It's positively brilliant. Yep, Solemnian to God. Andrew Schokes.  Let's go. I don't know how to feel about COVID anymore. Why? Why? I really don't. Now, you're over it bro. Nah, I'm not over it. No, I'm not over it. Don't put it back on. You were just talking with it off. No, but I have it though. I just want to make, I just want everybody to know I do be masked up. You know what I'm saying? You came in masked up. I'm just watching everybody. They back in their studios. Hopefully we'll be back in our studio with Breakfast Club really soon. Clearly we're back in the studio for Brilliant Idiots. This should have shaping up though, be honest. Nah, it's really nice. It's really nice. Shout out to SteelSick, man. This dude from Cleveland built this entire robot right here. For no reason. Well, no, I'm an official Charles Avenger. Yes. That's how we look. Listen, that's how we look to people. We look like that. That's how we look. We look like big, monstrous robots that are controlling things behind the scenes and destroying people. Yes, that's how we look to people. Yo, we're intimidating over here, bro. But why did he make that though? Why? Like just because? I think that's his art, man.  Yeah, I think he goes out and gets the parts. That's dope. Yeah. What's his name? This is Mike. Mike. Mike, man, from SteelSick, man. Go check out my man, Mike, man. Let me get the Instagram perfectly right, but. You said he's from Cleveland? Cleveland, dude.  People got mad time on their hands.  It's SteelSick right here. Just go check it out on Instagram.  And he literally drove this over from Cleveland. He can make anything? Anything, dawg.  I'm going to hit you up, SteelSick. Thank you, Mike. Appreciate you, man. All right. And that's a ladder. That's made by Latinos. So what, Taylor?   Let's start the show.   Oh, I got it. Talk to me. Cardi B, Positively Brilliant. Really? Bro, this has been the greatest, like, divorce setup I've ever seen in history. Explain. You know you're going to divorce your man, right? You could go talk to me. Yeah. Yeah. OK, OK. I know what you're going to do. I don't know what you're going to do. OK, OK. It just hits you. You gave people a little reminder beforehand. Yeah. Yeah, OK, OK. I got it. You gave everybody a little reminder. It's just a little reminder of what's going to be on the market. That's it. OK, OK, OK.   I got the WAP, not the DAW. That's what it is. I'm just saying, like, if you. Listen, I get sad when I see that shit, though, man. What? What? Divorces. Divorce makes you sad, but not if she's talking about hitting the dangly thing in her throat. I listen, I'm a married man. I don't know nothing about that. I feel sorry for offset, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I feel sorry for Cardi. You want marriages to work. You do. You're supposed to be told death do us part. That's true. And then, you know, when you see two people getting young and they have money, people say automatically from the get go, it's not going to work. This guy's not going to be faithful. She might not be faithful to young and wild.  You proved everybody right. You're sad. And then you go through that grieving period. And then you also go, but she's hitting the dangly thing in her throat. No, you got to be able to hit that. What? You have to be able to hit that. Well, if it's a team effort, then I think that it's a team effort, right? Like, you got to have the link. And she got to have the willpower. She got to have the drive. And again, this is what she's saying. Yeah. Yo, how embarrassing is that? If you pushing and you not hitting the dangly thing, you're like, ah, bruh.  Because you don't want him to think you're going out there to put that WAP on the street. So maybe now it's time for him to act right. So the WAP was a fear tactic. She put that out there.  Right? Oh my god. And then now I'm filing for divorce. Yes, I'm filing for divorce. Now you scared this WAP going to hit the market. So now you might finally act right. If that's the problem, I don't know why they're getting divorce. Nobody does.  I don't think it's fair to speculate because, number one, black men don't cheat. So they even just throw that out there on Offset. It's whack. I don't like that. But for whatever reason that they are splitting apart, I would be trying to act right.  The WAP back on the market. No, man. No, man. No, man. No, especially not in that business. Because in that business, she gets with another rapper. We can never be together again. Yeah. You know what I mean? What is the rule with that? Like, the rule with any woman.  I didn't make these rules. Yeah. It just is what it is. It's like, you know what I mean? It's proximity to each other. Yes. Right?  You hoe to that group.   You hoe. And I'm not, listen, I'm not saying I think that you're a hoe. I'm just saying that's the perception. That seems to be the rules.  That's true.  You're not a hoe at all unless they have some big delivery conference. And then they have a big delivery conference, and they start discussing some of the WAP that they've received over the years. And they all have similar stories. All of them got similar stories about you. You just like packages delivery. You just like packages delivery. That's it. You a hoe that loves packages. You like that same day delivery. You're HOD. HOD on delivery. That's just what it is. We didn't make these rules, people. By the way, I tell all my homegirls that. You have to be aware of that.  No. But that's the perception. That's the perception. You sleep with two rappers, and that gets out there. People are going to label you a hoax. You know what it's like? It's like the bruised banana. Talk to me. Like a bruised banana is still edible. OK. Matter of fact, the more bruised it is, the better the banana bread it makes. Really? You don't think? Isn't that what they say? Like, in order to make banana bread, you have to use the super, super, right? Doesn't matter. This is brilliant. Let's go with it. OK. The point is, maybe a girl who's fucked a lot of dudes that all know each other that has that ho perception label, if you will, she might make the most delicious banana bread. She might be the best in bed. Oh, the woman that's got more experience. Especially with the team, because she knows what the team wants. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the other thing. She's talking to your homeboy before she's hooking up with him. She's like, oh, what is this guy like? She's getting all the details. Yeah. It's like you don't go get an engagement ring before finding out what the ring looks like, what your girl's ideal ring looks like. Yes, I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. And most women do have a type, though. That's the crazy part. What you mean?   Like, why is ball player a type? It depends. If you're a basketball player, if you 6'5". So that's you like tall guys. Lean. Not necessarily tall guys. You actually like the ball players, because another thing ball players have is money.  You know what I'm saying? I feel like one of these girls, man.  Why'd you do that? I was trying to drink, and I got all excited. Jesus. I know how uncomfortable it is, girls.    Taylor, have you ever been a hoe? Based off our rules? No. You've never hooked up with guys that knew each other? Two guys that knew each other. Oh, yeah. But did you say that girls were supposed to have a hoe face?   You know what I'm saying?  You should determine your hoe face. Taylor, let me ask you this question.  Yes. Men can be a hoe, too. So we're keeping the same energy, so girls got the same definition. I'm not upset about it.  Hold on.  I just want to remember their name real quick, because this is so disrespectful, man. There's so many articles, man. No, no, no, it's so many. I'm going to tell, when I tell, it's, all right, Brian Sazi. Okay. He's the editor at large for Yahoo Finance. Okay. He had this headline. See, it's on my Instagram page, Alex. Oh, you got it? Oh, this is so disrespectful. And there's all of these articles about New York being dead. And, you know. Oh, I saw you post this. Bro, that's disrespectful. Come on, man. Look at the headline. Can we see that? What's the headline?  The headline says, I don't want to paraphrase it, but it's Kamala Harris may have made Timberland's Cool Again. Wow. Senator Kamala Harris, vice presidential nominee, Brian Sazi from Yahoo, the editor at large at Yahoo says that Senator Kamala Harris may have made Timberland's Cool Again. How do you feel about that? I feel like, yo, it's very disrespectful to New York City. And I'm not even from New York. You know what I'm saying? I'm a Timberland connoisseur. I read the article. Brian said that she may make Timberland's as cool as they once were in the 90s.   Bro, those ain't the butters, bro.  Those are single soul.  Yes. They're treating her like a white kid. Yes. They really are. These indeed. Don't they? The six inch wheat premium joints. And you got the double. What is it? The double soul. The double soul. Like she kind of got single soul Tim's on, bro. Come on, man. It's a little soft. I think Akash wore them in an episode of Flagrant. We have them in the other room. They kind of look like egg rolls. And she wore them on. And listen, there was a whole. There was like a whole like photo op for it. Did you see the video? Yes. The video kind of scans down at the Timberland. First of all, she gets off the plane. Yes. And then there's that little rug there, which is kind of racist. Why? I mean, she's Indian, but she's supposed to fly out. You know. Jesus. What? What? It's not a lie, bro.  Good point. It's like, good observation of racism. I can see. How many things are they trying to hit? So everybody's happy. They got the army jacket for the army folks. The army jacket for the white army folks. The Timbs for black people. Carbis for Indians. I get it. I get it. OK. I'm like, I get it. I get it. Our president. And then I mean, I don't know if you were privy to this, but I was not privy to this. Come on, it's stocked, bruh. What do you mean? What do you mean? What do I mean, dude? Like, can I get a latte? A mocha? I'm lost. What is this? You lost? I said, I mean, my girl is, she got barred. This is going over my head. You did not notice what I noticed? No, I didn't. Oh my goodness, bro. I was too busy focusing on the Timbs. That got serious. And I'm not even mad at Senator Harris, because it's not her fault. It's the people around her. And Brian actually wrote in the article, he put sneaker style Timbalands. That's the problem, Brian. They shouldn't be sneaker style. These are boots. There we go. OK, six inch premium wheat boots that they say here for hiking. Nobody ever hikes in these. That's right. This ain't it, bruh. Not at all. Akash Wadis? Akash wore them for that percent. Do I have roaches in there? Why did he do that? Why? Yo, you want to know how to wear Tim? If you're a politician, go look at AOC when she was on with Deidre Samarro. She had some Timbs on. She's from the Bronx. She know how to rock a pair of Timbalands. You don't find that disrespectful that somebody can just literally say, hey, you said the Harris made Timbs cool. Again, that's just a racer. It's just disregarding what people have done culturally to make Timbs cool, especially New Yorkers.   