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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that that was like that. That sounded
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Speaker 4: me and my man Stack talking about what's going on.
Speaker 2: What's going on out there?
Speaker 4: Jack, what's going on with you? Understand you had a
Speaker 4: nice spiritual trip to Miami.
Speaker 2: Talk to us?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, I was able to spend a little time
Speaker 3: with myself, not the usual Miami trip where I go
Speaker 3: down there and I ain't gotten party. I went to
Speaker 3: dinner and just had some time to ask myself some
Speaker 3: questions and do Dann Lebuitar show, which was great.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: I knew going down there was gonna be good for
Speaker 3: me because me and him was going through some of
Speaker 3: the same things and we were both in the same place.
Speaker 1: So it was.
Speaker 3: It was a very therapeutic and beneficial show and a
Speaker 3: beneficial trip, and like I said, not the normal trip.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad I was able to sit there and
Speaker 3: dig into my in my own mind and ask my
Speaker 3: own Steff some questions and enjoyed at the same time.
Speaker 4: It's important, man, to be able to look in that mirror.
Speaker 4: I had one of those coming to self moments at
Speaker 4: like forty and just kind of, you know, forgave myself
Speaker 4: for stuff, found my reason, you know, the things I
Speaker 4: was wrong, the things I was right. Playing in the
Speaker 4: head and them shits is important, man, So you definitely
Speaker 4: need those. But for those who don't know, obviously, Stack
Speaker 4: lost two of his siblings and then Dan just lost
Speaker 4: his brother not too long ago. So I saw the
Speaker 4: way you guys are talking to bobbing in New York.
Speaker 4: I thought it was a great idea when he offered
Speaker 4: it up, and glad you got to go down and
Speaker 4: you fuck with Poppy.
Speaker 3: Man, Poppy cool man. I got a chance to meet Poppy.
Speaker 3: We actually did the show together a while back, but
Speaker 3: I got I dressed up like him and I had
Speaker 3: a conversation. You know, Poppy, everybody know Poppy had a black,
Speaker 3: half black, half Cuban brother.
Speaker 1: Named Poppy five. Oh really, y'all gonna get a chance
Speaker 1: to see the coming back together?
Speaker 2: Yeah, does Poppy blowed up?
Speaker 3: Poppy five definitely blows dope. It's all on his lips.
Speaker 3: You can see it on his lips.
Speaker 4: Okay, Thursday, trade deadline's coming up. You're flying in town
Speaker 4: when you get.
Speaker 1: In town, Get in town Wednesday night.
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to this man, Me and you, KG,
Speaker 4: Paul Rachel, Boogie and a couple of special guests. Yes,
Speaker 4: a live trade deadline show streaming all the smoke productions YouTube,
Speaker 4: all the smoke production YouTube. I think we go on
Speaker 4: air at ten thirty or eleven and we go throughout
Speaker 4: the trade deadline until about one o'clock. Man, So we're
Speaker 4: talking about a lot of cool things catching up. Definitely
Speaker 4: make sure you check out the Trade Deadline live. Myself Stacked, Paul,
Speaker 4: Kevin Rachel, and two special guests Boogie, be There Be
Speaker 4: Square Jack obviously headed towards the trade deadline. You know,
Speaker 4: not too much movement yet, but normally it gets pretty
Speaker 4: hectic once a day's get real close. Uh, you were traded?
Speaker 4: How we really connected?
Speaker 2: You were you.
Speaker 4: You were close to the trade deadline when you came
Speaker 4: from Indiana to Golden State.
Speaker 2: What was that experience like for you.
Speaker 3: I'm lucky that the majority of times I got traded,
Speaker 3: it was a great experience for me because those places
Speaker 3: I wanted to go, especially coming to Golden State, it
Speaker 3: was it was a great experience for me because I
Speaker 3: was coming to a team full of like minded people
Speaker 3: like you and and other teammates that we had, and
Speaker 3: I had the coach, first coach that.
Speaker 1: Really believed in me like that. So it was a
Speaker 1: great experience for me.
