 Young Jeezy has just filed for divorce from TV show host Jeanie Mai after just two years of marriage. Now this is going viral on the internet right now, although this is very celeb gossipy news, why are we talking about it? Yeah, I mean I think that we have to cover anything that's culturally significant. This did end up on TMZ, how many Asian Americans get posted on TMZ realistically, although it was under the hip hop tab. And I have not seen a lot of Asian publications even digitally post about this. To be honest, it's been mostly on black or hip hop celeb news websites as well as TMZ. So we got to talk about it. We're talking about spiritual word, academics, hood ratchet TV, baller alert. Yeah, and we know Jeanie Mai, so let's break it down. All right everybody, please hit that like button right now. Check out other episodes of the hot pop boys. Yeah, I would say that we've known Jeanie Mai for like 12 years. Andrew definitely not even close to like a five out of 10 friend, three out of 10 friend, two out of 10. I would say we're very friendly. Every time we've seen her and she remembers us, she's been very, very cool, very helpful in her own way. And we actually filmed a couple of things with her on like an epic meal time thing a long time ago. And then you did an interview with her years ago. So she's been cool. So that's why I have nothing bad to say about Jeanie Mai. And obviously she is part of the Asian American community. Although I would put her more on like the ambassador role, where she more kind of operates in the non-Asian world representing Asians. Yeah. And specifically, I think it's unique because Jeanie Mai is almost more in African American or urban spaces more so than like being an Asian in the white world. Right, exactly. Yeah. Which is, which we got to acknowledge that's rare. Yeah. And I do want to acknowledge she is from San Jose, California guys. She's, she's really Asian. Yeah. She's Asian. So I thought it was interesting because like different websites are posting this at different levels. Like we said, white websites that are primarily focused on blonde celebrity news, they're not posting it. TMZ, which is very generalized and really more based off SEO and just like hits in general. But a lot of black sites are posting it. That's where I got most of the comments from. Like I said, you know, if we covered this at a later date, there may be new developments. I would say that, you know, I'm really wishing the best for Jeanie and her daughter, Monaco. GZ, you know, I wouldn't say he's on my favorite rappers list, but I'm a big fan of his more like chilled, chilled out songs. You know, MJGZ17.5. I love it. More of the smoother tracks. Right, right. More of the inspirational soul samples like that. Do I think that Jeanie and let's be honest, because I'm not trying to like protect it just because we know her. Do I think that Jeanie Mai is ever dated an Asian dude? No, probably not. Probably not since she was like maybe in high school. Right. But I do know that she is outwardly supportive of the Asian community against, you know, supported stop Asian hate and stuff like that. So I guess how does the Asian community perceive her? Yeah, I mean, I don't to be honest, I don't see that many Asian people concerned with this celebrity gossip news. I think even if we're talking, I mean, maybe if we're talking more like, I guess Southeast Asians or even specifically Vietnamese women who really are familiar with Jeanie Mai and identify with Jeanie Mai because she is Vietnamese, then I think they're more talking about it. But if I had to say Asian America as a group in general, no. Hey, I don't think they're going to end up discussing it. No, I don't think they're going to discuss it at length. I mean, obviously there are sites that really love to go into celebrity gossip and why people are getting divorced. We don't know why people are getting divorced. It is said that young GZ did file for a divorce and 66% of divorces in America are usually filed by the wife. So whatever, I mean, people can speculate, but overall what I'm saying is that I think Asians, we are somewhat proud of Jeanie, but we don't, I don't think they're thinking about it that much. Is the last celebrity news that we covered similar to this was when Dana Tran had a child with Diddy? Yeah, Dana Tran from the 626, who is also a very nice girl. She has a Diddy's baby. Yeah, living in LA. So I guess like, is it a similar story to that? I don't know. Well, it's kind of like an Asian and it happens to be Southeast Asian crossing over into the hip hop, like urban black world, essentially. And then now it becomes like, it's news for everybody. 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However, well, divorce in general is not uncommon. But I will say this. There was kind of this expectation that since Jeannie Mai and young GZR, both in their 40s when they got married, it's almost like you thought that they would last longer. Statistically, people who wait to get married a long time or are on their second marriage, typically that is the one that works. Statistically, just based on that. And they had a beautiful child together. Unfortunately, they're getting divorced right after the child pretty much is born and like, what is it, like a year and a half old? Like, beautiful baby. But I guess it's kind of sad because you're like, I thought young GZR was on top of his thing. I thought Jeannie was on top of her thing. It seemed like when they got married, they were so happy. And then it only lasts two years. And then if they divorce after two years, that means maybe a year in, they're already thinking of divorce. Statistically speaking, seven years is the average length of a marriage. Yeah, there's a seven-year itch rule. Somebody said, damn, I thought he was going to be with her full life and spelled full, you know, spelled full life. Somebody said, this ish better not be because of Mario Lopez. Ooh, because there was like a clip that came out with like Mario Lopez like grabbing on Jeannie Mayer, a little too touchy on TV, doing a promo or whatever. I don't know, guys. Somebody said, man, this is why you shouldn't believe in social media love. You never know what's going on in people's life. Pictures and videos do not mean perfection. I never look at these celebrities as relationship goals because they're always pretending their relationships are great. They just look at it as like a PR campaign. How much of this is true? I do think that there's some pressure on celebrities to do this for a lot of reasons. First of all, anybody who's just been to a church or anything like that knows that people hide things, right? They try to make things look... Not everybody's like, oh my gosh, Christiane and Blueface, where they want the drama, right? Like some people want to clean it up for the society. This is saying that hello, goodbye fried rice, hello fried chicken. Obviously, this is a joke from the Dave Chappelle