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Speaker 2: A few days ago I sat down with the One
Speaker 2: and the Only Flavor Flave. I can't wait for y'all
Speaker 2: to see me talking to him. Of course, there was
Speaker 2: some big time basketball that took place at the Crypto
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Speaker 2: Luka donciking his former team, the Dallas Mavericks for the
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Speaker 2: is there really going to discuss that right here on
Speaker 2: this show. But the first order of business to get
Speaker 2: into is, believe it or not, the news media. That's
Speaker 2: where I'm going to get started. I'm going to get
Speaker 2: started with the media headlines emanating from MSNBC itself. With
Speaker 2: a network's new president, Rebecca Cutler, decided to remove Joy
Speaker 2: Reid from her primetime slot. Reed show, aptly named The Readout,
Speaker 2: had been a weeknight fixture at MSNBC at seven pm
Speaker 2: since twoenty twenty. She often interviewed politicians and other newsmakers
Speaker 2: on various political issues that crossed race, culture, and social justice. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Simone Sanders, Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alisha Menendez, who currently
Speaker 2: serve as host of the Weekend another MSNBC program, will
Speaker 2: eventually move into tillor seven pm week day timeslot. However,
Speaker 2: reaction from inside the network was felt when Rachel Maddow,
Speaker 2: one of MSNBC's biggest stars, if not its biggest star,
Speaker 2: weighed in on Reid's situation Monday Night. Matdow said this quote.
Speaker 2: In all of the jobs I have had, in all
Speaker 2: of the years I have been alive, there's no colleague
Speaker 2: for whom I have had more affection and more respect
Speaker 2: for than Joy Reid. I love everything about her. I
Speaker 2: have so much more to learn from her. I do
Speaker 2: not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC,
Speaker 2: and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to
Speaker 2: let her walk out the door. It is not my
Speaker 2: call and I understand that. However, it is what I
Speaker 2: think end quote that was Rachel Mattow. A lot of
Speaker 2: people have thrown out opinions. We've seen people supporters of
Speaker 2: Joy Reid speak adamantly and emphatically online and support of her.
Speaker 2: You've got some folks calling for folks not to watch
Speaker 2: MSNBC anymore, etc. And obviously, folks, a lot of folks
Speaker 2: out there are going to point to race and race
Speaker 2: playing a role in all of this, because with all
Speaker 2: of the changes that are taking place, why does she
Speaker 2: have to be the show that goes.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: Today, because if we have to do that today.
Speaker 1: We'd have to do it every day.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, We're gonna have a real frank discussion
Speaker 2: right now about what transpires when it comes to.
Speaker 1: Us as black folks.
Speaker 2: We come out of the womb knowing we've got to
Speaker 2: be twice as good to get half as much. This
Speaker 2: is not new, and as a result of that, one
Speaker 2: would argue we at a decisive disadvantage at times. Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: there's racism, there's prejudice out there.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's true. Not in every case, not in all cases,
Speaker 1: but in some cases.
Speaker 2: Fine, we just have to be careful when we make
Speaker 2: that argument. I've invited Joy Reid on this show, and
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to her accepting my invitation so we
Speaker 2: can talk.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you how.
Speaker 2: I feel about Joy read First, I respect the hell
Speaker 2: out of this woman. She is highly intelligent, very very knowledgeable,
Speaker 2: very passionate.
Speaker 1: She has a lot to say.
Speaker 2: She is more than a conscientious observer, and she is
Speaker 2: fearless in calling out what she believes to be in equities, unfairness,
Speaker 2: and the like anywhere, but especially as it pertains to
Speaker 2: the black community, and obviously as it pertains to left
Speaker 2: this to folks on the left. She is a Democrat.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying whether she's a Democrat officially or not.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying she leans left. Obviously you're on MSNBC,
Speaker 2: that is the belief. But we can't stop there, y'all.
Speaker 2: I saw what Megan Kelly said about her, and how
Speaker 2: Megan Kelly basically to some degree, took joy and her
Speaker 2: being asked I take no joy, and see Enjoy read acts.
Speaker 1: From that time slot.
Speaker 2: As the reports go, she was making about an annual
Speaker 2: salary and a range of about three million a year.
Speaker 1: I don't want any money taken out of her pocket.
Speaker 2: But when we want to bring up race as the
Speaker 2: cause for her being gone, I don't think we're serving ourselves. Well,
Speaker 2: Michael Steele is going to be there as well as
Speaker 2: a replacement along with Alicia, And you gotta remember Menandez.
Speaker 1: Is right there is It's hard to make the race argument.
Speaker 2: When her replacements are reported to be three individuals that
Speaker 2: already have a weekend show on the network, and they're
Speaker 2: going to be inserted in a network.
Speaker 1: And I'm just reading from the reports here. Okay. I
Speaker 1: have not spoken to Joy Reid. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've had the pleasure of meeting her on a couple
Speaker 2: of occasions. I certainly respect her, and I'm not here
Speaker 2: to castigate her in any way, but we do have
Speaker 2: to talk about the business in a very, very honest
Speaker 2: and fair fashion. Joy Reid was incredibly outspoken against the
Speaker 2: Trump administration, as has always been the case. Since election,
Speaker 2: her ratings have dropped by forty seven percent. Forty seven percent,
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, you don't keep your job when stuff
Speaker 2: like that happens.
Speaker 1: You just don't.
Speaker 2: The business doesn't allow for that to happen. When you
Speaker 2: rate high, tolerance is high. When you rate low, tolerance
Speaker 2: is low. Let's look at the reports from here. It
Speaker 2: talked about how Reed will be replaced at the seven
Speaker 2: pm hour by a tree over MSNBC Weekend hosts Kamala
Speaker 2: or former Kamala Harris advisor Simone Sanders, Anti Trump, Republican
Speaker 2: Michael Steele, and Alisia Menendez, the daughter of former Democratic
Speaker 2: Senator and convicted fell in Bob Menendez. Okay, that's what
Speaker 2: it says here in the report. Okay, it goes a
Speaker 2: bit further. The readout Stuffer the major slump is according
Speaker 2: to Newsweek, the readout suffer the major slump.
Speaker 1: In ratings since the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 2: Nilsen Media Research revealed their Red Show averaged around seven
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty nine thousand viewers in early to seventh
Speaker 2: in early December, a forty seven percent decline from the
Speaker 2: one point four million average it achieved in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four leading up to the election day. Her ratings basically
Speaker 2: with Damn near cutt in half. On February twentieth, Reached
Speaker 2: Sho was reported to have around seven one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy eight thousand viewers, while Fox News Is Laura Ingram
Speaker 2: attracted an estimated three point four million in the same
Speaker 2: slot Ladies and Gentlemen. That's three point four million to
Speaker 2: seven hundred and seventy eight thousand, and repeated again, that's.
Speaker 1: Three point four million. The seven hundred and seventy eight
Speaker 1: thousand that can't be ignored.
Speaker 2: When we make the argument and we want to bring
Speaker 2: race into the equation, we gotta have it. We gotta
Speaker 2: have the evidence. It can't be subliminal. It can't be
Speaker 2: something that's assumed. It can't be something that can that
Speaker 2: that that is rife with plausible deniability.
Speaker 1: We gotta know it. Now.
Speaker 2: If you want to sit up there and say Trump
Speaker 2: had something to do with it, that's fine, because he's
Speaker 2: coming after them. He's coming after g He's coming after
Speaker 2: mister Brian Robinson for Comcast, and they're left leaning, you know,
Speaker 2: a news outlets channel.
Speaker 3: Rather, he's definitely doing that. We already seen him sue.
Speaker 2: ABC and George Stephanopolis. We already see him going after MSNBC.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump had an instant comment on Joy Reid on
Speaker 2: his Truth social platform in the immediate after Matthew her
Speaker 2: being let go, diss a hard and enjoying her departure.
Speaker 2: He's coming after folks. So now what it does is
Speaker 2: it provokes a bigger conversation about the networks themselves and
Speaker 2: what are they gonna stand up for or they gonna
Speaker 2: be strictly about their bottom line and.
