“With All Disrespect”

"Just Causes"

Late but all way on time we back with a another episode this week we will look at rick ross hit and run, low ticket sales of some artists, Hulk Hogan fired ambassador for being black, how are the winners on the NBA free agent, Buster goes in and more

Duration:: 1h 57m
Broadcast on:: 10 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

(music) Bless world! (music) Let me go! (music) Look at me, nah! (music) Come on, you crazy! Stay humble! (music) I'm feeling this one right here! (music) (music) Straight to the top. (music) Don't stop. (music) It's that high-stop heartbreak. (music) I ain't never been so down in my life. Questions to win. The next wave. A look goes straight. My hazy from these thoughts I keep having at night. Wondering if the ones I love don't start treating me right. All this pain I keep bottled up inside. I can't hide it. Tears running down my face from these battles on fight. But I'm so stuck on your eyes and you so stuck in your lies. But when I look in your eyes I felt your pain and I'm trying to make it all better. Do the stormy weather. We can storm it together. And no question I'm better. See, we both on the level. And we destined for greatness. Once we cancel the statements, we gon' conquer the haters. Gotta push just to make it. All these wheels till we break 'em. All your pain, let me take it. Get your love, I embrace it. As we laying here naked, I swear I heard of her saying I gave you love. I'm dead, take this shit and start playing. Cause you need somebody who will stand by you. Stand by you. You look good times and bad times. And we made true. We made true. Your actions make reactions that you might not like. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. Cause you need somebody who will stand by you. Stand by you. You look good times and bad times. They will be made true. All your actions make reactions that you might not like. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. So stay humble. (barking) And we are back. Welcome back to with all disrespect. What only thing that is here within the work we cook up is low ticket sales at the wrong time. Shit it did it on tax season. Cause that's just the truth with it all. This is your boy Pippin back here with me again. It's the man, the myth, the legend, the million dollar dream. You know today is going to be alright. Cause this your boy might. Yeah, no, I definitely agree with that. I mean definitely decided to do a tour around the wrong season. Oh yeah. I think for you you should probably do a more around single day Mayo. You gotta know your audience. You gotta know your audience. I feel like all I mean, I feel like all your fans will be yours. I got some single day Mayo. Like you gave me like a certain time five. Wait, hold on. You say single day Mayo. It's single. It's single. It's single. I say single. Yo, I swear I heard you say single day Mayo and I, yo, that is hilarious. Why isn't that a, why isn't that a holiday? Single the Maya. Hey, here's a day for all the singles out there that got no relationships. Single day Maya. I mean, that would be, that would have to be on the first, right? Single day Mayo or no yet. No, yeah, January 5th. No, January 5th is a national side piece day. We can't take that away from them. Okay. Okay. I'm my bad. I mean, I mean, you could celebrate both in one day. Yeah. I mean technically, I mean, take, I mean, it's accurate. Yeah. Wow. That's funny. That is hilarious. But yeah, we're back, man. We're back a little late with this one. You know, a lot of, you know, some personal things got in the way, you know, had to do with the, you know, with the wife. And I know you was busy as well for the, for the upcoming fourth of July. How was your fourth? Oh, man. I didn't go to nobody's house. Like I had, like, my to go bags ready. Like I was just so busy. Like the to go back was sitting on my calendar like a day after it's like, damn, I didn't steal nobody's reps. But the beauty of it being a summertime is going to be at least about 100 more cookouts. So they still going to get used to this summer by my grabbing go bags. Like for those of you who don't know, I'm a grabbing goer. Like I will come to your functions, grab a place. Say hi to a few motherfuckers and leave abruptly and by abruptly. I'm not saying about another you motherfuckers because I got what I want. Give me my doctor thunder. Give me my, give me my, I don't want no glizzies. Give me, I take a couple hamburgers. Give me some of them ribs. Oh, you guys, if you got stakes, those are good as God. Is that on part? Isn't that the same as wedding crashing? Yes, it is. Just pulling up to any cookout that and from any, anyone you don't know. And just going in and just partying, trying to blend in, taking a bunch of. How fast would you be, how fast would you get noticed? Like who the fuck is this guy? How fast would you get noticed? I think for wedding, I think for weddings, it's easier to blend in because you're talking like hundreds of people. Right? Right. What a family, friends, coworkers and whatnot. I think for a family cookout, I think family is the emphasis of like. It being a tough time for you to pull up to just anyone's cookout. Well, listen, if you're in Chicago or parts of LA, I will not suggest this. But if you're like, I mean, there's a, well, any hood. If you, if you're in any, you can get away with that shit. If you're in the suburbs and shit because like people are friendly, especially if it's like at a park. You can get away with that shit. But like I will not tell any of my audience to go to old block and try to crash a barbecue. You might liable to not come out there. The same. Like, so yeah, please, if you're going to cook out crash, please cook out crash. Yeah, your own expense. You know the risk. And wait until everybody gets drunk too, because that definitely up the. Up your success rate by at least like a good 50, especially if you're getting good with the drunk uncle. Yeah, I mean, my fourth was cool. I went to my parents. Had some amazing food, very, very good food. And just catch up with the family, you know, I don't really get to see them as much now that I'm married. My wife had to work. So, you know, unfortunately, so. But yeah, it was cool. The fireworks weren't bad. I expected, you know, you expect fireworks to go off for days after the 4th of July, right? You expect people to set off fireworks on the 5th and the 6th and the 7th, like all weekend. But no, like. Whatever fireworks they everyone had, they let them all off on the 4th and that was it. No, no, you know. No leftovers or whatnot. Well, I mean, you had a good time. Happy birthday, America. Well, yes, I mean, that's how I live. It's been a whole, I mean, listen, we already, listen, we already got y'all with the cookout. Listen, y'all need to stop being greedy. Fuck that. You know, who didn't have a good 4th of July, probably, or actually, we didn't have a good Canada Day. Who's that? Yeah, because yeah, I mean, it got a zaz beat on Canada Day. Oh, imagine Rick. Rick, you roast the boss. The boss. Imagine your ass be like in a whole nother country like that's a new level. Well, listen, that is, that is what he get. Listen, listen, his comments before came out talking about, hey, when you see me, check me. And he got checked. And when he did, he couldn't, he, he bitched out. He bitched out. He was talking shit. He got hit in the eye of the chin. I mean, I think he got hit twice. It looked like to me, he got hit twice. Once in the chin, once in the eye. Then he backs up and he keeps backing up and he keeps backing it like he just backed. He did so much backpedaling. I swear. He was doing so much backpedaling. And he dipped. He let his peoples, his security get their ass beat. I don't know how many, I don't know how many videos and different angles of the fight you saw, but I saw enough to be like, Oh, yeah. You, you cannot, you cannot live this down. You cannot defend this. This is a very unboss like from the. I mean, let's just call it what it is. Rick Ross is probably the fakest gangster in hip hop history. He's the fakest. I mean, I don't care if you were a cop in your prior life. I don't care about none of that shit. I mean, I don't, I don't care about any of that. But this guy does not live his raps. If there's one, if there's one individual who isn't and as dope of a rapper as he is, or was put out some, some, some hit street hits and thumbs, very good albums. Like, the guy does not live his raps. He don't live his raps. He just don't. And this video proves it. Like, how do you go to a different country? And you, you know, you performed at a festival of all things. You end your, you end your performance with the, with the not like us record, knowing who that record is about, who's that towards. You got pressed by, as people said, was Hell's Angels. Hell's, I had no idea there was Hell's Angels up in Canada up in. Yeah, they got bridges everywhere. I had no idea, no idea news to me. You get pressed by Hell's Angels to, you know, hey, don't disrespect our ghost. He Drake is loved all over the fucking country of Canada. You know how big Canada is. Yeah, it covers, it's like, in terms of mileage, it's, it's like pretty much the same side as America. You're talking like over 3000 miles or so. I mean, we talking about with thing. Yeah, like, I mean, it basically stretch all the way through. Like Vancouver is like, you know, the, well, I mean, it's in the West Coast. So it's like, it's like their version of LA. They don't play with that. So, they pressed him. Ross, you know, he's talking shit out of that. And then here comes a white dude. Hey, score one for the white people. All right. I was so happy as a fellow white man. Right. I felt like he was somewhere. I was here. I was doing a back. I can't do a back flip. I pictured myself doing a back flip. And this white guy with no fear. All the confidence gave him a two piece, not from wingstop, but like a boom. You know, like, right in Rick Ross's grill. Oh, man. And Ross was perplexed. He was. Couldn't believe the white man did that to him. So naturally, as a boss, as a, as a gangster. He did what. And he faked tough guy. And he faked boss would do. And ran for the tuck his tail, ran for the, yeah, ran, ran back, ran back to his, his shitty, his shitty cheap low tier jet. Where him and his, his crew, you know, of, you know, his DJ got, you know, DJ Sam sneaked. Oh, man, he did get sneaked. He got changed his name to DJ Sam snuffed. Or maybe DJ Sam night quilt because he went night night. He had to get dragged off. Right. They tried to wake him up. It wasn't happening. So they had a drag. He was like, as if he was dead, like his lifeless body off his shoes were scuffing the ground. Drag marks. All the way back to the jet. Back to Miami. Oh, man, what up. That must have been a brutal. I would think a 12 hour flight going from Vancouver back home to Miami. Ain't no this motherfucker had the nerve to get on live or post a video talking about. Oh, we're built different over here. Yeah. You're bruised different too. Right. Your man's is still laid out on the chair. You had a kick. Talking about, Oh, we're going to stop at wing stop wings, man. Fuck out of here. Wing stop. I'd rather get snuffed again than eat some damn shitty wing stop. That feels