Speaker 1: Boulet Cap Podcast. We got a special guest, Marlon kraft Man. Welcome, sir,
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Man. Yes, you and I
Speaker 1: have been talking and pandemic happened, and I was like,
Speaker 1: when you come to LA and you're finally here, I'm
Speaker 1: finally here. It was like I took like a two
Speaker 1: or three year break from coming out here. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's good to be back. I love it. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously uh yeah, I mean you had a
Speaker 1: great pandemic though, I mean obviously not I'm talking about career.
Speaker 1: It sucked. No, but I feel like you like leveled
Speaker 1: up crazy during like that time period, if you will,
Speaker 1: not to sound insensitive, you know, but like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the pandemic wasn't bad for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No.
Speaker 1: I was like I was able to find a lot
Speaker 1: of I went back independent, and I was able to
Speaker 1: kind of really find hone in on my strategy and
Speaker 1: kind of figure out who I wanted to be and
Speaker 1: just kind of set up like a three year type
Speaker 1: of plan that I'm kind of in like year three
Speaker 1: of Yeah. Explain that though, because like before you were
Speaker 1: you not independent at a certain point in time, or
Speaker 1: did what was what was your prior situation. I was
Speaker 1: at a thing called same Play. It was like a
Speaker 1: JV at sony okay for that Funhouse Mirror album. Yep, yep, okay.
Speaker 1: So you get out of that deal, and then what
Speaker 1: walk me through your three year plan? And obviously it's
Speaker 1: been it's worked, so we should Yeah, what was the plan? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I just realized I learned a lot from
Speaker 1: being in that situation, and I realized what I had
Speaker 1: to do, and I was just like, you know, I
Speaker 1: need to move at a pace where I could be consistent,
Speaker 1: and especially during the pandemic when we were stuck at home,
Speaker 1: like all I could do was make music. So I
Speaker 1: just had this stock pile of music and all these
Speaker 1: different projects going, and I was like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: figure out how to just be really kind of relentlessly consistent,
Speaker 1: but combine that with keeping everything quality and keeping it
Speaker 1: conceptual and keeping it me and and I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: build it and have faith in you know, doing it
Speaker 1: like that. And That's what I've kind of been doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So for you, it was like, because a lot of
Speaker 1: artists there's something kind of just viral semi viral recently,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw like Russ was telling everybody,
Speaker 1: if you're on the come up in music, drop consistently,
Speaker 1: don't sit on your music. Somebody had like made a
Speaker 1: response and pretty much said it's terrible advice. And so
Speaker 1: for you, it was like, Yo, why am I sitting
Speaker 1: on all this music? You obviously you're recording at home
Speaker 1: at the time, Yeah, recording yourself. So it's like like
Speaker 1: a lot of people they do sit on their music,
Speaker 1: or they overthink releasing their music, or they I think
Speaker 1: everybody is like very not everybody, but a lot of
Speaker 1: artists get wrapped up in like perfection and like a
Speaker 1: lot of things having to be checked off before they
Speaker 1: think they can release something. That's not always the case. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, so there's a couple of things with that,
Speaker 1: like and your quality is high. It's not like you're
Speaker 1: doing like quantity of a quality. You're doing both. It's
Speaker 1: hard to do. Yeah, that I think is the key,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that. I think, like I grew up
Speaker 1: admiring like the Coles and the Kendricks and these different
Speaker 1: people that have kind of this pantheon of their catalog
Speaker 1: right where you could look at like these four albums
Speaker 1: that are like incredible, right, And so I think a
Speaker 1: lot of us grow up wanting to be like that.
Speaker 1: But then when you really get back into the industry,
Speaker 1: I think that you realized that it's not that these
Speaker 1: artists didn't want to release more music. And in the
Speaker 1: mixtape era, it's not even like they weren't they were
Speaker 1: they were free zip files. Yeah, it's warm up and
Speaker 1: all that exactly. And I think it's just that, like
Speaker 1: once you get into a system and a situation, like
Speaker 1: those buildings move so slow a lot of times, it's
Speaker 1: not even their choice of how little music they're releasing
Speaker 1: because they're it's on a cycle. So I had to
Speaker 1: get myself out of that mindset and realize. I remember,
Speaker 1: like watching something where they were talking about how like
Speaker 1: the week after Get Richard, die try and drop fifty
Speaker 1: cent drop the mixtape in the streets yep, And we
Speaker 1: don't remember necessarily that mixtape in the streets, but it
Speaker 1: didn't dilute Get Richard I trying, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I was like, Okay, first of all, people have
Speaker 1: always done this, like people have always had this kind
Speaker 1: of abundance. But then second of all, like you know,
Speaker 1: I just realized that I had a lot to say
Speaker 1: and I had a lot of material, and I felt
Speaker 1: like I could do it all without compromising the quality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so that was kind of you know, my mood
Speaker 1: in terms of like the rust thing, and I saw
Speaker 1: that dialogue going on. I think everybody's different, and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, there's certain projects that you want to take
Speaker 1: more time with. And that's why for me, like the
Speaker 1: language of album, Like I've only dropped, you know, three
Speaker 1: albums right like that. I consider albums so as an artist,
Speaker 1: like I kind of decipher the things that I really
Speaker 1: spend years and years working on whatever, so the fans
Speaker 1: know what's what. I think that's important. But I think
Speaker 1: I think it gets confused because now instead of it
Speaker 1: being like a mixtape you buy from the corner store
Speaker 1: or something on that pif everything's on DSPs as it
Speaker 1: should be. I feel like you're crazy if like I
Speaker 1: just somebody recently put something out and it was like
Speaker 1: only on SoundCloud and like that PIF and I was
Speaker 1: just I mean, shout out to that, you know, but
Speaker 1: like it just didn't make sense. It's like why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you anyway? But yeah, I just think like you said,
Speaker 1: it's important like communicating the language of like what this
Speaker 1: is to your fans, Like, Yo, this is a mixtape
Speaker 1: or it's just some collection of records or an EP
Speaker 1: or whatever. So for you, how do you kind of
Speaker 1: differentiate because you say you're working on your big album,
Speaker 1: how do you differentiate between like what makes the album
Speaker 1: isn't because the album has a certain concept or there's