Speaker 1: Caltow to the President of.
Speaker 2: The United States because he's coming for folks that he
Speaker 2: deems enemies. He's made no apologies nor any secret about it.
Speaker 3: That's what he's doing. And if you're going to support.
Speaker 4: Joy Reid, the best way for you to do it
Speaker 4: was to make sure she didn't suffer a forty seven
Speaker 4: percent drop in the ratings.
Speaker 1: See, we don't do that enough.
Speaker 2: And I'm speaking from personal experience, so I'm qualified to
Speaker 2: talk about the subject, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I will remind you that I had a show.
Speaker 2: Named quite Frankly on ESPN two from two thousand and
Speaker 2: five to two thousand and seven. I will remind you
Speaker 2: that it got canceled in two thousand and seven after
Speaker 2: I did about three hundred and eighty one shows, and
Speaker 2: I had about seven hundred and eighty five guests.
Speaker 1: We didn't have enough viewers.
Speaker 2: The course that it took to have that show on
Speaker 2: the air, to pay for all of the overhead that
Speaker 2: came with it wasn't worth it because the ratings said so.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that I remember most is
Speaker 2: folks coming up to me, Oh, man, I.
Speaker 1: Love your show. Man, I watch it every day. You
Speaker 1: the man, stephen A.
Speaker 2: The show had been canceled six months earlier. How the
Speaker 2: hell you watching me every day?
Speaker 1: It had been canceled six months earlier. See we talk.
Speaker 2: But if you really really want to be helpful and
Speaker 2: knowing this business, if you really really wanted to be
Speaker 2: helpful to joy Read, the time to support her, would
Speaker 2: it be now over digital, airwars and everywhere else while
Speaker 2: everybody's speaking and up in arms that Hush Show got canceled.
Speaker 2: The time would have been to make sure that even
Speaker 2: in the aftermath of that election, that that one point
Speaker 2: four million audience that she was drawing in prior to
Speaker 2: the election as the same audience that would have been
Speaker 2: there after the election.
Speaker 1: That's how you keep folks on the air. You didn't
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: Certainly there are other people who could have been let
Speaker 2: go and should have been let go sooner. I won't
Speaker 2: mention any names. Certainly, she's a talent and she is intelligent. Yes,
Speaker 2: she was fiery. Yes she said something sending every things
Speaker 2: that could have gotten a network in trouble on a
Speaker 2: couple of occasions. I'm not here to revisit all of that.
Speaker 2: All of that is true, but all of us are
Speaker 2: flowed in the eyes of God. We all make mistakes,
Speaker 2: none of us are perfect. I'm certainly not here to
Speaker 2: down her in any way. I'm simply here to enunciate
Speaker 2: and punctuate the point. If you wanted her on the
Speaker 2: air so badly, why didn't you support her after the election.
Speaker 2: That's the reality. There is no way around that. And
Speaker 2: for those of you out there who don't get.
Speaker 1: It, you better get it quick or you better.
Speaker 2: Do what Roland Martin went on his show and reminded
Speaker 2: folks to do do everything you can to own your
Speaker 2: own so you can't be canceled. Do everything to own
Speaker 2: your own so you're not depending on a network or
Speaker 2: another employer to sustain your visibility and ultimately your quality
Speaker 2: of life.
Speaker 1: Because he's right about that.
Speaker 2: But in the end, everybody's not in a position to
Speaker 2: do that, or don't want to be in a position
Speaker 2: to do that. They may not want that challenge, that headache,
Speaker 2: or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: That's fine, Just know that MSNBC.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, it's a business, just
Speaker 2: like everything else is a business, and the best way
Speaker 2: to sustain or elevate yourself is to do good business
Speaker 2: and not be expendable. In a sure fire way to
Speaker 2: end up being expendable is when they're able to attach
Speaker 2: a forty seven percent drop in the ratings to you.
Speaker 1: No matter what you want to accuse them of.
Speaker 2: They're always to be able to fall on that, which
Speaker 2: means any other argument is going to fall on deaf ears.
Speaker 2: Let me move to another subject before I go to
Speaker 2: the break. According to CBS News, Apple shareholders on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: just yesterday, rejected a proposal to end the iphonemaker's diversity,
Speaker 2: equity and inclusion programs. It responded to the anti DEI proposal.
Speaker 2: Apple defended its diversity program as an integral part of
Speaker 2: its corporate culture, crediting the policies in part for making
Speaker 2: the technology is not the most valuable company in the world.
Speaker 2: Here's where Apple CEO Tim cooks at a defense of
Speaker 2: the policy. Quote, We've never had quoters of targets for Apple.
Speaker 2: Our strength has always come from hiring the very best
Speaker 2: people and then providing a culture of collaboration. But our
Speaker 2: north star of dignity and respect for everyone, and I
Speaker 2: work to that end, will never waiver.
Speaker 1: End quote.
Speaker 2: However, could conceide that the company may need to revise
Speaker 2: aspects of its diversity policies as the legal landscape around
Speaker 2: DEI evolves. Meanwhile, President Trump continued to call for Apple
Speaker 2: to scrap the program. You know he was gonna do that.
Speaker 2: In a post on truth Social Trump wrote, quote, Apple
Speaker 2: should get rid of DEI rules, not just make adjustments
Speaker 2: for to them, de I was a hoax that has
Speaker 2: been very bad for our country. DEI is gone, that
Speaker 2: is according to the President Donald Trump. Let me be
Speaker 2: very clear about what I'm sick of. I'm sick of
Speaker 2: the truth being camouflaged when it's over this whole DEI matter,
Speaker 2: I really really am because I got to tell you
Speaker 2: something right now. It's getting on my last nerves and
Speaker 2: I'm trying to to really avoid losing my patience. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is where I'm coming from with this, y'all. I'm
Speaker 2: just looking something up to make sure I have it right.
Speaker 2: I'm really trying to be cool about this, because I
Speaker 2: do think it's important. I'm sick and tired of be
Speaker 2: a DEI being associated with black people, and I'm sick
Speaker 2: and tired of seeing black folks out there complaining over
Speaker 2: DEI like it's the end, like it's eventual departure is
Speaker 2: the end of the world. There are congressional figures who
Speaker 2: have stated for the record that white women are the
Speaker 2: biggest beneficiaries of DEI, just as they were the biggest
Speaker 2: beneficiaries of affirmative action, and second on that list are
Speaker 2: Asian Americans. So I'm sitting here and I'm saying not
Speaker 2: to act like there haven't been black folks who have
Speaker 2: benefited from affirmative action or DEI. I'm saying, why is
Speaker 2: it that I culture is attached to it? Why are
Speaker 2: we not mentioned in the fact that white women are
Speaker 2: the biggest beneficiatores of it?
Speaker 1: We live in America.
Speaker 2: White folks make a fifty seven point four percent of
Speaker 2: the population last time I checked, if not lower than
Speaker 2: that right now, But it's still a white power system,
Speaker 2: primarily a white male power structure. White women have benefited,
Speaker 2: so the eradication of DEI, one would argue, would politely
Speaker 2: affect them more than it would affect anybody else, since
Speaker 2: they're the biggest beneficiaries from it, which means that white
Speaker 2: men like Donald Trump, who decided, along with Elon Musk
Speaker 2: and others to eradicate DEI, did so at the expense
Speaker 2: of white women. Why is that story not being told?
Speaker 2: Why is it coming to cross as if it's associated.
Speaker 1: With black folks.
Speaker 2: Why the words unqualified or incompetent or not up for
Speaker 2: the job, stuff like that, Why is that coming through
Speaker 2: the screeze? Why is that what everybody's talking about, particularly
Speaker 2: when they're talking about.
Speaker 1: Minorities in this country. Oh, I forgot.
Speaker 2: White women are considered a minority in this country. That's
Speaker 2: how they did benefit from affirmative action and the EI.
Speaker 2: I'm just asking, why don't we talk about it, and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the subject, and we're going
Speaker 2: to be transparent, why don't we be honest about it?
