
The JBP kicks things off by discussing the passing of Young Scooter & Bishop Brigante over the weekend (21:58). Kanye’s interview with DJ Akademiks goes viral (36:07), Drake drops the music video to ‘Nokia’ (58:20), and the room debates...
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Joe Budden
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Mal
What's poppin?
Ish
What's happening?
Joe Budden
What's happening?
Ish
What's happening?
Joe Budden
Yeah, baby. Full squad, let's go. Full squad.
Mark Lamont Hill
Don't tuck.
Joe Budden
Don't tuck the excitement. Don't tuck it in. Don't look cool.
Flip
Y.
Joe Budden
Y'all know what time it is.
Flip
Red alert.
Joe Budden
Gang, gang, gang. Hey, what up, y'all?
Flip
We good?
Joe Budden
What's poppin? How's everybody doing?
Ish
What's poppin?
Joe Budden
What's poppin? Full gang in the building. Yeah.
Ish
Yeah, yeah.
Joe Budden
What?
Flip
Why you looking all stupid in the face? I'm happy. Happy to see you guys, man. We here.
Joe Budden
How y'all feeling, man? What's up? What's up? Feeling good, man.
Ish
Feeling good, big man.
Flip
Baby girl, you had me scared.
Joe Budden
Baby girl. Oh, you had me scared.
Flip
I said, yo, so the video come out. I said, if she pop up in that video, I'm down with her. I already showed the side, but that's not my song. I know, but still. I don't know.
Joe Budden
I thought you was on some.
Flip
Nah, that's all you thought about. I be thinking negative shit. Yeah, like. Yeah, the day before, you know, niggas is meticulous.
Joe Budden
Happy to see all y'all. I'm happy to see all y'all.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah.
Flip
Happy to be here, man.
Joe Budden
Ish. At that stage of the recovery, he matching the boot with me.
Melissa Ford
Come on, stop playing with me.
Joe Budden
See him?
Flip
Don't play with the blue is off. But he got it.
Joe Budden
No, but he came close.
Ish
Yeah, he good.
Joe Budden
Yeah, he came close enough.
Ish
It's far enough to where you got to be really looking.
Joe Budden
You don't have to be a picture.
Flip
Of the blue and send it. Yo, yo, match this.
Joe Budden
Yeah, she look good, man. Why are you still trying to dress fly?
Ish
I can only wear sweats. That's all I wear anyway.
Joe Budden
That's all you was wearing anyway.
Ish
What's fly about it?
Joe Budden
You look fly right now for, like, 50 year old, man.
Ish
Thank you, sir.
Joe Budden
I appreciate it.
Melissa Ford
How long does the boot have to be on?
Ish
Four months.
Flip
Oh, wow.
Melissa Ford
Okay.
Ish
Somewhere around there, this nigga.
Flip
Old, son.
Joe Budden
Old. Yeah, but around. Somewhere around July when he come back like Jordan weighing the four or five it ain't to play games with you. It ain't to play games with you. Hey. Huh? Let me get a bowl of oranges. Hey, let me get a bowl of oranges. Big Nat.
Ish
This guy's an idiot.
Flip
Freeze.
Joe Budden
What up? Freeze.
Ish
What's happening, man? How y'all feeling?
Melissa Ford
Fantastic.
Joe Budden
Feeling good? I'm good, man. Good. Mark up in the building.
Melissa Ford
Hey, Potter of the month.
Flip
Hey, Potter of the month.
Ish
Come on.
Joe Budden
With the hoodie.
Ish
With the hoodie.
Joe Budden
Potter of the month. Mark.
Mark Lamont Hill
I was shocked by it and humbled.
Joe Budden
Oh, brother.
Mark Lamont Hill
Shocked and humbled.
Joe Budden
Well, not too shocked because when I saw the hoodie, I was like, damn, you must got like a printer in the crib. You made that rather fast.
Mal
He's been a player many times.
Joe Budden
Or. Yeah, you just kind of felt like you had this wrapped in the year, but it's a new colorway. Yeah, that's true.
Mark Lamont Hill
It's new. It's new.
Joe Budden
Or you just knew you had this one wrapped in the bud for like a week or 2.
Mal
CNN or HuffPost, he was employee of the month.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm going to say never.
Mal
Maybe a fox.
Mark Lamont Hill
Definitely a Fox. Every month. Nah, about 10 days ago, I felt, I started to feel confident it was a two way race between you and me. And so based on the polls and so can you pass me that? Is that shirt? Can you see that right there? I got you one, too.
Joe Budden
Oh, shit. Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Can you see the black joint?
Joe Budden
You got me one?
Flip
Yeah, got for him.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, pass it to me.
Joe Budden
Non employee of the month. Somebody that ain't been winning the award. Pass it to me, please.
Mark Lamont Hill
I can get it. I can get it. I don't want him.
Joe Budden
Don't fall. Wait, don't hate it.
Flip
Hold on, nigga, hold on.
Joe Budden
Don't break it.
Flip
Yeah, yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Hey, bro, I figured since we both were in the race about two weeks ago, I got both of us shirts just so that you know what I mean.
Mal
Hey, yeah, man, take a look at that thing.
Joe Budden
Hey, it's a joke.
Flip
Can we see it?
Ish
I know, it's a joke on it.
Mark Lamont Hill
No.
Joe Budden
Oh, boy. You're the month runner up. Oh, shit.
Ish
No, it was a joke on it.
Mark Lamont Hill
No joke. I mean, yo.
Flip
Nah, this nigga be playing.
Mark Lamont Hill
It was like 80% to like 16, I think was your percentage. And so I, you know, I wanted to get you something to commemorate this month.
Joe Budden
Well, I appreciate this. Thank you for the kind gesture. I was the runner up. You know my stance on this. Cause I told you already, hate voter fatigue vote.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, it's called hate voter fatigue.
Joe Budden
Thank you listen. There's a reason that LeBron didn't win all the MVPs. Right?
Ish
Your man told you how he threw himself in the mix?
Mark Lamont Hill
Nah. What'd he do?
Ish
He wasn't even in the Potter of the Month conversations. It was the rest of the game.
Mark Lamont Hill
Which would make sense.
Ish
It would, right? And then he's like, hold up, wait. He got tired of watching shit happen. I should be in this, too.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, you cooked. You put your thumb on the scale?
Ish
Yeah. Yeah, that's what he did.
Joe Budden
Wow.
Mark Lamont Hill
That explains it.
Joe Budden
I don't want to step on the joke because it's funny.
Ish
That wasn't a joke.
Joe Budden
I don't want to step on the joke because it's funny. I started the month off with my basketball highlights taking over the globe, not yours.
Flip
Who you talking about?
Ish
No, no, no. You started with his taking over.
Joe Budden
I say highlights, low lights.
Ish
It was his.
Flip
His four to go.
Joe Budden
I, I, I hear you. Impressions are there to be checked. Oh, I started with taking over the globe. That's not to dim him. A few clips started. I mean, circuit. I mean, that's how I started them off. Got you. I think that Mark happened to win, but I think it was a great month for just about everybody. Oh, everybody killed it, but I think Mark. Mark got that shit off. He had a new kid in class, the new kid in class start answering questions. Class looking at him like, look at this nigga raising his hand. Look at this nigga walking up to the chalkboard. Give him a couple months.
Ish
He ain't gonna be doing that shit no more. Once he learn how to go around here.
Joe Budden
Oh, man. Flip. What up, man?
Flip
I'm good, man.
Joe Budden
What up? Who's ready to rock?
Flip
I'm ready.
Ish
I'm ready.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm ready to go.
Joe Budden
All right.
Flip
Good looking, bro.
Joe Budden
Good. I'm glad. Huh? Big Gracie Awards.
Melissa Ford
And stop playing.
Joe Budden
Stop playing with her, huh?
Ish
What's a Gracie Awards?
Melissa Ford
A Gracie Award is they've been in.
Joe Budden
Some shit that's 150 years old.
Melissa Ford
It's 50 years old, and it celebrates women in media.
Mal
And you won.
Melissa Ford
And my podcast won.
Joe Budden
Come on, let's fucking go. Come on.
Mal
Congratulations.
Melissa Ford
Thank you.
Flip
Congratulations, man.
Mark Lamont Hill
Thank you.
Melissa Ford
Thank you.
Joe Budden
They talking about.
Melissa Ford
That's right. What the. They talking about?
Mal
Took a. Took a week to celebrate that, too, huh?
Flip
Month, Daddy.
Joe Budden
Oh, you guys. I will cry today. Look at y'all. What y'all do if I cry in here?
Ish
Keep poking.
Joe Budden
What would y'all do? For real?
Flip
Stop, man.
Mal
Cry on the pot before.
Ish
We've seen that before.
Joe Budden
Y'all just P through me crying. Yeah, probably make a joke type of losing. Look at you guys. Come on, a family, you do what you can.
Parks
I stashed away a meal just if shit don't go as planned, I do what I want.
Joe Budden
Rest in peace, young scooter. Rest in peace, young scooter.
Parks
Let's go. I'm a real lick, Hit a, get.
Joe Budden
A quick flicker Whole ATL was popping.
Parks
If pop off I'm a ride go yard A hundred racks inside I could get you touch. I be in your hood so I.
Joe Budden
Know what's up.
Parks
Sh.
Joe Budden
Whoever you might be listening from.
Parks
You ain't got no drugs, I'm a boss. I'm bossed out like Rick Ross. You know what that cost?
Joe Budden
Shout out to everybody at work right now. You paying a note, you ride the road.
Parks
I got 3B, you know future, that's my nigga school, yeah.
Joe Budden
Microphone check, microphone check. Wait a minute.
Parks
I never witnessed a drought again.
Corey
Black Nico game, whole Jersey.
Joe Budden
What up, New York City?
Flip
What up?
Parks
I could make cocaine.
Corey
I just fell in love with a.
Parks
Cuban I just left Columbia making bricks Me and Hector, rest in peace to everybody. We launched recently gave me metric tons B King what up, Isabella? That's a little sister. Cause I know what them bricks do. I can serve you. I pull tricks too, but I can make cocaine. I promise you I never see a drought again. I fly back to Columbia, I always make a million dollar run. I could make cocaine. I just fell in love with Cupid? I just left Colombia.
Joe Budden
Wherever you listen, from all over the world, all the subgroups out there, all the hate listers out there, all the parents out. Keep that applause going. Very quick, let me get these drops out the way. Flip and Mel and Mark, Mark, Mark. All right, what episode is this?
Mal
813.
Joe Budden
Welcome to episode 813 of the JOE Button Podcast, brought to you by Feud by Powered by Prize Picks. Prize Picks Game. I'm your humble, gracious, grateful, highly favored, fully dressed host, Joe Button, here with a few really amazing people to my right. Yeah.
Melissa Ford
Because every time you stay fully dressed now, it has such a.
Joe Budden
Because it's funny, right?
Melissa Ford
No. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That definitely is funny.
Joe Budden
To my right. Hold up now, hold up.
Flip
Chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill.
Joe Budden
Hold up now. Chill, chill, chill. You other bitches at your side.
Ish
Hold up.
Joe Budden
I'm such a bird. I am such a certified. I don't care. Oh, my God. Big M. Melissa Ford is in the building. How are you?
Melissa Ford
I am great. So back. So glad to be back.
Joe Budden
We're glad.
Melissa Ford
Thank you so much.
Flip
Glad to have you back.
Joe Budden
Welcome back.
Melissa Ford
Thank you.
Joe Budden
To her, right? Big flip queens.
Ish
Flip queens.
Joe Budden
Get the money is in the building. Oh, this handicapped nigga's here, too, man.
Ish
Love his.
Joe Budden
Love, his determination and will to just work through it. Boy, that nigga is just scooting to work. Hey, babe, you know I gotta go past my scooter. Please, baby. That nigga in the house just rolling around. King Wawa. Big ish in the building. The freeziest of them all, huh? Finest. Mr. Take it further himself. Ice is here. Dr. Mark Lamont Hill. Not to purchase my certificate at Western Union. Dr. Neither actually went and went through the levels to do the doctor. Yeah. The levels. The levels.
Mal
Yeah, he went through the levels.
Joe Budden
I don't know how many levels it is. I just know it's a lot. I just know it's a lot. What y'all know?
Flip
No.
Joe Budden
Here you go.
Ish
I don't know nothing.
Joe Budden
There you go. Mute up when we introduce him.
Ish
Mark, you said how many levels? You asked. I'm not doing this with you.
Joe Budden
Dr. Mark Lamar Hill is in the building. Elmira's finest Parks is in the building. Ian is here. You know him from the Ian show. Filming before our show. Corey is here. Po is here. Welcome back, Po. Good to see you. Ericson is here. Keeb is here. Somewhere. Tanner and Savon are here by Ramon. Last but certainly not least, each and every one of you guys out there are here. What's poppin up? What's poppin?
Ish
How's everybody?
Joe Budden
Weekend lit.
Flip
Crazy.
Mal
Yeah, we had a fun little weekend.
Flip
We did.
Mark Lamont Hill
I saw.
Joe Budden
Very late.
Ish
Very late.
Mark Lamont Hill
I know y'all was recording Pod Wives, and I seen your Instagram stories. You went out. Y'all went outside after. I guess, maybe. I guess I didn't see you in the picture, but I thought I saw your peoples in the picture.
Mal
My wife was there.
Joe Budden
Okay.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mal
I was standing next to Joe.
Mark Lamont Hill
Okay.
Flip
Okay.
Ish
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Y'all was outside? Outside?
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Mal
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were.
Joe Budden
Yeah. Okay.
Melissa Ford
You guys gonna tell us about it?
Mal
Just a little strip club run. It wasn't.
Ish
You know, just a little running around. That's it.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, you was there, too?
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
Yeah.
Joe Budden
It was couples night.
Mal
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Freeze, Miss. Freeze. Keto, E, Keno and E. Yeah.
Melissa Ford
Wait, Ice, did you do Pod Wives?
Flip
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Oh.
Melissa Ford
Okay.
Ish
Had a blast doing it, too.
Melissa Ford
Okay.
Mal
Told you. Told you.
Ish
You did. You did. I got. I got a shout. I got a shout. Parks and Rib Out.
Mark Lamont Hill
They were the ones who convinced you to do It.
Melissa Ford
Because you were. You seemed dead set against.
Ish
Yeah, I was. Like all that. Hell, no.
Mark Lamont Hill
I was shocked.
Ish
I had a whole different idea of what the show was.
Joe Budden
Okay, nice. We have a good time.
Ish
We did.
Joe Budden
That's it. We did. We just have a good time with the person that we love and that we pick to share our lives with.
Ish
That's right.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah.
Joe Budden
And then edit out anything that makes us look shady or foul, right?
Ish
Pretty much.
Mal
Just like that.
Joe Budden
The fuck?
Mal
Just like that.
Joe Budden
You're a big dog.
Ish
Take that out.
Joe Budden
Yeah, so then we all went to the strip club. We all had, like, little couples night.
Mal
We went to dinner before that.
Joe Budden
Oh, yeah, you guys went to dinner?
Ish
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You ever go.
Mal
I wasn't sure. If we're gonna jump into it, let's jump into it.
Ish
Fuck it.
Joe Budden
Do it.
Ish
You ever be out with somebody who's just doing too much at the table unnecessarily?
Melissa Ford
All the time.
Ish
We had somebody in our party that was just. Everybody else at the table was like, yo, fam, it's cool. Like, chill out. Like, you on the waitress. Oh, you on the waiter's ass for little shit for no reason.
Mal
The manager's coming over every five minutes to bring us some shit or fix some shit or something, but there's no problem. None.
Ish
He like, complaining, hey, you sat this down and that was supposed to sit in front of him? It's six of us at a table.
Mal
We could figure it out.
Ish
We know what we ordered.
Joe Budden
I know who you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know y'all talking about.
Mal
I felt like we ate mad loogies.
Melissa Ford
I was about to say, didn't he get the memo that when you complain. We tried to explain you might get parks, you know?
Ish
We tried multiple times. This how we know it was some. So now they come and they say, we're gonna give. We're gonna comp your desserts or whatever. They sat some desserts on the table, but then they went to that one person. Hey, this one's for you. You make sure you eat this one.
Melissa Ford
Was it custard?
Joe Budden
This is a special teri soup just for you.
Mal
It was funny, you know, it was bullshit. Cause on the way out, like, yo, sorry about our. Our man. You know, he was just having a bad day. He's like, oh, no. He's like that every time he comes in.
Melissa Ford
Oh, wow.
Ish
Yeah, they knew, so they saw him.
Mal
Yeah, yeah, he's like that.
Joe Budden
First off, you're gonna remember that.
Mal
That customer if you're a server.
Ish
No, first off, the Restaurant did us a favor. We did not have a reservation. We go in with six. And it was like, yo, we're booked for the evening, but because we know you, we'll let y'all get a table. But y'all only get. I think you gave us, like, an hour and a half. Yeah, like, y'all have to be out. Because we have a reservation a long time, though. But they didn't have to do that. We have no reservations.
Joe Budden
Not really a long time for six.
Mark Lamont Hill
Exactly.
Joe Budden
Not for six.
Mal
Ended up being about the perfect amount of time work.
Joe Budden
Got it.
Mal
But with that, you should maybe be a little bit easy on the server and hostesses and staff. Like, yo, thank you, thank you, thank you. And the food was amazing. Yeah, shout out to them. I don't remember the name, but that's.
Joe Budden
Why you got to be careful even recommending the dope restaurants to people. Boy, they go for your name. Up your name.
Mal
I didn't know that about him. And he asked me for recommendations in a story before, and I gave him some.
Melissa Ford
And now you can't go back.
Mal
Well, I didn't know that that was the case. Yeah, yeah.
Ish
Yo, yo, my man that came in here.
Joe Budden
Yo, both, man, they a cool dude. When it's just y'all. They get to these restaurants and get drunk and get hammered. That's a whole different dumb. On your name.
Ish
Yeah, pretty much.
Joe Budden
Damn, I'm sorry for y'all. Yeah.
Mal
We had a good time, though.
Joe Budden
We're good. Yeah. Glad I wasn't there. Thanks for not inviting me.
Ish
We did y'all Irish, goodbye.
Joe Budden
No, we didn't.
Mal
It wasn't Irish.
Joe Budden
It wasn't Irish.
Mal
Scottish, Scottish, Welsh, goodbye.
Ish
Oh, shit.
Joe Budden
They going, well, no, you know, so I'm dropping. So I'm dropping my son off on Wednesday. And he's like, yo, I see you Saturday. And I'm like, not really, buddy. I finally decided to, like, have the talk with him. I'm like, nah, no, you won't. He was like, but I want to. I said, all you gotta do is tell moms. But I say that all the time. And the call never come. Saturday morning, the call comes, yo, he in here. He said he looking for you. So I'm like, all right. Right after Podwise. Podwise was long as it was.
Mal
It was.
Joe Budden
So I was jetting back to go. Got it.
Ish
Got it.
Joe Budden
To go get my baby.
Ish
All right, that makes sense then.
Joe Budden
Yeah. Come on over to Funhouse. That's Dad Joy. Don't take away dad Joy. Come on. You wanna get away from money? You want to get the away komani and that?
Flip
No more food for you.
Joe Budden
Oh, sorry. So stupid. Anyway.
Flip
All right, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Joe Budden
Oh, my bad. Oh, sorry.
Flip
My weekend was crazy. I don't give a. I want to get my off.
Ish
Just.
Flip
Yeah, don't. I talked to you about that. My weekend was crazy.
Melissa Ford
Okay, tell us about it.
Flip
Thank you, Mel. Very nice. I decided to surprise Nico with a paintball party by inviting all his friends. Eleven of them picked them up in the Sprinter and took them deep in Jersey to do paintballing. That sounds like I started off a little rocky because one of the friends thought he wasn't getting picked up and hated and called Nico. Said, yo, they throwing a surprise for you. Oh, I was pissed. Oh, damn, that's fucked up.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's rude.
Flip
We had all that.
Ish
That's some flip shit, though.
Flip
Never. I'll never do no shit like that. I took them out to eat. Cool. They all decided to sleep over my crib. These niggas left in the middle of the night when I fell asleep, went outside and caused some destruction outside. Police came to my door.
Melissa Ford
What the.