Speaker 4: All Right, Yeah, my situation Jack wasn't that good, but
Speaker 4: ended up not being that bad. I got traded with
Speaker 4: web in five to Philly. I remember he had no
Speaker 4: trade there no trade clause in his contract. We just
Speaker 4: packed for a five game road trip, just packed. So
Speaker 4: Dallas was our first stop. We found out on ESPN
Speaker 4: we got traded. The whole team went to Dallas. Uh,
Speaker 4: and we got fucked up. Bro I was so druss,
Speaker 4: but I might have been the drunkest not I've ever
Speaker 4: had who was on that Bibbs was on that team
Speaker 4: where we were tripping until the next day.
Speaker 2: Webb gets us a private plane to Feeling. It was
Speaker 2: a small one.
Speaker 4: Brod No. I had to throw up on that bitch
Speaker 4: a couple of times. I was like, my bad, Bro,
Speaker 4: it's not normally me, but this is my first time
Speaker 4: being traded. I was fucked up last night. He's just
Speaker 4: laughing at me, but we're both kind of hurt because,
Speaker 4: you know, Webb it did so much for Sack and
Speaker 4: he had a no trade cli clause in this contract.
Speaker 4: And I said, Bro, it's like, if you have a
Speaker 4: no trade clause in your contract, why would you agree?
Speaker 4: He's just like, if they don't want me, why would
Speaker 4: I agree? If they want to trade me, that means
Speaker 4: they don't want me. Why would I agree that? You know,
Speaker 4: why would I, you know, flex my weight with my
Speaker 4: no clause. If they don't want me, I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: up out of here. So it was tough, but you know,
Speaker 4: obviously ended up, you know, being on the same team.
Speaker 4: I didn't really get a chance to play. That was
Speaker 4: with the Mochi. A lot of shit went down on that.
Speaker 4: I got traded to Philly. Bro almost fucked MO up
Speaker 4: the next year. But uh yeah, man, my trade deadline
Speaker 4: experience wasn't that good? But moving on, Jack, you know,
Speaker 4: you look at someone like the Charlotte Hornets right now
Speaker 4: lasting attendance ten and thirty eight, and Terry Rozier just
Speaker 4: had a comment about Charlotte and you kind of get
Speaker 4: used to losing kind of paraphrasing because like us in
Speaker 4: their DNA. Obviously he's in Miami and we already knows
Speaker 4: how how how mafia pat runs it. You see Brandon Miller,
Speaker 4: who's you know, their leading score right now with LaMelo
Speaker 4: not being in playing well, screaming at his teammates to
Speaker 4: hustle back. You see young kids on the bench surrounded,
Speaker 4: you know, mellow sitting around two guys and they're just
Speaker 4: laughing and they're getting blown out by the Knicks. Jack,
Speaker 4: someone who played with Charlotte. And when you see that
Speaker 4: kind of just blind leading the blind over there, what
Speaker 4: comes to mind.
Speaker 3: A lot of these kids is going to show that
Speaker 3: a lot of these kids then come up with winning
Speaker 3: being the main priority. You know what I'm saying. That
Speaker 3: wasn't naming, That wasn't the main goal. I played in Charlotte.
Speaker 3: I know how it can be. Those fans, they're gonna
Speaker 3: support the team, They're gonna come out and they expect
Speaker 3: you to go out there and play hard and give
Speaker 3: you all.
Speaker 1: And and and at least be a team that competes.
Speaker 3: So if you're gonna be that player that talks to talk,
Speaker 3: you gotta walk the walk. You can't be that player
Speaker 3: off the court. You got to be that player on
Speaker 3: the court. And uh, I love I love the fact
Speaker 3: that what Brandon Miller is doing. That's the kid that
Speaker 3: I've coached at the over scand that I've been around,
Speaker 3: that I've had conversations with. He a soilid kid. He
Speaker 3: get it, Matt. He got that old school mentality like
Speaker 3: we do. And you know, for for a rookie to
Speaker 3: be telling the team to get back on defense and
Speaker 3: do more and play harder, that says a lot about
Speaker 3: that team that they're not a winning team and they
Speaker 3: don't have the right coaching. Not only the right players,
Speaker 3: but they don't have the right coaching as well.
Speaker 1: You can't just put it on the plays.
