The Social Introvert Podcast

Episode 614: MUSTARD!

Kendrick Lamar drops his highly anticipated album: GNX. All charges against Johnathan Majors have been dropped. Mac Miller's unreleased album, Balloonerism will drop in January. Khalid comes out atter being outed by another man.

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Music featured:

Intro Song: J’Von - Teal Beanie

Jimmy Waters - No Haters

Outro Song: Joey Freco - It’s Good

Duration:: 59m
Broadcast on:: 27 Nov 2024
Audio Format:: other

The social introversion. - If I see one more person posting their workout routine, their sauna and cold plunge, the diet routine of their #beastmode. If I see one more person posting how their parenting routine and the wonderful intricate snacks that they make for their children, like all day long, there is an idealized, stylized version of every single aspect of our life that is so much better than the gag reel that we're living. And we're watching it, and we're comparing ourselves to it, and our partner to it. And we're going, "How come my partner doesn't look like that?" Damn, look like that. Like all these videos of the person like getting up in the morning, they set up the camera! There's someone set up the camera! ♪ Yeah, what, what, what ♪ ♪ Peace be to you all the season, what's your fault? ♪ ♪ Thought he had what he needed, but he needed it, dog ♪ ♪ Communication from the misspeaker ♪ ♪ What's the reason for the fault? ♪ ♪ Tried to kick a new game, the game in need of a hole ♪ ♪ I was keeping it raw, raw ♪ ♪ See what I could be while the shorty seen me for the flaws? ♪ ♪ Yeah, this is makes the hard grow, it's the 16th law ♪ ♪ And I'd rather be missing this than having you reminiscing ♪ ♪ Then I'm just trying to bring a vibe in the vibe, be a vibe ♪ Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Social Introvert Podcast. I'm your host, Sid Davis. This is episode 614. You can find this show on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. And anywhere else you get podcasts, go ahead and follow me on Instagram and Twitter at @iciddavis. I have other social media handles as well. The Instagram podcast page is at the Social Introvert Podcast. Twitter is @socialintropod. Singer thoughts, you got any questions? Any insight, any advice? Oh shit, my phone's going off. Let me cut that off. If you want to send me new recommendations for movies, TV shows, anime, it doesn't matter from which era, don't care. Put me on to something dope. Send those emails to thesocialintrovertpodcast@gmail.com. So Mac Miller's long awaited album, or I would say unreleased because the album has been out for quite some time. If you spent a lot of time on SoundCloud, you have discovered Mac Miller's balloon-arism. That's the title of the album. And it's a weird funky looking color of his face. Like his eyes are in a different spot on his face, his nose. I think his nose is upside down or something. It's a very weird portrait of Mac Miller, but it's pretty cool. And it's like in the shape of a balloon. I mean, the balloon is like in the clouds and the sky and everything. But this album has been out for years and he's recorded it around the time, I think when he dropped good A.M. And I think the Divine Feminine, somewhere around there, is when he recorded it. And they shelved it. And of course they went with Divine Feminine and Good A.M. And since he could never get the album to come out, he just said, put it out after I pass away. When that time comes, you know, like, let people hear this after I'm gone, you know? And he has a couple of other albums, like Pink Slime is another one, I think is entirely produced by Pharrell. That's a rumored, unreleased one, not rumored. It's confirmed. And the other one for sure that has been confirmed is the joint album with Madlib. I know that Madlib got the okay for Max Parents to release it, but we obviously, we don't have a release date and I can't wait to hear that. I know that's gonna be dope too. But Balloonarism was announced at Camp Flognaw, Tyler the Creator's Festival, which is great, man. And the album will be out January 17th, 2025. Can't wait to hear it. I hope it's, I'm pretty sure there might be songs that aren't on the unreleased version that we've heard on SoundCloud that will end up on there. One song on there that I hope that ends up on the album is Funny Papers. Funny Papers, I've been listening to it for a long time. It's probably one of his best songs he's ever made and it's the, how he's talking and the song is almost like he knows what's gonna happen. I won't give it away for those who haven't heard Funny Papers. Just wait 'til the album comes out. Hopefully it's on there. If you haven't, you can go on SoundCloud right now and just type in Mac Miller. It's Funny Papers in the search bar and listen to it. It's a pretty good song. And not too long ago, I would say about a couple weeks ago, I get a message from Shogun. Shogun, who formerly was the co-host of Gummy Name Podcast and he sent me a shaderoom post of Jonathan Mater's and Megan Good getting, and not divorced, but they were just breaking up, they were splitting. And I'm like, what the hell, that's weird. Why? Maybe she got tired of paying his bills because that was out there that she was paying for his child support bills and helping him out as he was trying to get back on his feet. We already know what happened to Jonathan Mater's being let go for Marvel, the whole so-called domestic abuse case and everything like that. So she's been looking out for him ever since. And then I think the following day, man, the next day, I don't think it was like the day after, maybe it was or, but I know for a fact it was within that same week. Shogun might have sent it to me. I know it was before I recorded an episode because I forgot to mention it. He might, I think he sent it to me on a Monday and it either came, the news, the update came around Tuesday or for sure Wednesday or something like that. And it said, Jonathan Mater's and Megan Good get engaged. I'm like, wait a minute, what the hell is going on? What are we doing here? First, it was breaking up, not engaged. Like, did they reconcile, like, which happens? It happens, but only somebody misreported or somebody got that original report wrong. I know what I saw. I know exactly what I saw. And I don't think it's deleted. If I go through it really quick, it might be because there's been many times where I stumbled onto articles and I'm like, okay, let me save it, you know, and you know, this will be a topic of the show. And I come back to it and then when you get, when you get ready to record, the