Speaker 1: a certain feel or quality to it. Like how do
Speaker 1: you know if that's like, oh, this is an album song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just can't throw this out there. Yeah, when it
Speaker 1: feels like that, when it feels like, man, this is
Speaker 1: something that I have to cultivate. This feels like the
Speaker 1: expression of my sound that combines a lot of my
Speaker 1: different influences. But that like, this is where I'm at
Speaker 1: musically at this point in time and creatively, and this
Speaker 1: is what I want to say, and you know, when
Speaker 1: it fits into the narrative of the big album that
Speaker 1: I'm working on at the time. You know, the other
Speaker 1: joints like the obviously the Space two which is you know,
Speaker 1: February tenth, and then like the Home Court projects that
Speaker 1: have kind of like become these little serialized things. They
Speaker 1: just happened organically creatively, I was making really emotional joints
Speaker 1: about this period of my life with the space stuff
Speaker 1: that I was making, like this mixtapey feeling like barred
Speaker 1: out stuff for the home court stuff, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, you know, people always feel this pressure on
Speaker 1: albums when you don't drop a lot of stuff, just
Speaker 1: show them everything I got in one go, and it
Speaker 1: sometimes makes for projects that aren't cohesive one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So I'm always that pressure, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: By giving them the other stuff in a cohesive form,
Speaker 1: that was kind of them, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: For you, I feel like a lot of people who
Speaker 1: come from New York, like I mean, if we think
Speaker 1: of New York like nationally at the moment, obviously there's
Speaker 1: like the big, the great stuff, the Cardi B's and
Speaker 1: the I mean shit, the Joey badasses and these guys
Speaker 1: who are like well established. But it feels like right
Speaker 1: now in New York everyone is very much much not everybody,
Speaker 1: but nationally a lot of people are checking for the
Speaker 1: drill scene. You kind of coming out of the city
Speaker 1: doing something way different. Do you feel like it's like
Speaker 1: an advantage for you because you kind of because a
Speaker 1: lot of drill shit coming out of New York. And
Speaker 1: I feel like, for you, it's kind of probably a
Speaker 1: good thing that you're bringing a different, you know, piece
Speaker 1: of music, your style to the landscape of New York
Speaker 1: hip hop. How do you feel? Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: To be totally honest with you, you you know, like I
Speaker 1: just I am New York because of New York raised me,
Speaker 1: like for real, for real, and at this point, like
Speaker 1: I don't really think too directly about how it all
Speaker 1: relates to New York. I've been like doing a lot
Speaker 1: of just finding myself and who I am and what
Speaker 1: like Marlon Kraft represents, and that's always going to be
Speaker 1: inherently New York. But I don't even think about, like
Speaker 1: where does this fit into the landscape. And I've just
Speaker 1: been watching it kind of grow and observing which place
Speaker 1: is support what I'm doing more, And you know, New
Speaker 1: York's always home base and it's everything to me. But
Speaker 1: I don't even really like consider it. Could you ever
Speaker 1: leave New York? It's real sunny out here, bro, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you something, Man, I go to New York
Speaker 1: and I love it, but I'm just like God bless
Speaker 1: y'all man, because y'all really lived there. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I understand though, Like there's one thing like, like to me,
Speaker 1: like if you like when they say if you could
Speaker 1: survive in New York, you could survive anywhere, it's fucking
Speaker 1: a fact, yeah, because just like going to the store
Speaker 1: or going to work, just there's so many variables every
Speaker 1: day that you have to deal with that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: deal with anywhere else that it's it's almost like your
Speaker 1: numb to the stress that those variables create. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of wild. Ye. It's like I saw a video
Speaker 1: of a guy sleeping on the subway and just a
Speaker 1: rat was like running on him, and shit, he just
Speaker 1: like flicked it off. Like it was just like I
Speaker 1: saw that. That was wild if there was a rat
Speaker 1: on me bro going on. But like we don't see
Speaker 1: rats on the West Coast like that, But in New York,
Speaker 1: if like you're eating pizza on the corner with your
Speaker 1: boys after the club, there's like rats running around and
Speaker 1: it's just like, yeah, it's just fucking yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: you guys deal with a lot, dude, a lot of stress. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of fucking people, a lot of rubbing shoulders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the pandemic had to be extra stressful. That was really
Speaker 1: hard because it's so little space and so that everybody's
Speaker 1: on the top of each other. It's winter, bro. Like
Speaker 1: I mean I say this. The older I get and
Speaker 1: the more in tune I get with like what's really
Speaker 1: important to me and what's better for my mental health,
Speaker 1: the more I'm like, wow, this is not that conducive
Speaker 1: to that. You know, Like when I come to place,
Speaker 1: even out here to take breaks, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: the weather's warm, the sunshine and there's more space, it's
Speaker 1: calmer like some of these things. Whereas when I was younger,
Speaker 1: I would have been like, man, shit boring, like I
Speaker 1: got phone, Well, I gotta get back home. Now I'm
Speaker 1: like really embracing those things a lot more. But it's
Speaker 1: hard for me to envision leaving New York for like
Speaker 1: year round, because it's just no matter. There's nothing like
Speaker 1: going when you're from New York. There's nothing like going
Speaker 1: back to New York, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: one of one place. Yeah, it's a great place. Man.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite Like, Okay, you're for a house kitchen,
Speaker 1: which is a huge food area. Yeah, what's like your
Speaker 1: top three restaurants in Hell's Kitchen? Oh, yelp, man, you
Speaker 1: know what's crazy? This ship is so different now the
Speaker 1: whole Manhattan is cooked, like like gentrified is not even
Speaker 1: the word. Like it's just like beyond. Oh. I go
Speaker 1: on Zillow once a month just for ships and giggles,
Speaker 1: to just scare myself from ever taking a job in
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, bro, it's bro, it's yeah, it's cooked.
Speaker 1: So like I to tell you the truth, Like every
Speaker 1: time I'm in Hell's kit it's like new stores, new restaurants,
Speaker 1: everything popping up like every other day. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what do we Like? Claudio shout out to Claudio's.
Speaker 1: Claudio's is the only like real Hell's Kitchen spot that's
Speaker 1: still there. Pizza Real, that's the pizza real. Yeah, Claudio's.
