Speaker 1: Welcome back to Unplugged.
Speaker 2: We finally got my guy in the building making his
Speaker 2: first appearance on this new, revamped Unplugged stack.
Speaker 1: What's up, bro?
Speaker 3: Cool on what s up? Shoot?
Speaker 1: Ship? How was your weekend?
Speaker 3: It was cool, man.
Speaker 4: I ain't doing too much nothing, man, just getting ready
Speaker 4: for Turkey Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean you you were the talk
Speaker 2: of the internet for a few days, bro. He was
Speaker 2: buzzing when we put your when we put your own
Speaker 2: music out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Man, I didn't expect that either, and I didn't even
Speaker 5: know y'all was posting that ship.
Speaker 4: But it turned out being good as usual.
Speaker 5: A lot of people that didn't know I rapped chimed
Speaker 5: in a lot of people that knew I rap chimed in,
Speaker 5: and I heard my music saying I need to do
Speaker 5: more music.
Speaker 4: I got to hit from Bun b and Killer Collie on.
Speaker 4: So you know, guys that.
Speaker 3: Got a lot of love.
Speaker 1: You got a lot of love on the GRAMD too.
Speaker 1: The Graham was apavy with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my damn was going crazy. So it inspired me
Speaker 3: to do some more music. Man.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, you about to get back in the lap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna do another projects. Bout ten songs all
Speaker 5: the Smoke, Volume one, Volume one, the original. Yeah, like
Speaker 5: like my boy Dylan said, a lot of people I
Speaker 5: missed the social media area era when I was doing
Speaker 5: my music, and I was doing a lot of stuff,
Speaker 5: more than any rapper of a dumb besides Shack probably,
Speaker 5: but I probably did more.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of music. Yeah, so just to be
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you can cook something up before All Star
Speaker 1: we go back.
Speaker 5: To the bay. Yeah, it takes no time. But what
Speaker 5: I got four month, three months? Yes, it's easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, I like it. I like it.
Speaker 2: Well, Kendrick just dropped on Friday and obviously had everybody
Speaker 2: ears to it. Gn X came out What was your thought?
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four. It's been heavy for Kendrick and I
Speaker 2: was actually late. I'm finally just getting to it last
Speaker 2: night and this morning. But this ship is going for me.
Speaker 2: What'd you think of it?
Speaker 3: He jamming?
Speaker 5: That's what kids you do. I mean, I would never
Speaker 5: go against songs like that. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: that's that's a show shot. You know, you're just behaving
Speaker 5: that ship jamming and his content. You know the stuff
Speaker 5: he was saying in it, you know, it's real deep,
Speaker 5: even with the car. You know, the car came out
Speaker 5: the year the year he was born. It was only
Speaker 5: the further original was black on the cover. So like,
Speaker 5: it's a lot of stuff that he's saying that's deep.
Speaker 5: And I didn't even take what he said about Wayne
Speaker 5: and Snoop as a disc you know. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 5: take it that way. I don't think Wayne did too,
Speaker 5: but I think he still had to respond, But you know,
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't think that should end up as
Speaker 5: a as a beef, you know, with Kendrick and Wayne.
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like the song was dope. He
Speaker 3: responded to how Wayne?
Speaker 5: You know, he kind of felt like he wanted Wayne
Speaker 5: to congratulate him too, because he looked up to Wayne.
Speaker 5: He's the jam Wayne. You know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 5: I feel how Wayne felt too. We coming home. This
Speaker 5: is my home. I'm the best rapper ever come from,
Speaker 5: you know. So I look at it both sides. Man,
Speaker 5: I just hope it don't end up in nothing negative.
Speaker 5: But if Wayne did come up with a song and responded,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be mad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I didn't look at it as a
Speaker 2: disc by any means. And I actually heard someone tell
Speaker 2: a story about how kind of that came about. They
Speaker 2: said that, I want to say it was Jay Rock
Speaker 2: had Wayne in the studio and they said something like
Speaker 2: Wayne had hit like not twelve singles off for twelve
Speaker 2: different or you know, for a handful of different people
Speaker 2: in one night. And it made Kendrick kind of evaluate, like, Yo,
Speaker 2: this is how we got to work, you know, this
Speaker 2: is how hard we got to work. So when he
Speaker 2: said my hard work let Wayne down, I think he
Speaker 2: was paying homage to Wayne initially because Wayne gave him
Speaker 2: a different grime is from what I heard. So I
Speaker 2: don't really know how true the story is, but it
Speaker 2: seemed like a.
Speaker 1: Pretty logical reason. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, I don't think it needs
Speaker 2: a tone there. And as we've talked about on this
Speaker 2: show before, man, I completely understand where this could have
Speaker 2: been a great opportunity for Wayne to write off in
Speaker 2: the sunset, you know, to kind of the stamp on
Speaker 2: the legendary career. But it didn't happen to beginning at
Speaker 2: the same time, I mean, who's I can't recall an
Speaker 2: artist who's had a bigger year in a while, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? A lot of people have put
Speaker 2: out good music. But who have really kind of controlled
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four obviously the last half of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: And what I liked about the album too and again,
Speaker 2: and I'm still studying it. But the Na's influence, the
Speaker 2: Pock influence, you know, the lady he got from the
Speaker 2: Dodger game, and he put on maybe six unless you're
Speaker 2: kind of a real West Coast head or LA artist.