entire article, his change has been edited. Maybe the author was like, they were told to go back and change it, which happens to in the journalist world. But let me see whenever he sent me this. He sent this to me November 12th. Let me go read it. Oh, not the shade room, it's called the uncut. Okay, yeah, my bad, my bad. Yeah, the post is still up. Oh no, Meghan Good and Jonathan Majors have allegedly called it quits. Or maybe, okay, he said allegedly call it quits. It's alleged, but when he sent me this, it was during the evening, I guess? I thought he sent this to me in the morning. Anyway, it just says that they allegedly call it quits. And then fast forward. Oh, he sent this to me six days after, okay. And a new report, the update was on the shade room. Congratulations, Meghan Good and Jonathan Majors revealed their engagement, which threw me all the way. All the way, what the fuck? So yeah, I think it's, I guess it's fine. I don't know, you know, people are up in arms. Like, how did she, you know, she was married and got divorced from Dude. I can't think of the other guy's name. He was the pastor, I guess, just to get married again. And I conjured up to maybe if I'm, I'm not trying to sound like one of these dudes on YouTube at all, but maybe I am. I think the fact that the guy that was the pastor that she was with, I can't think his, let me look his name up because I don't want to just call him the pastor guy, Devon Franklin. So she was with him from 2012 to 2022. So I think the fact that Devon Franklin, when she met him, he was already this well put together dude. And over time I've been told this from many men in my life, from my dad to all the older men and stuff, women like something that they can fix and put together. Like somewhat of a Frankenstein project, I guess, I don't know, but with Jonathan Majors, the fact that this is happening again with, you know, her marrying someone else, Jonathan Majors, we already know what he's been through. So we can, you know, that's something that she can work on and put together and kind of mold into something there. It's just, I'm not about to go down this whole road of just talking about what men go through and what women like to do and what women go through and what men will do, but I don't care. But I just thought it was a weird thing because I got that report about them splitting and then that pops up. I'm like, what the hell? Like what's going on? But congratulations to the both of them, that's cool. I don't really have anything crazy to say 'cause I don't, look, I don't dislike Mega Fox. I think she's cool. Mega Fox is cool. Jonathan Majors, always rock with Jonathan Majors. One of my favorite movies is The Last Black Man in San Francisco, A24 movie. And yeah, man, I don't have anything negative to say about them. The update, the other update from this is that all charges have been dropped in the Jonathan Majors lawsuit, which is so messed up, man. It is so unfortunate that now that has come out, that charges have been dropped in a lawsuit that, but I don't know. Maybe I'm hoping that he can get his footing back into Hollywood, I doubt it at this point. But for him to go through that, when he ran away, just to, I don't understand it, man. I just know he's not getting that Marvel job back, which is so unfortunate. 'Cause I really wanted to see whatever they were gonna take King and the Conqueror. Honestly, I didn't think they were properly writing his character the way that they should. They did a good job with him with Loki season two. I don't really care for the Loki series, but what they were doing with King the Conqueror, that whole setup was excellent. And I liked the finale of Loki season two. I thought that was decent. But I really wanted to see where they were gonna take it because it would have been an interesting story. It would have been an interesting direction for Marvel to take. Just for this to happen, now they got a shift and now let's bring in Dr. Doom. And it's just like grasping at straws for new ideas. Maybe they had that idea in their back pocket, but it just sucks, man. I really wanted to see Jonathan Major's kick ass and Marvel. And to be, I'm gonna put this out there because I've been meaning to say this for a minute too. That trailer for Captain America Brave New World. Though I like Anthony Mackie a lot. Fuck with Anthony Mackie, he's great. I'm not sold on Brave New World for, I don't know what reason, I'm just not sold. I know Red Hulk is in it, Thunderbolt Ross, General Ross as Red Hulk, it's cool, but it doesn't even look like it's much of a setup for him to become Red Hulk. Maybe I'm just talking ahead. Maybe we will get that setup, but it's almost like he's already Red Hulk. We're just going into it. We're not really getting much of a origin with General Ross becoming the Red Hulk. Maybe it's in the film, like I said, I don't want to get ahead of myself. Maybe it's in there, but I would prefer to see it in a Hulk film. There's other rumors out there for an upcoming Hulk film called World War Hulk, which is my favorite iteration of Hulk. And the story from what I read, it's a rumor, but from what I read is all the Hulk's team up to take out the Master Hulk, that's what they call him, the Master Hulk is 2003's Hulk, Eric Banner, and I hate that movie. And I'm like, why is this happening? Or why would they even pitch that as an idea? And it's going to be hard because I'm like, how are y'all going to get Edward Norton back? When Edward Norton doesn't even want to play Hulk ever again, and then not casting crew, but all of the production team shared the same sentiments. They just said he was kind of difficult to work with and they hope that they don't ever have to work with him again, but it's like, I don't know. That's just a rumor, y'all. That World War Hulk premises a rumor, but I don't like that at all. If that's the first pitch, get that out of here 'cause the Master Hulk is Eric Banner's Hulk from 2003, the worst. I hate that movie, I've only watched that movie one time. I watched that film once, which to be honest, I've only, any time it comes to a Marvel film, the only ones that I've watched more than one time is Infinity War. And let me see, you know, Infinity War, Captain America, Winter Soldier, and the first Iron Man, everything else, I've only watched one time, believe it or not. Y'all can think I'm lying, but I'm not lying. I've watched Thor 2, what is Thor 2 called? I don't know. I watched it one time, fell asleep during it, tried to watch it again, fell asleep again. I'm like, this is boring as hell. I have not seen Ragnarok. I still have not