Flip
They woke me up, had the conversation. Cool. So then I said, yeah, I'm gonna film some content. That's the content I film with all them niggas doing ring around the Rosie and push ups. Then after that, Nico's riding his bike outside.
Ish
That's a charge.
Flip
It is.
Ish
You made them niggas do ring around the Rosie?
Flip
Yeah, Nico riding his bike outside on the sidewalk. They don't like it. Some man slapped Nico. Him and his little friend. Yeah. Slapped Nico off the bike. They hopped him. They beat him up. I go outside, they jumped him in. They jumped him in good.
Ish
They good.
Flip
At the other time, I go outside to speak to him. I said, you slapped my son? He said, no, I didn't slap your son. Your son. My hand was here, so I slapped him twice. I had to say it. Yes, sir. You bugging. But we had a conversation after as adults then.
Joe Budden
Wait, no, no, that's not what the top of this broadcast is for.
Flip
But okay, you take that quick hits.
Joe Budden
Yeah, quick like you naming dramatic. Traumatic. Yeah, because where does. It's like, this was for quick. Just quick stuff, right?
Flip
I can finish at the end then. Yeah, I finished towards the end, but that's what we go. We're gonna stop it up at that.
Mal
To be continued.
Flip
Yeah, there you go.
Mal
Stick around for the dramatic occasion.
Joe Budden
Don't y'all move.
Mal
Don't change that.
Ish
Touch that down.
Flip
Don't forget to. Don't forget to. Don't forget to bring it back up.
Joe Budden
Okay, I got you. And I won't interrupt. All right, good. Let's get it. All right. All right.
Ish
It's crazy.
Joe Budden
Are we gonna get to it? Hey, don't move. Let's get it. What is. What is the highest priority to you guys in all of the happenings in the universe?
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm embarrassed.
Flip
Rest in peace.
Joe Budden
Let's. Let's start with a rest in peace young Scooter. Yes. Let's dedicate this episode to him. Thoughts, Prayers and condolences to his family, friends, fans, loved ones, the whole city, everybody. It's a lot of people mourning. A lot of. A lot of people.
Ish
A lot of people fucked up about this one.
Mal
Yeah, just a rest in peace, Bishop.
Flip
Oh, my goodness.
Mal
Co Dedication.
Joe Budden
Sorry.
Ish
With the Scooter situation, like when the news first broke, you know, misinformation spreads fast. So initially it said, well, first off, it was his birthday. Yeah, that's up already. Crazy. But the news broke and said, that's horrible.
Joe Budden
And fly somehow.
Ish
I'm kind of.
Joe Budden
I didn't want to be the guy to say that, but looking at it, say, March 28 to March 28 completed. That looked like some you'd have to purchase. Like when the license plate say just one. Like when you buy some special shit. Knock on wood. Yeah. But indeed so.
Ish
So when the news first broke, it was, you know, misinformation saying that he was involved in a shootout with the police and the police killed.
Mal
Uh huh. That's what I. That's what I read.
Ish
And almost, I wanna say, an hour or two after that, the police hold a press conference to state, hey, that's not what happened. They received a 911 call. They went over details of the call. They responded to the 911 call. The call said that there was a woman outside, no clothes on. There were shots fired. They saw her dragged into the house. There's something going on. You need police here immediately. Immediately. So police show up, right? The story goes, they knock on the door, someone opens the door, closes the door immediately. They're performing a perimeter. Two men run out the back. Somebody jumps the gate, and they find Scooter deceased. So I saw a lot of people asking, how do you. How can that happen? Jumping the gate.
Joe Budden
And it was immediately reported that there was no sign of a woman.
Ish
No sign of a woman. And no guns. There were no shots fired.
Joe Budden
Got it. They.
Ish
They reported that as well. Not from police nor anyone else. So I saw a lot of people saying, how can that happen? Jumping the gate? It didn't make sense. So they thought it was like a cover up or something going on.
Mal
Yeah.
Ish
I've experienced something very similar in. I was about 12, 13 years old and my younger brother, arse three years younger than me at the time he jumped the gate. We were playing basketball in the backyard and it was one of the ride gates with the spikes at the top. He jumped the gate and when he was walking back, he just was like, yo, my leg. And when he walked back into the light, his jeans were completely dark.
Flip
Oh.
Ish
Come to find out he slipped on the gate and stabbed himself in the leg and he almost passed away from that. It's an artery down there and it's an artery. Yeah. And they had a like so to let people know. It is very possible because they told us if it was like an inch or two to the left, he would have been out of here.
Melissa Ford
So is. Is that what they say is the cause of death? It wasn't that he was shot.
Ish
He wasn't. There were no shots.
Melissa Ford
Artery.
Ish
Yes.
Melissa Ford
Wow. That's tragic.
Ish
You could definitely. Very tragic.
Mal
That's crazy.
Melissa Ford
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Ish
And then as more information comes out.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
This seems to be a case of swatting.
Joe Budden
Wow. As it's being reported.
Ish
Yes, this is how it's being reported. What is swatting? Swatting is when it's basically a fake 911 call made and the police end.
Melissa Ford
Up going to do where there's like a really urgent situation happening that all hands on deck will show up shooting.
Ish
When you start saying somebody's shooting. I seen the lady. Somebody dragged.
Flip
She added a child. There was a child also that was in danger. I heard the call. You heard the call as well?
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
They released the call just to show. Hey, listen, this is what we heard the police because again, scooter means a lot to Atlanta them. So when that first story comes out, it's getting ready to be problems down there. So they're trying to show the show everyone. Hey, listen, we wasn't us. It wasn't us. We were responding to what. What we. The information we call gotcha. So it's just a very.
Joe Budden
Swatting is a crime.
Flip
Yeah, yeah.
Ish
But the problem is it's hard to catch the punishable by jail.
Flip
Five years. Five years in prison.
Joe Budden
Yeah, yeah. Because I was about to ask, do y'all think that person should.
Ish
1,000, 1,000%.
Mal
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Yeah. You can't do that.
Ish
We've seen like, like live streamers and stuff while they're on their stream and somebody will find out where that house is. And next thing you know, the police kick the door in. Because somebody has caught and said, like, there's a hostage situation or there's something going on, and it be just for shits and giggles.
Mal
I wouldn't mad if that was a manslaughter charge or something.
Ish
Yeah, I was already around and catch the body. Yeah, yeah. Like, dog, as a result of your actions, somebody now has passed away from. From your dumb shit.
Mark Lamont Hill
Right.
Ish
You know what I'm saying? Like, that's crazy.
Flip
I think also they need to vet the. They need to retrain the 911 operator. Because even though the 911 operator, you know, she was trying to help, still, she should have knew that once the lady called and said, I'm transferring you, she should have knew the person wasn't in the city. Right. The person was calling from Atlanta and she was on the phone speaking to other operators saying, I'm going to transfer you. This is what this person is reporting. So I feel like they have to retrain that. I feel like she sat there and went through all that. The lady was talking bullshit and keep making things up, making this up. You should have heard the call. It sounds disgusting.
Mal
Yeah, I didn't hear.
Joe Budden
The Callistry was not in Atlanta.
Flip
No, she.
Ish
No, she.
Flip
No, she was in. Which one is DeKalb? That's.
Ish
What's DeKalb County. It's a county.
Flip
It's a county. Well, she wasn't in the county where the house is at.
Ish
Gotcha.
Flip
She wasn't there because when she called 911, they transferred her to where the house is. They transfer her to the operator and the operator. So I feel like a retraining process needs to happen in situations like that. Because she said, I'm neighborhood watch. She's asking, how are you seeing these things? How are you aware of these things? What is the lady doing? She said, oh, I'm just neighborhood watch. And she's explaining they're engaging. And I just thought it was ridiculous. It's a stupid call to me. Disgusted.
Ish
The problem, though, with that is it's a hard thing because now you ain't got a lot of time to play around. You gotta use discernment. But now let's say you don't send them, and some of that shit is really going on in the heat of the moment. You rather be safe than sorry.
Flip
True, true.
Ish
You get what I'm saying? Like you'd rather go to somebody's house and this shit not be happening right then. Not Go to your house.
Flip
I'm not saying not send. I'm just saying as an operator to use different key points to see. To identify. Are you the person that's really there? How are you receiving this information? Is somebody on the phone? Let me like it's just.
Ish
And flip one more thing. And I know this personally, I don't know how it is today, but I had an accident. I wanna say 2015 and when I called from my cell phone and they asked me where I was at, they said they needed to transfer me to a local whatever got it. And I was in the area.
Flip
Okay.
Ish
I just dialed 911 from the cell phone. Whoever answered, I'm telling them what's going on and they had to transfer.
Flip
Gotcha. Okay.
Ish
So it could be something with, you know, out of state self. I don't know. I don't know. But I'm just saying there are ways where. But 911 is just universal and they gotta transfer you to the supporting city.
Mal
Yeah, I don't know.
Ish
I don't know. But I have had that happen.
Joe Budden
So.
Flip
So it's alleged. I mean they found a girl, they got a. Oh, they did her social. Social media all over the Internet. They found her. So allegedly that her boyfriend was with young Scooter that day and she didn't want them to be in a. I guess she was. I don't know if she wasn't invited. I don't know if she felt the way. But it was malicious. She did it intentionally. Yeah.
Ish
She might have thought they had some.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
That's crazy.
Joe Budden
This is nuts. Yeah, everything about this is nuts.
Flip
They found. They found the Instagram is all over the Internet. Disgusting.
Mal
Yeah. I think the answer is more.
Joe Budden
So they haven't found her.
Flip
No, they found the Instagram, they found the social media. She. She took it off though. She deactivated her account.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
They don't do nothing. That ain't nothing. That deactivation. It don't mean nothing should be got. Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Sending the police on people. It's just the same way we get mad at the Karens that call the police for dumb shit.
Ish
Same shit.
Mark Lamont Hill
It's the same logic. You know, once you bring the police in, it escalates. Stuff. Stuff can get escalated so easy and. Cause you don't know how people gonna react when the police get there. Exactly. Next thing you know you create a shootout from nothing.
Ish
Yep. Dude might have had a warrant for some traffic tickets and like fuck, you know what I mean? Like let me get away. He hopped the gate and now you Know what I'm saying?
Joe Budden
I do hate that that is our first instinct.
Ish
What, to run from the cops when you see police?
Joe Budden
Yeah, I hate that.
Mark Lamont Hill
I hate that it's mine still. I hate it, too.
Joe Budden
But I know that it's almost indoctrinated and kind of in. In our culture, in our. In our psychic. I get that. So I'm not even trying to have anything. Culture, bro.
Ish
That's deeper than culture, bro. I was driving yesterday and the cop followed me for like four blocks, and I ain't did and I know I haven't done anything.
Joe Budden
And you still be a little nervous. Does ring bells.
Flip
I'm not going to do that in penitentiary.
Joe Budden
I'm not going to do that. Like a lot of people in New Jersey, they know know about who you are and what you used to be into. So if they pull you over, I'm not really mad at that.
Ish
Is a nutcase rat for real.
Joe Budden
Know your name? Come on.
Ish
My name is.
Joe Budden
Don't sell yourself short.
Ish
I'm not.
Flip
Nah.
Joe Budden
But what's your other names?
Flip
They knew you.
Joe Budden
Other names.
Ish
What else they call you? What they called you.
Joe Budden
We can't let Adam and them have all the fun. Come on, you hear?
Ish
This guy Ain't gonna bring Bell money the first. So while we can't let Adam and him have all the fun.
Joe Budden
Is that what you think of me? Well, what's the bill?
Ish
It don't matter.
Joe Budden
No, it matters. It don't. I'm saying it does.
Ish
If I gotta pay it. Keep your.
Flip
Over there.
Joe Budden
No, no, I pay the bill. But now if we start getting crazy. Crazy.
Flip
What's crazy?
Ish
Crazy.
Melissa Ford
Crazy. Five figures.
Joe Budden
What disrespect? No, I'm just checking when they start.
Ish
Saying, like, two mil cash.
Melissa Ford
Okay. I'm just. I'm just checking to see what he might think is great.
Flip
He could do the 10, though.
Joe Budden
The bail is 10.
Flip
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Okay. So there really ain't no number for my man. Like me and him go back so far, man, and I hold him so near, fear to my heart. I'm not gonna let them keep him in there.
Mark Lamont Hill
But you trust that he gonna pay it back. Oh, he ain't gonna blow trial.
Joe Budden
Nah, he ain't gonna pay.
Ish
It don't matter. You can blow trial and get your money back.
Mark Lamont Hill
Huh?
Ish
You gotta go to trial not to get your money. You can blow trial and get your money. You gotta show up.
Mark Lamont Hill
You gotta show up. That's why I didn't bail my brother out. I was like, I might not get the money. The bail was 1 million.
Joe Budden
10%.
Ish
10%?
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Still, I don't think he was going back.
Ish
Your brother ain't worth a hundred.
Mark Lamont Hill
No, he ain't worth a hundred with a hundred in his pocket.
Ish
I like.
Joe Budden
Mark and Ish. Got like some family shit. Family trauma that's deep that they need to fucking heal.
Ish
Y'all need to. Somebody couch.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yo, for context, he owed me 50 at the time.
Flip
Oh, my.
Joe Budden
It don't matter.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yes, it do. Ice. Ice. If your brother.
Ish
You asking the right one now.
Flip
Go ahead.
Ish
What's up? Your brother owe you 50?
Mark Lamont Hill
If your brother was in jail and you said it's a million bell hundred cash to get him out. But. But you were very confident he wasn't going to go to trial. You gonna lose your hundred for bailing him out when he was already in pocket 50 and he already owed you 50. What do you do? You let him.
Ish
I already knew this flip.
Mark Lamont Hill
What do you do?
Flip
I bail him out. I'm gonna get my.
Mark Lamont Hill
And now you just gonna be in the whole 150.
Ish
Yeah, you was rich, nigga.
Flip
Yeah, you had money, nigga. You was on tv.
Mal
This was.
Joe Budden
Yeah, you was on Fox Soul by then.
Ish
Fox Soul.
Joe Budden
Fox Soul.
Mark Lamont Hill
Pay you a chicken.
Joe Budden
He was on watermelon. He was on Fox Soul by then.
Mal
Fox Soul's like oxy. More on.
Ish
Yo, it is. They pay you a watermelon.
Mark Lamont Hill
R. They.
Joe Budden
That's hilarious. Then they came up with Tubi, the real Fox soul. Fox. How can we get something for the.
Ish
It's a demographic we're not touching.
Joe Budden
Right?
Mark Lamont Hill
It's a little too sophisticated.
Joe Budden
Them super bowl commercials looked immaculate for Tubi. Goddamn. Damn. Don't laugh when y'all hit the little Tubian. I got a little. Little movie out. I'm. I gotta try them. They say they making money over there.
Ish
I heard.
Joe Budden
Yeah, I got to try them.
Melissa Ford
Me and Big M. I ain't saying no to a Tubi movie.
Joe Budden
Come on. Come on. We out here.
Mark Lamont Hill
All right.
Flip
Right.
Melissa Ford
That's right.
Joe Budden
Look, they. They hating already. What word we talking about just now? Rest in peace, young Scooter.
Mal
For sure.
Joe Budden
And again.
Ish
Bishop Brigante, man, that.
Joe Budden
That one also. That one hurt.
Flip
That one hurt Cancer, man.
Ish
Like, just a real good, genuine dude. Like, I ain't heard nobody that had no to say about dude.
Mal
Yeah, never, Never, never.
Joe Budden
That's what I'm about to say. Like when he. When. When the news hit that he passed, and they was like, oh, rapper from. And then they was like, such and such. And I'm like, yo, just a good man.
Ish
Just a Dude, Word.
Joe Budden
Just a good guy again.
Ish
Rest in peace.
Joe Budden
Shout out to his family. Bishop, we love you.
Mal
Word.
Joe Budden
Gone but not forgotten. For sure. Hey, Bishop fans out there. Hold your head, hold your head. Hey, girl, you looking sweet up now. Thank you. Mic check, mic check, mic check. All right. Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me.
Mark Lamont Hill
We got. I. I hate that I've been so captivated by this story, but this. Yay. I can't stop. I watched every minute of that interview.
Flip
Me too.
Joe Budden
Seriously.
Mal
I tried to, but then I saw the Black KKK shoot.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's when you tapped out.
Melissa Ford
Yes, yes, yes.
Mark Lamont Hill
I tuned in.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
No, that's what I. I was like, oh, wait. All right, this is gonna get interesting.
Melissa Ford
Did he say anything different in this interview than he has been saying for the last.
Joe Budden
Wait, wait, wait. Slow down. Before we get to him saying anything. We not just brushing over that. We're not just brushing over that. Because that's when I knew I had to clock out. I'm shocked we even covering it. I'm probably gonna shut up. I'm probably gonna shut up for the majority of this talk until we get to the 2 million versus his PDF part of this act. This is all I'm saying to y'all. If I go to your house for an interview and you come out dressed normal and we kick it for a second and you say, I'll be right back. All right, Be right back. And then I watch you walk in the little side room and then you come out. Where the fuck did me and Sade go for our Halloween outfits? Them little pop up shops.
Ish
Spirit.
Joe Budden
Yeah, spirit. And then you come out in the spirit black KKK outfit. I cannot stand here and talk to you.
Ish
I'm leaving. No, no, you're moving quick.
Mal
I'm leaving.
Ish
Nah, I'm hitting you.
Joe Budden
I'm out.
Ish
Not in a content game. You're not leaving. You're not leaving.
Joe Budden
I have to punch you in the face. I have to. I have to. You cannot stand here like this and talk to me. What do you think of me? You just have no type of regard for who I be and what I do. I just came. You in Japan, nigga. How long is that flight? Long?
Flip
He wasn't in Japan.
Mal
12 hours.
Ish
He was in LA, which is more reason why you.
Joe Budden
Man, LA is too long of a damn flight for me to fly out there. And you go in the side room and come out in this outfit. I'm not just letting y'all brush your over that.
Flip
He told them In a text message earlier that he's going to do that.
Joe Budden
And I would have said, you look.
Mark Lamont Hill
Unbothered when he came out. I have to hit.
Joe Budden
I have to. When you do it, I don't mind you doing it. I have to hit you.
Ish
Academics was the consummate professional.
Flip
Yes, he was.
Ish
It was going to be the biggest story for the next two or three weeks. I got the Kanye west interview. I'm going to sit here and interview him. If you're academic, you at least got.
Mal
To snatch the hood off.
Flip
No, no, you.
Ish
Yeah, you don't hit him, but you'll hit him. If it was a white dude, for sure, you steal him. If it's a white dude, you not necessarily stealing him. If it's no black dude and it's Kanye West. Come on. Academics not stealing Kanye West.
Flip
We be saying some wild shit up here.
Joe Budden
I'm telling you why Kanye is not looking to speak to me. I'm not really talking about. He want to.
Flip
You not gonna hit him.
Ish
You ain't go to Japan.
Flip
Shut up, Joe.
Ish
You ain't gonna Japan come up with.
Flip
Been chop Suey out there.
Ish
That nigga the Samurai Jo and say.
Mal
Joe Button just like he was with Jim Jones and everybody else that went and seen him.
Joe Budden
No, no, no, no, no. We not. We don't have power over what people have to say.
Mark Lamont Hill
True.
Joe Budden
He could say whatever you want to say, right? I'm hitting. You go in a chest and pull out some outfit.
Flip
He be like, this.
Joe Budden
I have to. You own this. Are you crazy? I ain't about to stand there and talk to you like you a fucking coherent human. All right, so about what we saw online that day. What is happening? Yo, y'all got it. Go ahead.
Mark Lamont Hill
No, but you're right. It looked crazy.
Mal
There.
Joe Budden
Y'all go do it.
Melissa Ford
It looked crazy, and it also looked custom.
Mark Lamont Hill
It was custom. He talked about. He said, I had another piece.
Joe Budden
Yo, he had a fucking tailor for a rope.
Flip
Yeah.
Melissa Ford
So this was trailer.
Joe Budden
Even though that does make sense, the clan would have a tailor.
Mark Lamont Hill
I don't think regular clan got a tailor. I think they off the rack.
Joe Budden
No.
Flip
Yeah, they use the little.
Joe Budden
Come on, bro.
Ish
The broke honkies ain't got no tailor.
