Speaker 1: Gee.
Speaker 2: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 2: and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that, right,
Speaker 2: Lauren came, y'all we start with a clap, Bring Pat,
Speaker 2: bring it the dope with me up?
Speaker 1: Yes, the interview.
Speaker 2: All right, y'all, welcome back to another episode of the
Speaker 2: Latest with Lauren Rosa. I'm your host, Lauren Rosa, and
Speaker 2: you know that this is your daily dig into all
Speaker 2: things pop culture, exclusive news and the conversations that shake
Speaker 2: the room. I'm the homegrowld and knows a bit about
Speaker 2: everything and everybody. But joining me today, Brandon's here as
Speaker 2: I am back. We got lost has been on the
Speaker 2: podcast Call Those Poke is back Carlos Pop. That's his
Speaker 2: podcast name, Carlos Poke. But we have a special guest
Speaker 2: in the room. West Coast is in the building. DJ
Speaker 2: Head is here round of a park.
Speaker 1: Greetings and salutation, appreciate.
Speaker 3: It's my first time meeting DJ Hend. We have some
Speaker 3: wild conversations and I said, oh yeah, my first time
Speaker 3: yeah interacting verbally, yes, so wow, ecy to see where
Speaker 3: this podcast goes to.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, the way that we kick off the
Speaker 2: podcast Head your first time here is we do a
Speaker 2: behind the grind, behind the scenes of the grind checking okay,
Speaker 2: because you know, people, we be moving, we've been grooving.
Speaker 2: You literally are here for like twenty four hours if
Speaker 2: even that, literally exactly, and were working all day long
Speaker 2: and people don't ask you how are you doing it?
Speaker 2: If they do, they don't really mean it.
Speaker 3: But here, never ask people how they do it because
Speaker 3: I don't be genuinely giving the fuck. So I just
Speaker 3: so people be like, hey, how you doing? Like, hey,
Speaker 3: I don't like ask it back. Yeah, because it's a rhetorical.
Speaker 2: Question, that's exactly. So normally, this is exactly why we
Speaker 2: do it this way the way that we do it here,
Speaker 2: because it is not rhetorical here. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask you how are you doing? I honestly want to know.
Speaker 2: It can be one word, it could be one sentence.
Speaker 2: We keep it concise and then we dig a little
Speaker 2: bit more. But it's real cute, but it's a real
Speaker 2: check in. Okay, So how you doing that?
Speaker 1: I'm blessed.
Speaker 2: Oh blessed is a good know where you was gonna
Speaker 2: go science?
Speaker 3: Now I'm blessed. You know, I'm not sleeping, but I'm blessed.
Speaker 2: Okay, why are you feeling blessed? Like is there something
Speaker 2: specific that happened recently?
Speaker 1: No, it's not that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm definitely blessed with opportunities and stuff. But
Speaker 3: I think that like anytime I just wake I think
Speaker 3: life is really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wake up every.
Speaker 3: Day and like I'll be in my house and I
Speaker 3: see birds outside and may be chirping and ship.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is some cool ship.
Speaker 3: Like life in general, like everything is like symbiotic and
Speaker 3: working together, and so I'm just grateful for life and animation.
Speaker 2: But that's a good way to think about things, that
Speaker 2: life is really really cool. I feel blessed in the
Speaker 2: moment as well. To Brandon, how you feeling.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling good too, I'm feeling good as well. I
Speaker 3: want to ask to what you said earlier about like this,
Speaker 3: how are you questioned? My people I know overseas say
Speaker 3: that's like an American thing where we'll say how are you.
Speaker 1: And just walk right past, like we don't really know
Speaker 1: what they do.
Speaker 2: Overseas, they'd be like, hi, how are you.
Speaker 3: Stop and be like, hey, I'm doingcast Americas be like
Speaker 3: how are you? Just keep it moving, don't even care
Speaker 3: how you do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I asked, y'all, hear how y'all doing? I
Speaker 2: really care how you're doing. Oh, so use that I'm
Speaker 2: stopping here, we're having conversations about you.