Speaker 2: Kind of annoys me that we don't now to a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of people out there. I apologize if I'm wrong,
Speaker 2: because I have seen a couple of articles proclaiming that
Speaker 2: white women are not the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action
Speaker 2: and DEI. But throughout years, especially decades, when it came
Speaker 2: to folks talking about affirmative action, make no mistake about it,
Speaker 2: white women would deem the biggest beneficiaries.
Speaker 1: And people are still saying that now.
Speaker 2: Although there are articles to deny it, to say that's
Speaker 2: not true, whatever case you want to make, there is
Speaker 2: no denying that black folks aren't the only folks that
Speaker 2: are benefiting from DEI, that minorities are not the only
Speaker 2: folks benefiting from DEI, meaning.
Speaker 1: Folks other than white folks.
Speaker 2: Why is it that we're always associated with it, especially
Speaker 2: when words like unqualified come into the frame. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Of course, as I look here and they
Speaker 2: talk about who's going to follow, nobody's sure who's expected
Speaker 2: to follow Apple.
Speaker 1: In terms of their thinking.
Speaker 2: But other companies that confirm the commitment to DEI and
Speaker 2: the wake of the election and some of the orders
Speaker 2: being handed down by Trump, Ben and Jerry's Costco, Delta,
Speaker 2: ill Lone, JP, Morgan Chase, Microsoft, and Patagonia, those were folks, uh,
Speaker 2: the companies rather that confirm the commitment to DEI moving
Speaker 2: forward from Axios, many more companies appear to be pulling
Speaker 2: back DEI efforts, including Amazon, Boeing, Disney, Ford, Goldman, Sachs, Google, McDonald's, Meta, Nissan, Target, Toyota, Walmart.
Speaker 2: All our ask is that if we're gonna talk about it,
Speaker 2: let's talk about it. Let's address it with the honesty
Speaker 2: and fervency it deserves.
Speaker 1: That's all I ask. That's all I.
Speaker 2: Asked, because I really really think at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, that's gonna be necessary. We're gonna get it right.
Speaker 2: That's what we should want to do. Okay, coming up,
Speaker 2: he's the greatest hype man in the history of the
Speaker 2: music industry, the one and only flavor Flave from Public
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Speaker 2: this former team, the Dallas Mavericks last night in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: But should the rest of the Western Conference be paying
Speaker 2: attention as well? I'll get into all of that and
Speaker 2: then some trust me. This next segment, National Basketball Association.
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Speaker 2: Let's get to the NBA where the Lakers played the
Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks at home last night in the first meeting
Speaker 2: since Luka Doncheks was traded from the MAVs to the
Speaker 2: Lakers for Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Essentially, the Lakers beat the mass one.
Speaker 2: Oh seven and ninety nine as Luca put up a
Speaker 2: triple double against his old squad nineteen points, fifteen boards,
Speaker 2: twelve assists. In doing so, Dunton became the third play
Speaker 2: in NBA history to record a triple double against every franchise.
Speaker 2: The Lakers are now seven and two cents trading for
Speaker 2: Duncic and are now just two games out of the
Speaker 2: second seed, the number two seed in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, the Lakers have put everybody on notice.
Speaker 2: The Lakers have put everybody on notice.
Speaker 3: We could call it what, We could call it what
Speaker 3: say whatever.
Speaker 2: You will get Lebron James and those guys off the
Speaker 2: screen while I'm talking. Please, I don't even want to
Speaker 2: see him right now. I want America to see me.
Speaker 2: Let me tell y'all something I went to the world to
Speaker 2: see me. Let me tell y'all something right now. The
Speaker 2: Lakers could win the West. The Lakers could win the
Speaker 2: West every time. I believe in OKC something happens. Denver
Speaker 2: doesn't look quite like itself, especially after I saw what
Speaker 2: the Lakers did to them the other night and JJ
Speaker 2: Reddick's playing double end Yokis the way that he did,
Speaker 2: and Darren others to shoot. I'm paying attention to that,
Speaker 2: even though when Yokich and Jamal Murray you're clicking. Very
Speaker 2: few teams can beat them. The Memphis Grizzlies are the
Speaker 2: number two seed. I'm just not sold on Memphis perimeter shooting.
Speaker 2: I know what they can do anywhere else, but with
Speaker 2: their perimeter shooting, I got a huge question mark about them.
Speaker 1: Houston is very talented.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get into a track meet with
Speaker 2: them if I'm the law Los Angeles Lakers, but experience
Speaker 2: wins in the postseason, not youth and youthful exuberance, which
Speaker 2: Houston is loaded with. So I get that part to it,
Speaker 2: and I understand that reality, and I can't ignore that, Okay,
Speaker 2: I just can't. I'm telling you when I look at
Speaker 2: the Western Conference right now, I did a list on
Speaker 2: my day job, First Take on ESPN yesterday, and it
Speaker 2: was the top five challengers to the Boston Celtics for
Speaker 2: the championship. I had OKC number two.
Speaker 1: Do you know I had that number three the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I had Denver at four, and I had the Dallas
Speaker 2: Mavericks at five. And I'm gonna tell you why I
Speaker 2: got the Dallas Mavericks at five. When it comes to
Speaker 2: challenges for the Boston Celtics, let me tell you why
Speaker 2: I don't care that Dallas right now resides in the
Speaker 2: ninth seed. Okay, and don't get me wrong, I'm I
Speaker 2: mean Golden State is right on the outside looking in.
Speaker 3: But here's why I put Dallas as a top five threat.
Speaker 2: To Boston's aspirations to repeat his champions.
Speaker 1: Wait until Daniel Gafford and Anthony Davis come back. You
Speaker 1: just wait with Kyrie Irving, with PJ.
Speaker 2: Washington, with Klay Thompson that we saw last night drilling
Speaker 2: about five threes. When this brother gets hot, it's something
Speaker 2: to behold. Dallas can't be ignored. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: let's not forget the importance of Anthony Davis and how
Speaker 2: he has to produce. See, he's the one that was
Speaker 2: traded for Luca Duncic. Essentially, he's the reason why you
Speaker 2: didn't get like four or five picks from somebody else,
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis can't get on the court for the Dallas
Speaker 2: Mavericks the way that city and that fan base reacted
Speaker 2: to the departure of Luther Luka Doncic and go out
Speaker 2: there and play sub paul or play like trash. Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis has to play on a very elite level. They
Speaker 2: know he's hurt now, they'll accept that, They'll stomach it.
Speaker 2: But that brother, when he get back on the court,
Speaker 2: when he gets back on the.
Speaker 1: Court, he better be ready.
Speaker 2: There will never be more pressure on Anthony Davis to perform.
Speaker 2: Then it will be when he gets back healthy.
Speaker 3: And God forbid, Dallas and the Lakers meet in the.
Speaker 1: First round of the playoffs. Oh my god, the pressure
Speaker 1: that was this.
Speaker 2: See Lucas playing with house money because the Lakers acquired
Speaker 2: him for the next decade. Luke's playing with house money.
Speaker 2: What they looking at is what Anthony Davis is gonna do.
Speaker 2: That's how I'm looking at the West overall. The number
Speaker 2: one threat to the bosson Celtics is the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 1: I don't give it, damn what anybody say. Jared Allen Mobley.
Speaker 2: The acquisition of Hunter Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell that stud
Speaker 2: Cleveland got a crew best record in basketball. I'm here
Speaker 2: to tell y'all right now, the Cleveland Cavaliers could win
Speaker 2: it all. Boston is right there. They better be ready
Speaker 2: because Cleveland could beat anybody. I'm not saying they will.
Speaker 2: I'm not betting my money on that yet, but I'm telling.
Speaker 1: You they could do it. They could do it.
