 It's so stupid is positively Yep, shalom in the god, we are the brilliant idiots back for another week. Um, Andrew Schultz is absolutely on vacation Andrew fuck shit up and then he left, you know, he dropped his special Show saved America on Netflix and then he went on vacation to Hawaii for the rest of the year So I'm not I'm not mad at him. So I got a couple of people who I respect so much my my folks is in here my man, Wano Was good. It was good. What's up, y'all, man? And Nila is here. I don't I can't see it. Can you hear I can hear and see you Okay, I can see Nila too. All right, it must be my Wi-Fi then but um, have y'all seen Schultz's special Yeah, I saw it You so what'd you think I did I need your your honest opinion. Um Well, I only watched I think it was I don't is it an episode I watched like the first episode of it and then um, I didn't go into anything else But it was the kind of like the same shit he does on YouTube like I thought it was pretty cool But I'll tell you I like that when he talks about a bunch of various topics It seemed a little bit different than the YouTube one I don't know if how they recorded it and that but like it's pretty much the same thing he does on YouTube But I thought it was dope. Yeah, just longer Nila Nila ain't seen nothing now what what do you Oh, you don't support white people Well, listen the reason I wanted y'all here today, I mean for a number of reasons a bunch of things that we can talk about But um, I was really thinking about like People's hip hop list, you know, I'm saying like this is the end of the year where you know Everybody comes out with their best albums of the year list or their best artists of the year and you know our good brother B dot um the B stands for bias He put out he put out his list. I don't have his list in front of me right now Anybody got his list? Yeah And the thing I'm not upset at B dodge list Now B dot is one of those people that I literally talk to every day because because of the because of the group chat And I'm not mad at B dodge list because it's his list But there's one thing I want all of us To start doing when we make our list Just say that this is our favorite albums of the year or say that this is our Favorite artists of the year. I think when you cast blanket statements and you say this is the best album of the year Or this is the best artist of the year. That's where the problems come in personally, okay, there So so b dot put uh mvp 10 best rappers of 2020 freddy gibbs number one Conway the machine number two Benny the butcher number three rust number four big Sean number five little baby number six Nas number seven drake number eight little Wayne number nine stove god cook number 10 His criteria is based on skill performance in presence. Nyla. What do you think I'll start with you? um Yeah, the fact that he got little baby at number six is disrespectful when little baby's easily top three and not three And not two either. I really don't like the fact that he got Conway the machine as number two It doesn't even make any sense Based on skill performance and presence I don't really understand. I guess performance and presence for half of these artists and I never even heard of I never even heard I see you never heard I'm I started listening first. I'm like this this can't be right because it's artists on here. I never even heard of um, I am happy that rust is on there that's fair drake All right Wayne Let's talk about Wayne actually No, no, because I really love little Wayne little Wayne's a goat But the rest of Wayne verse that I heard from him in years years Is the verse that he did with freddy gibbs like the feature he gave jack harlow was trash He's been giving out mad trash features. So the fact that Wayne is on this top 10 lists, I mean, I guess I think a lot of this is just out of respect because Those are his friends and he grew Wayne oh, what do you think my brother? So all right, so the list I'm not mad other than stove. I've been hearing I heard about stove god prior to him being on the list Like somebody sent me his project. I still haven't got a chance to listen to it But I respect everybody that's on this list now My biggest problem would be that on this list is where little baby is at. I think like foot like in 2020 For you to have little baby six or when anything I'm talking about anything regarding music right now, especially rap Is ridiculous. I think that freddy gibbs. That's a good place. I think that all these people deserve Well, I don't know if they deserve the certain spaces, but like conway. I feel like conway Yeah, as far as skill, he's one of the best But like nyla said performance and presence and when we was on clubhouse I kept saying that to be that like What do you mean about performance and presence because if we talking about presence little baby has The biggest presence in hip-hop Like I feel like he said presence was relevancy. That's what he told me That's what I'm saying relevancy like and so this is my problem that I have where you know, I feel like New york gets this cloud that we don't love or respect the south specifically at lana and that's bullshit. Like I love Y'all don't respect nothing except new york That's bullshit because I've been in a bubble way before corona It has but I will tell you for myself I'm a person who has my family's from fanville, north carolina I got cousins that live all on a lander The foot for where I found out about three six my field was my home girl had cousins in Memphis used to come back with the tapes So when I see little baby in a space like that, I'm like nah, yeah, niggas is bugging I felt like little baby should have been nominated for a Grammy only because That would make other people who are biased give him his respect as a rapper because he has the best rap album to me I feel like he has the best rapping album because it covers everything um Now I feel like little wane shouldn't be on the list. I I feel like certain artists like I feel like Drake shouldn't be on the list and that's not not no slight the Drake But I feel like Drake took a year Honestly, even him dropping that tape the nigga took a year off. He still took a year off Demo is just really not a great tape like it's not It's not but I just feel like like him I feel like nah shouldn't be I feel like if we're gonna make these lists These lists should be for what's current Which not just young, you know, I mean because I don't want to exclude the niggas as older But like it should be what's coming across the board and I feel like Freddie give should be on there. I even feel like rush should be on there I feel like Conway. Yeah, because he dropped a great album But it's little Dirk should be on this list polo G should be on this list You know I'm saying I feel like polo G is one of the most slept on young niggas out here You know, I mean like he should be on this list. It's just like you said it should be be that's just his list His favorite list and listen, that's why, you know, I forgot to say that we start to show off with a positively brilliant What a fucking idiot This is one of those things that can go on either one because it's positively brilliant the way b. Dot got everybody talking You know what I mean, but you know, this list is pretty idiotic, you know, I mean especially And that's my man I got but especially when you say based on skill performance in presence And I told b. Dot if it's just based on skill just rapping Totally understand everybody that's on that list But when you talk about presence and you tell me that presence means Relevancy there's no way you can have a 2020 list without the baby There's no way. Yes. There's no way you can have a 2020 list without make the stallion Right, there's no way you can have a 2020 list where like you said low baby Is anything other than in the top two and there's no way you can have a 2020 list without roddy rich That's impossible. It's impossible if it's based on skill performance in presence If you're being objective now, like I said, if it's your favorite list Your list is gonna look like b. Dot. I would like for b. Dot to explain him. So based off of his You know measurements because performance wise like what performance did drake wane um Stove god, I still don't even know who he is like what performance did they do like max performances was everywhere her youtube stuff The bet performance the graduation stuff like there's artists out here really being creative And they didn't even make the list Well, he's not even talking about that kind of performance. Yeah, he's not he said he's talking about the way you perform on records like your flow Your delivery for me once again With that you can't leave roddy rich off Performance is amazing on records My biggest problem with the whole roddy rich shit and I feel like roddy rich is getting Unfairly shitted on because he dropped the album this the first week of december It's not a 2019 album That shit is not a twin. He dropped this album He dropped his album because the box was hot for months prior The box was like one of the biggest record to me It's still the biggest record of 2020 But it's like because the pandemic happened people forgot that roddy rich actually dropped the great body of work It performed it but he not he not saying it like that, but it performed very well It was everywhere. He had one of the biggest records. He had one of the biggest presents Shit not even the box. What's the other drink? Um Ballin With with dj muster even though it's dj muster's record. That should still held 2020 down So it's like how does roddy rich not make a record and I feel like I will not make a listen I feel like a lot of people will put him to the side because he dropped this album the first week of december That makes no sense to me. Why is b-dots criteria different than all award shows every award show if your album comes out in december they will Uh reward you the very like the next year Like because it's a cutoff day right? It's a cutoff day with the baby Actually roddy rich's album won't be eligible until the next grammy's if i'm not mistaken That's crazy because look but think about this, right? I mean just growing up every year when jz dropped in december Shit everybody wrote his album into the next summer like absolutely Like his his album came out in the in the fourth quarter to hold down the next year until the next fourth quarter So I just don't get how hit roddy rich is not considered for anything Compared to when jz well not that jz still not dropping out but compared to back then we processed music so much faster Not only just music though. We passed. We processed news. We processed Like just everything so much faster. So for that it kind of makes sense as to why it was forgotten about but You know for this to be his job he violated Be that listen be that's gonna contradict himself next year I'm gonna tell you why because I saw his top albums of 2020 list and he put jack hollow on them Jack hollow's album just came out like Next year this is what's gonna happen jack's album is gonna bubble for the next Six seven months, right jack's gonna be hot and then next year be that gonna try to put jack hollow on his best Rap was a 2020 list and we gotta