Speaker 3: Was asking so we could just contemplate with ourselves.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't want to know because it'd be a
Speaker 2: lot going on. I feel like people who are career
Speaker 2: busy and very like career and and like you know,
Speaker 2: pushing through the grind, be compartmentalized very easily. And that
Speaker 2: is a good thing, but it can also be a
Speaker 2: bad thing because eventually, like those compartments get full and
Speaker 2: I mean, had I know you don't like to be
Speaker 2: vulnerable and stuff, but it's.
Speaker 3: Not that I don't like to be vulnerable. I just
Speaker 3: I just expressed myself differently than most people.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take that.
Speaker 1: But I'm emotionally divergent, divergent.
Speaker 2: Please explain that, because that could have been how you
Speaker 2: doing today, just like.
Speaker 3: You know how people are neuro divergent, which I also
Speaker 3: subscribe to. I think I'm emotionally divergent, meaning you're just
Speaker 3: outside of the north.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotcha, Well, I mean inside or outside of the
Speaker 2: The reason why I do it is just because I
Speaker 2: feel like in my own personal life, I'm one to
Speaker 2: be like, No, I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm cool.
Speaker 2: And then it gets to a point where it starts
Speaker 2: to show and work that I'm not cool, And then
Speaker 2: I got to take a step back.
Speaker 3: I think we're scared of the bad answers though, I'm
Speaker 3: just that, like, God, damn, I got to really console
Speaker 3: you and for you, and now I'm not mad that
Speaker 3: your mom died anything. But it's a lot to take
Speaker 3: it when somebody just throws why even indulge.
Speaker 1: To be nice? To be nice, but.
Speaker 3: It's not nice if it's disingenuous, if it's being if
Speaker 3: you're being disingenuous, how is it nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm it's just a courtesy.
Speaker 3: I don't think you got to be I think they'll
Speaker 3: still take it as a as a gesture.
Speaker 1: I don't think you necessarily have to.
Speaker 3: I feel like, genuine like genuinely know how somebody is doing.
Speaker 3: That's a little nosy, Like it's really dull. It's a
Speaker 3: little nosy to ask how you're doing and expect a
Speaker 3: deep dive answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I think it's a setting as well too, So
Speaker 2: like here, like if I went like my friends and
Speaker 2: wear a like. It depends on who I'm talking to them,
Speaker 2: where we are. Sometimes I do just say out of courtesy,
Speaker 2: because it's like when you walk into a room you speak,
Speaker 2: you have to speak like that type of thing. But
Speaker 2: in other settings, if I ask, I really like, you know,
Speaker 2: likew you doing, like how are you?
Speaker 1: We just deep dive into the hell, let's get at
Speaker 1: the topic. I just want to chime in.
Speaker 4: There is this guy, a monk, Buddhist monk that he escaping,
Speaker 4: moved in New York, you know. Yeah, his name is
Speaker 4: Don Dapani, and he would say, he would say, don't
Speaker 4: ask people how you doing, because you're asking to take
Speaker 4: on that energy. Just send out good energy, like I
Speaker 4: hope that well. So a lot of times you might
Speaker 4: hear me say I hope all as well, or I'll
Speaker 4: start an email off I hope all as well. If
Speaker 4: it ain't, then ship I hope. But I ain't ask
Speaker 4: you if it wasn't. I'm just correct.
Speaker 2: I start my email stuff like that because I was
Speaker 2: just trained at work that that's how you do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but when somebody give you that energy, you asking
Speaker 4: for a lot because you ain't even start your day
Speaker 4: sometimes like, ah.
Speaker 2: Man, but you're feeling okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm feeling great. I do.
Speaker 4: I am beginning to think I may need to get
Speaker 4: like evaluated. I think I might be on the spectrum
Speaker 4: a little bit. I think I said something. I'm just
Speaker 4: starting to think that way.
Speaker 1: I might be.
Speaker 2: Put it out there, but like.
Speaker 1: It is because some people be sensitive.
Speaker 4: So if I say I feel like I might be autistic,
Speaker 4: then they might take that as like a like a
Speaker 4: or if you know.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, bro, Yeah, I feel like I'm a
Speaker 3: little spectomy for sure.