like a, I think, no, I think that was the punishment for getting a ass beat like, no, you're not eating over here. Now you guys got to have a six piece from one of my, one of my my my chain restaurants. Right. Like, I mean, that hell, even if, okay, even if I was at work, the someone says, Hey, you also from wing stop. I would think it's B. Oh, yeah. Fucking one. And, you know, the videos like the parody videos of this shit was funny. Still are. There's no way he could live this down. Oh, I mean, because we've seen the video and as grainy and as a galaxy note seven, it looked like at the end of the day, like we've seen enough to know, like, yeah, we got a touch. He tried to post a video a few days later, like, bro, we ain't, we ain't trying to hear none of that. We ain't trying to hear excuses. You cannot defend this for real. You really cannot. You really cannot. And I don't understand why you don't move smartly, you know, as someone who was pushing 50 years old. Like, you go to a different country, foreign territory, literally. And you play a record. That's not your record one. So you're still trying to, you're still trying to insert yourself in this beef. Like, this is why this is one of the reasons why I hated this fucking Hendrick and Drake beef. Everybody wanted to get involved. Everybody. Everybody wanted to insert themselves. Throw their throw their their their name in the hat. You know, it's like no, we don't want to hear from you. Like, you didn't take the hint when you're fucking shitty your your your your Drake disc record didn't do nothing. Like, I don't understand like why you couldn't just, I don't know. So it's, he's like, it's like a lack of lack of self awareness on Ross's part. Like, that was just that you, this that was karma. You trolling, you trolling Drake for two months or so like that was karma. For real. Like, you had a comment. I mean, I also remember most 90% of his videos was him in the house or somewhere. I was like, yeah, no, you're right. All on his property where he's safe. For no one could touch him. Yeah, right. Like, and first of all, it's not like anybody believe like, I don't, if it's too, it's 2024 anybody still believes that Rick Ross is some type of mobster. Like you, you need to go, you need to go seek help. Fine, God, because hey, you know what that. And shout out to 50 cent force. He jumped at this to kick his enemy while he was down. He was like, Hey, you better go get the dream chasers. Yeah, you better get the, you better get the 305 pillars, jokingly, of course, because they ain't got them. I mean, they don't fuck with them. You know what, and this is going to come up into our episode. I know last time. We just, we talked about another episode, but this is like, I think we're doing like our own personal does. I think with all disrespect is slow brewery. We're in the lab cooking up on. Oh, yeah. More things. More things are being revealed and being exposed daily. So we're going to like, you know, we're definitely slow cooking this one. It's going to take a little bit. But when the time is right, the time is right to have that episode. But in the meantime, we get any jokes up on Ross and rightfully so. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. And the fact of the matter is like, and there's a lot of stuff. Well, first of all, let's get on Ricky Ross. I said this in a lot of episodes. It's like, we're talking about a guy that made him shut. We talk about a guy that shut down his paid tool because the GDS was precedent. Okay. We're talking about a guy that got his car shut up in your hometown because the GDS was on your neck. Okay. We talk about this same Rick Ross, right. We're talking about the same Rick Ross, who 50 said had on the internet buying clothes for him for her and his kids. And then it made a porno with it. Like, like Ricky Ross outside. But he has never did anything significant in any sort of beef scenario where it was like, yeah, Ricky got the dub on this one. It's like L after L after L. Like, like, no matter, like, because he was like, okay, let's go back into the top of shit when he was beef. Nothing, nothing, nothing worse than a, nothing worse than a scorn baby mother. She has been getting at his head top since, I mean, her too. Like, she's making a killing off of this shit. Like, it's so funny. It's so funny, too, because it's like, I've seen, like, when she posted something to IG and a drink or spider tool to her. And then Ricky has a spot because she because she was in his because she was in Drake's comments on Instagram talking. What does she what she said? Oh, she said, Dre, like, you know, she just typed out Drake and he and Drake responded with my goat or whatever would like, you know. Yeah, so then Rick Ross comes in saying, like, pedal versus granny like, Brad, you're, you're one lane. So, like, you are really like, it's just funny. Like, the pedal thing is worth it. Right, I is barely open and you still trying to talk shit. Your right eye is still not fully open. You can you probably can't, you know, you probably, I mean, you could, you could still eat, I'm sure, but I mean, it's so your chin, your jaw is probably sore as hell still, and you still trying to talk shit. And you know, the crazy part about it is it's like, you calling your baby mother granny when you're literally like one, you're like, you're 50. You're like, I don't know how old she is, but I mean, if she's younger than him, that whole grant. I mean, even still, like, I don't want to hear nothing Ross got to say like, this is your humble. This is your humble moment, bro. Get off the Internet. Go dark and come back in like six months to a year where, you know, attention spans are very short on most people these days like, you know, some people will forget. We'll forget this. I won't. I sure. Oh, you see it. You see, I keep documents of Rick Ross's elves like it's become like an unhealthy hobby. Oh, it is not even like because I don't like the guy is just, you know, who you say you are like. Exactly. This is the fakest, this is the fakest gangster rapper in the history, like, no one comes close. Nobody comes close like this guy, everything that he's wrapped about the drugs of the, you know, who he's connected to and how big of a, how big of an influence he is in Florida, you know, even Miami don't fuck with him like that. I'm not surprised. Florida. I mean, that's why he, hey, it's kind of telling when you live in Atlanta. This guy lives in Atlanta. I don't know when the last time he visited Miami. Or if he's still got a house in Miami, but like, a lot of people in the comments were like, oh, yeah, no, we don't, we don't wrap him down here in Florida. He ain't good over here. Like, we, they're naming a bunch of rappers. They respect more than Rick Ross. Like, they were naming like, Flo Rida and Pitbull and, like, they were. Listen, Florida's got a lot of respect on the streets, plus he just got a bag with a Celsius, the energy drink so shout out to Flo Rida. Oh, yeah. It's all right. But, but here's another thing that struck me as uncle Lou climbed up, got out of his nursing home and was like, Oh, well, that shouldn't happen because now Drake's not getting Miami like, what are you talking about this is a man that went overseas to play a Yeah. I don't think Luke, I don't think Luke knows the whole story. I just, Luke, Luke probably, Luke probably didn't read the part where he Ross was playing a disc. First of all, a disc record, that's not even his to the crowd in Canada, knowing that Drake is beloved in Canada, no matter what part it's not Toronto, but I mean, it's Canada nonetheless like he's, he's, he reps. He's repped by the whole country. And, yeah, like, it just, yeah, I don't think Luke knew the whole story and plus who gives a fuck with uncle, what the fuck cares what uncle Luke thanks these 60 some of your guys like. Hey, I'm sorry, you, if you don't know how to properly hold a camera when you're recording yourself, I don't want to hear from you. I mean, that's that. You know, he had, you know, he had to ask someone that was half his age. Hey, how do you turn on the video camera and flip it over to yourself and hoard. Right. He probably had, he probably used the back camera like an idiot like what, what a noob. Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's, it's kind of it. Listen, this is your humble moment. Take the L, stop the fence because it just makes you look worse. It just makes you look worse and more corny. If you just can't, if you like, try to make excuses for it or, you know, doesn't it? I mean, doesn't it? Like, it's just. Take your L in silence. Come back in a year with a new album. I mean, look, I'm still going to listen to Ross's music. I just know who Ross is. I mean, for now on, he's William Roberts. I'm not referring to him as Rick Ross after today. He is William Roberts. That's his government name. Because that because because that's who we really, that's who he really is. He is not this persona that he's built himself up for the last, oh, I don't know, close to 20 years. And I've been saying, and here's where I've been saying for years, like, there's nothing wrong with still liking a person's music and just not liking the artists themselves. Like, there's nothing wrong with that in no shape of capacity. Like, you can sit back and listen to some Rick Ross music and just not like him as a person. You can sit back and listen to some Rick Ross music and just not like him as a person. You can sit back and listen to some Rick Ross music and just not like him as a person. He's a character. He's a heel, right? He's supposed to be a heel, but it's all for show. It's all for entertainment. Like, once the cameras are off and he's backstage and everything, he's like the greatest guy in the world, like backstage, you know? Well, I mean, unfortunately, that doesn't apply to one person, but we'll get into that. Well, yeah, but you know what I'm saying? It's like for entered, like, heels, baby, like faces, you know, it's all for show. These are not. Yeah, and it's just like, you can still listen to an artist. Like, hell, I'll keep it above with everybody here. There are still a handful of art Kelly tracks that I will still listen to. Now, do I applaud him? Do I condemn him for everything that he's done outside of the music? Of course I do, because of what he did is a lot of sick shit, but at the end of the day, he still made good music. I mean, you ought to listen to me when I say this. If we stop listening and stop watching things all for the fact because of something that happened behind the scenes, we would not be watching a lot of TV shows, a lot of movies. We wouldn't watch sports. Like, I mean, you got to separate a person's work from the person. Like, you could admire somebody's art, but still don't like the person. It's okay for you to say, hey, this is the opposite or the opposite. You can not like their music, but still like them as a person. Right. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of cases of that too. Like, well, you're like, oh, yeah, I will not be caught. And there'll be some, and I'm going to bring them up in this episode later on when we bring up some names. Yeah, you know, like, but yeah, dope personalities in period and, you know, you just can't buy what they music. And that's okay. That's, that's fine. That's fine. But he is just, I don't know, Ross just, just stop it. If I could advise, Ross, just stop, bro, put the camera down. Enjoy life. You know, it just, just take this as a, take this as a lesson learned. Okay, even, even, even at 50 years old, you could still, you know, an old, what's the saying, old dog can learn new tricks. Yeah, it's, it's, it's just use that as a learning lesson. Yeah, I did. And he's only good news is it also he's like two, three weeks away from enjoying that. Danny's grand slam. So I mean, that's something he can look forward to. Oh, okay. Get that link discount. I don't know if he knows that. Maybe someone could tell him that. Yeah, definitely. Someone, someone given a word like that. You can enjoy that Giddy's grand slam here soon. Yeah. Well, good. Good on. I guess in that case, good on him. I did want to talk about sales, album sales, touring sales. I feel like they go hand in hand. So, Megan the stallion. Her new album, which we talked about last episode. And I got to, I have to backtrack what I said last week. I believe I said that I thought it was, I think I said it was okay. I think I think I said the album was fine. See, you were shitting on it. Actually, you said you didn't finish the album. Did you finish the album? Did you get around? No, no, it was just too many diss tracks like I was. Okay. Well, I went back. You know, the thing is, is like, it's just nothing. It's just no replay value for me on this album. And I actually, I actually not, I actually don't like the album. Well, I like it a lot less than I did when I officially heard it the first time. If that makes sense. You know, like, it kind of just, it kind of, it really just came and went in terms of equality. You know, same flows on every, almost on every song. She attempts to do a pop, a couple of pop records that don't really work. I don't know. I don't know where else you could go from here, but her sales team and, and she did 64,000 in the first week as a as an independent artist as her fans will tell you and constantly remind you. And I'm going to talk about all that independent stuff in a second, but 64,000 is okay. It's fine for some artists. But for someone like Megan the stallion, who has been around now for what about five years, give or take. Yeah, and this is what I was saying, like the entire time, like, she, this was a make a break album because, like, she's trying to prove that she's on par with like the Nikki. When the Nicki Minaj is, and then it's like, we get the, I don't want to, I don't want to make that parallel between her and Nicki even any of these new rap girls to Nicki because Nicki has had a lot. She came up in a different era. Right. She came up before the streaming era. She obviously, you know, had the little Wayne backing and she was around, she was around a lot of a lot of help, a lot of influence. Right. Yeah, for her career. I don't know who's back like who is, who is Meg's little Wayne, you know I'm saying like who was her, who was her mentor, you know I mean, none of none of these new girls have that. They don't. So. What was I going with? We're also I was going with this. Yeah. So 64,000. Good for number three on billboards. So you're, you're four out. This is your third or fourth studio album. And you still don't have a number one album. I mean, you're, I mean, you're getting in the top three, the top four, top five, but no number one. Listen, people are going to knock you for that. They're going to knock you for that. Oh, they already have. No, yeah, I'm just saying it's Oh, yeah, of course, but I'm saying like they're going to every time you drop an album and it doesn't go number one. They're going to give you help for that. They're going to, they're going to laugh at you. So. And I had to look this up as an independent artist. I had to bring this up because that whole independent stuff is nonsense, especially for someone like Meg, who has had mainstream success, who was on big records with big artists, not too long ago. You know, the Cardi B's of the world and, you know, I mean, hell, even even Nikki before that, you know, I'm saying like, she's not new to like the way they throw around this independent tag as if we're supposed to respect it. Like the only thing independent like I could applaud is like, okay, you're making more money than as opposed to still being signed to a label and having to like, you know, give most of your earnings to them, you know. Right. So, I had to look this up with her last album traumatized, which came out not too long ago late 2022. Okay. So, like I said, this new mega album did 64,000 first week. Do you want to take a guess of what her last album did first week sales wise. What was it. 63,000. You know what that reminds me of. You know what. Okay, remember when, oh, man, this was a, this seems like hundreds of episodes ago. Why you why you think about this? No, no, no, no, no, say that that whole and like the whole difference between you being with a label on your, you know, up until your last album. Now you're, you're first being in, there's no moving the needle. The only difference in this case is that you get, you know, you get, you make more money from the music that you sold. That's really it. Like your pockets got fatter. That's really it. And that's really what you're, you know, sick in the 60 to 65,000 range. That is your number that those are your numbers. That's it. You're never going to, you're never going to hit a hundred thousand or more. That's it. So right. But here was what I was saying, Ray Shrimmer's album. Like, I think Shrim Life 3 did less than Shrim Life 4. It was those numbers is crazy to me because it's like, okay, you got some traction back, but it's like not a lot to make a lot of difference. You know what I'm saying. And was there any, remind, was there any hits on that last Shrim Life album as opposed to the previous one? Oh, dear God. No, like nothing. And that, and that is why for this Meg album, this new one, there's no hits. There's no hits on this. There's, it's kind of boring. It gets boring pretty quickly. Like, I feel you by track five, when she's still in the same flow, making the same, like talking about the same shit, it gets boring. It gets tiring. And then later on, she tries to do some Japanese anime type of type of shit that doesn't work and the pop record doesn't work. And it's like, it's like, you cannot start off your album. Like, it's an 18 track album. So fucking boring, because people will lose interest. You're in a space where like, getting somebody's attention is everything. Like, okay. Imagine, imagine if you will, right? Imagine if we still, we don't trust you, right? It was just so boring that you couldn't even get to the fucking future in Kendrick Lamar track. Like, imagine if it was just that boring to the point where a lot of people wouldn't even hear about it until they got to the end of that. And that's the point I'm trying to make. You have to grab people's attention immediately. And the first song, the very first song, like, I feel like, what was it his? I feel like that should have been on last. Like, that should have been like the last track. I feel like that song shouldn't have been on the album, period. Well, right. I mean, that's just my opinion, because that record is a disrecord towards Nikki. And so now you're starting off your album, dissing another wreck, dissing another rapper. But I mean, we already heard, like, that record was five months ago when you dropped it. We already heard the record. Like, how many people are going to, like, for me, I went right to track two. I didn't go to track one. Well, if you have to have that, if you, if she had to have that album or that track on the album, then put it very last. Me, I do agree. Like, first option, don't put it on there at all. This old track, whatever. It came out months ago. But if you have to have it on the album, if you desperately need it on the album for filler or whatever the reason, make it the very last track. Imagine 18 tracks. And that's like not enough. You have to put another one on for filler reasons. That doesn't make sense. That's second part. Well, I'm just saying, like, for whatever reason, like, whatever reason you needed this old song on the album, then put it on the last track. First, I agree. Make that your, make that make that near your closer, not your actual closer because then not a lot of people are going to press play on it because they already heard it. Make it your second to last song. That's what I, that's what how I would have set it up, you know, the, the, the tracklist thing. But yeah, really no difference between, again, besides you making more money on this album than your last. The numbers are the same. Like, that's, that is what you're going to get. That's, that's your, that's your peak. That's, that's your ceiling is 64, 65,000. That's it. You're never going to touch a hundred thousand unless you collab with, like, bigger artists, like a Cardi B again, you know, it's just not happening. You have, she also has to start making hits. Her songwriting is not very good. Like, one flow can, I mean, there's really nothing, she doesn't have enough bops, doesn't have enough bops that could get to radio. And you could see it on this album. Only three songs from this 18 track album made it onto billboard. Three out of the 18 only charted on billboard. That's bad. And all your songs got out. All your songs got out sold by the Camilla, by the Camilla Cabello and Drake song. I mean, so, so, I mean, I don't know. All I keep seeing on social media and on Twitter is, you know, all, all these, all these tweets about Meg, how great she is and everything. Thousands upon thousands of tweets from from her fans. And yet the numbers don't match the amount of social media love that she gets. It doesn't match. Isn't this just like the whole corner rating. Yeah. Feel these, a few with these social media darlings. It's, it's literally that. It's literally that. And then pivoting to touring and why I'm correlating the two, you know, Meg is on tour right now. And, you know, even though she's doing well here in the States, I mean, she's sold out a majority of her cities, which is good, even though, even though. It ain't really, it ain't real sellouts. And I said this before on a previous episode. You know, you taking away thousands, you, you losing thousands of seats because of, you know, you have to build your stage on one side of the arena. That's losing money. You're losing a lot of money by doing that. And it's not a true sellout. I mean, that's why, that's why the bigger acts have set up their stage in the middle of the floor so that everyone all around the arena could see you. And it would be a true sellout. So, she's touring right now. And it was announced, I think like a week or so ago, that she had a cancel. She's about to go overseas or, you know, his overseas right now as we're recording. She had to cancel a few of her European dates because of low ticket sales. Cities like Cologne, France, Dublin, England, Dublin, England, Dublin, Ireland. Another town in France. Yeah, had to had to cancel shows. Even though she's still, I mean, she got her Paris show and yeah. But I mean, that's telling. Going international is way tougher than then just popping off here in the States