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Speaker 3: You know, there used to be a joke that rappers
Speaker 3: want to be ballplayers, and ball players want to be ready. Sure,
Speaker 3: but what's also true is there.
Speaker 4: Is a not me I'm too small.
Speaker 3: Welcome in special episode of What's Right with the Great
Speaker 3: Podcast is episode number sixteen. This is our first episode
Speaker 3: that is not happening live from my living room, and
Speaker 3: it's happening from Los Angeles, California. Because this is our
Speaker 3: first episode where instead of my son Demanse being the
Speaker 3: co host, we have a guest. Demanse is out replaced
Speaker 3: with none other than arguably the best rapper alive, blow
Speaker 3: Away Dwayne joins us. Now, the first thing I want
Speaker 3: to ask you is this, how did we become friends?
Speaker 4: Man? I think this one plain Simba doesn't like in
Speaker 4: a show.
Speaker 3: So okay. So then that leads me to my next question.
Speaker 3: When do you sleep?
Speaker 5: H's that's like a five letter word, right, I'm trying
Speaker 5: to figure out that's the five ESSL.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm still trying to finally figure out what that
Speaker 5: one means.
Speaker 3: That's because my show starts it's seven thirty in New York,
Speaker 3: which is four thirty out here. Yeah, and during football season,
Speaker 3: twice a week, you're texting me about something I said
Speaker 3: about the Packers or something. In one of the first
Speaker 3: two segments, so that's it's before five in the morning. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I assume I don't think it's because you haven't
Speaker 3: gone to bed, But I also don't think you're getting
Speaker 3: up and immediately turn on the show. So what's what's
Speaker 3: the day look like?
Speaker 5: No, so what happens is that's studio time four thirty.
Speaker 5: That when I moved out here, it was perfect because
Speaker 5: that's my I'm always in the studio. Everyone's in the
Speaker 5: studio at that time, your show, just all the shows
Speaker 5: that come on. I usually gotta miss sometimes I gotta
Speaker 5: miss a little bit. To speak for yourself, but you, yip, Colin,
Speaker 5: y'all get watched all day.
Speaker 3: All day while you're doing so while you're doing.
Speaker 5: It, TV's on up there, the TV's on in the booth,
Speaker 5: everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 3: So so that you're we were talking about this beforehand,
Speaker 3: you and I. You're a little bit older me, we're
Speaker 3: almost the same age. You have been. You have been
Speaker 3: in the public eye for now more than twenty five years.
Speaker 3: You were twelve right when. Okay, So I got a
Speaker 3: bunch of questions about that, and then we talk sports.
Speaker 3: Why do you still do it?
Speaker 5: Plain and simple insanity, doing the same thing over and
Speaker 5: over expecting different results every time.
Speaker 4: Okay, plain and simple, but also playing. I love what
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 5: It's it's never it's never been a day of work
Speaker 5: for me. It's always been me getting to do my dream,
Speaker 5: living my dream out. So thank God every day and night.
Speaker 3: So there's there's a commercial. I don't know how good
Speaker 3: the commercial is. I think it's for like crypto company,
Speaker 3: but it's Lebron talking to his young and his younger self.
Speaker 3: So if you were able to talk to twelve year
Speaker 3: old playing, you know, right around the time you invented
Speaker 3: the term bling blank? Yeah, what what would you tell him?
Speaker 5: I was just telling him that, you know, I never
Speaker 5: ever once thought that as that when I was young.
Speaker 5: I never thought that this would ever stop, that I
Speaker 5: would ever stop, and so I probably would just tell
Speaker 5: him at that, you know, keep doing you it'll be wonderful.
Speaker 3: So the when we when I talked to athletes sometimes
Speaker 3: like the truly great athletes, they were some of them,
Speaker 3: you know, were late luers, but a lot of them
Speaker 3: when they were seven years old, they knew, they knew,
Speaker 3: and people around him were like, you're gonna be and
Speaker 3: they were almost a little extra protected. The people at
Speaker 3: their back. You're obviously from tough, tough place, New Orleans,
Speaker 3: and a lot of bullshit around you, and your famous
Speaker 3: as a child, yes, before America knew you. When did
Speaker 3: you know or the people around you started saying to you,
Speaker 3: You're you're gonna be you, You're gonna be this.
Speaker 5: So as a kid, as in what I mean by
Speaker 5: that isn't from five to seven. From that age, from
Speaker 5: age five to seven, I was already being woken I
Speaker 5: was already being woken up and waking up. How you
Speaker 5: want to come in my sleep at eleven twelve pm
Speaker 5: and I'm twelve am to wake up, come perform, Come
Speaker 5: do to Michael Jackson. Wake up and come do the
Speaker 5: scene that we watched today from Bill Cosby. Show up,
Speaker 5: Come wake up, and come do what Rudy did today
Speaker 5: on the College Real Yeah, I was already put this
Speaker 5: wig on, put the sock on, and come do to
Speaker 5: Michael Jackson. And this is for a living room full
Speaker 5: of people that's in their forties.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know what I mean. Just do that.
Speaker 5: As it go, I get a candy or something from
Speaker 5: the fridge, and I'm happy with that.
Speaker 4: Stick.
Speaker 5: I go to school the next day so that right
Speaker 5: there already told me that, okay, you're there's not a
Speaker 5: seven year old in.
Speaker 4: This living room not performed.
Speaker 5: And also so none of my seven year old friends
Speaker 5: would even want to see me do this, you know.