Ooh, shall we? Is that a transition? I think what Kanye does is both positively brilliant and. I just thought you called him What Kanye. No. I think what Kanye does is both. It does sound like it. Well, first of all, I will always think Kanye is positively brilliant just because there is nobody who stirs up waters to catch fish better. Oh, yeah. There is nobody who can make people care about absolutely nothing the way Kanye West does. And there's nobody who can pull on people's heart strings so effortlessly. He can pull on your heart strings over here when you're upset with him because he's rocking with MAGA. He can pull on your heart strings over here when you're siding with him because he's trying to free us from modern day slavery. Which is so disrespectful. I am so tired of people comparing choices they make to actual slavery. OK, now break that down. Well, maybe we go. Maybe we start first with the fact that there are oppressive and exploitive contracts that are signed. He's right about that. Right. But listen to what you just said. Yeah, yeah. You said that are signed. Now, what we could say is there are oppressive and exploitive contracts. Yes, we noticed.  Right, right.  And I think that's the important distinction because you will probably say, if you're a record label and you're signing some 13-year-old kid for one of these contracts, this kid don't have a lawyer, the record label's probably providing the lawyer. Exactly.  Absolutely.   And if you keep re-upping and not negotiating maybe the rights to buy out your masters or not negotiating the rights to your future music in your deal, you kind of only got to be mad at you. Absolutely. And I always say, smart people learn from their own mistakes, wise people learn from the mistakes of others. Even though we have seen so many examples of people getting absolutely got in this motherfucking music industry, we've also seen a lot of examples of people who have actually done it right. LL Cool J owns his masters. Rihanna owns her masters. Jay-Z owns his masters. Stevie Wonder owns his masters. Metallica owns their masters. You two owns their masters. Why not talk to the people who've done it about how to do it? Michael Jackson owned the Beatles masters. Oh my God. Yo, he didn't just own his shit, right?  Here it goes. Because I promise you, man, that is a story that needs to be told. It's actually a story I would love to assist in telling. I love Prince. And we talk about Prince often. Prince raised war against the machine, as he should have, because he was in a bad situation. But for every Prince, there is a Michael Jackson.  Is that a game? Yeah. Pity pat?  I didn't know it was a game, so I was like, did you just add new to the game?  I thought that's what it was called, pity pat. No, the first is one of the... Taylor is boogers.  Numbers is the one that we played.  Miss Mary. Me, Mack, Mack, Mack. I said, black, black, black with silver buttons. Whatever. Y'all so busy, I should have just said, y'all so busy worried about Michael Jackson playing goddamn naked games with little kids. But that's what it is. That's what it is. That's all I'm essentially saying. Michael Jackson is a person who sat down, had a conversation with Paul McCartney. You know what Paul McCartney did? Paul McCartney put him on to the business of publishing and owning catalog. Paul McCartney talked about how he got finessed in a situation, because it doesn't just happen to black people. It happens to white people in this music business too. He got finessed out of the Beatles catalog. He talked to Michael about how one day he wanted to buy back the Beatles catalog. He planted that seed in Michael's head. And what did Michael do? Michael got that motherfucking money with Thriller and instructed his attorney to go buy the goddamn Beatles catalog. Let's go. Let's go. When he bought the Beatles catalog for like $40 plus million, I forgot exactly what the number was. He bought it for $40 plus million. And he bought it from the company's ATV. So he ended up owning half of ATV. Sony eventually, if I'm not mistaken, I could be telling this story wrong, buys ATV. So now Sony and ATV are 50-50 partners.   Michael Jackson owned Eminem and I think Beyonce for a moment. I mean, you can Google who he all had under the publishing company. But my point is that is a story of somebody who did it. Right. Right. That is a story of somebody who figured it out. Now, let me ask you this question. To the people out there who go, well, you shouldn't be able to own someone else's songs. How do you feel about that? Well, in the case of somebody like Michael Jackson, another reason I don't think Michael gets enough credit, Michael owned the publishing and then gave it back. He gave Little Richard his publishing back. You know what I mean? It was somebody else too. It was somebody else well-known. I want to say Ron Isley, but that's probably totally wrong. But I definitely know he gave Little Richard his publishing back. And that's what you should do. See, the problem is a lot of these brothers, they get in these positions of power and they adopt the same exploitive tactics of the white man that they're fighting against. Or the record industry person that they're fighting against. Or the TV producer owner that they're fighting against. You know what I mean? Like, I saw somebody post today. I forgot the young brother's name, but he posted, damn. He retweeted Kanye talking about how everybody should get their publishing back.  And then he tweeted, I was mad excited to sign with Kanye until I saw that goddamn offer. But guess what that young man didn't do?   Because they want the perception of power as opposed to actually having power. And it takes patience to get to that real power. And now you just on Twitter motherfucking complaining. Now, do you think it's possible that he is abundantly aware of the importance of owning your masters and has probably had these conversations with these record labels before. And he's just doing this as a publicity stunt to get some attention for something. No, I don't think it's a publicity stunt. I think that Kanye is not getting what he wants. Because, you know, I mean, once again, this is just me talking. Yes. I was told Kanye just resigned recently. Okay. He was in the process of resigning. And I think that's probably what he wanted in his negotiations. And they're not giving it to him. And I'm sure they don't want to give it to him. He wants to buy them back. Right. But they won't necessarily sell them. And the reason they probably won't sell them is because if you look at some of the contracts, if you look at the pages of the contract that Kanye posted, Kanye still owes the label mad money.  Like, they're still recouping now. Here's my thing. Yo, pay the label back, everything that you owe them. Yeah. Buy your masters. Keep it moving. Sadly, that's how business works. Nobody's going to give you anything in this business, people. Like, there's no such thing as fair. Right, right, right. You get what you deserve. You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You knew what it was. If you don't want to deal with that, then don't sign ever. Seriously, don't sign ever if you don't ever want to deal with that. Now, is it possible some people might say, yeah, but there was terms put into these contracts so you never can fully recoup?  Well, Kanye's a billionaire. So negotiate a good price.  You can afford to pay. Right. Right, you can afford to pay whatever it is you owe. And you can afford to buy your masters back. So that's why these discussions are tough because everybody agrees there's explorative contracts. Absolutely. And the people complaining about these contracts, like Kanye, have signed people to explorative contracts. Absolutely. Has he given everybody that works for good music back there, master? That's what we need to see. Let's open up the hood of good music. Let's do it. Let's see what Big Sean's deal looks like. We see what Tiana Taylor's deal looks like. We always hear about, what's the guy's name who did, I'm loving it. What's his name? Pusha T? Pusha T. The McDonald's jingle? Yeah. Oh. He's the guy who wrote that. He really did that? And he did the Arby's one too. We're making ourselves heard it, but I'm not 100% sure. I don't believe this. Anyway, allegedly that's what it is. That he owns like 50% of it, something like that. It's like, we hear about him owning the jingles, but does he own his songs under good music? I don't know. And if he does, God bless. But I guess the point is like, there can be exploitive terms that we should try to like get rid of or give artists the ability to like, I don't know, buy back their music, negotiate back their music or something. But at the same time, we could hold adults accountable. You gotta hold adults accountable for the contracts they signed. Like you said earlier, man, if you a young kid from the hood, you don't know no better, you fresh out and they take advantage of you, I totally feel your pain. You know what I'm saying? Even though, you too should be paying attention to what everybody has been saying for years. Sure.    I think he got 12 million for like Yeezus and like three for this album, three for that album. You know what you're negotiating.  Yeah. So if you know how to get a piece of ownership when it comes to your clothing brand and the clothing brand that owns it, why can't you do that with your music? Absolutely. And the thing that Kanye is doing right now, that is scary for the record labels, right? Like the record label isn't going to buckle right now. And the reason they're not going to buckle because if they buckle to Kanye, then they're going to have to buckle to a lot of other people under the universal umbrella.  They buy back their masters at some point. Drake is definitely on his way to being a billionaire. You know what I mean? You think he's not going to come back and want to purchase his masters? Do you know what I mean? Do you think it's possible that this is a problem that won't really persist in the future as so many young artists go independent now? Absolutely, 100%. And it's not going to persist in the future because Kanye is going to eventually end up, they'll probably give him like two of his masters back, right? They'll give him like, they might give him the album that means the most to him, which I would think is his first album, right? And then an album that everybody says is his best album, which probably, what would you say? Dr. Stifanici. Dr. Stifanici, right? Right. He'll probably let him buy those two and he'll probably be cool for a second and be quiet. And then you'll all know that this wasn't about everybody. It was just about Kanye. It was just about, yay! You know what I mean? Don't you hate that when people, when people really just care about like their own success? It's the worst form of appropriation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Break that down. It's like, it's the worst form of appropriation because you're appropriating somebody's struggle. And so you're using real struggles that exists like oppression. To get support for you. And you're rich problems. And often times you're not really kicking that back to those people who struggle you're appropriating. Listen, if you really cared, you would simply treat people the way you want to be treated from the gate. Right. I'm sure this isn't a new conversation for Kanye.  