in North America. It's way different. There's about only four rappers that can sell out overseas in Europe can go on a European run. Maybe a little bit more. One of them is a true legacy act. Like it's tough. It's tough to do. So, the fact that you're not able to muster up enough of, you know, international fans. Again, it's telling. You're just not doing enough. And honestly, the, you know, the social media aspect, you look in, you know, beautiful and, you know, your workout videos and your twerk videos. It's not enough to really get people into buying into your music. So that's what we brought up before. I mean, I may not be a fan of your music, but I like you as a person. Like, I like your personality, you know. Stop me if I'm wrong. I mean, it's more a lot of these new. It's a lot. It's the standard for female rap. Is that an all time low. And that is like, not just a Meg thing. It's a lot of these other girls. These other girls issues too. And again, like when you see these people on social media, how they interact with the fans and how they just are, you know, like, no matter how much money they have, like, they still seem like whoever they was before the fame, that's still who they was. And I think that's a beautiful thing because you don't even see that in a lot of the music industries. You see people grow into like a new persona or a new shell of themselves. And even if you're not a fan of their music, you can appreciate the the realness of it. But at the end, another another another thing too that gets into their heads that I know for a fact gets to their heads is the amount of likes that they get on each post. If they get 200,000 500,000 a million likes on their newest Instagram photo within like a day or two in their brain. They think, Oh shit, I made it. I'm, I'm the shit. I'm the biggest artist. I'm one of the biggest artists in the world. Let me do a tour and expect to and expect to sell out every city just because I got a million likes on my newest Instagram photo. Like, no, that's not the way to go about it. If that's the case, then they need to abandon that idea because you get a million followers, not from one city, but like globally because your online presence is that's what it is globally. So you might get a million likes within like an hour or hell, even a day, hell, even an hour. But you got to take a consideration that maybe you might have like 20,000 likes from your home city. Maybe you might have like 5000 from someone from people in Cleveland. Like you, you, you see how that breaks that when you break down the numbers, especially if you divide it up 1 million between like, let's just keep it the United States. Right. Let's say you get 15, like, let's say you get 1 million and 500,000 likes on a pulse, right. You have to now divide that number between 32 cities. It's 32 major cities in the country, right, in the US, right, 30, like something like that, right. Yeah, something. Yeah. Yeah. So if you divide that number, like your tours is going to be similar to that is going to reflect that. And then you also got a factor in. Like, how many of those is in like your home turf, like, because of course you can. Okay, so I just did the quick back for that. If you, if every single person out of them, the 32 states was to give you like 15 million likes theoretically that's 46,000. Yeah. But again, we're not just talking about nationally, we're talking about globally. Yeah. Yeah. So now you're thinking about London, you're thinking about Hong Kong, you're thinking about Paris, you're thinking about Internet and that international money is different. It's different. Like, because, because those cities outside of the United States, they don't get to see these, these acts, these American acts, you know I'm saying like they not many of them tore outside the US. So whenever they do decide to go overseas, I know for a fact that the international fan base goes crazy and does everything that they can to go and see, you know, their favorite, because they can only see them when they're in town. Right. It's no, it's like if I'm in, okay, I'm in New York. If so and so is not is on tour, but is not stopping in New York and is only doing a show in Connecticut or New Jersey. I'm going to drive to either state to go see that show, you know I'm saying like I could do that. I could, I could afford that luxury. I, you know, unfortunately, again, international fans can't say that they can't, you know, they're not privy to that. So, and again, like, and again, like international money. Yeah, that's great once again, but we just have to keep on basis here in the States you canceling tours. And it's not just female rappers is a lot of people, but right now I want to stick to the, I want to stick to the female rappers. Right, because, because then sexy red came out yesterday that her upcoming tour is reportedly on the verge of being canceled. After only 37% of the tickets have been sold up until this point. I think her tour starts in August, early August. Yeah, so only 37% that's not good. That is not good and your tour is in less than a month. You know, it's. And of course she had to come out and say, Oh, this is fake. I'm not canceling nothing that you know people are buying and I don't know if that's her in denial. Maybe it is. But yeah, it's. And again, as a person, as a person, I like sexy red. She comes off as a genuine person, but her music, I don't subscribe to her music. I don't really subscribe to her like when she has to be in character and act like a whole, I feel like it's kind of a character thing like I feel like most times she's acting like Oh, and saying like the most outlandish shit. You know, but yeah, you know, people will tell you, Oh, she's a sweetheart. She's kind. She's this and that. So, you know, any, any thoughts to that of the sexy red tour not happening. I'm trying to find the, I'm trying to find the official flyer to the tour. I have to probably go to her. Well, here's the thing. We're going to see the truth like okay likely if it's a let's say, let's say this is the truth that she came out saying this is a lie. We're going to find out come August September and October. Like once, like, if it is true, you decide to go on because at the end of the day, whoever is like helping her like manage this tour, they got to come up to her eventually like yo, bro, we are losing a lot of fucking buddy. It's not worth it. I want to, I want to, I want to, you know, because I had this conversation with a friend. And you know, this is what they told me when it came to, you know, the. The touring aspect for, I mean, this is just for the female rappers, you know, the men will get to the men in a second, but he pretty much told me that, you know, you know, nobody wants to pay. Let's say, I don't know, like how much you think a sexy red ticket would go for let's say a hundred. Let's say 82, let's say $80 to $100. Yeah. A meg ticket would probably go for what 200 or buck 80. Let's say. Yes, nobody, nobody wants to pay to come see them just twerk. And, and wrap the same kind of music for an hour to two hours, you know, it's, you know, it's. It is what it is. I think people are wisely not spending their money to just see every single person that comes into their town. Like, I think they're just holding off on just certain acts. You know, this other tweet that I found from touring data on Twitter. They do like the numbers on every single, you know, artist's tour in the States and internationally. Sexy red for president. That's the name of the tour. 85,217 tickets available. You know, 37.11% sold 20 out of the. So this is, this is just 20, like up to 20 out of 24 shows, you know, accounted for. Average seat capacity is just under 7,000. So they counted the first 20 shows and said, yeah, no, y'all, y'all only sold about 37% of your first 20 shows. That's, that's terrible. Dude, that's terrible. I mean, but listen at the end of the day, what, I mean, we're going to find out. So, who, who, who said to her, it was a good idea to do a, do an arena tour. Why couldn't she do like a smaller venue tour like amphitheaters or even clubs bring back the club appearances. Do shows in a, do shows in a club that could fit up to a thousand people or a few hundred people. She doesn't have enough, she doesn't have enough music to, to, I don't think she has an hour worth of music. Let alone two hours. To provide. That's just insane to me. Somebody over at her label or her management, they set her up to fail. They, they wanted to embarrass her. I mean, I said this before we opened the show like her, where she messed up as she should have just did it on during tax season. There's another point. You may, hey, you may not be wrong there. But out of all the, you know, out of everything in terms of touring and the lack thereof, you know, lack of sales. One that shocks me the most is the future and Metro Bowman tour. We don't trust you or we, what's it called? We still don't trust you tour. What's it called? Something like that. Yeah, one of the two. That one is surprisingly, because it's future, dude. And that album, I mean, both the albums, because, you know, they, they, if you remember, they dropped two albums within like four or five weeks apart from each other. They both sold pretty good. Both both albums went number one. I don't know the exact, I think it was like a one, what was it like 160 180 something like that. Roughly around there for both albums. But I'll say that. I'm sorry, I was, I'm so bad for we got to talk about this, but when we, if we break get up to it, but yeah. I'll let you, I'll let you bring it up. But yeah, let me. Yeah, they had to cancel like so far five shows. So far, I say, because more is expected. More cities is expected to show that they canceled is actually here in Columbus. Yeah, your area, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, Tulsa. And, you know, they, they looked at the other cities. And there's still, there's still thousands of tickets available. There's still 6,000, there's still roughly 6,000 tickets in Kansas City. 55 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Let me find, hold on, let me find some of the major New York at the Barclays. Okay, that's my area. 34 hundred, 34 hundred tickets still available. Yeah, dude, these are not good. These are not good, dude. They're, so they're still in total. A hundred and 11,000 tickets still available throughout. Let me count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, let's say like roughly 20 cities. Only 64% of the tour sold. That is bad, dude. We trust, you may trust the Metro, but they don't trust you. That's not the hardest. He just fucking hits play. You know, that's like, this is a sense, this is essentially a future tour. And it ain't selling. So any thoughts to that? I mean, this is future, you know. Man, I mean, this, I mean, the album did good, but like it was a big album, both albums. Again, you could say it benefited from the beef, you know, from, you know, the Kendrick song was talked about. But I also don't want to be like one of them analysts. Like, what, like, let's just call a spade a spade. What if motherfuckers is just too goddamn broke to be going to all these fucking concerts? Like, let's, let's look at the grand scheme of things. Like, let's, come with me in my office, Mike. Let's