Speaker 2: But getting back to the Lakers, y'all, no excuse me, y'all,
Speaker 2: do know that JJ Reddick is one of the top
Speaker 2: candidates for Coach of the Year. Right I expected the
Speaker 2: Lakers to upgrade significantly offensively because I know what a
Speaker 2: brilliant basketball mind JJ Reddick is. I did not expect
Speaker 2: to see what I'm seeing defensively. Since like mid January,
Speaker 2: the Lakers have the best record in basketball. And oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, not only is that the case, they've
Speaker 2: got the top rated defense and eleven of their eighteen
Speaker 2: games in that span they went fourteen and four. Ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, Anthony Davis wasn't there for the eleven of
Speaker 2: the eighteen games, and they still got the top rated
Speaker 2: defense in basketball. Pay attention to ladies and gentlemen. I'm
Speaker 2: here to tell y'all, the Lakers are coming. Austin Reeves
Speaker 2: has been bawling hot ya Mora. Can't ignore him. Dorian
Speaker 2: Finney Smith and what he brings to the table for
Speaker 2: the Lakers. Can't ignore that Jackson Hayes is no slouch.
Speaker 2: I'm very pleased with what I'm seeing from the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Pleasantly surprised the Los Angeles Lakers. If Luca gets going,
Speaker 2: they can win the West. And if Lebron James is
Speaker 2: in the Final with Luca as his teammate at age forty,
Speaker 2: what could he do? I still don't see myself giving
Speaker 2: them goat status, but I might need cause I might.
Speaker 1: Have caused the pause. Just a thought, Just a thought.
Speaker 1: Moving on.
Speaker 2: To the next item here before we get to break,
Speaker 2: I wanted to give props to the WNBA's all time
Speaker 2: leading scorer, the one and only Diana Tarassi, officially retired
Speaker 2: from the WNBA after twenty seasons.
Speaker 1: She's forty two, and she's.
Speaker 2: Stepping away as one of the most decorated players in
Speaker 2: basketball history. Before I say anything like that, could y'all
Speaker 2: do me a favorite, please and just take a moment
Speaker 2: to look at this full screen and check out her resume.
Speaker 2: Three time w NBA Champion, two time WNBA Finals MVP,
Speaker 2: three time NCUBA Champion, two time NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player,
Speaker 2: six time Olympic Gold Medalists, two thousand and nine WNBA MVP,
Speaker 2: two time Nate Smith College Basketball Player of the Year,
Speaker 2: fourteen time All WNBA, ten time First Team, eleven time
Speaker 2: w NBA All Star two thousand and four, Rookie of
Speaker 2: the Year, Yeah, WNBA, five time WNBA Scoring Champion. My god,
Speaker 2: my god, who the hell has a resume like that?
Speaker 1: Who's this person? Who? Six gold medals? Six this basketball?
Speaker 2: Ladies and Genteren say swimming, I mean, hell, this is
Speaker 2: what she doing. Diana Tarassi, the White Mamba, that one,
Speaker 2: by the way, one of the best people that I've
Speaker 2: ever covered in professional sports. Are just a straight shooter,
Speaker 2: very authentic, you know, highly competitive, a winner on every level.
Speaker 1: She excuse me my language.
Speaker 2: She's just the shit, she really is, and the game
Speaker 2: is going to miss her.
Speaker 1: Thank you for all that you've done.
Speaker 2: For the game, Diana Tarassi, Thank you for all you
Speaker 2: have done for the game. You are something special, make
Speaker 2: no mistake about that. Coming up, I had the honor
Speaker 2: of interviewing the one and only flavor Flave. You don't
Speaker 2: want to miss that conversation that's coming up next. Plus,
Speaker 2: a man is found smuggling cocaine through an airport under
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Speaker 2: need to see to go along with that as well,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, So don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith show right here in the house, back
Speaker 1: for morning minute. What's up everybody, Stephen A Smith here.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. He is my next guest. He is
Speaker 2: a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner. He is a member
Speaker 2: of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, recipient of
Speaker 2: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a founding member,
Speaker 2: the founding member of the iconic group, the greatest group
Speaker 2: ever as far as our constern public animy all right,
Speaker 2: the one and only flavor Flamen.
Speaker 1: What how you doing, many man? Like a Colton the
Speaker 1: closet hanging in there, baby, I.
Speaker 2: Have ever had the pleasure of meeting you men. It
Speaker 2: is an honor, brother, It's been a met you on
Speaker 2: sepal occasions. But I've never ever interviewed you. I gotta
Speaker 2: know this. They flavor Flame. I mean, who the hell
Speaker 2: came up with that name? I mean, who would think
Speaker 2: of that name?
Speaker 1: It had to be you.
Speaker 5: Well, honestly, you know, back in the day, there was
Speaker 5: a guy that used to watch over me. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. His name was Kevin Starks. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And way back in the day, you know,
Speaker 5: I used to, you know, drink a lot of different
Speaker 5: flavored sodas, you know, the fruit punch, orange grete, you
Speaker 5: know everything, right, cherry and all that.
Speaker 1: And then also, you know, I like.
Speaker 5: Life savers, you know, need a bunch of life savers,
Speaker 5: you know, and the charms, lollipops and all of that.
Speaker 5: And my nickname that I grew up with is Rico.
Speaker 5: Oh so he used to call me Reek the flavor freak.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So when MC and first came around, Stephen back in
Speaker 5: the days, you know what I'm saying, and everybody had
Speaker 5: these common names, I wanted the name that nobody had,
Speaker 5: nobody else wanted, but yet it had to mean something.
Speaker 5: So I tried MC flavor and you know what, I
Speaker 5: stuck with that. And it was Chuck D that started
Speaker 5: calling me flavor Flavor. So Chuck D started calling you flavor.
Speaker 1: Flake, Flavor Flavors.
Speaker 5: Back in the days, remember we used to be like Yo, Bobby, Bob,
Speaker 5: Yo Johnny John. You know, was Chuck that started calling
Speaker 5: me flavor flav So you.
Speaker 2: Started the rap group Public Enemy. You founded this group.
Speaker 2: Tell me how that came about. I've never heard this story.
Speaker 1: Well, it's all started about. You know.
Speaker 5: All started when I was on my way up to
Speaker 5: the studio to go visit with my boy Chuck and
Speaker 5: Hank and Keith Shockley.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: We had the studio and and and in Hempstead.
Speaker 1: Long Island, all right. And I walked up.
Speaker 5: I walked up to the studio one day Steve Stephen
Speaker 5: Man and I heard, Wow. I'm like, what in the
Speaker 5: world is Chuck doing up in here?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 5: I walked in the I walked in the studio Stephen
Speaker 5: Chuck D. Back in the days, remember we had the
Speaker 5: cassette tapes. My boy Chuck D had to had to
Speaker 5: cassette coming out of the cassette deck around the microphone
Speaker 5: stand back into the cassette deck. Wow, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 5: I don't care what nobody say. That was the first loop.
Speaker 5: It was back in the days we used to make
Speaker 5: records with loops and stuff, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so.
Speaker 5: I told Chuck the story about this guy that wanted
Speaker 5: to battle him. You know what I'm saying. In the
Speaker 5: hall now, I was on my way up to the studio.
Speaker 5: Somebody wanted to battle Check and somebody wanted to battle Chuck.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. So I was like, Yo, Chuck,
Speaker 5: don't battle. You know what I'm saying. If anything will
Speaker 5: set you up for battle. He was like, yeah, but
Speaker 5: your man swear he nice. I said, look, he don't swear.
Speaker 1: He nice. Bro, he knows he nice.
Speaker 5: So anyway, Chuck was like, Yo, put that story on
Speaker 5: the beginning of this tape because we were making making
Speaker 5: the tape for WBAU ninety pointy three FM, you know,
Speaker 5: our radio, our radio station right from Delphi University.
Speaker 1: So so when I got on the mic and I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, yo, Chuck, pus the move man.
Speaker 5: I was on my way up here to the studio
Speaker 5: and this brother stopped me and asked me, yo, what's
Speaker 5: up with the brother, Chucky? Did he swear he nice?
Speaker 5: I said, the brother don't swear he nice. He knows
Speaker 5: he's nice. You know what I'm saying. So, Chuck, I
Speaker 5: got a feeling you turned into a public enemy.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: Now remember that line he was kicking me on the
Speaker 5: way out to l A Lorton Queen's while we was
Speaker 5: in the car and away to the shop. Well right,
Speaker 5: now kick the base for them brothers and let him know,
Speaker 5: Chuck what goes on? Chuck says, what goes on? Well,
Speaker 5: I'm all in and put it on the board.