Speaker 1: I shot a video in there back and the day
Speaker 1: that's like, you know, that's that's like the spot and
Speaker 1: it's still there. It's like he renovated it and whatever,
Speaker 1: but it's still like that's the spot. How are we
Speaker 1: feeling about Jalen Brunson, Julius Randall and these knicks that
Speaker 1: are actually you know, playing like playing for the hardest
Speaker 1: fucking coach to play for in the whole league. Man,
Speaker 1: was a fucking motherfuck. How much time do we have? Man?
Speaker 1: How do you feel? You know, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: feel good. It's nice that we're that we're more competitive.
Speaker 1: Brunson I think was the best offseason signing for sure.
Speaker 1: And I love his game. And he's not that expensive,
Speaker 1: yeah compared to like other players who are doing what
Speaker 1: he's doing. Yeah, he's a beast. I'm really happy about that.
Speaker 1: What I will say is, if you really watch the games,
Speaker 1: it's brutal, man, It's still brutal, because even when we win,
Speaker 1: we fucking like find a way to blow it at
Speaker 1: the end and make it like like a shitty win,
Speaker 1: where like it was like we were up by ten
Speaker 1: the whole game and then we collapse because and it's
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodau plays, yeah, and then and and it's very weird, bro,
Speaker 1: Like we have a winning record, but we have a
Speaker 1: losing home record. We're like one of the only teams
Speaker 1: in the league. And I don't know if it's because
Speaker 1: New York's popping, and so the road is like we
Speaker 1: just we just chill and don't go out and they
Speaker 1: go out, we go out in New York. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's very it's very Uh, it's still been like
Speaker 1: a frustrating up and down on year. But I'm in
Speaker 1: it forever. Man with these Knicks, would you trade RJ?
Speaker 1: Barrett Man, I never know how honest to be with
Speaker 1: this ship, because you know, i'd like to uh to
Speaker 1: do things with the Knicks and you know, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I will be my Twitter if the Sun's ever checked
Speaker 1: my Twitter feed, Yeah, he probably wouldn't do stuff with
Speaker 1: the Sun. All right, I'll keep it the buck with you.
Speaker 1: The thing with r J is dude's told him he
Speaker 1: was a star then gave him the bag that he
Speaker 1: was a star. But he's not a star because he's
Speaker 1: the third best player on our team and we're not
Speaker 1: even good and he can't and and he stopped playing defense.
Speaker 1: He used to play d well, but he got so
Speaker 1: into what's going on with him and his scoring. Then
Speaker 1: now he stops playing defense. But he shoots low percentage
Speaker 1: from the field. So to be honest, like, what are
Speaker 1: we really talking about? As the ceiling? And I like
Speaker 1: the things he does and I think he's a young
Speaker 1: good player, but is he gonna accept what his role
Speaker 1: might have to be to be out of a contender,
Speaker 1: because how much more evidence do we need to know
Speaker 1: if he's going to be a star player on winning team.
Speaker 1: What is it like, year three or four? I think
Speaker 1: it's four or five. I think it's four. I think
Speaker 1: it's four. Yeah, because him and Zion came in the
Speaker 1: same year. Yeah. Yeah, and Zion's obviously a star who
Speaker 1: just gets injured a lot. Cam Reddish is Cam Reddish
Speaker 1: on the Knicks. Is he's been relegated to the bench. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's like Duke. Some people are some people are real
Speaker 1: tight about that that Cam Reddish is on the bench. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have League Pass, but I don't
Speaker 1: watch enough when the Knicks are on. I'm not running
Speaker 1: to the game. Yeah, respect, I feel you. There's some
Speaker 1: teams that I don't give a fuck about, But if
Speaker 1: they're playing, I'm like, oh, let me see what the
Speaker 1: Kings are doing. Yeah, if the Warriors playing, I'm watching. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you yeah, yeah, sorry, that's a that's a sore spot.
Speaker 1: I mean, not so much. The Sun's Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys are having I have no sympathy because I've been
Speaker 1: Knicks fan all up. But you're haven't you at least
Speaker 1: got championships, not when you were alive, but at least
Speaker 1: my dad, my dad's youth. Yeah, we don't got that ship.
Speaker 1: I mean you. Yeah, you guys got the at least
Speaker 1: the cultural importance. The Suns. Don't gives a fuck about
Speaker 1: the Suns. Yeah. Everyone hates us though, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of it's kind of fun. I'm loving watching the Nets
Speaker 1: crash and burn. That's it is actually pretty dope because
Speaker 1: they really thought that like they were gonna go like
Speaker 1: when like like y'all really had Hart and Kyrie and
Speaker 1: Katie and it just didn't matter. And all five of
Speaker 1: their fans talk so much shit five of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no one's I've noticed some people from New York switching
Speaker 1: sides or double dipping, like our guy Rob Markman is
Speaker 1: one of one of those guys hardcore Knicks guy hardcore,
Speaker 1: but you know what, he got it so hardcore when
Speaker 1: he did it, I couldn't even be mad at him.
Speaker 1: It's like when Porzingis left, it was the same thing.
Speaker 1: It was like, Yo, you gotta understand this is an
Speaker 1: abusive household. Yeah, when people want to get out, you
Speaker 1: can't hold him back. I don't think so until he dies, no,
Speaker 1: and they'll probably pass it on to some other jerk off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said not you exactly. So for you, man uh,
Speaker 1: I think that you got three million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Speaker 1: That's a serious accomplishment, thank you. Outside of dropping music
Speaker 1: at a high quantity at a high level, what would
Speaker 1: you say would be the key to you connecting with people,
Speaker 1: connecting with the fans because you've conceptually you've put out
Speaker 1: some of the doper videos in recent memory. Thank you,
Speaker 1: But like for you, that's a that's crazy, especially because
Speaker 1: there's guys that have quote unquote bigger buzzies than you,
Speaker 1: or you know, are perceived to be bigger artists than you,
Speaker 1: that aren't even sniffing that. So for you, what has
Speaker 1: been the one key or a couple of keys that
Speaker 1: has worked for you to connect on that level? Man?