Flip
Right? God damn it.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's the line.
Mal
It's some rich honkies.
Joe Budden
I think it's a mistake to just.
Ish
Assume them to be broke. You're right. I agree.
Flip
Hey, they tie them shits.
Joe Budden
Any organization out there that's 400 years old, I think y'all got some money in it. It's a money. I think y'all got it. Yeah.
Ish
They'll stand at the test of time.
Joe Budden
You got it.
Mark Lamont Hill
Well, fair enough. He came out with that robe. I thought there was some new information in there. There's nothing he says that's ever so interesting or coherent that you have to watch it. But I just need to know what they were going to. I'm talking about in terms of interview. To interview. Like, it wasn't like he talked about. He said anti Semitic shit about Jews. Right. And them controlling the world.
Flip
He said white people are controlling Jews. He said there's white people above the Jews as well.
Mark Lamont Hill
Right. So he had like a new conspiracy theory.
Joe Budden
Yeah, he did.
Mark Lamont Hill
You know what I mean? Like, they're like the final boss of controlling the world now. It was that. It was. He talked a little bit about Jay. He was insulting everybody from John Legend. He used the F word a lot for home. For gay people.
Flip
Yes, he do.
Mark Lamont Hill
More so than even normal. It was a lot to sit through. It was a lot to sit through. But I thought it was a better window into his mind talking about.
Joe Budden
But he wasn't. Wait, hold up. I don't want to be that guy. He wasn't using. I'm not defending it because it's horrible, but he used the F word not to. To gay people. He was just.
Flip
No, he was just.
Melissa Ford
It was just.
Mark Lamont Hill
He was.
Melissa Ford
Everybody.
Ish
He was using it how they was used in the hood. Yeah, he was using the house using.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's fair. That's fair.
Joe Budden
And not that. That's right. But everybody was one is what I'm saying. He didn't discriminate who was and who wasn't.
Mark Lamont Hill
Some of the people were gay. Some of them weren't. That's fair. That's fair. It's still awful and homophobic, but, yeah, fair. I mean, it's a fair assessment of what he did. He was. He was universal with his.
Joe Budden
With his nastiness.
Mark Lamont Hill
Exactly. But it was interesting to hear him talk about his ex wife, to hear about talking about the baby, talking about, you know, the decision to have a baby and some of his regrets.
Joe Budden
I'm so shocked that you listened to this.
Mark Lamont Hill
I was sitting on the. I couldn't stop.
Joe Budden
Did you hear his album?
Mark Lamont Hill
Nah, I ain't listening to that.
Joe Budden
So then, yes, you could.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's true. That's fair. I could have made a choice not to listen to it.
Ish
It's different.
Joe Budden
Of course you could.
Flip
But the thing.
Mark Lamont Hill
But for me, it was like, I don't want to support the music. It's an intention not to support the. I want. I want to hear the album, too.
Ish
That's why I sent y'all the link. Like, I uploaded it. So y'all ain't supporting the music.
Mark Lamont Hill
It's not even a money thing for me.
Melissa Ford
It's a private boycott. It's your own private boycott.
Mark Lamont Hill
Exactly.
Melissa Ford
Okay, but you said that this was, like. This interview was a real snapshot, like, into the window of, like, how he thinks in his mind.
Mark Lamont Hill
So.
Melissa Ford
What do you mean?
Mark Lamont Hill
I think he's.
Melissa Ford
Besides, you know, I agree with that.
Ish
I've been saying that same. I feel like that for years. Like, bro, he thinks differently than most people. Like, he.
Parks
A little.
Ish
So it's introspective, but in a different way. It's like. Cause some of the shit he may say makes sense, be kind of poignant and might have some validity, but then he'll just go left with that same exact point. Like, you'll be riding down the street, and he'll just make a sharp turn, and you're like, what the fuck?
Flip
Something that stood out to me is that even though he was rambling, he came back to the point that he was trying to make. So he would veer off and then come back to what he meant, and he would tie it in together. And I listened. I said, oh, that's interesting.
Mark Lamont Hill
And it might take 15 minutes to get there.
Flip
Yeah, yeah, he'll ramble, but he'll go right back to it. He said, but this is why this is like this with Kim. So he'll go off and then he'll go into the Cardi situation, but then go back to why he's upset with Kim.
Joe Budden
And that's where. That's where I agree with what you're saying about at least the clips that I saw his brilliance to the side. It just sounds like he's hurt about a lot of things and angry about a lot of things. So that's how he responds.
Mal
And.
Joe Budden
And this whole. Is just gonna be him telling us why. Not why, but what all these people did to him, that has him angry.
Ish
That justifies what he's doing.
Mal
It's also like the most desperate feelings. Attention seeking. Seeking thing that I've ever seen him do. And he's done a lot of attention seeking thing over his career. And that's. And I love Kanye West. I'm just not here for this era of Kanye West. I'll check back in when he puts the robes and the swastikas away.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm never checking back in as a fan, but I Don't know if you could ever undo clan robes and swastikas for me.
Melissa Ford
Same.
Mark Lamont Hill
But it is interesting to see. I see how people could think he's sane. Like, I watched it and I thought, he's coherent enough. And he does tie the point to flip point back together. That if you want to, if you have an investment in believing that he's making sense, you can't. But I also see the interview was like, this is what untreated trauma looks like. This is what pain looks like. This is what narcissism looks like.
Joe Budden
This is what.
Ish
Definitely.
Mark Lamont Hill
And it's all the mix of things, because as introspective as he is in a certain way, he also has no accountability. The whole world did something to him.
Ish
That's the narcissistic.
Mark Lamont Hill
He never did shit.
Melissa Ford
The mania looks like, as well.
Flip
Yep.
Melissa Ford
You know, like, yeah, people like to apply the whole, you know, mental health issues to him as an excuse for the behavior. And. And it's just like, no, it can't always be applied to every single aspect of him.
Joe Budden
That's why I'm shocked. That's why I'm shocked that you watched the interview and that we're kind of covering it this way. Right. If you identify it as some sort of narcissism, then don't you voluntarily play a role in his design by covering any.
Ish
Yes, for sure. Yes, for sure.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm definitely part of the problem.
Joe Budden
And why insert ourselves or anyone, oneself into the Matrix that way?
Flip
Well, no. Well, he's also hard to avoid.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah.
Flip
And no, it's not.
Joe Budden
When it's somebody not know what I was laughing at. Not laughing at, but just took notice of that wasn't in none of my algorithms nowhere. Like, outside of following ACT and Elliot, that didn't pop up. And none of this in places that it normally would pop up at. I'm like. I'm like, yo, dog, they don't got no ass. No, I don't.
Mal
Well, he does.
Joe Budden
Yes, he does.
Flip
Yes, he does.
Joe Budden
He did. He went and got some ass. But I'm just saying the people that's in charge, they saw enough, had enough. No, you can't just shock outrage emotionally. Bait yourself into the top of feeds. We vetting this thing. I know y'all think it's the World Wide Web, just freedom, freedom, freedom. It ain't. That ain't. Wasn't no way. I'm like, all right, so it ain't that hard for people to just totally ignore him wherever his album is. They made sure I wouldn't get it.
Ish
Yeah, I think I'm not going to.
Joe Budden
Whatever. It popped up all my links.
Mal
I think I follow Kanye on YouTube, so it's gonna pop up there.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, me too.
Joe Budden
I'm just saying. I'm not. If it ain't as click of a buttonish for me. You ain't been to Kanye to make me go through all the hurdles and hoops. I remember one time we was on our way back from tour, he dropped the album. What was it only on Tidal or something?
Mal
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Pablo, you found that shit. I was so grateful for Parks. Parks.
Ish
I got it right here.
Joe Budden
I'm listening. It was like an event.
Mal
Yeah.
Joe Budden
All right. Let's hear this shit.
Mal
Kanye albums were an event.
Joe Budden
The days of that are over. Over. I don't know who could get that off for me today, right now, where.
Ish
They just drop an album and again, stop, again.
Joe Budden
I just feel like some of the complaints in terms of NBA analysts and commentators and how they talk about the game and treat the game, I feel like that same effect has kind of just happened with music. And there is no one that's viewed in that premium, I guess there's no stars. There is no stars. Quite a few.
Mal
We're gonna stop and listen to Kendrick. We're gonna stop and listen to Drake. We're gonna stop and listen to J. Cole. We're gonna stop and listen to Jay Z if he ever drops up again. We're gonna stop and listen to Beyonce. We're gonna stop, stop. And there's mad people that we're gonna stop and listen to.
Joe Budden
See, that's. See, to me, that's not mad. To me, that's a spec on a whole notebook. Those are the people that we're gonna. You're gonna name seven people I'll probably.
Mal
Get to 15 out of.
Mark Lamont Hill
But that's always been the case.
Ish
It's always been that I think there.
Mal
Might be more superstars where you stop and listen than there was before.
Joe Budden
Yes, it's a lower.
Mal
Way lower percentage because there's way more.
Ish
People releasing music, but it ain't never been that many that would automatically guarantee whatever you're doing. You stopped 20 years ago, I wasn't.
Mal
Gonna stop listening to a Daddy Yankee album. Today, I'm gonna stop and listen to a Bad Bunny album. There's bigger stars. There's more stars. There's more global stars. It's a different. It's a different world.
Ish
A lot of people would have did the Daddy for sure.
Mal
For sure.
Joe Budden
On Patreon. I'd like to have that debate What? Okay, global stars. How many of them there are versus how many of them there were.
Mal
It's declined in the past few years, but there's still some that you talking.
Ish
About overall or just right.
Joe Budden
Because I can't let you use Bad Bunny to wipe out Daddy Yankee when Daddy Yankee.
Mal
Be clear.
Joe Budden
Daddy Yankee is and was. Bad Bunny paved the way for.
Ish
For sure.
Joe Budden
A Bad Bunny and his stardom. Like, just because we, 25 years later, like that shouldn't wipe out the superstar that. The global star that some of these people work.
Mal
I'm not trying to diminish them. I'm just serious. I'm saying that Bad Bunny is a bigger artist. And you can just look at sales and numbers like, he's a bigger artist and more. It's touching more people than Daddy Inky was then. It was a lot more regionalized and.
Ish
Localized, but technology and a bunch of.
Mal
Those things for sure. But my bigger point is that there are more superstars. It's just a lower percentage.
Joe Budden
See, and that's the point that I want to argue, because if we're. I don't think that we should just use metrics to identify who is and isn't a superstar. Because by that. By that.
Ish
That's a good point.
Joe Budden
Nobody, nobody from yesteryear is going to have any metrics that resemble what Bad Bunny and any superstar today is doing. Because the game changed into a metrics, a streaming type of game.
Mal
I'm not talking about record sales strictly.
Joe Budden
Okay.
Mal
I'm not talking.
Joe Budden
So we'd have to identify.
Mal
We can look at tours. You can look at what Bad Bunny's doing in Puerto Rico right now. Sold out for a month straight. Brought all these tourists over there, like. But the numbers are beyond the streams.
Joe Budden
But even that's skewed for the timing, because in the year 2000, it's a big deal for any rapper to sell out an arena. Yeah, just one.
Mal
Yeah.
Joe Budden
With the evolution of touring and touring technologies and companies and tech.
Mark Lamont Hill
Tech.
Joe Budden
It's common now. So I'm just saying because of what's common today, we shouldn't wipe out what was extraordinary. And yes, never.
Ish
That's not a wipeout happening.
Joe Budden
Okay.
Ish
Just acknowledging the evolution.
Mal
I of all people, try to put as much respect on my elders, whether they're my genre or not. I just. It's a my. Again, my initial point is there's more superstars, just lower percentage.
Ish
And I say I'm with parks.
Joe Budden
Got it. Got it.
Ish
I don't care.
Joe Budden
I do want to ask you guys about the Jim Jones PDF argument that he highlighted though, which was he said that he said he would meet with some crypto dude for Jim. Jim set it up. Jim would be paid a percentage, which broke down to $2 million. Kanye found out still took the meeting and Jim got paid, paid in return. Kanye asked Jim send him a PDF of all the new latest fashion trends and designs and styles that the young in New York is doing. And Jim hit him back and said I don't know how to do a PDF. Which Kanye took offense to because it's like okay, even if you don't, you just got $2 million. You don't think you could have figured out how to go get a PDF done or get it done if you just got $2 million. Which sounds like it makes a lot of sense.
Ish
Yeah, it makes sense.
Mark Lamont Hill
If that story is true. That's wow. You make a couple million, you make a couple hundred thousand. You make a couple thousand, you can.
Melissa Ford
Pay somebody, manage to go to Kinko's and get somebody to do that for you.
Mark Lamont Hill
Exactly.
Ish
I think they was doing a collab or they was piling on some clothing shit and that's when he said like whatever styles that you already got, send me the PDF of all the shit. I think if I just made $2 million off you, I'll find a way. If I didn't know how to do it, I would have hired somebody and gave him five grand to send you whatever you needed. And not just that, just to further that relationship. Cause I know you are a cash cow and I could potentially make another 2, 3, 4, 5 million with you.
Joe Budden
I would have got it done. Yeah, I'm on the other side.
Flip
Well no, not necessarily.
Joe Budden
I'm on the other side.
Flip
If I'm able to get a come up up off of you and you saying some wild that I don't want my brand to stand, you know, stand in line with or stand next to you. I'll do the flim flam too.
Joe Budden
I'm not sending you fucking. One of the greater fashion minds in our modern times. All of the new hot New York styles and trends for you to go flip and make X amount of dollars off of for that measly 2 mil. That's not worth 2 miles on to me. Nah, I'm not sending it. Nope. I'm not sending it. Nope. Cuz the Jim ain't dumb. Jim know he could go get a PDF made. I'm not sending it either. I ain't sorry. Figure it out on your own.
Mark Lamont Hill
But you know he going to figure out on his own.
Joe Budden
I don't know that.
Mark Lamont Hill
You don't think he. Get somebody else to do what. What. What Jim was going to do.
Joe Budden
Yo, baby, I don't think it'll have the. The same sauce.
Ish
All right, so Kanye could have had the same exact sentiment when he took a meeting for you, and you got $2 million off the meeting. And I ain't make shit.
Joe Budden
I don't look at the meeting like that. I don't look at the meeting like that. That's. That's the music. That's the old music business. Fucking trick. Yeah, I'm doing this for you. You make that. But, yo, now do this for me. I'm gonna make this. No, you're doing one thing in lieu of another thing you do. Taking the meeting and letting me get the 2 mil. Because now when I come back and swing the block, it's gonna be nine figures. Figures. It's gonna be nine figures.
Mal
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
But I ain't cost you nine figures.
Joe Budden
What? I'm just telling you where my head is at. I ain't telling you where yours needs to be.
Ish
True. Yeah, I think that's.
Melissa Ford
Wouldn't you have, like, assumed that this was a foregone conclusion, that he was gonna spin the block and say, okay, now it's my turn?
Ish
No, I mean, it's a few things that we don't know the answers to. He made it seem like they was already in talking, like they was already piling. So they might have already been talking on some music shit, I mean, on some clothing shit. We don't know that to be true. But that's how he kind of said it, like, you know what I mean? And he said also that he knew nothing about the $2 million. He found out about the $2 million right before the meeting. And he was like, yo, that's some bullshit that you would do that, right? Get $2 million off setting up the meeting. And. And I still took the meeting. Even though I felt a certain type of way about you getting $2 million off of my name. I still took the meeting. To put the bread in your pocket.
Joe Budden
Just cause you're such a good guy and a good human. Right?
Ish
Whatever the case may be.
Joe Budden
Not whatever the case may be, because if you only took meeting.
Ish
We can't speak for him. We can't speak for him. Whatever the case may be, I took the meeting.
Joe Budden
We can acknowledge both sides of the coin.
Ish
All right?
Joe Budden
So we can acknowledge it like you're just a good human and you took this meeting, or we can acknowledge it like you took the meeting in hopes that some. It was a different comeback on the comeback, which is how I'm viewing. It could be. All right, I'm not viewing none of these in the music business as. Oh, you're such a good human that you're putting.
Mark Lamont Hill
But if I find out the expectation.
Ish
Bro, if I find out right before the meeting that you got paid 2 mil just to the. The middleman and set this up, I might be like, all right, cool. I see what type of time you on. So, all right, I'll take this meeting, and then when I come back, now, you. I want a favor from you, and that's. I don't see the problem with that.
Mark Lamont Hill
Me either. And that's what I'm saying. If that's what happened, then I really expect Jim to be all right. You got me? I made two on that. Here's the Adobe Acrobat for you. You know what I'm saying?
Ish
Or my nigga, you might not send them all the styles. You could send them something.
Joe Budden
Hell, no. That eliminates the time for negotiation. I don't value the PDF that you are asking for at $2 million. I don't value.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, you say it's more.
Joe Budden
Yes, it's more.
Ish
So what?
Joe Budden
No, it's not. So what? It's not so what?
Melissa Ford
So then why don't.
Joe Budden
That's not a so what thing? That's a conversation to be had, all right? It's not just.
Ish
I'm not disagreeing with you. It could be a conversation, to be honest.
Joe Budden
So I'm not sending you to be. It's not as simple as you texting me and saying, hey, dawg, send this PDF over. No, hey, let's have that conversation.
Ish
Your people's meeting with me could have been more than 2 million. You handled that wrong.
Mark Lamont Hill
2 million ain't what it used to be or something, man. I feel like if you made me 2 million, I feel like I owe you some shit.
Ish
It depend on who the person is, too. 2 million to some nigga is way more than $2 million is to other. Huh?
Mark Lamont Hill
It could. And that's why I need the whole story, because that's. That's also Yay's version. And Yay has not earned our benefit of the doubt in storytelling. So I'm assuming I'm more inclined to trust that Jim may have a thought on this that would make it make sense.
Mal
Yeah.
Flip
Yeah.
Mal
And I'm sure it's something like what you were saying, not for nothing or.
Joe Budden
And when they y'all music business niggas be trying that shit where y'all fucking do some shit and then spin the block.
Mal
Favor for a favor.
Joe Budden
Get something more valuable. Hell no. Get the fuck out.
Ish
Well, that's just relationship. Like, if I scratch your back, scratch your mind.
Joe Budden
Nah, it's a trick.
Ish
And not. Not only that. It could have just been a timing thing. Hey, when I did this and we had this meeting and all of that, then you went and started doing all this wild shit.
Joe Budden
Cause if it's.
Ish
I'm not fucking with you at all.
Joe Budden
Listen, I know how to do it. And I'm aware that my view are maybe of the minority, but if it's. If it's on the strength of the relationship, then it's not scratch my back. Scratch your back. It's on the strength of the relationship.
Ish
Yeah.
Joe Budden
So let's call it what it is, which is some transactional and a way to eliminate the conversation of trying to establish true value or something. That's all I got for it. That's enclosure for me. That's enclosing for me. I didn't make a rep one red cent, so I ain't about to keep on tracking it. And shout out to Jim, Shout out to everybody getting their side deals off in this shit.
Ish
They out there. Well off of that. Did y'all see the Nokia video?
Joe Budden
Yeah, I did.
Mark Lamont Hill
Seen it a few times.
Ish
What you take.
Mark Lamont Hill
I mean, I saw it when he made it, and I saw the previous versions that he bit from that he bit it from, so I thought it was interesting each time. The black and white version that Kendrick made was dope. The version I saw here was dope. It was lots of versions. And they were all good. They were all good. I actually liked the video, though.
Ish
So you think he think he bit from. He was spoofing, like. What do you think?
Mark Lamont Hill
I don't know what he was trying to do. I don't wanna speak for Drake. I'll say this. It was the first. It made me like the song a lot more, which is always a good sign of a video for me, feels.
Ish
The opposite for me.
Mark Lamont Hill
And I liked what he did aesthetically. I liked the dancers. I liked the vibe I liked. I liked him in it. You know what I mean? He looked happy and buoyant. I thought it was a dope video. I don't. I'm half kidding when I say he. I don't think he bit from Kendrick, but he has to know that when people watch that video, they're gonna say.
Melissa Ford
That he bit from Kendrick.
Mal
There were some stylistic things that Were pretty Kendrick esque. Yeah, but I didn't. I don't know. I'm tired of the Kendrick and Drake thing.