Speaker 2: He put on six young if I'm not mistaken, LA
Speaker 2: guys that you know, obviously this is going to be
Speaker 2: their highest stream ever. So he did a lot of things,
Speaker 2: the Luther sample and so yeah, I'm really appreciating this
Speaker 2: body of work as I continue to study it. But
Speaker 2: I mean, shit, Kiddings had a hell of a twenty
Speaker 2: I actually talked to top his I don't know if
Speaker 2: it is his manager or just his partner anymore, and
Speaker 2: he just, you know, to put out a statement about,
Speaker 2: you know, stay out the way right now, this is
Speaker 2: the dangerous man. And me and him were hitting. He
Speaker 2: told me Kendricks and Mamba mentality right now. I started laughing,
Speaker 2: like he's definitely, he's definitely on one right now.
Speaker 5: Got you gotta respect. I mean, Wayne been having this
Speaker 5: run for a long time, and they to it. They
Speaker 5: too it a go. So people definitely want to see
Speaker 5: them butt heads because they know how Wayne get down,
Speaker 5: they know how kids would get down. But at the
Speaker 5: same time, I see the respect that they have for
Speaker 5: each other in both of their posts.
Speaker 2: I hope that somehow, someway we get Wayne at the
Speaker 2: super Bowl. Somehow, someway. I mean, obviously there has to
Speaker 2: have some conversations have to be had, but I think
Speaker 2: the world would love that. To backtrack a little bit, Jack,
Speaker 2: how did how did the rap how did the rap
Speaker 2: bug bite you?
Speaker 1: How did you get into rapping?
Speaker 2: And who are some of your you know, your inspirations
Speaker 2: and shit, Like you said, you're rejuvenated to get back
Speaker 2: in the studio right now.
Speaker 1: But where did it all start for you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Being from Texas, we we didn't listen.
Speaker 5: We didn't hear too much outside music outside of Texas
Speaker 5: because Texas is so big and being in South Texas,
Speaker 5: all we heard was really Texas music and Louisiana music
Speaker 5: because we forty five minutes from Louisiana. So DJ Screw
Speaker 5: really was the first person to open my ears in
Speaker 5: a lot of people ears to music from the West
Speaker 5: Coast and East Coast, but he if you know anything
Speaker 5: about DJ Screw, he slowed the music down, so a
Speaker 5: lot of we heard music from everywhere. So DJ Screw
Speaker 5: he had such a big influence that he had. He
Speaker 5: started bringing local rappers in and they start freestyling to
Speaker 5: beach from everywhere from it was West Coast beaching and
Speaker 5: so we all start riding listen to that, So we
Speaker 5: all start freestyling from listening to DJ DJ Screw. We
Speaker 5: tried to pick up that same cadence, that same freestyle
Speaker 5: from growing up listening to that, and that started me rapping.
Speaker 3: That started me going to my.
Speaker 5: Playing about fourteen fifteen. By fourteen fifteen, going to Little
Speaker 5: with my homeboy Wayne. My Wayne had my homeboy Wye
Speaker 5: had a group called Gangs, the Players, and they they
Speaker 5: had they had their own house right next door to
Speaker 5: their mama house where they could do whatever they want,
Speaker 5: and they had a studio in there. And and his
Speaker 5: older brother name was DJ Dan. He used to DJ
Speaker 5: at the clubs and all that. So they have so
Speaker 5: we used to go over there and free island rapping them.
Speaker 5: So that's why I actually started rapping. But I didn't
Speaker 5: start putting out my my own music attil I got
Speaker 5: to the league.
Speaker 1: A lot of people.
Speaker 2: It was new to a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 2: as as we discussed it to be in the show
Speaker 2: that you know, you was really on a real mixtape tour.
Speaker 1: You have a ton of.
Speaker 2: Music, unplayed music you you You've done songs with legends.
Speaker 2: Did you face any backlash from the league or from
Speaker 2: David Stern while you were on these tours of putting
Speaker 2: out these albums, because I remember Ai put out an
Speaker 2: album that had too much cussing and they were on
Speaker 2: his head.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have any pushback from the league?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I did. I mean people said certain things.
Speaker 5: Now you know, I got questions from UH, from UH
Speaker 5: staff members in the office about what I was doing,
Speaker 5: stuff like that, but I really didn't get a personal
Speaker 5: call until shit, my last year in the league, I
Speaker 5: was doing the mixtape and I was I actually, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of had a conversation with David starting about it
Speaker 5: because one of the songs I was doing was about
Speaker 5: was about down, Yeah, down, Donald Sterling, It's not going
Speaker 5: to call America the beautiful with scarface and in the
Speaker 5: video is like four minutes long, so you know, we
Speaker 5: went crazy on it. But and I wanted to tell
Speaker 5: him a you know, have to let him know up
Speaker 5: that I was dropping. He was like, man, I never
Speaker 5: told you anything about your music. Just be ready to
Speaker 5: flight to come from it. And I never got any
Speaker 5: flag from it, you know the way. I never played
Speaker 5: an NBA again.
Speaker 3: But that was it. That's what you said about. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was it.
Speaker 2: Who are some of the bigger names that you've you've
Speaker 2: rapped with and and maybe released or haven't even released.
Speaker 2: I remember you were talking right before we got online.
Speaker 2: You talked about you did done some ship with Shack.
Speaker 2: But who are some of the bigger names you've you've
Speaker 2: got on with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've done songs with a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: I got a song with Future that I never released
Speaker 5: it when when I was me and Rocco was hanging out,
Speaker 5: uh you know him in Future, I had their relationship
Speaker 5: and I got it. I got a song with Future.
Speaker 5: I got songs with bun Bee, I got songs with
Speaker 5: Killer Collie, I, I got songs with who else? I
Speaker 5: got songs with I got songs with Key Keith Slim.
Speaker 5: I did a song with Roy Jones. I did a
Speaker 5: song with who Else. I did a song with I got.
Speaker 5: I missed some people, some big name rappers. Who I'm missing,
Speaker 5: Who I'm missing, Who I'm missing, I'm missing some people.