Speaker 4: That's what I was gonna say. I feel, And I
Speaker 4: think it's Steve Clifford, if I'm not mistaking. I think
Speaker 4: he's the head coach over there. But he doesn't he
Speaker 4: doesn't have the locker room by any means. And I
Speaker 4: mean that's my first and foremost I think the front
Speaker 4: off should look at because you think about it individual.
Speaker 4: They have some individual talent. They got PJ. Washington, they
Speaker 4: got old boy, the lefty what's his name Britain, Yeah, Bridges,
Speaker 4: Miles Bridges. I really like him. Obviously, they got LaMelo.
Speaker 4: They got some individual talent. But I just don't feel
Speaker 4: like they're falling in line. And Clifford is one of
Speaker 4: those older coaches. I don't think he has the respect
Speaker 4: of the locker room. Fourteen of their twenty five players
Speaker 4: are under twenty five.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: The only guys they have in the thirties are Gordon
Speaker 4: Hayward and Ish Smith. And I don't really see, you know,
Speaker 4: too much vocalness coming from Gordon Haywood, although I never
Speaker 4: played with him, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And then Ish, you know.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Interesting interesting Lebron's advice.
Speaker 4: He saw this and I don't want to read all this,
Speaker 4: but he's basically saying, like, you know, forget about the cars,
Speaker 4: the jewelry, you know, all the other dumb shit that'll
Speaker 4: come in a matter of time, but you got a
Speaker 4: pouring to the game. You gotta love the game. You
Speaker 4: gotta play the game. He didn't directly say this at Charlotte,
Speaker 4: but it's kind of a coincidence that it came out
Speaker 4: at the same time.
Speaker 1: Jack.
Speaker 4: We've gone back since we've had this show about the
Speaker 4: lack of veterans in the league first and foremost, and
Speaker 4: that that the veteran leadership because there are no real
Speaker 4: holder vets no more. So when you hear Bron come
Speaker 4: out and speak on it, what do you think he right?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, like the what you the
Speaker 3: way you're supposed to approach the game, and what you
Speaker 3: expect to get out of it as far as winning,
Speaker 3: playing hard and being there for your teammates and give
Speaker 3: me your all, that should be first. Everything else gonna
Speaker 3: come as you win, as you be successful the game,
Speaker 3: as you play well. So I just think the winning
Speaker 3: is not important as it was when we came up.
Speaker 3: You know, I think it's so much other stuff as
Speaker 3: being on social media, having followed some of the other
Speaker 3: things that's in the game that we didn't have to
Speaker 3: deal with. Now that these guys are falling, falling victim.
Speaker 4: To But again, I think even if that is what's
Speaker 4: going on, I feel like if they have some real
Speaker 4: og vets, the haslums and the iguadalas, like if there's
Speaker 4: no if it's the blind lead the blind, I can't
Speaker 4: even blame them for thinking that way, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, Like, fuck, if this team is weak, we're
Speaker 4: gonna crack off the court. We go see, we're gonna
Speaker 4: do this, we go buy that. So I'm not even
Speaker 4: necessarily mad at it because they don't have no body
Speaker 4: guiding them. And that's what I think that that the
Speaker 4: NBA really needs to start thinking about it, even if
Speaker 4: it's like a special like two spots and may not
Speaker 4: necessarily count all the way against the salary cap or
Speaker 4: some kind of shit, to make it that they can
Speaker 4: have some older players that can guide these younger dudes,
Speaker 4: man with them the best. You know, LaMelo's over there.
Speaker 4: You know you got the young kid, Brandon Miller. We
Speaker 4: just mentioned as young players, you know, with a lot
Speaker 4: of movement always going on, Jack or are you trying
Speaker 4: to get out of that situation? Are you trying to
Speaker 4: stay there and build something?
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the kind of hard situation because the
Speaker 3: two young stars. I only see him being important to
Speaker 3: the organizations. Brandon Miller LaMelo, and I don't think LaMelo's
Speaker 3: in a position where he could say, Okay, I want
Speaker 3: to go somewhere else. I don't think he's in that position.
Speaker 3: I think he's he has to be home and and
Speaker 3: can try to be a better star for the team.
Speaker 3: Randon Miller is coming into the league and he's making
Speaker 3: a name for himself. I think that is going to
Speaker 3: be the face in the star of the organization. So
Speaker 3: those Shugars keep those who make those two guys stay
Speaker 3: put because those.