look at some analytics shit. Okay, let's get out of here, pop, and let's get into some analytics shit. Okay. Like, inflation is atrocious. Okay, niggas is barely able to keep food in the house. All right. Like, you got fucking milk just went up here, like almost $3 damn near $4 a gallon. So gas just touched $4 here in Ohio. So like, in a, in a lot of big cities. I know people are probably like looking at them same woes. Now, when you have struggled with rising rent, rising utilities, because it's been hot as fucking I know y'all been having these central layers on round the clock gas prices, all this stuff. Do you really think motherfuckers is about to go to a concert. When they got shit to be paid. I mean, and if y'all think I'm not cooking, let me throw something else out there. You don't think maybe some of these artists are maybe over pricing themselves. Like, in terms of like their ticket prices. That's why I mean, some people, I mean, I forgot to mention this during the Meg stuff, you know, she, she was selling tickets at a discount. Like, she was putting, she was putting tickets on sale in some cities, you know, to get by any means to get those seats filled, you know. And how much, how much were people willing to spend to see future. I'm pretty sure maybe the average ticket price was maybe over 200 bucks. Maybe people didn't feel like spending the 200. I mean, maybe it was maybe it was 100 or 150. That now you're talking. And not only just that, though. And if anybody is questioning like the method to my madness, even sneaker resellers going down because ain't nobody about to pay, you know, inflated as prices for shit when there's a struggle outside like even the middle class is looking real lower class. That's what really is right now. And again, I'm not a Fox News analyst. I'm not a CNN analyst, but let's just call it spay to spay price of living is going up. And back to the female rappers. If you're on social media all day and you get to see these females twerk as many times as you want. And because they post new shit almost like on a regular basis. So why would I spent, why would I spend a hundred dollars to see you twerk live when I get to watch you twerk on my phone from your social media. Exactly. Tada Tada. Look at that. I just, I just saved a hundred bucks. Like, you know, and then I tell you, I can't even enjoy the sea. That's working because not only do you have like a thousand assholes and you screaming, but you might not luck out and get some DC. Yeah, you might have, you might have the best view of the best seats. And you can't zoom in in real life so sorry bud. So yeah, again, if your whole thing is, you get a million. So this, it just had a full circle moment. Like, okay, so if all, if a lot of these females record, rappers, gimmicks, it's just twerking, right. But they ticket sells as low as literally because why if all, if your whole gimmick. It's just twerking like the music ain't good, but we get to see you twerk then and that's all you got. The only thing, the only thing you're buying in is their personality. That's really it. You're just buying into the personality. You're not buying into anything else. If you're not a fan of the music. If you're, you know, if you just like them because how they present themselves and that's what you're buying into. Yeah, and a person like me, like let's say I either lost my mind and I want to go see an ice spice concert, right. Why the fuck would I go there her music. I don't really like I don't like her music. And bless you. And you definitely would be the oldest motherfucker there. Oh, that's for sure. But you would be the oldest, you would be the only 30 something you're old there for a fact. Yeah, definitely. But here's the thing though, like if her, if my whole thing was damn she, she's actually as well. She's twerking on thing. She's always twerking. I could just few click a few types on Twitter, few types on Instagram. Boom. I get all that. And I'll say 200 bucks. That's the definition of a bargain shopper. Why the fuck would I, why the fuck would I pay premium prices to get like a non premium experience. Because if all I'm here for this to see you twerk, why would I pay $200 for that. Exactly. If I'm an A, it ain't like it to grab it either. Right. And that's another thing. You're better off going to the strip club. I was about to say that. Hey, listen, we have the same mind. Same mind. You know, it's like, because we're men. That's why because we're men. So unless I could go on stage or backstage and grab Megan Megan Megan's ass, you know, it ain't worth it ain't worth my time or money. Spade 200. By the way, I would never do that. I would never do that. I love my wife. Disclaimer. Disclaimer. Disclaimer. This is only for entertainment purposes. I love my emotional use for promotional use only, but no, but, but yeah, you're absolutely right. It's like, why would I spend two hundred and fifty dollars to see you twerk from a distance. Yeah, here here. I might as well just group this in with, I mean, just continue to bash female rap, because it just seems like that's what we're doing. But I watched the BET Awards. Yeah, I was that bored. No, go ahead. I was going to say, ladies and gentlemen, you know, like, there's nothing going on like sports. No sports. Yeah, the finals have ended. We're in the off season. We'll talk a little free agency coming up. But yeah, I was that bored. I was that bored. And it was probably the first BET Awards I've watched in. I don't know. Definitely a long ass time. I gotta be honest with you. Gotta be honest with you, but I don't want to think. I don't want to think. I don't want to hurt my brain trying to think about how long it's been. But yeah, I watched the BET Awards and I can really only stomach about, you know, it's a two hour show. I didn't watch the full two hours. I watched like maybe 40 minutes, 45 minutes. Okay. And, you know, I was, I was watched. I think the BET Awards that just happened spoke to the lack of talent that we have right now in the music industry. I was watching it and I couldn't believe how bad it was. You know, I mean, I, the people that I saw sucked. Like, you know, it's not their fault, you know, it ain't be a T's fault or anything, but it's just like. Art is development, it's like the main ingredient that a lot of these new acts lack, you know. It's, you know, and I saw clips later on again again I didn't watch the full award show. I did see clips of other performers just to, you know, just for purposes of this episode and. I mean, sexy red. Again, we like her. I like her personality, but I'm. I'm good on her performance. It's just not worth my time to watch. Same thing for ice spice. I'm good. I don't want to see that I, you know, these. No stage presence. Shout out to Lotto though. Lotto did her thing. Lotto did her thing. That was a highlight. Yeah. Coco Jones, R&B singer. Oh, she's, she's gorgeous. Fantastic. These are, listen, these are R&B girls, Pimp, you got to get to know these girls. They're fucking gorgeous. And they're talented. They get really saying. Her Victoria Monet like these women kill it. They are just R&B's the shit. But back to hip hop. Uh, Glorilla. I'm cool on Glorilla. I like Glorilla again. It's all about personality, but the performance. No. No, I'm good. And it's not just a women thing. The men also can't perform for shit. Let me just be, you know. Let me just make that clear. Like I'm just talking about like not just women and the men, but just like. Just the new crop of artists. That's why I fear my biggest spear Pimp. What I got from the beat. What I got from these BET performances for hip hop wise. The future of it is looking really bleak. I don't know what's going to happen in five years or so when rappers from the 2010s. Decide they don't want to make music no more. And these kids that are going to be. By then in their mid twenties. Take over. Oh, it. It's going to be. It's going to be a nasty site. Like. It just seems like these new kids. And I'm talking about that have been around for the last three years, right? For the last two, three years. If you, if you popped because of social media, because of tick, because of tick tock. Y'all don't want it like y'all don't want to use a career. Be honest. Y'all really are not taking this music shit serious. You just want to just make as much money as possible. Build up your social medias. I mean, it just, it shows in your music or making shitty fucking music. You're not taking this art seriously. I mean, this isn't really, can we call it the new get risk game? Like, I mean, you have a one off song. You get famous and then just don't care. Like, does it, like, just because you're popular doesn't mean you have doesn't mean you shouldn't be performing. I don't care how many likes you generate. I don't care how much social media hype you get. You, these people can't perform for shit. They can't perform for shit. There's no, there's no stage presence. They can't control the crowd. Like, they're just putting on these lackluster, dry performances and they're not looking like their wardrobes don't look good. The choreography is basic. The lighting. I'm going way deep into this because I've, I've been to a lot of shows. I've been to a lot of concerts. I've been to a festival. I've been to a music festival. Like, I've seen plenty of performances, you know, from low, from, from low tier acts on like the, the small stages all the way up to like the biggest, the biggest acts in the world. You know, it's just like, you got to, you got to care. You want to, you have to care about putting on a good performance. Try. You know, it was missing. You know, it was missing, honestly, with hip hop nowadays, the, the passion for it. But like, remember when there was an actual grind for you like to get to, to get to a BET awards or to even a Grammy or whatever the fuck you had to work your ass off. There was no social. It's funny. You brought up Grammys. It's funny because the last few years, all I kept hearing was, oh, there's not enough hip hop acts performing at the Grammys. Well, that's because a majority of you put on lackluster performances. Right. I mean, you know I'm saying like it's just a good 90% of you put on a lackluster dry performance. And they wouldn't and Grammys would never stoop that low to book a sexy red to perform on their platform. Yeah. Hell no. I spice to it's not happening. It's not happening. And that what I saw the other night, that is not BET award level talent. That should be on that stage because again, you go back in their history of who they're, who, who actually performed a lot of legendary apps. I mean, Beyonce performed it like Chris Brown, like a lot of these at Michael Jackson, like a lot of acts, a lot of. And again, and again, besides the R&B acts, which they all kill, I'm about to just, I'm about to be a full on R&B head. This hip hop shit I'm about to just leave behind. I'm about to just like, I'm about to just not care no more about new hip hop releases pretty soon. Like the way the way that this is going, you know, I'm about to just be like full on R&B to the core. I only care about what's dropping R&B wise like fuck this rap shit. Honestly, honestly. I mean, and you have every right to because if hip hop failed you, like listen, if like, and this isn't just about hip