The Legend of a Hero

Summary

The Read – “The Legend of a Hero” (April 16, 2026)

Episode Overview

In this high-energy episode of The Read, hosts Kid Fury and Crissle West dive into the latest in hip-hop, pop culture, and Black excellence, peppered with their signature wit, sarcasm, and unfiltered commentary. The discussion spans the triumph of Victor Glover’s historic NASA flight, mess and mayhem in rap beefs (from Pooh Shiesty to Remy Ma), celebrity drama, the ethics of fandom, and listener dilemmas about boundaries and self-improvement. The tone is unapologetically honest, hilarious, and at times, deeply reflective about personal growth and the complexities of supporting problematic faves.

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Black Excellence: Victor Glover’s NASA Mission

[02:36 – 06:48]

• Kid Fury shouts out Victor Glover, the first Black NASA pilot to return from the moon on the Artemis 2 mission.
  • “Literally...for, brief, I don’t know, 10 days or something like that, this nigga got to live the dream. Not going to the moon, but getting far, far away from here. Far away, far away from here and every. Anything to do with it.” – Kid Fury [02:55]
• Reaction:
  • Both hosts marvel at the accomplishment and share how moved they were by the footage of the safe return.
  • Crissle provides a relatable Black perspective on why science funding matters: “This is what I want my tax dollars to go towards, you know, science and shit like that. Not going to war with Iran for no goddamn reason.” [06:28]
  • Side-eye thrown to the awkwardness of Glover being forced to have a ceremonial conversation with Trump even while still in space.

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Hot Tops: Pop Culture & Rap Drama

[06:48 – 67:02]

Pooh Shiesty’s Legal Woes and the Meaning of “Snitching”

[07:41 – 19:50]

• Pooh Shiesty denied bail and facing life imprisonment; his father also on house arrest.
• Hosts mock the stupidity of criminals posting incriminating evidence online:
  • “You went. You got on the Greyhound. You went to the Staples. Why didn’t you also go to Starbucks and get some coffee and then ask them to put Criminal as the name on the cup?” – Kid Fury [10:54]
• Gucci Mane drops the track “Crash Dummy” roasting Pooh Shiesty.
• Extended convo on how the ‘snitching’ debate has devolved, highlighting generational and cultural shifts.
  • “You niggas have legit gotten dumber. The hood niggas from back in my day in the 1900s and the early 2000s, them niggas would have never, ever… posted pictures online of themselves in the shit that they stole.” – Crissle [17:24]
• The hosts bemoan how younger fans support musicians with no ambitions or expectations for their own futures.

Remy Ma vs. Papoose (with a side of Clarissa Shields)

[20:45 – 33:34]

• Remy Ma finally replies in music to subs and allegations—especially about ghostwriting (from both Papoose and Nicki Minaj).
  • “There are still videos of this lady in battle raps, in cyphers that she wins… There is absolutely no way that you wrote lyrics for that lady that rap better than you.” – Kid Fury [25:09]
• Remy’s new diss track “Why You Fuckin' Lyin?” is praised for its lyrical sharpness. Standout lines are recited and broken down.
  • “How you talking out your neck when I know how your nigga neck work.” [28:01]
  • “You always acting like you help a nigga, go help yourself.” – Remy, via Kid Fury/Crissle [28:21]
• The hosts roast Papoose and his new girlfriend, boxer Clarissa Shields, for public mess and unrequited ring drama.

Cardi B, Offset, and Social Media “Breakups”

[31:44 – 33:34]

• Observations about how meaningless social media clues are regarding celebrities’ relationships:
  • "Unfollowing people on Instagram is. I don't know why y'all actually like. It's an organ, girl." – Kid Fury [32:01]

King Harris’ Arrest and Cybertruck Dragging

[35:27 – 41:22]

• King (TI's son) arrested on drug and gun charges—while wearing a Pikachu onesie and threatening to sleep with the officer’s wife (classic Read fodder).
  • “You should have been arrested for driving a cybertruck. Honestly, those cars are so fucking hideous. Every time I see one, I’m just like, jail immediately for you.” – Crissle [37:35]
• A joyous takedown of the Tesla Cybertruck, its owners, and the “superhero complex.”

Justin Bieber’s Coachella Disaster & Gender Double Standards

[42:09 – 47:19]

• Bieber’s nonchalant, YouTube-based Coachella performance gets roasted:
  • “A woman could never just come out on stage with some sweatpants and a tank top and just walk back and forth or sit down.” – Kid Fury [45:08]
• The hosts highlight the injustice of standards for female artists.

Usher & Chris Brown Announce Controversial Tour

[48:13 – 54:06]

• Both express deep disappointment in Usher for joining Chris Brown, calling out misogyny and abuse culture in music fandom.
  • “Zero percent chance I’m giving Chris Brown even one thin dime of my money.” – Crissle [49:00]
• Acknowledgement that the public largely doesn’t care about these artists’ long list of alleged crimes.
• Notable drag:
  • “If R. Kelly was out, they would have him on the tour, too.” – Crissle [54:10]

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Listener Letters & Advice

[70:06 – 104:54]

Complicated Gifts and Supporting Problematic Artists

• Letter from Kelly: Should she buy her mom tickets to the Usher & Chris Brown tour given her principles?
  • “The entire concept of using Klarna for Chris Brown is so ridiculous to me that it is laughable.” – Kelly (Letter) [74:47]
  • Crissle’s compromise: “For Mother’s Day, we’re going to pay your electric bill and get you a gas card. And so that should free up some of your income for you to go on down to your firm and ask them niggas about some [tickets].”
• Letter from B: Partner accuses him of “love bombing” after a couple of normal gifts; B feels stung.
  • “Y’all have been together for over a year, and love bombing happens shortly after you meet… This is not love bombing.” – Crissle [86:52]
  • Bottom line: Work through the real root feelings, focus on forgiveness, and communicate.
• Letter from Marie: Is therapy supposed to hurt? New, tough-love therapist is making her feel worse.
  • “You can’t bully yourself into loving yourself more and treating yourself with more kindness. It does not work in the long term.” – Crissle [97:28]
  • Both hosts agree: Therapy should be compassionate; tough love as a sole method rarely heals.

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The Read: Closing Rants & Memorable Moments

[108:06 – 135:04]

Political Hypocrisy, LEGO Meltdowns, and Fast Food Tie-ins

• Trump’s blasphemous AI art and his Christian followers get called out:
  • “Now this nigga got AI photos of him as God and Jesus Christ. And y’all are like, well, well, I don’t know about that…” – Kid Fury [109:03]
• Lego grievances: Kid Fury recounts a comically intense struggle with a Marvel Lego set and the frustration of modern “interactive” instructions.
  • “Lego, I am on your asses. And by that I mean I’m not gonna do anything about it.” [113:59]
• Megan Thee Stallion’s Popeye’s One Piece collab—debate on whether “gum gum lemonade” should taste like bubblegum or not, and nerds everywhere are vindicated.

Transphobia & the Culture Wars

[119:25 – 125:12]

• Kid Fury and Crissle drag Dave Chappelle for blaming Republicans for “weaponizing” his own transphobic jokes, then go in harder on Caitlyn Jenner for being “transphobic trans.”
  • “You gave them the knife. You mad that they used it to stab you?” – Crissle [120:31]
  • “A transphobic trans person is really a fucking mess.” – Crissle [121:01]

Megan Good’s Pet Priorities

[125:12 – 135:13]

• Disgust as Megan Good reveals she got rid of her cat, Bam Bam, for Jonathan Majors and his dogs.
  • “I would rather be single for the rest of my life than give up Lainey. And I mean that with my whole fucking heart and soul.” – Crissle [127:02]
  • “You didn’t deserve that cat.” [129:47]
  • Extended rant on the unbreakable bonds with pets and why a man should never come before them.

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Notable Quotes and Classic Read Moments

• “You told him how to do it, too. I’m gonna teach you how to rob. He was just like, listen…” – Kid Fury (imagining Pooh Shiesty prison dynamics) [20:29]
• “Sometimes lies are like, damn, girl. Damn.” – Crissle (re: Clarissa Shields, engagement rumors) [60:27]
• “Transphobia is a bipartisan sport.” – Episode subtext from the Dave Chappelle & Caitlyn Jenner drags.
• “You think tough love is what you need. Somebody just need to yell at you so you can get your dumb ass up and get your shit together. But you’ve probably had a lifetime of tough love, which isn’t loving at all.” – Crissle [95:41]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Start | End | |-------------------------------|------------|------------| | Black Excellence | 02:36 | 06:48 | | Hot Tops (Pop Culture) | 06:48 | 67:02 | | Listener Letters | 70:06 | 104:54 | | Closing Reads (Rants) | 108:06 | 135:04 |

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Tone & Style

• Irreverent, black, sharply funny, openly critical of celebrity and behaviors, and deeply loyal to principles.
• Quotes are casual, loaded with slang, shade, and playful profanity—The Read at its raw, soulful best.

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Final Word

If you missed this episode, you missed juicy pop culture analysis, contagious laughter, and real talk about therapy, family, and standing up for your beliefs—even when it comes to buying concert tickets for your mama. The Read remains a safe haven for “the shade is free, but the integrity costs,” and this week, both were in abundant supply.

Transcript

[Kid Fury]

What's a booster?

[Crissle West]

Somebody that steal clothes from a store

[Kid Fury]

and sell at a discount price.

[Crissle West]

It's like community service.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

The Velvet Gang, they're boosting from my stores.

[Kid Fury]

Critics are hailing I Love Boosters as wildly hilarious and outrageous, provocative and really fun.

[Crissle West]

Come on, let's take all of it.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

Welcome back everyone. Thank you for returning to the show. I'm Lynx Mama And I am AZ

[Crissle West]

Fudd, and this is the Read. Thank you for joining us.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my God. It is indeed an amen to all things and above. Let's get things started today with black excellence, as we always do. I'm going to give it over to Victor Glover, first black NASA pilot who just returned from the moon. Literally, if you haven't heard about Artemis 2 big old spaceship that they just shot up off of Earth. And for brief, I don't know, 10 days or something like that, this nigga got to live the dream. Not going to the moon, but getting far, far away from here. Far away, far away from here and every. Anything to do with it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

In the stars. Praise God especially for bringing him back. Now that part, you know, he's got a family and a life here. So lovely for him, in theory, for me. Why, you know, why come back?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, okay.

[Kid Fury]

You know when rappers make a whole bunch of money and they move out the hood and then hood is like, oh, you never return. You never come back to the block for what I did all this work and all the schooling to never have to do that. I'm losing the plot. Victor Glover returned to Earth. First of all, I watched the launch, but I didn't see the landing. And I forgot that they were gonna get back so fast. I mean, okay, I didn't. I mean, I knew that they were just kind of doing like a wee and coming right back, but I looked up one day and they just went in the ocean. And I was like, okay, I guess it's done. He gave a really, really lovely speech over at the NASA and it was quite endearing. You know, he's saying that he didn't. Hadn't even really processed what they just done, which, I mean, riding into space. I think that might take you a little bit.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

A little while to kind of be like, yeah, I did that. I did that. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And now I'm back here,

[Kid Fury]

so go check that out. I love the speech. She also posted on. On the Twitter, home again, mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families, and our terrific teams at NASA and csa. Time to share the good news. And here he is with the family, all gorgeous black women, natural hair. We love to see.

[Crissle West]

Was really sweet. Well, I mean, I was locked into that whole mission. Like, I not, you know, I'm not a space hoe. I don't really with space and all that. Like, it's cool or whatever, but I'm just.

[Kid Fury]

Told you, I feel.

[Crissle West]

Never been super interested. Yeah. But this was the footage they captured and all of that was just really incredible. And then, yeah, once they landed safely, their asses was in that water and they got them out and everything. I was like, damn. I had an exhale in me that I didn't even realize. I was nervous about whether they was gonna make it back safely. But, yes, it was nice. The funniest part was when they had to talk to Trump and they was all just kind of sitting there like, girl, it's over yet.

[Kid Fury]

You know, I forget sometimes that there are so many, like, ceremonies, ceremonial processes that come with the president being there. And it's like, again, to the point that I was just making you do all this great work. You leave this shithole, you go do something monumental, inexplicable, just. Just outside of the, like, literal rocket science, right? And then you come back to the ghetto, and then you have to talk to, like, the worst part of it, the worst person on the planet.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. They actually talked to him when they were still in space, which is like, yuck. I'm trying to, like, do my job and have a good time and all this. And here you go.

[Kid Fury]

Why remind me?

[Crissle West]

Right? Right.

[Kid Fury]

I don't need a reminder.

[Crissle West]

But, yeah, that was very sweet, everything that he posted and all that. And I was just, you know, glad they made it back. This is what I want my tax dollars to go towards, you know, science and shit like that. Not going to war with Iran for no goddamn reason. But anyway, yeah, you know, little things.

[Kid Fury]

Now it's time for a pop culture and lifestyle segment.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

It's called Hot Tops. You, me, and Top. And me. Have you gone to see you and me in Tuscany yet?

[Crissle West]

I have not. Have you?

[Kid Fury]

I think I'm gonna go. I haven't seen it yet, but I think I'm gonna go. It looks cute. I love the Baileys. I don't. I know that this is the brother from. From Bridgerton, because I remember when everybody was talking about the brother from Bridgerton. Yeah, I don't watch. Bridgerton Brothers are.

[Crissle West]

Oh, that's too bad.

[Kid Fury]

But I do know who this is.

[Crissle West]

Great. It's great.

[Kid Fury]

No, no, Bridgerton. I love that for you. Um, but I might go watch this. Oh, that's so loud.

[Crissle West]

Okay. All right.