Speaker 1: Another shot down from the mouth that rot like yo, yo,
Speaker 1: we gotta put this out. We gotta put this out.
Speaker 5: So so we put it out, you know what I'm
Speaker 5: saying on our radio station and everything and DMC, I
Speaker 5: mean run running jam Master J and them went crazy
Speaker 5: over it.
Speaker 1: So it was jam Master J.
Speaker 2: You know how I grew up with him. I grew
Speaker 2: up with Queen my late brother. Yeah, my late brother.
Speaker 2: My brother died in a car accident in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 2: He was really really good friends with jam Master J.
Speaker 2: I grew up on two third between one eleventh and twelfth,
Speaker 2: and jam Aster J. Was on the next block between
Speaker 2: one one eleventh and Hollis, So that's where it was.
Speaker 1: So jam Master J.
Speaker 2: And now when my brother passed away in the car accident,
Speaker 2: I was the one that let him know because he
Speaker 2: was away on tour. Run DMC and then was away
Speaker 2: on tour and they came back and he came looking
Speaker 2: for my brother and I had to let him know
Speaker 2: what had happened.
Speaker 1: He didn't even know that my brother had passed away.
Speaker 2: That's how far back I went with jam Aster Jay
Speaker 2: and Run DMC obviously was in the neighborhood and the whole,
Speaker 2: no doubt.
Speaker 1: That's that's how That's how far back it goes, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So go ahead.
Speaker 5: Well with jam Master J came up to the to
Speaker 5: the radio station. He was like, Yo, where's your boy,
Speaker 5: Chuck Man. Where's Chuck? We want to see Chuck. I said,
Speaker 5: Chuck is at the studio. So I got in this
Speaker 5: in the car with jam Master J and DMC. Right
Speaker 5: we went took him to the studio and jam Master
Speaker 5: J is the one that was trying to talk Chuck
Speaker 5: into putting Public.
Speaker 1: Enemy Number one out on Depth Jam. At the time.
Speaker 5: You know, Depth Jam didn't really have a lot of
Speaker 5: money then and everything, so artists wasn't really getting their
Speaker 5: fair shape around that time. But when the Beasties went platinum,
Speaker 5: one went platinum, LLLL went platinum, now they had enough money,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And Chuck said, you know what, Okay,
Speaker 5: come on, I'm down, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 5: we went to the we went to Death Jam and
Speaker 5: everything to sign and the whole nine. Rick Rubin and
Speaker 5: Russell Simmons. They did not want me. They only wanted Chuck.
Speaker 1: They didn't want you. They didn't want me because back
Speaker 1: in the days, you know, the voice texture, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I mean, the style was that wonder was that that
Speaker 5: basic that basic voice, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 5: my voice was real high, was peaky, It was annoying
Speaker 5: and the whole nine.
Speaker 1: So they didn't want me.
Speaker 5: So Chuck was like, yo, listen, if he's not if
Speaker 5: I don't have him, then this ain't gonna work. So
Speaker 5: it was Chuck D that forced me down Death Jam Stow.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, how do you when you
Speaker 2: when you think about Chuck D and him taking that
Speaker 2: position and risking jump starting what obviously an undeniably was
Speaker 2: a flourishing career.
Speaker 1: His willingness to stick with you, why do you think
Speaker 1: that was? Why did he do that? But his willingness
Speaker 1: to stick with me because we were a team.
Speaker 5: You know, teamwork make the dream work, right, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, And that we made a hell of
Speaker 5: a team, no question, he made a hell.
Speaker 1: Of a team.
Speaker 5: Well what I'm saying, I mean, if it ain't broken,
Speaker 5: you don't fix it.
Speaker 1: Chuck D.
Speaker 2: I saw an interview with him one time years ago.
Speaker 2: He called you the greatest hype man in music history.
Speaker 2: He said, you want to turn a show out, you
Speaker 2: want to get an audious hyped up. He said, you
Speaker 2: don't need anything but flavor flame. There is no nobody
Speaker 2: has ever ever been better than him.
Speaker 1: First of all, do you agree with that?
Speaker 2: And secondly, how does it make you feel to hear
Speaker 2: that Chuck D said that about you?
Speaker 5: I mean, well, I know that I am the originator,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, the first hype man in
Speaker 5: rap music period, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And and and my job was just to go out
Speaker 5: there on the stage really just get the crowd hype.
Speaker 1: That was my job to get the crowd hype.
Speaker 5: And I was always good with hyping up the crowd,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So so so that's how
Speaker 5: I got that title.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I say, the second flavor flame of the business was
Speaker 5: my boy Bushwik Bill okay from the Ghetto Boys. Because
Speaker 5: everything Bill did was flavor flave every thing. You know what,
Speaker 5: I give you props for Man, So he did man Man.
Speaker 5: That was my little brother Man. That was my brother Man.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. The third flavor flavor of
Speaker 5: the business, I say.
Speaker 1: Buster Rhymes. Okay, I was gonna say d MX. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say DMX. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait,
Speaker 1: what's the hype man? But d MX?
Speaker 5: But but but d MX was a solo He was
Speaker 5: a solo artist. But we're talking about you know, group wise,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And Buster Rhymes came from
Speaker 5: leaders of the New School, so he was like the
Speaker 5: hype man of the leaders of the New School, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. Then the fourth flavor flavor of
Speaker 5: the business, I say, was my cousin O D B.
Speaker 1: Damn. How many, how many, how many layers of the
Speaker 1: flavor Flavors. Did damn it? You just gave me five? Five?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: That's five. You know what I'm saying. Number four was
Speaker 5: O D B from wu Ting. Number five Spliff Star
Speaker 5: from Flip Mode. Okay, and he's still with Buster right now.
Speaker 5: Tan up stuff, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Special.
Speaker 2: So when you think about a hype man, and you know,
Speaker 2: we know the job that comes with it. Whatever, people
Speaker 2: would have looked at you and say that's all you are?
Speaker 2: What would you describe yourself as being?
Speaker 1: Is it just that? Or was it so much more
Speaker 1: than that?
Speaker 2: And people never really really appreciated what you brought to
Speaker 2: the table.
Speaker 5: Well, I consider me that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And plus I was a whole lot more. I was
Speaker 5: a leader. I was a trendsetter. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: because I set trends. You know what I'm saying around.
Speaker 1: Your not.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to tell you now. And not only that,
Speaker 5: but you know I'm the one that put out to
Speaker 5: say back in the day, the high top fade that's
Speaker 5: flave in a high top fade was flaved. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, then, kid, and play came with his
Speaker 5: you know play from kN Like. The reason why his
Speaker 5: hair was so high is because we were in competition
Speaker 5: and he said, flav when I passed you, I'm never
Speaker 5: gonna let you catch me.
Speaker 1: So that's why his was so high, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But the first ones that had a fade, the low
Speaker 5: top fade was Grace Jones and Larry Blackman, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean.
Speaker 1: The whole nine. I just took it and I grew
Speaker 1: mind high. And then I put that out in the street.
Speaker 5: Did everybody start taking my hairstot cutting it into the gumbies?
Speaker 1: Have you ever had the gumby? No? I have nothing,
Speaker 1: not me, not me.
Speaker 2: You know, I gotta ask you this man, because growing
Speaker 2: up listening to Public Enemy, man, I the lyrics was
Speaker 2: what moved me, you know what I'm saying. And they didn't.
Speaker 2: They didn't care. Fight the Power is my all time favorite.
Speaker 2: I still listen to give it up every morning. Now, No,
Speaker 2: now I do that, you know? So now one one
Speaker 2: is a joke. I mean, come on, the list goes
Speaker 2: on and on. I'm just wondering, first of all, what's
Speaker 2: your favorite.
Speaker 1: Song of all time? By Public Enemy?
Speaker 5: Public Enemy number one, because because that's the first record
Speaker 5: that we ever made, and that's the one that I
Speaker 5: had most fun making, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I had a lot of involvement, you know, with
Speaker 1: making that record, you know.