say no He put that fucking album out in december the same shit you held roddy rich through you got a whole jack hollow So I already see him about to set himself up to contradict himself. Yeah, he is They was already getting at him about that already. So, you know It's definitely gonna happen But but I don't want to pick apart be that's what I want to ask y'all is because I don't have best artists I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't have favorite artists of 2020. I just do albums. I like albums that I fucking What were y'all top albums of 2020? Hmm um I say I started off a little babies album my turn um 21 savage, you know, uh Same savage mode two same. Yeah, savage mode two. Um polo g his album dirks album um shit Trying to think the baby. I think the the baby did better on a deluxe. I like little uzi's deluxe as the The uh eternal take deluxe. I like the deluxe more than I like the actual eternal take um Him And see that's the other thing too. A lot of those albums you polo g. I haven't listened to Go uzi. I haven't listened to somebody a little dirt. I didn't hear a little dirks album Right, how you hear these out shall I mean? I'm saying I haven't even heard these projects But that's why that's another thing too. How can you really give an objective opinion about these albums? And say what is the best if you didn't listen to everything you'd have to listen to everything to give that opinion I know beat that ain't listen to all of them Well, he says and I quote I listen to more rap music than the average person. So He lives and dies from what decade Also, I got it the conways album too conways album from king to god The album is hard like I feel like the album is really hard. Um, it's a lot You know, it's crazy. It's hard for me to even remember how many albums come out because so many come out so fast Like I I really be having to look back like oh that was this year Yeah For me, I really really loved number one little baby album. I love cash page album I loved uh coilo rays mixtape. I loved spillage village love that project. Um, I love I like smenos. She already decided mixtape Uh, what else did I listen to a lot? I don't know once I pick my faves. I just kind of keep them in rotation type thing Yeah, I see what I'm saying like once again. I listen to spillage village because of nila. They dope. No, that's And spillage village. Yeah They dope But I didn't hear a lot of those projects that she named and that's what that goes back to what I said We got to stop saying what we Are generalizing and this is the best and just say this is my favorite. These are my top I gotta I can't leave without mentioning. We we can't leave it out. Meet the meet the wu two is my favorite Yeah But pop smoke and I feel like pop smoke, you know, unfortunately He passed away, but I told I said is to be that too like I don't think there's no list You could put out and deny his presence even with him leave him being gone Like his presence is everywhere to where you see in kids in africa. We're walking You know what I'm saying? So Every guy in girl went and got the braids Like The pop braids The pop smoke braids And he's sold a lot of records. Yeah weakens album too. I think he gives out Like selling records just the fact that like he passed away in the controversy on his album artwork Like the fact that it was like a general population involved in the process of his album being done like says a lot Just pop this pop smoke Is that album is successful if if he doesn't tragically get killed if it's still a successful As it was I don't I honestly I don't think it is I I I not think to me he was my favorite new artist. I don't think it is Of course deaf brings more attention to whatever's going on, you know King vaughn passed away and got a million followers the next week. You know what I'm saying after he passed JD said it's the best Get better promotion get better promotion But um I don't think it performs the same way, but I it is what it is and I just can't negate the influence And people might get at me for saying this but I feel like for the kids in new york, that's this generation is big I feel like The impact that he had like the impact biggie died when I was like 13 going on 14 And that was everything to us in the parties Summertime cookouts everything and I feel like pop smokes presence for these kids of today is the same as biggie's was I think album sales wise maybe it wouldn't have been as successful But for him it it just would have been like another pinnacle Like he would have kept brawn because he was definitely next to blow Yeah, I mean he was doing a lot of stuff. He started in that um at that eddy hung movie charity Yeah, like he was getting all the Yeah Eddie hung movie boogie that's coming out, you know pop smoke starting that I got I got a roll in that too That's I mean that's the only reason I knew he was in it because when I shot for it like a while ago He was he was what you roll you acting that strong Yeah, who you playing? Are you playing as a dude with a money reside? I don't I don't want to give it away. I don't want to give it away. I'm not playing myself though I'll tell you that the movie is about basketball. You're not mistaken Well, no, no, what can you see shall be doing with basketball? I'm definitely not a player. I'm definitely not a player, but you can be a bird You can get a little birdie roll off. You know what I mean drug dealer support I should definitely get a birdie roll off. I would love to do something like that But now I think pop smoke might have still had success though Because because he had that presence, you know, I'm saying he had like a real star presence And he already had the biggest market in the country behind him, which is new york You know, I mean, and I think new york has been waiting for A champion that they can't get behind, you know what I mean? Like, um, they haven't had that in a while Like like cardi might have been the last one. Um, probably nicky before her, but let's be real They don't get behind women the way they don't I feel like new york can't get behind him neither and I feel like I feel like Boogie was a champion for us, but I feel like as far as the city They didn't get behind him the way he should like, you know It wasn't a movement You know, I mean that whole woo thing and every like it's a movement. I don't know I don't know. I was I was new to new york when a boogie had got hot and I felt like it was forced on me Like I I have a choice But to like a boogie because they just kept playing the records and even at events like a boogie would show up Who bring his whole hood? It felt like a movement to me But it wasn't it wasn't I say as impactful as pop smoke because like I said people was trying to dress like pop talk like pop You know do everything he had the full effects It's actually woo Wednesday right now too, you know Really? Yeah, no, that's what the kids that's what the meme kids call it every day They call every Wednesday. They call it woo Wednesday. So they post a bunch of memes pop smoke I didn't know that I didn't know that listen my favorite albums of the year video but your burden of proof Um Conway the machine from a king to a god uh nauseous king disease Um run the jewels for which I don't hear nobody mentioning for whatever reason run the jewels for was amazing 21 savage savage mode to uh ti Libra Um, I fuck with big Sean Detroit too. I thought that project was dope Royce the 5 9 allegory Little baby my turn and y'all motherfuckers really sleeping on the city girl city on Okay, I'm telling you right now If the if the streets was open and it wasn't a pandemic the city girls would be the hottest Rap group period and the hottest female rappers out I'm gonna talk about big Sean diamond. I gotta talk about city girls. So city girls project. Yes was good But in and it still didn't well even though we're in a pandemic one and then two It's something about when the city girls come on in the club. It's like the whole energy shifts Like everyone who wasn't dancing starts dancing. It's it's crazy. So Because they speak to your in the hood rat all that ratchet shit y'all really want to do All y'all women that want to be like really about fucking these niggas and taking their money and to do it They are it's it's the same. They were against the rap, right? When you hear some gangsters talking some real gangster shit as a man, you're like, oh, shit You want to live that life? City girls music is definitely It's definitely like made for outside and outside only like you you have to experience it Like you have to experience it. I do agree like like when a music come on It does make like the lady that's she's trying to pass the bar test. She's gonna be acting up that night She's gonna be going on And I feel sorry for them because they didn't get to experience that like jt just came home So she ain't get the experience being on the road Tarn she ain't get to experience hearing her records in the club in that way Because they had some joints on city on lock that would have went off this So They should got like they should got a leak too though Remember like they should have got leaked like a like a week early or like a few days early So that hurt them a little bit as well. I don't believe about leaking in 2020. How does something leak in 2020 now? They put that Somebody forced that somebody somebody in the team put that out. I think so Maybe maybe but getting back to big Sean's album because people are saying that this is big Sean's best album Do you think this is big Sean's best album? No, no, it's not his best album. It's good though. It's really good, but it's not his best It's good, but yes, what would y'all say is his best album because to me I feel like this album I feel like big Sean makes the same type of albums every album His best album to me was the one that had a biggie than me on there What was that dog side? Dog side paradise. Yeah outside paradise. That's that's to me. That's the best body of work It is I think that's his best body of work. I think it's his most honest body of work as well I feel like One thing about his music is definitely always honest like this project is very honest also I like where he's at You know, I can grown. I like him talking about therapy fighting his demons like where he's at with his relationship with jane I mean the whole package beautifully beautifully done but as far as like the album and I want big Sean to get his albums I want all the young ojis in that class to get they flowers like While they still need to get his flowers Cole got his drink on his Kendrick me got his championship I want all them to get they flowers, but I do feel like I don't know. I feel like big Sean still doesn't have his like force. He'll drive or his championship interest Hmm Yeah, I don't I don't well. I think dog dog side paradise. I think that that was like the close To me, that was kind of receipt. That's the closest to it You know a lot of times shit It might not have it for everybody. We got to accept that as well You know, I mean Even when we say that way, though, what do we mean when we say that because I think sometimes you got to appreciate where you are You know what I mean? I think