Mark Lamont Hill
But that's why I hate that he did. It's like, just. You didn't have to do it this way. Cause again, it was just a dope video on its own. It's a dope song. It's a dope video. I love it. And I just hate the fact that when I watch that, I'm like, okay, that's gonna look just like this thing that just happened.
Mal
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Put it in color. I mean, just that one move would have made the shit a lot different.
Mal
Black and white look fly, though.
Mark Lamont Hill
It was amazing.
Ish
I like the artistic. I like the artistic piece, but I ain't really like the video that much. I just thought. I thought it was artsy. I thought it was cool aesthetically, like, to look at the black and white plays. But I ain't really careful.
Melissa Ford
The choreography was dope.
Flip
I thought the choreography was dope.
Melissa Ford
Yeah, it was really dope. The overhead shot is what kind of. The aerial shot is what kind of gave me super bowl vibes a little bit. Yeah, yeah.
Ish
I think this video match the song. Yeah, that was my thing. That's it. Like, when I hear this song, I'm thinking this was supposed to be like some type of a. A party, a pool party. Like.
Flip
Yeah, yeah.
Ish
I. When I hear this record, it's supposed to be. It sounds upbeat and fun. Like, I ain't get that from the video.
Mark Lamont Hill
It didn't feel fun.
Ish
No, it felt pretty serious.
Mal
I mean, black and white.
Ish
Yeah. Did I feel like a fun video?
Mark Lamont Hill
It didn't feel like Summertime. It didn't feel like depressing or down to me. I was. Again, I enjoy. I saw Joy in that video and he looked. He was having a good time.
Melissa Ford
I like when. I like when you do. When videos are done that are kind of like the opposite of what you think the song is gonna be, like the whisper song. Nobody thought that everybody was gonna be dressed up in, like, suits and dresses for that song. You know what I mean? So I kind of like that, you know, kind of juxtapose of different sound but classic aesthetic.
Ish
There wasn't. Where do you see that?
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah.
Flip
I like in the video to read through it. When he was surrounded by, you know, the snakes was going around and. Yeah, you know, because remember there was a game on a Nokia phone called Snakes. So I like that whole shit. Like he was saying the snake there. Snake surrounded by snakes. I thought that was dope. I thought that was clever. I liked it, man. I liked the Caribbean aspect of it by inviting, you know, the whole carnival thing that he did, I thought that was fire, you know, I'm a Caribbean nigga. It was cool. I liked it.
Mark Lamont Hill
I thought it was. I hope it's part of a turn for him. Like, I thought it was a good product. I thought it was creative. I thought it was interesting. I just want to see him hit a hot streak again. I want to see him have a run of good. Of good.
Ish
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Post Kendrick.
Joe Budden
That's. Again.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's why I didn't want the video to feel serious. Serious or derivative.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Because I want nobody to. I don't. I don't want to get dragged back into the Kendrick conversation, but it's unavoidable when you do it like this. But I just want to see him. I want to see him win with some good music.
Joe Budden
I didn't see the video. I see you looking at me. I see you looking at me. I see you looking at me, and I did not see the video.
Ish
I know you.
Joe Budden
Then what is you. You think.
Ish
You think you saw anyone say nothing about it?
Flip
Yes. Come on.
Ish
Yo, I think a that Watch everything on the Internet. Sees everything on the Internet. Like, has made media his life. Didn't see the new Drake video. Do I think that?
Mark Lamont Hill
Or he didn't see it on purpose? So you have, like, what do you call it? Plausible liability.
Joe Budden
Well, that.
Ish
Seen that video.
Joe Budden
You paused your ass out of here. That nigga see that for the plausible deniabilities part. Hate to tell you guys the truth and age myself. I don't watch a video.
Ish
I ain't seen a video. I don't watch videos.
Joe Budden
I don't watch any video. There's no video that hits the Internet that I click on and watch. That's why I'm laughing during y'all review, cuz it's listening to my age talk about having to watch a video. Like, yeah, I saw it. I mean, you know, this is what it's like. Yo, we don't watch.
Ish
We don't watch videos no more.
Joe Budden
Videos.
Mal
Yeah, because I listen to music. I use YouTube like a DSP sometimes.
Flip
Yeah, the video.
Ish
It does. Yeah.
Joe Budden
So I didn't watch the video. But, like, my takeaway is, like, what Mark just said, right? Like, I'm mad that the clips I saw, I saw the little Kendrick shit. But it's like that. I want the Drake people to get in they bag. Let the Kendrick people get in they bag, and let's move forward. Now I'm sick of the correlation of it all. I think that this song and video and movement is a big part of that for Drake and Drake Hive. So let's not. I don't want to play a part in corrupting that or corroding that for them. Right. I didn't see the video. My thought. I have no thought on it. All of the blog niggas, they'd be like, joe Budden said this about this. I didn't see it. I have nothing to say about it. And I'm glad everybody's having a blast. Even when it came on, it's triple. I didn't know it came on. On.
Mal
What you mean you didn't know it came on?
Joe Budden
I didn't know it came on, cuz. I used to tell him, yeah, man, I told you. That is ringing off. I'm like, huh?
Mal
That's what Shorty was. Y mean.
Ish
Yeah, yeah. He started Y meaning baby girl.
Mal
Yeah, I can see how it might.
Ish
I mean, that's what went over your head.
Joe Budden
Yeah, yeah.
Ish
A little bit.
Mal
Paying a little more attention to the visual than the audio.
Ish
That's the video I wanted to see.
Mal
Sure, sure. Yeah, yeah. That would have been more appropriate. Yeah.
Joe Budden
Then the merch line dropped. Hey, big mail, yo. I don't know how you do it. Keep catching straight. No, this wasn't a straight.
Melissa Ford
Okay. All right.
Joe Budden
Do you think it was?
Melissa Ford
Continue what you're about to say.
Joe Budden
I was gonna say, I don't know how you always manage to come back with, like, some type of unforeseen bang, like you was coming back Tuesday no matter what, and then all that shit could make it look like you just appeared in the midst of fucking. Some male shit.
Melissa Ford
Just came out of the. Yeah, came out of the.
Flip
That was fire, man. You know when you type the website in, it goes to your patreon.
Joe Budden
I saw some people saying that.
Flip
No, I typed it in and I saw it. I don't know what plan that is. I started to dig a little deeper. I ain't like that shit, but I liked it at the same time. When you type videovictions. Catch it Goes to Joe Button's Patreon. Type it right now. Some ill going on here.
Mark Lamont Hill
He's calling my phone, calling my phone.
Melissa Ford
What the fuck is going on?
Flip
Some ill going. I don't know.
Joe Budden
Oh, I thought you negotiated for both of us. I thought you finally did a solid. I woke up instead of that bio shit you did. I thought you learned from your bio shit and was like, yo, if you use it Then go ahead and put the Patreon up there.
Flip
That was fire.
Joe Budden
No, you didn't do that. That.
Melissa Ford
No, no, I woke up to it. I woke up to that.
Joe Budden
Got it.
Melissa Ford
I man.
Ish
Okay. That's fire.
Flip
Yeah, I just checked. It's man. Fire.
Melissa Ford
It goes to Joe's.
Flip
Joe's.
Joe Budden
Yes.
Flip
Eating again. Yes, he eating again.
Joe Budden
Y boys. Y'all boys.
Flip
That boy some going on. You know what to do. He trying to cause. He trying to cause. Real contention aside. Let me.
Mark Lamont Hill
Let me put this together.
Flip
So flip and get mad. Yeah, I see you, boy.
Joe Budden
What did you think? What did you think?
Flip
Don't try to change the subject.
Mark Lamont Hill
Don't do that.
Joe Budden
It's the same subject.
Flip
Don't do that. I hate when you do that. Let it sit. Let it sit.
Joe Budden
All right, my bad.
Flip
It goes to your Patreon. I typed it in directly. Nigga lit.
Ish
I just typed it right now. And he's right.
Flip
Yes.
Joe Budden
That's dope. That's dope.
Flip
Okay, I mean, all right.
Joe Budden
That's super dope. I fuck with that.
Flip
Good. Just want to make sure you do good looking out.
Ish
Your boy's good, man.
Joe Budden
Why y'all look all weird in the face?
Ish
I don't even know what they talking about. I'm just reading your reaction to see if you bullshitting or not.
Melissa Ford
There's a jacket with my image on it, and underneath it, it says VideoVixen CA. So CA IS.com in Canada, like a.
Joe Budden
Really old picture of Mel.
Melissa Ford
Shut the fuck up. All right.
Joe Budden
Hello.
Melissa Ford
Anyway, it is an iconic photo of Matt, all right? So anyways, you click in, you click on that link, and it takes it to Joe's Patreon.
Joe Budden
Y'all said that already.
Melissa Ford
What the is going on?
Joe Budden
Why y'all keep saying that?
Melissa Ford
What the is going on is, where's my check? Where's my check? That's what I want to know. Where's my check out? That's what the fuck I want to know.
Joe Budden
Real questions.
Melissa Ford
Where is my check?
Joe Budden
Hey.
Melissa Ford
Yes. Check.
Joe Budden
C. Hey, look at the camera.
Melissa Ford
H E Q U E. Okay, Check.
Joe Budden
Come on, Canada.
Melissa Ford
Check.
Joe Budden
So you didn't get paid for that?
Melissa Ford
No, I woke up to it, and I'm just like, I have bigger fish to fry than this. Get paid for that.
Joe Budden
That's why.
Ish
The item is for sale.
Melissa Ford
Apparently so.
Joe Budden
But you don't own that picture.
Melissa Ford
Who says photographer?
Joe Budden
Do you own that picture?
Flip
You can buy from a photographer, man. You didn't buy from that photographer.
Joe Budden
Look at that.
Ish
The photographer owns the photographer owns the photographer.
Melissa Ford
There's A possibility that I do own it. There's a possibility that I shot that from my first calendar.
Joe Budden
Yo, yo, I believe you. You. Yeah, my girl coming in hot with.
Flip
Some lies she probably owns.
Joe Budden
Well know goddamn well if she owned that she would be on the phone.
Ish
Hey, cease and desist.
Melissa Ford
I, I, I mean I sent a DM today.
Flip
Oh.
Joe Budden
Girl. All right, baby girl. All right, so let's try this a different way. Mark, do you have anything before I go, do you have anything to say on the man?
Mark Lamont Hill
I, I believe you.
Flip
He put the shades on.
Mark Lamont Hill
Mark. The light was getting my eyes.
Joe Budden
I believe Mel too. I believe Mel too. This is what I'll say if, if Holly Berry couldn't get if when cuz he had posted Holly Jerry. Cause Holly Berry's he posted Halle Berry's picture and she asked him, yo, hey, take that down. Hey man, what's up with you? I didn't get paid. Can you just chill out? And he was like, nah, Duke. Yeah, that's the nicer version of what he said. So now you think you might be able to fare better in the instance?
Melissa Ford
Probably not, to be honest. Probably not. Probably not.
Joe Budden
And it did. It's a good looking hoodie.
Melissa Ford
It's cute.
Joe Budden
Man, I hope that sells. Boy. Type in the website. That's type in the Melissa Ford Drake website.
Flip
Yo, yo, boy, I do like that picture, huh, girl?
Melissa Ford
Man, I do like that picture. It's a cute picture.
Joe Budden
It's got to go Check it out for himself now.
Ish
I, I, I said, did I say it? I said showing them the hoodie.
Joe Budden
Show them right now.
Flip
Okay. It's nice.
Joe Budden
Oh, that's crazy.
Melissa Ford
Can I at least get one?
Joe Budden
Damn.
Ish
99.99.
Melissa Ford
I'm sure you could thank.
Joe Budden
Look how fast it went from you better pay me to. Can I at least give me a.
Mark Lamont Hill
Settle at court for two?
Joe Budden
I'll pay for the shipping.
Flip
I got some ribs.
Ish
Can I get some ribs?
Mal
At least one.
Joe Budden
You could do one rib. Come. It's the least you could do, buddy.
Melissa Ford
Please, please, sir.
Joe Budden
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Ish
Bam.
Joe Budden
Adebayo. Die. Bye. Die. Badiah for more than nine rebounds. Okay, if you download the prize picks app right this second and use promo code JBP, you get $50 instantly when you play your first $5 lineup. I repeat, if you download the app right this second and use promo code JBP, B P, you get $50 instantly after you play your first $5 lineup. So good luck to all participants out there and run your game. All right. What we doing?
Ish
All right.
Joe Budden
I'm having fun either way, so I don't care. All right? Yep. Whichever way y'all want to go, I'm gonna have a good time.
Ish
All right. Y'all want to go?
Joe Budden
Y'all gonna try to make. Oh, yeah, that's right. You better. Look at you. What?
Ish
But we can go to other topic then.
Joe Budden
Yeah, come on, let's do it. I want to do it just to fuck with ish.
Ish
How?
Joe Budden
Cause you're gonna try to be. You got like the. You're gonna try to be moral man, moral police, moral man, moral man. And I'm gonna approach the topic like trying to have fun, so. I like that, man.
Ish
All right, so there's really went and got the kindergarten toys over there.
Flip
You can.
Mark Lamont Hill
That looks crazy, by the way. I don't know if you can see it. You should really stop doing that.
Flip
Yo, stop paying attention to me. Let's go.
Mark Lamont Hill
Okay, you know, keep doing it.
Flip
The moral police. All right, go ahead.
Mark Lamont Hill
Just morally. I told you, when the meme pop up, it's a gif. It's gonna look crazy.
Ish
All right, so there's a story going around that a father left his three children, ages 10, 6 and 1, at a McDonald's while he attended a job interview.
Flip
Yes.
Joe Budden
And some people here think that he was wrong.
Ish
By some, he's referring to myself.
Flip
Did he leave them with snacks? Chicken nuggets, burgers and stuff?
Joe Budden
Yeah, come on.
Ish
As long as he had the apple pies.
Flip
I mean, did he leave them? Yeah. Did he leave well fed?
Ish
Did the McDonald's had a play area?
Joe Budden
Did he have that?
Ish
Did he have him in the play area?
Joe Budden
They have the iPad.
Ish
Yeah, and a charger. The one year old can't go poop by himself.
Joe Budden
My.
Ish
He got a pamper.
Joe Budden
Wasn't by Himself.
Flip
He's with a 10 year old on.
Ish
A 10 year old.
Joe Budden
He's with a 10 year old.
Ish
Watch your brother.
Joe Budden
Brother. Now how. How mature is the 10 year old?
Melissa Ford
Yo, Monday, we don't know that.
Mark Lamont Hill
Sound like had to grow up fast.
Ish
Yeah, you don't say. On a marathon course. What you talking about?
Flip
We seen this.
Joe Budden
If the 10 year old was mature, where was the job interview at?
Melissa Ford
I was about to say it was close.
Mal
Maybe it was at the McDonald's.
Joe Budden
That's what I'm saying.
Ish
It wasn't at the McDonald's.
Joe Budden
It wasn't far if it was next door. Free him. Yo. I don't care what they're talking about. Free him.
Flip
Three him.
Joe Budden
Free him.
Ish
I'm. I'm with. I'm with y'all.
Joe Budden
Free him. So it's backwards. Free up to us upside down. Whatever this shit is, is.
Flip
You don't want to acknowledge it, but this happened all the time in our homes, man. Mom leave you in the crib.
Ish
In the crib and not McDonald's.
Joe Budden
That's how he lost his virginity. Yo, older babysitter.
Ish
I never had a baby anyway. Yo, dog, you only your kids a 1 year old. I could see if it was a 10 year old. I think it's a little.
Mark Lamont Hill
No, you can't leave a 10 year old at McDonald's either.
Ish
No, but a 10 year old has. I was in the fifth grade, my nigga. At 10 years old, I knew how to navigate a little.
Melissa Ford
I was taking the bus at seven.
Flip
At seven, nigga.
Mark Lamont Hill
Okay.
Melissa Ford
With a key around my neck.
Mark Lamont Hill
Latchkey shouldn't have been.
Melissa Ford
I know it was wrong, right?
Mark Lamont Hill
We always took the fucking back in the past.
Joe Budden
That's Mel's version of the projects. And the key was around my neck.
Flip
I was a laughing. That's her 40s project.
Ish
That is it.
Joe Budden
Yo.
Flip
That's her Wagner project.
Ish
It was the trenches for her. My nigga at 10 is different than you being in there at 1.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, it's definitely degrees of fucked upness.
Flip
Yeah.
Joe Budden
You know what I'm saying?
Mark Lamont Hill
But I'm saying I don't want to normalize leaving a 10 year old. The problem is, first of all, there's a lot of creeps in McDonald's. I don't know what I'm assuming this was the hood.
Joe Budden
How early was this?
Ish
I don't know, bro.
Mark Lamont Hill
And McDonald's is one of the nastier places these days.
Joe Budden
Why are you assuming it's a hood? Why? It couldn't have been.
Mark Lamont Hill
It's a little racist because no Black man is leaving three Negro children in a suburban McDonald's because he wouldn't have made it. They would have did a citizens arrest.
Joe Budden
That's the employee of the moment.
Mark Lamont Hill
No, that's not. What according to the report he got there. He got there 4:30pm yeah, he left, came back a little bit and then left again and then came back finally around in the 6 o'clock. Around six something right?
Mal
Ooh, that's awesome.
Joe Budden
Was this a McCafe?
Flip
It was the last.
Mark Lamont Hill
It was the last McDonald's that has a playground in it. Remember back in the day all the McDonald's in the playground. It has an actual play place in it.
Ish
Which I did something that still happened.
Mark Lamont Hill
But not a lot.
Joe Budden
And he was trying to work.
Mark Lamont Hill
I respect it. I don't want that to happen to the.
Ish
Why we not getting really fucked up?
Flip
Why we not giving black father a black father credit for trying to go get a job?
Joe Budden
That's where the combo is at. No, that's who we are. Is that the societal pressures that the.
Ish
Black man has to face endure?
Flip
Yeah. Indoor sounds better.
Joe Budden
Yes.
Mark Lamont Hill
Let me ask you question.
Flip
Everybody wasn't you working at 2 years old. Everybody wasn't you?
Joe Budden
I had to stand on my own black belt.
Flip
I was light skinned. I had to stand alone.
Joe Budden
Everybody wanted black belt at three, wasn't you?
Flip
Boy Father's gotta go out and work.
Joe Budden
Nigga.
Ish
You right. I'm happy for. Hopefully somebody gives the gentleman a job.
Mark Lamont Hill
Actually what would have happened if he had brought them three kids to the job interview?
Flip
That's they wouldn't like that.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm just asking. I'm just throwing it out there.
Flip
Not a one year old.
Ish
Yo, you now you don't really have have the ability to work here. Yeah, are they bad?
Mark Lamont Hill
But if they're that bad in that trouble maybe they shouldn't be left in a.
Flip
You should, you should know. You should know. You bought little man to work.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's my point. Five guys when I did this.
Joe Budden
Yeah, but don't but don't but but, but you don't just.
Flip
Yeah. Try to.
Joe Budden
Yeah. Don't just try to stroll over our joke.
Mark Lamont Hill
Walk on by the bat.
Joe Budden
Our joke. Joke is that's the day we learned that you don't have a fighter's chance in hell at all.
Flip
He runs the house.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh for sure.
Flip
And we made a mistake and said muffins.
Ish
That's what it turned out.
Flip
He said muffins by mistake. We was trying to pick up ish. Your son said muffins.
Mark Lamont Hill
This n heard muffins and went nuts.
Flip
He went crazy. Yeah, he was speaking Spanish about mistakes.
Ish
He don't even speak English and heard muffins.
Mark Lamont Hill
I said it to him in Spanish.
Ish
Muffins in Spanish.
Joe Budden
Spanish.
Mark Lamont Hill
Muyetes.
Ish
Oh, he heard muetes at Blue Baddies.
Flip
He went crazy. He started touching. What's this? Speaking English. I thought he. I told you. I said I thought he didn't speak English. Yo, yo.
Mark Lamont Hill
He don't really, but he heard crack muffins. He was on it.
Flip
You know what I mean? Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
So, yeah, the kids is bad as shit. Some of them. You know what I mean?
Flip
So you should understand why this black father had to bring his child to work. I mean, bring his child to McDonald's and leave him.
Mark Lamont Hill
My kid's so bad. I left him at McDonald's.