Speaker 5: So that right there kind of gave me and I
Speaker 5: kind of let me know that, okay, because now when
Speaker 5: I'm going to school and I'm talking about the things
Speaker 5: or something I've heard in that living room, I'm noticing
Speaker 5: that I'm connecting with my teacher, okay, and not my friends,
Speaker 5: you know, and I'm noticing that I have a real
Speaker 5: connection with the teacher. The teacher is literally calling me
Speaker 5: to the desk and we having real conversations. And so
Speaker 5: that right there told me, Okay, you're going to probably
Speaker 5: be a little different. And of course the teacher would
Speaker 5: tell me, you know, you're a little different. You need
Speaker 5: to They'll tell my mom, you know, they'll want to
Speaker 5: talk to my mom. He shouldn't walk home from school,
Speaker 5: things like that, you know, like he shouldn't walk home
Speaker 5: from school.
Speaker 4: He's a little you.
Speaker 5: Know, you got something here, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: that type of thing. And then once I became a
Speaker 5: rapper with cash money records, who was by the way,
Speaker 5: they was already who they were before we signed a
Speaker 5: deal with Universal Records. New Orleans was the cash. Money
Speaker 5: was everything. And so just by them even giving me
Speaker 5: paying attention to me, that meant something. And so once
Speaker 5: I was with them around eleven, Julie was the biggest
Speaker 5: rapper we had, the biggest artist we had. Julie was
Speaker 5: Alwa would always say on any interview, any show, and
Speaker 5: then amongst each other internally, Wayne's the best.
Speaker 4: He's going to be the guy.
Speaker 3: So do you now that you have the perspective of
Speaker 3: you know, twenty five years in the business, and you
Speaker 3: mentioned when I was a kid, and for you, when
Speaker 3: you were a kid five six, seven years old, you
Speaker 3: probably stopped being a kid way younger than most. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So do you now that you're an adult, do you
Speaker 3: look back on it and say, man, I missed nothing.
Speaker 4: Not at all. How come I think that could?
Speaker 5: I mean, because every kid I can ask, every friend,
Speaker 5: I can ask that dig get to do the kid thing.
Speaker 4: They would have loved, They would do it.
Speaker 3: I was, So why do you think? So I've got
Speaker 3: a I got three kids, but eight year old daughters
Speaker 3: are youngest, and everyone's is that we should put her
Speaker 3: try to get her into some type of TV. Or
Speaker 3: she's just very pretty and smart and loves acting on
Speaker 3: this and she wants to There's like an audition coming
Speaker 3: up in New York for some Nickelodeon kitchen. She wants
Speaker 3: to do it, and I won't let her do it.
Speaker 3: And it's because the success rate of people that are
Speaker 3: child stars having successful adulthood. It's like justin Timberlake, Lebron, James,
Speaker 3: Lol Wayne, a couple others, but most of them, even
Speaker 3: if they do have successful adulthood, they have some real
Speaker 3: dark times or they peak at fifteen, and it's depressing
Speaker 3: as an adult. So why do you think you were
Speaker 3: able to kind of navigate that world to still be
Speaker 3: at the top of your field twenty five years later?
Speaker 5: I would say, first of all, because it's music. I mean,
Speaker 5: it isn't acting and nothing music. When you're being seen,
Speaker 5: as in you know, acting, when you're being seen, people
Speaker 5: can you know, it's a difference from being heard. It's
Speaker 5: people can't get tired of seeing you okay, and get
Speaker 5: tired of saying uh, not as in exhausted, as in
Speaker 5: I don't want to see you no more, but as
Speaker 5: in what are you doing now? What am I seeing now?
Speaker 5: If I'm not seeing something different me as in music,
Speaker 5: I was always able to adjust. Some artists don't do that.
Speaker 5: Some artists feel I was successful in what I was
Speaker 5: doing and the way I sound and the way I'm
Speaker 5: gonna keep doing that, and I was always able to adjust.
Speaker 5: I was always able to say, Okay, this is what
Speaker 5: we're doing. Now, I'm gonna do that and do it
Speaker 5: way better. And I mean, I think that's only a
Speaker 5: personal thing, and that would be that would be my
Speaker 5: personal reason of the reason why I was able to
Speaker 5: navigate so the.
Speaker 3: And I'm not comparing my career to you, but what
Speaker 3: I think similar is And what would people young people
Speaker 3: ask me, like, hey, you know I want to do
Speaker 3: what you do or whatever. The single biggest advantage I
Speaker 3: ever had was if you'd have met me at ten
Speaker 3: years old, I'd have said, this is what I want
Speaker 3: to do. And the having the back knowing that if
Speaker 3: you know, it's hard to make everyone has fork in
Speaker 3: the road moments, right, and it's hard to know which
Speaker 3: way to choose if you don't know where you're trying
Speaker 3: to go. But if you know that the destination for
Speaker 3: me has always been there's I want there to be
Speaker 3: one moment in time, hopefully long moment, but one moment
Speaker 3: in time where family feud style. You ask one hundred
Speaker 3: sports fans, who's the biggest sports personality in America that
Speaker 3: I win that right now, it's probably Skip Steven A Colin.
Speaker 3: Like those guys have all had it. I've never had it.
Speaker 3: Maybe I get there, Maybe I won't. I always wonder
Speaker 3: if and when that happens, will that set like willhy
Speaker 3: then say Okay, got to the goal, move on to
Speaker 3: something else. There is no doubt there has been multiple
Speaker 3: times throughout your career biggest rapper in the world, and
Speaker 3: some would argue best rapper ever total catalog. So I
Speaker 3: kind asked this earlier, but I want to drill on
Speaker 3: it for a moment. What keeps you hungry in that?