sometimes you look at drake You look at Kendrick you look at Cole and you say I want that kind of success But that may not be the success that that that's destined for you But what's wrong with being big Sean? What's wrong with being yla consistently gold artists? Nothing's nothing wrong at all. I'm just saying it's like when we think about a moment I think it's a lot of factors that leads into Meeks championships. There's a lot of things that leads into drinks. Take care. It's a lot of things that leads into Kendrick's um Damn or even a good kid mad city. It's like it's a certain energy that leads into that shit and I feel like You know with with big Sean He takes a lot of time off and he's been honest about letting people know like yo I was really going through something and that's why it's being received a certain way But I don't know if he has like If that energy is going to be received for him to make a body of work that everybody's going to like I feel like big Sean is a great artist, but he's still some shit. That's like Oh, you're like you got to be a fan of that nigga like in order to really get it Like you got to be a hardcore fan of him to really get it I agree like dots aren't for some reason the dots haven't completely Connected for big Sean because I don't even think people respect big Sean as a lyricist the way that they should I think big Sean has been one of the top three lyricists. He's dangerous. He's a long time. Yes Big Sean says shit that I don't hear nobody else saying that boy be snappin But for whatever reason he don't get that that credit even as just being a dope ass I'm just playing Kanye Anybody on good music that You think it's jay fought Oh, yeah, yeah for sure I mean you play a big role I think big Sean suffers from what guys like, um Charles Barkley uh Carl Malone um Those guys Patrick Ewan, I think he suffers from what those guys suffer from he's just happens to be in an era Where some would say the the greatest of all time is right like Like you would have to put Drake and Kendrick and like the greatest of all time combo, right? Absolutely, you know what I'm saying? So when you play in that era when you came out in that class with with goats of that caliber And even even you know, I mean Cole got called. Yeah Cole got rings, but I mean I don't call one of the greatest He's one of the things I don't put him on the level of Drake and Kendrick I don't even put Drake on the level of Kendrick, but You don't put you don't put Cole on it You don't put Cole on the level of Drake and Kendrick. Why not? Not not skill wise Like his music you had to listen Cole's dope Now Cole could rap Cole could rap Cole is amazing. I just think like and I'm not saying anything I'm not taking anything away from him. He's a hall of fame all star All I'm simply saying is it's a difference between what a Kendrick does And what everybody else does to me But guess what some people may say that about Drake Some people might put Drake the way I hold Kendrick and say everybody else is after him But my point was saying that is those two guys are such goats that they make everybody else look almost normal You know what I mean? I get what you're going on Charles Barkley looks normal compared to a micro jordan It's hard to say. I ain't a lot. It's hard to tell kids about Charles Barkley like I'd be I was a kid when Charles Barkley was won the MVP and Niggas be I they be like him like really Like that you had to see it that and that's why I tell a lot of kids about Jordan like you had to see that shit You know, I mean you might Or not they got it because of the last dance. Yeah The last year so but but if you think about that right think about all of the great players that are first Ballot hall of famous who never got rings because Michael Jordan existed in that era. Yeah Let's talk about Scottie Pippin Scottie Pippin is absolutely positively a top 50 greatest player of all time He's incredible Michael Jordan probably doesn't do what he does without Scottie Pippin Scottie Pippin don't even get his just do because he played next to the greatest of all time And I think guys like big Sean suffer from Being in that era when you gotta play with Drake's and the Cole's and the Kendrick's That's all it don't make it don't make Sean away a while a any less whack. I mean any less dope They're dope. They're not wack at all. Yeah, why late like Like what Nyla said like a while a while is so special and I feel like a lot of times His him being so passionate comes off. Sometimes it's arrogance It also comes off as him being a dickhead or asshole and that's not the case I feel like he's just very passionate because he's like the nigga that Wasn't one of the lottery drag He wasn't lottery draft pick and rap but like he's not projected to be as good as he really is I think niggas sleep on his skill a lot. Yo, it's disgusting. Like while he is one I think he's one of the best drop the EP this year too. That was tough Right on time. It was on point about like the um police brutality. We were going through like the ship was fire I love while it and not because I'm from the DMV like the niggas is really great And you got us a little while late because while they ain't even from this class While he's actually from the class ahead of them While they's from the Lupe fiasco kid cutty He is he remember it was the fuck gq man of the year All on the washing machine You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. 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Let's get back to the show What do you did y'all like cutties man on the morning three? Listen to it either So There's my thing with cutty man while cutty is You know, he's he's he's great and he had a to me the first man on the moon is classic I feel like a lot of the people will overrate him on a lot of shit. I feel like he's overrated a lot of shit I do I really believe In reason flame So so this is a thing like I don't like all right I understand that it's a whole class of emo kids that like Was in a dark place and all that shit and his music means the best to them and For for the first man on the moon like when that shit came out that shit was hard Like I was sleeping on him then I feel like it's a classic and all that but as far as his skill set and all of that after they I think that he gets I'll like I think he'd get a lot of credit for shit that I don't know man I just don't think he's as good as people make him out to be and he's talented I'm not saying the nigga not talented But I just feel like they be putting him on this pedestal that I don't think he's on me personally I don't I don't I don't think it has to do with his skill set though I think I think it's for what you just said it's the way he makes people feel like he provides the soundtrack And you know for those emotions that a lot of people may be going through you know what I mean Yeah, I mean that's that's cool. But like when we talking about we we compare like this is the thing man We compare people based on how good they are that's just what we debate about like we We compare people based on is this nigga better than him or is he as good as him? You know what I'm saying? Unfortunately people get wrapped up into Shit like you just said with Big Sean But I feel like with Cuddy I feel like he's good But I feel like a lot of the shit that the way that they perceive him to be like to me It's just not the same for me and it just might be That's not like you miss the curb. Sometimes you just miss the feeling that somebody get Like how people love Travis Scott and the whole rodeo thing. I missed it. Like I don't get it People be like, you don't understand like I caught on to uh kick Cuddy Which is why I said in recent years Maybe I would feel like you but prior like when I was in high school and shit. That was everything and I wasn't See, I wasn't I wasn't an emo kid, but I felt it I fussed with him But now in recent years it's kind of like how I said earlier with Wayne like Wayne drop. It's like all right like okay Like I understand what he built but like when Cuddy dropped his first album I was like 26 and I'm saying when he dropped his first album like It's it was it was great that album his first album is great I'm just talking about like everything post that Is not and I'm not just saying it have to be that in order for him to be good I'm just saying like the way that people be praising him is like this god of whatever I don't Like I don't consider him even though he's in that time frame. I don't consider his competitions like cold drape Sean and them I don't even I mean that That's the thing. I don't think you compare Cuddy to nobody like I understand what wayno's saying But I don't think people look at Cuddy and hold him in that high regard because of his Skill set. I really think it's because of what he talks about What's the content of his music and the way he makes people feel? You know what I mean? Like when somebody gives you that soundtrack to whatever it is You may be going through man. You love them in a different way Like Not the greatest singer in the world, but man, he provided the soundtrack for heartbreak I did I was riding the man on the moon too, and I've been kind of depressed the past couple days too So when I was listening to the man on the moon yesterday, I was loving it that beautiful trip The shit tequila shots. I'm a tequila drinker. I had some tequila last night The city got on it called damaged. I like I like I like the vibe of it Or because that makes a difference too. That makes my heart That makes a difference. I was over. I was over Look, so All right Around this time when Cuddy dropped this first album I was totally against that whole like I didn't understand traumas and depression. I didn't understand that shit It's like you be depressed and I come from the era of you depressed. They can get over that shit We all do. Yeah, right. So like I was kind of against a lot of that Moping sad shit. So It don't a lot of the music doesn't affect me the same way now Even I I've been depressing like the shit. I'd be depressed over. I'm gonna listen to jeezy before I listen to jeezy has got me sometimes You feel me like jeezy got my man my man my man is in is in the feds and I'm doing whatever I can and put a couple dollars on his books. That's that's my depression how I've dealt with it So I I get where Cuddy comes from but how is delivered for me is not the same I'm actually not mad at that statement at all. You know, there's different types of ways that people want to go about handling things I feel like, you know, shaman's very evolved You know when it comes to like Like that, so we don't mind putting on a Cuddy and connecting Whereas I feel like the average black man is going to do the same thing. He's gonna put on jeezy They're gonna put on you know clean that they can relate to not everybody can No, listen, I'll fuck with all of that like I I do it the same way But sometimes you want somebody to tap into your exact Emotions like when kid Cuddy's rapping about you know, I feel like I'm being I'm I'm trapped in my head right now Like that is exactly the emotion that you that you may be going through and I think he taps into that Like dives into it. It's