[Kid Fury]

Well, Pooh Shiesty's lawyer, Bradford Cohen, says that the rapper remains in good spirits despite. Despite the judge denying his bail. Because you're not going anywhere, babes. You won't be going a fuck place. Yep, yep, yep. He's definitely looking at lifetime imprisonment if convicted. And, babe, I mean, I believe all the nails are in that coffin, honey. Partic. I think that those were. Those were fastened in the moment that you posted selfies with that nigga jewelry on.

[Crissle West]

That'll do it.

[Kid Fury]

So, I mean, get the Dorito pie ready, babe. And it also says that his daddy is on house arrest and will remain on house arrest after this $250,000 bond. He is permitted to go absolutely the fuck nowhere except for to and from court dates. I don't even know if that nigga could go in the yard. And he's looking at some hard time, too, for being present in this.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

You can't oversee it.

[Crissle West]

Can't really be complicit in a federal crime. You can't really do that. They kind of run both.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, you hopped on the Greyhound. Did they tell you they were taking you to Coldstone? Like, did you just like, oh, we're driving all the way to East Atlanta or. Well, not east, you know.

[Crissle West]

Right. I saw the. That the lawyer went on some podcast or something and was like, the prosecution said he printed off the contract at Staples and he was actually printing off song lyrics. And I'm like, is this the number one thing that needs to be addressed? Like, is this what you think the number one issue is with this story? The fact that, like, maybe they printed off song lyrics versus the fucking TikTok

[Kid Fury]

needs all the details. How else can we have our really petty, unnecessary video essays?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

God damn. I'm so tired of everybody having a fucking.

[Crissle West]

Like, sir, this is not okay. The crime was not printing the contract or the lyrics or whatever. The crime is every fucking thing else that was done. Like, let's focus on what really matters here.

[Kid Fury]

I want to know all of it because it's all fucking ridiculous, and it should have. And it's so far from something that ever should have happened. I want to know every square inch of it so I can have a good laugh. Like, I deserve to have, like, all the information so that I can have the appropriate laughter. So stopping at a Staples is just so delicious because it's just so.

[Crissle West]

I mean, it is extremely stupid. And it's one stupid thing on a giant pile of other very stupid things. Right? But this is one where when they tell that man he's not getting out of prison for another 15, 20 years minimum, I'm gonna be like, yeah, I. You know, I won't be marching for this one. I'll have no choice but to sit back. I'll have no choice but to sit back and be like, yeah, them white people did what they had to do. You're a goddamn menace, my nigga. You don't know how to act.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't even get a mixtape, my nigga. Do you know I've been waiting for new pooh sights?

[Crissle West]

Yikes. Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

And you went. You got on the Greyhound. You went to the Staples. Why didn't you also go to Starbucks and get some coffee and then ask them to put Criminal as the name on the cut?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

What other evidence did you need?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Anyhow, Gucci man has released a response song. It is titled Crash Dummy. He addresses the record, I mean, the robbery, the armed robbery, and attempt to disengage from his 10:17 contract.

[Crissle West]

Lord.

[Kid Fury]

I believe one of the initial lyrics to the song is Gucci saying, you went out like a real Crash Dummy. And after all that, boy, you still signed to me. And I feel like that is kind of the summary of what we were getting at when we originally spoke about this. So now you're gonna be locked up for the rest of your life. And you will have. You will remain in the contract because you had further obligations to it. And even if you didn't, girl, why would I, right at this point? So now I will make. I will make all the money from all off your music.

[Crissle West]

Yep. I sure will. I sure will.

[Kid Fury]

Good luck at the gates.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. That is literally. I mean, if you haven't heard it, that is pretty much what Gucci said. Straight like that. Like, I thought we were sitting down and talking business. You niggas came in, dabbing me up like everything was cool, like shit was sweet. And then you switched up and did all this weird fuck nigga shit. But, you know, you. You. You a big dumbass. And I knew that before. I just didn't know you was this level of stupid. But all your. All your shit does belong to me. So thank you so much for that. I do appreciate it.

[Kid Fury]

He talked about putting money on a nigga's commissary. He said, pen to paper, but I was under duress. He said, I'm like Birdman, nigga. This my cash money. It was a very interesting song.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I see some fans are a little bit split. There's some criticism that, you know, oh, he's snitching. And I have questions for some of you niggas who feel that way. Just a couple things.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

How do we get here when it talks to snitching? Like, we evolved. I know we evolved from, like, the original definition of snitch to then snitch. Just being telling right Cause snitch in its origin, as far as I've always

[Crissle West]

known

[Kid Fury]

as a 38 year old baby. So when you do crime with someone and then you tell on the person to get out of this.

[Crissle West]

Yes, right, exactly.

[Kid Fury]

So if somebody came on your block and shot your neighbor and you told somebody what you saw, that wasn't originally snitching.

[Crissle West]

Now it is according to you niggas. Or if the. According to you niggas, they even call the victims snitches, which is like, yes, please be for real. I'm not supposed to tell on you when you came and shot up my house.

[Kid Fury]

So that's where I'm evolving to right now. We're at a place where this is, I guess, snitching. No, I was held at gunpoint and demanded to sign a contract, a business contract. And me talking about that is snitching. Couple things. I would argue that Poosheisti snitched on himself first. Then I would argue exactly this being a. A business contract that I was involved in under duress. I clearly am going to make a report to protect my business, to report on attempts made on my business. I have to talk about it any fucking way. On top of that, I'm a rap nigga. What are we talking about? I don't understand how this is snitching to some of y'. All. This is a man who has. Has gone from old Gucci right? To a Gucci man that y' all still still claim to be a clone because he's just transformed his life and

[Crissle West]

body as if he wasn't in prison. Like, you should learn something from time behind bars. I know you little niggas are allergic to that, but you really should spend some time.

[Kid Fury]

I've even burned some calories.

[Crissle West]

You should spend some time locked up and then think about how you want to live differently and move differently through the world once you get out. I would rather be a Gucci than a pooh shiesty. 10 times out of 10.

[Kid Fury]

And I feel like a lot of y', all, especially after this song, probably admire Pooh Shiesty. And it's like so at least in the decision making, right between the crime and. And the quote unquote, snitching.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And I just. I will. I will sincerely pray for y' all tonight because

[Crissle West]

it's something wrong. What? It's a lot.

[Kid Fury]

You didn't even get. You got like a song and a half from this nigga before he went right back. I feel like if Blockbuster Video was still a thing you would. You'd still have time before you needed to return it. Compared to how long this nigga was out of jail? Prison?

[Crissle West]

Yeah. People wait longer for they library books to come off a hold than this nigga was out. Like, this is just. The seasons didn't even change all the way, brother. He was barely out, like. But, you know, it take longer to

[Kid Fury]

get ready for Thanksgiving. Different to like, to make all for real.

[Crissle West]

I bet Jada's prepping her menu right fucking now. And this nigga. That's ridiculous. You know, it just don't. But niggas don't. The people who look up to Pooh Shiesty don't aspire to shit. They have zero expectations for their lives, and they probably don't think they'll see.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, Tilly didn't.

[Crissle West]

It was just so. Yeah, here we go. The. Yeah, the judge is gonna keep your ass behind bars. And there is no such thing as snitching. When you, the perpetrator, pose for photographs in the jewelry that you and them other niggas stole and then upload these photographs to Instagram. Like, you niggas have legit gotten dumber.

[Kid Fury]

The.

[Crissle West]

The hood niggas from back in my day in the 1900s and the early 2000s, them niggas would have never, ever, and I do mean ever, posted pictures online of themselves in the shit that they stole.

[Kid Fury]

Well, they wouldn't have known how y'

[Crissle West]

all are allergic to doing. I don't even. I mean, it's obviously not the right thing, but like just the. The even halfway smart thing. This was okay. All right.

[Kid Fury]

Now, I did see quite a few niggas say, like, you really did go out like a dummy, my nigga. You could have just fulfilled them obligations and just wrap this shit. I did see a number of n say that too, so you know what I mean? I'll just lay that out in things as well. But yeah, man, the rest of your living black days and you. It really is wild. I mean, his contract probably sucked, or was at least for him. Sucked. Right? But so many musicians have, unfortunately. And I mean, the music industry was a racket in its inception, so. Duh.

[Crissle West]

But everybody says it, but.

[Kid Fury]

But there are clearly. Because so many people have this issue or have this experience, there are clearly ways to deal with it outside of taking your black ass back to the pokey. You could. And especially because people have been waiting for a ton of music. We said this already. You could have just released five back to back projects and ran for the hills like Rihanna.

[Crissle West]

Like Rihanna, right? Or, you know, you hit Gucci up about it. Gucci said, come to the studio. Let's talk about it. So it sounds like he was willing to at least have the conversation. Like maybe we can work. You went there with the intent to

[Kid Fury]

do Dumb niggas, right?

[Crissle West]

That man was open to the conversation. Why didn't you call them other niggas and be like, all right, chill. I'mma hop on the zoom. Cause I can't leave because I'm on, you know, house arrest or county arrest or whatever. So I'mma hop on this zoom with Gucci. Let me at least see if we could work something. You went straight to Dumb nigga. Shit. Why?

[Kid Fury]

Well, the fun for me when I think about this is just going to be like mental fan fiction of him going back to the love of his life.

[Crissle West]

Whoever it is in there. Somebody.

[Kid Fury]

Mm. Somebody in there is just like you said you would never leave.

[Crissle West]

And baby, I intend to keep that

[Kid Fury]

person some dreads for him.

[Crissle West]

Okay, now I have a mental image of Pooh Shiesty sitting crisscross applesauce.

[Kid Fury]

You're welcome. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Between some grown nigga leg while he flip his wig and talk on the phone.

[Kid Fury]

You told him how to do it too. I'm gonna teach you how to rob. He was just like, listen.

[Crissle West]

Cause you gotta protect yourself, boo. I can't have you out here looking crazy when I leave. We're gonna watch out for you. Ah, a real love story.

[Kid Fury]

Speaking of Diss Records. Remy Ma, my God. Reminiscent Smith, my job.

[Crissle West]

I was hoping you heard it. Oh, wait.

[Kid Fury]

Hoping I heard it.

[Crissle West]

I should have known. I should have known.

[Kid Fury]

Hoping I heard.

[Crissle West]

That's like saying, I hope you saw Trina at the Little Miss Drama tour.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crissle West]

Right? I should have known. I should have known.

[Kid Fury]

I saw Remy at the Little Miss Drama tour. Like, are.

[Crissle West]

You should have known.

[Kid Fury]

I saw Stephan Diggs at the. At the Little Miss Drama.

[Crissle West]

And Quavo.

[Kid Fury]

We'll get there. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Damn. Everybody but Offset. Well, offset got Patti LaBelle went. I did.

[Kid Fury]

What the fuck, girl?

[Crissle West]

All right.

[Kid Fury]

I miss you. At this point, listen, Reminisce Smith is tired of everybody. She's sick of everybody. Did I listen to this song? Probably half of the streaming night.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I've been burning this record into so good crutch.

[Crissle West]

Oh, it's good.

[Kid Fury]

It is amazing. Like, okay, I just. So listen. Her Ema, who is still legally married to one Papoose, She's, you know, mostly been quiet, minding her business, living her original life. And Papoose, who is now, famously with boxing legend, pretty much best bitch with hands outside, Clarissa Shields. They've been together for quite some time. If you did not know this, then you probably just haven't heard of Clarissa Shields because she won't shut up about it.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And amidst all of her swooning, they have both been throwing shade subs, talking walk like shit about Remy, all sorts of allegations. Remy Ma is actually. Remy Ma had to love her in prison. Oh, you know, just Clarissa said all kinds of shit about her. Oh, I don't want to wait till I'm this age to have kids. I wanna. I wanna have kids during my career and be able to run around in the park with them and stuff.

[Crissle West]

Girl, maybe don't actually. Maybe. Maybe hold off on that. And I say that with all due respect. Maybe, maybe. Wait, that is. You got some shit to work through. Sister

[Kid Fury]

number two is the fact that there is documented proof, owned and operated by one Mona Scott Young, in which Papoose bullies this lady into having a baby.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Lord. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Bullies her. I feel like he got her a pregnancy test as a present or some shit. Stop it.

[Crissle West]

He begged that lady for that baby. Begged? Begged. Duh. Come on,

[Kid Fury]

Papoose. Also recently, I think last year, hopped on somebody's livestream or somebody's Zoom podcast and said that he was instrumental in writing a very large portion of Remy's music. I think he said he wrote, like, three songs on her first album, including Conceited.

[Crissle West]

He said he wrote. Oh, yeah. Well, he said he wrote 90% of what came out of her mouth.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Rich Papoose, please. We don't want to get disrespectful.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know if I want to start. Yeah, I'll just start there. Why would you say that? Why would you say that? Did you. Was Clarissa in the room and you had to, like, keep up the lie that you told her? Like, why would you say that? Why would you say that? Why would you say that? Girl, we. There are still clips on YouTube. I know that because I've had them in my favorites for decades. Like, there are still videos of this lady in battle raps, in cyphers that she wins.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

From before y' all got together when she was like a jit, basically.