Speaker 2: Two guys can be killed around those two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a big part of turn of the organization around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 4: All Star snubs Deern Fox, Sabonis, amongst others, were All
Speaker 4: Star snubs. Dierre was that twenty seven, five and four
Speaker 4: shooting thirty eight from three career high Sabonis twenty three,
Speaker 4: thirteen and eight. Wilt is the only other person to
Speaker 4: have this stat line throughout a full season. Kings were
Speaker 4: six in the West, no representation in the game, while Lakers,
Speaker 4: who are nine in Phoenix, who is one spot below,
Speaker 4: both had two All Stars. Jack All Stars of Cold Game.
Speaker 4: I feel like you could have had you know, two three,
Speaker 4: four in your belt if you weren't such a good
Speaker 4: loyal friend. Thoughts on the King's Stars getting snubbed.
Speaker 3: I really hate that for Fox. I think Fox definitely
Speaker 3: deserved the numbers and the way he's playing. Obviously, Sabonis
Speaker 3: deserve it, he's made it before, you know. I really
Speaker 3: feel like Fox, he's in that top five group a
Speaker 3: point guards, especially in the West, that belonged in that game.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's always somebody that's gonna that's gonna
Speaker 3: be left out that deserve it, And I just hate
Speaker 3: it was Fox this time.
Speaker 1: I think he should have been in. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, it's always a very tough situation. JJ Reddick thinks
Speaker 4: that should expand the roster to get more opportunities. But
Speaker 4: you also think, you know, unfortunate with guys dropping like
Speaker 4: flies due to injury. Uh, you know, there's always going
Speaker 4: to be an opportunity still to make it. But Jack,
Speaker 4: how would you I mean, you were someone who was
Speaker 4: obviously closer than me than to possibly being in that
Speaker 4: All star conversation? Does it matter if it's voted in
Speaker 4: or coaches in or what? Would you take it the
Speaker 4: same if you were a replacement for someone who got hurt.
Speaker 3: My situation was with Joe Wallace made it in Charlotte,
Speaker 3: and everybody knew I should have made. Everybody thought I
Speaker 3: was gonna make it before him, and then Paul Paul
Speaker 3: Ears got hurt and I knew I was everybody. You know,
Speaker 3: I was getting calls from media before they even announced
Speaker 3: the next guy uh to be, to be honest, saying, oh,
Speaker 3: you're definitely gonna make it his pause opting out, and
Speaker 3: they added David Lee and it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was so upsetting by everybody, uh that MJ had
Speaker 3: to make a call. Today was starring about it. But
Speaker 3: I was hurt, man, I ain't gonna lie. I think
Speaker 3: that I think that was. That was one of those
Speaker 3: the lowest feelings that basketball ever gave me, because I
Speaker 3: felt like I deserved it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was definitely black ball from that standpoint, There's
Speaker 4: no question about that. I want to touch on him
Speaker 4: because I I already know how you're gonna react, but
Speaker 4: I also feel kind of a different way. Ben Simmons
Speaker 4: was recently said, it's funny to me like I got
Speaker 4: grown men pissed to me and yelling at me, And
Speaker 4: he was in reference to his return to Philly. He's
Speaker 4: back where he was back and I think he sat
Speaker 4: now he's back. I'm not sure what's going on, but uh,
Speaker 4: the Ben Simmons situation, what's your take on that?
Speaker 3: I just want to I just want him to start
Speaker 3: worrying about what people saying and play basketball, because when
Speaker 3: you start playing basketball and be the player that we knew,
Speaker 3: we saw that, we saw that you was before. If
Speaker 3: you can get back out there and play, then play
Speaker 3: and that'll shut everybody up. But don't complain about people
Speaker 3: talking about when you have so You've done so many
Speaker 3: things for us not to talk about. You're not playing
Speaker 3: the game. They can't talk about you playing bad because
Speaker 3: you're not playing. They talk about you not playing at all.
Speaker 3: So and that's what the story is. Nobody's not making
Speaker 3: up nothing. So I just want to see him back
Speaker 3: on the court because I am a fan. I am
Speaker 3: a fan of being.
Speaker 4: And I'm just kind of torn from a standpoint of like,
Speaker 4: what's really going on?