Speaker 3: Because you have other passions we're talking about it. You
Speaker 3: have a skate team, you're in fashion. We'll get into that.
Speaker 3: What keeps you hungry?
Speaker 4: Plain and simple.
Speaker 5: I've never when I look in the mirror, I have
Speaker 5: never you know, I screamed it out as a kid,
Speaker 5: I'm the.
Speaker 4: Best rapper alive.
Speaker 5: Yet I've never in my life, never yet, never yet
Speaker 5: felt that I'm satisfied.
Speaker 4: With what I'm able to do.
Speaker 5: Always want to get better, always want to get better.
Speaker 5: I am so happy this last past month. You can
Speaker 5: ask any him or be closer. I've just found out
Speaker 5: how to really navigate the computer and work put and that.
Speaker 3: So you think you're still you haven't plateaued, you think
Speaker 3: you're still getting better?
Speaker 5: What yeah, yeah, oh yeah, definitely. I mean I'm still
Speaker 5: doing seven features a week.
Speaker 3: Well, when I I had a few too many drinks
Speaker 3: one night, this having a few about six weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and this is when I knew I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 3: This is when I knew Wayne is my actual friend,
Speaker 3: not just it's like we text about sports. I'd had
Speaker 3: a few too many cocktails. Was in an uber on
Speaker 3: the way back to the house with my lovely wife,
Speaker 3: who's sitting right there. And it was right around the
Speaker 3: time you had retweeted her boutique, which was an unbelievable
Speaker 3: moment for her. She just opened a boutique called Trinkage
Speaker 3: in New York City. Anything. It was around the same
Speaker 3: day or day after, and we're in the uber and
Speaker 3: alul Wayne song comes on because I'd had a few
Speaker 3: cocktails I'm like, you know what, I'm a FaceTime Wayne,
Speaker 3: and I called you and as soon as it started ringing,
Speaker 3: I was like, what the fuck am I doing? And
Speaker 3: I hung up and you called me right back, right back,
Speaker 3: And I said, and I won't say who you're in
Speaker 3: the studio with because I don't know if that's you know, confidential,
Speaker 3: because I hadn't come out yet.
Speaker 4: But I'll tell you.
Speaker 3: Can I say it? Bleep it if it's not supposed
Speaker 3: to know? You were doing something with Nicki? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're in the studio with NICKI doing I don't know
Speaker 3: if it was a video or a song. And you
Speaker 3: called me right back. You're like, now we're taking a
Speaker 3: break anyway, and I'm like, all right. First of all,
Speaker 3: it's eleven o'clock at night wherever it is he's working.
Speaker 3: Second of all, called me back, and I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, so Wayne, and that's what led us, you know,
Speaker 3: down this path, so one more music thing than we
Speaker 3: do sports. You know, I'm a list guy, and in
Speaker 3: hip hop, obviously there's the top five dead or alive.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you mine, and then are you comfortable
Speaker 3: giving me yours?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, so mine would be to me, there's four no doubters,
Speaker 3: and then the fifth one people will kill me for you,
Speaker 3: Jay Pac, and up until My Beautiful, Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye,
Speaker 3: that's those of the four. And then if people really
Speaker 3: ask me who for me. As far as enjoyment I've
Speaker 3: gotten from listening to music, TI is my fifth favorite.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have the catalog everyone has, nobody losing in
Speaker 3: the top five. Trap Music to me is one of
Speaker 3: my favorite albums. Ever, it's always rep for him. For you,
Speaker 3: what's your top five?
Speaker 4: You don't you have a big top fat.
Speaker 3: Oh so this is controversial here. So here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I don't think he made enough music. I don't think
Speaker 3: like I do give a sports analogy of it.
Speaker 4: And I and I respect that too.
Speaker 3: I think that, like I think, you know, he has
Speaker 3: two unbelievable albums, but when we're talking about the greatest
Speaker 3: and when he passed, he obviously was top five, But
Speaker 3: you hadn't made you know what I mean, you were
Speaker 3: just on the scene. Jay Z has released eight albums
Speaker 3: since then that are outstanding. I think My Beautiful, Dark
Speaker 3: Twisted Fantasy is from start to finish as good as
Speaker 3: a hip hop album, as I've ever heard, and again
Speaker 3: I understand people like Nick you have t I over Biggie.
Speaker 3: I just love the sad. I love his his album
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 4: So for you I Got for Me is always going
Speaker 4: to be first. Missy Elliott.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a huge influence of everything I've ever done.
Speaker 5: Jay Z is the best to abuman speak, and uh,
Speaker 5: Biggie obviously Biggie.
Speaker 4: Then I have I have the whole as a whole.
Speaker 4: I have Goodie mob okay yeah, and then I have
Speaker 4: ugk ugk okay.
Speaker 3: But so you don't have yourself?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I can't touch them guys.
Speaker 3: Okay, So listen, that's very humble of you. I believe
Speaker 3: that you believe that.
Speaker 4: I would never put myself in the my list.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, really quick, break right back with more with
Speaker 3: me and Lil Wayne.
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Speaker 3: Well that listen. We don't have to get super deep
Speaker 3: introspective on this, but that Another common thread of super
Speaker 3: successful people that I have met is most if I
Speaker 3: can include myself in this, most of us have a
Speaker 3: bit of a fraud complex, which is the bit of
Speaker 3: a people are gonna find me out. I'm not as
Speaker 3: good as what people say. There's a bit of a like.