seen Civil War, shocking. I know people think I'm out of my damn mind when I say that, but I haven't. Anyway, let's move on from that. Really quick, a song that you heard in the beginning is called Teal Beanie from Javan, off of his brand new album, King Cheetah 2. It's available in all of these extremely platforms. Go check that out, it's a really dope album. He's like one of my favorite current artists of this generation. He's been around much longer than Coder the Friend, but I put him and Coder the Friend in the same category as, 'cause they wrap about the same subject matter as just Javan has this very weird, unorthodox flow that you really gotta keep up with. And I think it's just really interesting how he wraps, man, I love the way he wraps. So let's get into some more music. Let's get into some more music. Jimmy Waters has a new project out called Fly as an understatement. And I haven't listened to it yet. I just heard the single. I didn't even know the album was dropping. I saw the single and I'm like, oh, cool, all right, whatever, you know, he's dropping a new album. And then I saw the countdown. And it said songs available to listen to before the album drops. And this is the new single. It's called No Haters. Check it out, the social intro version. ♪ One on one type and nigga, yeah, that's me, ho ♪ ♪ I don't chase nobody, y'all, I chase my bro ♪ ♪ I been playin' one, I've been the fly as you know ♪ ♪ Make a flight low, mama, then we rock and we broke ♪ ♪ I been talkin' things, niggas on the number one player ♪ ♪ We don't make a couple dollars put your hands in the air ♪ ♪ Got a bad bitch, baby, do you think I care ♪ ♪ I don't have money every time I make a breeze and air ♪ ♪ I'm chewy waters, how what the fuck you mean ♪ ♪ Niggas let 'em play me just to make some green ♪ ♪ 'Tis a game on YouTube under my wing ♪ ♪ Y'all let us see my people, makin' some green ♪ ♪ Ain't no hater music, we gon' run it back up up ♪ ♪ Runnin' into the world 'til it sucks, sucks, sucks ♪ ♪ Pull my bitch to the bed, yeah, pop, pop ♪ ♪ I'm gonna bring it to a hater, nigga, don't give a fuck ♪ ♪ Ain't no hater music, we gon' run it back up up ♪ ♪ Runnin' into the world 'til it sucks, sucks, sucks ♪ ♪ Pull my bitch to the bed, yeah, pop, pop, pop ♪ ♪ I'm gonna bring it to a hater, nigga, don't give a fuck ♪ ♪ I know these niggas really jealous of me ♪ ♪ That's true, make a hundred percent of this shit ♪ ♪ That's true, I make these beats and you can't ♪ ♪ That's true, I get the girls that you can't ♪ ♪ That's true, talk 'em trash, ship it, kick it with the big hoes ♪ ♪ I'm just a real nigga, ask about me retro ♪ ♪ I'm socket shit, Mike Tyson when I'm mad bro ♪ ♪ Ain't no life skin, jocks, I sleep bro ♪ ♪ Yeah, I'm lost, but that's when I'm on my TV ♪ ♪ It's been too much, gang, flying, niggas be me ♪ ♪ I ain't got a plan, still being me ♪ ♪ Ain't no hater shit, nigga, this is really me ♪ ♪ I ain't no hater, music, we gonna run it back up ♪ ♪ I'm gonna bring it to the world, tell it sucks, sucks, sucks ♪ ♪ Pull my bitch to the bed, yeah, pop, pop ♪ ♪ I'm gonna bring it to a hater, nigga, don't give a fuck ♪ ♪ I ain't no hater, music, we gonna run it back up ♪ ♪ I'm gonna bring it to the world, tell it sucks, sucks, sucks ♪ ♪ Pull my bitch to the bed, yeah, pop, pop ♪ ♪ I'm gonna bring it to a hater, nigga, don't give a fuck ♪ Once again, that is "No Haters" by Jimmy Waters, off of the brand new album. It just dropped, it's out now. As you're listening to this, that album is out, available in our music streaming platforms. Go check it out, like I said, haven't listened to it, but you will be hearing, obviously, you will be hearing more songs off of that album, and this man from the top of January, all the way up to now, has dropped damn near 30 albums. I'm not kidding, 30 albums, damn near. So, I got some catching up to do, 'cause I got to a stopping point, I'm like, this dude, I can't keep up. Like, people think they can't keep up with currency? Fam, I can't keep up with this dude. I can keep up with currency, 'cause currency kinda know how to, he know how to be sporadic about it, to a degree. Like, he ain't gonna really hit you over the head. He ain't gonna do what he did back in 2009, and then repeated it in 2016. He won't do that, well, maybe he will, I don't know. His work ethic is crazy, even now it is crazy, so I wouldn't be surprised if currency does that drop every month in the upcoming years, who knows? But yeah, Jimmy Waters, man, has literally done the same thing, man, this year, and it's crazy to see. He's done it before, but not to this degree, 'cause sometimes it would be two weeks. He had just dropped an album two weeks ago by, and he'll just drop another one. I'm like, yo, fam, what are you doing? Like, I'm not even done with the other project that you just dropped, like, so I came to a stopping point. I was like, I'll just play a Jimmy Waters song whenever I feel like it, I don't know, 'cause I got catching up to do. But anyway, you know, man, he's out here doing it, man. He's killing it, so shout out to Jimmy Waters. So, let me see, is actually speaking of music of people who's dropping soon, let me see. I know Alchemist and Larry June are working on that album again together, and I think L.E.S. is working on any other project. He just dropped one, not too long ago. He's another one that I gotta catch up with. And then the other announcement, let me see. Boldy James and Harry Fraud finally dropped the Bricchenary on all streaming platforms, so you can go check that out. And I think Boldy James and Nicholas Craven are working on a album. That's pretty much, I think it's dropping in 2025. At the top of 2025, I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped it before New Year's Eve or something. But yeah, those are new projects getting ready to come out. I know Sizzo was on Kai Sinat's stream recently, and she, I guess, announced an album supposed to be dropping before the year's overweight. I don't know if I should take that with a grain of salt, even though ab soldiers dropped his album out of nowhere. We're not out of nowhere, he announced it, but the turnaround is what's shocking to me, 'cause TDE artists, they take your time. And, you know, so I'll be shocked if we get a Sizzo album. I don't know if it's the deluxe version of her recent album, or if it's a whole brand new project, I don't know. I gotta work on putting my top 10 together, man, 'cause I've been slacking. Shay Nuar has an album out called Lotus Child. She produced his album on her own, and it's so good, 'cause I was wondering, I was like, man, it hasn't been long