Ish
What you want him. Leave him in the car.
Flip
Let me see.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'd be. Actually, honestly, I'd feel better leaving him in the car.
Joe Budden
Now that's when they.
Mark Lamont Hill
But he don't have a car.
Ish
I would have felt better leaving him in my crib. As opposed to a public McDonald's. My nigga.
Mark Lamont Hill
Agreed.
Melissa Ford
Facts.
Mark Lamont Hill
Agreed.
Ish
What if the crib is closer? I mean, the McDonald's is closer than the crib. Is McDonald's right here?
Mark Lamont Hill
It's closer.
Joe Budden
But there's something hamburger I gotta come in.
Melissa Ford
There's a lot of creepy mofos that hang out in McDonald's looking for kids that are unattended.
Ish
The hamburger.
Joe Budden
We left them with a shank.
Ish
Grim is coming in and take your one year old. Black kids ain't really going off like that with the stranger like that. Don't be us that much.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm not. Yeah, but they do get other things happen to them. I don't want nothing bad to happen to these kids. Leaving three of them again. I feel so bad for this brother. I don't want him to go to jail.
Joe Budden
Me neither.
Mark Lamont Hill
I want him to get a job. I want him to get some support. The mom came in. Here's the thing. The mom came and got. After he got locked up, the mom came and got all three of them. So, like, was there not a way to arrange that kind of childcare without getting locked up?
Melissa Ford
Maybe she. Maybe she didn't know that he was going for a job interview. Maybe she thought that he still had a job and that was why he was hiding.
Flip
Maybe she applied pressure and said, you gotta watch these kids. I don't give a fuck about your job interview. Watch these kids. Take them with you. And she was on some ignorant Shit, that could have been the other angle.
Mark Lamont Hill
All these things are possible. We don't know.
Flip
But of course, right, Mark?
Mark Lamont Hill
No, I mean it could have been.
Flip
Something bad, could be something which side you likely stand on.
Mark Lamont Hill
I don't wanna. I have no idea what happen.
Flip
She came at so the mother's present because she came and picked the children up after. So what side you stand on? Why she couldn't watch the kids while this black father go get.
Melissa Ford
So he's probably at work.
Mark Lamont Hill
I don't know their situation. She could have been at work. They could have a custody agreement. She could be dead wrong. She could be dead right. But I'm not gonna now inject into the conversation that she did something fucked up when he's the one that left him at McDonald's. But I do wish that they could have a situation where she could have got the kids without him having to get locked up.
Ish
Cause we laughing and joking, but this could have turned out gravely wrong.
Mark Lamont Hill
Hell yeah.
Ish
You know what I'm saying? Like we being silly about it, cuz it's. But it could have went way, way, way left.
Joe Budden
That's true.
Mark Lamont Hill
Hell yeah. Man, that kid suffocating the ball pit, you know what I'm saying?
Ish
He could have ate a burger.
Mark Lamont Hill
Could have ate a b.
Ish
No a burger period, right?
Joe Budden
Yo.
Mark Lamont Hill
How about that?
Ish
Oh, my bad. Oh, oh no.
Joe Budden
He.
Mark Lamont Hill
He eat these n eat McDonald's.
Ish
Oh no, he McDonald's.
Mark Lamont Hill
They McDonald's. They make a little man.
Ish
You know what I mean? Oh yeah, he was cool. Had a chicken nugget. The kids was chilling.
Flip
He checked on them twice.
Mark Lamont Hill
He did check on it his kids twice.
Ish
So the interview had to be somewhat close.
Mark Lamont Hill
If I'm leaving my kids anywhere and I don't do this, I would leave them in the car though. I'm telling you, I like that chance better. You drive up to the job, go to the interview. I mean, come on. Dude ain't interviewing for Supreme Court justice. How long could the interview have been? You know what I'm saying, nigga, you.
Ish
Could have had the interview. Where y'all want you to meet the director. You did so good. I want you to meet this person. You did so good. I want you to meet that person.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yep, my kids would be listening to Hot 97 Five in the Cloud.
Flip
I'm with him.
Ish
I kind of gotta be with em now. I would've left him in the car.
Mark Lamont Hill
Left him in the car. You can see him.
Ish
You can't see.
Mark Lamont Hill
You go check them every 10 minutes.
Melissa Ford
Afraid that the 10 year old would.
Joe Budden
The wrong messages just being if I had to choose.
Ish
He's right.
Mark Lamont Hill
You know what these.
Ish
You know what Samaritans do? When you leave your kids in the car today?
Melissa Ford
They break into 10 year old.
Mark Lamont Hill
Not with a 10 year old in there. Yeah, especially a 10 year old black man. They think he 30. Anyway, just stand up, put him in the driver's seat, roll the window down, give him a seat.
Ish
Crazy as hell. Because that one year old in the car seat crying cause he can't move. Okay. They gonna bust that window. That's funny, man.
Mark Lamont Hill
You gotta do something though. It's bad. We got.
Joe Budden
This is fucked up.
Mark Lamont Hill
We gotta do something.
Ish
Friends for the family. That's your name. I do hope he don't get any like real free him facts. Free him, free him, free him.
Joe Budden
Free him. Until it's backwards.
Mal
Him free.
Flip
Hmm.
Mark Lamont Hill
Another nigga that need to get freed.
Melissa Ford
Potentially maybe not right.
Mark Lamont Hill
Depending on how you think about it, is Sean Kingston. He was found guilty.
Melissa Ford
Him and his mom and his mother.
Mark Lamont Hill
His mom, that's the interesting part for me. Sean Kingston and his mom found guilty of wire fraud sentence. Lot of people in the streets are saying he should have just took the charge. So his mom ain't gotta go to jail.
Ish
Yeah, I'm with that.
Mark Lamont Hill
I thought you was gonna say the opposite.
Ish
Nah, moms. Moms is different.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's the line. That's the only time you go to jail.
Ish
And if I did it again. If I did it, but I'm not talking about just taking the charge for somebody. If we both. If me and my moms both did.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, and according to allegedly.
Ish
But if me and my mom both did it, I'll take that.
Mark Lamont Hill
They both did it, right?
Melissa Ford
Well, I don't know if they. If he could have actually done it because her signature might be on like the fraudulent paperwork.
Ish
It don't matter.
Mark Lamont Hill
You could be like, I signed to it.
Ish
You could work it up a fortune. Name.
Flip
Yeah, yeah.
Ish
And you could make a deal.
Flip
A lot of street niggas, they take charge for their mother. They end up telling to free their mother.
Ish
Rayful Edmonds.
Flip
Yeah, A lot of people let my mom free. I'm gonna tell. Yeah. I mean, and I think they had fat cat mom at one point. So that happened.
Joe Budden
So just got to ask some questions first.
Ish
Like what, bro?
Joe Budden
Like, does mom have allergies?
Ish
Y. Shut your dumbass.
Joe Budden
Knee replacements and like full, right. Bill of health. Everything is cool.
Flip
Can she still. She would she still be alive know? Oh, you stupid.
Mark Lamont Hill
Very similar questions.
Joe Budden
Just gotta ask.
Flip
So you gonna let Moms go down.
Mark Lamont Hill
My mom took Frasier side a lot.
Joe Budden
That's important. Sometimes that's important.
Mark Lamont Hill
You got really valuable lessons.
Flip
This some shit with you, Doc.
Joe Budden
And they gonna put mom in a nicer facility than they would us.
Flip
No, they not. They gonna put right where Elijah Lena killer is, nigga.
Mark Lamont Hill
So, I mean, it's an interesting question when you look at age. Age, too, you know what I'm saying?
Melissa Ford
For example, because they're facing 20 years.
Mark Lamont Hill
They're facing 20 years. So if you're feds, right. So if your mom is. If you're 40 and your mom is, say, 70.
Ish
He's 35, she's 62.
Mark Lamont Hill
62, yeah.
Joe Budden
So, yeah, she could. Yeah, she got a few moms in her.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's what I'm saying.
Joe Budden
She can get it done.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's what I'm saying.
Joe Budden
She's a strong black woman.
Flip
She's Jamaican.
Mark Lamont Hill
Who can do that by herself.
Mal
Oh, yeah.
Joe Budden
Oh, yeah.
Flip
Our Jamaican people, you know, me and they into the skin, you know, I don't know what the scam is, but that's the thing.
Joe Budden
Yeah. This nigga's ignorant.
Flip
I bring pawn brick.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yo, look, if I'm stashing work in my mom crib or if I got a. If I'm driving a car. Yes. And the car's in my mom name, but it's my gun or whatever. Obviously, I'm taking that charge.
Flip
Of course.
Mark Lamont Hill
Cause it's my crime.
Flip
Of course.
Mark Lamont Hill
But if me and my mom design a criminal conspiracy together. Right? Which is what they're accused and convicted of doing.
Melissa Ford
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
And we both did this thing. And don't even take it a step further. If my mom was the ringleader and she pushed me to do this, like, son, just sign your name pun to paper. Right then. Now we got some. I mean, Mark.
Ish
Yo, Mark, I've been the problem of my life.
Joe Budden
Hey, Mark, I'm the breadwinner.
Ish
Hey, Mark, I wouldn't give a fuck if you was the bread baker. Nigga, I'm gonna do any and everything I can to keep my mother from going into a cell. Yo, it don't make no sense. Both of us in the cell. Hell, look, I agree.
Flip
We on the same page. What if she go outside and she start doing this again? Why you lied?
Ish
So what? Yo, you heard what this say. Damn. I'm trying. In 06, she did 16 months in prison for the same shit. So Mom's a G. You know how you got this already?
Joe Budden
I got. I got it. You could go ahead and.
Mark Lamont Hill
She probably going to do it again.
Joe Budden
I'm starting to believe in jail again. Crazy.
Ish
It's your bag.
Joe Budden
I ain't never been right.
Ish
They know you up in there already.
Mal
So you want moms to hold you down?
Ish
Mom, you gotta hold that down.
Mark Lamont Hill
She might have to.
Ish
She might be all right with it. She might be used to it.
Mark Lamont Hill
I mean, seriously, is there an age like my mother right now is 80. She's born in 1939, so she's 86. Shout out to mom and blind.
Joe Budden
Your mom was born in the 30s?
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, my dad was born in the 20s, so. God damn it, I wasn't joking. They grandparents were sleeping six and so like they been through some jail. Ain't nothing.
Ish
Jail ain't nothing for the 80 year old lady.
Mark Lamont Hill
She's blind.
Joe Budden
They had the water hole.
Mark Lamont Hill
I tell her she's in the basement.
Flip
I hope Frasier kick your ass. I hope Frasier kick. I hope your brothers whoop your ass on this ball.
Mark Lamont Hill
Mom. This is new senior center right here though.
Mal
Don't go nowhere.
Flip
Yo, what the fuck?
Ish
This nigga's crazy, yo.
Joe Budden
Frazier was in that house getting his shit. Yo.
Ish
This nigga is nuts, yo. You nuts.
Joe Budden
My born in the 30s, she felt.
Flip
And seen a lot of shit.
Mark Lamont Hill
So she's seen 87 years. If she had to do 20 or 30 years, I gotta do the 20 or 30 years. I'm just saying there is an argument to be made.
Flip
So you'll let your 87 year old mother do the time?
Mark Lamont Hill
If she takes the time, how many? I mean, I hope my mother lives be thousand, but realistically I'm going have to do. I'm pretty. Pretty decent shape. I'm going to do all 30. How many is a. How many are our parents or grandparents going to end up doing of that time? Maybe five.
Melissa Ford
And they might even get compassionate release from the Lord.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm saying something. What the is I'm saying this? I mean, I'm just saying like people.
Flip
What happened in the house?
Mark Lamont Hill
Yo, people don't live.
Flip
I thought Pops was the one that. Who's the disciplinary one? Mom and Pops.
Mark Lamont Hill
I love my parents.
Flip
We know you do.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm just saying that's objective. I'm just saying there's another perspective that if you're only gonna live to be 90, 91 anyway, and you take the.
Ish
30 years, what if they let you be 99?
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, then she gonna love the senior center.
Ish
It's 12.
Mark Lamont Hill
That is a lot of time. But again, like a lot of that.
Flip
Is the whole 30.
Mark Lamont Hill
She still ain't doing 30.
Ish
I'm doing a piece of that right?
Mark Lamont Hill
I'll be 76 when I get out.
Joe Budden
And you lived a nice, small life. Threw your mom in one of your crimes. Crimes?
Ish
No crimes. Oh, no.
Mark Lamont Hill
Okay.
Flip
Nah.
Ish
I can throw my mother in my lies. I don't think might've. I'm trying. I can't figure that off the top.
Joe Budden
I might have.
Mark Lamont Hill
Don't.
Flip
Went to my mother.
Joe Budden
I might have. But. Oh, no.
Mark Lamont Hill
Joe, you're the biggest breadwinner in your family, right? That's safe to say.
Joe Budden
Well, not. If the whites did right by us back in the day. Then it would go differently.
Mark Lamont Hill
It would, but. But it's not. I'm just saying.
Ish
We talking about today, though.
Melissa Ford
Yeah.
Joe Budden
We got fair value for the land. That they would. I don't want to just. I don't want to be that guy in the family.
Mark Lamont Hill
Fuck, we all doing slackers.
Joe Budden
You can't be that guy in the family now.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm just saying.
Joe Budden
Okay, hypothetically, yes.
Mark Lamont Hill
If you. If you lose 10 years right now, it would destroy your family financially. If I lose 10 years of what in prison?
Ish
You gotta go sit up.
Joe Budden
Oh, my Lord.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, but it's.
Joe Budden
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Flip
Well, not really.
Ish
Tory made albums. He might compile it from in there. He might get his shit off. There's some funny niggas in the B.
Joe Budden
Y'all barely part out here.
Ish
Yeah, but it's some.
Joe Budden
I'mma get it done in jail.
Ish
Some funny niggas in the body.
Mark Lamont Hill
But I'm just saying, like, if. But if Joe Budden. If your father or other relative did that time for you, you could still protect the family. Invest in them when they come out. Out. They'll be fine.
Joe Budden
That's true. Like, I'm listening to y'all talk about it, and it's funny, but some moms say just that. Yo, I'm gonna hold this down for this crime. Cause you the breadwinner. Go out there, yada, yada, yada, yada.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's all I'm saying.
Ish
What if Moms was the breadwinner?
Mark Lamont Hill
How old is Moms?
Ish
You said she was getting it in.
Flip
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
What is she the breadwinner? Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, then he might.
Ish
You ain't made a song in a long time.
Mark Lamont Hill
He might have to take that chart. I think that's. That's the calculation. I think that's a good calculation.
Joe Budden
Can we be honest here? Here, the streets are safer.
Flip
Stupid.
Joe Budden
Like, can we just not have to tell a bunch of jokes and keep it real for a second?
Ish
You got them.
Joe Budden
Sean Kingston got Them thugs has been a menace to society at least since 08 with his little jet ski. Yeah. Hey, if you've been. Hey, any of y'all that have been on the circuit, you heard something about Sean Kingston and his mama.
Mal
Not. Not entirely wrong there.
Joe Budden
And when you heard it, when you heard it back, it was so unbelievable.
Ish
Menacing, though.
Joe Budden
They are criminals. They're fucking dates back.
Ish
Yo, you stupid.
Flip
I didn't know that.
Mark Lamont Hill
Them. All they do is still.
Ish
Yeah, but that ain't menacing crime.
Joe Budden
I'm surprised this ain't a rico. I'm surprised they round up some of the cousins that helped this whole family. Might just be this nigga's a idiot. Yeah. Oh, I'm joking. Of. I'm not joking, but I'm say you are. I'm saying. I'm saying it as a joke, right? But we've been hearing about Sean King since 07.
Ish
That's a wild boy.
Joe Budden
When all them niggas was over the house.
Flip
Shout the trash.
Joe Budden
Hey, y'all. Oh, man, I want to. I can't tell. Y'all know y'all should have been over there. I heard I wasn't coming. I got invited. Oh, no. Better know what party to skip. They doing too much over there. And his mama, they. Yeah. Anyway. Psych.
Ish
Psych. There you go.
Mark Lamont Hill
Psych. Awesome.
Ish
There you go. Tag. Tag.
Joe Budden
I hate the entertainment business. Tag.
Ish
Get you right out of there.
Joe Budden
I hate this. This is a mess.
Flip
Been facing 20 years, so.
Ish
Thoughts and prayers.
Joe Budden
No, I'm waiting for the sentencing.
Ish
July.
Joe Budden
Yeah, yeah, yeah. July.
Melissa Ford
She was kept, though.
Ish
Yeah, she was kept. And he was.
Melissa Ford
He's under house arrest.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Flip
Interesting.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's telling.
Ish
Well, again, she got her.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah.
Ish
She multi.
Mark Lamont Hill
Repeat, predicate. Felon.
Flip
Yeah.
Joe Budden
Y.
Ish
Same, too.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'll tell you one thing. And just. Just wrapping it up. If I did eat that charge. If Sean did eat that charge for his mom and he's in jail five years from now, found his mom caught another charge for stealing.
Melissa Ford
Be so mad.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'd be mad as. That's what I'm saying. Like, you can't.
Ish
Oh, no. I'm testifying against you.
Mark Lamont Hill
Then wait.
Ish
I sat and you did it again and got caught.
Joe Budden
That's all.
Mark Lamont Hill
It's time.
Ish
I have to tell them what I know is different.
Joe Budden
Were y'all trustworthy? Would you guys back in the day have been trustworthy enough for the jeweler scam that everybody was running?
Mal
What was the jeweler scam?
Joe Budden
Going to your favorite jeweler, picking out a whole bunch of that you got to go wear to the video or somewhere and tell them. All right. I'll bring this back to you tomorrow.
Ish
Tomorrow, Will.
Joe Budden
Are you guys trustworthy enough for that to happen?
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, hell yeah.
Ish
Yeah, I am.
Joe Budden
So nobody's running off?
Mark Lamont Hill
Nah, nah. I don't steal from people.
Flip
Yeah, I think that's tried to pull that move, but, you know, your parents.
Joe Budden
Was born in 30s and you ain't do no stealing.
Mark Lamont Hill
Not from people. I used to do scams, but I didn't. I didn't steal from. Yeah, I ain't stealing from nobody direct. I do scams from companies still from me.
Joe Budden
Oh, man, I crack the big boys.
Ish
I ain't pause.
Mark Lamont Hill
I ain't.
Ish
Stealing from nobody.
Joe Budden
He was a cheo. He was a. He had an accent. Again.
Ish
That wasn't my line.
Joe Budden
My.
Ish
Yeah, but I. I still from a company or corporation or something. I never.
Flip
You did scam, Sue. I know you took clothes, but you did.
Melissa Ford
Like he said, he. Him.
Joe Budden
It just scammed his way all the way up into what? Yeah, but we ain't had him, so we can't say.
Ish
Don't listen to this nigga, man. All right, so, Joe, you have roast up on there. What the fuck is hot wifing? I've been wanting to ask you since.
Joe Budden
We started hot wifing. Hot wifing is something I saw in the New York Post.
Mal
Okay.
Joe Budden
And it is a new trend going on out there.
Ish
Don't use that voice, nigga. Get your movie phone voice out here, man.
Joe Budden
It's a new trend going on on out there where wives are allowing their husband to get a hall pass, and they pick the woman and then they sit there and watch.
Mal
Oh, cooking.
Joe Budden
Yeah, but like, reverse cooking?
Melissa Ford
No, it's. It's queen. That's the term when it's in reverse.
Joe Budden
Is that real?
Melissa Ford
Yes.
Mal
Have you done research on this?
Ish
Would you do that?
Melissa Ford
Would I do that?
Joe Budden
Always got to take it too far. We was doing.
Flip
She just got back.
Joe Budden
We just was doing good with. Is that a real thing? Would you do it, Ma.
Melissa Ford
A version of it.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, say more.
Melissa Ford
I've listened to somebody have sex on the phone that I was dating. Yeah.
Flip
Really?
Joe Budden
Mm.
Mal
Intentionally.
Melissa Ford
Intentionally what?
Mark Lamont Hill
Pocket dial, pull shit and shove it off.
Ish
Went off in my pocket.
Melissa Ford
No, it was intentional.
Ish
Really?