Speaker 2: What made y'all feel that way?
Speaker 3: Because we're so different just because I'm neuro divergence is
Speaker 3: not being the norm. I just think that I'm just
Speaker 3: completely out the box. Most of time I come off
Speaker 3: as insane, especially to women.
Speaker 1: But Jesus, so it's so crazy.
Speaker 2: Though, because I feel like you're like super comforting and
Speaker 2: like like as a friend, you're like a really good friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can I can? I can? I say an interesting?
Speaker 4: It's kind of okay for us to talk like this
Speaker 4: too in the beginning because we are the latest, Like
Speaker 4: we are the latest, We're the next latest people gonna
Speaker 4: be talking about us, So it's good people talk about
Speaker 4: him all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're sitting here with big money right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we big on your show in our heart building.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Like what's not yet? Not yet?
Speaker 2: People don't be like, I ain't got it. He just
Speaker 2: said no, all right, Well, speaking of the latest, we
Speaker 2: are going to get into the latest. And because we
Speaker 2: have had here, y'all know, we're gonna get into some
Speaker 2: k I the Kendrick Lamar is the first rapper in
Speaker 2: history to gross over nine million dollars in a single concert.
Speaker 2: Now it is being reported that the co headlining tour
Speaker 2: between Kendrick Lamar and Sisa breaks Eminem's twenty nineteen record
Speaker 2: in Melbourne, grossing that nine hundred million dollars, which is
Speaker 2: a huge, huge deal, especially because in the beginning of
Speaker 2: all this, when the GNX to announcement dropped, people were
Speaker 2: saying people weren't gonna go out to seek people. People
Speaker 2: literally said they people did not want to see it.
Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamar set, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think that's true, and they would.
Speaker 4: It's like the first thing they need to do is
Speaker 4: make a comparison between Kendrick and Drake his shows and
Speaker 4: Kendrick shows and then say his shit ain't gonna sell out.
Speaker 1: I don't know it was. I was there.
Speaker 3: I was at the Atlanta show in the Mercedes Benz
Speaker 3: Stadium not not Doom because it's not to be confused,
Speaker 3: and mercedeses Been Stadium, and it.
Speaker 1: Looked crazy to me.
Speaker 3: I didn't see Hella open seats and all that kind
Speaker 3: of shit.
Speaker 1: It was packed.
Speaker 2: Now, this is a thirty nine stop stadium tour.
Speaker 1: That's insane.
Speaker 3: I was nine stops, but that's not even including the
Speaker 3: multiple days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, multiple days in different styles.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So he's doing three yet so far and at home
Speaker 3: and at met Life. Yeah, two out here, three at home,
Speaker 3: two in Toronto that I know about, so three at
Speaker 3: home and so far. That's where the super Bowl was,
Speaker 3: Like Taylor Swift, I think it's only the person that
Speaker 3: did three days.
Speaker 1: As so far.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really think all that situation with Drake sent
Speaker 3: them to another stratusphere. Obviously he was selling out before that,
Speaker 3: but it really I don't think anybody could deny that
Speaker 3: he wasn't going to Anybody could say he wasn't going
Speaker 3: to do well after everything phenomenal Kendrick, after that phenomenal
Speaker 3: year he had like away.
Speaker 2: He wasn't doing that, So you feel like without not
Speaker 2: like us, he couldn't do this.
Speaker 3: No, No, I think it would have been it would
Speaker 3: have been a little smaller. But I think he was
Speaker 3: always selling out, sellout artists though well, because.
Speaker 2: I asked you that, because Dad has been the conversation.
Speaker 1: The numbers are astronomical.
Speaker 2: But when this news broke, the conversation was he needed
Speaker 2: Drake to do this. And people always throw that out
Speaker 2: there about Kendrick and the conversation right now. But in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, the Big Steppers Tour became the highest
Speaker 2: grossing raptor of all time. It was eclipsed the following
Speaker 2: year by Drake. It's all a blurred tour, but it
Speaker 2: did happen first. So I think that I don't know
Speaker 2: why it is with Kendrick and him. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe you a little closer to the source. People like that,
Speaker 2: like Kendrick like this all just happened overnight for.