Speaker 5: I got a lot of music, but I'm just I just, I'm.
Speaker 1: Just anybody you would like to work with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'm doing the new project. I'm gonna do
Speaker 5: All the Smoke, Volume one with ten songs. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: do it with a lot of people, most of the
Speaker 5: rappers that I've never done songs with, but I'm gonna
Speaker 5: do songs. I'm gonna do a song with a Russell
Speaker 5: h I talked about it with Jade because for years,
Speaker 5: I've recently linked up with I recently linked up with Davy,
Speaker 5: so I'm gonna knock something out with him. Fat Joe
Speaker 5: on the West Coast. I've me and Richie Rich been
Speaker 5: talking a lot, So I'm gonna do one with Richie Rich.
Speaker 5: And I'm trying to bang when I was Snoop too.
Speaker 5: But Texas guys, they already know who they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Volume one. So now we're doing this show weekly.
Speaker 2: We're gonna start doing a segment called five with five,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna figure out what those topics are and
Speaker 2: we're gonna go off the top on those topics, but uh,
Speaker 2: for this week, I want you to just give me
Speaker 2: your top five. I'll put you on the spot NBA
Speaker 2: rappers in your opinion.
Speaker 5: Okay, that ain't hard. I'm going five. I'm going Uhman Shampart. Four,
Speaker 5: I'm going Lou Williams. Three, I'm three, I'm going Damian Lillard. Two,
Speaker 5: I'm going Shack and fighting one. I'm going me Who's
Speaker 5: number five? Aman Sheppard? And then four is who Lou Williams?
Speaker 5: Then three is.
Speaker 3: Damian Lillard, Dame Lillard?
Speaker 1: Who is Shack?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: One? Is you?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: And you left bart Opemeal off the list?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Bro?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean it's just the truth. Bart ain't
Speaker 5: top five yet? Top five? Bro gotta release more music.
Speaker 5: Bro got a billion songs and they all sitting over there, slick.
Speaker 2: What about what about the Nator? Where is he at?
Speaker 2: If he was he was in the lead, where would
Speaker 2: Nator be? Nator be top five?
Speaker 5: Because they you know, natyve gonna say that ship you
Speaker 5: feel native coming from the Native Native murdered three people
Speaker 5: in every rhyme and give give three shots out to
Speaker 5: three people that passed and every show ship.
Speaker 1: Shout out the term man. Happy belated birthday.
Speaker 3: We went over there. Yeah it's my brother. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We went over to uh the baron Slick Studios and
Speaker 2: got down for for the day to celebrate term. He
Speaker 2: was off his feet boy. Before we move on, obviously,
Speaker 2: we had a great time in Dallas man last week
Speaker 2: or excuse me two weeks ago now, but we got
Speaker 2: a chance to sit down with the legendary.
Speaker 3: D o C.
Speaker 1: See you guys, take a look at this edic you
Speaker 1: know from.
Speaker 6: And I know I'm a I am one who's speaking
Speaker 6: from you know, because Dre is my god. Yeah, but
Speaker 6: I don't think that there's anybody else in hip hop
Speaker 6: music that's ever been as good as he is doing
Speaker 6: what he does and watching him thirty thirty five, almost
Speaker 6: forty years, it's so easy for that dude. It seemed
Speaker 6: like he do the same little shit every time and
Speaker 6: it come out the same dope. Pass West fact, I
Speaker 6: just left LA. I had to go out there and
Speaker 6: get the release sign by my big brother.
Speaker 4: For this documentary.
Speaker 6: Took me a couple of days, but.
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 6: And we was able to He was twisting up some
Speaker 6: stuff for Snoopy's record that comes out next month. I
Speaker 6: think it's I think it's on the thirteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dog was telling us about that process.
Speaker 6: Rais in his bag right now? Is he?
Speaker 1: YEA love du Snoop.
Speaker 4: Let us hear some of that shit, and I can't
Speaker 4: wait to hit the streets.
Speaker 6: Trais in his Bag, Snoop sound great. Those guys are happy,
Speaker 6: they're in a good space. They showed me a ten
Speaker 6: minute piece of content with the songs in it, in
Speaker 6: and out of the video, and it was really interesting.
Speaker 6: I don't want to you know, Dre get it. You
Speaker 6: feel the kind of way if you talk about it.
Speaker 1: It was, Yeah, I don't want to get.
Speaker 6: Twenty five is gonna be fu fuck that time in
Speaker 6: West Coast music. Twenty five is gonna be a good year.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, bring it back. We go hear some
Speaker 2: doc in twenty five? Well, Jack, I mean this one
Speaker 2: was dope. Obviously the legend that the DC is and
Speaker 2: obviously I knew about him, but to get more, to
Speaker 2: get that extra layers and I'm such a West Coast
Speaker 2: hip hop head man, that was that was special, you know.
Speaker 2: Obviously the connection with Dre and Snoop and the new
Speaker 2: project they got coming out But what were some of
Speaker 2: your favorite parts and takeaways from the interview with DC?
Speaker 5: Well, DC legend, you know me being from Texas, He's
Speaker 5: a legend from Texas. He told you how he went
Speaker 5: to Cali and when he came back to Dallas, everybody
Speaker 5: was dressing like they was from La because of him,
Speaker 5: you know, he had. He had a big influence over
Speaker 5: Texas and bringing the West Coast music to Texas.
Speaker 3: But for me, I think I.
Speaker 5: Related the most to him, Matt is when he was saying,
Speaker 5: like the gratification of everything for him being solid and
Speaker 5: being real with everybody that's coming back to him in
Speaker 5: the years where he really can enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I kind of feel that way too, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: With a lot of stuff that went on in my life,
Speaker 5: I'm finally getting to the point where I'm making up
Speaker 5: for a lot of my mistakes, getting a lot of
Speaker 5: stuff that I got to get off my back, you know,
Speaker 5: to maybe enjoy enjoy today.