since we heard from her, but it's like, she been kind of laying low because I know she did drop a project earlier this year called Andy, and then there's another project that she dropped in 2023 called Nuar or Never. And so I'm like, all right, you know, it's kind of weird, she been laying low for a minute. I haven't seen her in any features like that. Like, what is she doing? And then she announced this, the Lotus Child, and it's a really good album, man. Rap City's on the album, 38th Special, of course. That's like her brother, and some other features that I've never heard of these artists, except for Jack Davy or Jay Davy. Jay Davy goes way back. Jay Davy has collaborated with Jay Dilla on trying to think of the name of the song. It's on Jay Love Japan, and it's this weird, I don't, until this day, Jay Dilla's production, or his sample choice for production is still crazy to me. I think the song is called Red Light. Jay Dilla's Red Light featuring Jay Davy, and she's singing and rapping on it. So she's on this album, which surprised the hell out of me, and I thought it was really dope. So check out the Lotus Child by Jay Nuar, and I think for those who like that lyrical hip hop shit, that's looking for those that are complaining, basically, at the state of hip hop. This'll be something that will take your mind off of that and be happy, and hopefully it'll be an artist that you can listen to and then go back into their old catalog. So yeah, anyway, let me see another story around here that I noticed that no one's talking about. R&B singer Khalid has recently come out as gay after being outed by another man. Khalid, for those that know, hit songs, break out single location. Yes, he has come out as gay, and I didn't really go too deep into the topic. Didn't care to, 'cause I'm like, all right, there's a bunch of music artists that are gay, and they make great fucking music. What do you want me to do? Like, what? But I saw a bunch of jokes in the comments or whatever, and I'm like, okay, one that did make me laugh. I'm not gonna lie, I say, it was a clear giveaway. He said, send me your location, not drop the loke. And I just laughed, I was just like, okay, whatever. But everyone else, man, it was just like, oh my God, it's just like the horror or something like that. Like, what's going on? Blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, y'all just care way too much. It's not y'all that's gay. It's not, what is the, I'm not gonna spend too long on this. I'm gonna just move on. What is your obsession with them? Like, they don't live with you. They're not a part of your life. And even if they did live with you, who gives a fuck? Like, leaving folks alone. But they don't determine if you eat or not. They don't, it's just weird. Just be obsession with it. And it's, and I'm kinda glad that the story did kinda get swept under the radar. 'Cause nobody's really saying anything about it. So, that's cool. It's just the way some folks act about it, like, the world is ending or some shit because he comes out, or he was being out at, which is wrong, in my opinion. Him being out is just fucked up. Just like when that interview with Patty LaBelle talking about Luther Vandross and talking about his sexuality. I'm like, who gives a fuck? It's Luther Vandross. The nigga kissing, man. He's talented. He's great. Leave that man alone, Brian. Like, who fucking cares? It just, I'm gonna rant. It just, it weirds me out how people, and you don't have to be of a different sexual orientation. You could be miney at own damn business. You could be a black man who just does shit differently. Like, read books and shit. Or you probably have more knowledge on how to fix something, or tech skills or some shit like that. And people always gonna find a way to just talk shit. What is your obsession worried about somebody else? That's why y'all ain't got nowhere. That's why y'all stuck in the same goddamn spot. Still there. Just, man, man, I can't make shit happen, man. So much, so much going on, bro. Yeah, 'cause you sitting there worried about other niggas and what they doing. Go make yourself useful and invent something. Maybe you become the next Nikolai Tesla or some shit. I don't know. It's just weird. People's obsession with other folks and what they do with their own lives. You don't know these people from a can of paint. Celebrity or non-celebrity. It's just odd to me, and I never understood it. And I think that's probably why I have the issues that I have. 'Cause there's many people that wanted me to join in and laugh and joke on somebody. And I'm just like, yeah, they're doing his own thing. Like, he gettin' to it. Okay, who cares? And it always turned into a problem. I'm like, oh, you think you just, you think you hire Marty and better than everyone? I'm like, no, I'm just, I could care less what the hell they doing, man. They out here trying to live a life, trying to get by and see the next day. That's, if that's all they doing, then who cares? I don't know, man. Shout out to Khalid. And I don't know if he's working on any new music. It'll be dope if he drops something soon. But yeah, my issue, man, like I said overall, and I've said it many times, we just have way too much access to these celebrities. And we feel like that we're not me. You know, I don't know these dudes from a can of paint. But y'all feel like they grew up in your household or something. You just listen to the music and listen to the art that they put out there. I just think it's weird, based on this situation, I think it's weird when people say that they can no longer listen to somebody because they've come out and confess to the world of their sexuality or, and you know, there's other, you know, circumstances, like a ditty where I can understand why people might not want to listen to ditty anymore. I can understand why some people might not want to listen to a lot of other artists that have done some jacked up things. But in this situation specifically, like I said, you can't change my mind about Isaiah Rashad. Isaiah Rashad has given me Sylvia Demo, the son's tirade, which I could sit here all day and talk about the son's tirade and the house is burning. And if you think that, and that's three for three, that is three for three. Sylvia Demo was, at first, not even considered an album. It is literally a demo of just song thrown together. But you're not changing my mind about Isaiah Rashad. He's just that down talented. His music is good. There's a connection that I have with his music is, he just makes great fucking albums and he has great song arrangement. I don't know if people really just sit down and like listen, like you could be a fan of just listening in jam or whatever, but if you really sit down and listen to how the start of a song and in the verse, the hook, the verse, the hook, the verse, so on and so forth, how he crafts his songs is brilliant. 