Speaker 1: Him because people it's two things.
Speaker 3: The first thing is people are super fans of Drake,
Speaker 3: like Drake raised them. So it's like it's like telling
Speaker 3: them that Santa Claus ain't real.
Speaker 2: You can't tell me that you know.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, Like it's certain shit that you can't
Speaker 3: say about certain people, for instance, even when even when
Speaker 3: certain people are probably flawed just like everybody else, Like
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like we have moguls that
Speaker 3: are probably no longer heralded as what as what they
Speaker 3: once were because you're around to find out that they're
Speaker 3: just a human being like everybody else, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so, my, that's the first thing.
Speaker 3: The second thing is he's always been discounted the whole
Speaker 3: the whole time. But he's been discounted for lack of
Speaker 3: a better way, just saying, oh, he's not a star
Speaker 3: just because he doesn't indulge in the fruits of being
Speaker 3: a star. Right, So, and I said this before on
Speaker 3: the air, but I think like he has the same
Speaker 3: problem that like Yo kich has, you know on the
Speaker 3: Denver Nuggets, Like he just win a championship and don't
Speaker 3: even give a fuck.
Speaker 1: He don't care, He just don't.
Speaker 3: So you have somebody who's completely indulgent in being a superstar,
Speaker 3: and you have somebody who don't even give a fuck about.
Speaker 1: Being a superstar. Do you do you think Drake being
Speaker 1: a Superstar Drake.
Speaker 3: Drake cares about startlem is that a bad thing? Though
Speaker 3: I don't would say it's a bad thing. Nothing is
Speaker 3: bad and it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's how
Speaker 3: you go about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you don't respect the way d goes about it.
Speaker 3: Why, It just depends on it depends on what facet like.
Speaker 3: For instance, the way that the way that he uses
Speaker 3: culture to manipulate I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I disagree with that because the AI stuff
Speaker 1: with like snooping.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't even be the AI stuff I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: For instance, when you like, I'm not saying that there
Speaker 3: aren't rough areas where He's from, but where where I'm from,
Speaker 3: where God is from, you can't we call it false flagging.
Speaker 3: You can't false flag. Like I don't never claim to
Speaker 3: be a gamer. I'm not a gamer, but I'm considered
Speaker 3: a non affiliate. So if I get on here and
Speaker 3: start cousin and blood and stuff, I would get quote
Speaker 3: unquote g checked when I get back home. But what
Speaker 3: happens is when you don't get checked, you go without
Speaker 3: checks and balance. Then you arrive at a place where
Speaker 3: now you're the dictator of those checks and balances and
Speaker 3: I E.
Speaker 1: Kanye West, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So now it's like you're allowed to just be whoever
Speaker 3: you want to be without any without any repercussions. And
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of like what's going on.
Speaker 2: Well, recently, Young Thugs sat down with GQ magazine and
Speaker 2: they asked him about the whole Kendrick Lamar Drake thing.
Speaker 2: He's like, I don't know where this came from because
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm a Drake fan, Like, I don't understand
Speaker 2: why Kendrick Lamar brought me into it. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying as far as culture, but
Speaker 2: like when you got people like Young Thugs saying like, yeah, nah,
Speaker 2: but I don't subscribe to that, doesn't that that doesn't
Speaker 2: help what you're saying, because no.
Speaker 3: But everybody has their own experience. Just like some people
Speaker 3: would say, you know, they're probably individual. There might be
Speaker 3: individuals that say Weinstein was a good man. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I'm saying, Epstein got you. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I think Kendrick's point was that he
Speaker 3: was keeping these people around him for credibility exactly.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying if Kendrick's point is you keeping all
Speaker 2: these people around you for credibility and to be able
Speaker 2: to like, you know what I mean, falsely throw this flag.