hop. Okay, if you was one of those people that listen to alternative rock or rock music back in the early 2000s. I didn't know. I sure as hell did. Lincoln Park, like old Blink 182. Yeah. Green Day. Green Day. Yeah. I even tell you, I'm a little little little little Nickelback, not, you know, I'm not a big little back fan, but I mean, they had a couple of little little little little little back. Oh yeah, you listen to, I thought you meant like the name was little Nickelback. I was about to say no, no, no, like, no, I just said a little, like, you know, I mean, again, Nickelback. Yeah, I mean, and I wasn't disturbed. I'm still a disturbed fan. Like, I still fuck. Oh, yeah. Dude, bro. Yeah. Like, I have a whole playlist of shit just like this metallic. I mean, I wouldn't say Metallica is like early 2000s. They've been around for a while, but hell, I wasn't old school. Man, Queen. I mean, just like, but, but the point I'm trying to make is at one point, that type of music started the client. So a lot of those people left that whole scene of music. So this is hip-hop's decline. This is, this is pretty much what's going on with. Hey, and it showed to what last year, I want to say, when country music was dominating the charts. Yeah. Like number one, number one songs, number one albums, I think at one point, country songs dominated the whole top three or four on Billboard at one time. And nobody can get mad at that fact, but the people who consume the music, like you can't. And then you got idiots, and then you got idiots online that want Drake to go away. Man, if Drake goes away, so does the fucking genre. I'm sorry. Right. You lose. You lose the whole fucking genre. Like, if you don't mind step aside, I'm about to open up the pot real quick, because you remember when we say we lay in the slow brew. Yeah, I'm just going to give them a little whiff, a little whiff of it. What we're cooking up. I mean, listen, yeah, if Drake goes away, and then we got to rely on Kendrick. Listen, at this point in my opinion, Kendrick's a one-hit pony. And if you're thinking, like, you're going to get like a two, three, four more albums from Kendrick that sounds not like us. I'm sorry, but he's not going to be before Drake forever. So, yeah, it's back to the, if the unicorn may love to a rhinoceros and Compton. Well, well, well, the peppers room or some bullshit like, Oh, God. Let me, let me, let me put the, let me put the top back on the pot real quick. Let me just put the top back on because I gave you all a little whiff. That's it. That is it. That's it. That's all you need to really, you know, little preview. A little teaser. But yeah, in closing, because, you know, we've been at this for a little while. Right. Yeah. I mean, you could just, you could just hear in my voice just how passionate I am and how much I love hip. I love hip hop. I love it. I mean, and that's why, and you, you and I as well, because to see the decline of it, it's just become this commercialized bullshit. But even the, but here's the thing, even the commercialized mainstream hip hop from, I mean, obviously I, you don't have to go 20, 25 years ago, but just a decade ago was really good, really great. You know what I'm saying, like, it now it's just, I can't, I can't stomach it. I cannot stomach it. Can't do it. Who's the blame. I mean, it's the labels. They just signed everybody should sign me. I can definitely blame the labels, but you all, well, you don't want to know who I really blame. No, I'm a little blame. All these, you know, casual hip hop fairs with. Oh, the new ones. The very, the very, what number are we up to? Gen Y. Are we still on that? Are we still on the Gen Y era? All this hot pocket music, all this, this isn't, this isn't, this isn't Gen Z's fault. This isn't, you know, this is the new people. I blame you hot pocket music lovers. I blame all you left over food lovers all you microwave music lovers, the people that listen to shit, but only like two, three, like listen to a song for like a day and then you need something new. And then the new stuff that you posted out isn't that good. So, but, but, so, but you keep trying to make us digest this bullshit like you, like, I don't want this ham. Another thing too that I don't like what these new fans are doing. And I sent, and I sent you the video a little while ago, a bus to rhymes getting heckled on stage at Essence Fest. Like this is, this is one of hip hop's legends. This is a guy who's, you know, who's made a 30 year career from a tribe called Quest and, you know, his solo run and flitmo and all, you know, this is a guy that deserves a lot, all respect, all respect. And so he was in Essence event and he knew Orleans and he was performing and I guess he saw it. I guess the audience was booing him or heckling him like he didn't like it. You know, they just, to his eyes, they were not feeling him or his music. So he did, and hey, I respect it. This is, you don't see much of this, but he started cursing the audience out. He, he was like, he was fighting back. He was like, y'all are just like, y'all are some lambs and, you know, some corn balls. Like, I mean, here's the thing though, we seen this happen, like this is the reason why met the man which more knows I don't understand why he was even at that festival or the Southern Jam but it's to say they were red man it's just like, you can't, I honestly feel like with a lot of the older music like not even like from the 90s like mid 2000s, you can't play none of that shit to these new fans of hip hop because it, because it, like I said they want that hot pocket music they want that quick and easy like a little fight out of a prostitute on a now, you know, I guess, you know, of course people hopped in the comments and said, well, this is New Orleans. Maybe they don't know enough buster rhymes his catalog to really get excited for him as opposed to like if little Wayne performed there and they try to make it like a city thing like a regional thing and maybe that's so but like either way, you, you, they know who buster rhymes is come on. This ain't like, he's the he's buster rhymes is one of the best live performers ever in hip hop like he gets the most hyped. He just he, people, people go crazy for Travis Scott when he does all that jumping around and buster rhyme like no one got more hyped than buster, they're in a bus derived show I implore anybody to go back to, I mean just 20 years ago when he was, you know, just 20 years ago back when he's still rocking the dreads and everything like he was just super energized, super fucking energized. So, yeah, I don't like it. I'm not feeling it. I'm not feeling none of that disrespect from these from these legacy acts. But it's gotta come because one thing that I will, unfortunately here's the thing right. It's the same, it's the same that happened member with the method man. Yeah, that's why I said a few minutes ago. My thing is this. I think what would when hip hop starts to get older like when the older acts actually starts getting old, you're gonna have all and we've seen it before. So when so so where does bus because obviously bus the rhymes is getting paid to perform. You know, and this is his livelihood right like he's not making music no more I mean if he did no one's really gonna buy his records I mean no disrespect this is just the error that we're in. You know, so he's really only making his money by performing so where can he be booked and make his money his first livelihood where where can he go. He can't tour. There's no way. Hey, he's not gonna do an arena tour at this, you know, no way in hell. You know, unless maybe he collaborates with several different other artists, you know. So what does he do. I mean it's tough. It's tough for these 50 something year old acts that are, as you know I mean, I will never say washed but I mean they're Pat like they're just. They can't sell out or they can't. They're not active. He ain't seen an active artist still he ain't signed nowhere like he's been out of the loop for set for years now. So, I don't know. I don't know. I mean he'll, he just had to market it better like he'll just have to fire. He'll just have to find like his avenue like he will just have to find his audience the people with a hip hop appreciative his fan base. I mean, it could be done. I mean, I always bring this up as a talking point when it comes to older rappers. Look at Lori Bates. He can still put out music and he does smaller venues. That's what you do. You do club appearances. And you could definitely. You do club appearances, you could definitely make a few thousand dollars from that. Yeah, definitely make it. You can make a few thousand dollars perform like, I don't know, six to six to eight songs. And that's it. You made you made like you probably can make like seven thousand ten thousand dollars. Who knows. It depends on the negotiation of between the rapper and the venue. So. Yeah. Switching gears, my last, this is my last hip hop topic. All right, my last hip hop topic. Gucci made. He's got two million dollars pimp. He's got two million dollars and he's ready. He's looking to sign two new artists to his new label. One male and one female. Do you, here's my question. Do you roll the dice. If you roll the dice and signed a Gucci's label, knowing the history, you know, the curse, the Gucci curse that has bestowed upon past signees to his, his label, his own label, I should say, do you roll the dice and bet your life. I mean, okay, so there's two ways to look at it. Well, there's a lot of angles you can look at it like first of all, we live in an age of two thousand twenty four, where we don't need labels to get popping. So, I mean, we don't. That we necessary. I mean, so you got a competition where only one of us, one God, like if depending on what gender you was only one of us has got to, you know, get this million dollar, you know, deal contract, whatever, right. So, you think to yourself like, yeah, you could put your, you could put a ticket in that hat, but you could also still focus on being independent because at the end of the day, there's really no point of being assigned to a major. When so many artists are coming up, just being independent. So, like, like, okay, if it was twenty, thirty years ago, man, I'm asking would you sign a Gucci, I ain't talking about being independent, would you sign a Gucci man. No, I'm sitting, no, but that's no in there's a damn, no way that there's a damn hex on him. There's voodoo on him. That anyone that signs to him. Okay, either get blocked up or dies. Okay, so, okay, so again, like, if you feel like the risk is worth the award, then I'll say go for it, but go for it. You're not doing it. I mean, here's the thing, a lot of people are still going to do it with all the back history because a million dollars is still a million dollars. Well, here's the thing about that. It's an advance. So, you know, if you're signing to Gucci and he gives you a million dollars at signing, that's an advance. It's not what you need to know is it's not free money. You're not being offered a cash prized or like, or anything like that. It's for the opportunity to sign with him. That million dollars is a, is like a, it's like a pre, it's like a prepayment, like a loan, a future royalties to your, to your music to your catalog that, you know, you'll