Speaker 3: And I seen that in him too. He a solid dude.
Speaker 3: He's been solid with so many people.
Speaker 5: Never said nothing, never to me, nobody, but he has
Speaker 5: such a big influence and that sound and that music,
Speaker 5: So for him to be able to be solid today
Speaker 5: and say, you know how good it feels for him
Speaker 5: to get all this just do now you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I think that's what I got most from the interview.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, definitely dope.
Speaker 2: How you know that thirty five year term he signed
Speaker 2: and now all that music is coming back to him,
Speaker 2: so beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Man, make sure you guys checked that interview out. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a good one.
Speaker 2: Before we get to get you out of here, Jack
Speaker 2: Women's college basketball's back rolling, my bruin. Late ees took
Speaker 2: down South Carolina. We were watching the game, kept thinking like, okay,
Speaker 2: South Carolina. You know they're going to make a run.
Speaker 2: You know they're gonna make a run. Man, the shout
Speaker 2: out to UCLA. Man, they didn't allow that run to happen.
Speaker 2: You know, the Bruins as a team played together. Shout
Speaker 2: out coach Corey. That's my girl. They made it jump
Speaker 2: from number five to number one after that dominating victory
Speaker 2: over South Carolina and in South Carolina's forty three game
Speaker 2: win streak, first time UCLA has ever beat a number
Speaker 2: one women's basketball.
Speaker 1: We got a chance to do that.
Speaker 2: You know, we beat Kansas my senior year Drew Good
Speaker 2: and then Nick Collinson and them boys.
Speaker 1: But Jack, what did you think about that game?
Speaker 2: Obviously I know your relationship with coach Day and the
Speaker 2: love and admiration they are for her, and I think
Speaker 2: that's your favorite women's college team, So what was your
Speaker 2: thoughts on the game?
Speaker 3: Played a great game.
Speaker 5: They definitely didn't let South Carolina make that running and
Speaker 5: get that lead back to find a way to win
Speaker 5: that game. But what I will say is UCLA is
Speaker 5: the bigger team. This is the small one of the
Speaker 5: smallest teams that Don Staley didn't had, so they gonna
Speaker 5: have to figure out how to use they and that
Speaker 5: led us to be, you know, a top tier team
Speaker 5: this year. USLA was the better team from top to bottom.
Speaker 5: The guard play, all that was great. But for the
Speaker 5: most part, you know, South Carolina is my team with
Speaker 5: Don Stowele is somebody who I'm a big fan of.
Speaker 5: But I think for the most part, this is one
Speaker 5: of the smallest teams she had, so they just got
Speaker 5: to figure out their identity.
Speaker 2: You got to figure it out small ball. But shout
Speaker 2: out to UCLA coach Corey Lauryn bettch keep all the
Speaker 2: whole crew man number one in the country, salute and
Speaker 2: then jack right up the way. The SC women squared
Speaker 2: off against Notre Dame, and Notre Dame came into sc
Speaker 2: and handled their business. I mean that back court of
Speaker 2: Notre Dame could be the top back court in the country.
Speaker 2: But they really did a number. We're able to get
Speaker 2: a thirteen point victory over USC. What was your thoughts
Speaker 2: on that game and some of the problems they gave.
Speaker 5: Juju, Yeah, somebody gonna have to step up on us USC.
Speaker 5: Ju is gonna get a lot of attention like that team,
Speaker 5: seeing team seeing that they can beat them like that
Speaker 5: in the tournament last year when they kind of bottle
Speaker 5: up and make somebody else beat them, and they still
Speaker 5: have figured that out. I think for Notre Dame, Hidagos
Speaker 5: just picking up what she left off last year. She
Speaker 5: had a let down in the tournament, but she she
Speaker 5: she worked on a game this summer and everybody knew
Speaker 5: their Blackhall was gonna be one of the top ones,
Speaker 5: but they hadgo is definitely somebody that you're gonna have
Speaker 5: to look out for this year. I think Juju is
Speaker 5: still a number one pick, but in order for them
Speaker 5: to have a great season, They're gonna have to find
Speaker 5: some find her some more help when teams are basically
Speaker 5: running the box and one.
Speaker 2: On the Juju got a whole another year before she
Speaker 2: can even go to the league, So she's got some
Speaker 2: to me her size though five to six that's little.
Speaker 2: An average twenty five and five steals per game, that's
Speaker 2: that's insane.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: So I've been shut out to these women.
Speaker 2: And you know, this weekend obviously, with Caitlyn and Angel gone,
Speaker 2: now you know who's gonna hold it down. I think
Speaker 2: there was such a jump. I think there was a
Speaker 2: lot of momentum these past few years in women's basketball.
Speaker 2: Now it's carried over to the W but uh, you
Speaker 2: know who are some of the women jack you think
Speaker 2: can help keep the game at the level it's it's
Speaker 2: reached from the people before them.
Speaker 5: Well, it's gonna have to be Juju and like hadago,
Speaker 5: page Buckets, Uh uh, women like that that that that
Speaker 5: have a name that's been balling for the last couple
Speaker 5: of years. I think I think those three names are
Speaker 5: some of the ones that you can look out for
Speaker 5: to have great years. And uh, people be talking about
Speaker 5: a lot, especially page Buckets.
Speaker 1: But I think what helped the momentum in.
Speaker 5: Oh my bad, can't my bad, I'm mean to cut off.
Speaker 5: Can't forget about Flage, can't forget about l s U.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, definitely not.