like more of a facing it Where Other artists is more of a just making you feel better like keep it pushing But I I mean I I do think that um I think Cuddy's one of those people who don't get his his his his fly was the way he should I think he does from the general public The general he does from the general public they love him like I got I mean in the game like in media and all that shit in the media like like they should He should be on that three headed monster, right when you talk about Cole I mean he was in one but you gotta remember like so when we talk about Cole Kendrick and Drake think about the consistency And in their runs, I think that's Uh-huh But yeah, but remember cutting at that time too, he also was very vocal about his um Problems that he was facing with drugs and all of that while he wasn't so as so focused on on music It's just oppression. So like I ain't knocking him at all I think that the niggas one of the most talented dudes that would do it But at the same time I I think that it goes into the run you have because end of the day bro niggas just want music You know now we start getting into people's lives and all that but we really just want the music So it's like when we say all right, he did this one and it's spaced out in between there man Then he does another one Three hot album every 10 year average ain't you know what I'm saying I'm with you. That's why I give Kendrick all the props in the world because Kendrick don't give a fuck what y'all talking about Kendrick don't give a fuck Kendrick ain't one of these guys that's giving y'all songs every week He's not trying to be in the news He don't got his publicist working overtime to leak stories. None of that Kendrick is giving y'all these albums And that's it. But every time he dropped he never dropped something that make niggas say oh, nah, I ain't like Every album that he's dropped has done something like you remember that time Every time that he's put out an album you remember exactly where you were where you heard it How it was affecting people at the shows how it was infected in the media like every time and he's four for four if you ask me He's four for four in the pimple butterfly is the second best album of the last decade And the first was my beautiful dark twisted fantasy about kanya. You say I said wait, wait You said to pimple butterfly is the second best album of the decade The last decade from 2010 to 2020 And when people go back now and listen to it like he literally Resparked because you know, you you you're not as old as me, but you come from that era You remember when there was socially conscious black Music Kendrick bought that back into The mainstream I think I think Kendrick and I think um a few songs off watch the throne up I feel like I I agree the thing is is that I just feel like damn damn has a more of a How can I say I feel like damn delivers it a little bit better Like everything that you just said he just delivers it a different way than to pimple butterfly I feel like when he did to pimple butterfly a lot of people wasn't ready for it That's why it's not received as how you said it But when you go to damn and you look at like how he did the grammy's Like the performance he did at the grammy's all that shit the shit he's talking about I was just listening to the damn love of damn. I'm like damn No pun intended. No, no pun intended, but like everything he said is still relevant today even though it's a four year old That's how butterfly is Yes, I know it's just damn just sounds better to me damn. Signically. It's just better Yeah Listen right now today We gonna be all right could be the song of the year Because we gotta have optimism right like Every time some bullshit happens we gonna be all right. We'll try 100% because that was a that that was a black Anthem which we didn't get a lot of this year by the way But you thought we would have based off the year that we just had Don't don't sleep on bigger picture by little baby, man And you know I gotta mention this because we talking about black anthems. I was As a cold fan. No cold one of my favorites ever in life to do it Don't do it I was so I loved jaco. I went to st. John's because of jaco I love jaco But songs he dropped this year all disappointed me in the little Responses he did with no name even more disappointment Then I was even more disappointed in no name's response because it's like why would you disjake cold? Why wouldn't you just take that opportunity to make yourself look good and show off your skills get your your skillset and Educate the people because that's what you was complaining about them that educated Yeah, I'm not mad at koto. Um, I get what you're saying is a as a Just a fan of his his music. The reason I'm not mad at him is because he's a man at the end of the day And this is a diff this has been a difficult year for a lot of people and I think it's so easy id post like yo I'm hype thinking it's about to be something to get me through it like a high for hours Like I remember my trump won presidency. I'm feeling disappointed. Shit. I'm like, oh god, whatever Oh cold drop damn made us make me feel better and it did it gave me inside. It's like, you know what? Change of come, you know, he let me Now I ain't gonna lie now. I feel you because Remember when he did the david letterman when he did be free on david letterman like I ain't on front that shit I think it brought a tear out of everybody. I think that's the unfair expectations that artists have sometimes though Because like like cold might have just he might have been in a crib with the ps5 early and just wanted to chill The press like the rest of us Anxiety like the rest of us. I don't feel like fucking working. I don't feel like being the voice right now No, but the funny thing of all this is like when baby made bigger picture It was so many people that was going crazy or cold and kendrick like y'all let this nigga do with y'all Like they was wild and I feel like it's just a little bit of fear because while You know, they didn't make they make songs about the black plight and our struggle and everything we've gone through Every time and they get when the bat signal goes up and they don't want to put that suit on every time And that's a fact and and also to what you're saying We know and I want everybody to think about this going and going into 2021 because I already see a lot of y'all setting yourself up for failure Approach 2021 with no expectations Don't have any expectations. Don't have any expectations in people Don't have any expectations in the world. Don't have any expectations for society Just show up every day and be the best you do the best you can If you go into 2021 with that 2021 is going to be my year 2021 is going to be the best year ever 2021 is going to be better than 2020. You're going to be fucking disappointed No expectations It's it's good to manifest, you know It is No, manifest once again, let's go back to what I was talking about with the list Don't pass these general broad statements, right about the year. Just say this is going to be my best year Well, what's wrong with come on, man Like you gotta think about this shit, right? Think about the year as like and for a lot of people they be fucking crapping out, you know what I'm saying? Like they might crap out. They might go shit. This this the year when I hit like this is going to be the year when I hit I'm not mad at people having like, you know, um I want to say not not having expectations because I want people to have a little bit of expectation It's just that this is the year Of um is unpredictability of word Like this is the year of that like, you know what I mean, right? This was the year that like for everything we thought it was it fucking wasn't on like damn There every single level on every level and I agree with you But I still want people to be a little bit hopeful, but just put some little bit of action behind your hope No, but the action goes into you the only thing you can control is you You can't even control your circumstances But that's my point so don't put any unrealistic expectations on the year Naly, you know that the meme that everybody views all the ladies views with the girl stepping with the bag They can't use that no more You can do new year knew me because you're in control of you So if you want to lose weight if you want to get smarter if you want to you know Start focusing on your mental health whatever it is you can make those changes Everything else you have no control of so don't have any fucking expectation for it And I think that's the problem that we have as a society now We have narratives about people and we have This narrative causes to has expectations that just aren't that just aren't realistic for everybody Like my fuck is really mad at Kendrick. Kendrick should be at the protest. Why? His songs are playing and guess what I want Kendrick in the studio working on the songs for this protest Because ain't nothing ain't nothing going nowhere. It's gonna be more black people that get killed by police It's gonna be so he's gonna we're gonna need those soundtracks. I want Kendrick in the studio Charlemagne if there's never any other artists that I ever felt more hopeful about like I'd be good Like I go through shit and I'd be like, I'd be like Kendrick, please say something like I ain't going for I really be in a crib like like damn. I wish I could just hear with this nigga things right now So like when it comes to his music, that's one person that I'm I don't Exactly need him to jump in on everything that's going on but I need something from him because that You know why you feel that way because he's thoughtful Yeah, because he actually takes the time to craft Soundtracks for whatever it is that we're going through. So when somebody's that thoughtful, you gotta give them time to think They can't think if you telling them that they need to be front-line at the goddamn protest. Okay I mean yeah, they were saying that yeah, they were not they were saying that but he did He did go to like he popped up at a few drinks But salute to everybody who did put themselves on the line for doing that like like being at the protest because them Them shit wasn't regular like the drinks this year was in regular There was a mixture of so many people where like you might be protesting But here comes this this idiot that's about to pop off some violence, you know, I mean just to do it They're going to at least trying to like get them round up Yeah Yeah, nah, there was like suck my dick. Holy suck my dick Yeah, it is Keep walking. Okay, but um Yeah, I mean I'll go to the subject Oh, I was gonna say are you looking forward to Drake's new project? No I forgot about you wait Why not um For all the same reasons that we're the for all the same reasons we love kendrick kendrick Kendrick makes us wait kendrick gives us Something to look forward to kendrick, you know takes his time You would be interested in this lover boy tape I just don't know what what drake has given us so much music that I don't know if he has another gear You know what I'm saying like we know we know kendrick has another gear He shows us that with every project drake has given us so much. I don't