[Crissle West]

I mean, there's that and there's also. If you were that great of a writer, I'm getting there. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Cause it's in the lyrics. Like, why you always got a gazelle your blankets. Like, let me hit the plot. She has also rapped just as well Alongside you, a huge part of the black power or not black. The black love story, couple goals. Shit within your storyline is that y' all are both these insane lyricists from battle rap. No one ever. I mean, I'm sure some people like, I think Nicki Minaj, when you. When she got ethered, shethered, was like, oh, Papu's right for you, because this is an easy layup thing. First of all, I challenge most of y' all at home to name a female rapper that has not been accused of having ghostwriter. I will wait. It's never happened. Every single one of them, even Safaree, where he broke up with Nicki Minaj, went on, I think, Hot 97 or someplace. It was like, oh, you know, I wrote this and that, or I was helping her write what? Girl, you had a couple of ad libs that that lady graciously gave you, so you probably have a writing credit or two. There is absolutely no way that you wrote lyrics for that lady that rap better than you. I believe the ghostwriting rumors are what really got. That's what really set Reminisce off. And she said, okay, I think I'm working on an album anyway. Let me just go ahead and get to it. She went on the radar. She dropped this YFL song W yfl I'm sorry for what? Why you fucking lying? It's originally a song by Crash, dummy, funnily enough. And say funnily I just did. And DJ Mack over there. It's what you feel like. Which is funny enough, it's kind of the same thing. Meaning I'm really not even going to like. You can peruse all of your favorite lyrics if you'd like to. Within the record. Two of mine are. I only have two that I really would like to highlight. Clarissa's how you talking out your neck when I know how your nigga neck work. Insanity. Insanity. I mean, and I saw some niggas being like, technically, he's still your nigga because y' all not divorced yet. And then the other line was, how the nerva niggas saying that they wrote those hits when their whole career, they never ghost wrote shit, not for me or anybody else. You always acting like you help a nigga, go help yourself. And that's the exact same shit that y' all said to Safaree, which was like, girl, if you help this lady write anything, then why does your music suck? Papoose, I can't think of a song of note that you've released since, like, the Touch it remix And I know that I'm just out of touch, but I know that's also because nothing has really moved enough over there for it to have come across my timeline. If you goat roast, if you go roast, if you ghost wrote all of these, right? 90% of the the that came out this lady's mouth, including hit records of hers, like conceited. And then why don't you have a record? And why are you trying to get Clarissa Shields a rat? You're obsessed and you're sad. God bless.

[Crissle West]

That's really it. Great song, Remy. Congrats, girl. You chewed them up.

[Kid Fury]

I really believe that this is the beginning of some. Like, I think that she just has a. I think it's probably like the first single or a bus single for some shit, but I listen to this song now every single day. Remy, thank you so much. Battle rapper, step to the front, please. Like, all of the people, if you. I just need this energy in my hip hop music. I need this energy in the rap music. Thank you so much for bringing this to the table. 5 million views in 24 hours or some shit like that. It's still climbing. I don't know what pap who's supposed to do here, because it feels like it would be ridiculous to not respond, but how are you gonna respond to your wife that just ate you? Please don't send Clarissa to the booth. Please, please, please don't send Clarissa to the booth. Whatever you do, please, please don't. Because even if you write something for her, she'll still eat her. And then what ple. In fact, ask her to come out of the booth. Appreciate it. Love you so much. She out here trying to sing love songs to you. I'm so worried about that lady. Because he got separated from remy in, what, 20, 24. He just filed for divorce last year. I don't understand why y' all be thinking y' all gonna keep these niggas. I don't. No cardi. I don't know why Stefon Diggs was at this show. I'm gonna just. I would like. I. I wanted to say this as trolling. He was there. His mom was there. Brothers was there. They're out there jamming the bodega baddie and shit. I think this is in. Yeah, this is in D.C. then there's footage of her leaving, like, I guess an after party after the show. He walks out, I guess first gets in. It seems like he must get into this, like, white car. And then she walks out. Looks like she goes to say something. She Goes up to like the driver's side of the car and she's saying something into the car and it looks like she might have got in the car after that, I don't know. But they're already making rumors that they gonna cut. That they've done got back together, which wouldn't gag me. It would maybe just disappoint.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it's very possible they never broke up and everybody just assumed they did because she unfollowed him on Instagram or whatever. But yeah, bitches take a long time to stop fucking with they baby daddy. This is actually extremely on brand for her, so I wouldn't be surprised at all.

[Kid Fury]

Unfollowing people on Instagram is. I don't know why y' all actually like. It's an organ, girl. Listen.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, just.

[Kid Fury]

Can you just like end the tour at least first before we have to do this again?

[Crissle West]

Probably not.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

arrested on drug charges.

[Crissle West]

Damn.

[Kid Fury]

While wearing a Pikachu onesie. Oh this is fantastic. Now I did say the other day when we talked about his absolutely excellent roast of 50 cent on this Diss record behind his mama. I did say that King would likely get into trouble quite like this not long after and that it should not take away from the power. And that was this 20 year old, 21 year old dissing this 50 year old expertly and getting away with it. Well here we are in today of things. Police put his black ass over because he was speeding. They said he had a weed vape in a car and a gun on a dash. So how did he get him to step out of the car? Because gun. He apparently didn't want to step out of the car at first. Eventually he did. They put him in cuffs, put him back in the car. He looked and sounded odd to me. Did not notice a Pikachu onesie at all. Wish I did. That would have been funny. Oh my God he really is wearing a Pikachu onesie. Well, Nintendo will probably be filing a lawsuit after that, too. They are incredibly litigious. They don't play about their little animal children. I think I'm gonna name my next dog. I can't decide if I want to name the next dog Zelda or Kirby. Zelda Makes sense, because, duh, I don't like Zelda that. Like, I don't like the games that much. I think I just wanted to name them, name my dogs Nintendo characters. Anyhow, King, his daddy showed up after this to question them about it, and I think that he was released not so long after that. And she, like, fucked the police or whatever on Instagram.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Oh. He also apparently threatened to sleep with his arresting officer's wife, so he's doing a great job over there. Jesus Christ.

[Crissle West]

Boy, I can't roof these kids at all. God damn. You should have been arrested for driving a cybertruck. Honestly, those cars are so fucking hideous. Every time I see one, I'm just like, jail immediately for you.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, I don't know why they drive them.

[Crissle West]

It's really hideous.

[Kid Fury]

They're so fucking ugly, all of them. I saw somebody driving one the other day, and I hope that they didn't buy it like this, but it was, like, all over. Army fatigue color, like, green. I was like, did you wrap a cyber truck?

[Crissle West]

Yep, they did. They absolutely did.

[Kid Fury]

I have to Google what it looks like inside, because I've never cared.

[Crissle West]

And in the worst possible print. Yuck.

[Kid Fury]

Right? It's ugly. It wasn't even. Like, you didn't even get a Barbie. Pink or whatever. Oh, my God. That lady probably has a pink cyber truck always. You'd have to have money.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's not really.

[Kid Fury]

She.

[Crissle West]

She's starting a rap Academy in 30 days, so, you know, I wouldn't guess that she has cash on hand for something like a cyber truck, but. Yeah. Yeah, they're already the worst cars, and y' all just make them worse. Er, so. But, damn, King, I wanted to root for you after you chewed up 50 cent like that.

[Kid Fury]

These just look like a car inside with the Tesla iPad. Wait, I mean, I guess like, the.

[Crissle West]

You know what?

[Kid Fury]

Okay. It just clicked for me. You niggas don't have these cars. You like Batman.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. They want to feel like a superhero.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Okay, that's stupid. And I love, love superheroes. I don't need a Batmobile. I don't need a Batmobile. Because now that I see through the, like, windshield, it's like, oh, this looks like Iron Man's suit or whatever. But the outside of it looks like if you cut a Pepsi can in half and then, I don't know, make some, like, artisanal belt buckles or whatever with it.

[Crissle West]

Right. I mean, at least the Batmobile is, like, well designed. It's actually a cute car.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

This thing is really horrendous. It's like asking a child to peel a potato and they just end up cutting off giant chunks of it.

[Kid Fury]

That is such a good comparison.

[Crissle West]

Hideous.

[Kid Fury]

It genuinely looks like that. Like cassava.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Lord, bless it.

[Kid Fury]

Ugly.

[Crissle West]

Extremely. Oh, this says there's a Batmobile wrap for the cyber truck. See, somebody thought of it. Y' all are lame. This is why you only see men driving those.

[Kid Fury]

At least. Like the Tesla, the regular Tesla, when I see it, although you immediately know it's Tesla when you look at it, it looks like it's trying to look like a sports car or at least a regular car. Why? This does scream Elon Musk, though.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

They're so fucking ugly. And I believe someone in this neighborhood has one, because I see one a lot, and every time I see one, I'm like, at least the windows are really dark, so we can't see who to embarrass. Like, yeah. But when you park it somewhere, I would roast you. I would laugh out loud every single time you step out of that shit in our garage or whatever. If I saw you, you would. You'd hate me. Also, who. Is there anybody that owns a cybertruck that didn't vote for Donald Trump?

[Crissle West]

No. Or they didn't vote at all? It's one or the other. Yeah. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Offset is returns to performing on stage. He was seen at a big concert a few days ago. He was brought out to stage on a wheelchair or in a wheelchair, unstrapped. And then, first of all, I didn't know until today that they shot him in the ass. I don't know why I thought he got shot, like, in the face or arm or some shit like that.

[Crissle West]

Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

No, no. I guess that's why he was in the little seat. No, he got shot, Olivia.

[Crissle West]

I thought it was his leg, but his ass is even funnier.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it is. And we can laugh because he's fine and terrible. So he went onto the stage, and he is here dressed like Justin Bieber at Coachella with a ski mask on. Did you see Justin Bieber at Coachella walk out there dressed like your little cousin that's depressed, but his whole family write it off as spoiled? And he had on these galoshes and a wooden stool. And then he brought out a fucking laptop with a YouTube account and nostalgia. Girl, if I was a fan, I would have sued. I would have pressed charges. I would have. What do you mean? What do you mean that we paid $8,000 for these goddamn tickets? I would have threw my $35 drink at his ass. And I do not believe in throwing things at stage. Are you kidding me, Justin? Are you kidding me? One of the richest pop stars in the world. Are you kidding me? Hailey Bieber's fucking husband?

[Crissle West]

It's just like a hoodie YouTube nigga. Like you. You YouTube just feels like Coachella should warrant a little bit more polish and airplay. I don't want to bring up that Creole woman, but Jesus Christ, imagine Beyonce had been like, hold on, y', all, let me Google my top hits right quick and put together a playlist or whatever. Like, y' all would still be dragging the fuck out of her. So I did see. I didn't see the rest of his performance. Cause I genuinely didn't care. Not even to stay up and stream it for free. I legit did not care. So. But I still trending all over the place.

[Kid Fury]

Only reason I knew about it is because I was going out that night. I went over to, like, a pregame thing, and them were watching Coachella, and I walked in and literally took me a couple seconds because I was like, who is that? I can't see. I just hood on. I had no idea who it was. And someone was like, oh, it's Justin Bieber. And then he sat on this stool and he opened it Imagine book. And he started playing Baby, baby, baby on YouTube and. And we could see the YouTube. It wasn't even like, just like, wasn't like an embedded video. It was YouTube.com Justin Bieber TV or whatever. And I remember saying out loud, I think most of us kind of touched and agreed to the point that you just made. When it's a woman, even rappers, they go out there, they have bells and whistles on the stage. They have choreography, whether they can dance or they cannot. They have multiple dancers. They have pyrotechnics. They have a roller coaster. Like, a woman could never just come out on stage with some sweatpants and. And a tank top and just walk back and forth or sit down.

[Crissle West]

Literally.

[Kid Fury]

Not ever.

[Crissle West]

Not any woman would have been able to get away with that.

[Kid Fury]

Even the ones who can't, right? Like, Summer Walker could fully go sit her ass down and just sing.

[Crissle West]

Summer, we know you don't want to be Here. And I actually. That was my thought. Do you want to be here? I'm not sure that you, Justin Bieber, actually want to be on this stage right now.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, but the girls were like, well, Offset owe pretty much all of North America money, so he better get out there and start blowing.

[Crissle West]

I saw a video of Katy Perry watching Justin Bieber, and she was like, I'm just GLAD he has YouTube Premium, because I'm not trying to see no ads.

[Kid Fury]

I did see that.

[Crissle West]

I was like, oh, good God. Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

I heard the believers were pissed, but it, like, I mean, yeah, that would have been so fierce if there was, like, an ad for Giardian sir. Or like, if. If just all of a sudden, in the middle of. Of one of his top hits where he had that. That Ellen DeGeneres, that swoop, bang, all of a sudden there was, like, an ad for prize picks cut. Yeah, but by accident, right? Oh, that would have been so fierce. We're having a technical difficulty, a mess.

[Crissle West]

I'm pretty sure he's doing it again this weekend, so maybe the YouTube portion will be out, but.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I doubt it. I doubt it. To your point, it seems like the baby doll does not want to really be there, but maybe she also has. Has money to make. It's hard out here for everybody. Maybe some of y' all would be surprised.

[Crissle West]

Maybe.

[Kid Fury]

Wait, he's plenty rich. And if not, that baby mama's.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Oh, right.

[Kid Fury]

There's coin in the home.

[Crissle West]

Completely forgot that. That girl's maiden name, but she came from somebody rich, so.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right, right, right. That's who she is. Right. So she's. She's fine. It's. It's rich people broke, not regular people broke.

[Kid Fury]

And I don't even know if it necessarily has to be. Do you want to be here? Because again, I could think of probably off the top of my head, five niggas right now singing included, who would have done the exact same thing, and it would have been fine.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's true.

[Kid Fury]

At least when I went out there and half saw Frank Ocean. He had on a bubble coat, but he had, like, a cool stage. Cool stage with niggas in lab coats walking around. Whatever. I remember there was stuff going on.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Something for y' all to look at.

[Kid Fury]

This. Yes. This nigga stopped at the same staples as Foosh iced tea and said, you don't have anything I could sit on?

[Crissle West]

He signed the contract. You gotta be out there.

[Kid Fury]

Offset apparently owes $100,000 to a casino in Detroit, too. Damn. Why? Yeah, it's addiction.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Speaking of Justin Bieber and being on stage, couldn't help but think of your theory that perhaps he wanted to box up Usher because of. Of, you know, contract money.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe that's why he was on stage in his galoshes. On the flip side of things, Ushers going on tour with Chris Brown. They have announced a joint tour. I think they're calling it R and B, Raymond and Brown, but the streets are calling it B and B. Bumps and bruises. I also saw being referred to as the Predator. Oh, boy, it's rough out here. On the promo side, the marketing is crucial.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. This is actually where Usher and I part ways. This is it for me.