Speaker 1: So you know, I think just staying true, Like obviously
Speaker 1: there's tactical things like on a strategic breakdown and whatever,
Speaker 1: but I think like really honing in on what is
Speaker 1: resonating with people like not I'll give you an example,
Speaker 1: like my biggest song on Spotify, a song called Something's
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Speaker 1: nineteen when I was still in that in that deal,
Speaker 1: and when I made it, I was in a little
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Speaker 1: and I was still staying true. But I was doing
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Speaker 1: if something is not like something new for me, it
Speaker 1: feels like, oh it's not enough. Like it was like,
Speaker 1: this is just a dope beat, is a crazy loop sample,
Speaker 1: profound word think of it? Yeah, but everyone knows I
Speaker 1: can do that. I don't. Yeah, a different beader, yeah,
Speaker 1: and so but even when people around me are like
Speaker 1: this song is really special whatever. So I put that
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Speaker 1: You're a hip hop head who's been the biggest what
Speaker 1: the fuck fan of Marlon Kraft where you find out
Speaker 1: they fucked with you and you were just like what,
Speaker 1: like this is crazy? Like this person knows who I am.
Speaker 1: This person listens to my music, You've had to have
Speaker 1: had a few of those. I'm trying to think. Man,
Speaker 1: there's people, for sure, but none really come to mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jaden Smith hit me one time on Instagram and just
Speaker 1: sent me like a thumbs up emoji. That's pretty sick.
Speaker 1: It was so random and I was like and I
Speaker 1: was like, yo, word and that was it. I never
Speaker 1: heard anything. It was just so that was a weird one.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hip hop people obviously, but I mean,
Speaker 1: like for me, you know, I like getting the respect
Speaker 1: when I walk into a party and like you know,
Speaker 1: Primos there and like you know, or I met just
Speaker 1: Blaze and he and I was like, yo, you're my
Speaker 1: favorite producer ever. And he's like yeah, yeah, like that
Speaker 1: that's those type of things are crazy to me. Like
Speaker 1: that was a crazy moment I met him. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Like that was that was crazy.
Speaker 1: I've had certain people like reach out and send dms,
Speaker 1: but I mean, just Blaze and Primo is pretty fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: But Jadon Smith's random and awesome too. It's like that
Speaker 1: was just a random one. I can't think. I couldn't
Speaker 1: think of it, but it was so weird. I was
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, that's that's dope. What's your favorite just
Speaker 1: Blaze beat? Probably either public service announcement or you don't know,
Speaker 1: I love Breathe That breathe beat is so hard no
Speaker 1: b yeah, oh that ship is so cold to me.
Speaker 1: He's the illiest man. I mean, I would love to
Speaker 1: to do something. You haven't worked with him? Nah? Nah,
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't want to. I think when
Speaker 1: the time is right, hopefully it doesn't seem like he's
Speaker 1: like like I feel like just is not as active
Speaker 1: as he like, not as I wouldn't they should be,
Speaker 1: but like as you would think. Like I don't feel
Speaker 1: like I see just Blaze beats often and when I do,
Speaker 1: I get super excited. But I feel like like he
Speaker 1: just doesn't work with anybody. Yeah, you know, you know
Speaker 1: who's probably the answer to that question. The original question
Speaker 1: is doing the song with Havoc, Like doing the Hans
Speaker 1: Zimmer songa Havoc like that was crazy to me, Like
Speaker 1: the fact that he showed me love because what they
Speaker 1: meant to me growing up in New York. And then
Speaker 1: how I popped up on the scene, like going viral
Speaker 1: on the survival of the fittest beats like in my
Speaker 1: childhood bedroom and shit to then having my own song
Speaker 1: that he produced and he's not here popping up either,
Speaker 1: like you don't just see him on the upcoming artist
Speaker 1: shit Like so that was real special to me, Like
Speaker 1: that was like, wow, was that like a song that
Speaker 1: did you know he was? Like it was his beat?
Speaker 1: Did you know he was getting on the record. Nah,
Speaker 1: he wasn't on it. He wasn't on it. He just
Speaker 1: did the beat he did ye, Yeah, he just did
Speaker 1: the beat. But what's crazy is that like that song too,
Speaker 1: I made in twenty twenty and dropped in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: I had it for bad long. That's so crazy. But
Speaker 1: that's dope because like like back, like let that be
Speaker 1: a lesson the artists who like they get demo ititis, yeah,
Speaker 1: where they have a song for so long and they're like, man,
Speaker 1: that shit is whack or it just gets played out
Speaker 1: to you, but like the people haven't heard it. It's
Speaker 1: like bro, yeah, like don't overthink this shit, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: here's here's here's the key thing to our conversation even
Speaker 1: before with like the consistency, like the implication of people
Speaker 1: that are critiquing it is you think I'm Russian. You're
Speaker 1: wrong because I'm dropping songs there are two or three
Speaker 1: years old. I'm just really two years ahead of myself.
Speaker 1: Like I came into you. I told you today, like, yo,
Speaker 1: I gotta play this album. Shit, I'm working on bro
Speaker 1: for like twenty four you know what I mean. These
Speaker 1: are songs, some of these songs that are on that
Speaker 1: they're going to be on that album I made in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Yeah. No, that's and you're you got you
Speaker 1: got the next couple of things already planned out. You
Speaker 1: gotta work that way if you want to be like
Speaker 1: strategic and not lose quantity, because I agree if you
Speaker 1: if you rush things out for the sake of rushing
Speaker 1: them mount then it's gonna lose quality. Uh. Are you
Speaker 1: now that gambling is legal in New York and you,
Speaker 1: being the sports fan that you are, you dabbling in
Speaker 1: any any sports gambling. I haven't dabbled yet, and I'm
Speaker 1: afraid to because I'm very like very afraid. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: very compulsive with certain things. I'm like, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: plus yo, It's like, I mean, I think it's it's fine,
Speaker 1: but it's it's just wild. How like every commercial now
Speaker 1: fan duels and it's greatbody shamelessly and there's like real
Speaker 1: people really ruin their lives with this. Shit's mad addictive
Speaker 1: and people get destroyed. It's like it's almost like a
Speaker 1: commercial general like yo, like you got Charles Bark up there,
Speaker 1: like all right at halftime, like all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: pick who's gonna score the next bucket. It's almost like
Speaker 1: they're like all right, like we're gonna try out who
Speaker 1: got the best crack, Like you know what. It's like
Speaker 1: a kind of a wild concept. It is pretty crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, is very addictive. Yeah, especially if you're like
Speaker 1: a hardcore sports fan, because then like you makes you
Speaker 1: just care so much about every game. Yeah, like you'll
Speaker 1: be betting on like a fucking a goddamn like Portland
Speaker 1: trail Blazers first Orlando Magic game and you'll just be
Speaker 1: like locked in. Nobody else in the country gives a fuck. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like that because I play fantasy, so
Speaker 1: that does that. Yeah. Yeah, it like gives me investment
Speaker 1: in games. I don't give a great Do you do
Speaker 1: it where you set your lineup every day or set
Speaker 1: it once a week every day, But I just do
Speaker 1: it at the beginning of the week. I just it's
Speaker 1: not like you don't have to think about it. You
Speaker 1: just whoever's playing? Do you do football? Nah? Not a
Speaker 1: big football guy, nah, man, because I was. I'm Jets fan,
Speaker 1: and like I can only tolerate so much like dysfunction
Speaker 1: and disappointment with the Knicks and Gary Vee Jets guys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't even know poor Zach Wilson. He's done. Bro.