Speaker 3: Other people view you as more successful than you necessarily
Speaker 3: view yourself, which keeps you. I think Brad, I think
Speaker 3: Tom Brady has it. I think there's no reason Tom
Speaker 3: Brady still be playing, but he's still I think he's
Speaker 3: still motivated by where he was, where he was drafted.
Speaker 3: All right, let's so, let's so you and I first
Speaker 3: talked sports was about football. You've stild people this before,
Speaker 3: but quickly, how did you become a Packers fan?
Speaker 4: Packers fan?
Speaker 5: Packers won a Super Bowl in New Orleans be it
Speaker 5: was like ninety six they won a Super Bowl. My dad,
Speaker 5: it was just the biggest thing to do if you're
Speaker 5: in New Orleans. My dad, he's past, but he knows nothing.
Speaker 5: I knew nothing about football. He didn't know what nothing
Speaker 5: but what he knew nothing with Saints. Okay, but Super
Speaker 5: Bowl was.
Speaker 4: In New Orleans.
Speaker 5: If you thought you had some money, you had to
Speaker 5: go to the Super Bowl. My dad went to the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl, came back home with Packers everything, towels, cups,
Speaker 5: And when you're from the hood, those aren't souvenirs. You know,
Speaker 5: you don't put those towersand cups up. You actually used it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So every day I'm drinking the Packers cups and I'm
Speaker 5: taking showers with Packers towels and wearing Packers robes and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. So they became my favorite team. So
Speaker 5: Matt Madden came out that year, and I think brut
Speaker 5: was on the cup cover.
Speaker 3: But so if it's reasonable to say that if that
Speaker 3: ninety six NFC championship game, which I think was Niners Packers,
Speaker 3: it was that if the Niners had won and they
Speaker 3: were in that game, you might be a Niners.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was Niners Packers because they
Speaker 5: both NFC.
Speaker 3: That NFC championship, that was a champions and not the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. No, no, no, the Super bowls Packers, Patriots. I'm saying,
Speaker 3: if the Niners would have come out of the Super
Speaker 3: come out of the NFC to the Super Bowl, yeah, Packers, the.
Speaker 5: Whole New Orleans was already Niners fans. Yeah, because no
Speaker 5: one from them. And I swear I hate I hate
Speaker 5: these New fans, these New New Orleans Saints fans, because
Speaker 5: they know they never it was you get beat up
Speaker 5: for being a Saints fan. When I was growing up,
Speaker 5: my mama bought me a Saints starter jacket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I cried.
Speaker 5: Because you couldn't wearkuse you buy me a Saints start well, No,
Speaker 5: and guess what she had to go back and get
Speaker 5: me the next Christmas forty nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was back man. Mid nineties. Starter jackets
Speaker 3: on the news.
Speaker 4: They were on the news. They were telling your parents.
Speaker 5: Don't let your kid if you have a starter jacket
Speaker 5: for your kids, either don't let them walk home from
Speaker 5: school with it, or either make sure you go pick
Speaker 5: your kid up at make sure your kids stand behind
Speaker 5: the gates and not outside the gate. Of school with
Speaker 5: it started jacking on out. I remember she was like,
Speaker 5: I was like, nobody ain't gonna take this one. I
Speaker 5: don't nobody, Nobody ain't gonna take this the Saint started.
Speaker 4: Nobody care about this.
Speaker 5: So yeah, So all the people that was saying that
Speaker 5: they Saints fans, now it's all good, but that ain't
Speaker 5: start that.
Speaker 4: Drew Brees got.
Speaker 3: It right, and which is the And there was a
Speaker 3: moment in time where people didn't know if the Saints
Speaker 3: was going, We're gonna be able to survive post Katrina
Speaker 3: and then Drew Brees obviously game fifteen years of greatness.
Speaker 3: So so nobody can give you for not being a
Speaker 3: Saints fan. Oh no, because they.
Speaker 5: Oh no, because they all know they they remember that
Speaker 5: they they weren't sat my, my, hed my my era
Speaker 5: of people. We came up out, you know what I mean, us,
Speaker 5: we came up and it was just that was that
Speaker 5: was that was roasting you. You know what I mean,
Speaker 5: you look like you're a Saints fan. You got those
Speaker 5: Saints colors or something that was roasting you. And before us,
Speaker 5: y'all will bags on your heads at the game.
Speaker 4: And y'all call them the ants. Yep, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 5: So I don't know what is now I can understand
Speaker 5: the new up all that's cool, that's fine. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: they all understand why I'm not a Saints fan.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm obviously Chiefs fan. You and I are
Speaker 3: teams of something in common. In addition of the fact
Speaker 3: that you and I have a standing Super Bowl wager
Speaker 3: of five thousand dollars Packers, Chiefs. We thought it was
Speaker 3: gonna happen two years ago, but you guys fell short.
Speaker 3: Thought was gonna happen this year. We both fell short.
Speaker 3: But now we have a different commonality, which is we
Speaker 3: both traded away our number one Wise, Yeah, when you
Speaker 3: heard Davante got traded, what were you thinking?
Speaker 5: The first thing I thought about was there. I thought
Speaker 5: about car and a connection. Okay, yeah, yeah, I already
Speaker 5: knew that's what it had a lot to do with that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: already that's first thing I thought. But then I also thought,
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, the first thing you think about,
Speaker 5: what about the I thought you A ride had a
Speaker 5: deeper connection, you know what I mean? So I want
Speaker 5: the first I want to hear what A Ride had
Speaker 5: to say.
Speaker 3: And so now that now that he's at least talked
Speaker 3: a little bit on it. You good with it.