[Kid Fury]

And it has been, Penny.

[Crissle West]

It has.

[Kid Fury]

It has been.

[Crissle West]

It really.

[Kid Fury]

Yikes.

[Crissle West]

Long time coming. The Diddy shit.

[Kid Fury]

The.

[Crissle West]

The Russell Simmons shit.

[Kid Fury]

The Russell Simmons shit was wild.

[Crissle West]

That sexual. Not. I don't even think it was sexual assault, unless that's what giving somebody herpes is considered. Remember that girl sued or something and y' all were like, she's fat. Ain't no way Usher fucked her.

[Kid Fury]

And it was like, oh, my God, that was so awesome.

[Crissle West]

That was really. That was just very ignorant of y'. All. You don't. You think. Because that man is. Anyway, so it's been, like. It's been slowly building up to this point with Usher, Raymond and Diddy was bad enough, but I tried to give some grace, you know, like, this man groomed him from a young age and victim mindset and all this, but going on tour with Beat Him Down Brown is really inexcusable. Like, there's just no way. I cannot reframe that in my mind to make it make sense. And so, yeah, this is it for me. I'm glad I saw him before he ruined his reputation in my mind, because he does put on a great show. But it's zero percent chance I'm giving Chris Brown even one thin dime of my money. So, yeah, Usher just don't care about aligning himself with fuck niggas. And that leads me to believe that he's also a fuck nigga. But regardless, you know, you don't need my money, so you won't be getting it. I just will not support this.

[Kid Fury]

It looks like it's. It's a misdemeanor classified as intentionally transmitting and introduced.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Pups and Brutes is predator.

[Crissle West]

Oh, there's a trailer and the birds are very excited. Oh, they chirping.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, like, I'm. That's what I'm saying here. That's what I'm thinking, because I'm also like, wow, Usher. Okay, cool. At the same time, Chris Brown's last score was doing huge numbers. It's no secret that lots of celebrities still love him and support him and shit.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So not only does Usher not give a fuck what we think, he's probably ready to have a blast and paying attention to N who are ready to have a blast with them. You know, similar to my statement about N who are like, yeah, Pooh Shiesty, I'll go back to prison with you. I'm going to be praying for y' all as well.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Because this is a long ass tour. And watch it. You know, if it don't settle out, it'll be damn near like, it's going to be packed. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It's going to do numbers.

[Crissle West]

If you were disappointed at the bitches at the Kanye show, prepare your heart and mind to be even sadder. Because, I mean, it's June through the rest of the year, these niggas are going to be touring and they going everywhere, all over the country. Every major city and some small ones, too. So you can just prepare yourself. They are going everywhere, of course.

[Kid Fury]

So, like, do they have. Okay, let me look at the things. I didn't even bother. I was just like,

[Crissle West]

it's June 26th through December 11th.

[Kid Fury]

I said, not you. But of course, you actually really didn't surprise me. It really didn't.

[Crissle West]

No, it was just like, damn, I really got to let you go. Like, I really have to let you go, bro. I cannot support.

[Kid Fury]

Like, you are now a. Yeah, officially.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you really, really are.

[Kid Fury]

Yikes. I want to see where they're going to also partner with Global Citizen. Oh, of course.

[Crissle West]

Sure. Why not? That. That doesn't have to mean anything.

[Kid Fury]

Photo shoots. Jesus.

[Crissle West]

They going everywhere. Glendale. Wow. Okay. Tampa.

[Kid Fury]

These are both. These are American. I was. Oh, well, yeah. This is the American leg.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

I'm sure.

[Crissle West]

Well, there's so many countries Chris Brown probably can't even get into. So let's just keep it domestic where we don't have any rules about behavior and the way you have to act in order to make money here.

[Kid Fury]

So he sold out South Africa two days in a row.

[Crissle West]

There you go. Like.

[Kid Fury]

And what I believe is the biggest stadium in the world. Let me look.

[Crissle West]

People just. They do not care. I really have had to come to terms with it. Like, Chris Brown got a massive list. It don't even have to just be Rihanna. There's a long, long. And I did this at a live show. A Couple years ago, reading off a list of all the shit Chris Brown has done since the Rihanna incident. And people just do not care. So, okay, like, I can't stop y', all, obviously. And I'm not going to drive myself crazy trying to do it. I'm just not going to go. And I'm gonna call y' all birds, and I'm gonna call you a fucking bird.

[Kid Fury]

It's the biggest stadium in Africa. Excuse my flub.

[Crissle West]

Okay?

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, two days in a row, that bitch was sold out. 94,736 is the capacity.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

He will be touring abroad.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

With this. This Raymond and Bruises.

[Crissle West]

And if R. Kelly was out, they would have him on the tour, too.

[Kid Fury]

Did you hear Katie Michelle said that she was in a relationship with him?

[Crissle West]

I did.

[Kid Fury]

And that she has deep love for him.

[Crissle West]

That she was in love with him.

[Kid Fury]

That did not surprise or disappoint me.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, Yeah. I said, wow, you chirping too. Like, first of all, I hate to watch any clip of that man. What's his name? Justin James. Jason Lee. Yes. I hate to watch anything to do with that man. Something, somebody. But he asked her, has she. Was she. Has she ever slept with R. Kelly? And she was like, oh, yeah, like, okay, so that's why you was doing all that advocating and making excuses and all this. Although she tried to clean it up this time. She was like, you know, Robert was there wrong for some of the stuff he did, but you got to hold the mothers accountable and all the wawa. All that. What happened to that girl? But, yeah, it was actually deeply pathetic because then she started talking about how she was desperately, deeply in love with that man and wanted him so bad, and he didn't give one about her other than how she motivated him to write music. And Jason. Jason Lee asked her if she had written him a letter in jail. And she was like, you trying to be shady. Like, you trying to be funny. And he looked like he didn't know what she meant. And I'm like, that's. Obviously she thought you were referencing the fact that that nigga can't read. But anyway, damn, K. Michelle. Like, I.

[Kid Fury]

I'm sorry, that one went over my head.

[Crissle West]

I don't even think Jason Lee was thinking about it like that. That's what I would have meant. I would have definitely been trying to be shady. Like, did you write him a letter? Did you put it in big block letters and have somebody help him sound it out? But yeah, she. She. Another one, man. Just add her to the giant fucking pile. Of bird bitches ready to do any fucking thing for a man.

[Kid Fury]

See, but you would have delivered it in a way that would have been funny and clear. But it was clear that it was shady.

[Crissle West]

Exactly. He genuinely meant it.

[Kid Fury]

Damn.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, but I did.

[Kid Fury]

Damn. That is funny. Why would you tell us that is so funny?

[Crissle West]

I just don't know why you would tell us that he was so deeply in love, or you were so deeply in love and he was just like, oh, yeah, she here as well. Like, you could have kept that.

[Kid Fury]

I wouldn't have admitted to knowing him.

[Crissle West]

Well, you can't get away from it at this point because there's so many people who are upset with you for being aligned with that man. So you basically just confirmed what everybody already suspected.

[Kid Fury]

And if they asked me if I ever had sex with him, I would have did. Like Megan when she first. When she was first asked.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. No, I'm lying.

[Kid Fury]

Why would I ever.

[Crissle West]

I'm lying, lying oh, I'm lying through my teeth, cuz. Who got the proof? I'm lying hard and I don't care. I don't owe y' all the truth about my. No, I'm lying. I'm not under oath. I am lying.

[Kid Fury]

That should be on a shirt. I don't hear the truth about my.

[Crissle West]

I don't. This ain't community.

[Kid Fury]

That is merch, bitch. That is merch. So baby said you always acting like you help a nigga go help yourself. I know that he was like. Because I think the large portion of this is from papoose and is hurt. I waited for this bitch. We were. I thought we were equally yoked. I don't understand how we've gotten to this place. Now I'm outside, and so I'm gonna. I'm gonna find me a bitch who's obsessed with me the way that I want someone to be obsessed with me.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm a lie. Yeah. And I'm.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

This lady finally stepped out and was like, girl, you're gonna shut up, and you're gonna shut up now.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And then Clarissa. I said, the bright side of things for Clarissa is that at least when she over there punching the air is practice. So. Okay.

[Crissle West]

All right.

[Kid Fury]

You know, there's some give and take there because, man, did she line you up like a fresh haircut. Jesus. But you've been. They've been talking a lot of shit in remedia for a second.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And she has knew.

[Kid Fury]

She woken up.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And, you know, she responded in a way that I wish more rappers would respond which is in the fucking studio. So I. And it was. It sounded incredible. I just. Papoose had to go find somebody younger and frankly, more foolish in order to align themselves with him in this way.

[Kid Fury]

So hoes be doing the most over. So. So dick. Mm.

[Crissle West]

Mm. Uh. Oh. Remy said she had better dick.

[Kid Fury]

And I saw. I saw somebody on YouTube who was like, okay, I see how it go. He wasn't even being negative. He was sort of being joke. He joked, but he was like, see, now it's so. So now.

[Crissle West]

So.

[Kid Fury]

So. But back then. All right, all right, all right, Raymi. I see we being petty. And I was like, girl, that was her husband. That was supposed to be her forever nigga. Now let's tap in and we ask these ladies how Manny mother that they're locked in with that. Give them. Okay, all right, I'll take it, Dick. It's not terrible. Fine.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah. And. And the girlies be attached. So I did see this where Clarissa had a ring on, and she was like, ring on my finger? No ring on your finger. Engaged. And then yes, because Papua, somebody asked Papa about it, and he was like, absolutely not. That is not no damn engagement ring.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crissle West]

He was on Vlad tv and he was like, no. We bought each other Christmas gifts and clothes, Valentine's Day and all that, but not a ring. He said, absolutely not.

[Kid Fury]

That's humiliating.

[Crissle West]

Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

Why couldn't he lie? Sometimes lies are like,

[Crissle West]

damn, girl. Damn. Cause what?

[Kid Fury]

Also like, why are you flashing a ring at me, bitch? He's filing for divorce from me after I left him. I been had a ring. I don't want it no more. What? Why are you trying to Yandy Smith me? That is so embarrassing. And then he was like, no, I'm not marrying a bitch. I just gave her a present.

[Crissle West]

Engaged? Fuck, no, no, we've had presents. But like, let's be for real. Meanwhile, I'm not even divorced. His nostrils was so wide open for Remy that he exchanged vows with her while she was still locked up. So, I mean, you were in, like, probably sixth grade at that time, so you might not remember, but damn, girl, I would be embarrassed.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, fuck, fuck. And I saw she posted some shit after the song came out, and she was like one of those meme quotes. They say something like, throwing shade from the gutter must be a wild experience. Simultaneously, she's posting a chain or something that she got from Lemon Pepper over at Zeus, because I guess she's working on a show at Zeus.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

So. So, Madam Shields, Big Mama Shields, the Gutter you're about to have a program run alongside Natalie Nunn's face and Jocelyn Hernandez's ass, right?

[Crissle West]

Speaking of the hood. Speaking of the fucking gutter, girl. It do not get more gutter than Zeus network. So this high horse, where is it coming from?

[Kid Fury]

I hate when I see beautiful, powerful women. Same just, yeah, absorbed into nigga ness. That isn't like, if you are going to be obsessing over a nigga, let it be a nigga of your ilk. Like, you're. You're a young woman, an amazing talent. That's why you keep asking this lady. Like you keep saying, oh, I'll fight you. Oh, get in a ring with me. This, that, and the third, you. Crystal's right. Maybe it's a sixth grade of it. Because if you were more aware, you would know that that lady's not fighting anybody.

[Crissle West]

The.

[Kid Fury]

I think she reminded you of that on the song.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, she's not rapping her ass off over a crazy beat too. Like, I just. The girls have got to stop acting like this behind n that. Don't even. You flashing a ring on Instagram. And Papoose is being asked about it. He like, fuck, no, I ain't engaged to her. And yet you crashing out every other day behind this nigga girl.

[Kid Fury]

And then here go his wife that Ben left his motherfucking ass. Like, I don't know why you're speaking to me. That nigga's dick is okay. I also know what his head is like. Why are you. And I don't want either of them anymore. And I've been quiet with you bitches. But now he's trying to act like he wrote music for me. Ho, write music for you

[Crissle West]

and do it quickly.

[Kid Fury]

Cause this rapping that I'm doing right now. Yeah, yeah. It gave this before I made it.

[Crissle West]

It did.

[Kid Fury]

It gave. It's giving this after. It gave this during. What did you write?

[Crissle West]

So why are the verses still good? Cause you certainly didn't write this. Make it make sense. If you made me, then make another me. I want to do that. Let's see it. I'll wait.

[Kid Fury]

We've had to tell you this. We've had to say this over Megan. This was said for Nikki. They said this to Matthew Noel. Just gone ahead and push. You know, you can push it all. Push it. I'm. I'm sure that they, like, critiqued each other's music. They're both huge battle rappers, amazing lyricists. I'm sure they listen to each other's music and was like, Eh, like this one. Oh, this is fire. Beyonce and Jay Z listen to each other's music, you know?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

If one of them makes music, they're probably gonna let the other one listen to it. Duh. But 90%, I think Clarissa was in the room. And I mean, why wouldn't she be? You know what I mean?

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Cause why else would you say this? Like, you know, niggas just start. They get to exaggerating and feeling themselves and wanting to put their dick on the table and not look weak or whatever in front of their girl. And you just let all kind of lies and. And fallacies come out your mouth. And now here we are. I hope y' all listen to this and decide to leave that lady alone. Why don't y' all focus on y' all relationship? Since y' all so happy, why don't y' all just focus on each other?

[Kid Fury]

She posted some shit like a day or two ago, and she was like something like, I'm trying real hard not to stir the pot. Or every day I gotta convince myself not to start stirring the potty. Said you've been stirring the pot, wine stuff, right?