be, that you'll be building, you know, signed to him. You know, and you won't see any of the royalties until Gucci makes that million dollars back from your catalog and then some, you know, depending on the interest rate. So, I mean, easier said than done a million dollar all that cash in your face like who, but it just comes with long term, long term risk. You know, but I agree. It's 2020. It's 2024. You don't need to sign a record deal. Do it on your like, you could do it on your own do it the way the new kids are doing it. They just, they, they, they get viral. And that one viral moment gets some, get some signed or get some popping. Yeah, happy with, you know, happy with I spies and happy with a few others, you know, the TikToks and everything. They don't, you know, and I counted rambled on there, but I guess that's generally my point. Like, in 2024, a chance to win a million dollar record deal doesn't sound the same as it did back in 2005. Like 2005 like, yeah, that's fire. You know, but now we're in the day and age like we don't need that sort of headache and I'm going to call it what it is a headache because for every reason you just explained, it's not a million dollars. Just it's yours is a million dollars upfront, meaning that you have to put out the type of music. Now, and that's pressure, the type of music that I get this man's money back. Yeah. Yeah, with interest with interest. I forgot that part with interest. So you get a million dollars. You might get a million dollars. You might have to pay it like another quarter quarter million back on top of that. We don't know what his interest is. Yeah. Well, let's just say, okay, you get a million dollars in advance. Okay, now I have to recoup the million dollars plus another let's say 100,000 or 200,000. Yeah. And then once I get that extra 200,000 interest, then you could start making your, then you could start making money off your music off of royalties and whatnot. Yeah. And how much touring you have to do. How many ticket sales. How many streams you have to do to get that guy. Every time when you step in a booth, you have to sit back and think, Oh, is this good? Like you can't even think like, Oh, is this good music. You have to sit back and think, Oh, I hope this gets enough straight so I can start paying this man his coin bag. Yeah. All right. I just sent you something on Twitter and the DM. I think we should make, I think we should make that the cover of this episode, just because like there's no correlation. There's no correlation with this episode. I just saw this photo and I was laughing on the inside for like three minutes. What the hell is, who's that? That's Angela Simmons. Oh my God. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's that's that's Yo Gotti's girl. Run, run, runs a daughter from, yeah, from on DMC. I was like, Yo, that is. And if I put the use of all those Oreos, that's got to be the company. I'm just for no reason. And this will have no correlation with the episode whatsoever. I mean, we could definitely use it, but it's just like, man, what the fuck. Hey, unless you can find something better, you know, I'm all. I think I, I think I got an idea for the title of it, but I'll let like it is funny too, because people got to realize like, hey, they got to look at the album cover. Why say album cover? They got to look at the cover of the podcast while listening to this is like these motherfuckers really just came with that on the fly. Like, yes, we might be, it might be a clickbait type of cover. So apologize in advance if you feel clickbait it too. Hey, I'm not a popper. Hey, I'm not apologizing for shit. You made it this for. Fuck you. Enjoy. Yeah, right. So, I mean, I got some moving on some sad news, a piece of a piece of our childhood kind of well, yeah. It was about maybe a teenager when I was watching Cartoon Network, but I mean, it's, it's dead. Cartoon Network. It's the end of an error. Everyone is everyone is sad about it. I mean, I don't know what to really say. I, you know, I, I think about all the classic shows I used to watch from, from Ed Ed and Eddie to courage, the cowardly dog and Johnny Bravo and it, it definitely. It sucks. It sucks too. Because to me, at one point, like, I feel like this. I don't know if you could agree with me. I grew up watching Nickelodeon, but I grew up watching Nickelodeon. And when I, when I got it to my preteens or like, why teenagers, it was mostly Cartoon Network. So, I can literally say, like, what half of my childhood was Nick and the other half was Cartoon Network. Yeah, for sure. A lot of competition too, when you got Nickelodeon and Disney, and, you know, obviously the Saturday cartoons and on Fox from back in the day, man. Right. You know, it sucks, man. What an end. And to put into contact Cartoon Network, it had it, it hasn't shut down per se, but, you know, you know, I guess the animators, the animation workers ignited, which is an account advocating for the unionization of animators. They posted a video on Twitter claiming that Cartoon Network is essentially dead due to the layoffs over the years, you know, the network has had to do because who the hell watches TV who the hell watches cable TV with all these streaming platforms. You know I'm saying, like, I couldn't even tell you where I could, if I wanted to watch a show on Cartoon Network right now, like, where do I, like, how? Where are we going to watch it? I'm surprised they didn't have their own streaming service because I mean Cartoon Network did also. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, with all that content that they had with Ben 10 and. No, no, it sucks. I thought we just had to bring that up to in case y'all weren't informed of, you know, definitely a staple in my childhood and definitely, you know, in my preteens, as you said. All right, moving on. Moving on. Where do you want to go from here? You want to talk about. I mean, there's two days we got to talk about free agency. We didn't, we didn't put this down for. But WWE wrestling. Let's talk about wrestling. Okay, cool. Okay. So, AEW. Last time I brought up AEW, I talked about they had their lowest rated show on Dynamite that they've ever had and whether the fans are no longer subscribing to, you know, to the company and the. You know, the lack of bookings that they've had. So they've had their, they had their pay for view forbidden door. It's an event where the AEW wrestlers face off against the new Japan wrestlers. That's for the forbidden door. That's the collaboration that Tony Khan has, you know, agreed upon with the officials over there. And, yeah, it's, it was quite the shit show in terms of wrestlers. I mean, obviously I'm an American. I don't, I don't know where I could watch a new Japan event whatsoever. I just feel that they should have done a better job at promoting certain matches and certain new Japan wrestlers. Because even when they were being introduced, you know, fans were like, who the hell is this guy? I don't, I don't know who the hell this guy is like, you know, like, it was just, it was just like a disconnect between the audience and the new Japan wrestlers, you know, it just. And you're just stuck there, you're watching these matches and some of them were like, some of them were okay and then there was others where I don't give a shit about this, you know. The main event was the only thing I subscribe to, Swarth Strickland versus Will Offspray. That was a pretty good match, but I'm not spending $60 to watch one match, especially when you have a lineup of, I think it was like, 10 matches or something like that. I mean, it's time to just say it like, I mean, we've been saying this, but now it's official, now with MJ F's back and they just doing a bunch of weird shit with him. Yeah, they're getting involved now with the will and Swarth Strickland. I feel bad for Swarth because he's one of the very few main event guys. This is, this company is like full of mid-carders and jobbers. Like there really isn't many main event talent. Like MJ F is one guy swerves another guy and there's a couple other guys, but it's the rest are just jobbers and mid-carders, you know. You saw what, Ethan Page jumped ship to NXT and you saw what happened over the weekend. He's now the NXT champion. Yeah, I see that. How they did it, I liked. I liked how they made him champion too. That was unexpected. I liked that. But yeah, he, so right there, Ethan Page was more over in that one match than he ever was in AEW. Yeah. And I, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know if you know, but then they sent him also to. Fuck, then they sent him down to. I'm drawing a blank to like the B show as well for a little while. Yes. And he couldn't do nothing over the like he couldn't get pop over there. So that's the reason why he left was because again, he just wasn't getting any good storylines, good bookings, which is kind of like the running theme of that company. They gave, they gave Mercedes Monet, another, another championship belt. Yay. I don't know. Like, the crowd was not feeling, they were just not feeling some of these results. They were just not Jericho again. Please retire. Like, you know, they were just. I don't know that I'm just. It's just, it's just like, like walking a car wreck over and over and I can't feel bad. Like I know, I know an AEW ticket to dynamite to coalition. I know it's cheap. I know they're not overly expensive. They're like probably 50 bucks or something. Right. It's not. It's, it's, it's affordable. But why would you spend the $50? I mean, you could spend it. So you can find another thing to spend $50 on then to go see an AEW event. I'm sorry, because the product is not worth your cash, you know. I mean, what happened at money in the bank over the weekend? Like, man, that was, that was crazy. That was crazy. I am. Right. Wait, wait, Drew McIntyre, he wins. He cash, he tries to cash in. He gets screwed by CM Punk and now punk is in a few with not just Drew McIntyre, but with Seth Rollins that I can't wait to see how that unfolds. Tiffany Stratton wins the briefcase. People love Tiffany Stratton. The bloodline with solo with solo telling Roman you're out of the bloodline. I cannot wait till Roman gets back because as soon as he does. Oh, man. Oh, man. All hell is going to break loose there within that fraction. And then, um, and then really came back last night on raw. And she got a huge pop from the crowd and now she's returned and she's getting in Dom's face like what the hell are you doing running around with more again. She's the one that injured me like I just love it. I love a, I love almost everything. WWE has going on right now in terms of booking and storyline. You know, every, like you said, they're cooking every everybody's cooking over there. So that's my quick thoughts on that, you know, and the pay per views that both companies had. Um, Oh, Colgan. Oh, Colgan. This story, man. This is, I don't know why people are shocked by this. This is on brand with whole Colgan. We know him to be racist. We know him to not like black people. Um, so he had canceled his contract with a brand ambassador after he found out that she was black. That is a real headline that I'm reading from the art of dialogue on Twitter. Uh, whole Colgan has been accused of firing an ambassador due to their