sore, so she was like, mall, shut up. Like, I was making her laugh and like that. Like, like. But, you know, it was cool. It Was. It was definitely best for both of them at that time. So. Yeah.

[Rory]

And for the. The child.

[Mall]

Yes.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Hey, my daddy A. I don't know you.

[Rory]

Not the way to end.

[Mall]

No. That's my man, Corey Holm. That's his.

[Rory]

No, I. I know the joke.

[Mall]

Legend. Legend. When is his special. Listen, when is the Corey Holm Netflix special? When is that dropped? Because I can guarantee you that nigga's getting canceled right after that.

[Rory]

Yeah. And we didn't talk about Corey. Don't give a top 20 comedians. Whoever put that out. We're not going to get into it. But, but Corey should have been on that. Corey Oakham, one of the. One of the goats.

[Mall]

Absolutely.

[Rory]

But I. I do sincerely mean everyone listening to this. I hope you have a very safe, safe, safe New Year's Eve. It's amateur night, so lay low.

[Mall]

Don't force showtime.

[Rory]

Don't force anything. New Year's Eve does not matter like that. Just go to church, man. Just be one of those people for New Year's. Yeah. But, yeah, everyone be safe and cheers to 2026. I'm excited. I know my voice is monotone, but that's just because I'm exhausted.

[Mall]

Yes. And tired. It's been a great year.

[Rory]

And even. Listen, if 2026 sucks. It's just a year.

[Mall]

It's just a year.

[Rory]

Everyone has a. That's. That's the craziest thing about coming to New Year's as a population. Looking at that ball drop.

[Damaris]

Drop.

[Rory]

Yeah, some of us looking at this ball drop, it'll be the greatest year you've ever had.

[Mall]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Some of us. This is going to be the worst thing that you have ever endured.

[Mall]

Yeah. That's the beauty. That's the beauty of watching the ball drop. It's like a portal. It's a portal. This is either going to be one of the greatest years of my life, could be the last year of my life.

[Rory]

And it's been people that are about to have the best, the worst. Like, we've all been on both sides of that. Like, yo, 2008, this my year year. It's your year to. To literally have the worst experience of your life.

[Damaris]

Yeah. I have nowhere to go but up.

[Rory]

Baby D. Yo, anytime I've thought that, anytime I thought that God has found a way be like, no, no, no. Let me tell you about rock bottom.

[Mall]

Yeah. Anytime you say that, Baby D. I'd be like, here's two more for you.

[Rory]

Here's the deluxe you want.

[Mall]

You thought this year was bad. He gonna give you the deluxe.

[Rory]

Yo, the Rock Bottom Deluxe. I'm cool, yo. When it rains, it pours.

[Mall]

Oh, man. Nah, bro.

[Rory]

Positivity. Cause I think words are important.

[Mall]

Gordon.

[Rory]

Great 2026 in here, everyone listening. Let's all focus on having the best possible 2026, everybody of your life that you possibly can have at this moment. Let's think positivity. That's.

[Sponsor Voice 1]

That's.

[Rory]

That's. That's what I have.

[Damaris]

That ass clap.

[Rory]

Oh, no. Y' all never played high school football.

[Mall]

She gonna call me Baby Boo. She gonna call me Baby Boo. But, yes, everybody, have a great 2026. More health, more blessings, more time with the family and friends that matter. Less time on social media, less time, you know, consuming things that really don't benefit you in a positive way. Let's do more things that benefit us in a very, very, you know. What's the word I'm looking for, Rory? A very abundant way. Abundant. That's the year. That's the 2026 we want. Abundant. 2026. Abundance and blessings and health. Any goals that you have set, may you achieve them. Any fears that you have, may you overcome them. Any family members that you haven't spoken to for whatever reason, may y' all reconnect.

[Rory]

And if you don't want to, that's fine, too.

[Mall]

And that's fine, too. That's fine, too, if you don't want to. But, yes, make 2026 a great year. A year of just trying something different, doing things different, having a lot of fun along the way. Because at the end of the day, this is all just life. It's all meant to be lived. Let's not take ourselves too seriously, and let's enjoy it, man.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Mall]

Let's have another great year. Thank you to everybody that's been watching. Thank you to all subscribers. We appreciate you. We'll see some of y' all soon. Be safe. Safe, be blessed. Happy New Year.

[Rory]

Mall. Random little charges hit you all the time. Coffee, delivery fees. Even a plant that you don't like.

[Mall]

Exactly. Life doesn't come with a budget app, but the Klarna card feels like it should.

[Rory]

It's your debit card upgraded. Use your money. Choose how to pay upfront now or plan ahead to pay later.

[Mall]

Still responsible, just smarter. It works anywhere Visa is accepted. Zero credit impact.

[Rory]

To apply, sign up for the Klarna card by downloading the Klarna App app or learn [e-mail] US Klarna card.

[Mall]

Klarna Card. Pay later. Plans issued by web. Bank deposits in your balance account are held at Web bank member fdic. Anywhere Visa is accepted. Certain merchant product, goods and service restrictions apply. Some merchants do not accept virtual cards. Physical card only included with a paid Klarna membership plan.

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[Mall]

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[Rory]

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