[Crissle West]

What you mean? You've been doing a horrible job of holding back. This was you holding back. You talk about that lady all the time, every week on this show, all the time. You're doing a horrible job, very bad job at controlling yourself.

[Kid Fury]

And like, when this goes up in the air, girl, and it will. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Yep. Yuck.

[Kid Fury]

To all my sisters out there. I halfway said this on the new pod about y' all with ugly niggas, but this is a bigger problem with that. Ugly. Fine. Are they worth it, Jesus? Are they worth it, Jesus? Are they worth it, Jesus?

[Crissle West]

Nope. Never.

[Kid Fury]

It's gonna be it for the odd tops. Learn something from this.

[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

All right, we're back and it's time for the letters.

[Crissle West]

Yes, it is. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. We have an update this week from Francis. If you'll remember, Francis emailed us because her mom decided to come see her in Atlanta even though she told her not to. And she told her mama to turn around and take her black ass back home. And so Francis said, hey y', all, I cannot believe you read my letter. I haven't laughed this hard at myself in a long time. So thank you. I appreciate the advice you gave. I do have the tendency to close myself off from others when I'm going through a rough time, so I guess I can try being around people and see how that goes. Even if my boundaries were crossed, I understand that my mom and sister love me and were just concerned. My sister happened to be arriving in town within an hour of my mom's arrival, so my mom stayed with my sister in her hotel room that night. The next day she took her two hour shuttle back home. Before leaving town, my mom sent a test, sent a text asking, you really not gonna let me see you this morning before I leave? I responded with do you understand why I'm upset? And she said nevermind. A few days later my mom and sister just started texting me like nothing happened. So I just joined on in and we acted like everything was normal. I've suspected I might be neurodivergent for a little while, so this situation gave me the final push I needed to get tested and evaluated. Thirteen hundred dollars and multiple tests later, I found out that I have both ADHD and autism. Never in my 37 years of living has anyone even suggested that I might be neurodivergent. So I am still a little bit floo. Apparently women of color are severely under diagnosed for multiple reasons including economic hurdles and our tendency to mask our neurodivergent traits extremely well. I told my mom and sister about my diagnosis and while they were visibly shocked, after a few seconds my mom started to shake her head and she said you know what, that make a lot of sense

[Kid Fury]

moms and it just happens to you. I don't even think you make the decision to be the mom before you. Wow, that makes a lot of sense as power.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, they've been nothing but lovely and supportive about the whole situation. And I love them. Two bits to all the weird black folks out there. I'm not saying that all of us are neurodivergent, but if you've wondered about it, it may be worth looking into. Thanks again, Frances. P.S. can't wait to see y' all at your anniversary show. Congrats. Love you guys. Frances, I'm glad it worked out with your family. Glad you got a diagnosis. I, you know, it's a little. The whole we just kind of. Kind of brush past it and pretend like didn't nothing happen is a little problematic. But, you know, let y' all have that. Yeah, I'm going to let y' all have that. I'm glad you're happy. And that you have found out some things about yourself that maybe are affecting the way you interact with others. So good luck moving forward.

[Kid Fury]

Shout out to the point of pushing other, specifically black women to go and check it out because you hit some things on the head here talking about it. That's another reason we say that therapy for black people should be free.

[Crissle West]

Really Should. Should be part of our reparations, actually.

[Kid Fury]

But, I mean, we deserve.

[Crissle West]

But yes. Good luck, babe. This letter actually ties right in with our listener letters. It comes from Kelly, who said, my mom texted me and my brother asking if we could buy her Usher and Chris Brown tickets for her birthday. I love my mother and she has done a lot for us. She sacrifices a lot for me and my brother and she always has for our entire lives. I even got a lot of my musical taste from her. So normally when she asks to do things for her, I usually want to, but sometimes I can't due to my financial situation, which living in New York City for nine years will do to you. Very true. The problem is that I hate Chris Brown. I've hated him since the Rihanna situation. His frequent violence towards women and all of his music sounding the same does not help. I forgot about the fact you need

[Kid Fury]

to just skip this part. You could have skipped this part and just went, girl.

[Crissle West]

Usher also just came out as a Diddy sympathizer, so it's chopped for him as well. My mom is hurt, though, because she feels like it shouldn't be about how I feel about it. It should be about making her happy. She also mentioned that if the tickets are expensive, we can use Klarna or affirm for them. But the entire concept of using Klarna for Chris Brown is so ridiculous to me that it is laughable.

[Kid Fury]

Put it. Put me in the ground instead.

[Crissle West]

The tickets haven't gone on sale yet, but I'm starting to feel bad. Should I let my hatred for Chris Brown and Usher's actions stop my mom from enjoying the show? My brother and I would both be paying for it. So I do feel like we should have some say. I don't know if this is oldest daughter guilt, but I'm kind of feeling guilty. My mom is an older millennial and works really hard, so she deserves to enjoy herself as much as she can, but I just can't see myself paying money to Chris Brown. What would y' all do in this situation? Thanks, Kelly.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, Kelly, if you got it this far into the episode, I think, yeah, I think you see, you know where we're going, babe. Should your hatred for Chris Brown stop you from letting your mother enjoy the show? Yes. Yes, it should stop. Yeah, it should. Your mother, I could tell that your mother was an older millennial. Wrong with you because Usher, there was no other reason. Right? You're a mother that wants to go to this concert. Let's be for real yet and still, even the Chris Brown of it. Here we are with that shirt today. So, like, um, I think it's actually. It's actually wild. And it is another example of mother just happening to you, I guess, because how you pretty much my age and you, like, say some shit like, it shouldn't be about how you feel about Chris Brown, then you'll pay for it. How the fuck is not going. How it's not supposed to be about how I feel while you asking me for money for you to go.

[Crissle West]

Right? It's. It's.

[Kid Fury]

Girl, ask your mama to. To get on Klarna for it. Imagine. Imagine, Crystal, imagine walking down to Klarna Boulevard and asking them to help you fund Chris Brown tickets for your mammy.

[Crissle West]

Can I give y' all $40 every two weeks for the next year and a half so that my mama can go see Kasha and Chris Brown? Fuck. What if these tickets are, like, $500? Shit, girl. minimum, like, this is not going to be cheap. This is going to be expensive.

[Kid Fury]

At all. At all.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, at all. You know you're gonna have to break

[Kid Fury]

bank for that lady to watch it with binoculars.

[Crissle West]

Right? Right. The nosebleeds are gonna be high. I really believe it. I do. So I think. I think the furthest I would be willing to go is, like, me and my brother get together and be like, okay, for Mother's Day, we are going to pay your electric bill and get you a gas car.

[Kid Fury]

There it is. There it is.

[Crissle West]

And so that should free up some of your income.

[Kid Fury]

There it is.

[Crissle West]

For you to go on down to your firm and ask them niggas about some. You know, for Mother's Day, we will pay half your car note or something. You know, something like that. But my money directly going to them niggas is. It's a no. And if that pisses you off or that's not good enough, then you find a way to go to the show and pay for it yourself.

[Kid Fury]

Then, sister, why don't I also buy you a cybertruck to drive over there, girl?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, why don't we get some MAGA hats along with it and some free R. Kelly T shirts? Like, girl, no, fuck, I'm not doing it.

[Kid Fury]

That it shouldn't be about how you feel about it is insane.

[Crissle West]

The way where my money goes. My feelings shouldn't have anything to do with how I spend my money. Is everyone all right?

[Kid Fury]

Are we. Is there a gas leak around this bitch?

[Crissle West]

If your man beat your ass and went to jail for it, and then you asked me for $400 to bail him out, do you think my feelings about where the money is going shouldn't influence whether I give it to you? Are you? Well, I mean, so like I said, the most I would be willing to do is help take some of your financial burden off of, like, your household expenses so that you can use your money how you want to. And I would literally only do that because you're my mother who has sacrificed a lot for me.

[Kid Fury]

And I love you, T. What did she say the name was?

[Crissle West]

Kelly.

[Kid Fury]

Kelly. That is it. I don't think that you can get better advice in that. That was so Tea Mama. Do you know what we will do? Cause we're never. We're never funding your trip to Bumps and Breezes. It's not gonna. So what we can do.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Is carry some other shit over here for you so that maybe you can coin it yourself.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

If there is an argument to that.

[Crissle West]

She don't wanna go that bad.

[Kid Fury]

She does not want to go

[Crissle West]

because how can you argue with me about this? You see the shit these niggas have done? Why do you want to go? Because now we really finna argue. Why do you want to go?

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crissle West]

Why? Now. Now let's get down to the real me. Oh, you don't feel like you should have to defend your taste in music or whatever? Fine. I don't feel like I should have to defend not wanting to give my money to horrible niggas?

[Kid Fury]

Why is this confusing? Like, what why are we talking about this? Like, if this bitch was. If he was going on tour like Smokey Robinson, that'd be like, okay, you're like, I'm only expecting your generation to really be on the fence about this, Right?

[Crissle West]

I'm not doing it.

[Kid Fury]

An older millennial. Why do you want to go?

[Crissle West]

And, you know, she's not alone. So many people do, so.

[Kid Fury]

That's true. She just has kids.

[Crissle West]

You can go, but if you. You better. You better pray he coming to your city, because if he not, then you gonna have to look at flight or driving and hotel and all that other shit, which is additional cost, obviously, but the tickets are not going to be cheap. So hopefully me and my brother going in on your grocery bill or whatever, hopefully that helps out. But no, I'm not buying the ticket for you. No.

[Kid Fury]

Cause I also saw the media socials talking about, I guess it's gonna be a road trip year. I guess we're doing road trips this summer, babes. Are y'.

[Crissle West]

All.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah. And gas is still $15 a gas.

[Crissle West]

It is, it is. And flights are so much worse. So guess what?

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, you better hope Raymond and Brown are stopping down the block, babe. Figure it out, baby, because I'm paying one bill. Terrence is paying one bill. That is that.

[Crissle West]

And I'm putting that money in your Mother's Day card so that you understand it's going both ways.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crissle West]

Mother's Day is around the corner.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Crissle West]

That is.

[Kid Fury]

Why does she want to go to this fucking concert and want her kids to pay for it and then try to, like, dog them about not wanting to pay for it? Not even just because, like, oh, it's expensive. Expensive. Which should be enough, right? If you hit your kid and you want to go see. I don't know, you want to go see Adele.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And they're like, we can't. The money's. It's too expensive. Whatever. Trying to be like, well, it shouldn't be how you feel about it. Why can't you do this for your mother? I would tell you, girl, lay down on the ladies long couch.

[Crissle West]

I live in New York City. Do you understand the. The price you pay for things is cheaper than the price I pay for things? And that's everything. Groceries, rent, everything. Little small shit, allergy pills.

[Kid Fury]

Dollar pizza is $5 now.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you can't even get dollar slices no more. I like, back in my day, you used to eat. You used to be able to eat in New York City for $2. Kristle you used to be able to take $5 Vanessa's and get you a whole meal and have change. Bitch, you don't. Okay, I'm old.

[Kid Fury]

Remember we would walk from the first Reed studio and stop against.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Down there in the financial district.

[Kid Fury]

Less than $5.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Full, full, full.

[Kid Fury]

Delicious.

[Crissle West]

When I was working at MTV and was broke most of the time, all the dollar pizza shops over there by Times Square, I literally would scrape together four quarters and go eat like four quarters. So yeah, lunch. So yeah, you know, you could, you could be going to see somebody, you could be asking for Ray tickets. And I don't have money for you to go see Ray, but for n

[Kid Fury]

hate I have money for me to.

[Crissle West]

Right. I mean, I am going to see Ray. Actually I did break down and buy the ticket.

[Kid Fury]

Of course that's gonna be one of the best shows.

[Crissle West]

I have to see this show. And then of course somebody DM me after that and was like, oh, I work for Radio City. I could have got you the ticket for way cheaper. I'm like, but anyway, you know, I'm

[Kid Fury]

going, I'm going next time. You got to remember to give it some time.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Staying on the show and give it 72 hours to see if somebody come through for me. But yeah, imagine seeing, imagine seeing Chris Brown and Usher on your credit card statement and being disgusted like, I don't wanna, I don't wanna die and get to the pearly gates and have to answer for that.

[Kid Fury]

Not to mention you spend that $750 on this abuser tour. You also have to go, no, here are all the things I could have used. Yeah, that $750 on that weren't.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, in this expensive ass city. Right. I could have ubered for a month. Oh no, girl, I'm not doing it.

[Kid Fury]

Just a month.

[Crissle West]

Oh yeah, just one month. And maybe not even enough for the whole month, but right. I could have done my own bills. I have my own bills, mommy. Everything is expensive. So yeah, surprise.

[Kid Fury]

Breaking news.

[Crissle West]

If this compromise not good enough, then I guess you don't want to go. Girl there.

[Kid Fury]

I can't think of a better compromise.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Good luck, Kelly. Our next letter comes from B. Who says I'm a 32 year old black gay man and I'm in a relationship with a 39 year old black gay man for the last year. A couple of weeks ago he told me that my gift giving felt like love bombing. That really caught me off guard because I do enjoy giving gifts, but it hasn't been excessive. And since the year started. I've only given him a gift for Valentine's Day and a dozen roses, which is what prompted his comment. Even though I was surprised, I tried to stay open and hear him out. He explained that in past relationships, partners would give him gifts when things weren't going well. As a way to smooth things over. I asked if things between us were okay, and he said yes. So I followed up by asking how those past experiences applied to our relationship, and he really didn't have an answer. As we kept talking, it seemed like he realized that he may have been projecting those past experiences onto me and our relationship and spoke without fully thinking it through. He apologized and we moved on, but his comment has stuck with me. Now I feel turned off from giving him gifts altogether.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

His birthday is coming up and I don't feel motivated to get him a goddamn thing. To make matters more complicated, after that conversation, he bought me something that I had mentioned wanting, and I responded with a petty little comment when I received it. I know that wasn't the best reaction, but I'm still feeling irritated. I don't want to hold a grudge, but his comment really rubbed me the wrong way, and I'm not sure how to move on. Please help. Sincerely be. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. So Bea and BAE need a little couch crystal, because first of all, I'm not entirely sure what qualifies as love bombing.