Exactly. So being that this isn't a new conversation for you, there should never be anybody saying you offered them a bad contract. Like that young man on Twitter was this morning. I can't remember his name right now. Like I've never even heard of him but he got a verified check with his rapper. He said that Kanye offered him a bad deal. And I would love to know how everybody else at Good Music still looks. And you can't, if you're actively trying to sell good music to Def Jam or Universal, whoever it is, if you're trying to sell your label off, why would you be selling your label off to the same oppressive system that you're trying to get out of?  And you know what I mean? Listen, and that's the problem when you use selective. Honesty. Yeah. To disarm people. You know what I'm saying? So it looks like Kanye's letting us in on this deep dark music industry secret. And what he's saying is true. Cause these contracts are oppressive. But let's go a couple more layers under Kanye and see why you're really having this conversation. You're having this conversation because you can't get what you want. Exactly.  You've put out a lot of albums. You've renegotiated a lot of different times. You've had a lot of leverage for a long time, Kanye. Is this like a classic like narcissism tactic where you think the thing that you're doing that's only self-serving is actually for the greater good. And you kind of like position it as if it's for the greater good when in reality it's only about self. Yeah. Well, I think that's where the, I think that's where the narcissists starts to manipulate people. Because the more people you get riled up behind a cause, which is essentially really your cause. It just so happens to be related to the thing you want.  Because like I said before, the one thing Universal doesn't want is everybody that can actually get their masters back standing up asking for their masters. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Yes, yes, yes, yes. And so that's what Kanye is doing right now. He's riling everybody up. Now I'm sure that some of these guys are choosing to play a different game. I'm sure a guy like Drake is just sitting back like, I'm gonna be patient. I'm gonna stack this money up. Who knows what he has negotiated?  And that's gonna be a precedent. The way Hove did. Right. You know what I mean? So some other people, they complain. Kanye complains. And I think that sometimes when you complain, the way Kanye does, all you're showing people is that you don't have any control over the situation. And I don't ever want to look like I don't have any control over the situation. You know what I mean? Because I always want to maintain control over the situation. What? Who has the right to a song? What do you mean? So like the person who writes it and produces it. Okay. But sometimes the writer is different than the producer. Is different than the person that sings. Is different than the person that plays guitar. The person that plays drums. Like a song that's written for Beyonce, it might take 20 people to make a song like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now there's no doubt that Beyonce is the one that makes it a hit, right? Not only with her fame, but with her talent, with her fan base, et cetera, right? But is that Beyonce's song, just because she sings it, even if she didn't, we're assuming she didn't write the song and that whole cornucopia of musicians put it together. Like who gets to truly say that's mine? I think Beyonce should get the biggest poison because she's Beyonce, so she has the leverage. Makes sense. If you're a superstar writer, then maybe y'all will share publishing. You know what I mean? Like does DJ Khaled own, is he the guy who owns his songs, even though he doesn't do anything besides assemble them? I guess that's what I'm saying. People are like, I want to own my masters. I want to own my masters.  Like those songs are mine. Like you just sang on them. You just rapped on them, but I made them. I mean, maybe they should be ours. That's what I'm trying to say. Like what if nobody owns the master and what if the way it's done is you can buy your percentage. Like if you or Beyonce, maybe you're responsible for 80% of that song. It may be that way. I'm not a music industry junkie. I'm never going to be the person that sits up here and act like I know everything that's going on in music. It could be that way. I don't know. I'm just saying there's a lot of people who make a song hot. Especially if it's earlier in your career before anybody knows you. Kanye's in this unique position where like he actually is the guy who can produce the song. He can write the song. He can record the song. He can master it. So you're almost like, all right, fam, like maybe you do deserve the majority of your publishing because you can do all the work for it.  Yeah, it is a lot of people who have publishing on records though. I had to clear black of the berry to use for the promo for the black effect. Right? And boy, by the way, my how times have changed. Because back in the day, I mean, maybe because I was just doing radio in a smaller market where you could just take a song and put it as an instrumental for a commercial. And it didn't matter.  Now you have to clear these things and tell them what it's for. Well, it's for digital distribution. You know what I mean? But it was a lot of people that had to clear that record. Number one was Top Dog. Oh, really? Yeah, which I was extremely happy to hear. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Slew to top, slew to punch. Like they had to, yeah. Once it came from them, then it just trickled down everybody else. But it literally was like this composer and that composer and this sample that. Like it literally is everybody does eat off it. You know what I mean? When you gotta get those records clear because we had to pay for that.  So that's a good thing. So maybe it does break down the way you just described when it comes to percentages and all that. I don't know the intricate details.  I don't know how many times I gotta tell y'all that. You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. Yeah. You talk about slavery being a choice. You made a choice. Yeah. You made a choice. Where's this ship going? And by the way, it's actually one of the stupidest choices to make because we have seen so many stories of people getting screwed. We've seen modern day stories, past stories. We've seen so many stories of people getting got. So the best advice I can give any artist out there, listen to the people that have done it, tell you how to do it. I named y'all people who actually have their masters. Elakuja has his masters. Rihanna has her masters. Jay-Z has his masters. Listen to them. Stevie Wonder has his masters. Go read up on the story of Michael Jackson and saw how he ended up, getting the Beatles cataloging, owning all his publishing, right? Like go find out those stories.  Chance is the guy who owns his masters now because he chose not to sign whatever was being put in front of him. Right. You know what I mean? Those are the people to study. What were you saying now? With Michael Jackson. So he bought it for $41 million in 1985 and then they bought his 50% stake for 750 million.  But he was dead though. Yeah, he was dead already. He was dead. So that's like the estate. The estate sold it for 750 million. And just to- And the Beatles catalog alone is worth over a billion dollars. That right there is just great at robbery. Now by the way, y'all want to talk about motherfucking smear campaigns and y'all want to talk about people who absolutely folks had every reason to try to ruin. Right. Talk to me. I mean, it's obvious he owned half of the publishing of the music industry. That's too much power for one black person to have. And he's giving people's publishing back to them. If there's anybody who got it. That's him. Come on, man.   I don't know. They seem like they've been going on for as long as I've been alive.  And he started to really have all of those problems.  We cannot have these goddamn artists thinking that they can just be going on here and buying back their publishing. I don't think people realize how much money it costs to use a song. A lot. Do you, will you say how much it costs? I don't even know the exact number. They didn't even tell, all they said to me was thousands. I said, we'll handle it, partner. Set. It seems like that's your 50%. But I like to learn. No, of course. So for my, for my special, I was looking at like songs that I would come out to. And I was coming out to this Michael Buble song for a little bit, right? Michael Buble Blaze. Michael Buble. It was a bird flying high. You know how I feel.  Really? Yeah, isn't it? It's called Feeling Good. And Michael Buble covered it. I wanted to use this Michael Buble version, right? They were saying for the song, $150,000. That is. Just to walk out to it? For it to play and play through all these different things. Did they ask you how much you wanted to use? That's right. You can do different parts. You can do just the chorus. It's just the beginning. There's different things. But if it was the song, it would give me $150,000. Now, granted, I understand they're doing this like one fee so you can use it and like resell it and put it on all these different networks and all that stuff, et cetera. But think about that. $150,000.   You hear a song in a commercial? Yes. $150,000. Yes. Like this is huge money. Yes. So when you make the hit and you're like, yo, I'm gonna make millions torn. I'm gonna make millions selling albums. These record execs are going, bruh, we're gonna make millions selling it to Kia. Y'all ain't even pay attention. First of all, the positively brilliant diverses with Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. My God. That was such a vibe. And it was such a vibe because I loved seeing all of these different generations coming together to watch it. Like my sister and my cousin, they had my mom and my aunt on Zoom watching it via Instagram. But y'all didn't notice Gladys Knight didn't play a lot of her huge records. The only hit I heard it through the grapevine. Yeah. The reason she probably didn't play it is she probably don't own it. She probably couldn't clear it.  That's what I was thinking. I mean, I don't know this for sure. I'm just assuming. I'm like, why wouldn't Gladys play I heard it through the grapevine? That's probably the reason why. She probably didn't, she probably don't own the record. She probably don't own the rights to the record. Even somebody, I think I read, I think Artemis Gordon, who I love. Y'all should follow Artemis Gordon. I think Artemis Gordon even said that at certain points, they were playing different interpretations of her records. Because you can't play the exact one. Yes. That's what I mean. I don't, I didn't notice. Cause you know, I'm not, I love Gladys Knight and I love Patty and it brings you back to a time when your dad and your mom was just riding around. You hear this music in the house, but I'm not, I wasn't up on the catalog to be able to tell what the difference was. But I saw Artemis say that and I believe it. But I heard it through the grapevine. Definitely was one that made me like, why didn't they play, I heard it through the grapevine. Yo, you how much money I heard it through the grapevine probably makes when they play?  Yo, somebody made millions off this fucking, just licensing that song to those commercials, bruh. I promise you, I promise you.  What else did you see this week that made you say positive to the brilliant?   