Speaker 2: But I think what helped bolster not only those individual players,
Speaker 2: but the fact they got a chance to play against
Speaker 2: each other and there were storylines, you know, every time,
Speaker 2: and then there were storylines leading into the league. So
Speaker 2: definitely looking forward to this year in college, it's crazy
Speaker 2: that you know, arguably, I mean, there's there's there's there's
Speaker 2: some big name talent talented on the guys side, but
Speaker 2: women's college basketball, man is really kind of jumped.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say jump men's, but.
Speaker 2: It's pretty even right now, I think as far as
Speaker 2: just people really tuning into the big game. So we'll
Speaker 2: see how the rest of the season goes. Anythings, giving
Speaker 2: plans with you and the family. I saw you threw
Speaker 2: down on some gumbo the other day. You cooking, you
Speaker 2: cooking for the for the holiday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just making a corner bead dressing. Okay, I'm
Speaker 5: getting I'm getting a turkey from Less Barbicaus. Shout out
Speaker 5: Less Barbecue out there, and you tell I'm getting my turkey,
Speaker 5: my smoke turkey from him, and we have friends coming up, soay,
Speaker 5: everybody bringing the dish.
Speaker 4: My wife making a couple of sides. But I'm just
Speaker 4: doing the dressing.
Speaker 5: And you know, nine out of ten times, whoever make
Speaker 5: the dressing on Thanksgiving is the coldest.
Speaker 2: Well that's what me and I's are are tasked with
Speaker 2: this year too. So we're actually on the dressing stuff
Speaker 2: and whatever people call it that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I have no problem.
Speaker 3: Meling is something, Bro, I can.
Speaker 5: I can make it today and get it off to
Speaker 5: you, you know if you need it, bro, because I'm.
Speaker 1: Live and even mad. I mean, we're gonna see I
Speaker 1: see some cookers Jack. Before we get out of here.
Speaker 2: What are you thankful for here in this year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, as we turn the page on a special
Speaker 2: year for our company.
Speaker 5: Well, i'll give you. I'll give you a few things.
Speaker 5: I'll give you three things. One, I'm thankful for health
Speaker 5: and life. Uh to still be here too. I'm thankful
Speaker 5: for all you guys at the company that's around me,
Speaker 5: that's making me better daily.
Speaker 4: Uh, that's dealing with my bullshit. But you know, see
Speaker 4: the see.
Speaker 5: That that's that's see the good in me, and uh
Speaker 5: and that genuinely loved me, like you don't get that
Speaker 5: much these days. But the third, I'm just I'm most
Speaker 5: thankful for being able to have opportunity to right my wrongs.
Speaker 4: I think that's where I'm met. That's where I'm met
Speaker 4: in life.
Speaker 5: I met a lot of mistakes in life that I'm
Speaker 5: still trying to recover and fix. But I'm just thankful
Speaker 5: for the opportunity to fix because I can see, I
Speaker 5: can see what's what, what's what's through the clouds when
Speaker 5: I'm out of all this. So I'm thankful. I'm thankful
Speaker 5: for that opportunity.
Speaker 2: That's dope. Man, You're definitely on the right path. Should
Speaker 2: we on the right path? You know, similar paths our
Speaker 2: whole lives. So to be here where we're at in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, man, and think about what we've accomplished
Speaker 2: and what's to come. And I'm really excited at about
Speaker 2: what's to come in twenty five. So man, give him
Speaker 2: to give the family my best, Tell him I love him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll catch up after the holidays, yes sir, all right, bro.
Speaker 2: Later Now I want to welcome back the one and
Speaker 2: only neighborhood hater who boycotted the show last week because
Speaker 2: we didn't take him to Dallas scenes and his feelings.
Speaker 2: This nigga was salt take him to Dallas, so he
Speaker 2: was busy last Monday. I wanted to get you on
Speaker 2: Last Money because your boys have won five straight. I
Speaker 2: want you to come on here and talk your shit.
Speaker 2: But I feel like, because you're new to this camera game,
Speaker 2: you haven't really been talking the shit We're accustomed to
Speaker 2: you talking like. I feel like you'll talk here privately,
Speaker 2: but you don't want to say it out loud because
Speaker 2: you don't want to run across like an Austin reason.
Speaker 1: He slapped the shit at it.
Speaker 3: No, he had to box with me though, bro, so
Speaker 3: just know that we'll have to fight about it.
Speaker 1: He's bigger than you, know that right?
Speaker 3: Not in this world, He's not.
Speaker 1: His world rank is lower than yours.
Speaker 2: Now the Lakers have dropped too straight Fawns Wagner hit
Speaker 2: a game winner who missed the free someone miss free
Speaker 2: throws though right ad missed too.
Speaker 3: Big, missed one. We missed a couple two.
Speaker 1: In Denver.
Speaker 2: Uh Nasty J just said, you guys didn't come really
Speaker 2: come out there and compete. So I think, what was
Speaker 2: it five straight before you guys lost two straight?
Speaker 3: Six straight?
Speaker 2: It was six straight, sir, and then you know the
Speaker 2: last two of falling. What do you kind of see
Speaker 2: out there on the court right now?
Speaker 3: Well, it all went to ship fast, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Like we was on top of the world.
Speaker 3: You know, I was posting every day at the Lakers
Speaker 3: getting hype. Yeah, and then all of a sudden we
Speaker 3: missing free throws and take an al. We got Franz
Speaker 3: what's his name, Franner Wagner looking like Michael Jordan against us, Like,
Speaker 3: you know, people come in our house and.
Speaker 1: He was aggressive. Are you kids? Guy?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: He's a big kid though he was about six nine sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed. But I will say this, I don't think
Speaker 3: it's over for us. Surely we got a couple moves
Speaker 3: to make like a sap though, Like I'm like, we
Speaker 3: don't need to wait any longer to be okay.