[Crissle West]

It's not this. Okay, thank you. It's not two gifts in four and a half months. But also, y' all have been together for over a year, and love bombing happens shortly after you meet. And someone is like, overwhelming this new relationship with lots of affection and grand gestures. And I just bought tickets for us to go to Paris tomorrow. Pack your things and. Ah, it's excessive, over the top stuff early in the relationship. Somebody like a year in a nigga buying you a dozen roses out of nowhere is not love bombing. Like, your man should have looked up what love bombing was before he even said that. And this is part of the problem with therapy terms making it to the mainstream and getting distilled to where they make something, because that's just not what that is.

[Kid Fury]

But thank you.

[Crissle West]

But, you know, y' all talked about it, he realized he was wrong, but now you're irritated.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. That is so funny.

[Crissle West]

Love bombing. Okay, fuck your birthday then. So you're feeling petty about it.

[Kid Fury]

Damn.

[Crissle West]

Which I understand. But yeah, you're gonna have to find a way to either let go of this grudge or let go of this relationship. And I don't know that that's necessarily the healthiest thing to do. Cause, yeah, this. This sounds like it could be worth working through.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I mean, I thought we were gonna have to be like, okay, he needs to maybe talk to somebody about was, like, deflecting or projecting or whatever. But it sounds like y' all spoke and he was like, oh, yeah, maybe I am fucking tripping. And you're still upset. So I'm thinking, is it possible that, like, what could be the depth of him, of you, like, taking offense to the love bombing accusation? Because I feel like in my head, if we talked about it and he was like, okay, yeah, I think I was tripping. I think I would take it as okay. This nigga was not prepared for me to be as affectionate or romantic or giving as I still am. He wasn't prepared for me to love him so much. Oh, we're talking about exes. Okay. I don't know that I would still hold onto it. So this gives me. Both of y' all need the couch. Because now you're like, well, I'm not giving this nigga nothing for his birthday. And I don't give a fuck what

[Crissle West]

he gives me since I'm love bombing your bitch ass. Right? Yeah. So there's a lot of reasons why you may have taken that to heart. And honestly, I can see how it would have pissed me off for multiple reasons, using love bombing incorrectly.

[Kid Fury]

You know what love bombing is?

[Crissle West]

Having the nerve to bring that up when all I did was buy your bitch ass some flowers. Like, I get it. I think. I think you're going to. I think you're gonna have to make a real decision to let it go. Like, I forgive you for pissing me off. I forgive you for. I forgive you for projecting them other niggas and they shit onto me. I didn't deserve that. This has caused a rift, and the same way y' all had to talk it through and he had to realize he was wrong, I would come to him and say, you know, I've really been feeling a way that you accused me of love bombing, which didn't make sense for multiple reasons. Like, and I'm having trouble letting it go. And talking about it with a friend might help. If you have friends who have good sense, don't ask your Crash out friend who's never been in a long term relationship. You know, ask somebody who, hey, you

[Kid Fury]

know, that's what they want to ask first. You know, that's who they want to ask first.

[Crissle West]

Don't ask the bitch who's going to immediately jump to break up with him. Ask somebody who. Who knows how to. Who's had experience with working through issues in a relationship. Of course, if you have a therapist, I would obviously suggest reaching out to them. But you. You might need to talk to your man about him being like, I'm just having trouble letting it go. And it really sounds like forgiveness is at the root of it. Even though it sounds like forgive for what? It's very offensive that somebody would accuse you of being manipulative or. Or, you know, deceitful in some way when all you were trying to do is express emotion and care for this person. Like, it is understandable that that would make you feel away. But that's like, forgiveness is. Is huge here. So you may have to. Because I was going to say consciously let it go.

[Kid Fury]

I was going to say, yeah, maybe when you do speak with a friend or something, you can pick at specifically what is still bothering you about it so that when you do talk to him, it can be clear. But I wouldn't be surprised if it is, whether conscious or subconscious, if it is, like, did this thing accuse me of trying to manipulate him and to stay with me or like him, that does, right? It does make sense for that to still at least be in the back of your mind looking at you, right?

[Crissle West]

Because, like, damn, I bought you a dozen roses. Like, what happened to? What happened to. Thank you, baby. This is so sweet. I really appreciate it. Oh, like what?

[Kid Fury]

I don't. God, that's wild.

[Crissle West]

So, yeah, B. But it sounds like your man is a reasonable person. Like, he can admit when he's wrong, he can admit when he's overstepped. So I would. I would definitely talk to him about the fact that you're having these lingering feelings, journal about it, talk to somebody you trust, et cetera, et cetera, and, you know, just look up different tactics for deliberately trying to forgive someone. There's a lot of information on the. On the Internet about that. But, yeah, I think that's what you need here. Cause feeling so pissed that you're contemplating not getting him anything for his birthday lets me know this is hitting you in a deeper place.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Fuck that nigga's birthday, right? It's deep, right? It is.

[Crissle West]

So.

[Kid Fury]

But I get it.

[Crissle West]

I do, too. Good luck, babe. Our last letter comes from Marie, who says, I've been going to therapy for a couple years now, but I recently switched therapists because I felt like I needed a change. I wanted someone who could give it to me raw and uncut, really help me with my self love journey and push me forward in my process of healing. I'm hard headed, but I've also been dealing with the biggest manipulative, covert, narcissistic bitch in the world for the past three years. This new therapist is way different from my old one. She's an older Caribbean lady and she does not play any games. The first couple sessions she told me that dealing with this man was my fault. I'm insecure and I need to love myself more. Although those things were shocking to hear, I can see that point of view and it does ring true in some capacity. But our last session really left me heartbroken. Since I cut that toxic man out of my life in January and started seeing this new therapist in March, I've been trying to recover and pour into myself. I'm still going through waves of sadness and feeling abandoned along with so many other emotions. I'm really hard on myself. But in our last session, I just felt like my therapist was being really hard on me. She told me again that I'm insecure and also that I'm male centered and saying that she would recommend me not talking to or dating anyone for about two years. I was hoping that she would pat me on the back and give me some words of encouragement or some other kind of positivity because I've been trying to get back on track with feeling joy within myself. With all that said, is therapy supposed to hurt sometimes? I thought therapy was supposed to be a sense of relief. Do you think it would be best for me to stick with this therapist? Is it common for you to leave therapy feeling worse than you did when you started? Thanks, Marie. Oh, Jesus Christ. It is common to leave therapy feeling worse than you did when you started, but not because your therapist dragged the fuck out of you and made you feel like a bad person. You're supposed to be feeling bad because you're digging through some deep rooted and it's exhausting work. Not because your therapist was like, God damn you a ass. When you gonna stop caring about these and focus on yourself, you weak as insecure asshole. Like, like whoa, whoa, whoa, right? But also culture.

[Kid Fury]

Are you bullying me?

[Crissle West]

Culturally, there can be really big differences in therapists and how they approach things. Her being older and Caribbean probably contributes to that. Both of those actually. But I. This is, this is why when people say I want a therapist who will really just give it to me straight and be hard on me and all this, that to me is always a sign that like what you actually need is a giant well of compassion and Care more than anything and you just don't know it. You think tough love is what you need. Somebody just need to yell at you so you can get your dumb ass up and get your shit together. But you've probably had a lifetime of tough love, which isn't loving at all. You've probably had years and years of that. And it, it doesn't help. It actually just provokes feelings of shame and self hatred and depression and things like that. Like what most of us need is to have love and compassion and care and encouragement poured into ourselves. That's what we're missing. We're not missing the people being mean and trying to drag us by our asses and force us to do better. That's. We. We don't lack that. We don't. We don't lack that. We have plenty of that.

[Kid Fury]

You've said this before.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. So you know it. You. It sounds like you were with a therapist before who was maybe gentler and gave you more of this unconditional positive regard and you were like this pussy bitch. You, you, you being too sweet and you might have even thought, oh, this is taking too long. It'll, you know, therapy.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

I'll get through this faster if somebody will just be realer with me. That's not how healing works.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

It is not.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crissle West]

You can't bully yourself into loving yourself more and treating yourself with more kindness. It does not work in the long term.

[Kid Fury]

I wish it did same because then

[Crissle West]

we would not need therapy. I would have never needed therapy if that worked.

[Kid Fury]

I would just like to get to 102, 103.

[Crissle West]

No, sorry.

[Kid Fury]

100% agree. I think especially someone who has older Caribbean people in my family. Not shocked. However, I don't. I also don't think it's. It's helpful for your therapist to drag you. I don't think therapy is meant to be boot camp.

[Crissle West]

It isn't. It is not.

[Kid Fury]

I've had more than one therapist, two dedicated psychiatrists, other forms of therapy. None of them have ever been like, girl, you're insecure and you're broken from your family trauma. And girl, get your shit together and stop. Even if those things are true or rooted in true, the way that it is expressed to me, the way that it is shared with me is not harsh. It isn't inconsiderate. It's not condescending. It often. You can help me out here. I feel like a lot of the time I'm kind of walked that way rather than pushed. I'm kind of like I feel like my doctors will. Will kind of. It's almost like if I have blindfolds on and. And I'm doing like, what is this shit called? Hot or Cold? Warmer. Hotter.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Blindfold.

[Crissle West]

That. That game where you move around and they're telling you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It's more to me, therapy is kind of like that, where they're helping me unpack and figure out they're not unpacking for me. They're not yelling at me to cle. It's more so like, okay, is this. These linens? Okay, pull this up with you. Well, where do these go? Okay. Very joy at the end of inside out too.

[Crissle West]

Yes, yes, exactly.

[Kid Fury]

What if we. Okay, yeah, I agree that you. And I'll speak for myself. I would love to make huge leaps through therapy and some issues and trauma sometimes, but if my therapist was like, bitch, it just would not work. I would either feel ashamed or my feelings would be hurt. And I might just be like, I don't wanna do therapy, which is the worst possible decision. I do agree, though. I call. As far as the feeling bad or feeling worse after therapy, I've called it emotional exfoliation. And that was one time when my psychiatrist out here in LA was like. Like, he said something once, was like, I think you had a good idea. Yeah, it's sometimes you. You talk about shit that sucks, that's traumatic, that's. That's very deeply embedded in you. You talk about things that you've ignored. You talk about things that you have put off because you don't want to think about it. And all those things are heavy. A lot of those things hurt. And talking about it, unpacking it, regardless of how you do it with this person, is often going to leave you feeling a little raw, a little. You know, you're bringing all this muck up to the. Up to the top. But the therapist's job is to kind of help you clean that up without shame and without all of these other things that aren't helpful in the process of it. So kudos to you for just being like, I think I need some other kind of help. And maybe. Maybe it was in your benefit that you met one of my aunties and that they gave you a different experience so you could know what works for you and what doesn't.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Good luck, babe. This is, you know, this is not indicative of all older therapists or all Caribbean therapists. I'm sure some older Caribbean therapists is like, God damn it, why would it be? It just had to Be one of my sisters. But yeah, you know, this is just not the way to get people into a long term habit of making good decisions. So this is why when people talk about, you know, they want tough love or they want a therapist that will be harsh with them, I'm like, I know what you are. I know what you are. Someone whose emotions were discarded or not cared about, or somebody who has felt that way consistently over your life because you feel like you need to be bullied into healing. And that just don't. It just doesn't make sense, babe. But good luck to you in moving forward. I don't think this therapist is the right fit for you. So I would suggest you maybe go back to the drawing board, find somebody else, or maybe even hit up your other therapist, the one you had before. I just don't want y' all to forget that therapy is not necessarily supposed to be like a quick process. Some people are in therapy for years and years for a very good reason. Because you've been through a lot of shit and it takes time. I actually, there was one client I had in my internship where I really up because I started seeing her, I did like a few months before graduation. And I was like, damn, I don't have much time with her. Let me fast track this.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, you told me.

[Crissle West]

Yes. And so after like one or two sessions, I was like, okay, girl, here go your problems. That nigga, that nigga, your job, your mama, blah, blah, blah, blah. And not that I wasn't incorrect. I wasn't incorrect. But when you hit people like that up front without having established a relationship or really, yeah. Cause like, I was like, you know, let's we gotta fast track this therapy. Cause I don't have a lot of time, right? Never saw her again. Never saw her again. She switched to somebody else. And this was a intense conversation that I had to have with my supervisor who was like, what made you think? Right? Which, you know, I mean, this is a mistake for a student to make, but it's something I learned firsthand that, like, if my therapist, who I'm sure clocked a bunch of shit about me within the first month of seeing me, if she had laid it all out for me like that, I would have never gone back to see that would have been like, this don't know me. Who are you talking to? You're not ready for that. You have to get to a place where you ready for somebody to kind of work walk you through those things. And it's. It is a process. So please allow the process to unfold. You trying to rush it? The elevator to good mental health is broken. You have to take the stairs to paraphrase work.