Speaker 5: I'm good with it because I know that we were
Speaker 5: just the team. In general, we make the most out
Speaker 5: of who we like. The Patriots, we make the most
Speaker 5: out of who line up.
Speaker 3: So no, I feel like I felt similar about Tyreek.
Speaker 3: The teams needed to get better on defense.
Speaker 5: Now, as far as Tyreek, I wouldn't have I mean,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have felt, you know, and I felt like, y'all, yeah,
Speaker 5: y'all so cold man, y'all, don't I don't make to y'all.
Speaker 5: Don't need a terry, y'all, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: That's kind of.
Speaker 3: How I feel. I feel like the offense is gonna
Speaker 3: be great as long as Mahomes is healthy, you have
Speaker 3: good offensive line. The offense should be able to thirty dollars.
Speaker 4: Gotta be able.
Speaker 3: To get some stops on defense. So I was fine.
Speaker 3: I was fine with them since they use those draft
Speaker 3: picks on defensive players and did what they need to
Speaker 3: do there. All right, I want to go to basketball
Speaker 3: for a minute here, because speaking of these wagers you did,
Speaker 3: you did bully me a bit. I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 3: in text, so I have gone out on a limb
Speaker 3: and picked the MAVs to beat the Suns. They are okay,
Speaker 3: I picked the MAVs. We can get into that in
Speaker 3: the moment, do I look? But okay, however that is
Speaker 3: and I'm a gambler. If I make that bet via
Speaker 3: book making outlet get like two and a half to one.
Speaker 3: So I'm having a thousand bucks who win twenty five
Speaker 3: hundred something like that. Wayne texts me, He's like, I
Speaker 3: got the Suns. You got the MAVs, same five thousand.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, So I text him back. I'm like,
Speaker 3: are you giving me odds? And this guy says, I'll
Speaker 3: give you odds ten thousand, but at five thousand, it's
Speaker 3: got to be straight up And I'm like, this guy
Speaker 3: really made me fold my hands, like I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't have the financial stability you have in this regard.
Speaker 3: So are you a Suns fan or just a Chris
Speaker 3: Paul fan or what's the story there.
Speaker 5: I'm a CEP fan first, because you know, he started
Speaker 5: in New Orleans and the last season, Tickets and me
Speaker 5: CP became brothers.
Speaker 4: He is one of the greatest human beings on playing.
Speaker 5: It, or forget basketball that guy's just one of the
Speaker 5: he'd been over backwards wants if you.
Speaker 4: Become a part of his circle and not you, you.
Speaker 5: Know what I mean, just a part of his You
Speaker 5: know he loves you, okay, you That guy bends over
Speaker 5: backwards for you, just playing it simple.
Speaker 4: Just a great guy.
Speaker 5: And so just from that point on, I was always
Speaker 5: a fan no matter where he went. I became a
Speaker 5: fan of that team. But then that team, the Sons team,
Speaker 5: is totally different. He's facetiming me at the games, at
Speaker 5: the wins, and they all, you know, you could tell,
Speaker 5: see p don't do that. I've been on a CP
Speaker 5: obviously his whole career, you know, FaceTime me after no whin.
Speaker 5: They're making him do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because younger generators, they're so excited.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: So I became obviously a fan, a total fan of
Speaker 5: the whole team. I think they just facetimed me. Recently,
Speaker 5: I said Devin Booker name and something I think, and
Speaker 5: someone's uh think a little she has a song.
Speaker 4: I said his name. I didn't even know. I just
Speaker 4: be saying whatever rhymes.
Speaker 5: I didn't know I say his name, But they facetimed
Speaker 5: me right out, I mean right after the win.
Speaker 4: He was just letting me hear, like, oh, so thank
Speaker 4: you man.
Speaker 3: I was like, what did I do?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 3: I want to ask you about that. Actually, we'll get
Speaker 3: back to the Suns in these playoffs in a minute.
Speaker 3: The list of athletes who you've named dropped in songs
Speaker 3: too long to go?
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: But when you do it, like I assume now you
Speaker 3: realize it, But like you, how often do guys reach
Speaker 3: out to you like that that it was a bigger
Speaker 3: moment for them then you even considered when you get
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 4: A perfect example recently. It was this year.
Speaker 5: Cali Perry Cal. Yeah, Cal hit me with one of
Speaker 5: the messages.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: His message was so so so serious and so real.
Speaker 5: So I have to make sure that that's what he
Speaker 5: was talking about that I did, you know.
Speaker 4: I was like, like, is that what he's teaching? Like
Speaker 4: is he talking about me saying his name and the song?
Speaker 5: Because his message was like you don't know what it
Speaker 5: did for me? Yeah, He's like, you don't know what
Speaker 5: that's done with that, What that's done for me, what
Speaker 5: that's done for the people? You know me from a
Speaker 5: I think he was it was brought to him by
Speaker 5: a family member, probably something obviously someone probably younger that
Speaker 5: probably made them connect. When he was like, you don't
Speaker 5: know what that I really really appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Well, especially you're talking about John Calipart, Yeah, the coach.
Speaker 3: So he's in the business of finding connection points in
Speaker 3: sixteen and seventeen year olds, and so there's that that
Speaker 3: gives him some maybe credibility he wouldn't otherwise have that
Speaker 3: you're mentioning him, I felt. I think it was. So
Speaker 3: there's new relative the new song Scared Money with j
Speaker 3: cole yg and I forget even who the third person is,
Speaker 3: but regardless, I think it's the first song I ever heard.