Speaker 2: Is he really hurt?
Speaker 4: And I just don't believe that he would be making
Speaker 4: this up, you know what I mean with the back
Speaker 4: stuff obviously, and then you know, knee issues from having
Speaker 4: the back issues, and then we see embid you know,
Speaker 4: try to go out there and play. And was his
Speaker 4: knee already torn or did it get torn in that game?
Speaker 4: So I'm Ben has obviously missed a ton of games,
Speaker 4: but I'm just I'm more to the point, like i
Speaker 4: just really want him to get his mental right and
Speaker 4: get back out there and again. And that's health, you know,
Speaker 4: obviously health looking good, because I feel like he's such
Speaker 4: a talent. You know, his first came back, he almost
Speaker 4: had a triple double, I think in under twenty minutes,
Speaker 4: Like was it was something, you know, three, three, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure it was like nine. I don't even know
Speaker 4: what the fuck numbers. I only want to lie to you.
Speaker 4: But he played well, and so he shows flashes of
Speaker 4: what he can still do, and I just, you know,
Speaker 4: for his mental health, I want him to get back
Speaker 4: out there on that court. Russ Jack scores twenty five
Speaker 4: thousand points, so I'm not mistaken. It's also eight thousand rebounds,
Speaker 4: eight thousand assists, one of the only, I think, one
Speaker 4: of the only to do that first and foremost. Shout
Speaker 4: out russ Man. I think he gets a bad rap
Speaker 4: for just obviously to Ben Sama is not giving a
Speaker 4: fuck like Russ is going to be Russ regardless of
Speaker 4: what you say. Think He's always going to play the
Speaker 4: same way. And I love that about him.
Speaker 1: Are you asking me a question? Are you no?
Speaker 2: Just say did you want to? Do you want to
Speaker 2: add to that?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I mean I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't here here here half something?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that was like that.
Speaker 3: That sounded like a little break on the beat, then
Speaker 3: the beats from the drop again?
Speaker 1: What was going on? He shout out to Rust though, Man,
Speaker 1: you know that's our guy.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: You know Rush from the old school. He played that
Speaker 3: game with that passion that we all love and respect. Man,
Speaker 3: And anytime Rush does something great, I'm not surprised because
Speaker 3: his effort and passion has been like that from day one.
Speaker 1: So he should continue to rise.
Speaker 3: And I just want him to get all the accolades
Speaker 3: he deserves. And if he don't get him from no
Speaker 3: other the show, he damn sure won't get him all smoke.
Speaker 4: Definitely always been a huge fan of Russ. Obviously he's
Speaker 4: a bruin too, just a different dude, and I think
Speaker 4: if he allows you in, it's probably a different story,
Speaker 4: you know. I've definitely I've always been a fan never
Speaker 4: really got close to Russ, but just always respected just
Speaker 4: the way he moves.
Speaker 1: Jack.
Speaker 4: This Clipper team is looking real good. Bro, best team
Speaker 4: in the league since December first. James is locked in
Speaker 4: PG and Kawhi locked in. They got a lot of
Speaker 4: depth this I feel like this could be the team
Speaker 4: that comes out of the out of the Western Conference
Speaker 4: if they can stay healthy and stay locked in.
Speaker 3: Right now, besides Dallas, this is the team I'm bull offard.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a big Kyrie fan, but I don't
Speaker 3: think Dallas has a real shot of winning the championship.
Speaker 3: But I definitely feel like the Clippers have a great
Speaker 3: shot to winning championship and I'm pulling for them to
Speaker 3: win so many reasons. You know, with Tyleru over there,
Speaker 3: with some of the coaching staff, you know, all the
Speaker 3: players were cool with that we didn't play with and
Speaker 3: all hung out with, So I want I want to
Speaker 3: see them.
Speaker 4: Win, definitely. Man always rooting for the Clippers. Vanessa shares
Speaker 4: an unreleased the Veno fours. You see them things, the Purple.
Speaker 1: Man, that's the that's the we call it. We call
Speaker 1: that them Serve Force. Kobe Fas is dope. This is crazy.
Speaker 2: Put a call and get get you a pair of Jack.