Speaker 2: But the people who are around you are like, I mean,
Speaker 2: but that's my booy, that's my homie. It doesn't there's
Speaker 2: no like, there's no checking, there's no big homies that
Speaker 2: are like, no, this is not okay. Correct, Like if
Speaker 2: young Thug I said, I'm a Drake Finn, but like
Speaker 2: I get with Kendrick is saying, because like, nah, this
Speaker 2: is our shit, that would have been different.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't say that because that's his homie though. But
Speaker 3: also see that's what I'm saying, Like, where we're at
Speaker 3: in the culture is the two things are conflated. You
Speaker 3: have street, you have we called glasses called street.
Speaker 1: Urban culture, and you have rap.
Speaker 3: Those two separate things that get conflated because hip hop
Speaker 3: is looked at as this one umbrella. So where we're from,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter if you've done something. For instance, you
Speaker 3: could take Lil Wayne. For instance, Little Wayne is from
Speaker 3: New Orleans, Louisiana, right, but he's also quote unquote from
Speaker 3: the mob Mob Poude. That's in quote unquote Encompton. Right,
Speaker 3: so if one of my o G hommies, I ain't
Speaker 3: gonna say no names one of the hommies. And he's
Speaker 3: like a reptable from that section, and he says, this
Speaker 3: is my little homie Wayne. He from the section. That's
Speaker 3: law meaning there's no questioning. You don't get to you don't.
Speaker 3: That's just what it is. It's my homie from and
Speaker 3: now he from the section.
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying. So I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: that's what.
Speaker 3: Thug is doing, but it's just different things that are
Speaker 3: not the same thing.
Speaker 1: One to one in hip hop.
Speaker 2: Got you well, I mean, it's coming on a year
Speaker 2: this week that everything happened. I remember I was in
Speaker 2: y'all remember where y'all were were not like us draw
Speaker 2: It's crazy, but for real, I was in a party
Speaker 2: for Single Day Mayo. It was Single Day Mayo, right.
Speaker 2: I was in party. I was drunk, I remember, and
Speaker 2: then somebody came to me. I was in Delaware and
Speaker 2: it was like Kendrid finally dropped because he was waiting
Speaker 2: on it. Yeah, and then they played then like us.
Speaker 4: I felt like Kendrick was trying to say, like when
Speaker 4: he did the party the party died.
Speaker 1: Watch the party die.
Speaker 4: Watch the party die. It was like his music did
Speaker 4: that without saying it right. It was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: show y'all how to party differently. I'm gonna show you
Speaker 4: how to embrace who you are as a black person.
Speaker 4: I feel like Drake's music, while it's good and it's
Speaker 4: fancy and you can dance to.
Speaker 1: It, I do feel like he he like he didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't grow.
Speaker 4: Up the way that we or it doesn't feel like
Speaker 4: he grew up the way that we did. But he
Speaker 4: knew how to speak to it. And because he knew
Speaker 4: how to speak to it, then he can make music
Speaker 4: around it.
Speaker 1: And you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: How y'all feel about? When Kendrick brought out play with Cardi,
Speaker 2: people were upset about it. They said that like he
Speaker 2: was basically exploiting artists for like the same thing that
Speaker 2: he accuses Drake of doing. How ya feel about that?
Speaker 3: It's a bunch of people who aren't part of the
Speaker 3: music game, commenting on the music game. Like he was
Speaker 3: in Atlanta, he brought out Playboy Cardi, who's from Atlanta,
Speaker 3: and they have three songs. DoD gave him three features
Speaker 3: on the album. Yeah, and they performed one of the
Speaker 3: biggest records right now. So I don't understand people are
Speaker 3: just silly.
Speaker 2: So do y'all feel like people are ever going to
Speaker 2: get to a point where like this because you're not
Speaker 2: like people beef and then we just like on the
Speaker 2: won't even really talk about it. We're talking about this
Speaker 2: as if like like I mean, it is history, but
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like we just remembered where
Speaker 2: we were when songs dropped. You think that that feeling
Speaker 2: will last like generational or like eventually, like.
Speaker 1: Yo, what feeling of this specific?
Speaker 2: Like, yo, you remember where you were when not like
Speaker 2: a dropped when the beef started.
Speaker 3: I think it was definitely a moment in time hip
Speaker 3: hop especially I definitely always.
Speaker 1: Remember numbers why super Bowl?