Speaker 1: I'm out the loop. Bro. I got enough trauma and stress.
Speaker 1: I'm the Kicks. The Knicks is is all I could take. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the next thing is rough. It's tough, man, It is tough. Okay,
Speaker 1: So is there anything First of all, Mom's whiskey. The
Speaker 1: idea of you actually putting out whiskey with your mom's
Speaker 1: fucking genius. I appreciate it. How is the whiskey business?
Speaker 1: And was that like a super limited thing or is
Speaker 1: this something that's like you're trying to scale like and
Speaker 1: like really like get down in the alcohol industry. It's
Speaker 1: super limited. It's been super limited so far. We've just
Speaker 1: done batches of like very limited releases. But I would
Speaker 1: love to scale it. It's a it's a it's a
Speaker 1: tricky thing because there's so many laws that go back
Speaker 1: to like prohibition and ship. Yeah, it's like also like
Speaker 1: a very tricky industry. It's like a lot of like
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like any industry, but it's got you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta kind of have somebody in that industry to
Speaker 1: help guide you. Yeah, I think I think if like
Speaker 1: I'm more popping, we could probably like scale it. But
Speaker 1: I think, like it's been really cool so far. And
Speaker 1: we just reached out to this distillery and they were down,
Speaker 1: you know, and that that song was my biggest song
Speaker 1: at the time, and yeah, people love it. It's real good.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you're in New York, I
Speaker 1: gotta give you a bottle. I need some moms whiskey
Speaker 1: for yeah. Hell yeah. I just got into a uh
Speaker 1: not necessarily an argument, but I got into it. Well.
Speaker 1: I went viral because I went on a podcast and
Speaker 1: I said that I didn't think that Drake nor j
Speaker 1: Cole had consensus classic albums. Now I say that to
Speaker 1: say I think they. I think personally to me, Cole
Speaker 1: has two classic albums to me. To me, and I
Speaker 1: think Drake Scott two, but I think like they don't
Speaker 1: have an album that people look at in the same
Speaker 1: way that they look at a Doggie Stele or get
Speaker 1: Richard Dot Trying or a good kid Bat City. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Which are your two for Cole? I
Speaker 1: actually like Worn Center and Four Soils Drive. I think
Speaker 1: Four Soils Drive is that, and then like I really,
Speaker 1: I really do like the Ko d Shit is crazy too,
Speaker 1: and off I like off Season. Off Season is like
Speaker 1: a year old, so I can't really say, but off
Speaker 1: Season was special to me. I think Friday Night Lights
Speaker 1: is not an album. Well that's that's where you get
Speaker 1: into the debate. But to me, that's like, I think
Speaker 1: that's only my favorite body of work from Cole. Me too,
Speaker 1: Friday night Lights is crazy, that that ship was ridiculous. Yes,
Speaker 1: so I think you got that. And I think his
Speaker 1: one is Drake's is like take Care And to me,
Speaker 1: my favorite Drake is nothing was the same. Drake is
Speaker 1: hard because he does the thing you know where he
Speaker 1: tries to like hit all the bases, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's so it's like and it ends up resulting in
Speaker 1: cool albums and cool songs, but maybe not the most Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I actually really like nothing was the same to me.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. That's Tusk and Leather. I mean, Drake's Drake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Drake's Drake, you know. But yeah, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: tricky one. I don't think it's like, you know, when
Speaker 1: you look at Kendrick, it's like good Kid, Mad City,
Speaker 1: to Pimp a Butterfly, damn, and now the new joint,
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy certified, it's crazy classics. It's crazy. It's
Speaker 1: it's insane. I think we actually don't give him enough
Speaker 1: credit because he's happening right now to Pimp a butter
Speaker 1: Fly just on mediacritic, dot Com or one of those websites.
Speaker 1: Anthony Fantana will always be fucking talking about but on that.
Speaker 1: It's now the number one. It just finally surpassed Okay
Speaker 1: Computer by Radiohead as the number one. I saw the
Speaker 1: most critically acclaimed album ever, which is kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Pimpa Butterfly, great album, my favorite album.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's for me. It's either that or Good
Speaker 1: Combat City for sure. But no, it's just crazy because,
Speaker 1: like you said, I just put up a post yesterday.
Speaker 1: There's a picture that Jay and Kendrick took at the Grammys,
Speaker 1: and I was like, eventually we might look at this
Speaker 1: picture and this is like one A one B greatest
Speaker 1: rapper of all time. Eventually, I'm not saying now, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, when the dust really starts to settle on
Speaker 1: Kendrick's career. I mean, shit, man, I don't know he's
Speaker 1: I think he might. What's that, Oh the fucking cable
Speaker 1: guy shout out to the cable guy the studio Jim Carrey. No,
Speaker 1: but no, I think I think. I think Kendrick is
Speaker 1: on his way to being the goat. I think he's
Speaker 1: the goat right now. But I think it's like because
Speaker 1: to me, like not even on No Bigger Than like
Speaker 1: so as a rapper, the older I get and the
Speaker 1: more I'm get better at my craft, the more I realize, like,
Speaker 1: oh damn, jay Z's the best rapper, like because the
Speaker 1: shit he does and the like the fucking dexterity and
Speaker 1: like the the versatility and the usage of less to
Speaker 1: do more and shit like that is just crazy. Shit, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. But like with Kendrick, to me, not even
Speaker 1: on No Bigger Than Rap shape, not at all. But
Speaker 1: Kendrick's like, to me, he's like Michael Jackson Prince, Like
Speaker 1: he's in the capantheon of like the best artists and
Speaker 1: performers ever. And when you look at like his live
Speaker 1: shows and his performances and the musicality of these albums
Speaker 1: and where they kind of sit and then, like I said,
Speaker 1: the kind of consistency I mean, and he's being consistent
Speaker 1: while taking pretty crazy risks musically and content wise. Like
Speaker 1: if you really think about, like it's really hard for people.