Speaker 3: Vanessa, this is can I have my mama to the camera,
Speaker 3: Mister Vanessa Brant. We haven't met, but me and my
Speaker 3: brother Kobe was great friends.
Speaker 1: We grew up together, play basketball. Hoigh calling.
Speaker 3: Think about putting your boys all the smoke on the list.
Speaker 3: I know you're in that got a great relationship yard family.
Speaker 3: I'm family to please allow all the smokes to get
Speaker 3: on there, on that mail and.
Speaker 2: On that mailing list. No, she looks out for the boys.
Speaker 4: She got them the New Grinches and everything for Christmas,
Speaker 4: the red Ones like Vanessa's. Vanessa's definitely looks out for
Speaker 4: the twist.
Speaker 1: So that's right.
Speaker 2: I think it's soup.
Speaker 4: Jack, great news, friend of the program, Killer Mike, Yes,
Speaker 4: Sue and gets three Grammys last night.
Speaker 3: Speak to that first man. Congratulations to my boy man.
Speaker 3: Mike is somebody who I've been knowing. I'm not personally knowing,
Speaker 3: but knowing h for a while because he has a
Speaker 3: great relationship with bum Beef from UGK and we've crossed
Speaker 3: paths and talked about each other and had phone calls
Speaker 3: even through the George Floyd time. He texts me and
Speaker 3: I have asked him question, So Mike is a side
Speaker 3: of guy. Hey, Matt, it couldn't happen to a better person, man,
Speaker 3: It couldn't happen to a better person.
Speaker 4: And then unfortunately, and I guess it's still a developing story,
Speaker 4: but he ends up getting taken away in handcuffs, and
Speaker 4: I just I don't know what happened other here, and
Speaker 4: allegedly it was a battery, so maybe he got into
Speaker 4: it with security or something. But you know, for we
Speaker 4: know what we know about him, He's always been a
Speaker 4: solid dude, you know what I mean. And I just
Speaker 4: didn't like the image of him getting three grammys clean
Speaker 4: sweep and then them taking away a handcuffs.
Speaker 2: It just it didn't sit right with my spirit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, you know they've find a way to demean
Speaker 3: you at your highest.
Speaker 2: I mean you've been saying that though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But that's that's what that's what that's kind of
Speaker 3: what we'd be trying to avoid, right, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We have all that success, we keep you try to
Speaker 1: do things the right way, and like.
Speaker 3: Jolani say that that that foot when you running your
Speaker 3: your racist success, that foot just comes out of nowhere
Speaker 3: and trips.
Speaker 1: You up, got to keep looking out for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, keep you and our prayers, big og and
Speaker 4: congratulations obviously we all still love you and it's a
Speaker 4: tremendous You know, this Grammy thing is is kind of
Speaker 4: a trick bag. You know, jay Z won the Doctor
Speaker 4: Dre Award last night and took his time to kind
Speaker 4: of just really respectfully, disrespectfully let them know, like what's
Speaker 4: been up. You know, the Grammy just missed out on
Speaker 4: so many we don't really have to do a deep
Speaker 4: dive into it, but jay Z kind of let him know,
Speaker 4: like what it is, you know what I mean. Amongst
Speaker 4: things he talks about, you know, he's how does my
Speaker 4: wife have the most Grammy and everyone, you know, album
Speaker 4: of the year. But he just said a lot of
Speaker 4: real ship up there that I thought was dope, because again,
Speaker 4: you know, you see people from genres of music, particularly
Speaker 4: African American, you know, whether they like or don't like,
Speaker 4: you know, everyone cares about a Grammy. Everybody wants a Grammy,
Speaker 4: but it seems like the Grammy processes hasn't been well
Speaker 4: for deserving music at times. So I thought it was
Speaker 4: good that Jay G stepped up there did what he did,
Speaker 4: and then drank out of the Grammy.
Speaker 3: He got that's what bosses do, Jay, you know, he
Speaker 3: go up there and and make his presence felt and
Speaker 3: do it with meaning. Right, we all know that there's
Speaker 3: a lot of this ship is politics. How how come
Speaker 3: pac don't have a Grammy? How come Snoop don't have
Speaker 3: a Grammy? And it must But like I said, though
Speaker 3: I'm first team of all common sense and all says he
Speaker 3: did was speak common sense. How can you be the
Speaker 3: most nominated and not have a money like it makes
Speaker 3: no sense, man. So you know what I'm saying, It's
Speaker 3: a lot of things that go on like that when
Speaker 3: it comes to voting, and we always be the ones
Speaker 3: that get shot and understick.