know if he has another gear So therefore I'm not looking forward to anything I'm I'm looking forward to it. I just don't know That's the thing. I'm going into a no expectation Because I feel like certain I feel like certified lover boy Knowing drake it makes you think like oh this nigga's coming on some Cruening sweet shit the whole album and I don't I don't expect that from him I I don't I also don't expect him to be making Like introspective shit. I just I'm really looking for him to just rap I don't know if he has another gear, but I'm just really looking for him to rap I think that he's his best when he just a fucking rap when he does Then 4 a.m. Wherever the fuck he's at when he does that like if if he could keep that space For 10 songs and I don't think that that puts him in a different conversation enough and that's just from a fan of drake That's what I would want from you Let me ask y'all a question. Are we still in the drake era? R is radio? Such such such such a prehistoric form of of medium Is radio such a prehistoric form of media that it hasn't changed the temperature to what's actually going on out here in these streets We in the little baby era Really really still love drink the same but they still really really love the migos because Though I think i'm over. I don't know if it's because I I hear all the time because of the feel that i'm in, but um What what feeling you in nila radio Now what exactly that's what I mean when I say Radio I'm a and i'm just saying i'm a radio guy nila's a radio girl All i'm simply saying is radio and we have these conversations all the time They haven't caught up to what's actually going on in the screech yet So they still haven't turned they haven't changed the temperature So it's say it still feels like we're in a drake era. I don't think we're in a drake era I don't think we've been in a drake era for the past three years And that's why I want to ask like y'all said earlier like the list you uh way No, I think you said like not shouldn't even be on there It's like are we going to get to the point where like the drakes to make the cove They shouldn't even be on there and we focus on you know the new class the little babies the um low dirks Like you saying I think I I think now is just a little bit harder for like the like before I feel like The radio is we're really complimented young up-and-coming artists. So it's like, you know now I feel like Once a artist gets to a certain place. They don't kind of put like NBA young boys should be on the radio I mean NBA young His shit and I'm talking about like his shit should be in rotation. You know, I mean like his shit should be in rotation like I mean little baby He has like, I mean he's reached a new peak. You know, I think that These artists have forced radio to jump into what they're doing and by the time radio gets this kind of late That's why like DSPs is such a big thing. The kids are not the kids is dictating what they want to hear I mean the DSP still kind of dictate with the playlist But like the kids can go say nah, I'm not listening that I'm gonna put this on like for me I grew up. I had to wait So like I had to wait all day to hear some of my favorite songs listening to the radio Now kids could just say this is what I want to hear at that time And I feel like the radio needs to follow a little bit with the DSPs do because that's how you Not a little bit not a little bit a lot. Yeah, I mean every week every week new song should be put in the rotation That's the fact every like literally every week. That's the fact probably every Said there's so much new music to come out and then music get hot on different platforms now Like a song could be viral on tiktok a song could be viral on twitter a song could be viral on instagram Then you got was actually hot in the club Then you got by regions like was hot in chicago was hot in atlanta It's it's so much it's so many pockets that it'll be hard do that So I think we would just have to figure out how to I don't know So nala it should be easier than ever nowadays the reason it should be easier than ever is because we have actual numbers Right, you have analytics. You can look at a record and say oh, shit. This shit is getting listened to in 82 countries Like kids ain't in the car listening to Kids those kids who like that stuff on tiktok. They're not driving. They're not listening to the radio Well, well, I mean not that they listen in the radio, but I think that like Like here's the thing in business kids things is hot. You really want to hear baby shark? Like that shit No, but but but see that's one aspect of it. I think that like For kids not kids dictate what where business is geared to like the kids Always dictate with the next thing to come and I feel like you know In in seats in radio and even I'm I'm in the music industry in executive seats There needs to be a more transparency with younger people You know I'm saying like when I look at when I when I look back and I see like how Irv Goddy when he had murder ink or dame dash when he had rocker fella or dny when they had rock when they had rough riders They were young guys in the game I I feel like there's not enough There's not enough people champion or they people feel like you got to reach this certain level For them to not get out they see but put you in a seat under them There's too much like there's not enough mentorship. There's not enough bringing up You know, I mean like for me, I'm about to be 38 years old next week and I've in my career, but I've always had people who've brung me up like I know charlemagne shit 10 years now like he brought me up before we there was a brilliant idiots I did a year and wrap up on power 105 with him and I was a young I didn't know shit about media He just like yo come do this with me 10 years later. I'm a person of media So if I don't get that experience at that when I'm 28, I might not be in a seat. I'm at 38 You know I'm saying so I think it needs to be just a little bit more, you know While while I climb the climb the ladder I'm bringing so my question I guess would be like where were they where were the as they bringing us up Because it's only so much room. Where are they gonna go? No, it's mad. It's wild bread. It's why niggas don't want to come up off that bread. It's mad bread. Like You gotta start making well my focus charlemakers. I got some I want to add to that I just want to I just think like, you know, there's all of these seats, right? Or all of these positions that were made 50 years ago and it's still the same seats and it's still you gotta start making new positions You gotta start coming up with shit because Nyla You're I met you coming up going to the radio station, right? I knew that you DJ But not only are you DJ you care at your own playlist. You know I'm saying like you do interviews Are you just a dj? No, you're not just a dj. You know I'm saying like for me I do media, but I'm also a music executive at a at a major label There's not one name for that. Like it's just to now we gotta start coming up with new shit We gotta start coming up with new shit Yeah, breakfast up not going nowhere. Angie not going nowhere. Chloe not going nowhere. All right, let me think Nobody's using their instagram. Hey, uh, do you mind if I every wednesday I do an interview on your instagram live? Okay, cool And that's that's how I got on so definitely gotta create your own job, but I As far as like I think what you're saying about the mentorship thing is right I think I've been blessing it because I got people like charlotte like angie like thea But a lot of people don't even have that access to even get to the door Yeah, I mean it's so I mean everything y'all saying is absolutely correct right because I'm a person that believes um There are no gatekeepers anymore because there are no gates, right? But there are still gatekeepers You know what I mean? But the problem with the gatekeepers is The gatekeepers aren't letting the right people in because the gatekeepers don't even know what the qualifications are to be inside You know what I'm saying the gatekeepers are still using old blueprints and they're still using old metrics So when these new people come in that should absolutely be on the inside and absolutely be the new gatekeeper standing there right alongside of you You're still looking down on them because of your old perception Yes, yes, but then there's also a lot of new gatekeepers that ain't even valid in any way Just out here But how do you get valid now like you don't get valid till you get the experience What makes you valid like I like I'm the type of person I validate every I I feel like everybody's opinion is valid If it's a good opinion like I'm just listening to what somebody says when I hear way no way no Way no is just as sharp Now as he was 10 years ago when I heard him a shit change That's why I'm like, yo damn way no, let's go. Let's go talk shop. Let's go talk shop right about this You know what I mean? So it's just like you have to hear people like What validates you other than having strong opinions? Well, I think you know another thing is is like For me being in a space I'm in and in space that you're in is being able to see shit and people that they might not see in themselves You know, um, like I I feel like That's another thing when it comes to this generation This generation is the I ain't doing it. If I ain't getting paid. I'm not pulling up I'm not doing that shit. I don't need this job I could go do something else and the thing is I feel like there's this People want to skip the grind too much. I feel like it's too many people that really want to skip the grind You know, I mean like the the grind I tweeted this one day I said like you can't you can't skip the skip the grind If you if you do eventually you have to start over and so many people took the wrong thing from it Oh, it's nothing wrong with starting over. I'm not saying it's nothing wrong with starting over I'm saying that like if you try to skip the grind and you think you're gonna go into this space You're eventually gonna have to go through the process of what it takes to get in that space Now, I also don't think that getting into these spaces should be as difficult as it is I feel like, you know, a lot of people got to get over their egos and try to not hold people in a certain space to say Well, oh nila. I mean, yeah, you've been doing this shit for two years, but I it took me 10 So you're gonna it's gonna have to take you 10 for me No, if you're good and you and and you're like try let me say if you're sharp and you understand You should have a seat When it comes to the whole valid thing valid isn't saying like having an opinion just having a strong opinion makes you valid But everybody everybody has a strong opinion on twitter. Everybody has a stronger opinion on Everybody is saying something and everybody so they shit is strong. So that's why it's like Valid to me. It's just actually knowing your shit. You know what I mean so many people are I just based off All types of other just extra things when really at the core of it, you know, it's about the music Right Yes, if you hear somebody and you can tell that person knows what they're talking