Woohoo. I mean, like, unbelievable. You think they cursed for real, bro? I don't know if it's cursed, dude. Like, I really don't know if it's cursed. I think it's like, what do you mean cursed?  Like something is wrong. Is it Donald Sterling? Maybe, even though he's not the owner anymore, maybe the basketball gods don't even want him to be remotely happy. Because when you've been attached to something for so long, even when they win, you're going to cheer. You could act like you built it. That's still your baby. You still got to see your baby win a championship. The basketball gods are like, nope. Until he passes away, we're not going to shine any light on this franchise. Now, Paul George, Kawhi Leonard, they're like a year away from free agency. Well, Paul George could go now. He can go now, but I'm saying all I have to say, maybe one of y'all need to call up Donald Sterling and see how much he loves the Clippers, man. He's 86, but he might have a few years left. Y'all know if y'all got a few years of Kawhi and Paul left, call up Donald and just ask him, like, hey, man, you know. You know what the term 86 means.  You're just saying, Donald, I heard, you know, kind of popping in wherever you're going. Both of them are lit right now. Trust me, heaven and hell are both popping right now. It's all about temperature for you. What's the climate you like?  Yeah, you good, you good, but I didn't get a nice tan. All I'm simply saying is I don't think the Battle Ball guys are going to shine any light on the Clippers until Donald Sterling passes away, but Paul George definitely can go now. Who do you think gets the blame? Everybody. Collective effort. Doc. Doc Rivers, the head coach. You kind of got to give it to Doc, right?  You know what I'm saying? I love Kawhi, he's a cancer like me. We got the same bond there. I feel like I understand him, but you got to show up. Yeah. And by the way, this was the year, and I didn't even think about this until I actually read this. I forgot who I read it, I read it somewhere, but this was the year for Kawhi to prove that he's really a legitimate number one. Yeah. I never thought about it. Not Raptors. I thought so, but the Raptors made it all the way to the second round. The Raptors were good this year. Raptors made it to game seven too. That's what I'm saying. So that shows Kawhi had a great squad around him in Toronto. To me, what it shows is Kawhi doesn't need to do any leading of a team when he's got a great organization, like Under Pop and the Spurs, everybody falls in line with the Raptors, amazing organization, everybody falls in line. He was the fourth optional in San Antonio too though. In the beginning, but then eventually he became the Alpha like when they were playing Golden State, right? And he busted the ankle like he was busting ass, but what's interesting is he goes to the Clippers where he actually needs to keep people in line. Like you need to keep Patrick Beverly in line. You need to stop Lou Williams from going to a strip club and leaving a bubble. Like guys, those are not players that you wanna be in a game seven with.  It don't work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if Doc isn't doing his job, which is literally organizing and making sure everybody's committed and they can thug out a game seven, then you gotta step up if you're the leader. You gotta do it. He's just non-verbal. So I think you gotta put that on him. Paul George, bro, it breaks my heart, man. This guy don't got it. Stephen A. Smith said, Paul George is running the risk of being Dwight Howard. Let me tell you something.  And then Stephen comes back.  Just as a role player, you know what I mean? But the way he explained it was true. Dwight Howard was in the system. That was great for Dwight Howard that made Dwight Howard an all-star. Orlando. Orlando. And then after that, he became sort of a journey man. He never was the same. He said, Paul George is running the risk of being that because in Indiana, there was a system that made him look amazing.   There's nothing wrong with being a part of a system. If the system works for you. Golden state is a system. Golden state is a system. I mean, there's a lot of different systems that worked. By the way, systems are the only thing that does work. The Patriots are a system. You need a system. That's the problem with the Clippers. That's the problem with the system. That's the problem with the oppression. It's a system. It's a system. It's a system. You have to have a system. That's what y'all need to do. Break down a system. The lack of system is what causes the Clippers to lose in game seven. There's no system. By the way, the Clippers ain't had a system all year. What's the system? Kawhi. Do it. People act like, you know, they got a great defense, but is it a defensive system or do they have individual great defensive players like Patrick Beverly, Kawhi and Leonard? Fire system. Great system. You could literally have a team that doesn't have a star. Kyle Lowry, but outside of that, you're not looking at some Pascal Siakum. On his way to be. On his way, but he bumped it up in the playoffs. But the Raptors have such a strong system, such a strong culture and such strong coaching. And Kyle Lowry is underrated that they could be effective in the playoffs against the Celtics. Game seven, could have won that game. Could have won the game. Yeah, the Clippers ain't the Clippers. They the Sizzles. And if they are the Clippers, they the Clippers that motherfuck has been using that home during this pandemic, you know what I'm saying?  Okay, that's all, that's all. What else?  I don't know.  You didn't do positive, he's brilliant. I'm just sitting here winging it. I love this studio. You like it, right? I do, man. I like the energy in the studio, man.  I hate it. I can't stand it.   I'm missing all of these great moments because they gotta be virtual now. Like we're going in the Radio Hall of Fame this year. Virtually? Yeah.  It's only like 10 people getting in. Yeah.  Why can't you do that? I don't know why they're not doing that. Why don't you do it outside? Do it outside?  It's gonna be, it could be an LA. I had another award that I was getting this year that I was looking forward to. That's why you hate Corona. You got that right. But unlike these narcissists out here, I'm telling you it's about me.  What is this? What's that Taylor? What is that? All I'm simply saying is yes, I am sick of Zoom.  You know what I mean? Like there's no memories being made virtually.  You know what I'm saying? Right, right.  You know what I'm saying? Like I try to write fire speeches.  Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? But you also like the, I think you like the tension. I think you thrive off the tension. It's magic. Yeah. It's an energy. I've noticed even like early in our days when we were a little like MTV and you were like, yeah, I just want to do the show live. We were talking about it was your show. It was on common sense. You're like, yeah, I want to do it live. And I'm like, why?  Not overthinking it. Yeah. You show up, you in the game. You in the game. It is what it is. You in the game. That's a good point. Cause I never understood it.  Nah, man. But there is a different energy especially with the guests. People are a little bit more nervous. Yeah. You could break the tension with a joke better. It's live TV, man. Everything so spurred a moment.  It ain't going to work. You got a audible. You got a audible. You got to be willing to do it. That's why I love radio. I love, yo, let's go. Turn the mic on. Let's go. But Zoom, it don't have it, bro. Like, yeah. It ain't the same. It ain't the same. And then, you know, sometimes you might say something on Zoom. They don't hear it. They don't hear it. Now you got to say it again. The moment is gone. Yeah. Nothing worse than repeating a joke.   All right, let's pay some bills. Let's do it. Cushy Dreams, CBD. Oh, man. Salute to Cushy Dreams. Cushy Dreams offers a full lineup of premium, smokable CBD. 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What was the context of that?  No, Chris Rock is canceling. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I mean, listen, the thing, right? Like I feel like I keep telling y'all cultural context matters. You know what I'm saying? Now, is there ever a right time for white people to wear a blackface? No, only because I think throughout history we've seen it never ends well.  Now, the question in that moment is if Chris Rock's not offended, can black people be offended for him? Because Chris Rock was the one being spoofed. That was a very specific spoof. It wasn't a, I'm wearing blackface and I'm doing a menstrual show and this is my depiction of all black people. Yes, yes, yes. I'm doing Chris Rock in particular. So who should be offended by that? Chris Rock are all black people. That's good, that's an interesting thing. Like if you are trying to be a specific person or thing and as long as you do that person or thing justice, is it offensive?  Like is it? I don't know. I don't know. I really don't, but I mean, I do feel like cultural context matters when he says, when he said, he don't think Jimmy Fallon is racist. I believe him. Yeah. I don't think Fallon is racist. I think what Chris said is true. It was just bad comedy. Well, does it make it? Yeah, it was bad comedy. Bad comedy.  If doing something makes you racist, it depends, right? What Jimmy Fallon did with the blackface, blackface is definitely considered racist, but we know what the context was. He was doing an impression of Chris Rock. Could he have done that impression without the blackface? Sure. Okay, but he didn't.  No, but you can unintentionally commit Yeah, you can be racist, but I don't think it makes you racist. No, no, no, no. I think a lot of times it's just ignorance. Now, it can make you racist.  Yes. At some point, just like when you're getting attacked by any group at some point, like, man, I hate these guys. You know what I mean? I've seen it a million times.  You know what it is? You'll be so upset. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, let's be honest.  You're not sexist, but when you're driving and a woman does something like that, you like, it might be true what they say about women driving. It's three second rule.     That's not her fault. You know what you are in that initial reaction. If that's what's inside it.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.   Yup. Yeah. Don't dismiss that you got a little bit. Also, yo, yo, let's real talk. If you get cut off, right? If you get cut off, right?   No, no, no, no.   Yeah, that's just the 90s.  That's what happened. Doesn't Chris Rock have a joke about that? That's why we're even talking about Chris Rock. Where he said it's okay to use the F word. He's like, if there's a specific thing. What, Charlotte, what? What, what, what? You staying away from now? I don't want nobody to take that clip out of context. Oh, okay. It's okay to use the F word. Well, Chris Rock said the black guy said. They're not even gonna put that.  That's it. Well, they don't know what F word. Fargo. Fargo. Yes. Oh, that's why Chris is doing promo because you got Fargo coming out. Yeah, for Fargo, for Fargo. But no, the 90s was a different time. And that's why people have to understand cultural context.  They weren't even using them in the context of gay. Yeah.  Yeah. They just thought you were the gay slur. I tell this story all the time about my father. My father. I mean, what?  