Speaker 1: Kanye did a good job of that. But like to
Speaker 1: like take a think, do you remember the Common album
Speaker 1: Electric Circus that everyone panned and hated because they were like, man,
Speaker 1: what the fuck is Common doing? Like it's not easy
Speaker 1: to like take on a concept or take on like
Speaker 1: you know, like to Pimp a Butterfly sonically was totally
Speaker 1: way more funky and way more complicated musically than Good Kid,
Speaker 1: Mad City, And it was a little over a lot
Speaker 1: of people's heads. Yeah, people hate on it, People hate
Speaker 1: on that. People are wild. But I think that's what
Speaker 1: inspires me so much. Yeah, because the boldness of like
Speaker 1: being the guy after Good Kid, Mad City, he was
Speaker 1: the guy and it was like, Yo, you're the one
Speaker 1: like whatever, and instead of coming and trying to do
Speaker 1: some layup shit, which is what people usually do. They
Speaker 1: get caught up in the prey and the praise that
Speaker 1: they get. Yeah, like Drake, Hey, but that motherfucker's a
Speaker 1: thousand for thousand on layups. Yeah, he's just laying it up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's why when Drake did the E d M album
Speaker 1: or with this last ship, I was refreshed by. I
Speaker 1: was so happy. Yeah, it's not my ship, but I
Speaker 1: was like as an artist, yeah, as an artist the
Speaker 1: House album, there's some ship on there, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: Ray took a fucking risk. This is what I like
Speaker 1: to see. Yeah, whether I like it or not, I
Speaker 1: respect the move. Bro agree, that's exactly what I said.
Speaker 1: But to Pimple Butterfly, Bro, how do you do that
Speaker 1: after after having the balls and then for it to
Speaker 1: be that sublime? I mean, that dude is He's definitely
Speaker 1: he's my He's my goat, like I always tell people,
Speaker 1: because I have him in my like I got I
Speaker 1: met about four or five, but I always say, and
Speaker 1: I love Biggie, but I'm like if if because some people,
Speaker 1: especially old heads, will be like, nah, man, you can't
Speaker 1: put Kendrick. Listen, if you could put Biggie and is
Speaker 1: Your Greatest of All Time? Off two albums, you gotta
Speaker 1: put Kendrick in that conversation off of the four he's dropped. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's excluding section eighty. That's excluding the Kendrick
Speaker 1: marip that's excluding I'm Overly Dedicated and Untitled and the
Speaker 1: Black Panther soundtrack. It's like, what are we talking about here?
Speaker 1: The only one who's done it is really Kanye with
Speaker 1: like those first four or five albums being sublime like that, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, who else really cast Yeah? You know what's
Speaker 1: you know what's true? It is like I really got
Speaker 1: a Yeah, I'm a New York kid. And it was
Speaker 1: one of those things where like when I was going back,
Speaker 1: I was going back to let me check out Tribe,
Speaker 1: let me check out Wu Tang. Yeah, and I'm admittedly
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Speaker 1: a kid when like speaker Box Love Below, which is
Speaker 1: what won them the Grammy, which was like you were like, hey, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I got it. I've gone a couple times, but when
Speaker 1: ever I've gone, I've not been in the right place
Speaker 1: to receive it. Yeah, No, that's fair. Yeah, shout out
Speaker 1: to Kendrick. He's one of them ones mane he is
Speaker 1: the one one on one man. I mean whatever, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to just like, you know, kiss his ass,
Speaker 1: but I feel you got to give people like that
Speaker 1: because again, I think there's certain times, like when we
Speaker 1: live with people. We have a lot of bullshit in
Speaker 1: our time, but sometimes we have so much reverence for
Speaker 1: old stuff that when something's really sublime and really special
Speaker 1: in our era, we feel weird about calling it that.
Speaker 1: Like Lebron, Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like that's what happened, That's what happened. That's what's happening
Speaker 1: with Lebron. Yeah, I think so. I think so. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a Jordan guy in terms of the goat debate,
Speaker 1: but like, but it's either wonder, it's he's two. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My thing is, if I ask you who the goat
Speaker 1: is and you say anyone but those two names, then
Speaker 1: I really don't know what the fuck we're talking. Like,
Speaker 1: I love Kobe, he's right there him and Jordan's Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like living in LA a lot of people say
Speaker 1: Kobe's the goat. It's it's a preposterous thing to say
Speaker 1: it is. And I love Kobe, but that is a
Speaker 1: ridiculous basketball opinion to have. Yeah, no, it's not. I
Speaker 1: mean there was a lot of years where he wasn't
Speaker 1: the best player in the league at all, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not here, you're trying to stand her. When Kobe
Speaker 1: was on the Lakers alone after Shaq left, they were
Speaker 1: an eight seed two years in a row and they
Speaker 1: lost in the first round. Well, he was playing with
Speaker 1: Kwame and smush Kobe Bryant or Lebron James was playing
Speaker 1: with fucking big Z, Moe Williams, Donielle Marshall off the bench,
Speaker 1: Larry Hughes, fucking losing player if I've ever seen one,
Speaker 1: Like if Larry Hughes is your best player on your team, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like a poor man's Monta Ellis, who's a poor
Speaker 1: man's Allen Iverson. Uh. If these takes are getting better
Speaker 1: and better, but not a manta Ellis man. Monte Ellis
Speaker 1: was a beast, But like, I just feel like Lebron
Speaker 1: when he's when he I mean, he's been on super teams,
Speaker 1: but I do feel like Lebron when he's like when
Speaker 1: the Cabints, he's still gonna. I mean, you got these
Speaker 1: motherfuckers to the finals over the Detroit Pistons. Yeah, year
Speaker 1: after they won the finals. Yeah, although I do feel
Speaker 1: like there's too much made of the like eight years
Speaker 1: in the row thing. It's like they they they were
Speaker 1: supposed to mop up everybody in the East. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that it's not a crazy accomplishment, but I think
Speaker 1: his black iron his resume is that MAVs loss with
Speaker 1: the Heat twenty. Yeah. Yeah, that's the law. That's the
Speaker 1: finals loss where it's like you should have had five. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't even fault him for the Spurs ship because
Speaker 1: that Spurs team was wildly talented. Yeah, but the MAVs,
Speaker 1: I mean it was Jason Terry fucking Jason Kid. Yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: and the Warriors one like with that was ship. I
Speaker 1: always felt like that ship was kind of bullshit because
Speaker 1: I felt like he threw his weight around to get
Speaker 1: that Draymond suspension, and it was like, I feel they
Speaker 1: beat they beat, but they won. They won the game
Speaker 1: seven with everybody playing. They beat the best regular season
Speaker 1: team ever in the finals. Yeah, they did, know they did.