Speaker 5: But it was our first regular, our first single, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, And yeah, that's my favorite one
Speaker 5: out of all of them. Out of everything that we've
Speaker 5: ever made, what do you believe was the most impactful?
Speaker 1: Which song? I'd say, Fight the Power?
Speaker 5: Fight the power definitely, and Fight the Power is also
Speaker 5: the song that launched us into the Rock and Roll
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: When you think about that, we know what that stand for.
Speaker 1: We know that was all about.
Speaker 2: You were speaking against the man, speaking against the systems,
Speaker 2: speaking against oppression in the eyes of a lot of
Speaker 2: black people. That's how we absorbed and that's why we
Speaker 2: admired and loved y'all so much. And I loved the
Speaker 2: title public Enemy because it was sigonified that mentality. That's
Speaker 2: why I love Chuck D so much, because Chuck D
Speaker 2: was like the data enemy whoever they are, come because
Speaker 2: we know y'all don't think this of us. We know
Speaker 2: y'all trying to hold us back, and you were calling
Speaker 2: it out with song after song after song. Did you
Speaker 2: ever worry that the public at large would come against
Speaker 2: you just the same way they went against NWA. It's
Speaker 2: the same way they went against other music groups in
Speaker 2: the past. Did you ever fear that you would be
Speaker 2: a target because you were a public enemy?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: We never feared anything, and that's the reason why we
Speaker 5: did what we did, you know what I'm saying, Because
Speaker 5: we wanted to you know, we were to see any
Speaker 5: end of the streets, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: In the wholl nine and not only that, but public
Speaker 5: enemy also, you know, stands for the black man being
Speaker 5: the lowest on the totem pole, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: And that's the last to get the to get the
Speaker 5: best of the best, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The whole night, we wasn't scared to speak about that.
Speaker 5: And not only that, but we never feared anybody period,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. I mean, whatever we did,
Speaker 5: it came from our heart, It came from our souls,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. It was a time when
Speaker 5: we did a gig down in South Carolina and we
Speaker 5: were the only group ever to hang a Kool Klux
Speaker 5: Klansmen on stage, And now was the time, there was
Speaker 5: a time when when when when we did that show
Speaker 5: down in South Carolina, we hung that Kool Klux Klansmen
Speaker 5: on stage. Yeah, the f OI had to come and
Speaker 5: walk us out. Yeah, fu the Bisulam had to come
Speaker 5: and walk They had to come and walk out. You
Speaker 5: had to come walk What was gonna happen to y'all?
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, KKK's man was they was?
Speaker 5: They was piling up, They were waiting outside. They was
Speaker 5: waiting and wasn't gonna let us out. That's right. They
Speaker 5: wasn't gonna let us out. But we got out. You
Speaker 5: got out because f r Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: FOI helped us get out. Yeah. But we never feared
Speaker 1: it though. You didn't fear the Kukluks playing waiting outside
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 5: No, we never feared anyone period. We don't fear nobody.
Speaker 5: The only only thing we made fear in this world
Speaker 5: is God.
Speaker 2: Was that a conversation that y'all had amongst one another
Speaker 2: in terms of not having that fear or was it
Speaker 2: innate and immediately understood, Yo, you're a part of this
Speaker 2: is the kind of this is the kind of metal
Speaker 2: that you got to.
Speaker 1: It was already understood, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Stamped stamp, that's how That's how we was, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And when we and when we came,
Speaker 5: we let you know we was coming strong. Don't get
Speaker 5: in our way because so you announced it before he
Speaker 5: run you over. So you announced it beforehand.
Speaker 1: Everybody knew it. He was very transparent. They knew what
Speaker 1: it was coming. That's right.
Speaker 2: You brought up South Carolina. Any place else in this
Speaker 2: country that stands out in terms of locale where you
Speaker 2: performed and you had to worry about just South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Just that, just that one incident right there. Outside of that,
Speaker 1: every place else, cool thing else was cooler than four
Speaker 1: blocks of ice Q. And why do you think that was? That?
Speaker 1: It was cool everywhere else?
Speaker 5: Because everybody was understanding what you know, we were talking about.
Speaker 5: Not only that, but a lot of people were standing
Speaker 5: up for what we were talking about about, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And right now to this day, you know,
Speaker 5: when it comes down to understanding public enemy, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Right now, we have a more predominantly
Speaker 5: white audience than a black audience and.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that is? How do you explain that, right?
Speaker 5: Because there's a lot of people that love, love, learning
Speaker 5: about Black history, and once they find out, you know,
Speaker 5: the truth about black history, then they get into it
Speaker 5: more and more and more and more.
Speaker 2: But but is this just something that said about white
Speaker 2: people wanting more to know more about black history than
Speaker 2: black people.
Speaker 5: I think black people should really want to know their
Speaker 5: history just as much as the white people want to
Speaker 5: know our history.
Speaker 2: I'm just asking that question in terms of to me,
Speaker 2: the fan base shouldn't be stronger amongst whites than black
Speaker 2: it's public enemy. It shouldn't be more more white people
Speaker 2: than black people support y'all.
Speaker 5: But it is though even to this day, even to
Speaker 5: this day, but we still have our black nation supporting us. Now,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, It's just that white people
Speaker 5: decide to dig into us more.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: Let me transition. Let me transition to what's going on today.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling about the hip hop industry today?
Speaker 1: Yo? Man?
Speaker 5: The hip hop industry is what it is. I call
Speaker 5: it changing of the guards, Steve. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You know, I mean music has changed a lot, you know,
Speaker 5: what I'm saying since since we since since we since
Speaker 5: we started. You feel what I'm saying. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: a different generation now. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You're okay with it?
Speaker 5: Or you are you depressed by Hey, I'm not depressed
Speaker 5: by anything. Man, I'm adapting to it, just like everybody
Speaker 5: else adapted to my music and to what we do. Hey,
Speaker 5: when the guards changed, you gotta you gotta adapt to that.
Speaker 2: Do you care about the message or lack thereof or
Speaker 2: absence thereof? Like for example, y'all spoke with a purpose.
Speaker 2: Every lyric you dropped, it was a purpose to it
Speaker 2: with Chuck d and the crew. Right, Well, look n
Speaker 2: to me be talking about here, that's entirely different than
Speaker 2: somebody that really ain't got a message.
Speaker 1: That's just ship.
Speaker 5: I just wish that a lot of rap rap records
Speaker 5: today have more messages what we're talking and conscious messages
Speaker 5: to it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You know the day, I mean, we're more about glorifying
Speaker 5: you know, guns, drugs, gangs. You know what I'm saying. Women,
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. In the whole night Back
Speaker 5: in the day, it wasn't like that. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. And not only that, but back in the
Speaker 5: days when you had a rap battle, rap battling was fun, right,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's not fun today, you know, And why is it?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I mean put it this way.
Speaker 5: Okay, everybody loves a rap battle now, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, because look, battling it makes you step your penmanship,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. In the whole night and
Speaker 5: back in the days when we did it, it was fun.
Speaker 5: It wasn't never about I'm going to kill you. Well
Speaker 5: on my I got a bullet with your name. It
Speaker 5: was always about it was always yeah, yeah, It's always
Speaker 5: about sticking up for your neighborhood and making your neighborhood shine.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I wish it was more
Speaker 1: of that. I wish it. I wish you can go
Speaker 1: back to that.
Speaker 2: How you feel about the whole Kendrick Lamar drake uh
Speaker 2: situation that unfolded.
Speaker 5: Hey, I employed both of them because I'm a big
Speaker 5: fan of both of them and I love them both equally,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And they both are trend setters.
Speaker 5: They both are trend setters, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 5: in the whole nine and and I feel like their
Speaker 5: rap battle really brought some awareness to to rap music today,
Speaker 5: you know, and the youngsters can understand what the rat
Speaker 5: battle is all about.
Speaker 1: You know, Hey, these boys did they think man? Kendrick
Speaker 1: did his thing. Kendrick did his thing.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say the same about Drake. I think
Speaker 2: Drake lost this one. Yeah you think yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: And here's my whole point.
Speaker 1: I loved you and I loved Drake. Drake's a big
Speaker 1: time talent, the whole bit.