Speaker 4: Kai Sannot Jack is a young influencer, one of the
Speaker 4: biggest influences in the world. Going back to killing Mike,
Speaker 4: he said, you know, with all due respect, congratulations everyone
Speaker 4: have won.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Mike. But he's like, who is that?
Speaker 4: Like he really kind of lost his mind to think
Speaker 4: that he went over Travis Scott and some of the
Speaker 4: younger artists, this new wave of influencers. Jack, I looked
Speaker 4: at it first. I didn't really look at his disrespectful
Speaker 4: to be honesty, because I'm sure people are gonna slice
Speaker 4: it up and they're not going to show what he
Speaker 4: said initially, but when he was like, who is this?
Speaker 1: That's what?
Speaker 2: That's what?
Speaker 4: That was the probably the main part people are going
Speaker 4: to see, and just this new wave of kind of
Speaker 4: not understanding or respecting the past, and and and what
Speaker 4: do you thought on that?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it shows a disconnect between the founders
Speaker 3: the people that laid down the bricks, and so it's
Speaker 3: a disconnect for the people laid down the bricks and
Speaker 3: for the ones who's walking down right, they don't they
Speaker 3: don't understand what they don't know too much about. You know,
Speaker 3: if you don't know Killer Mike that he doesn't know
Speaker 3: hip hop and you have a hip hop show. So
Speaker 3: that's why you gotta be careful what you say right.
Speaker 3: So now your I guess your your validation on hip
Speaker 3: hop now is not gonna look too respectable now, So
Speaker 3: you gotta watch what you say.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And to me, like, I see the kid all over
Speaker 3: the end of that, But I just want to know
Speaker 3: his talent, like I want to know what makes people
Speaker 3: watch him, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: No hate against him.
Speaker 3: I mean, I say, I see he came from nothing
Speaker 3: to being a bigger star and he got a billion followers.
Speaker 3: He win all kind of YouTube awards, and that's that's
Speaker 3: getting it from the ground up. He got it from
Speaker 3: the muscle. He hustled to get this way up. But
Speaker 3: I just want to know his talent.
Speaker 2: What's his talent uh making people want to listen to him?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: And and and to his defense, if there is any,
Speaker 4: he was two when Kitler Mike won his first without cast,
Speaker 4: So I just don't I think it's a lack of
Speaker 4: understanding it. And I don't even think again, like because
Speaker 4: I had and you obviously have kids that are little,
Speaker 4: or you have someone's coming through younger. But I kind
Speaker 4: of feel like I have kids right now. There are
Speaker 4: fifteen kind of in this teenage space and it's not
Speaker 4: in a disrespectful way. But they don't care about the past, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, they don't care about and it's not even
Speaker 4: in like no disrespectful way. I mean some people could
Speaker 4: take it as disrespect, but like history is not important
Speaker 4: to them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's just like, you know, well, there's so.
Speaker 4: Much going on now, Like if you got to stay
Speaker 4: focused on now and what you're about to do instead
Speaker 4: of kind of really understanding, you know what the people
Speaker 4: before you came.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of.
Speaker 1: A new wave.
Speaker 3: You say this though, history wasn't important to me because
Speaker 3: I you know, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't no book guy and I wasn't a guy
Speaker 1: who just studied history.
Speaker 3: But I will say this, the things that were in
Speaker 3: my culture, the things that were in my in my
Speaker 3: in my realm, basketball, hippop and all that, I didn't
Speaker 3: study it, but I knew about everything about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: The people that the man that deserve their respect, the
Speaker 3: people you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I know about that because I was in that world.
Speaker 3: So if you in that world, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: try to find out a way to to know those
Speaker 3: types of things, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like I said, the kid is winning, comments like that
Speaker 1: could could hurt bro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the next wave.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 4: The Homie had a good time with them, got a
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Speaker 4: it's the quiller. Yeah, tequila's right actually in this room
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Speaker 2: good one.