about To me that's that person's opinion is valid. I get nila's absolutely right. Everybody got a strong opinion That don't make it valid But if you absolutely know what you're talking about and even if I don't agree with you But but your pov is sharp and it's informed and you're standing on what you're saying and it's making me think I'm like Like that shit cake. That's why I just No, everybody, you know, everybody is immediate. You know everybody That was the gift in the curse of me ending up on a platform because it was like when I got there I never viewed myself as being there But like everybody felt like I was in like a lot of people that I've been doing doing this shit for years Felt like I was invalid and I didn't deserve to be in a certain position but like They'll come up with the most outrageous Reasons why they should be in the seat and I just think that like getting in the certain spaces It's a it's of course has something to do with being valid But also how you position yourself a lot of people don't think about that like positioning yourself You know, I mean if you if you're able to get in the rooms Getting around the right people and and presenting something that's another thing Everybody a lot of people want to do shit, but don't got nothing to present They just feel like yo, I got an opinion. You know, I mean like you should have me on there. All right, like Right Well, that's what that's all fault though. That's all fault because we make this shit look easy You know what I'm saying and people are like you talk about the process That's why shameless plug my first book black privilege I got a chapter called put the weed in the bag Because it goes back to belly when them two kids were sitting there with Nas and DMX They was like we want to go out there and get money and X was like no Motherfucker put the weed in the bag first people always want to skip the process But they don't know way no used to manage artists They don't know way no used to intern at Rockefeller You know I'm saying they don't know Nila used to intern at power 105 They don't know Nila used to be Angie's assistant. They think that y'all just came out of nowhere And now y'all got these positions and y'all get the motherfucking talk and you know people care about what y'all say No y'all earn that Y'all earn that by the work y'all was putting in and and also the way no to your point with about ego man. Yes There is so many people who have been sitting in these seats for so long Whose ego simply won't allow them to say I don't know I salute my man Sean Peckers all the time man And the reason I salute Sean Peckers because Sean Peckers said something years ago when he left Def jam and that shit still rings true to me to this day Sean Peckers said They were all in the conference room and they were debating about What logic was going to do on his first week logic's first out And everybody had these mad low numbers like Oh, he's gonna do 10,000 15,000 whatever whatever he said when logic came back and did I don't know a couple hundred thousand the first week. He was like it's time for me to step away Because I just don't know how to age this shit And that to me was I salute him on that. I don't I don't I don't necessarily know I don't necessarily think he should have walked away because he has such expertise But that's when you bring in the people around you and as y'all said create positions for them Right to keep you sharp Absolutely simple as that simple as that like I don't I don't I wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily say he should have walked away But just the fact that he had the way with all because so many people can't be honest with themselves about that Shit, well and just simply say man. I don't fucking know well I mean his walk away was irregular that nigga walked away into rock nation sports and Started bringing in Lonzo balls and Lamello balls and all these other people So he You know, it might have been best for him to walk away in the pivot and the sports, but I definitely get what you're saying That's all i'm saying is this like yo, you got to let go of your ego and just know when you don't know anymore And I think it's so many people in these positions of power in various industries radio The record industry they just don't know and they're afraid to say they don't know Yeah And because that shit is different Yo, it's different when you got to go through your regular midlife crisis as a human And you got to go through a midlife crisis in this motherfucking industry, you know what I mean like that shit will drop That shit will make you fucking go crazy But you know, I think the the way people stop knowing is because they get away from younger younger people That that's the thing is like what I was yo when I was at Rockefeller I was the young kid that like I could remember any I could remember them that any and everybody's verse So people be like, yo, who said this or who used this beat for that? So they kept me around for shit and I feel like when I was younger I kept the older guys young like they they was in to the new slang now shit me My son be saying shit. I'll be like, what the fuck are you talking about? Like, you know, I mean like certain certain slang of words But I stay around like younger people just to learn But I think the biggest problem is that People in my age are older or even a little bit younger than me feel like once you reach a certain place You can't no longer young learn from the youth. I think the youth I mean, man, fucking who said it? I believe the children of future teach them well and let them lead the way like that's a real ass Wouldn't you use the niggas? How you mean who said it? I could think I could think too fast, but would he used to say that? But now that's some real shit though if you if I'm gonna defer to nyla to learn about What's going on because she's at the shit that I ain't at as far as music I'm saying and it might be some knowledge I might have up here But if you if if we start sharing then we good But if I'm like if I if I have this ego where I'm like, no, I can't talk man This motherfucker 20 some years or what the fuck do they know? You know saying I feel like that's the game The game is full the game when it comes to the money and the positions is full of a bunch of people sitting And see it's like these young niggas don't know nothing until they do and then all you try to do is Hire them so that you can control And that's why the young niggas don't respect exactly. That's why that's why that's why that's why you know You're your source of anxiety as an older person The reason you feel inadequate is because you know you've been shitting on these young people You know, they don't respect you know, you don't respect them So now that they giving you back what you put out you feel all insecure and shit No, motherfucker. You should have embraced them from the start. I was telling knowledge the other day I love music. I love hip-hop, but I can't keep up with all this shit It's impossible. I'm a fucking husband. I got three kids. I got companies to run I got all types of shit going on personally and professionally. I can't keep up with it So how do I cut through the noise? Nila What's hot? What should I be listening to? Right? You know what I mean? Well, you know what you fucking with right all right If it's people that I respect if I see them post some shit, I'ma go listen, right? 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So go check that out I like to see andrew doing exactly what I thought he was going to do which is piss people off So so salute to him on that and everybody Go out there in pre-order to mika mallory's state of emergency Her book will be out um may 11th 2021 but it's available for pre-order Right now wherever you buy books amazon barns and nobles go support our good sister It made me think about what um y'all were saying earlier about the artists Who were on who are supposed who y'all thought was supposed to be on the front lines this year? They weren't But people like to mika mallory was because she's always been through out her whole life. But it's like She's become A star now You know me she's getting mentioned in beyond state records and all of these different artists want to put her On her albums. I think she was on ti's album this year and gz's album. So it's just like, you know Salute to salute to mika for doing the work I don't need kendrick lamar to be on the front lines when we have people who actually Do that work and people who actually do that work. I think they should be rewarded just like the fucking rappers You know what I mean? They should be celebrated just like definitely get her flowers in the world is there? She's definitely um Music penetrates differently. That's all I'm saying but we do need those voices to represent us and speak Absolutely, right now. I want to talk to y'all about what everybody thought was going to happen on. Um Again Listen, I love black people You know what I'm saying? I love us and I love that we're so optimistic and I love that You know, we're always looking for ways to get out of bad situations Have things gotten so bad for black people that now we're hoping for superpowers No, it's been that bad. It's been that bad You know, we always we always wish you know the fucking star Fake look forward to honestly No, it's like no remember in like 2012 in like may I remember people were saying that the world was gonna And it was all these people that was doing all this shit like yo the rapture's coming I just wish that Like because you the thing about it is that When shit like that happens we become a part of the conversation and we will make that conversation go Right that conversation that conversation will go and we train trend. We can do whatever with it I just wish that we could we would do it for other shit You know what I'm saying? Just just for other shit Do it for shit that actually matters, right? I'm not at first. I was looking at I'm like, okay That's a funny joke. You know the great uh the great conjunction is happening. Whatever whatever I get it You know, I mean, but then I'm starting to look like Wait a minute, man. His mother fuckers really looking forward to this shit. You know what I mean? We got to stop doing this to people that shit is traumatizing. Do you know how traumatizing shit like christmas is for poor people? That's what we did with this superpower. Shit. My fuckers was really looking forward to this shit That's all it Not man. I'm telling you Can I say something about it? Oh I why couldn't it be looked at as another type of power like why does it have to be about getting Invisible and or something like that like why couldn't be like embracing your Like new mental health or I don't know like why can't I? Because it wasn't rooted in that it wasn't rooted I couldn't change it that way because of superpower I'm gonna just have a positive mindset that day that I know the universe is on my side like Yeah, like no, listen, that's that's a consolation prize. He was just He's gonna say like, oh, I ain't get it. So let me feel better about it. I feel like the thing is I see some shit that that nle chopper said and all out for your all I wrote in