Speaker 4: But then the only comparison that I can have that
Speaker 4: I remember and I was young was jay Z and
Speaker 4: Nas and I felt like that for a long time,
Speaker 4: and they became friends on top of that, like damn Drake,
Speaker 4: and then after they became friends, look how long it
Speaker 4: took for people to actually like, all right, like okay,
Speaker 4: they're friends, Like.
Speaker 1: It's not a game.
Speaker 2: I don't think Drake and Kendrick ever becoming friends.
Speaker 1: And I think in the moment of that is.
Speaker 2: That I mean, am I crazy for I don't see
Speaker 2: your happiness? Yeah, I don't see that happening.
Speaker 1: Weren't before.
Speaker 3: But also you got to understand, like he one person
Speaker 3: crossed the line before the other person. So I think
Speaker 3: that's the nuance. It gets lost in translation. It's just
Speaker 3: like you know, it's like if he said it in
Speaker 3: the record. But when you get offer, when you offer
Speaker 3: somebody a friend, that's amongst the homies, like if we homies,
Speaker 3: I'll offer you a friendly fade.
Speaker 1: That's like that. Again. That's where I.
Speaker 3: Think the disconnected is happening in these conversations street urban culture,
Speaker 3: rap music and rap music. He can't say that about
Speaker 3: you street urban culture. There is no rules rap world.
Speaker 3: Is you cross the line street urban culture. I gave
Speaker 3: you a line, you crossed it. Now it's now, it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter now no lines exist. That's the difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's what happened.
Speaker 3: So it was a specific line cross that's your a
Speaker 3: fan to I mean, I think he said, we ain't
Speaker 3: got to keep we ain't gotta make it personal. I
Speaker 3: think Drake made it personal first and then after that
Speaker 3: all see the thing is once.
Speaker 1: Where where where I'm where we're from?
Speaker 3: If I give you a line and I say, hey, bro,
Speaker 3: let's let's have a fight because we just having a disagreement, right,
Speaker 3: and you tell me where I'm from, you tell me
Speaker 3: all right, look that we could fight. But you know,
Speaker 3: like I got shot and I got I got a
Speaker 3: bad rib. Don't hit me in my rib. Just keep
Speaker 3: you and I just keep I hit you in the rib.
Speaker 3: You like, bro, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: There are no rules because you gave me the line
Speaker 3: and I stepped over it.
Speaker 2: Okay, behind the scenes, because there were there were things
Speaker 2: that claims of like people being removed from like songs
Speaker 2: or like something like that because they were associated with
Speaker 2: Kendrick and then the lawsuit came and like like that
Speaker 2: type of stuff. Or was it like Drake was really
Speaker 2: trying to be outside in the streets.
Speaker 1: No, it ain't none of that.
Speaker 3: It's just if I have a conversation with you about
Speaker 3: what the line is.
Speaker 2: So they had a conversation about what the I'm.
Speaker 1: Not saying that I'm saying.
Speaker 3: If I do have a conversation with you and you
Speaker 3: step over that line, that we that I that I
Speaker 3: presented to you.
Speaker 1: Now it's up.
Speaker 4: I thought, like low key put it into music though,
Speaker 4: like yo, well, once you talked about his family and
Speaker 4: his children and who they messing with, stuff like that,
Speaker 4: that's the line.
Speaker 3: If I tell you my line and you intentionally cross it,
Speaker 3: there is no such thing as I went too far.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we don't even have time to get
Speaker 2: to other topics because you had such a great comments.
Speaker 2: So no, but I've enjoyed the hanging out with the
Speaker 2: guys on the podcast today. We do so what we
Speaker 2: do after we get through our latest our topic rundown
Speaker 2: is we take it outside to the streets and the tweets,
Speaker 2: which is anything that's happened in conversation on the internet
Speaker 2: for the teet be outside, were outside, we outside.
Speaker 1: Okad tweets every other page.
Speaker 2: So I actually went to your twitter head and oh
Speaker 2: my god.
Speaker 3: You're such I feel like people never earn the list.
Speaker 3: People will never remember what they tweeted.