[Kid Fury]

Jennifer Lewis

[Crissle West]

but good luck to you. Rooting for you babe. That is going to wrap up the letters this week. If you have a question for us, send it to ask the read gmail.com we're going to take a quick break and then we'll be right back. Hey y'. All. So when I first went natural years and years and years ago, I fell down that delightful yet frustrating hole that so many of us tumble into when you try to so many products and routines because you're like just trying to figure out what works for your hair and all the different textures on your head. So if you're anything like me, you took advice from a lot of different people, from friends to classmates to the Natural Hair Influencers and the online forums. It was a relief for me when I finally found a basic routine that works for my very fine hair. But I still like to try new products because my hair's needs seem to be changing all the time and I feel like so many of us in the natural hair community can relate to that. Baskin Lather is all about creating products specifically for textured hair instead of forcing your hair to fit someone else's routine. Okay. Amen. Their stimulating scalp and hair balm is made with 100% natural ingredients to nourish, reduce breakage and add shine without that heavy greasy feel. I know y' all know what I'm talking about. And the hydrating hair mist keeps your hair soft and hydrated with aloe vera and avocado oil to help with frizz, detangling and redefining your curls, especially for our styles like braids, twists or LOCs. Plus, Baskin Lather is black owned and family operated, rooted in real care and real results. So explore their viral bestsellers and products of healthier hair of all types From Baskin lather. Go to baskandlatherco.com and use code reed for 20% off. That's 20% [e-mail] Code R E A D. Let them know the Reed sent you. Hey y'. All, Spring is that time of year to restock and reevaluate what's going on in your home, what's in your pantry. Maybe you have some spices that expired several years ago. It's time to throw those away. You can take the stress out of grocery shopping and replacing those items with the online grocery thrive market for just five bucks a month. Get access to a curated selection of organic and non GMO brands, member pricing, free delivery, and even free gifts. Thrive Market also restricts over a thousand ingredients, so you don't have to research every additive or second guess what you're buying. And with more than 90 dietary filters, you can shop your way, whether that's high protein, low sugar, or whatever works for you. Your diet, your family, et cetera. I love Thrive Market because I can get all of the basics that Lania and I go through on a regular basis. I'm talking about beans, rice, tea, sugar, chicken breasts, organic. All those things that we need, that we eat regularly are right there available. They come straight to the house. No delivery fees. And I don't have to take the time to actually go to the grocery store and sift through all that myself. It's just one more thing to make my life easier. So if you're ready to do your own spring reset, join Thrive Market with our link thrivemarket.comead for $20 off your first three orders, plus you'll get a free 60 gift. That's thrivemarket.com T H E R E A D Let them know Kifier and Krystal sent you.

[Kid Fury]

We are back, folks out in the world. It's time for the read and I will start. I'm going to try and rip through these. One to all the super devout American Christians, Catholics who voted for Garfield mouth. Ha ha. With an additional ha. You all are just, oh, he's doing God's work and he's just a man of the clothes. And our good God, our savior Jesus Christ sent us Donald Trump to. And now this nigga got AI photos of him as God and Jesus Christ. And y' all are like, well, well, I don't know about that, but. And he's like trying to beef with the Pope.

[Crissle West]

I could not believe this shit. This was on my list. The Pope. N.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, I'll just move on. Ha ha. Next. This one's for Legos. So Lego, I've been trying like you. You've really given me like a new pastime, new little calm de stressor. I've been really leaning back into my Legos and I've. I've gotten new ones that I'm really excited to put together. I have one. You can't see it. That's the whole office from the office. I think I'm gonna do that one maybe this weekend. One I've been working on for the past couple of days is like a marvel. It looks like a marvel. Logo, and then it has some of the characters that can, like, sit in it or some shit. But I was like, oh, that's a pretty easy one to display. It's just a big block that looks like the Marvel logo. I'm like, yeah, I didn't know that it had so many doodads and knobs and levers and shit like that inside of it. I wasn't accustomed to, you know, the Tears of the Kingdom style LEGO building that we have here, where you think it's gonna be simple, but in fact, you have to make a vehicle, a car, bikes, and all of that. Didn't have a problem with that. I actually had a really, really great time putting together, working to put together the, like, 11 Lego bags that come in the box. I got up to bag 10. And, I mean, at that point, all I really had to do after that was just put some of the other letters on the front, and I got to a piece that wasn't fitting quite right. And I said, you know, it happened a couple of times. Okay, quick fix. I have to just plug a couple things off. Oh, here's the problem. This one was an issue that was so far back in the building process that I essentially had to take the whole thing apart and start. Now, I will say that I give myself a lot of grace and a lot of. I'm gonna give myself a pat on the back for my temperament there, because a couple years ago, I would have taken that LEGO set that was, I think, 85% done, and I probably would have chucked it into the ground like, I just won the football championship. I think they call that the Super Bowl. And then I would have just felt flames on the sides of my face burn, heaving breaths. Instead, I calmly used a little weird orange lever that comes in the boxes. I took the thing apart. I didn't. So calm. I started by ripping pieces, chunks of it off. And then I was like, okay, you're being childish and you're probably gonna break it. And don't let this mistake that took place in making a toy take you to that level. Even though you're having a great time, you're almost done. And it is absolutely the fault of that shitty guidebook. Why didn't you just tell us that we should download the app? Why didn't you just tell us to download the app? It shouldn't be. There's a guidebook in it. Or you can use the Lego Builder app. Use a Lego builder app. Why the fuck with all the pages? It's like you need a piece that needs to fit over on here on this side. So let's put that side on the far side of the page. And you can't really see if it's the right piece because you can't turn it, but you can do that on the app. Like at this point, do I have to be alpha and you and make y' all Zordon, Do I need to be Jarvis? Do I need to be Alexa? Because it feels like I can't just read pages, I can't press buttons, I can't turn pages without being at a, at a disadvantage. And now when I do use your apps, I have to do it with AI. It was the tiniest thing. It was just this one little piece that was backwards and I was like, okay, let me just move this, move that, move this. Everything is already lumped together. Lego, I am on your asses. And by that I mean I'm not gonna do anything about it. I'm gonna finish making the thing and I'm gonna use the app this time. But I'm pissed. I am pissed. I was sucking my teeth so many times that poor Link went under the couch because I think she thought I was mad at her

[Crissle West]

and.

[Kid Fury]

But she has associated me teeth sucking at me just being upset. There's so many times where I have had to go, link, I'm not talking to you or Link, you're fine, come here. I'm sucking my teeth because I'm looking at this photo of Chris Brown and Usher sitting next to each other looking like two giddy dumbasses. So Lego pissed, pissed. Now I know not to use. If I do get one of these fucking LEGO sets that has a pulley system and, and a conveyor belt and all that shit. I have to A, use the app and B, be wide open, sober, no wine and Legos, I guess, because bitch. And I'm looking at those LEGO one piece sets. I have to have one. I need my chopper, I need the going Mary. I need the little one piece live action LEGO sets after I do the office one and finish the Marvel one. Speaking of one piece, Megan thee stallion has a Popeyes and it's in Miami.

[Crissle West]

Of course she does.

[Kid Fury]

Well, it's in some Miami beach that ain't got nothing to do with us. Okay, now she has a Popeyes on Miami Beach. They are, I guess they're doing this new one piece collab which is amazing that Oda was like, yeah, sure, the little chicken place can have some one piece merchant part of the. She showed it off on TikTok on Instagram, you get, like, there's a chicken that comes in a cool treasure chest. There's a chopper cupcake, and there's a gum gum lemonade named after the gum gum fruit from One Piece, the devil fruit that Luffy eats that makes them all stretchy. When she took a sip to say what it was, taste what it tastes like, I was like, not bubble gum. Not bubble gum. Not bubble gum. Not bubble gum. Because A, bubble gum flavored things are disgusting, and B, why would the gum gum fruit taste like bubble gum? It's a fruit. And she said it did taste like berry.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

But also bubble gum. And I was like, well, yeah, well. And on top of that, if I really want to be nerdy, Megan, you and I both know that devil fruit all taste nasty. They're all bad. They all taste horrible. Everybody knows that. It should have been like a gum gum mescal, but I guess you can't do that at Popeyes.

[Crissle West]

Yuck.

[Kid Fury]

Right? They're supposed to taste bad.

[Crissle West]

Got it. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Devil fruit all give you superpowers, but they taste horrible. So I was like, I know they're obviously not gonna make a lemonade that tastes good or any drink that tastes good that'll make no damn sense, but please don't tell me it tastes like gum. Fuck Megan.

[Crissle West]

Fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Well, and even she, when she was sipping it, was giving the Brittany Broski, where she was like, I don't know how to. It's good, but I don't know how to describe it. Okay, I still want to try it, because it's Megan. It really sits on a beautiful intersection for me. Bad bitches, Chicken, Miami beach, and nerd shit. So when I'm back home, I will begrudgingly cross the bridge and try to taste the. I mean, I guess I would have to go soon. They're not gonna have that one piece shit in there that long. Oh, well, I'll think about it. Or I'll imagine how it tastes. Or maybe I'll get on TikTok like crystal, and I'll just. I could do that after this. Look, I could do that after this. And look at what y' all are saying about the gum gum I made. Why bubblegum? Why couldn't it just taste like fruit? Why couldn't you have brought back the Sprite remix?

[Crissle West]

Ooh, yeah. Bring back Sprite remix. Oh, God, that was good a time.

[Kid Fury]

Too good. You know what? Maybe there was, like, a secret PTA bill. I was just like, this sugary deadly beverage is too delicious.

[Crissle West]

Get rid of it.

[Kid Fury]

Because not Only is it gonna kill our children? It's gonna kill us too, because I keep sneaking their damn Sprite remixes out the whole house. Just babies. If you didn't get to experience the Sprite remix, I am so sorry. That was a fucking time.

[Crissle West]

See if you can find you something on ebay.

[Kid Fury]

Don't do that. I mean, they'll do that.

[Crissle West]

It's pop. It'd probably take 30 years to go bad. What is it even, you know, sugar and water.

[Kid Fury]

The kids are online buying, like, candies from the 1920s and being like, let's see what it tastes like.

[Crissle West]

Maybe not.

[Kid Fury]

And they get rushed out of the emergency room.

[Crissle West]

That reminds me of Trixie Mattel buying a old ass Easy Bake Oven from like the 60s. Yes. And she baked the classic. She used the cake mix from the 60s.

[Kid Fury]

From the 60s.

[Crissle West]

And then was like, oh, my stomach hurts.

[Kid Fury]

This doesn't taste right. Yeah, babe, you're eating 50 year old cake dough.

[Crissle West]

Don't eat that, bitch. Okay, I have a few this week. Oh, just start with the trans shit. Dave Chappelle did an interview with. Why I think NPR maybe. Well, so he's talking now about how the Republican Party took all of his trans jokes and made it like a political thing and made it like he was supporting the Republicans and their shit. And he went on Capitol Hill and he was taking pictures with people. And then Lauren Boebert asked for a picture and he didn't want to say no. And he said, I didn't know the phrase. I respectfully decline. Which you're Dave Chappelle. You can just say, I don't want to take a picture with you, you weird. But whatever. So he took the picture and then she posted it and was like, this is just two people who understand that, like, there are only two genders. And so he's like, you know, I shouldn't even have to address all this because the Republicans took everything I said about trans people and made it weird. And it's like, first of all, the things you said about trans people were weird in and of themselves. They didn't have to stretch that far to turn it into Dave Chappelle is transphobic. Because you can't make those jokes and not be trans without it being punching down on trans people. You don't get to mock them in that way. And you like, this isn't a difficult concept to understand. So turning around now and being like, well, I just feel like is, I. I resent how the Republican Party took everything I did and weaponized it. You gave them the knife. You mad that they used it to stab you literally handed these niggas the bazooka, and now you like, I can't believe y' all shut up. That school. You made it so easy for them. And so that's one. Then here come Caitlyn Jenner. Ass on the. She went on the Tommy Lauren podcast talking about how she was a hypocrite for accepting the Glamour Woman of the Year award. Remember when Glamour gave her that? Woman of the Year? Yes. And which ties into Dave Chappelle, who was like, how this bitch get woman of the right? So it's like, anyway, a transphobic trans person is really a fucking mess. But for you to be transphobic trans and to have this massive of a platform and basically be willing to kick the ladder down for every other bitch like you. Not the most visible person. Caitlyn Jenner's really a wreck. But she was. She was on this Tommy Lauren podcast talking about how, you know, of course she does not want to protect the LGBTQ community. Of course she doesn't. She's part of it. But protect them bitches? No, she wanted to protect women because why are biological men in women's sports? And so eventually I was just like, wow, I'm really a hypocrite because I'm fighting this battle. But when I came out, I accepted the Glamour Woman of the Year award. And, you know, so then she kind of contradicted herself. She was like, I'm still XY biologically. I mean, she said, I'm still xy Biologically, I'm female, but genetically I'm still xy. There's nothing I can do about it, and I'm fine with it. Which is just, like. I don't know that those words work in the way you think that they do. Like, if you're trying to say that you have a. A installed. Like, I would have just said it that way instead of being, like, biologically, I'm female. Genetically, I'm xy. Like, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[Kid Fury]

But, girl, why are you gonna talk about your chromosomes? Like, why does it have to be that deep?

[Crissle West]

Because you're. Because you insist on being the worst possible trans person. That's why. Because. Because you. You know, and she even said, when I came out in 2015, I only had good in my heart. You know, I thought, oh, trans people. Such a marginalized group. And I've been feeling this way since I was a little kid. But unfortunately, the left took it, and they kind of ran with it. And turned me into like this trans icon. So she's literally saying the same thing as Dave Chappelle, but about the other party. Like, I, I came out and then here come all these people talking about I deserve to be respected and telling people to use my pronouns. And the fucking libtards just turned it into a. Some social justice, like, bitch. Because it's not just about you, you dizzy, dizzy bitch. You are not the only person like you. You. You had an opportunity to advocate for the larger community that does not have your platform, that does not have your resources or your visibility or your. The protection that your whiteness affords you. They don't have your safety. All of this shit. They don't. You can still Caitlyn Jenner walk into the White House and shake Trump's hand and nobody is talking about what a terrible, disgusting disgrace of a person you are. Like, that is how much.

[Kid Fury]

Not to your face.