ethnicity. Essence Janae or Janae, an influencer took to TikTok to reveal that Hogan paid her to be an ambassador for his, quote, real American beer brand, but fired her the next day after discovering that she is black. Pimp. I mean, I can't even, I can't even go in on this. Like, I mean, really, really, are we really going to be shocked? Are we, are we really going to pretend like this is just just so like we seen a video of him saying he doesn't want his daughter to fuck with a fuck with a nigga with a hard R so I mean, really. Yeah, are we going to. Yeah, we're not going to spend too too much. Fuck all Colgan. Fuck yeah. I just, this is why, and I don't understand why there's, there's still a small fraction of WWE fans that want whole Colgan to like make a return to the company to like a pay per view or a WrestleMania. No, they're not going to bring him back. Too much baggage. Too much baggage. It's not happening. Give it up. Yeah, that's not even worth it. Real American beer. That sounds like a, that sounds like some MAGA type of shit right there. Like what kind of, what kind of name of a beer is that real American beer. All right, so what was Bud Light? What was Heineken? What was the beer that I was drinking in my 20s and in my 20s and early 30s? What, what beer was I drinking that they weren't American? Like, kind of shit is that the laziest fucking name for a beer. I mean, I mean, again, fuck all Colgan, like I've been saying that. I mean, if we want to, I mean, this is a person you can't respect his art nor his personality. Cause his wrestle is sucked. Like growing up, like I was never a Hall Colgan fan. And it is like, would I see them come back in like the 2000s? And it was like, he'll finish people off with something simple as a late jumper. That's like, that's the height. I seem like a thousand of those. I was this man. You know what? I was reminded because I don't know if you saw the documentary on vice about who killed WCW. It was a, it was a four part docu series. And a lot of blame was, you know, you could put the blame on a lot of people and, you know, whether it was managers and the, you know, TNT and everything, whole Colgan. The biggest mistake that WCW did was give whole Colgan in his contract, full creative control about how his matches were going to go about. That was the biggest mistake because he was responsible for a lot of botches and main event spots. You remember Star K97 how that ended with him and staying and people didn't allow like that. And even though Sting won, it just wasn't clean. Like that was like, it was more like he won in like a confusing kind of way. And then the finger poke of doom with Kevin Nash. That was God awful. And then his last fight, bash at the beach 2000 with Jeff Jared, you know, with Jared laying down the ring and him and Vince, you know, Hulk and Vince Russo going at it. And that was, I mean, Hulk was a, Hulk was a reason why, like he never, you cannot find five matches where Hulk Hogan lost a match clean. Like there always had to be shenanigans and interference and bullshit in his matches, you know, right. So, yeah. And on, um, yeah, free agency, let's end it off with sports. Okay, we didn't talk about it because, well, we didn't talk about it for once free agency, like last week they opened up. Yes, that's weak, right. Yeah, so we wanted some time to like, you know, let everything kind of just all the signings happen from the big from the big names and now we're kind of like, all right, all the big names have signed on new teams. Like, any thoughts, like what, what do you think, what was your biggest. Like, like your biggest, I wouldn't say surprise, but like, who do you think one, what do you think one free agency. Oh, I, you know what, I, the clay signing. And I don't know why Lakers fans are so upset that they didn't get clay Thompson. Because here's the thing with clay Thompson. He's cooked. Like his legs are cooked. So yeah, even though he's going through a maps team with Luca and Tyree. I mean, he's going to be the essentially the third fiddle on that team. You're just there to shoot threes at this point. I don't know your injury history. I would have loved this signing, I would have loved this signing three to five years ago. I would have, you know, but I feel like, and that's a lot of money to for a guy that's injury prone, but I get, but I get it. That's what the market is like these teams are just, they're just throwing money to go. Yeah, the Marta Rosen got three years that 74 million from the Kings. And this is why people say the West always have like worst competition because the West is like building teams taking pieces. And I don't really hit not too many big moves through the East. Well, I mean, you know, before free agency, you know, and the next didn't really sign anybody during pregnancy, but we made trades. We got Mike help ridges. Love it. Love it. That, that, I, man, I love that lineup, that impending lot. We do need another big man though. It sucks. We weren't able to bring back Harkenstein. He got paid. And where do you go to Washington? I think you got paid. He got paid in Washington rightfully so he's he was really good for us. Who else I like what Philly did got Paul George. Again, it just comes down to not just Paul George's health, but also in beats, you know. One thing I love is the fact that. Everybody was trying to say like, Oh, the Clippers dynasty is done for like, what the fuck do they have a guy. Yeah, when was their dynasty like their dynasty started and ended with that Lou Williams video. Hey, price went what did you say that after Hawaiian and PG signed a price went up. Yeah, they were they definitely got ahead of themselves with all that dynasty stuff and yet I think the furthest they ever got to was a second round. So, yeah, so Paul George, pardon went back to LA because they couldn't afford to lose. You know, Paul George and harden. They overpaid for him. Kawhi still there. Yeah, that team is good. Yeah, the Clippers are cooked. They're they're they're like one of the losers in this, this free agency. Um, you know, your team, the Cavs just gave Donovan Mitchell a massive extension. So clearly he's not, he ain't going nowhere for a while. Yeah, it's a lot of good trades there but at the end of the day, it just seems like the West is staying more focused on building up the team. And it's really gonna to me, because I already said this before like no one runs the league like nobody, it says like this the dominant player like every, all the big new names they all got one ring each so to me right now it's like a buffet. Yeah, you got to get, I mean, first of all, Boston one. So they're in the east. So right now Boston is, I mean that Boston, the east looks to be stronger than than it has been for a little while now and you know Milwaukee still Milwaukee as is healthy. The Knicks definitely got a lot better with the Mike how trade. And the OG and a no be re signing as well. Philly with the Paul George signing they got stronger so it's definitely, it's going to be interesting to watch Miami definitely is a loser because they were linked to all of these stars and yet they're still stuck at where they were. You know, they did not, they did not improve what's and they actually lost where they lose they lost gave Vincent, they lost one of their best shooters, you know, so. Yeah, yeah, we'll see. We'll see how that goes about, of course, the Olympics, everyone's gearing up to watch the Olympics and team USA. It's funny too, because it's not going to be a cakewalk for team USA there's definitely team Canada looks really good. They got star power over. They got star power in Canada on their on their team and I never count out Spain or. Who else Germany I never count them out either so. Looking forward to watching those games. And what is that? Is that the win again? I mean, some is almost over. That's the Olympics. They're starting up in a couple of weeks time. So. Definitely. Definitely looking forward to that. Anything else, anything else, nothing breaking. I've been on, I've been on Twitter, like going and off ain't nothing worth interest but watch as soon as I assume as soon as we end recording it's going to be something pop up in two hours like it always do because this is. I said it was I said it was gay Vincent that signed to. It was it was Caleb Martin, Caleb Martin left Miami and went to Philly so Philly got a lot stronger. And Miami got a lot weaker. So shout out to Caleb Martin. Yeah, Gabe Vincent. He signed like last summer to the Lakers. I don't know why I said gay. I don't know why I thought was gay Vincent. So that's, that's my bad. Wanted to clean that up. Eminem new album dropping this Friday. You ready? You can't wait to listen. I want to give it a listen. I'm going to say like is on the top of my priority list, but it will get a soft listen for me. Yeah, so Em is dropping this weekend. That's probably the only. The only thing worth listening to and. Can't wait to cover and give a give a review of that on here next week. The depth of Slim Shady coop to garage is the name of the album. Right. I mean, I want to be listening to it for sure because it's like a lot of hype. Like behind this album like more than I can think. Yeah, they dropped. It was a song the other day that came out. It was him big show. Oh, the song I said, I listened to him big Sean and baby Tron. Yeah. First listen again. I never heard a baby Tron song. You know, I never I like so I don't recognize his voice automatically. Okay. So for a good like the first four minutes of the song, I'm thinking big. I'm thinking it was big Sean that was wrapping the whole time. Because baby Tron and big Sean kind of sound alike. If you listen to the song, right? Did you listen to it? Yeah. Yeah, like so me not recognizing baby Tron's voice. I'm thinking damn big Sean is really wrapping for a long time on here. Like what is baby. I'm looking at how much time is I'm like wait a minute. Baby Tron hasn't wrapped yet Eminem hasn't wrapped yet like what the hell like. And then Eminem wraps and he ends the song and I'm like wait a minute. Where was baby Tron at? I'm like what did he. So then I had to go on rap genius to look up the lyrics and realize that it was baby Tron who. Oh, so that first. So, you know, my bad for not knowing. But I mean the song was pretty cool. I mean they all wrapped their ass off a lot of rhyming. A lot of rhyming. A lot of flows. That's all I got out of that song. It's definitely and the hook is definitely catchy. Definitely catching. Yeah, I'm looking forward to the album when it does come out. Hi, thank for it. And that sounds about it. So yeah, definitely be looking out for that and keep your keep your notifications on it as always. Make sure you hit us up on our Twitter. If you have any suggestions or any like comments or just to say hi fucking just say what's up. For real, for sure. Come on, Tim, give him, give him the outro. Let's go. I'm sorry. I was stretching. So you're always the suspense. The suspense. It was crazy. Apologies. But like I always say, it's 10 cents for compassion, 10 cents for human decency and process to act on it. That's the quarter of the week. I need to stop saying it a day, but that's the quarter of the week for the million dollar dream. This is your boy Pimp and we are out. [BLANK_AUDIO]