Joe Budden
Mm.
Mark Lamont Hill
It turned you on?
Melissa Ford
Yeah, it was cool.
Mark Lamont Hill
Would seeing it have been too much or would that have been more of a turn on?
Melissa Ford
Probably more.
Joe Budden
So you're.
Mark Lamont Hill
You're hot wife territory material.
Ish
Lukewarm.
Joe Budden
You look warm.
Melissa Ford
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Flip
So if you had to pick a partner for Your. If you had to pick a woman for your partner, she's not looking like you, she like Shaquita, one of them.
Ish
I think that's the control piece.
Melissa Ford
There's a lot of.
Flip
I'm just saying. They are, but I'm just saying, you picking a big joint. You picking a. A joint? A model joint.
Joe Budden
That's a good question.
Ish
You wouldn't pick question. You want to pick somebody that was really, really attractive that you found attractive.
Melissa Ford
Yeah, but then insecurity coming. No, not insecurity. Just like morbid curiosity of seeing something else. Like, what you mean? I don't know. Maybe somebody who was like.
Ish
Like, if she was fired. Let's just say she was fired. Right. So where's your curiosity lead you freaks?
Joe Budden
Tell us more. Y'all asking a lot of questions on the first day back.
Melissa Ford
Maybe like a really beautiful woman who is maybe about £400.
Mal
Ah, got it.
Joe Budden
That's good for y'all now.
Flip
We was right there.
Joe Budden
Hey, and that's. And that's good for y'all now. Yeah, no money. No more questions.
Mark Lamont Hill
This is over.
Joe Budden
Why would you look at that? Damn. Walked out the bedroom and slammed the door.
Ish
Out of here.
Joe Budden
What a.
Flip
Out of here.
Joe Budden
Totally into that hood. Nanny morons.
Ish
Would you. What? What?
Joe Budden
Wait, what happened?
Ish
Would you.
Joe Budden
I thought you was talking to me.
Ish
I was, but I already know the answer. Would you allow that? But you said that y'all kind of open to that.
Mal
Yeah, I'll play with that.
Ish
I'll play a game.
Mal
Yeah, why not? Who wouldn't play a game?
Ish
Like if you. Your wife went and picked out the.
Mark Lamont Hill
Allow it encourage.
Joe Budden
Right? By all means.
Mark Lamont Hill
That ain't the word.
Joe Budden
Prefer it.
Ish
Right.
Joe Budden
Just to advance the conversation. In the event that y'all wives or girl partners let y'all do that. What do you think would be the difference in how you performed?
Ish
Oh, I think. I think initially I'm a freak.
Joe Budden
The game.
Ish
No, I think. I think initially I get like a C minus, cuz I would be nervous to see how you can't be.
Joe Budden
Can't get your A pipe like your normal shit.
Ish
Yeah.
Joe Budden
So you will perform the same goofy yo.
Ish
Because you can't be in there putting your best footy.
Mal
But if she gives you the pass and this is what she wants, you.
Melissa Ford
Gotta bring your A game.
Ish
No, you don't bring your A game. You better not. You better not bring your A game.
Mal
You just gotta make sure you put on a show either. Well, both before and after.
Mark Lamont Hill
Right.
Mal
For your wife.
Mark Lamont Hill
And don't do no new neither oh.
Joe Budden
That'S where I get caught slipping. When it's the two rounds back to back, it's like, all right, this one movie is gonna be different.
Ish
It's extended version. I would purposely not.
Mal
I'd say that'd be the same day.
Joe Budden
I would not.
Melissa Ford
It would be C game.
Ish
It would probably be C C, B minus.
Joe Budden
Why you keep saying C like that's the worst it can get?
Melissa Ford
Or maybe just to keep it safe, you lay there and let the girl do all the tricks.
Ish
You ain't gotta give out some C.
Joe Budden
You probably wouldn't even be able to get hard with your whiz one watching.
Ish
Yo, as I was saying, yo, you give out the seed because you want to.
Joe Budden
Y'all think y'all be able to be hard in front while your partner, your real life girl, wife is watching? For real. I'm seriously ask. Yes for you. Yes for you.
Mark Lamont Hill
Hell yes.
Ish
Yes, yes. Yo, dog, but again, my point is, you got to gauge your girl. So this might not be the only time that y'all jump into that.
Mal
Uhhuh.
Ish
If you give out the A, you might not never get that again, cuz. Because it's a conversation to be had.
Mal
But what if she wants A? She wants a show. You don't want to turn on A bad pores.
Ish
B first.
Mal
B minus, C plus.
Joe Budden
These grades like they Godzilla dicks, you know? I mean, the B minus I can do.
Ish
It's on a Wednesday.
Mal
Pause, pause.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, pause. C. C is.
Ish
You don't want to give out nothing better than you giving your girl.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, any. Nothing different. It's better.
Ish
Point. So you got to gauge your girl, cuz. Now when y'all go home, your girl might be mad.
Joe Budden
No, no, you right about that. You would hate to give this new piece of that you never felt before a better performance than you give that.
Flip
You'Ve been hitting for the last by mistake. Turn around.
Ish
You know how many stories I heard how. How the girls will welcome the threesome?
Joe Budden
Yes.
Flip
Yes.
Ish
And they was like, yo, dawg, you in there busting shorty ass or you engaged with shorty? My man told me he had a threesome with a chick and.
Joe Budden
My man.
Mal
I was not gonna spend on my man.
Joe Budden
What your man said?
Ish
He said he finished on the other girl. He came on the other chick, said his girl was mad at him.
Joe Budden
How did that come up?
Ish
He was telling me about these chicks that he had the whatcham calling with threesome with. He asked, you popped.
Mark Lamont Hill
Where did your neck go?
Ish
It was a volunteer story. He said the girl got Mad.
Flip
Let me tell you a story real quick. One day I had a threesome. No.
Ish
Go to a home Depot and say, yo, let me tell you something. He, he said that he, he nutted on the other girl. His girl's mad, fuming.
Flip
I heard a story from a girl about the.
Mark Lamont Hill
She.
Melissa Ford
Was he mad? Was she mad that he finished on her?
Ish
On the other girl?
Joe Budden
Yes.
Melissa Ford
That was the only part that she was upset about supposedly.
Ish
That's what he said. Yeah. So that's the shit. Like shorty might welcome it with her mouth and then say some other shit later.
Joe Budden
You don't talk like that to a fucking Gracie Award winner. Are you crazy? You just want a fucking Gracie. Don't do that.
Flip
This nigga's so dumb.
Joe Budden
You talking to a fucking award winning like that with her mouth. Yo, save that for those dumb out there.
Flip
The fuck is wrong with him?
Joe Budden
We just won an award. You be a gentleman for a change, will ya?
Ish
My peoples was the girl in the story and was like, yo, a nigga she know and his girl wanted to bring somebody else into the mix. And she's not built like the girl. Like physically, my homegirl is thick fat ass ass. And his, his lady was petite and she was like, dude was behind her while she was eating his girl out. And she said shorty tapped her and was like, yo, we gotta stop this. She said, because the was going crazy and his girl deaded the whole like.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's what I'm saying.
Ish
You gotta go, you gotta give out.
Mark Lamont Hill
He was giving out.
Flip
He was giving out.
Ish
B plus.
Flip
Yo, you be in the moment.
Mark Lamont Hill
You can't. That's why, I mean, I've never done a threesome with a partner.
Joe Budden
Mark, do you believe it's possible for a guy to eat pussy better than a woman?
Mark Lamont Hill
Yes.
Joe Budden
Okay.
Mal
Any woman or a professional woman.
Joe Budden
My question was just any. Okay, I like the answer to that one too. Like, do you think it's possible for a guy to out eat eater. Eater woman?
Mal
Yeah. A guy that eats a lot. The girl that eats a lot. Who would.
Melissa Ford
I would say the girl.
Mark Lamont Hill
Apples. The apples. I'd give a girl to nine.
Flip
The girl's gonna win, the girl's gonna whirl you.
Mark Lamont Hill
But I know women who say like so and so eat my pussy better than girls than my chick do, blah, blah, blah. I've heard women say that before. Like bisexual women say that before.
Ish
Got it? Cause I heard that that's how they get you. Like some girls won't be gay or they won't be really entertaining.
Mal
The gay Shit, I hope this on my man's story.
Joe Budden
Oh, you in the predator group chat. This is how we get them. So supposed.
Ish
Like, you know, some girls would be like, yo, I ain't eating no pussy. I let a girl eat me out. They said the chicks be eating box so good that it'll turn you whole pillar of energy. Yeah, it'll turn.
Joe Budden
This is so astonished. Yes, it'll turn them.
Mark Lamont Hill
What are you talking about?
Mal
Don't feel advantage, right?
Ish
Nah, that's what they be saying. So I think the chick gets it or not.
Joe Budden
Okay, that's my final question for y'all. Y'all feeling freaky today?
Mark Lamont Hill
Okay.
Flip
Okay.
Joe Budden
All right. Glad that we could bond that way. Thanks. New York Post.
Ish
Shout out to the cut queens.
Joe Budden
Anybody here think they can pull it off?
Mark Lamont Hill
No.
Ish
Pull what off?
Melissa Ford
Hot wifing.
Joe Budden
Yeah. Like, go home and explain this and get it to get it done.
Ish
I thought it was the woman that initiates it.
Joe Budden
No, it's the woman that has to get it done. Like. Like pick the person and watch you. But I mean, if you feeling froggy, you can go home and introduce the idea and see how it pans out.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm not even showing my wife this segment.
Ish
Yeah, word. You won't. I won't have no Lily pack froggy. This won't go down that way. Crazy as hell.
Joe Budden
Okay, just a question. Just. Just a question.
Ish
No, same, same, same, buddy.
Joe Budden
Even though when I was looking at the couples in the strip club when we went out. I don't know, man. I don't know.
Melissa Ford
No, what you. What you see?
Joe Budden
Strip club tells a different story. Strip club tells a different story.
Mark Lamont Hill
Is. Is a threesome even? And I'm asking, cuz I've never. Again, I've never had a threesome with a partner. It's always been like, two about to.
Ish
Clunk you with one of them Batmans right there.
Flip
I never had a threesome.
Ish
All right, go ahead.
Mark Lamont Hill
What I'm saying is, like, the idea.
Joe Budden
That nigga was in Stanford going crazy. Nigga's in Philly. He was in temple acting a fool.
Mark Lamont Hill
Not in temple. But my point is, like, for me, like, the idea of having two. Two random people or two people you're not attached to is the part of the fun of it. The idea of having to be that accountable to one person to make sure that you.
Melissa Ford
Sounds exhausting.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, it's something you gotta tend to. Have y'all been in a situation where y'all had to do.
Flip
Do that?
Ish
No, I haven't, but that's what that Was my point. Like it's trial and error, so you gotta do the to gauge how your girl gonna respond first. And then if she's welcoming, then I think you will be more free or more open to get it in. You know what I mean? Like I heard horror stories.
Mal
So you're gonna start with the C?
Ish
Yes.
Mal
Well, it end up with an A.
Joe Budden
No.
Ish
After like couple weeks later, you start getting your grades up.
Joe Budden
But you can't give that.
Ish
Make the honor roll. You can't get an A pipe. Yeah, you can't do that. May make the dean's list in six months, but from the rip.
Joe Budden
Nah, get back to these grades. Let me jump in somehow. Final freaky question, since y'all are here. Would anybody here mind it or have a huge problem if they were cleaning the house and learned that their partner had a mold of one of their exes in the house?
Mal
How you gonna know?
Flip
How you gonna know Some mold.
Mark Lamont Hill
This look like Robbie.
Joe Budden
Wait, that. I've seen that before. I recognize that thing anywhere.
Ish
Recognize those things anywhere.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yo, this looks like Robbie.
Joe Budden
No, she told you.
Ish
Oh, she think you pussy there.
Joe Budden
She told you.
Ish
That's what that mean. If your girl telling you the truth about that, she definitely think you pussy.
Joe Budden
Yo, this looks like Robbie is. That's nuts. And do you think you can pull it off? Vice versa.
Mal
But wait, wait, wait.
Joe Budden
Like we've had porn stars and women of that. He'll come here with molds and hand them out as gifts.
Mal
But what if you got them?
Joe Budden
Do you think you could take it home and use it?
Flip
No, no, no, no, no.
Melissa Ford
Really?
Ish
No.
Melissa Ford
Why Male.
Joe Budden
Stop.
Ish
Let me tell you. The male ego is this. I mean, he's holding on by a threat.
Mal
But what if you got.
Ish
So if you come in here and say, yeah, that's. That's.
Mal
What if his like, you know what I mean?
Ish
Yeah, that's James Harden. Like, what you crazy?
Joe Budden
A lot.
Mal
What if you got him beat?
Ish
How you know?
Joe Budden
All right, moving on. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. We got it.
Mal
Still know you was with this.
Ish
It's Charlene.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's an important point though. It is, cuz it either got to be the same size, bigger or smaller, right? And if it's smaller, why do you want it? If it's bigger, then get that out my house.
Ish
But you fantasizing over your last man.
Joe Budden
Me?
Ish
I don't care what size.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, I don't want in my house anyway. I'm just. I'm just thinking why you want it in the House. Anyway, yo, dog, you.
Ish
You said so your man could come on. Be like, yeah, that's Charlene Pocket right there. And you going to be like, oh, okay. Charlene, you used to.
Mark Lamont Hill
With.
Ish
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Melissa Ford
It's a. I don't really see the difference between that and integrating toys in sex.
Ish
Play Lisa and in here. You better not have Charlene in here. Okay, all right.
Joe Budden
What's the difference if I can go meet Lisa Ann?
Ish
Everybody don't have accessibility to Lisa Ann or somebody else that might be a porn star you've watched for 20 years perform.
Joe Budden
You be saying that name a lot. Lisa Ann.
Melissa Ford
Okay, so hold on one second here. None of you have ever.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, that's a real question.
Melissa Ford
You had a significant other where you guys have fantasized that you were sleeping with somebody else at the moment, that.
Ish
You were your fantasy. Your chick don't know about in your brain.
Mark Lamont Hill
I ain't pull out a projector.
Ish
Yeah, you ain't pulling out a pussy out.
Joe Budden
Here.
Ish
Jack me right here. Yeah. Again, that's somebody that your girl might not think you had accessibility.
Melissa Ford
Have you guys ever asked your girls what their fantasies are like, the ones that they feel like they have to keep from you?
Joe Budden
She trying to be funny right now on the first day of.
Ish
I've had some conversations. I don't know about no fantasy shit and all that, but.
Joe Budden
So how'd you propose the question?
Ish
Like who. Like, I know who the niggas that my girl likes. You know what I'm saying? Like, I know the dudes that my girl really is attracted to physically. You know what I'm saying? So it's.
Joe Budden
It's. It's.
Melissa Ford
That's all you need to know.
Joe Budden
How did you propose it? That's what we asking.
Ish
Like, she'll see somebody that I know she like on tv, and she like, yo, he's. He's hot or he's handsome. You know what I'm saying? And I'll be like, who else you.
Joe Budden
Like wait in front of you?
Flip
Yes, that's his friend.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's not fantasy level, though, right?
Ish
No, that's fantasy is like fantasy. I put them all the same room. All of the fantasy angry off of chandelier. No, we didn't go there. But I. I know the dudes that my girl like fits.
Flip
Attractive.
Mark Lamont Hill
Exactly. Say me too, but I don't ask about the fantasy of it because I don't want to know. Cause we ain't doing shit about it.
Melissa Ford
Okay?
Ish
Keep that shit in your head.
Mal
Especially not we.
Ish
Oh, what Especially not we.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, yeah, right, right. Especially not we. Right, right.
Ish
Speak French, Spanish, Arabic.
Mark Lamont Hill
No plurals. All singular.
Joe Budden
Oh, man.
Flip
Yo, you.
Joe Budden
Me what?
Melissa Ford
You ever asked her what your. What her deepest, darkest fantasies were? The one she wants to keep from you?
Joe Budden
We've had some of them talks before when I was trying to care.
Melissa Ford
Got it.
Joe Budden
I was trying to care. I got in a little bit of that, but okay. I try to stay out of that. I try to mind my business.
Flip
Okay.
Joe Budden
A fantasy girl.
Ish
Ike Turner come.
Joe Budden
You don't remember the memes. There is no Ike Turner with me.
Ish
It was the meme, yo. The one when he look back, yeah. He be like, yo, my chick, wake up. She better be. Yo, it's all right, bro.
Joe Budden
It's cool.
Mark Lamont Hill
She can fantasize just that. We don't need to talk about it.
Joe Budden
Not in this house.
Ish
Keep it to yourself. Keep it in your head. My like your fantasy. Your head. Leave it in there.
Mark Lamont Hill
Exactly.
Joe Budden
Cuz then if you say the wrong fantasy, I'm going judge you for sure. Like, if you say the fantasy and I know him and, like, I know how he really move.
Flip
Use a ho, she might not know.
Joe Budden
And that's part of the fantasy.
Melissa Ford
That's part of the fantasy is how unattainable he is.
Flip
I'm with him.
Ish
I'm with you, Joe. I had.
Flip
I'm with Joe on that fantasy.
Ish
And it was like, you can't be that either and say something. But it's like, if you only knew.
Mark Lamont Hill
You like.
Ish
Oh, no, you judge. That's the point, though.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm just saying.
Joe Budden
Heavy.
Ish
They don't know. Yeah, they don't know. Say something. You a bird ass. That's why you can't say nothing.
Joe Budden
Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.
Ish
Oh, you want to him that got the hurt.
Mark Lamont Hill
You took the words right out my mouth.
Joe Budden
Y.
Mal
Fun too.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's my favorite thing to tell him.
Ish
I knew he was talking about me.
Joe Budden
How many times you y'all going to the concession stand at the Chris Brown Breezy bowl.
Ish
Before it should start during intermission?
Joe Budden
How many times y'all gonna make a quick little run to make sure you and your queen got everything y'all need while she hold the seats down?
Melissa Ford
That's hilarious.
Joe Budden
At the Breezy Bowl.
Ish
Oh, no, I don't do that.
Joe Budden
I'm asking y'all.
Ish
I don't do that. We get our shits on the walk in. That's it.
Flip
And then you go together, right? You go together. Freeze.
Ish
And when you on the tickets, we get it's. Like a private joint on the side, too.
Joe Budden
Well, I wasn't really talking, you know. Freeze. Ain't gonna miss no Chris Brown.
Ish
Oh, no, for sure.
Joe Budden
Freeze. Ain't gonna miss no Chris Brown. What about the rest of y'all? How about you? Ish?
Ish
Same thing. Intermission. And when on the walking, are you.
Flip
Going by yourself or she taking a walk with you? Freeze. I mean, is she.
Ish
It depends on the situation.
Joe Budden
They so lucky to have us.
Flip
It's some. Some sniping. Soon as you walk away, nigga, try to get your girl.
Ish
So shoot.
Joe Budden
Shoot, shoot, shoot.
Ish
What you talking about?
Flip
Yeah, you don't care about it. Yeah, I know you got vanilla on lock. I know that nigga. Ice cream cone Nigga's a fool, yo. I mean, I get that. Look. Hey, you know what time it is?
Ish
That's what you'll say.
Flip
No, I'm playing. No, she hold it down.
Ish
No, you would.
Flip
J.R. be there anyway.
Ish
So how many times you getting up to go walk?
Joe Budden
None. My area. Probably have a waitress.
Ish
You don't get thirsty.
Joe Budden
Probably have a hostess in my area.
Flip
You press the button, probably won't be any.
Ish
You don't got a pee.
Joe Budden
Any reason to move.
Ish
They bring the pee cup to you.
Joe Budden
A pee cup?
Ish
I'm just asking.
Joe Budden
N. I pe.
Ish
No, it's three years later. It's a long show.
Joe Budden
I don't pe. I don't take it.
Ish
Water, soda, glizzy. Spill some glizzy on your shirt. You don't got to walk to the. You know, I mean, Peroxide. Yeah, I got you.
Joe Budden
Spill some gliz.
Flip
I got you, dog.
Joe Budden
Is there anything else that needs r. How about that?
Ish
Yo, you've told me the rights about Big T's third term, but I didn't think you could have a third term. Well, you can't technically, until he changes what he gonna change.