Speaker 1: Seventy three and nine Warriors lost to Lebron James. They did.
Speaker 1: To me, that ring probably means more than any ring ever.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I ever, I'd have to, I'd have
Speaker 1: to give that. I mean, what's the toughest, what's the
Speaker 1: tougher ring to win? Yeah? Yeah, in theory, I think
Speaker 1: though literally the greatest regular season team ever ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were down three to one. I believe they were
Speaker 1: but that, but they came back from three to one
Speaker 1: against the seventy three and nine Warriors, but they were
Speaker 1: gonna win. And then he went in the press conference
Speaker 1: with the Draymond thing. He was like, the league won't
Speaker 1: suspend him, but they should. You know, da da da.
Speaker 1: He threw his big weight around and then it was
Speaker 1: like and they suspended him. And then it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, the rest and those guys were exhausted, and
Speaker 1: then they fucking cheated and they got KD. That fucking
Speaker 1: shout out to KD. Great guy, good hip hop fan.
Speaker 1: I met him. I can't really say anything bad about
Speaker 1: Kdie because I've been to his house and he was
Speaker 1: really nice. He's really into hip hop. I saw him
Speaker 1: and he's always running out with thirty eight especially. He's
Speaker 1: a super nice guy. Yeah, but he seems he definitely
Speaker 1: you know, some interesting decisions. It's a weird space now, man,
Speaker 1: I'm a very old soul bro. I'll be watching a
Speaker 1: lot of I'm Stuck out with the thunder Man. But
Speaker 1: but I feel like now in retrospect, we can kind
Speaker 1: of see why he left Russ. Yeah, because Russ is
Speaker 1: a fucking can't well nice guy, Russell Westbrook, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get you in troll. I wouldn't want him on the
Speaker 1: fucking suns, is all I'm gonna say. Yeah, it's tough
Speaker 1: like the you know, it reminds me of, you know,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you since you're just being keeping
Speaker 1: it all the way funky. I feel like John Moran
Speaker 1: will be Russ in three years if you don't start
Speaker 1: to learn to play defense and get some moves, or
Speaker 1: he'll be in prison. Yeah, I heard about that ship
Speaker 1: because he wants to be king von Yeah, I heard about.
Speaker 1: But I love John. I love John's game. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, it's like, if you notice, they're almost as
Speaker 1: good without him as with him, because Tyas Jones plays
Speaker 1: really good defense, They're very like his. I think his
Speaker 1: style of play is counterproductive to longevity in the league
Speaker 1: that as well. And like I think, yeah, it very
Speaker 1: Russ d Rose type of guy. So when you think
Speaker 1: of Russ, like Russ like electrifying, like I love like
Speaker 1: I used to love watching him on the fucking Thunder
Speaker 1: just he was just like a and Jaw's the same way,
Speaker 1: except for Joh I think is a little bit more
Speaker 1: fun to watch than those those two guys. But like
Speaker 1: Derrick Rose is the same way. It was like, could
Speaker 1: you win a ring with those guys? I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: and they'll turn on you, like the way they're all
Speaker 1: kissing Jaws as now. Everybody loves him, but I know too,
Speaker 1: they turned on Russ. That's why I'm saying it's not
Speaker 1: like a hater comment, this is like I want to
Speaker 1: see him be successful. And Jared Jackson Junior making the
Speaker 1: All Star Game is fucking the travesty, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's insane over who who was it? That that. Uh well,
Speaker 1: first of all, Devin Booker should have made it even
Speaker 1: though he's missed twenty one games. Jalen Bronson should have
Speaker 1: been in there for the East over Halliburton. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll be all the way real with you, like over Julius.
Speaker 1: If you watch the games, the numbers run deniable, so
Speaker 1: I understand, but if you really watch all the games,
Speaker 1: like in their totality, like and there was an all
Speaker 1: star from our team to go and this coming from
Speaker 1: the guy who made the Julius random song like it
Speaker 1: was Jalen has he heard the song? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. They played at the Garden though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was pretty dope. He had kind of a weird
Speaker 1: year last year. He did. And that's why I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not making no more songs for people. I like,
Speaker 1: I think you guys should fire Tibodeau. Get him out
Speaker 1: of there, man, That old fucking bastard man. He literally
Speaker 1: doesn't coach offense, bro Like he literally he just like
Speaker 1: yo figured it out. Yeah, literally, like like forty eight
Speaker 1: minutes a game. But he needs like the way Mike
Speaker 1: Brown was coaching the defense like defensive coordinator and yeah,
Speaker 1: state he needs one of those offense. Yeah do it
Speaker 1: do that? Yeah, not for sure, I thought me shout
Speaker 1: out to the Knicks, man, So you're got you got
Speaker 1: Jordans your go. Jordan's my go. Jordan despite being a
Speaker 1: Knicks fan, Yeah yeah, come on, man, you know ho'm's
Speaker 1: the nineties baby, and we gotta keep it real. That's
Speaker 1: why the Knicks lost because because of Jordan's Jordan. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure you guys were good enough to get who
Speaker 1: whoever was in the West during those years. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I think I looked back at some I look back
Speaker 1: at some of those fucking Knicks teams and like, offensively
Speaker 1: just not the greatest rosters, just scrappers. It was just
Speaker 1: like it was like a bunch of Tony Allen's and
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing. It was like John Starks, Anthony Mason, and
Speaker 1: then there was like the funner version of that team
Speaker 1: with Larry Johnson, you know, Alan Houston there was, but
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about like the early nineties Knicks teams.