Speaker 4: Oh I know everything you tweeted in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: I stand on my tweets.
Speaker 3: I don't have a tweets before twenty fourteen because I
Speaker 3: got rid of them. But anything after twenty oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I gotta put you off. You got no, you don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but yeah, I'm a nerd, so I'll
Speaker 3: figure it out. But yeah, so any tweet that just
Speaker 3: out there, I stayed on my shit.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it wasn't a crazy one. But now
Speaker 2: you've got me going down your time not trying to
Speaker 2: find her crazy one.
Speaker 1: The way you reacted, it's not gonna be anything crazy.
Speaker 2: No, I don't see nothing crazy, but you you had
Speaker 2: tweeted videos out from the Kendrick Lamar concert and you
Speaker 2: captioned it. You can't fake influence. Correct A great way
Speaker 2: to end the show, because I think right now you
Speaker 2: also have a pen tweet that says I'm not a journalist.
Speaker 1: I'm a DJ because I respect journalists.
Speaker 2: And I remember during the time of all the back
Speaker 2: and forth, when you know people were looking you were
Speaker 2: the one of the Kendrick sources and academics was on
Speaker 2: the other side with Drake. I don't know if people
Speaker 2: knew how to title you because the information was coming
Speaker 2: from you a lot. Sometimes.
Speaker 3: Well, I know that that person claims to be the best,
Speaker 3: the number one journalists in the game, and I just
Speaker 3: have I have too much respect for I think journalism
Speaker 3: is a craft, just like being a doctor or a lawyer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and so I respect journalists too much to just pop
Speaker 3: out of me like I'm a journalist.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think that academics is a journalist at all.
Speaker 2: I think the machine.
Speaker 1: Get a drunk rent, that is fine.
Speaker 2: I think whatever, the machine of what he's built, I say,
Speaker 2: I always I respect the machine of what he's built,
Speaker 2: But he is not a journalist. I think we as
Speaker 2: journalists we vet things a lot differently, we have conversations
Speaker 2: a lot differently. I'm not mad at what he's doing,
Speaker 2: but I think that there does always need to be
Speaker 2: a defining point of anybody who does something at a
Speaker 2: he's a professional. But like it's different.
Speaker 3: Like I know you on the radio and you come
Speaker 3: from a background of journalism, which you know, there's two
Speaker 3: things that exist within the confines of broadcasts and door journalism,
Speaker 3: whether it's print or any kind of signal, right, and
Speaker 3: the two things are one is journalistic kenteckrity and the
Speaker 3: second one thing is something called libel.
Speaker 1: Go look up Libel, kids.
Speaker 3: And so I think, what, because you don't learn these
Speaker 3: things when you just turn on your stream or whatever.
Speaker 3: You just you could say whatever you want to say,
Speaker 3: and then you end up like Tasha k And so
Speaker 3: I think, like, oh.
Speaker 2: The menopause, Mattie, she talks about us too.
Speaker 3: And so I think, and so I think what happens
Speaker 3: is people just start podcasts, get cameras, get mics, and
Speaker 3: start saying what they think and then be like, oh,
Speaker 3: DJ heads, he's being cryptic, He's not being real. It's like, no,
Speaker 3: there's such a thing called libel. Say that I take
Speaker 3: serious because I'm a professional fucking broadcaster.
Speaker 1: I'm saying what I'm saying, and.
Speaker 3: So if you look up liable, you'll understand where these
Speaker 3: things and why these safeguards are in place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I want to read some of the responses
Speaker 2: to your tweet. The tweet was can't fake the influence,
Speaker 2: and somebody said Junior shoots a mind of Junior is
Speaker 2: his ad said just left the show it was rocking Reo.
Speaker 2: I think this is a bot page though, because Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've noticed every time Kendrick sees a rise of popularity,
Speaker 2: Drake is somehow involved. Take Care Future Slash Tour, fin
Speaker 2: Problems feature KJMC slash Poetic Justice, promo control Verse controversy.
Speaker 2: Then the beef. We talked about that a bit. Somebody
Speaker 2: said pronolo fourteen. So unfortunately I won't be able to
Speaker 2: attend these shows. So I've been living through the videos,
Speaker 2: y'all post no cap. This show is based just based
Speaker 2: on video scene, like the crowd was efing lit up.