Say cheese comments was where does he get his information from and people what you fucking idiot? It's in all of the books. It's in the bible. It's down to third And I'm like, yo dawg I think that people got to start interpreting things as more metaphorical than literal Because if we believe everything that was literal, then we would be already be living in a superhero world Based on the shit that people said years ago I just think a lot of people had great imaginations and we're good at writing and and making some shit up to say This is how you interpret it Don't take this shit as literal because every time something like this happens people out there like damn I really it's people that really thought they was going to superpower. Yes The knowledge point you don't need Jupiter to to twerk on Saturn or whatever the fuck it was in order to feel like you can change your mindset No, you're right. I'm just saying like you could just twist it around for december 21st. That's all I don't really think anybody was out there really looking for some powers, but I know they were they were They were Niggas is looking for anything if we if people is out here looking for Kendrick Lamar to be Martin Luther King You damn sure Believe that they're looking for superpowers, bro I bet you if I search right now, I bet you if we do a quick google search We will find somebody who actually died trying to jump off a roof thinking that they could fucking fly on december 21st That's a fact guaranteed. That's a fact. Listen. All I'm simply saying is you don't need um Things like the great conjunction To believe that you have some extraordinary Ability to change your circumstance. I promise you you can change your circumstance with just your thoughts We ain't even tapped into our regular human powers yet our god-given powers, but y'all looking for superpowers Yeah, we don't fuck off. What's the portion of our brain that's not used? We got the like a lot a lot here pretty That's not used right? It's like what's the percentage? It's a crazy percentage That you be like damn if I can figure out how to use all of that Yeah, I want to say it's 75, but I'm not sure I know it's something crazy that you think like damn. We don't use that much of our brain like Yeah, I don't know how much it is But all I'm simply saying is we can uh tap into our own Abilities and I want everybody to feel like that going into 2021 I don't I don't want nobody to feel disappointed because they didn't get so-called superpowers on december 21st You already powered the fuck up. All right, all you got to do is start making better choices You start making better choices in your life. You will access all the goddamn superpowers you know Environment plays a key in how you feel and feeling empowered So if you're around a lot of shit that doesn't make you feel empowered People ain't gonna believe that they have those same superpowers Well, let me give you a superpower If you can't change the way If you can't change, um, your circumstances change the way you look at them. You know, I mean change your perspective on them Ain't no ain't none of us from great situations Way no grew up in the hood in Harlem I grew up on a dirt road in monks on the South Carolina in a single wide trailer The only thing that allowed me to even dream The my my current reality is simply my mindset And that's that's the ultimate thing you can plan in a person Fuck telling them they're gonna get superpowers on the December 21st Plant that seed in them to tell them like yo, you can transcend this circumstance That's the fact but a lot of people don't even want like that's the difficult thing It's trying to plant the seed in people who don't have the right soil You know me like It's it's a lot of it's a lot of times because I have this conversation with a lot of like like I'm out the hub, but I'm not far removed So it's like a lot of different people come to me for advice and certain shit and you be telling the person Shit and they could tell you they circumstances whatever the case may be and you can give them Like the guidelines are certain shit and at the end of the day a lot of niggas just want you to just give them a book bag full of money You know, I mean like that they they they want you to just hit the lotto for them and Trying to change somebody's mindset Is a very difficult task. Yeah, it's a it's a very very difficult task But I promise you when you change the when you change the way you look at things the things you look at will change I promise you that you know what I mean like I promise you like I love being From where I'm from because being where I'm from Put things inside of me that made me be able to see the world from a different from a different view than others You know what I'm saying sometimes when you see the world only through the lens of privilege Are you see the world? You know only through a lens of of riches and finance You miss all of the other little small details that really make this shit go You know what I mean like When you come from where we come from like you focus a lot on more of the the the micro in the macro You know what I mean? Absolutely. So so so that's that's that's all I would encourage people to do man Because I don't want nobody to be disappointed as so many kids are going to be uh tomorrow when Christmas comes You know what I mean? I think telling motherfuckers that Santa Claus is real is criminal And I think people should be arrested For lying The generations of kids about Santa Claus Yeah, I told I told my daughter like my youngest daughter's eight and I told it to my son of my daughter too I was like, you listen, I don't want you all to think that there's white people out here giving you free shit You know because that that that's the whole concept of of Christmas is like You know, I remember when I found out it wasn't no Santa Claus I was fucking hurt because my mom would she would leave the what I first of all I didn't have a chimney So, you know all the alvin and the chipmunk shit you watching you thinking I just about my my mom is like he climbed up the fire escape That's what I'm always saying like he climbed up the fire escape She would bite the cookie. I mean she would go all out and then as I got older like as I got older I'm just like, yo, I don't want my kids believing that it's this white nigga coming to the hood That's given giving you shit just for Performing well because you could perform well for a lot and shit is not going to go your way And I feel like some kind of med my for good Now I was about to say subconsciously not that you're going to believe in Santa Claus But you start to take on some of them traits when you're growing up thinking that Just because you're doing what you're supposed to do that things will always just be fair and that's not the case And you imagine what that does to your fucking self-esteem You a little kid and they tell you all you got to do is make this list You know I'm saying you're going to get everything you want on Christmas What if the shit that you really want ain't even about no toys? Because you just want your parents to be able to pay the rent You you didn't been a victim two three times as a child You just want your parents to be able to pay the motherfucker rent So you writing out this list you turn it into Santa Claus and then somebody tells you oh Well, you didn't get what you want because you weren't nice You didn't you imagine what that does to your self-esteem Yo, I like Yo, I never believed in Santa so I don't really know And my mom told me that it was Santa but then it would be like her handwriting on on the present So I just was Pickering up everything so I never really believed in it one and then two I don't think it's something that I would pass down because if I'm spinning my heart or I'm running on it You won't know who really loved you this week. I paid for it. That's what I was like The thing that killed me what Christmas was It was like this is after I found out because I don't I don't celebrate Christmas due to my religion But besides that it was like it was one time. I was around like 14 years old my mom We had like we had moved out the the projects. I mean not the project We moved out the shelter into a building and you know, we this finally our first home We had went through three shelters in a year this that a third and I came in the room And my mom was crying and I'm like, yo, why would you cry for and she was like She said after I paid all the bills I can't do nothing for you and your sister for Christmas that shit Let me up just first to see my mom in pain Secondly for her to be upset that she can't buy me something on this fucking fake ass holiday You know, I mean, I just was like I was I was so hurt about it It made it left a bad taste for me. What what what Christmas and I just was like, you know I don't knock people who do that Did that lead you to selling crack? No, no, listen, man, I don't talk about those drugs and that of that I ain't they leave me to selling crack, but no it what it did to me to stick it up anybody No, it didn't what it did make me feel low It did put a fire under me that made me want to change my mother's circumstances one day You know what I'm saying because I I watched my mom like my mom was like Into design and shit and it's like I watched my mom make dresses She took me to a fashion show one time and I asked I'm like, yo, why did you stop doing that? And she was like because I had to take care of you and your sister So I'm like how fucking sad is that to give up on your dreams because you have kids because I didn't give up On my dreams because I had kids You know, I mean like I just pushed forward towards minds and fortunately enough like it's a A high risk a higher reward that I'm able to monetize the things that I planned on doing but like I thought it was so sad that my mom kind of gave up on herself in a sense So that she could take me and my my sister so all of that Whenever she couldn't do for us. I just was like I it didn't matter to me. What matter is that we just was family Yeah, that's the loot that's the loot your mother for keeping it keeping it 100 man Because that whole reason for the season stuff. That's bullshit. Yeah Don't let nobody tell you that Christmas ain't lit. Christmas is only lit when you're rich All right, Christmas is lit when you go Christmas is lit when you can afford to do all of the things that come with Christmas when you got the big ass Christmas trees And you can decorate your house and you can afford to buy people whatever the fuck they want to buy for Christmas Don't let nobody tell you different. I grew up Jehovah Witness. So I never celebrated Christmas and we was poor It was already poor. So I never felt the poorness aspect of it only because I just knew we were Jehovah witnesses So I never was tripping, you know what I'm saying only time I ever got mad about it was fourth grade when Miss Freeman who was a devil to this day? I don't know why I need to find out what happened to miss Freeman because I've been thinking about her a lot lately She motherfucking got mad at me because I said in class that Santa Claus isn't real And then she said you just feel like that because you're a