Speaker 1: It was just like Jesus, it was just Charles Oakley
Speaker 1: and elbows and kneecaps and fucking Patrick Ewing. Alan Houston
Speaker 1: was a beast. I mean listen man them tell hims
Speaker 1: like I don't know those those were battles with I
Speaker 1: was young. I mean I was like a little kid.
Speaker 1: I remember as a kid live on TV watching that
Speaker 1: fucking heat Knicks brawl and Alonzo Gundy is on the
Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy is one of my top five favorite humans.
Speaker 1: He's great. Lenny does a great job at being an announcer.
Speaker 1: He's incredible. Like when I listened to him on the broadcast,
Speaker 1: when he'll just go in on some ship, I feel
Speaker 1: seen like as a curmudgeon that is an old soul
Speaker 1: that just like shit pisses me off. Bro, He'll just
Speaker 1: go off on some shit unapologetically and go off on
Speaker 1: the League and go off on the State, and like
Speaker 1: it is like the greatest shit ever. I love that guy.
Speaker 1: Love him. Okay, So if Lebron is two for you,
Speaker 1: who's three? Probably Kareem. I think that's the yeah, And
Speaker 1: you could make a case like like if someone wants
Speaker 1: to come in and make a case for Kareem at two,
Speaker 1: Like there's a case to be made. He gets weird
Speaker 1: Era to era, but the past is fucking yeah he is.
Speaker 1: But they changed rules for that guy, bro, Like in college.
Speaker 1: I mean he would, I mean, and and the thing
Speaker 1: is like he you kind of can't say, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't do shit today like he was mad, was
Speaker 1: mad big, he would just shoot that hook on anybody,
Speaker 1: like you know, I don't know, but Kareem's probably three.
Speaker 1: And then after that you get into like I got
Speaker 1: Dunkin at five. That's all I know for four is
Speaker 1: probably magic. What about Bill Russell? See that's too old.
Speaker 1: It gets starts to get with you. That's where the
Speaker 1: error shit gets weird because it was like he was
Speaker 1: never better than Will. Yeah, but he got all the
Speaker 1: fucking rings. But he got all the rings. So and
Speaker 1: then you got well as well, because every Will holds
Speaker 1: like every fucking record, damn near. So you got to
Speaker 1: put him somewhere in there. I think of like who
Speaker 1: would ball out no matter what era, And I don't
Speaker 1: know if Bill Russell could, Like I don't know what
Speaker 1: he would do against Dwight Howard in the paint Yeah
Speaker 1: peak Dwight of course. Yeah. When I think of like
Speaker 1: a guy like Kareem, like you said, like I could
Speaker 1: see Kareem thriving in today's because he can still cook. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can still cook I think like Larry Bird would
Speaker 1: be a fucking beast. Larry Bird is a beast, bro
Speaker 1: and a savage. When you hear like the trash Talk stories,
Speaker 1: that's my favorite ship. But I'll go on YouTube and
Speaker 1: just look up old like trash Talk stories. That dude
Speaker 1: was a monster. Would you say Nicks fans hate Reggie
Speaker 1: Miller or Michael Jordan Moore Reggie Miller, that Reggie serious,
Speaker 1: disrespectful those old East, those nineties East joints respectful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like fuck Reggie, but also like it's it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like it feels very separate basketball from the person, like
Speaker 1: on some ship, on some basketball shit, I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: fuck Reggie Bller. But like when I see him on TNT,
Speaker 1: I don't get mad. Like that's how I feel about
Speaker 1: Patrick Barley. Oh man, that dude is. That dude's wild.
Speaker 1: He's the dirtiest player ever. That dude's wild. Your man,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul is kind of dirty too, though he's not
Speaker 1: my man. He's actual man, not no more A couple
Speaker 1: of years ago that I wasn't your man. I got
Speaker 1: all his jerseys. I gotta hope we get we move
Speaker 1: off of them. Listen, you got your new EP out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this comes out February tent so by what's today,
Speaker 1: By the time this is out, it'll be out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh new album soon, album next year, next year. And
Speaker 1: then I got a little something coming for the summer too,
Speaker 1: something for the summer. What's coming with summer, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be It's gonna be mixtape time again, mixtape time. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Are you like, uh I think? Do you feel like
Speaker 1: who besides yourself has the best basketball references in hip hop?
Speaker 1: Because you got some pretty like, you got some like
Speaker 1: really random shit. We're like, unless you're like a real
Speaker 1: basketball nerds just flying over your fucking I got it.
Speaker 1: I did a good one recently. Bro, I had a
Speaker 1: he he know, Turkeuleu one in there. I love. I
Speaker 1: was so hype when I wrote that. I was like,
Speaker 1: he was on the Suns for like one season. He
Speaker 1: was good man when he was on the Magic. Think
Speaker 1: about that. They went to the finals and he was
Speaker 1: their second best player fun me and Nelson. He was
Speaker 1: killing Bro. I'll tell you the line when we're done.
Speaker 1: But it was like it was literally like, uh, Action
Speaker 1: Bronson got really good ones he does and Action Bronson
Speaker 1: cuts super random deep cuts, like super deep cuts and then, uh,
Speaker 1: A man, who else is good? I don't know who
Speaker 1: else is. There's a dude named skillet Baby that's from Detroit.
Speaker 1: Young kid who's got some pretty crazy basketball. Oh you
Speaker 1: knows fire? Have you heard of baby tron? No, he's
Speaker 1: on the Freshman cover. His fucking eighteen nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 1: He got heat. He's got the most random NBA references
Speaker 1: for his age. You'd be like, bro, how old are you?
Speaker 1: That's he's shouting out bench players. He's shouting out the
Speaker 1: most random ship. Yeah, like he's a kid. Bro, Like,
Speaker 1: he's like a fucking child. I love I love that shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like dog that Detroit. Yeah, two guys from Detroit
Speaker 1: shout out to them, and I shout out to you. Man,
Speaker 1: some new album next year, new mixtape during the summer,
Speaker 1: and then Space two out, now out now, go run
Speaker 1: it up and go watch your freestyles about that happened
Speaker 1: Boom