That's fair to say. Okay. Cause they saw it as like a lack of masculinity. All right. Well, JDKid says in a rap. Yeah. Perhaps for instance, I'll give this gay slur a French kiss. That's clearly not meant to be the actual slur. Because what you're really admitting is you want to kiss. What? Can I have the context? Kiss somebody in the same sex?  Hold on.  Hold on. I'm gonna show you something right now. Complex has this great, this great list called the gayest lyrics of all time. It's the 69 most pause worthy lyrics in hip hop history. Okay. All right. Anything. Now, hold on. I'm gonna pull up somebody. I'm gonna, hold on. Okay. Now I never thought about this. This is Nas on ether. Okay.  Why won't you let the late great veteran live? Let's think about it.  Do you see a man?  Yo, that's true. Won't you let the great veteran live?  Yo, Nas, he didn't have a conversation about that. I know he didn't mean it in that way, but that's how it came out. It might not only be God's son across the belly. Oh my God. I might be a lot of Nas sons across the belly. And by the way, I love all of these guys. It's the same, it's the shame that I'm talking about some of my favorite rappers of all time. Young Jeezy says, Oh, Jeezy. You can miss me with that.   What kind of music, what's going on guys? Context man. Why is anybody saying anything that rappers are homophobic?  This is very progressive. I don't know what this means. This is Tupac off the thug nature song. It's the remix.  Hey now, where my niggas at? No, he doesn't say that. And please, he doesn't say it the way you said it. He didn't picture me paying for pussy when the dick's for free. Hey now, hey now, no way, bro. I'm just so I'm trying to find this one DM. All right, keep going. This is really fun. Yeah, I'll scroll through so I can look at some too. Let me see. Hold on. Okay, right there. Pull it up. That's it. Oh my God, we got produced. We got production. Okay, that's the Nas line right there. Okay, but dick's sucking lips.  I'm trying to find. The other way, out the other way. The other up. Kanye West on gospel files. Kanye says, Kanye says, it's actually, it's numbered. Go to number 51. Baby boy, go hire a squadron. My crib got more poles than a fire department. That's, I saw that one. I get why that would be a podcast. Yo, get in run. Go to 51. Oh no, no, no, stop it, go, go, go, go, go, go. Go to Guru. God bless the day. Guru, S to the next. My ex-girls got balls. I get what he's trying to say. I don't. But in this progressive era. Wait, wait, what is he trying to say? My ex. He got balls. He got confidence, courage. You know what I mean? He never hurt them. I have, but not said that way. It's very, it's patriarchy. Why don't you say my ex-girls brave? Cause that was patriarchy back then. This is all very like nuanced, nuanced, like. Yo, if an alien just read these words, they'd be like, yo, black dudes are gang.  Imagine that. It's the only thing aliens are reading, bro. Yes, that's 62, 61. Oh, okay. There you go. 62. Go to 52, 52, no, 50, oh no. Matter of fact, go to 52 and 51. 52. 52, this is Red Man. So who's my guy, Red Man? Red Man is wild though.  But he could be talking to girls. Yeah, but he can also be saying that light-skinned brother. No, he's the light-skinned brother. Red Man is the light-skinned- Or it could be another light-skinned brother.  I'm with you, but I'm still pausing. Guys, let me explain rap to you. This is how it works. Go to 51, go to 51. 51 is amazing. It's Kanye West. Cause we they leaders and they the followers and we the nutbuses and they the swallowers. So he's talking about women. I mean, I don't know. I don't know, bro. He must be women's leaders. 50 is good too. You think it's sexist? Yeah, it's probably sexist. He didn't name a gender in that though. 50 is good, but that's a reach. The boys in the hood are always hard. Rest in peace, easy. It's one on here that is so wild, bro. Hold on, I'm trying to find- Chill.  I don't even know how to read that like a rap. Swimming with my daddy's big nuts. So insane, I cause colon blow brain. Bro, and by the way, God bless the dead. I thought Biggie had the greatest pause where every third time no DMX got him beat by a long shot. Okay, this is DMX on top shot. Go to number 37. Now there's no explainer. Now you know how we've had, we've mentioned a couple of these and we can explain them. There's no explainer. Go to 37. What does that say?   Wow. DMX had a few of those though. Yes, he's the best. Yeah, he's had a few of those. Yeah, that's terrible.  Yeah, that's terrible.  Oh my goodness, that would be so scary. So DMX was the original booty goon. No DMX got some wild ones, bro. What do you say? Does the big pun have a lot of questionable stuff? No, big pun does not have questionable stuff. Well, he does have one. What was that? He just said when you awaken, your manhood will be taken. It is. Yeah, but. Now this is wild.  Go to 27. And they're just getting gay or as we go down here. Okay, oh yeah. Black Rob, whoa. You have to read this one. Oh my God.  Wait, wait, wait, wait.  I have no idea. Could he be referring to a woman as an N word? Maybe.  This is my man, Eric Sermon. Yeah, shout out to Eric Sermon. The name of this song is Who's Booty? Okay.  We not making none of this up. Number 24 is my man Jada Kiss on last days. Hearing you out is senseless. Perhaps for instance, I give this gay slur a French kiss. That's actually sounds mad polite. It does. Hearing you out is senseless, okay? I'm kissing you. You're not gonna talk me out of it. That's what it sounds like. Okay, let's go. That's me too. It's like- Exactly, that's a me too. That is me too.  Different context, cultural context guys. Shout to Jada with the he too. The other one wasn't me too. He said he has to know the booty. Okay, 50 cent piggy bank. Can we go to that one? Yeyo bring the condoms on his room. Two, three. Got out of context bro. That's crazy. Yo, we need complex, our genius. Y'all need to be, y'all need to do, I saw my suit and my man Mack. Mack is an old intern of mine. Now Mack does mornings on Power 99 in Miami with Trick and Treat. He does this thing called the pause police. They need to bring this back and ask these rappers about these- Oh, that'd be hilarious. DMX on go to sleep says, niggas tried to holla but couldn't holla back.   In exhibit, go to 11, this is exhibit. Pimp my ride man. Listen to what exhibit says.  Beware to surf it.  Yo, rest in peace, Biggie Smalls.  Bro, why do we say pause at all?  You know what I'm saying? If you don't say pause, you may not know. By the way, we're gay with lyrics.  Yeah.  You know what I mean? What? No, we'll just. I know. I never heard that one. Yo, y'all just, you just made some tea bagging. Yeah, we slap each other's dicks.  That's super gay, bro. The bologna tossing? No, what is that? Okay. What is that? No, what's bologna tossing? Is it stick to the ass?  We don't do that, dude. We don't eat bologna. They may eat it afterwards.  We don't do that. We'll like wrap our shaft around our wrists and pretend it's a watch. Impossible. What if a white person has that type of penis? Okay, a bracelet, but still. A ring. It's his ring.  Go to number seven. Go to number seven. This is Farrell Munch. Farrell Munch. Better believe I buttfuck MCs from the rear. He's straight up feigning. Okay, keep going. DJ quick. I don't even want to read that one. Hold on.  Then you can tell me just how it tastes.  That's DJ quick expressing his manhood. That's him saying, keep playing with me, yo.  Okay, yeah. I don't know. I'm just trying to make it sound cool. Male groupies getting shaky when I come from the rear. That's red man. Go to number four. Number four, this is Farrell. You ain't heard that we swallow guys? Now this is wild. Now number three is wild. I don't understand number three. This is my good old friend, Fredrill. Sorry. This is from Onyx last days.  I told you. No. You started telling yourself sexy, he gets abducted. What's number one? Girls. Oh yeah.  I don't even know how we got on this topic. How do we start talking about this? You brought it up. Why? Why? How did we get here? You felt like it. It was a deep dive in the rear? Was that a deep dive in the rear that we did just now? It might have been. Jesus Christ.  Let's go. About Trump, was Joe Rogan a moderate? Oh, yes. I'm all for that. What did you say? Joe Rogan, I don't know who started that because I heard two different versions. I don't know if Joe Rogan was having that conversation and the person he was having a conversation with brought it up and said that he needs to moderate a democratic debate between Joe Biden and Trump and Trump agreed. Yeah, he said I do. I loved it for self-serving reasons because it sparked a conversation and they had a conversation on the view the next day. Yes. And my name came up on the view and Wobby Goldberg said she thinks that all the presidential candidates have come to the breakfast club and then Megan McCain said, Charlemagne has asked the best questions of this whole presidential cycle. Shout some Megan. Don't be afraid to play that, Cliff Taylor. I'm not afraid to say when I'm doing things for self-serving purposes, all right. But she said that I've asked the best questions of the presidential cycle. And I think that's dope. And the reason I think that's dope is because what Trump did and the reason Trump will always have the edge even though that's not good for our democracy but the reason he will always have the edge on politicians is because he's not a politician. He's a reality show star. So when you talk about somebody having their posts on what's going on in the world it's because that is his world. Joe Biden don't know to be like, yeah, I'd love to have Joe Rogan do a debate. He had to wear it with all the come on breakfast club because people around him told him to go do it. He saw all the other Democratic nominees come do it. So he decided he had to do it. But it just shows. He did it on Zoom? He did it on Zoom? He did it on Zoom, yeah. And did you think he was sharp? What did you think about it? Like, is he all that? Who, Biden? Yeah. I mean, he was alive. He was alive, yeah. Because they gave him the heads up. That's good. That's enough. You know what I'm saying? But he was too alive. So he came in shooting too much.   He was on guard. He was ready to go. Shaw means been getting at me and giving me donkey today. And yada, yada, yada. That's, he was too on. He was charged up. He was too charged up. But the reason, but once again, the reason I love what Trump said or even what Rogan said, just by saying that, you get what you're trying to get by having Joe Biden played Despacito on stage or having comp Senator Harris wear Timberlands. Right. You know what I'm saying? You're actually getting real cultural cash. Because it's coming from an organic place as opposed to looking like you're coming off the private jet with the wrong Tim's on, laced up crazy. All your Democratic partners tweeting about it because they're so culturally clueless that they don't know you're wearing these instead of these, you know what I mean? But when you just mentioned, hey, yeah, I would love to do a debate with Joe Rogan and Joe Biden. Now when Joe Biden get asked that question, he's going to say no. I think he said no already, right? Didn't he dismiss it or something? And he probably dismissed it because of the backlash that Bernie Sanders got when Joe Rogan said I'll vote for Bernie Sanders.   