Speaker 1: So who are some people you you feel like are
Speaker 1: on the bump right now? For you guys? Sixteen games
Speaker 1: into the season, first d Low Delo's gotta go.
Speaker 3: We could wave and we don't even need anything back
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 1: You just wanted.
Speaker 3: To get in the back room. Just get out of
Speaker 3: my locker room.
Speaker 1: BROI d like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, how long do we have to wait next?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest. I'm not like sold on Austin Reeves.
Speaker 1: He's been untouchable to your front office.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. And where did that word come from? Who put
Speaker 3: untouchable on him? I don't know. Yeah, No, he's not untouchable,
Speaker 3: especially not untouchable when we need for our team to
Speaker 3: get better.
Speaker 1: He's averaging seventeen and five though.
Speaker 3: Yes, but has he had any big games for us
Speaker 3: this year? I know Connectors had plenty of big games.
Speaker 1: For I like that.
Speaker 2: You guys got two. You got two nice white boys rarely,
Speaker 2: they said. It might have been the first time in
Speaker 2: NBA history with two white boys through a white boy
Speaker 2: through a lob to another white boy.
Speaker 3: It was tough. But they can both.
Speaker 1: Are You would get rid of connect too.
Speaker 3: If we're going to make our team better?
Speaker 2: Yes, so you would. You would throw him in there?
Speaker 2: So what about a Hachie Mora or Gabe Vincent. You
Speaker 2: guys have a lot. I mean, I think the strength really,
Speaker 2: honestly of this roster and all jokes aside is you
Speaker 2: guys have some tradable.
Speaker 3: Pieces, absolutely, but they're saying that we don't have anything
Speaker 3: of value right now, which I don't agree with.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think probably Austin Reeves is probably your
Speaker 2: guys are outside of your stars, your your your biggest
Speaker 2: bargaining chip. I think a lot of teams would jump
Speaker 2: at Connet. I don't know if the Lakers will let
Speaker 2: him go. I think there's his ceiling is unknown right now,
Speaker 2: but his size and the way he could shoot that bitch.
Speaker 2: I know Bron loved him, so he ain't going no where.
Speaker 2: Why Bron is here?
Speaker 1: Who else? The dudes that are hurt Cam reddish his back?
Speaker 1: He can go too, he can go. Yes, trade just wave.
Speaker 3: We can trade Cam because I'm sure somebody could use them.
Speaker 3: But let's be honest, Vanderbilt, Christer Wood and all these
Speaker 3: guys who haven't even showed up one time for us
Speaker 3: this year, don't These guys can be on the chopping
Speaker 3: block too. But I'm curious, what do you think we
Speaker 3: should do.
Speaker 2: I definitely think you and Golden State are two teams
Speaker 2: I look at that have great pieces for trades and
Speaker 2: if really wanted. Although and I say, there's all due
Speaker 2: respect because Golden State is one in the West. Right now,
Speaker 2: I still feel like they're a piece away from trying
Speaker 2: to get Steph that fifth. There's a lot of talk
Speaker 2: right now, and Steph even said, I'm only I'm only
Speaker 2: in this ship now for rings. You know, I'm tired,
Speaker 2: you know, me and my body weary. But I feel
Speaker 2: like the same thing with Bron, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And what does it do to my question? Does it
Speaker 2: do anything to Bron's legacy? If Steph grabs one more?
Speaker 2: Why Bron is still here? You know, because I think
Speaker 2: they measure greatness on how many people got rings on
Speaker 2: your watch, you know what I mean. So if Steph
Speaker 2: was able to get five and Bron was finished before,
Speaker 2: which is still great?
Speaker 3: With that?
Speaker 1: With that damnage Bron's legacy at all?
Speaker 3: In your opinion, absolutely, because Bron has had every opportunity
Speaker 3: to get a couple of rings. Yep, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. But he decided he wanted his son a
Speaker 3: part of our team.
Speaker 2: But you guys weren't going to get nobody for the
Speaker 2: fifty fifth pick. Though, Bro, the fifty fifth pick never
Speaker 2: even makes the fucking roster.
Speaker 3: But guess what, we'll never know because we have Lebron
Speaker 3: jor Okay, well.
Speaker 1: We'll never know.
Speaker 2: You're stupid, So uh, let's see what else we got,
Speaker 2: he said, we'll never know, all right, before we transition
Speaker 2: to our next topic. Do you trust the guy making
Speaker 2: the calls, not on the team but behind the management,
Speaker 2: Rob Polinka? Do you trust his vision?
Speaker 3: Well? I was just asking Nate, like, does he have
Speaker 3: any General Managers of the Year awards? And I don't
Speaker 3: think he does. And I think this will be a
Speaker 3: perfect opportunity for him to step up. Like you know,
Speaker 3: he's been here so long, you have the Laker fans
Speaker 3: waiting for him to do something big. Imagine Lebron going
Speaker 3: out at forty years old with a chip like.
Speaker 2: Crazy with that put him in the I think I
Speaker 2: think you got to put him number one. If if
Speaker 2: Brown gets one more, especially at this point in his career,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And you know I'm Cob
Speaker 2: and MJ and I've always loved and respect Broun, But
Speaker 2: I mean for him to get one more I think
Speaker 2: would cement him at You know, obviously we could break
Speaker 2: this down a real conversation if it happens, but it'd
Speaker 2: be hard not to put him number one.
Speaker 3: Come on, and that's and I bring Polenka up to
Speaker 3: your job, man, like, be great.
Speaker 1: I mean you're here for an opportunity.
Speaker 3: I mean you stuck us with Brian and a d.
Speaker 3: You literally sold our souls for both of those players
Speaker 3: to be here for their career.