[Crissle West]

Well, right, that. But that is how much your, Your previous identity and all of the things that you have because of what you were able to accomplish. That is how much that protects you. And yet you thought the rest of y'. All. Who gives a being? Like, well, I came out and then the left just took my issue and ran with it. Yeah, yeah, girl. Because we thought maybe you coming out as transmit, you would say or do something to protect the other trans people who don't have what you have. But that would require you to be a good person who cares about somebody other than yourself or your money. And I think at this point, we all know that you're not that.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

You can go yourself. Last but not least, Megan Good. Now, I really shouldn't expect much from a who married Jonathan Majors. And I know that, but she was on the Picture this podcast with that girl Jonica, who from. Yes, she hosts that. It's a Issa Rae produced show. Yes. So. So she talked about Megan Goode went on this show and talked about how Jonica asked her, what's something you thought you couldn't live without, but actually you could. And she was like, oh, my cat. I had to get rid of my little cat. His name is Bamm Bam. And so she goes on to talk

[Kid Fury]

about cute cat name.

[Crissle West]

She goes on to talk about how Jonathan Majors had two dogs. And so, you know, he's bringing his two dogs into the relationship with her cat. And then they got a third dog together. And apparently this is where Bam Bam was like, bitch, you've crossed the line. Like, it's one thing to bring that nigga in here it's another thing to bring them two filthy beasts in here to add a third insult to injury. So Bam Bam started pissing in the bed angry. Instead of figuring out a way for all of the animals to coexist, maybe working with Bambam or, you know, so maybe even thinking about the reality of everything's changing. We're moving, or these people are moving into our home, new animals are here. A man who smells like domestic abuse is in here. Like, maybe having some understanding and empathy for what your cat is going through. She simply gave the cat up, rehomed it to somebody else, and was like, yeah, I thought I couldn't live without my kitty because, you know, he's my baby, and I. I'm gonna miss him, and I really want him here, and he's my own little kitty cat, you know? But we had a puppy and the other dogs, and so I just couldn't do it. And so then Jonica's like, oh, so you chose the new puppy over Bam Bam? And Megan's like, no, I chose my man. Okay, well, you didn't say Jonathan hated the cat. You didn't say Jonathan insisted the cat, you know, go to hell or whatever. Um, but I also don't even really care about the details of that. I would rather be single for the rest of my life then give up Lainey. And I mean that with my whole fucking heart and soul. I'm not giving up my daughter. We're going to have to figure it out. If I meet somebody who has animals, we're going to have to figure out a way for all of us to coexist, or we're gonna have to maintain separate homes, or I'm gonna have to be with somebody else. I'm not giving up my baby, especially without even trying to find a way to make all of this work. You that far up Jonathan Major's ass? He already had two dogs. You didn't think, damn, maybe we should give these three animals some time to figure out how to coexist with each other before we bring yet another dog into the situation. Like, where was the thought or care or consideration for your fucking cat? Bam Bam is pissing on the bed because you brought this man into the house. Hello? Ding, ding, ding. That's a sign. If Lainey started hissing and shitting all over the floor because I'm dating somebody and this person is now in the house. Guess what? Guess what? I'm gonna take that extremely seriously, because Laney is a fucking sweetheart. Lainey's never met anybody she didn't like. And I do mean anybody. She loves every breathing thing.

[Kid Fury]

So Dolce told you about. Didn't a cat beat your ass?

[Crissle West]

Well, yes, but that was my brother's fault. My brother antagonized that cat.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And then the cat took it out on me and was like, whichever one one of you niggas getting your ass got it. Got. I don't give a fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Bam Bam said, I got something for you.

[Crissle West]

She was like, the third dog is what really pushed Bam Bam over the edge. So why not give up the one dog you just got instead of the cat? Is it because Jonathan Majors wanted the dog? Jonathan Majors didn't want a cat. So you siding with the abuser in multiple ways. I'd rather slit my own wrist than give up Laney. Because a nigga who is a horrible fucking person doesn't want my cat in the house no more. No. I'll be damned.

[Kid Fury]

You sound like me.

[Crissle West]

No, and I mean it. Over that nigga. Over that nigga. That nigga. Does he even work? Does he even work? Does he even. Does he even have a job? The idea that I would give up my baby that I gave birth to, that I would abandon the child that I birthed because she don't like a nigga. I'll get rid of the nigga and his dogs before I get rid of Laney. Are you fucking kidding? You didn't deserve that cat.

[Kid Fury]

When I was little and before I had my first pet, I think maybe it was, but it doesn't matter. When I was a kid, I wanted a cat at some point, and I had a dog, but my dad was like, we are not getting a cat specifically. I'll never forget this. My dad said, you know what? Cat piss smells like that. And I was like, no, I never had a cat. But he grew up with cats. They had cats and dogs and all kinds of stuff. But he was very firm about not having a cat because he was like, that's urine.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It's like. It's unlike anything you've experienced, and I don't want it anywhere near me. So I was like, I guess Daddy said we can have a cat. I'd rather Bam Bam going like, let me tell you n another dog.

[Crissle West]

It's too much. It's honestly too much. The man was bad. The dogs are worse. Bringing in another dog is where I draw the goddamn line, Megan. And instead of paying attention to that, you said, well, let's just get. Did you ever love the fucking cat? Did you give one shit about the cat? I. I would Rather live in a different house from my spouse. I would literally rather have a completely separate residence than get rid of Lainey.

[Kid Fury]

God, if ever I am able. That's what I want. Regardless. My cat, dog, parakeet. You have your spouse.

[Crissle West]

I knew Megan Good was a bird, but you gave up your fuck, girl. If Taylor Swift fans knew who you were, they would be irate.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, right. I was like, wait, if white people

[Crissle West]

knew who Megan Good was, they would be terrified her ass up like they did Dochi. At least Dochi didn't re home a fucking cat. You gave up.

[Kid Fury]

Dochi was kidding. I mean, halfway, right. It was a good joke, right?

[Crissle West]

Not something as terrible like you. Just. I. You know, Lord, please keep me from whatever bird, brain ass beliefs would have me choosing a nigga and new dog over my fucking dog. My baby, who I love with my whole heart, who. I flew home. I was supposed to go From Atlanta to D.C. i went from Atlanta back to New York for 18 hours just so I. Just so Lainey wouldn't have to spend four days in a row at the border just so I could pick her up for that one day and she could sleep at home. And then I dropped her ass off the very next morning so I could fly to D.C. you, I. I can't imagine you didn't deserve. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Wherever you are, I hope you with some people who value you, who would never give you up, so that a convicted domestic abuser and his dogs could move into the house with you. Like, I hope you're with people who really cherish you and will care for you for the rest of your days. And that's another thing. They don't even live as long as we do. They don't even live as long as we do. Like, you don't even get that much time with them in the grand scheme of things. Why would I give up my baby for a man?

[Kid Fury]

If I had a wish, it would be that link lives as long as me.

[Crissle West]

Same.

[Kid Fury]

And I don't even want to talk about it much more.

[Crissle West]

No.

[Kid Fury]

And because she also came out of my.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And I think about this all the time. Like, if somebody asked me, you know, you press this button and a random person dies, but Lainey lives as long as you do. Would you press it? And I really have to think about that. I think the answer is no. I think I would rather just deal with the grief of losing her than the guilt over killing a random innocent person. But if I could choose the person who dies 100%, I would do it. And I mean, without thinking twice, if

[Kid Fury]

this isn't a horror movie, I'm absolutely pressing on that one. Any person on the world, girl, y' all niggas die every day. But if it's a horror movie, you know, the ga gotcha is that I press the button and it's your mama or something.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Right. Or it's you.

[Crissle West]

So it's like both of y' all die right.

[Kid Fury]

Then I fall there. Right? That's exactly what it would be. But if.

[Crissle West]

But if they, like, if you press this button, then something terrible will happen to whoever's in the White House right now. Yeah. Okay. Well, all right. Rip.

[Kid Fury]

How many times can I post it?

[Crissle West]

Give up my daughter. You're ins. You didn't deserve that cat in the first fucking place. Girl, I'm really disgusted.

[Kid Fury]

I can't help but think again. My dad, both my parents, they were not, like, close or affectionate with their pets. And they had many.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But they also call the dogs dog and the cat's puss. So, like, they kept away intruders and vermin, and that was their plan.

[Crissle West]

They had a purpose. Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So much so that they thought, like, domesticating and loving on pets and wanting the dog to be indoors was American. Yeah. Like, they. They were like, girl, you're so Americanized because you want to name the dog and let it live in the house.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And you know what? And that's fine. And that's fine. This wasn't some. This. This wasn't a guard cat. His job wasn't to live outside and protect your.

[Kid Fury]

About my mom and daddy,

[Crissle West]

that's a totally different thing. What Megan Good had was a domesticated cat who was supposed to be kept as a companion and a pet, and you gave it up for a man and you clarified. No, it wasn't because the dogs and we didn't want to. I chose the man. That man

[Kid Fury]

can lie. Yuck. There's a couple of people this week could have lied.

[Crissle West]

I saw. I saw a TikTok of somebody with a Jamaican mama, and they just got a cat, and they brought the cat over to meet their mama, and the mama looking down, and then she smiled, and she said, me Grand Puss. So when you just said that, that they called a cat puss, that made me think of that.

[Kid Fury]

I am speechless. There's so many things about that that just shot me in the face.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Grandpus is in.

[Crissle West]

Our elders are the best in.

[Kid Fury]

I have to tell my mother about it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

In fact, I'm gonna go look for the Hood now.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it'll probably come.

[Kid Fury]

Grandpus is me.

[Crissle West]

Grandpus.

[Kid Fury]

So funny. And then you're saying it with that accent.

[Crissle West]

You're welcome.

[Kid Fury]

So many language.

[Crissle West]

You're welcome. You're welcome. I've been. I'm really good at accents, so you

[Kid Fury]

sound like my cousin.

[Crissle West]

That is it for me this week. Megan, Good. I didn't think I could be more disappointed than you, bitch, but God damn, girl. And I'm not even a cat person.

[Kid Fury]

Like, check out picture this. Hosted by one Jonica Bluetooth. It's hilarious.

[Crissle West]

Shout out, Jonica. Shout out, Issa. Megan, you. You know what you've done.

[Kid Fury]

There's one.

[Crissle West]

You know what you've done.

[Kid Fury]

I had to repost the clip. She had Laura Pharrell on there, and he was talking about. I think she asked, like, if you could make a Mount Rushmore out of people from Chicago. He was like, Michelle Obama. He was like, I should maybe put Jesse Jackson. He was like, putting, like. I think he even said Michael Jordan. Even though he's not from Chicago. He met a lot of the Bill and Chica was like, you ain't say nothing about Chief Keef, man. And you have to. And Rel. The look on Rel's face, he didn't even respond at first. He just looked at her like, now

[Crissle West]

what do you think?

[Kid Fury]

Like, did you really just. And then Jonica went out. Jenica just goes, oh, block. I tell you, I was screaming.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She's so funny. She's so, so funny. Please watch that show.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. This is not against the show. This is against Megan. Good. Cause, girl just. Bam, Bam. You're surely in a better place. You wanted to get away from that man, and you did.

[Kid Fury]

So perhaps no shade. Bam. Bam. Might have just been like, woo.

[Crissle West]

That's it for me, guys. I tried to be out.

[Kid Fury]

I can stretch.

[Crissle West]

Oh, man.

[Kid Fury]

Room as far as the eye can see.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. All right. That is gonna wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Check us out on social media at. This is the Read Atlanta. We will see you soon for the Read live in Atlanta on Sunday, April 26th at the Eastern. Very, very excited to hang out with you guys.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I will be geeked up looking for an E ton.

[Crissle West]

Oh, period.

[Kid Fury]

Joking. That was a joke. Unless it was.

[Crissle West]

Thank you to the bad queers pod for having me on your 300th episode to talk about gay things and how one of. One of the. So one of the hosts said that they have, like, bad queer takes that you do, like, your hot take at the end of the episode, and hers was that Harriet Tubman was a stud.

[Kid Fury]

And I thought that was just the. No, no.

[Crissle West]

Okay. See? All right. So. All right. So this is.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. I mean, I don't.

[Crissle West]

I'm moving on. I'm handy wife.

[Kid Fury]

That's.

[Crissle West]

Thank you so much to the Bad Queers for having me on the show. It was a delight. Go check that out at Bad queers Pod. I'm going to online crystalscouch.com for my advice show. I had so much fun answering Yalls questions live, chatting with y' all one on one. That was very fun. I think we're going to do that again for a future episode. So. Yes. At Crystal's Couch for more information on that. Any information. Any information. Any news or announcements from you, Ken Fyri, before we head out.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, I will be photoshopping one of the classic Harriet Tubman pictures where she's in Liberty. Liberty Church.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

All right.

[Crissle West]

I'm cutting it off so that we can immerse ourselves. I'm turning off the zoom. I'm turning it off.

[Kid Fury]

So fucking funny.

[Crissle West]

I'm turning it off.

[Kid Fury]

I need. Because. And who else but aead was like, I'll do it.

[Crissle West]

I'm all right. No, because this is crazy. This is crazy. That.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, God, that is so funny.

[Crissle West]

All the things.

[Kid Fury]

That was fantastic.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I don't even remember what I had. Okay. Yeah. Furious Thought podcast, new episode out now. Go to instagram.com kidfury for all the links.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I can't wait to see y'.

[Crissle West]

All.

[Kid Fury]

Atlanta. That was so funny because it's like I'm about to Google where she look like.

[Crissle West]

No, see, I'm cutting it off. I'm cutting. I'm ending the lesbian. I'm ending. I'm ending Gay. Gay. Shayna, look what you've done. Look what you've done, girl. Look what you've done. Look what you've done. Are you proud of yourself?

[Kid Fury]

Last be.

[Crissle West]

Take care of yourselves, y'. All. We will see you next week.

[Kid Fury]

A railroad, too.

[Crissle West]

Okay, bye.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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