Anything they could do to cut the legs out.    People care about podcasts. They care about podcasts, they care about people. Man, that's what's so crazy, right? We say power to the people in America, but politicians don't seem to subscribe to that. Some get it. I think part of Trump's success is understanding that. Because he's not a politician. Probably. He's in entertainment. He's in entertainment. And by the way, if you're a politician, right, how can you say, and I'm speaking directly to Democrats here, how can you say that you're going to be the president for all of America, which all is so quick to dismiss people? Keep going. You shouldn't dismiss Joe Rogan or anybody that listens to Joe Rogan. You shouldn't dismiss. I saw earlier this year, earlier this summer, you know, the Biden campaign dismissed Lynda Sarsaw. They dismissed themselves from Lynda Sarsaw. And Lynda Smith is a progressive, who is on the front lines fighting for all of the social justice that happened in the black and brown people in this country. And she has a following, right? Big following. Now there is like a criticism of her and this is why the campaign tried to dismiss themselves as potentially being anti-Semitic. Distance is the word. Distance. Distance themselves from her. And that's why they did. Cause they're like, oh, I don't want to be attached to this at all because then they could use this against me when it comes to debate time. Yeah, but even, but she's still in America.  Are you truly creating a government or a democracy that represents all Americans? You know what? And this is the thing that you got a credit Barack Obama with and I know that he gets criticized a lot for this, but like it seemed to me that it was very important to him and his administration to be everyone's president, not black people's president. Yeah, he would say that. And he probably would say that, right? He never said it. I don't think, I'm pretty sure he never said it publicly. Maybe he did, I'm not sure, but he's definitely said that behind the scenes from what I've been told. And that is the job. That is the job. And that's the thing. Like in retrospect or in hindsight, a lot of people look back and they're like, see, he didn't do enough for us, this, that, the other. But the job that he signed up for was to be the president for everybody. That's what everybody signs up for. That's what we getting mad at Trump for, right?  But you're essentially doing the same thing. So here's the thing. Who gets remembered better, right? Because when I look at back at what Barack did, I think that it's admirable that he could put himself up for that type of long-term criticism to do the right job for the most amount of people. Now Trump will probably be remembered better in history than Barack because his constituents will go, he was the greatest ever. Just like Reagan, right?  Reagan is a consummate conservative. Reagan is the one that we have to do. You know why? Because you can't be all things all people. Exactly. So if you are just servicing your base, maybe history remembers you better, but if you're actually trying to do the job, maybe the country is in a better place.  I don't care if you're left or right. Listen to this right now. Get rid of that for a second. If you were literally just trying to do the best job for those eight years that you have, that means sacrificing your ego. And that's something that I don't think Trump can do because I think it's really important to him what his legacy will be with this presidency.  I'm not a big war guy.  That being said, I have to give Obama credit for his ability to govern the majority of Americans instead of a small group. At least try. At least try.  But here's my thing. When you're the president of the United States of America, all you have to do is be open to everybody's interests. You know what I'm saying? You should be willing to listen to everybody's interests. You know what I mean?  You feel like doing that? Do it. If people have an agenda and they want this done, get it done.  You can literally look at what everybody's interests are, look at everybody's individual agendas and see how you can be of service to these people. Because that's all you're here to do as president, be of service. Well, then here's my other question, which is like, in a democracy, the majority wins. So is your job just to service the majority? I wonder if that is by definition how things should go. And if these populist presidents are just servicing their base, then they're doing what they're supposed to do. And maybe it's on the rest of us for just sitting on our asses and not voting and allowing that to happen. Here's the thing, you bring up a great point. And when you win by pushing a certain agenda, right? And you win by saying that you're gonna implement certain legislation. If the people that vote for you, vote for you based off those things. You gotta do it. And you make that happen. If everybody else is just upset that you're in the White House and they don't engage with you, they don't participate in democracy.  Like that's not good politics. You know what I mean? They did that with Obama too.   That's not good for America. What's good for America is when you have somebody in the White House that's Republican, our Democrat who listens to the needs of all people and a person that can be pushed. And the reason you can be pushed cause you never know, these are all hypothetical votes that could happen for you in the future. You don't know. That's the problem with when a lot of people don't vote or when the majority of people don't vote is that you only have to service the select groups to do. If everybody over 18 voted, you'd better believe the populist president would reflect, his views would be reflective of the majority of people because that would be the only way he could win. When you only have, how many people vote in America? I think last election was 80 something million. When you only have 80 million. Almost 100 maybe, I don't know. Whatever, if you only have that many people vote, right? Then a small swath of the country, let's say 45 million people could influence the entire election. We got 330 million people here. Why are we letting these politicians pander to 45 million over here or 45 million over here?  Cause only the extremes vote and all of us in the middle are like, man, the left, all the way on the left, y'all too crazy. And all the way on the right, y'all too crazy. Why can't we just be in the middle? You know why?  And you know why? That's on us. You know why the middle don't vote because the politicians are just as extreme as the people that vote for them. Well, if we voted, they would pull them in, but they know we're not going to vote. So they just have to pander to those people who do. So if we want to force them to pander to us, then we just got to go out and vote. Absolutely. That's why I love what's happening right now. I love the fact that you have a lot of people who are usually disengaged. You know what I'm saying? Disinfected, all right? Disinfected voters who they're trying to win over in some way, shape or form. Like they're forced to talk about issues they've never spoken about. Since when has reparations been on the actual goddamn menu? You know what I mean? Black economics been on the menu and the way that it's in right now. Like they're being forced to talk about things that they've never talked about because they're trying to bring in voters who either fucked with Obama and totally was disgusted by it and didn't show up in 2016 and they're trying to get them people back or people who've never voted ever before. Because if you're trying to get the largest vote out, voter turnout in American history, you can't just talk to extremes, bruh. 100%. In 2016, only 55% of people voting age voted. That's crazy. Yo, do you think that the stimulus and the way that they did it this time was a trial run for reparations potentially? I'll back up why I think that might be. Explain, go.  Cause we pumped all this money in and he goes, no, that's not really how money works. Like money is a reflection of goods to buy. So money only decreases in value when there's more money than there are goods, right? And the problem with what happened with our economy shutting down is people stop making money. So what we're essentially doing is filling the gap in making money so people can spend money. And I go, wait a minute, so spending money is how you keep the economy going? He goes, yeah, it's like, we create money out of nowhere all the time. Like loans from banks come out of nowhere. They only need to keep 10% of their deposits in the bank. The other 90%, they could just loan out. This is not even real money. So I go, okay, so spending money is good. And he's like, yeah, and I start thinking, wait a minute, what if they sent out these checks, right? To all these people in the country, not just Blackfield, but just the whole country, and they saw what we did with the money, right?  What if this economic stimulus plan to Black people in America, literally through cash, would actually benefit not only Black people, but the Puerto Rican businesses they spent their money at, the Mexicans they spent their money at, the white people they spent their money at, like, yeah, they're not thinking that, they're nuts. But I think a lot of people, when they hear the term, they just fundamentally don't understand how an economy works, right? It's a pretty tricky thing in terms of like the value of money. The value of money is based on it being spent, not it being hoarded, right? So I start looking like, yo, what if they do the numbers and they're like, Black people are spending their stimulus in these types of places and actually, like it would be really beneficial if we injected that type of money in these economies. Maybe they start, maybe they start organizing something that's like, yo, this could be really good for America, everybody. Yeah, I mean, listen, man, the more people- That makes sense.   Joy. Yes.   They just want to, people want to feel good. They want to feel joy.  Yeah. Is there any other country that says they go joy riding? No. I'm serious. We love joy. 95% of what Americans do, black, white, Spanish, Asian, it don't matter, it's for joy. It's happiness purposes. Somebody listen to this podcast right now because brilliant it is brings them joy. Like literally, we love joy. So yes, the money will go right back into the joy economy. Interesting. Period. Interesting to think about, you know, if there's a financial benefit. Of course it is.  I'll give you a perfect example. This is just a hood example.    First and 15th, we know people got their checks. The trap would jump because people were trying to find joy in crack. I'm serious. The liquor stores would be booming. Like because that is what people like. So yes, it would essentially be the same thing. Interesting. You inject money into the economy. People are gonna put the money right back into the economy. So then what happens if this reparations happen, the reparations happens and the money gets spent just as fast as our stimulus money was spent. And then after that, there's still systemic oppression. There's still cops killing black people. That's why checks aren't good. That's why it shouldn't be a one-time payment. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying. No, as you said earlier, got to change the system. Right, so it's like, and we've spoken about this before. A lot of people are like, yo, I just give us the check, cut the check, that's that the other. I'm like, I don't think people realize how fast you can spend this type of money.  They can say we gave y'all financial atonement. So that's why I think it should be economic equity packages that help to change the whole system, the system of education, the system of economics. It's all of the system of health. People need to get pre-physical health care and free mental health care. I don't think we should pay taxes. You don't think we should be taxes? I don't think we should have to pay taxes. They're killing us in terms of that. And we gotta pay the cut, I'm good on the taxes. Somebody might argue, they might go like, hey, white people also get killed by the cops should they not pay taxes? You don't see it on the news like that? It's not like a very hot news story, but it is statistically. I mean, I'm not saying that white people don't get killed. I'm just saying what people see, black people, what's the list that goes down? You know what I mean? Right, right, right. You can hear it, yeah, you can, what? I don't want the Republicans to get no ideas and invite Taylor to the next town hall and have her sit in the front row. They put the camera on Taylor.  Wherever I go, I want free Snapple and I want pay taxes and that's it. I don't. Okay? They're killing us. Yeah, y'all killing us.  It ain't on the news. Yeah, that is my thing. Y'all putting us on the news all the time, selling advertisements on the news, where's our cut from that? Real talk, you need to get your, what is it called? You need to own your master's. If the news is selling advertisements and black people are always on the news, where's your cut?  Like why does the news not have to pay for having us on it? They should pay us, no. You selling paper towel ads, you selling tear pun ads?  I'm serious, we press these corporations, we press these companies. We should start pressing a lot of these media outlets. If CNN, the director of CNN is going, yo, find out where they were racist today and what they did to black people today. We're gonna run it at eight o'clock.  I agree. They act all woke, but they're really taking advantage of your pain. Give me, give me another one, Taylor. Well, first you guys wanna do another mid-roll? Oh, you open a mid-roll? Okay, let's do it. Let's go, what else we got? 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Oh yeah, Andrew spoke on Tamron Hall and he came out and he said that he is bisexual. Apparently he also ghost wrote for a lot of rappers. Did you? This guy is so crazy, man. Andrew's the person I consider a friend. You know what I'm saying? My love is wife RJ. Yeah, you do know him, right? I know him, you know what I'm saying? So it just feels like I was intruding on a conversation or a healing process that somebody's trying to go through. That's really none of my business. But what's the deal? There's nothing to heal, right?  The healing that needs to happen is the fact that he embarrassed himself and he embarrassed his family. But we knew that when he was found in the hotel room. Doesn't make it any easier. You know what I'm saying? We don't know what he's been dealing with to pass whatever, six months, seven months. You know what I'm saying? I just feel like that's something that he doesn't owe anybody. But here's the thing that's odd. He came out as bi. Yeah. Now, do you believe in that? Clearly, he's got kids. He's married. Clearly. That is the pure definition of being bisexual. Clearly, he's got kids. He's married. He married a woman. He grew to love a woman. But he also likes that too. My girl doesn't eat dairy. She's allergic to it, right? And I can eat dairy, right? But since she doesn't, when we go out to eat so we can share each other's food and stuff like that, I just don't eat dairy. True. You know what I mean?  No, because based off your logic, my girl likes to dig.  I don't know. I don't know. I'm just saying, I'm just saying. Maybe y'all need a boyfriend. I'm serious. I'm just, I don't know. And I just, I'm just saying, if you were bi, this is a real question I'd like to ask people who are bi or identify as bi.  So you might as well just do the guy girl stuff and not do the bi stuff because that's gonna cost.  And eventually they, the dam just breaks and they just need dicks. Maybe not though. Maybe it's a 50-50 thing. Like I mean- Like guys though versus girls, that's bisexual. Cause the cost of being bi, what'd you say? What'd you say? What did you say? I don't know. I said it depends on the sex though. Are you talking about a male? I'm talking about male.  Is it though in 2020? Yes.  I think so.      Who is this judgmental woman you're with? This woman that does not want to give you the same grace that she wants God to give her. Who is she to judge you? No, I mean your argument is 100% right but I think deep down a girl, and Taylor you could speak for us. Do you think that it would be a little bit more of an issue for you getting over the fact that like the guy that you were dating was sucking on lots of dicks?  Why not one? First you get one in college. I've never said one. It's multiple. You take one dick, you're gonna take more than one. That's not true.   Who makes y'all think? What makes y'all think dicks are like ladies with tater chips? I might can eat just one. It's Pringles. It's Pringles? Just once you pop you can't stop. And to be honest, the Pringles' Cam kinda looks like a big old day. If that's what you like. I'm just seeing if that's what you like. You wouldn't go over to play that. That's what I'm starting with. I'm saying is I think girls are a little bit more judgmental with that. I don't think you're cool with that. No, I ain't judgmental.  There's no double standards here. They are homophobic. You're homophobic. Women are homophobic.    He's imagining your pussies about holes. Let's go back to the three second rule. Let's go back to the three second rule. Oh, God.  What's the first thing you think in your gut? Be honest.  No, I don't think none that's disgusting. I just don't want money. Why couldn't you say the first thought was?     You could date a gay man. You could date a bi man. That's not true. Why? You don't have to. Some girls like ballplayers, some girls like ballplayers. So look. Actually. Energy's different in the room, bruh. In the room. We gotta be in the room. That's heaven in high school. Like my friend. You always got a friend. Yeah. My best friend. He came out as bisexual. He was new to the school and everything else like that. Girls found out. Everyone thought he was cute, blah, blah, blah.  Getting smoked.  But I had a girl still dating him for that, whatever. But I was, I don't want that, though. As long as you give... Especially if my dude will be a bottle?  That's not homophobic. We didn't say nothing about DMXA ripping buttholes out of place.  Buttholes can get ripped out of place. Nothing about being bottoms in all of this. But seriously, bottom would be harder for you to accept, right?  I just feel like that's weird. But you think when he's hitting it from the back for you and like, you think he's like, girl, you can take more than that. Like, I know it's a... What? I'm like, hey, I heard that bad. Come on, y'all. Is y'all screaming and moaning? Is she doing this?  You ain't taking nothing. I don't care. I think that a woman shouldn't care or a man shouldn't care as long as you give somebody the power to choose.  Yeah, let's think about it, though. I don't think it's homophobic, by the way. It seems homophobic, but I don't think it's homophobic because maybe what you find attractive in a man is that man's attractive, how attractive men are to women. Like, maybe there's something about that. Why wouldn't you be more attractive that he's attracted to everybody? Because then she got to share that. You know what I'm saying? Like, I guess for me, we like the fact that our girls might be into another girl because then that could give us a threesome and that's just more pussy for us. So it's like anything that's more pussy, we don't really care that our girl is into another girl. Like, ever watch like girl on girl porn?  I don't want a threesome. Throw that out there. You don't want a threesome. That's how I know you want a threesome. No, I don't.  We're not eating bread. Like, that's how you said that, right? Like, the way, like, nobody asked him. Like, nobody said nothing. Charlie May, how would you feel about threesome? You just like, I don't want a threesome, babe. In case you listen to the podcast. Just in case. I don't. I don't. I don't, though. Not Taylor. No, no, no, no. Don't come off it. Why don't you want one, bruh? I don't have the desire. Because. At the present moment.  I think as long as whatever you and your partner are doing, you and your partner are doing. Yeah. I think it's fine. What if your girl, what if your wife, right, or my girlfriend, what if they brought to us this idea of having a threesome with another guy? Gotta give it a divorce, bro. Like, yo. Yo, Dr. Dre. Ray J. Cardi B. Pass me the numbers to your goddamn divorce attorney. No. That's disrespectful. Why would she disrespect me like that? So you don't think it's disrespectful? I think all of experimentation together, I think it's beautiful as long as y'all are doing it together and experimenting as a couple. Those standards exist. I know. There's a certain things my ego will never be able to fully embrace. I will always have a wounded ego when it comes to that type of stuff. I will never be able to handle that. My ego as a man is too fragile. Right.  Right. You know what I mean? This is my wife, and I'm just going to share you with another man? No. Could a man give your wife a massage? Yeah, yeah, that's happened. I think, yeah, that's happened. Okay, what if you're getting a couple's massage and the guy's giving her a massage and then all of a sudden you hear from her like, what the fuck's going on over there? You know what I mean?  But I've done that. We've done a couple of massages. The man is massager. I don't be tripping off that. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting. My girl would always order a girl masseuse for her and a girl masseuse for me. Men have stronger hands for a woman. You know what I'm saying? I'm not mad at that.  Yeah, that's crazy. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's a little crazy. Come on! Yeah, that's a lot. I need to meet the man whose ego is that healed and that beautiful that he can deal with that. Yeah, I don't need to. I can't. Me personally, I can't. I think that that's severe wounding. Yes. Like, I think people act like they're whole. No, they're the most empty. Yes. If you're getting something out of that, like, to me what that says is you feel so inadequate that the only way that you can feel like you can satisfy your girl is if another guy fucks you. Yes.    Just saying. Yo, Taylor. Yo, yo, yo. Honestly, Taylor. Taylor, honestly. I'm asking this question. Taylor, honestly.  Honestly, I don't know what you just said, but it made me angry. If I'm... Let's just say hypothetically.  I honestly... I don't know what to say.  I'm horrified at the idea. And I'm putting that in the court documents. That got to go in the court document. We had a threesome.   