'Cause most of it you would think sounds unfinished, but it's a complete song, like free lunch, free lunch off of the son's tirade. Technically, it's a complete song, but it really sounds unfinished how the song goes because it feels like it's supposed to be more at the end of that, but he's just kind of like mumbling towards the end of it and it just fades out. Songs like that. And even though I'm not much of a fan of Frank Ocean anymore, there's not much you can tell me that to change my mind about Frank Ocean, he's just talented. Now, he is a shyster and a finesser and a manipulator based on what he's doing currently, like depriving his fans, I don't care either way 'cause we got too many good singers out here that's killing it, so I could care less. But anyway, y'all gotta get past that and let it go. It's not y'all, y'all don't know him personally and it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be so okay, I promise you. Anyway, let's get on to the next topic, man. Kendrick Lamar, surprisingly, has dropped an album out of nowhere, out of nowhere, called GNX, Grand National, and yeah man, I woke up to it, I woke up to this. I said, "Hold up, wait, what?" And it was a picture of Kendrick Lamar, black and white picture, you know, leaning on the back of a Grand Ash and I'm like, what is this? Like, is this a tease for an upcoming release? Nope, the album's already out. I was like, oh shit, okay, all right, cool, cool, cool, whatever you know, I was trying to be cool about it. And it's a pretty decent album, man, I like it. It's different, it's not your typical conceptual album that Kendrick Lamar would go for. And for somebody that says there's no entendres, dude, I listen, I listen to it a few times since then. I listen to it the first time, like when I press play, there's mad entendres in the album. I'm not gonna go through all the songs, but man in a garden for one, the thing is the most important. A lot of people are comparing it to Nas' One Mike, and you can because it is very reminiscent of One Mike, but that song when you really break it down, he's rapping from three different perspectives. I don't know if he's talking to one person, and then the second verse he's talking to somebody else, but I know for a fact that third verse is talking to multiple people or everybody in a sense to the people that are listening, the fans. As far as I'm concerned, I think one of those verses might be the first one. It's aimed at J. Cole, not in a sense of dissing him, but almost like, yeah, Cole, you're saying this, but this is what it is, type of response. Port Antonio, that song that J. Cole responded with, basically saying how it would have really went and what happened and everything, and how he would engage the piece that he had at the time has two different beats, if I remember correct. One of them I think is a Cleo Soul sample. The second beat is, what is it? Lonnie Liston Smith's Garden of Peace. But in Port Antonio, Cole said, if I remember, he said, my dog texted me, I shared the words, he said to me, if he refused to shoot the gun, that mean the gunning deadly, I guess is, what do you say, I guess in that metaphor, hypothetically, the gun is me. And I'm like, well, if you're saying it, like, why are you saying this? And I'm sitting here thinking, like, this is bullshit, you should be able to go ahead and just respond to putting you two cents. I'm talking about before, like, before the public apology and all. It was just confusing, I'm like, why now? And it really annoyed me that that song came out. Like, it's fine that he's dropping music, but for you to come out and say all it is, I found it extremely annoying. Now, to back it up, both of these dudes have alluded to being on an island remote, just chilling, not doing anything like the whole lamping in Jamaica, watching Cast Away, I deserve it all. There are so many bars that I'm picking up from them talking about both of them now, talking about Ibiza being on an island, lamping in Jamaica. Port Antonio is an island in Jamaica, for those that don't know. But I remember or might delete later, J Cole is, I think it's on "Trader Truth in the Biza" where he's talking about not being too bougie to fly commercial. And then the song, after that, being seven minute drill where he goes at Kendrick. And it's just everything that I'm listening to, spawns from all the metaphors that I'm picking up, goes back to the heart part four, euphoria, Port Antonio, "Trader Truth in the Biza," seven minute drill, 616 in LA where Kendrick is mentioning Ibiza. Like why would he even mention anything of Ibiza? Like, what's happening? And it's all flying at because I'm like, there's a connection between these two. I don't think they're dissing each other. I think it's, I think what's happening here is, amen, you're saying this, but this is what it really is from what Kendrick is saying. And then J Cole is saying, yeah, I can take it there if I wanted to, but this is what I'm on. So I don't want any engagement. It's just fucking, it's strange. It's strange as hell. Kendrick really started out saying it from day one, "Fuck sneak this in." First person shooter. I hope they came with three switches. I crash out like fuck rap. Dismelly Mel if I had to. That's a K with all these nines. He gonna see Pet Cemetery. Even though that right there, that last bar is a shot at Drake specifically. But as the fuck sneak this in first person shooter is, "Hey, both of y'all, y'all can get it if you want to." Like, I'm not sugar-coating anything. And then what pissed me off, I think it's on Port Antonio. Cole is saying protecting legacies, so lines got crossed. Perhaps regrettably, my friends went to war. I walked away while all day blood on me. Now, oh fuck, I'm forgetting it. Now some will discredit me, try and wipe away my pedigree. Something, something, wrapping this incredibly. Like, I've retained all of this. I've retained every single bit of information when it came to this beef. And even though this bar isn't necessarily towards Cole, Kendrick did say, "Look, "Niggas feel like he entitled "'cause he knew me since he was a kid. "Bitch, I cut my granny off." (laughs) Like, "Fam, I don't think this is what y'all not realizing "what this is, y'all can get it. "I don't care. "I have zero sympathy for bullshit." J Cole backing out of this was the best