Speaker 2: They tried to play with Kendrick at the super Bowl
Speaker 2: with the videos behind the scenes. Does he have anything
Speaker 2: to prove at this point? Because of that?
Speaker 1: He don't even care?
Speaker 2: He really don't care at all? Is he always he's
Speaker 2: some bother? Has he gotten to a place with this
Speaker 2: where he's in a good place? So he's unbothered.
Speaker 1: Now if you.
Speaker 3: Watch the squabble up video and you look at it
Speaker 3: and you look at his face, that's how he is.
Speaker 3: The day not like us came out and I called
Speaker 3: him like, hey, bro, you I'm going crazy.
Speaker 1: This is crazy? You want? He said? Man, he didn't
Speaker 1: even give He don't even give.
Speaker 3: A Does he have those feelings going into the Toronto
Speaker 3: shows like it's this is nothing?
Speaker 1: It's nothing, It's nothing, bro. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 3: Last the last show, I went and seen him backstage
Speaker 3: and we had a moment because when he got the
Speaker 3: key to the city and Compton.
Speaker 1: I was there.
Speaker 3: I'm sitting on the mayor's desk in her office. No bullshit,
Speaker 3: I'm sitting at her desk and I'm holding this key
Speaker 3: to the city. I'm looking at this nigga and I'm like,
Speaker 3: this shit crazy. He was like, Bro, this shit crazy.
Speaker 1: So that's it.
Speaker 3: And then we was backstage at one of the shows
Speaker 3: and I was like, Bro, I'm looking I'm like this
Speaker 3: shit crazy. He's like, Bro, this shit crazy to me too.
Speaker 3: That's just that's the reaction.
Speaker 2: It's like he's still like kind of not coming to
Speaker 2: terms with it, but it's like man like, he's so
Speaker 2: much in front of him, he's not looking at all
Speaker 2: the other stuff he said.
Speaker 3: He says, it's the work and it's just you put
Speaker 3: in the way you gotta put that.
Speaker 2: That just made my heart feel so warm, because that's
Speaker 2: how I feel about life.
Speaker 1: It's the work and when you.
Speaker 2: Head down and doing the work. A lot of that stuff,
Speaker 2: like when I say, even if you do feel like
Speaker 2: stop playing with me, it just doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's so small none, none of this shit matters in
Speaker 1: real life.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And he seems like, but the actuality just remember that
Speaker 4: in hindsight. All this shit is something, and that's what
Speaker 4: I think that people don't look at like your life
Speaker 4: is a story for somebody else.
Speaker 1: That's how I look at my life.
Speaker 4: So it's important to like, yeah, you got your head down,
Speaker 4: you're working, but also know that take a second to
Speaker 4: take it in and say, Yo, this shit crazy.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: That's how I feels sitting here with y'all. Right now,
Speaker 2: coming from TV is so different to radio and being
Speaker 2: a journalist coming on the radio where they especially Breakfast Club,
Speaker 2: they say and do what they want. They get crazy.
Speaker 2: I was freaking out a lot of times, and you
Speaker 2: always just tell me shut up. Yeah, literally like literally,
Speaker 2: Like that's how he and he thinks it's so funny.
Speaker 2: Like one time I call him crashing out, he just
Speaker 2: laughs like no, But I I just had has helped
Speaker 2: me through like some really crazy times in radio, figuring
Speaker 2: out this whole navigation because he comes from radio so
Speaker 2: and then now we're here on the podcast because he's
Speaker 2: here in New York, so this is like a man,
Speaker 2: this is crazy moment for me too. So thank you
Speaker 2: for joining us, Los, Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1: For sure, thank you, thank you for having us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all, So where have we learned from today's episode
Speaker 2: besides shut that.
Speaker 1: Up only takeaway?
Speaker 2: We learned that grateful Yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: Put that work in and don't be don't be too
Speaker 3: high up to look there and just say, oh, this
Speaker 3: is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. All right, y'all. I'm Lauren the Rose
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