Speaker 1: Who's waiting in the win too? Low Ki And this
Speaker 1: is just my opinion. Bob Myers.
Speaker 3: Oh that's my guy too. We love Bob.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Bob is out here.
Speaker 2: Bob is back out here and enjoying the La sun,
Speaker 2: fucking around on ESPN a little bit, working on this tan,
Speaker 2: still getting a lot of money, like Bob.
Speaker 3: Myers is in the like Polinka got some pictures on
Speaker 3: the Lakers or something. Yeah, some kind of ship. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because somehow he's still here.
Speaker 1: Might be bloody and blood out to cut from.
Speaker 3: Cob, clearly that's what's happening.
Speaker 2: You guys only ranked fourth offensively, so you guys are
Speaker 2: definitely putting the ball in the basket. But twenty six defensively,
Speaker 2: we know you at least got to be in the
Speaker 2: top half, if not top ten, to really be a
Speaker 2: contender in this league. But Obviously Bron is back doing
Speaker 2: bron shit twenty five, nine and eight, eighty is at
Speaker 2: thirty and eleven, Austin Reeves at seventeen and five, and
Speaker 2: the Young Boy connect twelve points on forty five percent
Speaker 2: from the three point line. Obviously some defensive improvements. Are
Speaker 2: there any realistic trades?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: I know we key keat and ha haad, But are
Speaker 2: there anybody out there you really feel that can help
Speaker 2: this team?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would think the first on my list
Speaker 3: would be the valatoonists. Yeah, I think he.
Speaker 2: Would in Houston? No, no, no, with Washington. Okay, you know
Speaker 2: Steven Adams is in Houston, right, Yeah? Those are two
Speaker 2: bigs right there.
Speaker 3: So we know we need a big We definitely need
Speaker 3: another score, and then we need a perimeter defender.
Speaker 1: What would a Jimmy? But because I would love that,
Speaker 1: think he checks two of those boxes.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I would love that. If Jimmy came here, we'd
Speaker 3: have to give up a lot to get him, I'm guessing,
Speaker 3: but it still would put us in a position to
Speaker 3: help Lebron and ab out.
Speaker 1: So you would give up? Would you give up Reeves, Connect,
Speaker 1: Hocheie Moore and the draft.
Speaker 3: Pick for and gay Vincent. You can add him. You
Speaker 3: can throw him to the freebie in there. You guys
Speaker 3: can just take that, you know what I mean, take that.
Speaker 3: But yes, I would make.
Speaker 1: It back to Miami. That's where he was doing his
Speaker 1: thing at.
Speaker 3: I would take that trade in a minute. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think Jimmy could come in and get between Lebron
Speaker 3: and a D. Pauls.
Speaker 2: He's at thirty five too, so he's he's you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, he knows that the windows closing him
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, and not just Washington played the last couple of games.
Speaker 3: He's like to like Jimmy's hooping right now. And obviously
Speaker 3: you're hearing about this. Robert Williams the third guy from
Speaker 3: where he.
Speaker 2: Could stay healthy, if he could stay he was a
Speaker 2: big part of this. This the surgeons now that we
Speaker 2: see of Boston kind of before Pazingas got there. But
Speaker 2: he tried to play throw those knee injuries and I
Speaker 2: didn't like it. And then he goes to Portland where
Speaker 2: they've had a history of trying to make guys play
Speaker 2: through knee injuries with their previous regime. We also would
Speaker 2: have to Brandon Royce. So I think Robert Williams is tough,
Speaker 2: but he just hasn't been healthy and obviously jumping is
Speaker 2: a huge part of his game, so we will have
Speaker 2: to see. I just want to say, before you get
Speaker 2: out of your full of shit, for that ninety mile
Speaker 2: an hour sh it wasn't not We definitely you got
Speaker 2: your money, though.
Speaker 3: How do you know what makes you the god of
Speaker 3: velocity of us?
Speaker 2: I just played baseball for a long time to play softball.
Speaker 1: You haven't played baseball in like thirty five years.
Speaker 3: I played.
Speaker 1: I'm younger than you, so I played baseball through high school.
Speaker 3: You have never seen ninety hour before I have.
Speaker 1: Where have you seen it?
Speaker 3: Anyway, let's keep it going.
Speaker 1: Where have you seen nine hours?
Speaker 3: Let's you didn't see it last week? That you had
Speaker 3: to pay up though, I definitely you wouldn't have been
Speaker 3: complaining if I missed. I would have had to give
Speaker 3: you one hundred cushups for sure. Off the missed eighty? Right,
Speaker 3: pay your money though?
Speaker 1: Off?
Speaker 3: How much?
Speaker 1: How fast?
Speaker 3: Off the eighty? If you will?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, if well heard it, hey just know we
Speaker 2: got more challenges for this. Man said, congratulations, absolutely, I
Speaker 2: appreciate it you and the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, man, you see it, baby boy?
Speaker 1: You're out here?
Speaker 3: Hey really quick? Though? What's up with Isaiah and Carter?
Speaker 3: And in the high school hoops starting tenth three one?
Speaker 1: Yes, active. They went into Westchester and beat taj in them.
Speaker 3: The other night.
Speaker 2: That was a big win for them. They're three and one.
Speaker 2: They had a tough loss. They played this Armenian kid.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 2: When I tell you, I've never seen that was the
Speaker 2: best high school scoring performance I've seen in my life.
Speaker 2: It was only forty points. I mean a lot of
Speaker 2: kids have done, but that was the best I've personally
Speaker 2: seen of a kid taken Kobe esque shots and knocking
Speaker 2: him down more consistent from Kobe from the three point line.
Speaker 2: Over people over contested like they played good defense on him. Yes,
Speaker 2: played good defense. I wish I knew the kid's name.