decision that he could have made. Because I kept saying, I'm like, I don't think people want issues with K-DOT. I'm just saying, man, there ain't nothing really that special about him. I'm like, I'm not saying that he's special. I'm just saying this is not somebody that y'all want to play with. I don't think, y'all thinking that he's one way by putting him in that whole big three conversation. And Kendrick is on a whole different playing field, just fuck all of that shit. I don't give a damn. And if you want to try me, we could take it there. He's been talking like that since we've heard him from section 80 to now. I mean, he's been kind of cocky before, but he really started coming into his own talking crazy from section 80, "Good Kid, Mad City," so on and so forth. But anyway, it's just weird how he is Cole, J Cole, is talking in a perspective as if like, like he's trying to downplay it. Like, this is how it really would have went in the way. No, fam, this is how it really, this is how it played out. You backed out. And the reason why I'm so gung-ho on this is because he says I walked away when my friends went to war with their blood on me. Kendrick replies, and I think it's a direct shot. It's not a shot, but it's a direct reply saying, "No fam, I did it with integrity, "and Niggas still try to hate on me. "Just wait and see, more blood spilling. "It's just paint to me. "Dangerously nothing changed with me. "Still got pain in me, and he's telling you from the jump. "I don't give a fuck, this is what it is, "and this is where I will take it. "Even though I am healed from my trauma, "I still have it in me. "I can still take it there." He sounded unhinged on like that. You got one person here trying to play Kumbaya, then you got a whole, you got a nigga that's sitting here telling you, "Hey, if there's got to be like this, "I'll cut my fucking granny off "if that's what it takes, which is crazy." (laughs) Which is so insane to me. I'm like, "Yo, Kada is, yo, you got a chill." That's just my take. I really think, man, at the garden, it's not really a diss or a shot at anybody. It's almost like a, this is what it is, almost like a reflection moment, not only to hip hop, but to both of them, and how, hey, y'all been saying that the West has fallen off, you been saying it, yo, it's done. But I'm telling y'all that I deserve it all, we deserve it all. And man in the garden, just the title alone, what I pull from that is J. Cole trying to pretend like he is the warrior in the garden. And it's like, that's not how you're coming off. You're not acting like you're the warrior in the garden because, for those that know with lore, from samurai's and knights and everything, the warrior in the garden will be ready to go at it at any time. There is no backing out. Even if you die in the heat of battle, you're gonna be in the mind state of train to go, like at any given moment, but you backed out. So that's just my take on man in the garden. I, like I said, it's almost like, hey, this is what it is. I love, hey now, hey now is really dope. I love TV off. I really like, look man, he reclaimed the heart part six, which is hilarious. Just like, hey, fuck what are you talking about? We still gonna do this heart thing, which is really dope. And I loved how he basically called back to his humble beginnings with TDE. And basically saying it was his fault that the whole black hippie thing never happened, which I don't think, I don't know, man, I don't think his Kendrick's fault that black hippie never happened. I honestly think it's more of a blessing that black hippie didn't happen. Because we've seen it before, time and time again, where these clicks that come out, they're together man, they're putting out this whole compilation album together. And then all of a sudden it just something happens and we don't know, like where the hell is pro era? ASAP mob, there's a bunch of infighting and ASAP mob. They don't know whether they wanna kick ASAP Ferg out or keep him in, and it's just really weird. And Ferg is out shining all of them, which is great, I would never have thought that it would be Ferg to outshine everybody and ASAP mob. I'm thinking that ASAP Rocky would've been the one that just keep going. And this dude, I don't know if he's lying to his fans or not, but I don't think that album's coming, so whatever. But we've seen it time and time again, dip set, Rockefeller Records, all of these clicks come and go like that. And I think, don't hold me, this is just my opinion. I think if they stuck around just long enough with this whole black hippie thing, maybe problems would've arose in and things would've happened. I don't know, you know, some unfortunate things would've happened, there would've been a falling out in, you know, they would've been in fighting with each other, unfortunately. And I'm kind of, in a sense, happy that it didn't happen. We just know that when it's black hippie, it's J-Rock, Absol, Kendrick, and Q. And I'm cool with that, I'm cool with that. They got a couple of songs together, which is great. Vice City being one of my favorite fucking songs. I love that song so much. But yeah, it's cool that we got that and we didn't get an album from them. I think the closest thing that we got to an album of black hippie, I would say the Black Panther soundtrack, sort of, but still, I see what people mean where they say we just want a black hippie album. My favorite thing about this too is him basically pointing out Absol, saying that he is the reason why I wanted to get better with my pen. I thought that was awesome, I was like, oh shit, yes. There we go, the acknowledgement of Absol, because he is my favorite from TDE, besides Isaiah Rashad. I just dope alley you to give Absol, and, plus Absol, just dropped an amazing album, Soulburger. Man, I love that album. And him pointing out the fact that J-Rock was the one that being looked at for the first outing as TDE, as a collective, which is great. And it was shocked me was that when he said that Q couldn't really, he didn't know how to rap at first, Q being a hype man, I'm like, okay, yeah, you could be a hype man and still know how to rap, but him not knowing how to really rap at all at first, like, sort of kind of, and just being that was kind of surprising to me. But it was a really cool callback, and I love how that song starts with the, that mariachi acoustic guitar playing, and then the beat drops, and it's SWVs use your heart. And I'm like, oh my gosh. I lost it 'cause for years I've been using that, I've been using the original SWV instrumental for use your heart as the background music for this