And say like... Everybody would understand it, bro. Even if, like, your lawyer's like, please don't mention that. That's the first thing. That's the first thing. Everybody would understand. Again, irreconcilable differences. We never know what those are when we hear them. Now we know. I'm detailing mine. We was doing a threesome that I didn't want to do. She convinced me. I'm just doing it to keep my marriage happy.  Nah, that's crazy.   The moral of the story is I pray for Andrew Gillum. I pray for his family. I want him to get the healing he deserves. Andrew does not owe anybody anything. Do you think he has a future in politics again? He might have a brighter future. He just needs to, like, he just needs to lean into it. But the tricky thing about him is, can you trust a man that was doing that to his family? Well, if you watched the interview on Tamron Hall, his wife, She knew the whole time? She seemed like she did. I don't know if she said it verbatim, but she did allude to the fact she knew. Then he can be fine and they have an arrangement. So technically, all he did was, if that's the case, all he did was sneak around. Well, if she knew it wasn't sneaking. I'm just saying the American public, and don't get me wrong, we've had plenty of cheating politicians, but if the American public sees, remember that guy who had a girl in Argentina, he was running for president, he was like a center assumption in South Carolina or North Carolina? Remember that guy? No, I remember. This was back in the day.   I don't think the American public likes to look at someone and be like, oh, you lied to the people you love. Why would you not lie to me? But if he had an open relationship with his girl, then that's fine. Well, I have to push back on that a little bit. You lied to the people you love because you love them. It's fear. You don't want to hurt them. You don't want to ruin your marriage. You don't want this person to leave you. That's why you're sneaking around. You know what I'm saying? Like every man in here at some point has lied to the woman they love. I don't know what you're talking about, dawg. You wildin', bro. I don't know what you're talking about, dawg. I'm serious. It don't have to be the woman you with now. I'm just saying at some point you never lied to a woman you love. I don't know what you're talking about, dawg. I don't know what you're talking about, dawg. White men don't lie, dawg. Wow. Okay. Alice is white? All I'm simply saying is... Sometimes it could be coincidence. All I'm simply saying is sometimes you do lie to the person that you love. That doesn't mean you love them any less.  I mean...  Not if she don't know. She finds it on whatever comes that happens in the dark. Not if she don't know.  All the therapy out the window, dawg. Like, here's the therapy. I'm just kidding.  I'm speaking from the perspective of a person being in that situation. I'm not speaking from the person I am now. Yes, your goal is not to hurt them. When Donald Trump said that he didn't tell the American people he played down coronavirus because he didn't want to put nobody in a panic, that is essentially what you do to your household. Yes. 100% Walking in and like, hey, I just finished doing it to my finger. Say, you know what I'm saying?  And you, how would you do that to your house? Yeah. And first of all, you shouldn't cheat, period. As Patrice O'Neill would say, ladies, cheating is for you. What? Explain. A guy sneaks out his house in middle of night. Bucks a girl behind a dumpster. Just so he could get a little pleasure without disrupting his family, without disrupting his wife, without disrupting that happy home. Cheating is for you. That's what Patrice said. I get what you're saying. No. It's joy. It's a joy. No, it's joy. It's a low joy ride. Sometimes you just got to leave the house for a little breather. It's a joy. The joy thing is interesting because what do we call the part of the remote that you play video games with? Joystick. There we go. Bro, it's joy. It's joy, man. It's joy. Girls like to ride other joysticks too, then.   I don't hear that, though. No, we don't.  I don't mind. Listen, if you want to go...   No. And don't ride their joysticks. It's a discussion. The only reason why I ask that question before is because for me, I never had a threesome, but I would think, like, there may be some rules. Like, maybe the guy can't... Maybe the girl can only fuck...   No, no, no. That's worse. No, no, no. I'm saying if there's two... Look, if there's two girls... If you're getting fucked, at least you're getting some pleasure at it.  Oh, my God. So you're cheating on me and destroying what we have just to pleasure the guy? Why would you do that to me? You don't even get some pleasure? That's repulsive. Why would you do that to us? I don't think... Oh, God.   Get...   Get up, please. Yeah, take a bath. Please, please, give us some asking idiots, Taylor. Okay.  I don't know what you're talking about. All right. Who is worse? Oh, sorry. This is by, uh, MageDG01. Who is worse? The Clippers or Cowboys? Clippers. Um, the reason the Clippers... Well, here's the thing. The Clippers are worse because they've never won, period. 50 years, they've never even been to the Western Conference finals. Cowboys at least have won five Super Bowls. Now, the delusion that I understand Clippers felt this year was because they really thought they were going to the finals. Ah, they had Cowboys delusion. Yes, they had Cowboys delusion. It's a delusion that we've had since 1996, but we've had that delusion because we actually won five Super Bowls. It's justified. It's justified.  That hasn't realized it. And the Clippers this year were the hot chick. They got fake tits, and then they thought... Absolutely. ...that they were that bad bitch, but reality was not. But I do call them the Los Angeles Cowboys because of the level of delusion. I like scissors. I thought that was good. I love Los Angeles scissors. Yeah. Give us another one, Taylor. By Halli Maa, underscore A, what books has changed your life? Oh, man, so many. Messages to the Black Man by Elijah Muhammad. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Halli. The Four Agreements by Nama Ghel-Riz. The Secret by Ron DeBurn. 48 Laws of Power by Robert Green. Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra. Those are the ones that changed my life. Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret. Super Fudge. Taylor IV grade, nothing. Really, all those Bevela Clearly Judy Bloom books because when my mom first told me to read things that don't pertain to me, those were the first things that I went at because the people looked totally different to me. You know what I'm saying? Ramona Quimby, age eight. So a lot of those books just showed me that it was other lifestyles out there. It was other cultures. It was other experiences. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah. What about you? That's a good question. I always loved Huckleberry Finn. I thought it was a cool tale. There's a guy named Dan Brown that's written a lot of like pop science books. I'm sure you guys have heard of it. You know, like Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci Code and stuff like that. But like, I read a bunch of his books and he really taught me like the value of short digestible chapters. Yes. That's why I'm never writing a long book ever again. Like three, four, five pages. He almost wrote in the same way that like sitcoms have like these different storylines. And I learned so much from that because I was like, wait a minute. So this story is done in three pages. I can step away whenever I want. But if I want to keep going, it's only two or three or four or five more pages of this section. And I would find myself there for hours and hours. And it's something I've applied to like content I've created since then or any other sort of writing. So I thought that was really cool. I'm never writing another long book again. When I read The Seven Spiritual Laws of Deepak Chopra, it's such a quick, easy, digestible read and it makes you feel like you're really getting through the book when you only got to read 10 pages and then you're on to the next chapter. Yeah. Totally agree. Give us one more. I gotta go pick my daughter from cheerleading. Oh, they're doing cheerleading still. Black Tar Heel 24 wants to know, what is the best advice that you didn't follow early in your careers? The best advice we didn't follow early in our careers. Okay, Charlotte. The best advice I didn't follow? I don't think I understand the question. The advice I didn't follow? Some great advice you got but you didn't follow it and then as you got older, you're like, oh. Oh, that was all super young for me. It's because truth be told when my dad told me when I was like 14, 15, 16, he used to point out all of the people that weren't doing nothing with their life around mouse corner. You know what I'm saying? He would always make it a point to show me the newspaper or the person that just got arrested and he would emphasize 50 years in prison.  He would emphasize that kind of stuff and he would always tell me if I didn't change my lifestyle, I would end up in jail, broke, or dead. I know he said I would end up in jail, dead, or broke sitting under the tree. He was like, that's it for you if you do X, Y, and Z. So when I started seeing this happen to people, I was like, okay, maybe he's on to something but whatever. That ain't gonna happen to me but when it did start happening to me at such an early age, from that point on, I made it a point to always listen to what elders were telling me. I would make it a point to always listen to what people who have lived the life I have yet to live that have more aged in me that have done things I've never done before. I never dismissed their advice. I just take it in and then when the situation arises for me, whatever it may be, I always have something to pull from oh, I remember when such and such said this, I remember when oh, when such and such said that, I don't dismiss any of it and I'm glad I learned that at such an early age. Yeah, that's interesting. The advice that way, maybe as far as comedy goes, I would always ask older comics for advice and they'd go, just get on stage and I thought they were dismissing me and you know, because I'd go home and I'd rewrite my set every single night. I was kind of like a maniac when it came to like, how can I get better at study everything? I'd like transcribe everything, read every book you could possibly read on it.  I appreciate that, but I realized that what they were saying was basically, you're not even comfortable on stage yet. Like once you get that part down, all of the other things are going to make way more sense. They were basically telling you to put your $10,000. Exactly. So they're like, just get that up, get ready and I tell that to comics now and I guess the one bit of advice I would give them is like, do this for a year and then we'll talk or two years, whatever it is. But to pay attention to like how you're funny around your friends, the people you're most comfortable with, because that's usually who you're not putting on a show for. It's like generally who you are. But I think that was it. It was like, sometimes people give you advice in your career and it seems dismissive. Don't dismiss it. Don't dismiss it. Yeah. Yeah. All right, man. True indeed. We did it. Thank you guys. Another great episode from Showed Studios here in Brooklyn. Hey. 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