Speaker 3: My guy, Luka Doncic's name said like, oh, like that's
Speaker 3: a crossover moment for him, like for Luca to be
Speaker 3: able to be to be in the in the music.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had somebody that you that you were
Speaker 3: a fan of, that you hadn't met, that you mentioned
Speaker 3: and that it created a connection.
Speaker 5: I think it was I want to say, I think
Speaker 5: I want to say that it would be Tyson Fury.
Speaker 4: Tyson Fury, Yeah, Tyson Fury.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a he think I think I may have
Speaker 5: said his names, yeah, And he was since then he's
Speaker 5: been He's a very very very religious type of you know.
Speaker 5: I mean he praised for you and let you know,
Speaker 5: he's prey.
Speaker 4: He's a real one. Another one of those good, good guys.
Speaker 3: And he's from you know, over An and like very
Speaker 3: tough upbringing. Like there's which is I always figured I
Speaker 3: don't know that I can't prove this, but one of
Speaker 3: a lot of people. You know, there used to be
Speaker 3: a joke that rappers want to be ballplayers, and ball players, sure,
Speaker 3: but what's also true is there is a well that's
Speaker 3: all right, there's a connectivity through the shared struggle of
Speaker 3: youth for a lot of a lot of NBA guys,
Speaker 3: some NFL guys, and guys in the hip hop game
Speaker 3: where listen, some guys came up super comfortable, but most
Speaker 3: of them you had to fight and claw for all
Speaker 3: of it. And once you got there, it's good to
Speaker 3: see people that were through a similar thing. So that
Speaker 3: brings me to a different question I had, which is
Speaker 3: the responsibility you feel not just for like your generation
Speaker 3: of music. That is, you know, I have a buddy
Speaker 3: who's in all alternative rock. He's on the radio, my
Speaker 3: buddy Laslo, and he say, and he's now a little
Speaker 3: some people would say he's too old to be like
Speaker 3: an old rock DJ, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 3: he said, as long as Dave Grohl is still making records,
Speaker 3: I can still be on the range, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Like he came up, when I came up.
Speaker 3: He's still making records, you are. There's not many people
Speaker 3: left still making records that started making records when you did.
Speaker 3: And a lot of the guys who are it's you know,
Speaker 3: they are into a in sports, we would say, a
Speaker 3: different phase of their career, you know. And so yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: so for you, the responsibility not only to your fans,
Speaker 3: but to your generation of artists to still be at
Speaker 3: the top of your game, Like do you do you
Speaker 3: feel that? And what does that?
Speaker 5: Definitely do I feel that just playing a symbol by
Speaker 5: I've always felt that when I by, when I got
Speaker 5: when I started my own record, when I had young
Speaker 5: money and I had Nikki and Drake and it was
Speaker 5: just Onneika and Aubrey, you know what I mean? You know,
Speaker 5: I mean, I've always felt that I have to stay current.
Speaker 5: I have to stay current, I have to stay cool,
Speaker 5: I have to stay all that because I want them
Speaker 5: to see and I want them to know what it
Speaker 5: takes and I want them to know that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't.
Speaker 5: Want them to ever get comfortable, because I know for
Speaker 5: a fact you're going to be successful, more successful than me,
Speaker 5: because that's my that's my goal. But I don't want
Speaker 5: you to get there and get comfortable. I want you
Speaker 5: to see how I'm never comfortable.
Speaker 3: What what did you seeing.
Speaker 4: Drake just playing?
Speaker 5: Once he started, uh, they you know, he was brought
Speaker 5: to me by check this guy out. He could rap,
Speaker 5: He's from Canada and all that. So that right that
Speaker 5: was already just interesting. And when I heard what he
Speaker 5: always what I loved about Drake was when I was
Speaker 5: the first first time I heard him. There was nothing
Speaker 5: about every every song I heard, that was nothing about,
Speaker 5: you know, harming no one, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: There was nothing about there was nothing, nothing on there
Speaker 5: try to try to sound hard, and I was like, this.
Speaker 4: Dude just made me love.
Speaker 5: I was like he could have literally wrapped about him
Speaker 5: eating cereal in the morning and going going to a
Speaker 5: corners stor at what he ate for, Like he made
Speaker 5: it sound cooler than what I'm talking about. And that
Speaker 5: right that struck me right there. I was like, so
Speaker 5: I need this guy. I was like, he could talk
Speaker 5: about it. And then what happened was a hook came
Speaker 5: on on his song.
Speaker 4: I was like, that was a nice little hook.
Speaker 5: I was like, who's that on the hook, Like that's him,
Speaker 5: and I was like, the person in the hook is singing.
Speaker 3: Dude, you know what's so funny? So me and oh gosh,
Speaker 3: Daniel shout out the name of the song. You remember.
Speaker 3: One of me and my wife's first songs is a
Speaker 3: Drake song where he raps in the beginning, or he
Speaker 3: raps the whole thing, but the chorus is singing, and
Speaker 3: it was one of Baby, You're the best, Baby You're
Speaker 3: my everything that song and man, I had listened to
Speaker 3: the song with her for probably nine months before Ian
Speaker 3: knew that was Drake Drake doing both parts, and I
Speaker 3: thought it was two different people. All right, what about Nicki?
Speaker 3: What what made you want to be in business with her?
Speaker 4: Plain and simple?
Speaker 5: Nicky was already when I was starting this late, when
Speaker 5: I had my label, I was already knew I want
Speaker 5: someone from New York playing a simple rap. I love
Speaker 5: New York playing rap comes from you. I need something
Speaker 5: never knew it would be a female.
Speaker 4: Yep, you know.