Speaker 2: And now I won't say this. I'm gonna say this
Speaker 2: right front of you. You correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: I got on Drake. I didn't get on Drake because
Speaker 2: he you know, Kendrick got oning, not like us. What
Speaker 2: I got on him about is I know you were
Speaker 2: it was the record companies you were sowing. But what
Speaker 2: I was saying was in hip hop, nah, you go
Speaker 2: to the studio and you want.
Speaker 1: Up that cat with your own record, or you bow
Speaker 1: down and concede he got you right, that's what you do.
Speaker 2: And I opposed to going to lawyers and trying to
Speaker 2: sue record companies to make sure the record don't get played.
Speaker 1: That was my issue. And now if you have a problem.
Speaker 5: With that, and that's why I wish that you know, music,
Speaker 5: rap music can return back to what it used to
Speaker 5: be fun, right because going through going through lawyers, getting
Speaker 5: lawyers and all of this and doing it, it's not fun,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, It's just another animal.
Speaker 2: I want to get into a serious subject before I
Speaker 2: let you get on out of here. Man, I appreciate
Speaker 2: your time. Man, thank you so much, no doubt you.
Speaker 1: And Chuck d.
Speaker 2: Recently visited black families displaced by the Altadena Altadna eating
Speaker 2: wildfires in California and started something called the Displaced Black
Speaker 2: Families Go funded Me directory.
Speaker 1: Tell me about it?
Speaker 5: Well, well, let's go fundme that we created, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. We partnered it up with the Black
Speaker 5: Music Action Coalition, you know what I'm saying. And this is,
Speaker 5: you know, to give back to a lot of black
Speaker 5: families that wasn't really being taken care of after the fires. No,
Speaker 5: a lot of black families lost their stuff and they
Speaker 5: wasn't really getting it just doe. So we created that
Speaker 5: go fund me to help them out.
Speaker 2: What was it like for you to go out there
Speaker 2: and visit those folks and see not only what they
Speaker 2: were what they were going through emotionally, but to see
Speaker 2: the wreckage, to see the actual damage.
Speaker 1: That it was real sad. Man. See what I saw,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And it reminded me of when Katrina hit New Orleans.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Because for miles and miles
Speaker 5: and miles, you have just deserted land. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, deserted Man, out there, you got deserted the land.
Speaker 5: Everything is burnt down. The only thing that's standing out
Speaker 5: of the ground is Chimney's, but everything else is going.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: You know, I felt bad for these people. Man, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I wouldn't wish that on no one, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But that's why we're in this l A strong shirt
Speaker 5: and I'm standing strong for LA.
Speaker 2: While you got the Lakers there and not the Lakers
Speaker 2: in the clipp.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, hey, can I tell you why? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's magic Johnson's Company, got it? You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Come on, magic magic anywhere anyway.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, anyway, you're gonna go to some basketball games
Speaker 2: and in their future gonna go out there to watch
Speaker 2: the Lakers playing out that they got Luca Dungeon.
Speaker 1: I sure do.
Speaker 5: I mean Lebron is my favorite basketball player. Favorite, he's
Speaker 5: my favorite. You mean president of all time?
Speaker 1: Right now? Ok no, no, no, just right now, okay,
Speaker 1: my favorite of all time. Michael Jordan. You know that
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. He ain't even brought it. We ain't even
Speaker 1: so Who's who's the goat? Doctor Julia Survey? Stop that?
Speaker 1: What do? Stop that? Are you KidSing flavoro? Check that out?
Speaker 1: Check the stoping man? Check this out.
Speaker 5: Michael Jordans and a whole bunch of other people in
Speaker 5: basketball right now, got that man style.
Speaker 1: That man brought the style to basketball. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you can just plenty of originators.
Speaker 2: You have plenty of originators, But that don't mean they
Speaker 2: can't be one up. That doesn't mean they can't be
Speaker 2: taking your another life time you want, doctor j play,
Speaker 2: he wasn't Michael Jordan. He's phenomen No, No, he made
Speaker 2: house calls. No, there's only one Michael Jordan. That's right,
Speaker 2: There's only one Michael Jordan period.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, And I ain't gonna go ahid, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's the goat, he's the gold.
Speaker 1: He's the goat.
Speaker 5: But the reason why I called doctor j the gold
Speaker 5: is because Michael Jordan got his style from Doctor.
Speaker 2: J Fine, I'm just saying, so I'm just saying, I'm
Speaker 2: just saying. I'm just I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: The greatest is only gonna get their style from the greatest.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you could be the originator, but that
Speaker 2: don't make you the go because there were things that
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan did that Doctor j couldn't do it his.
Speaker 5: Greatest, Doctor Jon right right, Hey, let me tell you something.
Speaker 5: When Michael Jordan took that style, he developed it into
Speaker 5: his okay, all right, and he put off a bunch
Speaker 5: more to it, and he added on on to it.
Speaker 2: You feel so just understand that. I mean, you almost
Speaker 2: lost me, right, you almost lost me.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lose you, man, Okay. I mean I
Speaker 1: can't even put Doctor Jay over Lebron.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 1: I can't put Doctor Jay over Lebron.
Speaker 5: No, I can't either. But this is different, This is
Speaker 5: a different day in a different time. But you gotta
Speaker 5: remember the Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, all of them, all
Speaker 5: of them.
Speaker 1: Man got that doctor Julius Irving style. Doctor j got
Speaker 1: it from Connie.
Speaker 2: Hawky Okay, and it was a David Tomter before ever
Speaker 2: after Connie Hawk. I mean, you understand, did we call
Speaker 2: Donnie CONNYE.
Speaker 1: Hawk is the greatest?
Speaker 2: Connie Hawkins was the man Vince Carter the greatest in
Speaker 2: game dunker of all time?
Speaker 1: Do we call him to go? No?
Speaker 2: Because we understand this levels to this. It's Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: and there's everybody else.
Speaker 1: I ain't mad at you. You understand. I'm not mad at you.
Speaker 1: Want that. I believe in you. I'm not mad. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: I had to reach I couldn't let you walk out
Speaker 2: of here play think I like that.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you something, man. You just don't know
Speaker 5: how proud of you that I am. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, How you just made your.
Speaker 1: Own lane, bro? You made your own lane. Man. You
Speaker 1: came into this announcement game.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: This personality that you got, Bro, listen, man, it takes over,
Speaker 5: It takes over. You know what I'm saying, and you
Speaker 5: built your own lane. Ain't no other sports announcer out
Speaker 5: there like Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith None none.
Speaker 2: I love you, Bro, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Just like me, I created
Speaker 1: a lane for Yeah. Yes, and there's never been another.
Speaker 2: See, I ain't saying somebody came along and it clipped
Speaker 2: play for play.
Speaker 1: You understand that's never been another. Never. Don't care who
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: Even though they did tell me Jay Z and them
Speaker 2: DMX bro that brother GMx was the man.
Speaker 1: Yes, yo, he was very heightened. That was my boy, man.
Speaker 2: I'm you imagine seeing you in DMX together, good Lord
Speaker 2: of Mercy, that would have been spectaculous. Yeah, no doubt,
Speaker 2: Flavor Flav, Ladies and gentlemen, the honor was all mine.
Speaker 5: Stephen Ah Smith, Ladies and gentleman, and the honor is
Speaker 5: all mine.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks again to the one and only Flavor.
Speaker 2: Flav really enjoyed sitting down and talking with them. Met
Speaker 2: him a few times before, but never had the opportunity
Speaker 2: to sit down and actually interview him.
Speaker 1: So I really appreciative of that. He is arguably the
Speaker 1: greatest hype man ever.
Speaker 2: Ain't no denying that, right, Anyway, before we get on
Speaker 2: out of here, we're gonna get to your tweets. But
Speaker 2: before we even get to that, I wanted to address
Speaker 2: another story that caught my eye this week. Did y'all
Speaker 2: see the dude that was arrested for smuggling cocaine in
Speaker 2: his two pee?
Speaker 1: Did y'all see this?
Speaker 2: The man was caught in Columbia right before he was
Speaker 2: boarding a flight to Amsterdam.