Jehovah's Witness and just because y'all don't celebrate Christmas Don't try to bring down everybody else's joy That's what made me feel like well damn Fuck to kick them all in you know what I mean But the moral of the story is That reason for the season stuff. No Jesus don't even care about Christmas because y'all don't really care about Jesus on Christmas When have y'all mentioned have y'all mentioned Jesus at all this week? Let me tell you it's so funny Well, I got so many questions again. It's so funny, right? Just speaking about Jesus We all everybody believes that Jesus is black, but have you ever met a black person named Jesus before? I've never met a black person named Jesus in my entire life not once or white Jesus I've never met a white man Latino or black. That's what I'm saying. The only person I've ever been But beyond that I was gonna say yo Where Christmas comes Ari and fucking money bag. Yo Jada little baby Quavo and sweetie gonna have all a lot of people in they feelings because a lot of people gonna be thinking that that's how they should Should be not knowing that these niggas is rich beyond belief Quavo got sweetie a bitly I saw I saw that this morning and then yesterday I saw quavo got himself a made-back truck Then the other day I saw sweetie buy herself a private jet. Oh, yeah That's mary motherfucking Christmas All that shit If a motherfucker gotta tell you to amen It's not about that. It's about the reason for the season They need to keep it real what you like when old mom did and just tell you straight up like look We just can't afford to do it. Yeah, listen, you just gonna do it. That's just the truth That's just the fucking truth to the better. Um I think that's it unless it is there's anything else y'all want to discuss Not really we talked about today y'all taking the vaccine I gotta know a few niggas that get it I got those niggas that get it and watch them over six months before I do it. I don't know I can't I can't just jump into the fire yet, man, because I never took no bag I don't I never took no flu shot and none of that in my life Not saying that All right Yeah, I got the chickenpox when I was a kid. You only get that once though But it's like when it's not one white my full guy every white doctor I know every white doctor I know since september has told me don't take the covid-19 I promise you Because I feel like this is conspiracy theory I promise you I tell no they didn't say don't take it They just said just don't take it until like next summer or something Don't take the one that comes out in the fall and the one that gets made available to the public in march April they was telling like when I first got my first covid test when we came back in the city Um when to because we had to go into the studio that day when I announced the black effect Like we had to do a covid test and the guy that gave me the covid test He was a doctor. He was like don't When if the vaccine comes out this fall don't even think about messing with it till next summer I was about to say this is like the first batch of playstation files like they don't buy the first batch because they got bugs in I worked the bug out last friday I'm not gonna say the doctor's name because this is one of my doctors and I don't know if I'm even supposed to be revealing This she she she shaves my corns right because I got a corn on my right pinky toe And so like every six months I got to go get a shot in it and get a shaved off because I don't want to have the surgery Not for a corn I just try to go get a shave So I wouldn't got a shave last week and she said the same thing. She said she said lennard You're not going to get that vaccine. Are you I said, well, no, it's not available to like marcher ever She said no no no don't even get it then she said wait till the summer wait till next fall She said they called me but she's a doctor She's like they called me to come get it and I told them now i'm gonna wait So i'm listening to the white doctors. Did you see that lady that took it and passed out? I did and they and they said that wasn't because of the vaccine the hell it wasn't I don't know Then I was I was I was reading about that they were saying like that's one of the side effects of some vaccines vaccines Do do that to people at times. I'm like, I've never heard that in my life. I've never heard somebody say they took a vaccine and they fainted Say what I don't know man. He might that I don't know man, did he We don't know oh, I saw this you saw this what it was like the vaccine was the syringe was empty Yeah, it's just like but you know what that you know, I said they buy didn't take it Because remember that shit when when obama was in flint and he faked like he sipped the water Did you see that? Oh, that was yeah Yeah, I remember that exactly like I don't know man. I don't trust any of these niggas man I need to see somebody I know That take the shit and they don't grow an extra arm or something The way I look at it is like this Um, they said they need 70% of the population to take it in order for you know it to be effective It's more than enough white 70% is more than enough white people Go ahead knock yourself out white folk go out there take it Tell us how it is We'll be over here fine doing our dr. Sebi stuff wearing our mask washing our hands making sure our immune system is strong Go out there and do your thing. I agree. That's what I said I'll see a left border thriving just fine. That's what it looked like to me. Nila. You just left there, right? Yeah You're still in the land a few times Nask out there. I had a mask. They like you don't need that. I'm like going to stay. I'm like, oh, I don't okay I'm going around. No fine regular life They just they was taking you're taking your um the your temperature, right? I want to a few places in the land and they like to sit down to eat. They just take your temperature That was it. I would still wear my mask or not. I hope you still was wearing your mask I did wear my mask Yeah, yeah, yeah, no you didn't But you gotta you gotta look at it like sex you wouldn't just take a nigga's word if he's like y'all I'm clean You know what I mean? No, nobody had a mask on nobody anywhere Except for like certain stories in a mall like in linux. They was like, can you put it up? So it'd be like, all right, but like walking around nobody had a mask on and You want to what linux? Yeah, I went to linux and I'm gonna get shot to the shooting range Yeah, it's my everything I'm like Nala, you know, it's so crazy about linux though when you was walking through there, right? Because every time I go there I'll be in there by myself. It's mad police a lot It's a lot of police everybody told they told me that the violence is happening in those malls because a lot of the Other malls stores got shut down So therefore everybody Is coming to those two malls in Atlanta like, you know, it never it never used to be like that There was a mall where certain people used to go to And now that those stores are closed everybody has to come to these two particular malls I think it's linux and I forgot the other one, but they said that's what's causing like a lot of the problems But it was jam packed and the lines was dumb. Yo, louis had the line like down Yeah, the louis line be crazy I don't get it That's the only thing I like about this you got to get on the line to go to fucking champ sports Like who wants to do that? I don't want to go nowhere if I don't got to Shit, I don't I ain't been in the mall in years and I don't plan to because I don't spend my money on silly shit like that What's I get mad free shit? So it's like whatever So for the new year, you know, or for Christmas You know, I would like a gift and the gift that I'm asking is for I want a good finance book A good finance like financial literacy Um, a good finance book rich dad poured that not that one. I read it. Oh, you read that already. Um, the color of law the color of law is good You ever read the color of law? I'm putting my notes The color of law is good. Um Well, you know what the color of law is good, but it's more so about how the government segregated america But it does leak into the financial aspect. I'll send you some stuff. Okay, cool I think so, you know, listen, way, no, thank you. Nila appreciate you. Thank you Y'all got anything y'all got anything y'all want to plug That means It's the holidays y'all don't have nothing to do I'll be on air christmas day at power one five one make sure y'all tune in because you know, I'm doing a special, um You know podcast dropping more podcast dropping in january. So stay tuned for that on instagram at Nila Simone Keep you updated Well, you know, you don't want to tell us about your moves your next moves even though I don't know why everybody act like, you know, every day struggle was your bread and butter Right. Absolutely positive It was doing so much more every day struggle like yes. Yeah, I ain't just start getting money That's what people the people that's a lot of people's misconceptions. Oh, you that's when you started now. Um Nah, man, I I want to plug some stuff, but I ain't the ink ain't dry yet, man. I ain't Don't worry about it. Just say just say stay tuned 2021 No, but I don't want to give expectations out. That's what you said We don't know how this shit is gonna go Shit the ill what's your day? You're you're an a&r your day job You know a&r the silo, you know, I'm gonna be uh jumping a little bit back. Have you on the management side? I got some new clients. I got this kid. I'm about this song. I'm not Oh, yeah, what side of baby, you know, we gonna we drop inside a baby album next year, you know, um But yeah, I'm just staying busy, man Well, I'm chilling for the rest of the year because this has been a very exhausting year For me and my family. So I'm just gonna take the the next couple days to just chill out You know reflect and decompress and just chill out and and and appreciate life But um, yeah 2021 Hope all goes well because unless the aliens land on the first, you know, I mean like At this point, that's the only thing that could that could happen I'd be surprised about is the aliens land in the middle of Times Square We need that we do we definitely do Hey, the earth need that humbling. I'm all for that. Like I think that we have this once again We have this expectation that the aliens are gonna be Angry or evil or bad like no, they just might be here to be like y'all been fucking this shit up, man Let me show y'all how to get this shit Shit, let me show y'all how to finish your planet. Listen, they might come with a new stimulus chuck You know what I'm saying? Your niggas right for real like this I mean, let me teach y'all how to get this climate change thing right y'all y'all still beefing over skin color looking different like they might Hit something on a watching and change every skin color to like I could do this shit all day All day Word up Word up. Nyla Wayno appreciate y'all as always if you think uh, we're smart you think we're intelligent You think we're brilliant. You're absolutely right. If you think we're just a couple idiots We don't know shit. You're right too. It's the brilliant idiots podcast. Thank you for listening