Speaker 5: And when she was, she was bought. When I've seen
Speaker 5: her and she's spinning it. She killed everything. She killed
Speaker 5: every person I had heard, who I was trying to hear,
Speaker 5: who I was, whatever I did, whatever you want to
Speaker 5: call it, auditioning I'm shopping with. She killed all that,
Speaker 5: and I was like, that's it made no she it
Speaker 5: was hands down and she's a part of the team.
Speaker 3: Quick breaks episide just for a second, come right back
Speaker 3: with a little bit more with me and Lil Wayne.
Speaker 3: All Right, So, speaking of New York. Just the other
Speaker 3: night was the Met Gala, and I know you're in
Speaker 3: the fashion world. I was. It was when I actually
Speaker 3: when I text you to see if you come on
Speaker 3: the podcast, it's like, you might be going to the
Speaker 3: Met Gala. You didn't go? Have you ever been?
Speaker 4: Never?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 4: I've never been invited.
Speaker 3: So I feel like you just get to show up.
Speaker 3: I feel like people like me need an invite. I
Speaker 3: feel like if you show up in your dress, you
Speaker 3: get to go. Who like Odell gets to go?
Speaker 4: Like I feel like Odell's a bit more into fashion
Speaker 4: than I.
Speaker 3: But so what the I feel like that's still some
Speaker 3: world you're interested in. Am I making that up?
Speaker 4: No? Not at all, not at all. I have online. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: well that's.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying. So I was good. This is my
Speaker 3: opportunity of me asking you to tell the audience about
Speaker 3: your fashion line.
Speaker 4: So my line is I have a few. I have
Speaker 4: a few.
Speaker 5: The line I'm starting right now is called me. Okay,
Speaker 5: find and simple in me, and then I have a
Speaker 5: few more. And then also if you go on my Instagram,
Speaker 5: you'll find out that only follow one person, and that
Speaker 5: would be the.
Speaker 4: Beautiful Miss Tailing Bigs.
Speaker 5: And she's this little, beautiful, little talented little girl. But
Speaker 5: if you go into her page and see how much
Speaker 5: she's into fashion, okay, and she made she probably was
Speaker 5: at the meg galland she had school or something, but yeah,
Speaker 5: but she does. She's she she did Fashion Week. She's
Speaker 5: she was the only person on the red carpet doing
Speaker 5: interviews that all the all the models come to because
Speaker 5: just because of how small and beautiful she is, she
Speaker 5: creates own everything and right now when it comes to fashion,
Speaker 5: and she's who are she's everything about her right now?
Speaker 3: Okay, And so with the when you're lying me comes
Speaker 3: out I happen to have a connection to an up
Speaker 3: and coming boutique in Harlem that I'm sure would love
Speaker 3: to feature items.
Speaker 5: Trust me, I was gonna call you first, Okay, so
Speaker 5: that'll be great.
Speaker 3: And then there's one other thing that I wanted to
Speaker 3: ask you about, which is a world I know nothing about.
Speaker 3: But you have a skate team. It's called Squad, but
Speaker 3: it's spelled with a V instead of a U. I think,
Speaker 3: but so, what why'd you get into it? Would tell
Speaker 3: me about it?
Speaker 4: So I was watching this show. It was a show
Speaker 4: called camp Wood where.
Speaker 5: There's a place called camp Wood where and it was
Speaker 5: just like a reality show about the place. So I start,
Speaker 5: you know, you just get into a show. You start
Speaker 5: watching it every day, watching it every day. And they
Speaker 5: had a kid on their named Alex Middler and he
Speaker 5: was a kid then he was skating kill like having
Speaker 5: the time, and I was like, he's having the time
Speaker 5: in his life.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna try it.
Speaker 5: And by me watching the show every day, stuff feeling
Speaker 5: like you know you, stuff feeling could do that, and
Speaker 5: I want to do that. I like call my homie,
Speaker 5: like y'all want to skate park? Put it on the
Speaker 5: roof I had a big roof in my house in Miami.
Speaker 5: The house I'm not not the house I'm living in.
Speaker 5: That house before I was living had a big ass roof.
Speaker 5: I was like, man, I put a skate park on
Speaker 5: the roof. That's because I knew. I had no idea
Speaker 5: what skating was. So, you know, I was like, put her,
Speaker 5: I want a ramp. It seems dangerous, not knowing that,
Speaker 5: not knowing that skating obviously has different styles, and so
Speaker 5: I just only knew Sean White and Tony Hawk.
Speaker 4: I know them from skating the ramp.
Speaker 5: So with that said, I learned how to skate all
Speaker 5: three styles because I didn't know that. It all took that.
Speaker 5: I learned how to skate. That's burket. I learned how
Speaker 5: to skate vert. And then I got tired of that
Speaker 5: called the same guy, like I want to do something else,
Speaker 5: Like I'm tired of watching Alex jump off of stairs
Speaker 5: and stuff. I need some stairs and some rails, And
Speaker 5: so he built me. He built me the whole, the
Speaker 5: whole thing. So, because therefore you skating ramps and then
Speaker 5: you're also skating in the street, which would be stay
Speaker 5: and reel and all that, and so obviously arranged too
Speaker 5: much in Miami, and so that's when I called him
Speaker 5: and was like, I need an indoor park. So once
Speaker 5: I got the indoor park, they put everything in there.
Speaker 5: So I learned how to skate the bowls, the pools
Speaker 5: and all that type of stuff. And now I'm I
Speaker 5: couldn't and I'm into it. And the guy that taught
Speaker 5: me is from New York Adam Z. I went on
Speaker 5: line back then just was like, man, how to skate?