Speaker 1: Look at him crying, Look at him crying, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: When police arrested him, they found more than two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty grams of cocaine in his fake to look
Speaker 2: at him.
Speaker 1: Look at him. Damn.
Speaker 2: Whatever it takes, Hunh, whatever it takes, I'd make him
Speaker 2: keep his hat off.
Speaker 1: I make him keep his damn hand.
Speaker 2: Now, keep that hat off right there, Keep that hat
Speaker 2: off there. Let everybody see the cocaine on you on
Speaker 2: your head right there. Look at that stuff right there.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's nothing people won't do. I mean, damn
Speaker 2: cocaine in the two pay. He was crying is shoe crying?
Speaker 3: Choe didn't way to tell you, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: Look at this Lord a mercy desperate times. That's what measures, hunh,
Speaker 2: he tried to get it through his two pay. I
Speaker 2: wonder what made him think he could get away with that.
Speaker 2: I mean when you're going through the screening and the
Speaker 2: stuff like look at him, see him crying, y'all see him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he knew, he knew what the hell that was.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 2: Not only did they sense it, they knew exactly where
Speaker 2: it was. The screening man got it right there on camera.
Speaker 2: Look at him. Damn, he screwed. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the laws are on Columbia either, but kind of smuggle cocaine, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know whether it was into Colombia or out
Speaker 2: of Columbia.
Speaker 1: Brothers in the world of trouble. Damn. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to say. I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 2: I know every time I see somebody with a tupe on,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be thinking about this story, wondering what they got.
Speaker 1: In their two pay. That's what I'm gonna be doing. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Before we get on out of here, let's get to
Speaker 1: the tweets. Please, let's get to the tweets at says
Speaker 1: for President Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 2: This is somebody that this has nothing to do with me,
Speaker 2: no affiliation with me whatsoever. Ladies and gentlemen, this is
Speaker 2: not me, but it is fun for people to come
Speaker 2: at me with that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. My name is Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1: Approve that message anyway?
Speaker 2: All joking aside, somebody writes, Steven A. Smith, what would
Speaker 2: be your first order of business as president? I don't
Speaker 2: know what my first order of business would be. I
Speaker 2: know what my focus would be. My number one focus
Speaker 2: would be fueling the economy. It wouldn't be blasting everyone
Speaker 2: with terriffs. I can tell you that much.
Speaker 1: I would tell you that I would have closed the border.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that.
Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't be bothering people who are already in
Speaker 2: the country, but I would do everything within my power
Speaker 2: to ensure that no one else enters. I can tell
Speaker 2: you that much. And then I would target, just like
Speaker 2: mister Holman is doing with ICE. I would target criminals
Speaker 2: that are in this country illegally, and I'd get them
Speaker 2: up out of here.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, no question about it.
Speaker 2: That would definitely be near or right at the top
Speaker 2: of my list.
Speaker 1: I would close the borders.
Speaker 2: I would target criminals you understand that that are in
Speaker 2: this country illegally, and I would be doing everything that
Speaker 2: I can to fuel the economy because here's my personal belief.
Speaker 1: That's why I tell you I'm a capitalist, Okay.
Speaker 2: I believe that people know how to act when they
Speaker 2: have something to lose. I believe our society is only
Speaker 2: as strong as its weakest link. And if you're rife
Speaker 2: with people who have absolutely nothing to lose, Okay, then
Speaker 2: anarchy and chaos exist, and mayhem exist.
Speaker 3: I don't like that, but when you make sure that
Speaker 3: as many people.
Speaker 2: As possible actually have, I think that goes a long
Speaker 2: way towards your society being as civilized as possible. So
Speaker 2: I would be about fueling the economy in a very
Speaker 2: positive way. Obviously that comes with minimizing inflation, okay. And
Speaker 2: I would definitely target issues concerning the border because the
Speaker 2: reality is is that we don't need any more folks
Speaker 2: coming into this country, especially illegally, until we get our
Speaker 2: house in order. It's not to denigrate anybody that's trying
Speaker 2: to come from a desolate place and trying to get
Speaker 2: to the United States of America.
Speaker 1: It's not about that.
Speaker 2: It's that America doesn't have its own house and order
Speaker 2: right now, and we'd have to change That's where I'm
Speaker 2: coming from with it. Next tweet, which guy this is
Speaker 2: at Broun got game rights?
Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith.
Speaker 2: If Lebron joined the Knicks and brought a championship to
Speaker 2: New York, wouild you have him as the goat? That's
Speaker 2: a damn good question. I might say yes because I'm
Speaker 2: so biased in favor of the Knicks that it's the
Speaker 2: one thing that can get me to soften my position
Speaker 2: on Jordan, who destroyed my next time and time and
Speaker 2: time again.
Speaker 1: So I would tell you that, not that it's not.
Speaker 2: A definitive yes, but when I think about it, yes,
Speaker 2: my whole latitude towards.
Speaker 1: Lebron would be different. If Lebron was a New York Knick.
Speaker 2: Hell, I might quit the business and just go in
Speaker 2: and join his boy Randy and be an.
Speaker 1: Assistant for him whatever he.
Speaker 3: Needed, whatever he needed, I would do what I need
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: And if I didn't feel he was a.
Speaker 2: Goat, I'd lie about it if it got him to
Speaker 2: play better and deliver a championship to New York, whatever
Speaker 2: it takes, whatever it takes, because that's how that's what
Speaker 2: I am for my New York Nicks capture championship they
Speaker 2: ain't had was in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1: I''t believe admit that very biased about my knicks, very
Speaker 1: so much so. Last tweet, what you got?
Speaker 2: This is from Goldie au h two oh right, Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith.
Speaker 3: Who's your top choice for VP?
Speaker 1: You mean my top choice for VP?
Speaker 2: If I was the president of the presidential candidate for
Speaker 2: the United States of America, I got to tell you something.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something. I like both Jos Shapiro
Speaker 1: and Wes Moore.
Speaker 2: Okay, but if you don't mind, allow me to fill
Speaker 2: out some of my cabinet, I would have I look
Speaker 2: at a guy like Wes Moore. Man, that brother is impressive.
Speaker 2: Governor of Maryland, I would have to I would want
Speaker 2: him in my cabinet.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. I'd have to figure that out.
Speaker 1: Definitely put him in there. I'd have Chris Cuomo as
Speaker 1: my chief of staff. I'd have Chris Christie as my
Speaker 1: attorney General.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would, believe it or not, I would find
Speaker 2: a prominent role for AOC. But again, those are folks
Speaker 2: on the left. Outside of Christy. I'm a fan of
Speaker 2: Nikki Hiley. I'd have her in a row. I don't
Speaker 2: like buyer In Donald's unwavering support of everything that is Trump,
Speaker 2: but I respect that man. I think he's got a
Speaker 2: chance to win the goubernatorial seat in Florida. But I
Speaker 2: wouldn't mind having him as a member of my cabinet.
Speaker 1: I like Marco Rubio. I wouldn't be averse to him.
Speaker 2: I you know, I mean, I just think about certain
Speaker 2: things I gotta think about.
Speaker 1: I gotta think about it.
Speaker 2: A lot, and see, you know, i'd have a diverse cabinet,
Speaker 2: And let me say this, I'd have Republicans and Democrats
Speaker 2: in my cabinet. I want the ideas bouncing off of
Speaker 2: one another, so I know that I'm getting an.
Speaker 1: Accurate depiction of what both sides feel.
Speaker 2: So when I make a decision, I'm very confident in
Speaker 2: the decision that I'm making because I've heard.
Speaker 1: All parties involved. That's the best way that I can
Speaker 1: answer that question. I hope it suffices. I gotta get
Speaker 1: on out of here.
Speaker 2: Thanks again the Flavor Flavor for coming on the show.
Speaker 2: Really really appreciated. Hope you all in joy what I
Speaker 2: had to say. Wishing nothing but the best for joy reading.
Speaker 2: Moving forward and to the rest of y'all. I'll holler
Speaker 2: at y'all in a couple of days. Until then, peace
Speaker 2: of love, everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm out.