podcast. It was my favorite girl group, my favorite R&B girl group, besides 702, Brownstone and TLC. I just thought it was really interesting that he rapped on it. It was perfect, and yeah man, I really do like this album. One of the hardest bars is on this album at the end on Gloria. Gloria is not my favorite song in the album, but when he said my pin's favorite movie is the notebook. And I'm like, wait a second. I was like, is he referring to his, he was referring to his pin the entire time, his writing skill, the artistry of everything, and then ends it with my pin's favorite movie is the notebook. And I'm like, oh shit, that's dope, that entendre. Like don't sit in here and tell me that the album's not full of entendres when you just do that whole romance film in there and try to basically coincide your pin being the one falling in love with the notebook that you're writing in. Like don't, come on, don't do this. Dodger Blue, entendres, galore, stop, stop playing. Turn his TV off, turn his TV off. Super Bowl references, stop playing. There's entendres throughout the album, Kendrick. Don't do that. But yeah, that whole, my pin's favorite movie is the notebook is the hardest bar to me. Just 'cause I'm like, who the fuck is Gloria? And I wasn't paying attention at first, I had to run it back. Like who the hell is she? Like who's he referring to? And then I was like, oh shit, that's what he's talking about. That's what he's referring to. Okay, cool, cool. So yeah, man, overall, I know this is from what people have been saying is a precursor to an actual album dropping. And people have been saying, oh, y'all just saying that 'cause y'all know secretly deep down that the album is trash. And it's like, no, Kendrick is literally giving out snippets of a song that's not even on the album, which kind of alludes to the fact that there's more coming. Then, you know, sources and close circle of people that he's around is saying, he's got more, there's something else coming. So yeah, I've said it before and I said it years ago, when Kendrick gets into PG Lang territory, he's going to fuck off, he's going in. So just strap up, be ready. Not saying that TDE was holding him back, but I'm saying the fact that he has more freedom and PG Lang is his imprint, prepare Kendrick to go crazy. I'm surprised Baby Keem's not on the album, but, you know, it's nothing like, man, where's Baby Keem and it's not, I'm not really tripping off of that, which I am ready for some Baby King, like, where the fuck is he at? But since then, Drake has filed his second lawsuit against UMG for not like us, basically saying that these are not real numbers, you're using bots and so on and so forth, UMG replies with, in Lamas terms, no, we're not doing an investigation or not like us and the numbers and the bots or whatever, the hell that you accuse us of doing. And I'm not going to sit here and be the one that joke on Drake, I'm not going to laugh at him. I'm going to say this for a long time and I don't, this has nothing to really do with not like us. That whole not like us shit is out the window, that's over with. I think for a very long time, that Drake has wanted to sever ties with the contracts that he has, from the Apple to UMG, all the other contracts that he is, like, together with, he has wanted out and wanted to be independent for a very long time, 'cause he knows. I've even said it too and I'm like, "I think Drake has the capability "of just doing his shit on his own." Like, it's ridiculous now. Like, if he wanted to, he could break away and do his own thing and not need the labels. And I think Drake, to be honest, has wanted that sense, maybe views? I think Drake has wanted that sense views. I think Drake does not want to make the type of music that he's been making for a long time. All of it is formulaic, like a Frankenstein science project. Hey, this is the type of song we want you to put out. This is the sound we want you to capture. Dada, dada, dada. Even though Drake has gone out of his way to showcase a sound and put it in front of people, I don't think that's what Drake's purpose is. Or I don't think that's what he wants to do. I think Drake wants to get back to the rapidy rap shit. I truly think so. You heard it on Scary Hours 3, and he sounded like, that's literally what he wants to do. He does not want to do the same cookie cutter, shit that he's been doing all at his time. I feel bad for him. I'm not gonna laugh or joke or clown him because fuck a record label. They pretty much own him at this point. They own his likeness, they own everything. They own his brand, they own him. And there's nothing they can do about it. Or he can do about it really unless he has, unless he got the funds to go up against him. I think he does, maybe. I don't know. I'm hoping that he can get out of this. But a lot of people are like, oh, what? I don't think it's a good idea for Drake to sue UMG. He's gonna end up like Diddy. Oh shit, oh shit. And I'm like, no, I don't look at it that way. Maybe that would happen. But at the same time, I don't think Drake is really focused on the whole not like us thing. And he can't be because I'm like, well, you've done it too. The whole, you playing nerdy with Zack being Twitter bots. But your reality can't hide behind Wifi. Your little memes is using steam. They figured you out. Them forced opinions is not opinions. You need a new route. It's time that you look around who's around you before you figure out that you're not alone, ask what Mike would do. He was talking to you on 616 LA. That's the whole point of this battle. I don't think most people understand. They're just listening and listening to see who has the better bars and shit. But as Drake is sitting here talking to people making fun of Kendrick shoe size and all of that, Kendrick saying, no, sir, sit down. You're on trial. You're on the stand confess who you are. Who are you really? He's talking directly at you and you're sitting here playing games. And now that it's catching up with you, it's like, he's doing it too. He's, if anything, a lot of these artists have been doing that too with the fudged numbers and fake pages being made to boost up numbers and, you know, bodage, dreams and all of that. Like, there's a lot of these artists that are doing that. Like, let's not kid ourselves here. But I do apply a Drake for saying, fuck it. I can't take it anymore. I'm frustrated. I want out. I want out of this. I want to be independent. I want to be on my own. But if that happens, what happens to Naomi Sharon, which there's a whole backstory with the whole Naomi Sharon and that that is a mess. That is a hot mess. As basically typical Drake things, him seeing a baddie and, you know, she might have a boyfriend or have a husband and he ends up messing around with her anyway. And that's basically the situation. And out of guilt, he signs Naomi Sharon to OVO, which I don't like that at all. I don't know. But the, the, the husband divorced Naomi and everything. I didn't even know that was a thing. I didn't know Naomi Sharon was married. And I was like, wow, okay, cool. But yeah, but they said that the Naomi Sharon deal was done out of guilt because Drake, I guess apparently, felt bad. I don't know. It's kind of weird. But anyway, what happens to her P&D and every other artist that is a part of OVO? Like what happens to them? 