Mark Lamont Hill
And that's what I'm concerned about. So we've been saying for a long time that he's never leaving office, and that's a real fear that people have. And in the United States, you can't run more than two terms, whether it's consecutive or separately. You used to be able to until 1951. Now you can't. Roosevelt ran four. Four times in a row. They asked the Trump last week what he was thinking about, and he was kind of like, yeah, I just might. What he specifically said was, we're looking for other means. Right. First somebody said, are you gonna let Vance run? And you just run as the VP and basically run it as VP now that's also illegal, by the way.
Ish
I was about to say you could do that.
Savon
No.
Ish
Okay.
Mark Lamont Hill
I don't think he's read the Constitution ever.
Ish
Or don't care what it say or.
Mark Lamont Hill
He don't care what it.
Ish
Constitution.
Joe Budden
Exactly.
Melissa Ford
He's probably wiped his ass with it at this point.
Mark Lamont Hill
Probably. There's people in Congress right now already saying we need to change the Constitution to allow for a third term or multiple terms. He's got a grassroots movement. He's got the Supreme Courts in his pocket, he's got the Congress in his pockets. He's got a pretty strong mandate. Most of the American people want him to be president. But whether you like him or not, like a lot of people do, you know, I'm talking to the American people. So. So it's not impossible that Donald Trump could change the rules and run again and again and again, bro.
Ish
He said during his candidacy, yo, you vote for me, this will be your last time having to vote or something. He sensed some shit like that. Like, that was the sentiment.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah.
Ish
So niggas was saying that even before he got elected.
Mark Lamont Hill
I just want everybody to keep their head on the swivel, man.
Ish
This shit a dictatorship waiting to happen.
Mark Lamont Hill
So just keep your head on Swift. I don't want everybody to be surprised in a year when the laws change or when they try to change the law. That's the only thing I'm telling people. It ain't gotta be a whole big thing, but just pay attention to this and fight it. Vote. You know what I mean? I'm now a New Jersey voter, so my vote doesn't matter as much. But when you, when you're in these, really every vote counts.
Joe Budden
Why you say that?
Ish
Because New Jersey typically votes Democrats.
Mark Lamont Hill
It votes the same way, you know, on a lot of this. Right.
Ish
This year was close, though.
Mark Lamont Hill
This year. This year was close, sir, but too.
Joe Budden
Close to speak that way.
Mark Lamont Hill
I was coming from Pennsylvania, which is like very one of the most important. So that's the. I should say in context. Okay, in context, yes, I was coming from Pennsylvania. Now it matters. But not in the same way. I'm just saying wherever you are though, pay attention to this advocate. Make sure your representatives do something different. Because if you don't, they will go along to get along, including some of these weak ass Democrats. Especially some of these weak ass Democrats. So please, y'all, pay attention to this ocean. You will have Donald Trump as president forever. And I don't even care if you like Trump. We don't want a situation. We don't want to. Want a system where somebody can run for office and stay in forever. That's like having a king.
Ish
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
And we don't want that.
Ish
Exactly. That.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's all. That's it.
Joe Budden
All right.
Ish
I get it now. Thank you. Yeah. In other news that I care about, Summer Jam put their lineup out.
Mal
Hey.
Ish
Okay. And more importantly, Summer Jam is in.
Joe Budden
North beach back in Jersey. Okay.
Ish
Okay.
Mal
About time.
Joe Budden
Big Jersey.
Ish
Big Jersey. Big Jersey.
Mal
Who's on the lineup?
Ish
The lineup is a boogie gunna Glorilla Money Long Asaki. Excuse me if I'm saying that wrong. I'm not familiar.
Joe Budden
Ja Rule and Friends.
Ish
Arya star. Ja Rule and Friends. A tribute to Irv Gotti.
Mal
That's dope.
Ish
Cash dog. Jim Jones and Friends.
Joe Budden
Jim Jones and friends.
Ish
Cash Cobain, 41. And it says Bobby Sanders and Jabba. Featuring Masika. Hey, Bobby Condorself.
Flip
Jamaican nigga. Act like it.
Ish
I am a from New York.
Joe Budden
You might just lost a Jamaican card and.
Ish
Lost my Jamaican card, bro.
Flip
I a Jamaica. You going get it back? I get it back? Yeah, you get it back. When you take the trip to Jamaica, you'll get it back.
Joe Budden
I just.
Ish
I'm go. I'll go get it. You ain't go to real.
Joe Budden
Oh, no, no, no.
Ish
Oh, no.
Joe Budden
I ain't going over there.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, nah.
Ish
What happened?
Joe Budden
We trying to get you a Jamaican car back.
Ish
Okay, Go ahead.
Joe Budden
Go ahead.
Ish
Oh, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Flip
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Joe Budden
Come on. Month.
Ish
Yeah. What come after that? God is good.
Joe Budden
If you're Jamaican, you got a lot of cheap insurance coming your way. I'm tell you that one, buddy. You have to make up for that one.
Ish
Make it B. I mean, I am, but I'm not. But yeah, I'm very excited about this. It's a pretty good lineup. It's a good New York lineup, which is a big thing. You know, before, it was always. Always just the biggest acts in the country. That's true. It's for the last. I want to say, three years, they've been kind of honing it down. It's no more at the. At the MetLife Stadium, so they were able to kind of focus more on the city. And this seems to be a great lineup right here.
Joe Budden
Always.
Mal
Where is it? Prudential.
Ish
Prudential, okay.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
Put your jewelry up. Who at Prudential? I wasn't saying you. Oh, no, not at Prudential.
Flip
We know we gonna be there big free.
Ish
Yeah, no, I'll be there for sure.
Joe Budden
When y'all gonna debut your other Channel chains? Yeah, the big never.
Melissa Ford
You guys got new chains?
Mark Lamont Hill
Who y'all did you guys get?
Melissa Ford
Match.
Ish
What you said, what you just said.
Melissa Ford
He made it seem like you guys got matching chains.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's what I thought.
Ish
No, we didn't get matching.
Melissa Ford
It wasn't like the heart you break apart the end.
Mark Lamont Hill
Match. Match.
Ish
Yeah. That's funny. I don't own a ch. To answer your question.
Joe Budden
Then I was wrong.
Ish
That's another one.
Flip
Do I have a question for y'all. Ready?
Melissa Ford
Yes.
Flip
Would you rather from this day forward, forget your past or. Excuse me, hold on.
Ish
No, no, I wanna hear it.
Flip
Or would you rather forget everything moving forward, remember your past or forget everything moving forward?
Joe Budden
Repeat that. Maybe I'm slow. Say it again.
Flip
Yeah. Would you rather from this day forward, forget your past, but remember everything moving forward? Or would you rather remember your past and forget everything moving forward? Like if you.
Melissa Ford
So your brain is on a 24 hour cycle where it.
Flip
Yes.
Mark Lamont Hill
You'd be like stuck in the past.
Ish
You was watching a hunting party, wasn't you? Something hogs day or some.
Flip
I'm just asking a question.
Melissa Ford
50 first dates, that's what you watched, right?
Flip
I didn't watch anything. I just want to know.
Joe Budden
I just think my brain is automatically on the former. Like I already forgot everything that happened and am trying my best to remember.
Mark Lamont Hill
Everything that happens moving forward.
Joe Budden
So you. But you.
Flip
You prefer how you. You prefer how it is?
Joe Budden
Yeah. Yeah.
Flip
Okay.
Joe Budden
Yeah, for sure.
Ish
I'm. I'm gonna take the past. I wanna. I wanna remember. Yeah, me too.
Joe Budden
Okay.
Flip
So you'll forget everything moving forward. You don't mind forgetting everything.
Ish
Short term memories, losing.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
Yeah, I'll keep. I'll keep my past memories.
Flip
J.
Mark Lamont Hill
Same pass.
Flip
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Past ain't been so bad for me.
Mal
That's tough.
Ish
Not just that, the past. Like everything you've been, everything I remember you've been through.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's.
Ish
Yeah, that's who you are.
Mark Lamont Hill
And I want to remember like my family and whatever.
Joe Budden
That's why y'all should reduce some of it, right? Like, what the fuck? You don't have to be who you are. But we gotta get rid of that like self. All this self love shit. Sometimes if you get a redo, you don't want niggas depressed sometimes if you redo just a few weeks from your past, we could get a different outcome or something.
Ish
How would you appreciate the redo?
Joe Budden
Huh?
Ish
You wouldn't appreciate the redo. You only appreciate joy because you've had pain. You wouldn't appreciate the redo if you never experienced the.
Flip
Oh.
Mal
It'S getting poetic on us.
Ish
No, I'm just saying you wouldn't have nothing to gauge it to.
Melissa Ford
It's true.
Mark Lamont Hill
Is it? Absolutely. You can't just enjoy joy because it's joyous.
Melissa Ford
No, but how do you know it's joy? You can't experience the euphoric highs without having to having experienced the abysmal lows.
Mark Lamont Hill
So why do babies smile and giggle and laugh and have all this happiness? Do they have some secret trauma?
Melissa Ford
Well, I don't think that that's joy.
Mark Lamont Hill
What is it?
Melissa Ford
I think it's just a stimulation of response.
Ish
That's just a react.
Joe Budden
Very good man. Good.
Flip
A man reaction.
Mark Lamont Hill
I'm talking about like, even, like. I guess what I'm saying is, like, I wonder if there's this way that the world is so fucked up. I agree that, like, bad things make you appreciate good things.
Joe Budden
Melso. I don't think them happy babies enjoy. I don't give a fuck.
Mark Lamont Hill
They was a bullshit.
Joe Budden
Hey, man, fuck the babies.
Mark Lamont Hill
Fuck the babies.
Joe Budden
That ain't joy. What's that?
Mark Lamont Hill
I like, and it's a philosophical thing. There's no right or wrong answer. But I like to think that before the world fucks you up, there's a space of just, like, purity that we also have. And to me, that's joy, too. And if I could get back to any space, I'd want that part. I'd want that joy that you don't even know me.
Melissa Ford
A childlike joy.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, like, you don't know nothing about.
Joe Budden
Where you don't even know what that pain that y'all talking about is.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's what I'm saying. That's where I want to be. That's the shit.
Flip
But even if you go back and redo or relive weeks like he said, try to change weeks of your past, the future won't be the same. You wouldn't have the same outcome, a whole different future.
Ish
So would you risk that?
Flip
Would you risk changing? Cause I used to think like that. Like, damn, if I could go back and do. Do this, and if I could do that, I'll do that different. But would my. Would the outcome be the same? I wouldn't have the same outcome.
Melissa Ford
Well, here's the thing is if you. If you relinquish your past just for everything moving forward, then you forget everybody that is in your past. So it's like you. So then you have nobody, essentially. You don't know who your friends are. You don't know who your parents Are. You don't know shit. You have no connection.
Joe Budden
Eliminate that option. That's. We can't have that. I got. We gotta remember them.
Ish
Gotta have your friends. Yo, what's up?
Melissa Ford
Friends, your family, your kids.
Flip
Yo, hold on, wait, wait. This just to oven his house. Just the oven. Now the last part, I was talking to this, he like, yo, I'm like, I was talking to him about, yo, you not hitting up our peoples and you gotta hit them up and what you doing.
Melissa Ford
And he like, yo, them now.
Flip
He didn't say them. No, but he was like, sometimes I just don't.
Ish
He ain't say fuck them on camera. Camera.
Flip
No, he said he wanted. He didn't say them at all. He said button that. I know he said he wants to.
Joe Budden
I forgot.
Ish
What did you say?
Flip
You want to move forward. Like sometimes you change. I don't want to go, when is.
Joe Budden
It okay to change?
Flip
There you go. When is it okay to change up on people?
Joe Budden
Yes.
Flip
And I said, if they on the same status level as you to me and they're not presenting nothing negative, it's nothing, why would you change on them? That was my like, that was my response to you. You said, when is it okay to chance if them niggas on the same status, they doing their thing, you doing your thing thing. Why change up on them if they, they're not being bums? They're not asking you for nothing. Well, I mean they just, you know, we're constantly changing.
Joe Budden
Y'all just get on these pause and be unrealistic. So there's no point in me having to.
Flip
But, but nigga you like to. I ain't going to say Kanye, but your modest.
Joe Budden
And I'm not talking about. In our talk. I was joking in our talk. I was.
Flip
I know you was, but it was.
Joe Budden
In, in real life though sometimes I don't be joking about it. Don't be joking about it.
Flip
You want to wake up one day and just decide, I'm not going to talk to this anymore.
Joe Budden
He gave you no Rock On Party. I seen a bunch of. I changed on.
Flip
What was the reason you changed?
Joe Budden
None.
Flip
I'm sitting here, you just laughing, you're not saying nothing.
Joe Budden
Hey, at Rock On Party, shout out to Rock on doughboy. Gang, gang, gang. At Rock On Party. It was some that seen me that know me from when it was okay to just talk to me. Can't do that. So when they seen me like they was just, and they, they was just talking to me like we used to talk.
Ish
They, they a get the update hey, my brother, remember the update you talked about? They had the update.
Joe Budden
Hey, my brother, like, can't talk to this no more. That's awesome. Or I'm sorry, but. Or I'm sorry and you don't know, so it's not your fault, but you can't talk to me like this no more. And there's no reason other than I just changed. Sorry.
Flip
Respect.
Joe Budden
I'm sorry.
Flip
I want to conk you in your head. Hey, listen, if I wake up one day and decide, wait, and if.
Joe Budden
Cuz this could be confusing you out there. If you listening. You know me. So let me help you. Once we get past ass house. How's the fam dog?
Ish
They don't. Look, they don't know. They don't know you.
Joe Budden
Hey, all right, let me help you.
Ish
If they knew you, they'd know right after.
Joe Budden
Yo, how's the family? The wife? It's over. That's. That's the end of it.
Flip
So you would engage, but you keep it short.
Joe Budden
Yes. Got it.
Flip
Okay.
Joe Budden
Come on. But hey, man, you don't have to engage.
Ish
I'm only going to engage if you initially appreciate it.
Joe Budden
No, I'm engaged. Hey, man, good to see old. How you been? Word. That's plum. How's it, man? Anybody good?
Flip
That's a closing line.
Joe Budden
Okay. Love, love, love.
Flip
So there's not nobody in the past that you may see and be like, yo, I'll sit there and have a. A dialogue with them.
Joe Budden
Are we related?
Flip
Not related, but. Oh, no, you had a good past with them, good friendship. They probably went away somewhere.
Joe Budden
No, no.
Flip
And that's him.
Joe Budden
They went away somewhere.
Flip
Not. Not the prison, but like military. Thank you for your service.
Joe Budden
And then they pop back up with their military wife, right? Them always get married. Hey, this is Dolores. I met her in South Carolina. We were stationed out there together. And, man, she was the only one of these. Only girl station with me and she. And I'm supposed to sit there like.
Flip
Oh.
Joe Budden
Half of this is. Pardon?
Flip
Come on.
Joe Budden
Half of it.
Flip
Well, I don't believe these. They on the side. They on the side agreeing because they know you. Really? And it's kind of bothering me.
Ish
They have.
Flip
That sounds crazy. I don't believe it, though. I watch you stop and talk to a regular fan.
Ish
I want to.
Joe Budden
I want Joe Smo in the street. I want this to apply to Ish's first friends, too.
Flip
It's not like that.
Joe Budden
No, No, I don't want to talk to them neither.
Flip
So why you talking to the. At baby boy school?
Joe Budden
Wait At Lex School.
Flip
Yeah. You spoke to the guy, the father. You had a conversation with him. You didn't know him.
Joe Budden
Oh, my man. That's my man. That's my man.
Ish
Strangers.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's my man.
Joe Budden
No, that's my man. Stop. Don't do that. You go get up at school, were.
Flip
You having a conversation and one of the.
Joe Budden
Dad, dad, see you and like, hey.
Flip
Man, listen, what he said.
Ish
What's his name?
Joe Budden
I don't know, my man.
Ish
There you go.
Flip
But he had a conversation with him, a joke said and came and talked about it. Like, yo, great conversation. It's dope. So to say that, ah, you can change. I don't give a. Y'all tell me.
Joe Budden
How y'all ignore the fine parent that keep coming to the same school as your kids school and picking their kid up. How do you ignore them while you at the school picking them up too? Like you at the school picking your kid up. The fine ass parent come and picking their kid up at the same time as you while we in a relationship. Tell me how y'all deal with that.
Melissa Ford
Just put sunglasses on.
Joe Budden
Quick.
Mark Lamont Hill
Just keep it.
Joe Budden
Do they say. Do y'all speak to them?
Ish
No. Yes, absolutely.
Flip
Yes.
Ish
Good morning.
Joe Budden
Okay.
Ish
And that's it.
Flip
How are you?
Melissa Ford
Hi, Ms. Parker.
Ish
No, they hold the door. Thank you so much.
Joe Budden
Yep. There's no other word.
Ish
Keep it moving. You gotta look at the kid. You look at the kid. Focus on the kid.
Joe Budden
Okay.
Ish
One of them sits stopped me. I was like, hey, your daughter is in the class with my son. I was like, okay, that's nice. You looking for a stepdad? What the fuck are you telling me for? Yeah, you gotta focus.
Flip
I get caught about being too friendly. Gets you up. I want to be friendly sometimes. Hey, what's his name? Oh, y'all cool Sometimes the kids be cool too.
Ish
You gotta.
Flip
It get a little tricky.
Ish
No, sir.
Flip
My wife don't play that shit.
Ish
No tricky.
Joe Budden
No.
Ish
No tricky. Tricky at all.
Flip
But if you build that friendship or rapport, I'm gone.
Ish
And your girl building. I'm not a crap.
Flip
Listen, because if you pick your child up every day from school and you build a rapport, you guys have, you know, Sometimes you wait 5, 10 minutes and you have a conversation. Now when your girl come, like, say months later, your girl come with you to pick her up, you gotta act funny a little bit.
Ish
You stop. You lost me right there when you said the fox. Ten minute. You don't gotta wait five or ten minutes. I don't have to do that.
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Ish
I can say, hey, hey, how are you? I can hold the doors. They can hold the door.
Flip
Oh, y'all going. Y'all got kids? So sometimes in certain schools, you could wait. You wait in the schoolyard for your children. Sorry.
Ish
Oh, gotcha, gotcha.
Flip
So sometimes you'll be out there for five, 10 minutes.
Ish
I'm gonna tell you in. In that case, I have AirPods on.
Flip
Oh, you be rude. Got it.
Ish
I won't be rude. No, not being rude.
Flip
You smoothish. You know they coming to you. Hey, what your daughter name?
Corey
Hey, Walter.
Flip
Hey, your eyes. I just told him they love you. Ish.
Ish
I'm gonna love him back.
Flip
I listen to the podcast. Yeah.
Ish
Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate it.
Joe Budden
Yup, that's it.
Ish
Thank you so much.
Joe Budden
Thank you.
Ish
That's all I say. Every day.
Flip
You a fucking liar, yo, bruh.
Ish
Every day. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Flip
I hate handsome, lying niggas. You just a handsome liar.
Ish
Lying about what?
Flip
You talk too much.
Mal
First acknowledge the compliment.
Flip
Thank you.
Ish
Go ahead.
Mark Lamont Hill
Hold on.
Ish
Fuck all that, dog. I don't do that.
Flip
That.
Ish
That's. That's. You asking for trouble, bro.
Flip
True. I introduced my wife to them. Yo, hey, this was his name. Mother got me.
Mark Lamont Hill
Cool. Fall back.
Ish
None of that.
Joe Budden
All right, I'm going with. What sleeper am I doing? This popped up in my phone the other day, and in honor of the breezy bowl, one of my favorite underrated Chris Brown records that is not spoken about. Enough, enough. I'm going with stuck on stupid.
Ish
Fortune album.
Joe Budden
Huh?
Ish
Fortune album, Right?
Joe Budden
Yeah, yeah. This is that I don't mind.
Corey
Can I lose it every time you got me stop, don't stupid stop don't stupid for you oh look what you do to me it's confusing how you do it. It's like you take my heart and Gl it to your soul yeah, baby not do anything for you oh, you know that much is true I'm so in love I'm stupid they say everybody plays the sometimes and if I got.
Melissa Ford
To I don't mind happy.
Joe Budden
For you.