Speaker 2: But man, if you see this, you were a killer
Speaker 2: this past week and be out. But they're back at
Speaker 2: it tonight.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: They played Dion, you know, the point guard from their
Speaker 2: AAU team, So it's can be fun. They're playing well.
Speaker 2: Isaiah's averaging the double. I think Isaiah's averaging like eighteen
Speaker 2: and eleven. The monster on the glass Carter's at about
Speaker 2: twelve and a couple of steels. So it's interesting.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Joe Sterling, my guy, I love his family. Shout out
Speaker 2: to the family. He transferred over to Harvard West Lake,
Speaker 2: so he was our leading guys. So you know, now
Speaker 2: the twins have to step up. A year earlier, we
Speaker 2: got Peyton, who's the man child out there. He just
Speaker 2: hits the ground too damn much. Man, I got to
Speaker 2: talk to him. He's on the ground way too much,
Speaker 2: talking out as they come in the rim. So yeah, man,
Speaker 2: shout out to my guys over at Cresby. Man, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a fun season. I gotta give you credit.
Speaker 2: Man's it's a joy to watch you on the sideline too. Man,
Speaker 2: I've had to calm down.
Speaker 3: I hear it normally. That's the legal screen that I
Speaker 3: don't hear it anymore. Like I don't hear this ship anymore.
Speaker 1: I understand say that I say cuss word.
Speaker 2: That's why I get in trouble. Say the ship you
Speaker 2: just said said, that's a motherfucking fellow.
Speaker 1: That's a bullshit as that's what I normally say.
Speaker 2: But no, man, I had to I had to go
Speaker 2: in and and and.
Speaker 1: You got some personal NFL. I got called. I had
Speaker 1: to go to the principals off. No, man, I go
Speaker 1: to the principal presby.
Speaker 2: I kind of felt like, damn, I felt like I
Speaker 2: was fifteen again or something forty five sitting in the
Speaker 2: motherfucking office and I go on the print.
Speaker 1: But it was cool.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I knew I was out of pocket a little bit
Speaker 2: last year, so I had to, you know me, calm myself.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest. That gym owes you, man, like
Speaker 3: when you come in to gym, Like you can just
Speaker 3: feel that in the gym just changed. Even for the players,
Speaker 3: like they want to show off. They want to go
Speaker 3: against Isaiah and Carter. They will show you fun. They
Speaker 3: owe you, They owe you part of the check.
Speaker 1: I think I don't need no check. Just make sure
Speaker 1: you know, take care of my boys.
Speaker 3: Did you see yourself?
Speaker 1: Ever?
Speaker 3: Coaching?
Speaker 2: This might be too many politics for me to coach
Speaker 2: the twins at this point, but maybe when my two
Speaker 2: younger coming down.
Speaker 1: The pipeline Oeah, sure or Austin.
Speaker 2: Sorry, but man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 2: We'll see you the pre game tonight for the hate
Speaker 2: later you guys. Hey, we got a little bit of
Speaker 2: hate at you.
Speaker 1: Like a bier. You're welcome, star, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Be appreciate you, l my dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah already alrighty, we're back here for my picks of
Speaker 2: the week. I can't really talk about this week's pick
Speaker 2: last week's picks because we're still in progress. I got
Speaker 2: this Monday night game raven Is in Chargers, So we'll
Speaker 2: get back to you next week on how I did
Speaker 2: last week. But looking forward to this week, we got
Speaker 2: some good ones. I'm not necessarily saying this is a
Speaker 2: good one. Bears versus the Lions. It's crazy. The Lions
Speaker 2: have played on Thanksgaving for so many years where they
Speaker 2: weren't any good, and now they're finally good.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for them.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the Lions minus ten and a half.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of points. But the Bears have lost
Speaker 2: four straight, firing, five straight, firing offensive coordinators and all
Speaker 2: kinds of shit. How do you expect any kind of
Speaker 2: stability when you can't put no stability around your quarterback?
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna take the Lions minus ten and a half.
Speaker 2: Giants cut Daniel Jones, and I'm hearing whispers that the
Speaker 2: the Niners might sign him as a backup. I don't
Speaker 2: know if we want that, but I'm gonna take the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: This hurts my heart to take the Cowboys because I
Speaker 2: just love talking shit to Jack and all my other
Speaker 2: homies that like the Cowboys. But I'm gonna take the
Speaker 2: Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day minus four. This is a tough
Speaker 2: one right here, the Eagles. I said it last week,
Speaker 2: say is on an MVP terror he could eclipse to
Speaker 2: all time Russian record this year went for over over
Speaker 2: two hundred and what two thirty last yes, last night,
Speaker 2: two fifty five nasty work. I'm gonna take the Eagles
Speaker 2: at the Ravens plus two and a half.
Speaker 1: Ravens have been playing well.
Speaker 2: They played a night lost last week, but get a
Speaker 2: chance to redeem themselves tonight. But that's a tough, tough
Speaker 2: game for the Eagles to go into Baltimore, but I'm
Speaker 2: taking them plus two and a half and last but
Speaker 2: not least, This is my heart betting. So you may
Speaker 2: want to vote the opposite of this pick, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take the Niners plus six and a half going
Speaker 2: into Buffalo if party comes back. So you can see
Speaker 2: some asterisks by this shit on Sunday morning. If Perty's
Speaker 2: not playing this week, because I didn't know Perty wasn't
Speaker 2: playing last week and I still picked them and we
Speaker 2: got our heads blown off, So there's an asterisk by that.
Speaker 2: But if party's back, I'm gonna take the Niners plus
Speaker 2: six and a half.
Speaker 1: That's a rap man.
Speaker 2: I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of Unplugged. We
Speaker 2: will catch you guys next week.