'Cause when you break away from UMG, do you sever ties with the artists? Like, do they go on their own now? Or are they still OVO? You know what I'm saying? I don't know how that works. I've seen it before to where that has happened. And unfortunately, the artists are no longer affiliated with said, you know, click or label that they were a part of. They just kind of went to separate ways. I look at one example would be good music. But I don't know, man. It's, it's interesting to see. It's really interesting to watch all of this. It's just Drake just, he's fed up. He's had enough. Drake is so big as an artist. I don't think he was banking on, I don't think he was expecting any of this to go like this. He has too much pull, somewhat, I guess too much influence that nothing can happen to him. And that now that everything is crumbling around him is like, yo, what the fuck? Like, what's going on? Like, what's happening? But yeah, man, I hope he comes out on top of this, man. Cause it, to me, in my opinion, all jokes aside is messed up. And I, you know, people are like, oh, you need the record labels. How are you going to get the attention and blah, blah, blah and stuff like that. And they sit there and say, well, the indie artists, they have, they never have anything going for themselves. I'm like, no, the indie artist is much harder for them because everything is on them. They got to make multiple things happen. The labels are just a machine. And this goes back to when SkyZoo, I think SkyZoo set it on a dream deferred. And he was just to simply break it down. SkyZoo basically said he couldn't understand that how him as an artist, the level that he's at was able to have the money that he has while he's looking at the majors balling on a budget. Like they were struck, basically saying that they're struggling to pop bottles in the club and to keep women around the arm. But him over here, SkyZoo has been indie from day one, damn near, and he's able to, he's throwing money like crazy, basically. It blew his mind, he didn't understand it. And to be honest, that's a lot of artists. That's a lot of our favorites. Yeah, their names are in lights. They're everywhere, we see them everywhere, but how much money are they truly making? What are they really making from the streams? You know what I'm saying? And you can say, well, they're making money, they're getting it from the shows and all that stuff. I'm like, yeah, they're getting their money from the merch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cute. But the music, like, are they really making money from the music? That's what's most important to me. Your show money, that's great. Your merch, that's great. But are you truly making money from the songs that you're crafting in the studio? And in most cases, they're not. You're getting ripped off, you're getting ripped the hell off. Completely, it's ridiculous. But that's enough talking for me, man. I hope Drake can come out of this on top, I really do. And I mean that for real, I'm not trolling, I'm not joking. I love GNX, Kendrick's album is great. Check it out if you have it, it's a really dope album. I forgot about Squabble Up. Oh my God. Look, you don't tease no fucking song like that and just hold on to it until whenever you feel like dropping it. 'Cause I'm like, you can't drop a snippet like that. And then he's sampling Debbie Deb, so I'm like, fam, well, why would you do this to me? And I'm sitting there having to wait to hear the full song. But anyway, I love the song Squabble Up is really dope. And Wacked Out Mirrors was really cool. I don't think he's dissing Lil Wayne at all. He's just pointing it out. I think he's baiting Wayne. And for those who are fans of Wayne out there, oh, you know, Wayne, get busy. Wayne is not the dissing type. He's never been capable of dissing. He let push a T embarrass him on Exodus 23.1. I was, you're not getting away with nothing like that. There's no way that you can sit here and put out a Exodus 23.1 on me and think I just won't say something. That's, we gotta fight. But no, if he, just say if he did hypothetically, Kendrick would make a spectacle of Wayne just the same way that he did Drake. We already saw what he did with Drake. Excuse me. He would take Wayne and make, the example that he would make of Wayne would be, hey, maybe it's your fault that the rap industry is fucked up the way it is as far as the drug culture and the lean and, you know, being tatted up and, you know, the perks and all that. And the zannies, you're the guy. You're the culprit, Wayne. Kendrick would do something like that. This is why I say leave him alone before he really just says what he feels like saying. And he's a huge avid Wayne fan. And I don't, him being a fan of Wayne, it still doesn't take away what he might really think deep down of what it is at the end of the day. So let's just leave it here on the table and let it go. Is on the song, is out there. And we just gonna keep it there. That wraps this episode up for me. Thank you for listening to episode 614. And shout out to my favorites. Y'all know who y'all are. Shout out to the old and new listeners of the social introvert podcast, the in-betweeners, the one fell off, coming back in to see what I'm up to, I guess. You know, a lot of people, people be busy, man. So you can't catch every podcast, but I understand. So for those, welcome back. And yeah, man, I'll see you guys tomorrow. And yeah, yeah, I'll see you guys tomorrow. I will have an episode out, regardless of it being Turkey Day. I will, I'll probably, I'll probably record first. Yeah, I think I'll record first at nanny eat or something like that, maybe. I don't know, who cares. Anyways, take care of each other, most importantly. Take care of yourselves. Have a great week. Have a happy Thanksgiving. Don't eat too much. 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