Corey
Every time love to show you know I would have died trying got everything to lose I'm not trying to play cool stupid things I do I.
Joe Budden
Need.
Corey
Help cuz I can't think of stupid for you like what you do to.
Joe Budden
Me Brand new old music that is Chris Brown stuck on stupid. Available in your phone and on DSPS right this second.
Ish
Yo, as much as much as I love that song, you ever notice how that particular record is all pre chorus and chorus? Yeah, the verses is like four Bars, I don't care. Nah, I'm saying it's fire. It's just one of them that always, every time I play it's like this is all just chorus.
Joe Budden
I love that song.
Ish
I love it too.
Joe Budden
All I need is the chorus When I'm fucking ice. I don't need cricket bars. Yeah, I don't need diverse. Like give me all chorus and bridge. All chorus and bridge for my stroke. I mean.
Ish
I'mma go to DC. March 31st marked the 10 year anniversary of W is the album about nothing, which is one of my so my sleeper off of that album is going to be the healing.
Joe Budden
I love you Wale.
Mal
Shout out to Wale.
Flip
So you're the balloon you've got that healing helium Seinfeld we travel through the string we're going up there with you Even though we're on the ground we can't fly but I can get it, I can buy it so I can get a balloon I can't fly but.
Ish
I can get a helium balloon.
Joe Budden
I.
Parks
Used to put my faith in the yard now communication is gone I agree 3 we've gone distant my new location the charts nah, can't count the days but let's just say five years coming of age and make you blow by your day job so cry for me why for me this a Horror story eyes2020s that I envy your normal see and I be different getting diplomas in peace but getting applause in the cross I'm hitting diplo for a beat slight work deny it slightly up it's a purpose I see the world of doppelgangers ain't worth the copy.
Ish
You got me.
Parks
Cold will fly you up this high won't let you fly to the moon look they love your moves made till you make moves achieving new feats every few 8 shoes 16 drain different had sobs looking like it's new supreme in it See that the L been beasting the main attraction I got him hanging they cler said I've been keeping it G It's level to this fellow Hello, I resemble the G cold some good, some flop some nah some recycled like second timers and throw the front first you picked up then you pick the pot you get too far until your core fans or a voir they like you stuck with us but you let her fly sweat his life is like a helium alone but I gotta fly they like stuffer.
Joe Budden
Now. When a kid gets a helium balloon.
Flip
He'S holding that string and he's keeping this balloon from going anywhere. But he also wants to Let it.
Joe Budden
Go.
Parks
Diverse with rapping I'm a writer with passion tell a pair wrist that laugh I don't reach out for dance triple plato better writing for retail why not see my detail saying I just make women's songs this perfect style Every versa town got me right where her walls at don't know what my core needs so who ignore me for I need I purchased three mirrors and show y'all what's for me so he wants.
Flip
To let it go, he wants to catch it eventually he loses it he.
Joe Budden
Doesn'T want to lose it.
Ish
Moving forward.
Parks
With my life Crucify me Jesus Christ can't say nothing cause the same man here you might cut you ain't saying nothing Cause the same hand here you might cut you oh well tell us whatever one seems good but never see.
Joe Budden
Me better oh.
Ish
And again that record was the helium balloon wale the album about nothing happy 10 year anniversary.
Mal
All right, I'm going to the Bronx. This is my man. David Barr is creeping.
Savon
Yeah see it coming I crept through, treated like nothing Doing this for the next few Ready to push the button no bluffing the check dude respect dude Step through, foot on the gas put on they neck too don't tell no when your next move ain't my style following the crowd with the rest move forgot yes got now even the best lose not impressed sitting at the desk with a chest move creep while you sleep I be up when the breast moves Drop gems then pop out and some fresh jewels Hard head doing what I want don't accept rules Big step is still stepping on you with fresh shoes best tools being used on to the next news being fueled down know about but the rest cool competition under me they stuck in the cesspool less pool, stressful learn from experience it's the best school outside catch you by surprise Creeping outside I catch by surprise Creeping outside I catch you by surprise yeah I'm creeping yeah I'm creeping Ain't no lies what I'm teaching They despise what I'm preaching Getting minds in a leeching every time see them reaching my shining is decent Timing is recent Lines that I freezing they block and try to prevent Came from the ground Plant my feet in the cement I don't come around if they don't pay me for the event out of this world too they ain't been the places that he went Type of demon time that we be on and make the repentance Shots fired if we vent Owners don't want C rent they ain't really take Staff from us something that we land got here tops here with it Rest of you peeking working every day I don't even rest on the weekend Flow of ocean in here take you out to the evening I'm sure the notion is clear benefits he be reaping we ain't going nowhere we ain't calling it even better knowing beware scared all of them leaving outside catch you by surprise Creeping outside I catch you by surprise Creeping outside I catch you by surprise yeah, I'm creeping, creeping yeah I'm creeping outside Catch you by surprise Creeping outside I catch you by surprise Creeping outside I catch you by surprise yeah, I'm creeping, creeping yeah I'm.
Mal
Creeping, creeping David bars creeping Shout out to my man's family. You know it.
Ish
Biggish I'm going to Jersey. Big Jersey young lady's name is Monique, the star. The song is Lost my mind. Big shout to Ferg and Hines local.
Joe Budden
Hey, this the girl from Jersey.
Corey
I'mma lose my mind to the things that I can control I almost lost my my mind to all the long you see that show I couldn't lost my life for all the things that I have done I nearly lost my mind for show way too much love I nearly lost my mind lost my mind, lost my mind, lost my mind lost my mind lost my mind, yeah I said these people they said they always going to ride with you These people say they always going to slide with you you turn around and turn it back and switch sides on you got these running around telling lies on you Loyalty ain't no more loyalty hold me down that's what it's supposed to be Broke me down I let you get too close to me I showed him love I really fold on me Know what's up really told on me I'm growing up I'm right where I'm supposed to be. Showing love that she didn't get you first degree Showing love that I lose my mind to the things that I can control I almost lost my mind to all the loyalty that I show I could have lost my life for all the things that I have done I nearly lost my mind for showing way too much love I nearly lost my mind lost my mind, lost my mind, lost my mind, lost my mind, lost my mind yes I said these people, they say they always going to ride with you These people say they always going to slide with you Loyalty ain't no more loyalty hold me down that's what it's supposed to be Roll me down I let you get too close to me I show them love our fully fold on.
Mal
That'S Monique the star Lost my mind shout out to.
Joe Budden
Her.
Melissa Ford
Mine is called let's play and I'm trying to pronounce everybody's name Dabuel, Holy Brune and Desi Hollow.
Mal
Okay, this cover looks like some wild. I'm not gonna lie. I don't know what's going on here.
Melissa Ford
But I mean, listen to the synthesizer though. Doesn't it go with it?
Mal
Sure.
Corey
Emotions going driving wild wild Sing song.
Joe Budden
In the car on the way to.
Flip
See if you really got a thing for me Bending corners now all your.
Joe Budden
Block had to hit her with the.
Flip
Gangster lean Let you in that we on the move what to play?
Joe Budden
Girl, it's hard to choose Getting caught.
Flip
Up in your world and that stick it far let's get lost and crew.
Joe Budden
Let'S play, let's play come on, love.
Flip
Hey, let's wait, let's wait, let's wait.
Joe Budden
Let'S wait Just say oh okay. Head down in the wind wearing a two piece suit you like to sweat the some oldies will look at that. Me too.
Flip
Must show me what you've been hiding Playing some shot of your dude said.
Joe Budden
Tonight is a secret and I can.
Mark Lamont Hill
Proud into you that we never conclude.
Flip
We only on to the next. I was passing you keeping up baby girl I'm impressed.
Joe Budden
No, we not in a rush.
Flip
Hope we keeping in touch Just put.
Joe Budden
It back into action because we talking too much.
Mal
Let's go bridge.
Flip
It'S feeling like that.
Joe Budden
Real west coast but we outside all.
Flip
Night.
Mal
That is W, L, Holly Brun and Desi Hollow. Sorry if I'm butchering any names there. That was a bop.
Ish
That was about. I don't know if it's parody, but it was was still about.
Joe Budden
No joke.
Mal
I'm not mad at him. Well, Mark's got a sleeper. Mark's got something that people are sleeping on.
Joe Budden
He joke.
Mark Lamont Hill
Ari Lennox just dropped a new single. What is it? Is that like Taboo or something?
Mal
No.
Joe Budden
Oh, can't wait to hear.
Mark Lamont Hill
All right. Lennox on her birthday last week, happy belated. Dropped the single Soft girl era produced by Brian Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri.
Mal
Well, let's hear it then.
Ish
Yeah.
Corey
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah.
Parks
Y'all know what this is?
Corey
Baby, that's a million dollars in the mirror. Yeah, Step back, get. I can't get nearer. Angela, do nothing but look pretty in there. Hurry up and put me in my soft girl era at first class I ain't going nowhere Nails, hair and face take me somewhere ain't Trying to do nothing but look pretty in the air Hurry up and put me in my soft girl era Cheap fly fly, high maintenance I've been busy Take me on a vacation Put your money to your mouth don't say serving cake on the plate can't face it I can be a passenger princess move quick for add interest don't you tell nobody what you weakness Cuz what we doing Ain't no one's business for you what you going through? I'm saving all this for you It's a hot night like can you treat me right? Show me some baby that's a million dollars in the mirror Step back, get back and get nearer Ain't trying to do nothing but look pretty in hair Hurry up and put me in my soft girl area in first class I ain't going nowhere Nails, hair and face take me somewhere Ain't trying to do nothing but look pretty in hair Hurry up and put me in my soft girl air Put me in my soft girl era My soft girl era I can let you me up a bonnet Cut this talk baby show me how you want it no I got you hooks like phonics that is telling it's the iconic for you oh what you going through? I'm saving all this It's a hard night life can you read it right? Only me on the menu baby that's a million dollars in the mirror Step back, get back and get nearer it's gonna do nothing but look pretty in hair Hurry up and put me in my soft girl era hey, first class I ain't going nowhere Nails, hair, take me somewhere and I do nothing but look pretty Inherit Hurry up and put me in my soft girl era Put me in my soft girl era.
Mal
That'S Ari Lennox. Soft girl era Shout out to JD and bmc not mad at it. I like smart Lennox music.
Ish
Love.
Mark Lamont Hill
I love her voice. Anything she sings.
Joe Budden
All right, all right. Nothing sets the week off for me like some brand new art.
Mark Lamont Hill
Sure.
Joe Budden
Shout out to her. Their whole team. Shout the market playing that little slap. What it look like? What it look like? What it look like out there, huh? Nice out. They were talking about some storm or something.
Mal
Tornado or something.
Ish
Supposed to rain like three or four days in a row.
Joe Budden
Nah, nigga, we the rain. We outside. Fuck they talking about? We the rain? Ain't no rain.
Flip
I ain't talking.
Joe Budden
I'm ready though. I'm ready.
Ish
We know.
Joe Budden
Trying to plan like a little West Palm or something. Something local, but not too local. Just a quick little three day.
Ish
Nice.
Joe Budden
Yeah. No I need to call out on the Friday. It's coming. I got it. I got to call out. Have y'all hold it down on a Friday, man. Sure, sure. What's up? Anybody doing anything interesting this week that I can exploit for entertainment purposes? Hey, hey. No, no, no, no. This week, God damn it.
Ish
Sorry, bro. Sorry. I get you next week.
Joe Budden
Mel, what about you? How's your week? How's your week looking, huh? Big Gracie Awards. Big Gracie, please.
Melissa Ford
It's looking like I'm going to be working.
Joe Budden
Hey. Huh? Make some room on that trophy shelf, all right? They talking about can't win more awards.
Mal
If you're not working.
Joe Budden
Yeah. Mandy ain't win. Mandy ain't win shit, girl. Hey, listen, man, keep us in your prayers. Lord knows we need to be there. Until the next time, I bid you a due farewell. Adios. Areva dirchi. Asta la vista arvo. A simple, simple head novel suffice. Remember, life is a series of moments and moments past. So let's make this one last as if it's all we have. Lastly, the baddies are insecure, the stagnant women want to travel. And the clothes minded women want you to teach the things. Grab you a Tylenol, you might need it. Hey, and a little bit of TV news. I might be off of that dope thief.
Ish
Told you that is bad.
Mal
I haven't even started yet. It's bad.
Joe Budden
I'm not saying it's bad, but it ain't as good as good be.
Mark Lamont Hill
Yeah, I was looking forward to it.
Mal
White Lotus might have lost me.
Ish
Really?
Melissa Ford
It's one episode left.
Mal
Well, I guess I gotta stay for it. But once incest is injected into the.
Ish
Occasion, you know, it should be on HBO 24 7. Yeah. I just so happen to. I'll tell you off, but. Okay, yeah.
Melissa Ford
I can't wait to see the last episode. I'm hooked.
Ish
I watched the first episode of Mobland.
Joe Budden
Cut that right off, too.
Ish
You did?
Flip
Yeah.
Joe Budden
I ain't got time for these accents.
Mal
You watched the doc about the. The doc about the Long Island Killer?
Melissa Ford
Oh, I'm watching that right now.
Joe Budden
No, I did not.
Mal
It's pretty good. Two thirds. There's only three episodes. I'm two.
Flip
Two.
Melissa Ford
I'm deep. Yeah.
Joe Budden
Yo, I am going to check it out.
Ish
You watch the. About the Newark strangler?
Flip
Yo, yo. Sounds so enthused.
Mal
What's crazy? That was fairly recent. Fairly recent?
Joe Budden
It was.
Melissa Ford
Yeah, yeah.
Flip
Not the African guy that I.
Melissa Ford
No, no, no.
Mal
He was white dude.
Melissa Ford
He's a big white dude.
Flip
Yeah, but There was a guy that they arrest for. They accused him of killing the lady that was jogging in on Long Island.
Mark Lamont Hill
Oh, that's.
Melissa Ford
That's different. No, these are multiple bodies that have been found, like, over a decade ago. He was a serial killer.
Mal
Eleven. Eleven bodies?
Melissa Ford
Yeah.
Flip
And they re. They caught him?
Joe Budden
Yeah.
Mark Lamont Hill
Jesus.
Ish
Got it with you.
Joe Budden
Ish.
Melissa Ford
It's fascinating.
Flip
Where is it at?
Ish
Long Island.
Mal
Netflix Recipe Solos.
Joe Budden
Long Island Netflix. Oh, Separate Netflix. Hulu was doing such a great job on the Good American. Good American Family. I just went back, started watching the Real again.
Mal
I'm going go back. I'm going to start that.
Ish
I was about to watch it with my girl. I could not stop laughing at this little girl face. Yo. I couldn't watch it.
Mal
I'm not going to lie. We pull up the little screen where it has, like, the description, all that, and they're like, I don't know.
Joe Budden
She looks a lot worse than the real Gabby did. She looks a lot worse. I don't know what they was doing.
Ish
The makeup is amazing or not. I'm going to.
Joe Budden
Y'all hold it down out there, man. Stay safe, stay dangerous. Head on the swivel at all times. We will be back same time, same place this weekend. Hey, hey. Shout out to all the number ones in the final four. Man. Round of applause for y'all. That's crazy. Round of applause for y'all. First time we've had four number ones in a long time.
Mal
One Cinderella.
Joe Budden
I got Duke winning the whole thing.
Mark Lamont Hill
That's my squad.
Joe Budden
I got Duke winning the whole thing. As mad as it's gonna make my dad shout out to the Yankees and their new bats as well. We'll talk about it on Patreon. What a little trick they got that off. What a trick. Go Yankees. We going. Y'all hold it down. You've never heard of Joe Buddy?
Podcast Summary: The Joe Budden Podcast - Episode 813: "Plausible Deniability"
Release Date: April 2, 2025
Host/Author: The Joe Budden Network
In Episode 813 of The Joe Budden Podcast, titled "Plausible Deniability," Joe Budden and his co-hosts delve into a variety of topics ranging from tragic news stories and celebrity controversies to deep dives into relationship dynamics and the evolving music industry. The episode is characterized by candid conversations, humor, and insightful analyses, making it engaging for both regular listeners and newcomers.
The episode begins with the standard disclaimer about the podcast's content being for entertainment purposes. Joe Budden kicks off with lively greetings among the full squad, setting an energetic and friendly tone for the episode.
The hosts engage in playful banter, introducing segments like "Potter of the Month," referencing merchandise such as hoodies. This segment fosters camaraderie and light-hearted interaction among the hosts.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the tragic death of Scooter (also referred to as Bishop Brigante). Initially misreported as a shootout with police, subsequent details revealed that Scooter died from an accidental stabbing after jumping a gate and severely injuring his leg. The hosts express shock and sympathy, delving into the concept of swatting — making fake 911 calls leading to dangerous police responses. They critique the handling of the situation by dispatch operators, emphasizing the severe consequences of such actions.
Notable Quote:
Ish [22:16]: "This seems to be a case of swatting." ([25:07])
The hosts analyze Kanye West's recent interview where he appeared in black KKK attire and made anti-Semitic remarks. They discuss the psychological implications, considering whether Kanye's behavior stems from untreated trauma or narcissism. Budden expresses his inability to defend Kanye's actions, highlighting the detrimental impact of Kanye's statements on his legacy and relationships within the music industry.
Notable Quote:
Joe Budden [37:20]: "I cannot stand here and talk to you like you a fucking coherent human." ([37:28])
Melissa Ford announces her podcast's win at the Gracie Awards, celebrating achievements in media that honor women's contributions. The group praises her accomplishment, reflecting on the importance of recognizing excellence within their community.
Notable Quote:
Melissa Ford [07:03]: "And my podcast won." ([07:04])
The discussion shifts to the changing landscape of music superstars, comparing artists like Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee. The hosts debate metrics for measuring stardom in the streaming era versus traditional record sales and live performances. They argue that the proliferation of global stars has diluted the exclusivity of being a "superstar," making it harder for enduring legends to maintain their status.
Notable Quote:
Joe Budden [49:02]: "Daddy Yankee is and was. Bad Bunny paved the way for." ([49:07])
A heated discussion arises around a story where a father allegedly left his three children at a McDonald's during a job interview. The hosts debate the ethics and safety of such actions, considering factors like the children's ages and the environment. They explore societal pressures on Black fathers and the potential consequences of leaving children unattended, emphasizing the need for responsible parenting and community support.
Notable Quote:
Mark Lamont Hill [75:28]: "You're leaving three Negro children in a suburban McDonald's because he wouldn't have made it." ([75:30])
The hosts delve into the concept of "hot wifing," where partners consent to their significant other engaging in sexual relations outside the relationship. They discuss the implications, boundaries, and emotional complexities associated with such arrangements. The conversation extends to managing sexual fantasies, trust, and maintaining relationship integrity in unconventional dynamics.
Notable Quote:
Joe Budden [104:25]: "Would you rather from this day forward, forget your past, but remember everything moving forward?" ([120:05])
The group reviews recent music releases, including Chris Brown's "Stuck on Stupid," Ari Lennox's "Soft Girl Era," and others. They critique song structures, lyrical content, and accompanying music videos, sharing personal preferences and highlighting standout elements in the tracks.
Notable Quote:
Mark Lamont Hill [139:00]: "You don't have to be who you are. But we gotta get rid of that like self. All this self love shit." ([123:07])
As the episode winds down, Joe Budden promotes Prize Picks, a daily fantasy sports platform, integrating their typical ad segments seamlessly into the conversation. The hosts offer final thoughts on various topics, encourage listeners to stay engaged, and tease upcoming discussions.
Notable Quote:
Joe Budden [72:03]: "If you download the prize picks app right this second and use promo code JBP, you get $50 instantly after you play your first $5 lineup." ([72:03])
Conclusion:
Episode 813 of The Joe Budden Podcast presents an array of topics ranging from tragic news stories and celebrity controversies to deep dives into relationship dynamics and the evolving music industry. Through engaging dialogues and honest debates, Joe Budden and his co-hosts offer listeners a blend of entertainment and thought-provoking discussions, underscored by their signature humor and camaraderie.
Overall Notable Quote:
Joe Budden [25:24]: "Don't break it." – A recurring theme emphasizing restraint and reflection amidst heated discussions.
This episode exemplifies the podcast's ability to navigate complex subjects while maintaining an entertaining and relatable atmosphere.