Speaker 5: You know, like I need to learn some more than
Speaker 5: what I'm learning by myself. The guy that was building
Speaker 5: the park, he's just watching me on the skateboard one day,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm standing on the skate as he's building.
Speaker 4: He came over there was like, you was just joking, right.
Speaker 5: I was like, what you mean, like now when you
Speaker 5: was on the skateboard just now you was playing around
Speaker 5: or something. I was like, what do you mean you
Speaker 5: know what? He was like, that's how you skate. I
Speaker 5: was like, I can't skate.
Speaker 4: I'm learning. He was like, why am I building this?
Speaker 4: And I was like, I'm going to learn.
Speaker 5: He was like you can't skate and we're building, Like
Speaker 5: I'm building, Like this is professional like, I know, oh,
Speaker 5: I'm going to learn all that, and he was like,
Speaker 5: so he will come an hour before he would start
Speaker 5: learning how to He would start building and start teaching
Speaker 5: me a little few things. He would make me put
Speaker 5: on helmet everything, so he would make me do twenty
Speaker 5: five different angles and push me into the ramp so
Speaker 5: I could fall twenty five different ways.
Speaker 3: So you learn how to fall first.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like, I'm gonna teach try to fall. I'm not
Speaker 5: trying to teach you how to skatee. He would also
Speaker 5: remind me, I'm gonna push you twenty five ways. By
Speaker 5: the end of this, I'm probably gonna been to push
Speaker 5: you twenty five thousand ways.
Speaker 4: I want you to understand.
Speaker 5: Something when you start skating, You're not gonna fall, not
Speaker 5: one of these ways. Like what like, I'm just teaching
Speaker 5: you how to fall. So when I went online, found
Speaker 5: a guy named Adam z in New York who was
Speaker 5: just he was just filming hisself, like, you know, this
Speaker 5: is how you do this, this is how you do that.
Speaker 5: We got into touch with the guy. Yeah, we got
Speaker 5: a little Wayne trying to skatee. Man, you're really serious
Speaker 5: about this, do you mind teaching him? He was like, man,
Speaker 5: I got nothing else to do. We moved them to Miami. Wow,
Speaker 5: we moved them to Miami. And that's how I really
Speaker 5: turned how to skate because he was there every day
Speaker 5: with me, taught me how to do everything. He knew it,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, And that was that. And he
Speaker 5: passed recently from cancer. But when he did, I tell
Speaker 5: you know, I would never put a board down after that.
Speaker 5: I would never put the board down just because you know,
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Yeah, all right, we're short on time. It's
Speaker 3: one last thing I want to say. It's a question,
Speaker 3: but it's also saying it because of how much I
Speaker 3: think you mean to sports community, music community. I think
Speaker 3: I think I saw you do an interview. It was
Speaker 3: sixty minutes interview A long time ago, Katie Kirk, and
Speaker 3: I was like, I mean, this is probably twelve years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember where I was. I was at my buddy
Speaker 3: turknic brides house, so he used to play for the
Speaker 3: chiefs now losing California businessman there. I watched the interview online.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this guy's a genius. No, but
Speaker 3: like it, it don't necessarily always get that with things,
Speaker 3: but like I was like, oh he is. He's operating
Speaker 3: on a different level in his space. And with that
Speaker 3: comes the responsibility that you know what I mean to
Speaker 3: the community, to the culture, to all of it. Are
Speaker 3: you taking care of yourself? Of course you are.
Speaker 4: I have to okay.
Speaker 3: People people who people who don't know you love you
Speaker 3: and care about you and worry about it in a
Speaker 3: different way, and people who do know you do so
Speaker 3: you're taking care of yourself. To appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, I really appreciate you, man, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you. This is an absolute joy and honor.
Speaker 4: Always wanted to talk, man, always.
Speaker 3: That's great. And by the way, that Sun's bet is
Speaker 3: not gonna have I like.
Speaker 4: You already know about to watch bro. They got they
Speaker 4: so focused on.
Speaker 3: The focus and I picked Luca, but I have.
Speaker 5: Any And look you a man, I don't even know
Speaker 5: if he's going. I don't even know if he come
Speaker 5: back if we get that man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 5: Man, man, he's they so folked and you know him
Speaker 5: and Monty been together. Yeah, I know many it was
Speaker 5: him Manty and that ref the referee man matter, that
Speaker 5: Scott the referee. The ball had refugee Strong. His name
Speaker 5: like Mark something Mark, David Oh, yeah, all three of us. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we was I know him, it was all it would
Speaker 5: be all three of us.
Speaker 3: Oh really that was back when David West.
Speaker 4: David West, Yeah, David West, David West, Yeah, the whole
Speaker 4: night back then.
Speaker 3: Well, this is great. I think we'd take a couple
Speaker 3: of pictures and get out. Let's do it all right,
Speaker 3: there's today's show. I'd say it was success. First ever
Speaker 3: show with the guests. Who was Lil Wayne. We have
Speaker 3: to now get a better guest next so I'm not
Speaker 3: really sure where that leaves us, but we'll, you know,
Speaker 3: we'll do our best there. Otherwise, we'll be back to
Speaker 3: the regular schedule with programming next week with the Monse
Speaker 3: back in the co seat and this Sunday remember special
Speaker 3: episodes of the fifth Players the Last fifty Years and
Speaker 3: What's Right with Nick Right podcast and YouTube show, So
Speaker 3: check that out as we are moving into the top
Speaker 3: thirty and top thirty five players of the last fifty
Speaker 3: years in the NBA. All of that on What's Right
Speaker 3: with Nick Right