show. Yeah, I mean, David, do you think that celebrities do it sometimes to like give their career a boost? Maybe not solely for that. Maybe I'm sure Jeannie and Young GZ did like each other, maybe did love each other at a moment. And they thought, well, if we get married, Jeannie, you know, it'll be a cool thing. And even if we don't stay together forever, it'll make the news and still boost both of our brands. I would say this, by the way, guys, absolutely I have zero insight into this whatsoever. If you are two people planning on having a child, why not get married with a really strong prenup to make it a thing in the media? Because you're going to guarantee that it feels more valid. You know what I'm saying? It's almost like with an ironclad prenup, it's not really going to matter. Yeah, maybe they knew that she was going to have a baby so they kind of rushed the marriage and then realized, yeah, maybe we don't want to be together forever. Yeah, I just think nowadays, especially if you have a lot of resources, a lot of people want to co-parent and do a lot of things. Well, I'm not going to lie. How much money you have. Listen, I don't know who has more to gain out of this. I mean, I guess I suppose for the drama aspect, Jeannie Mai would have more to gain, but it seems like after being married for two and a half years and then getting divorced, then people are talking about everybody again. Is Young GZ dropping an album soon? I need to know, snowman. Somebody said he got tired of sushi. He wants soul food again. These are crazy comments, by the way, guys, not my words. Somebody said, yeah, we could finally get the real GZ back. Man, we about to get the snowman back. He finally saw the light. Welcome back, Bay. Let's be honest, Andrew, there's some comments saying that GZ was getting real, like trying to be real proper and like a gentleman when he was with Jeannie, but now he's going to make the street music that allowed him to rise the ladder. Guys, I'm not- But other people were like, what? You want him to go back to the streets? He's like 42. He's not 24 years old anymore. People are so ignorant. Yeah, I think it's stupid because, first of all, Young GZ hasn't really, to be honest, put out any amazing music in like seven years. So I'm saying it wasn't Jeannie that was holding them back. Right, I've seen it all. It was good, though. Yeah, I think he's just out of music anyways. Somebody said, long as the baby is good. Yeah, I mean- I mean, listen, the baby's going to be fine as far as like having all the things that that baby needs in life. But yeah, I mean, it is unfortunate that all these celebrity kids have to grow up in these households, but maybe the money makes hope for it. Somebody was saying, you know, I don't like how these celebrities normalize it for regular people when, let's be honest, in the background, the celebrities have a lot more help, a lot more money, and a lot more systems than a regular person has access to. But regular people, they don't really understand that when they're being influenced by it. Exactly, I think like, you know, I don't want to just put it on men, but men and women probably both look at how celebrities live their life and want to live their version of that. But let me tell you this, without the money in the systems, eh, your life ain't the same. It's not the same, guys. Yeah, Michael Blackson recently said that he goes, hey man, I'm telling you, poor dudes, they cannot do what I do. Guys, Nick Cannon, you can't be a broke dude doing that. Diddy, whatever, how many ever kids did he got, you can't be a broke dude doing that. Let's get to the interracial angle. Somebody said those cultural differences, whether it's cultural differences because Genie Ma wasn't gangster enough or it's because her Asian culture, he didn't want to take off his Tims when he walked in the house. She couldn't trap or die. She didn't put on for her city. She got, he got tired of the young GZ memes. How much of this was like, how much does the interracial element play into it? Because I noticed that some people really care about it and other people in the comments of these more, I guess, hip hop pages were like, come on, don't bring race into it, guys. Uh, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think that different people feel differently. I mean, obviously there's some comments being like, oh, you know, is GZ gonna get with a black woman next? He's gonna finally get with a black, or Genie's gonna finally get with an Asian dude. I know like some of our Asian guy friends were joking like, yo, is she gonna get with a via dude finally? I don't know. I mean, maybe, maybe not. It doesn't matter. I don't, I don't care at this point. Somebody saying we were all rooting for you guys and a lot of people are posting that Tyra Banks meme from her next top model show. No, like again, I'll say this. It looked like in a way it caught you off guard, the couple, but it also, you thought it made sense because both business-minded people build the empire together, a Jane Beyoncé type deal, you know, where Jane Beyoncé are still together, at least on paper. And yeah, I mean, that's what you would expect. Right, the power couple. The one-lasting power couple. People like to see that. Yeah, it wasn't like, it wasn't like a young, dumb couple. That's why you had hope. A lot of people, and these were, I guess, mostly black women were roasting Genie Mai for a quote that she had a long time ago saying black men on the side, white men as the main dish. She did say that, years ago. She was saying it kind of jokingly, but she did say it. And that didn't age well. Yeah, but honestly, I think she was expressing a sentiment that I wouldn't be surprised if a decent amount of women think that in their brain. If you made me guess, I don't know, guys. I'm completely on the outside analyzing this, right? Somebody said, it fills my heart with no joy that I have no idea either one of these people are. And this was from a white guy posting this on Hood Ratchet TV. And then other people came in and said, you uncultured AF. Oh, you a mayonnaise-colored person. Of course, you don't know about either of these people, Genie Mai or GZ. So this, Andrew, let's talk about this. This is the cultural fragmentation of Instagram. So this is going viral on Hood Ratchet TV. This is more urban news. It's under the hip hop tab on TMZ. A white guy comes in and says, I don't give an F about it. There's people I don't even know they exist. Does this speak to the fractured nature of the media market in 2023? Where it's like some people know 10 out of 10 about their relationship. Other people know zero out of 10 about who they even are. I mean, I even know some Asian people don't really know who Genie Mai is. No, some Asians I know know who Young GZ is for his music more than they know who Genie Mai is. Exactly. Because they don't keep up with TV hosts. Exactly. Somebody says, I don't care what nobody says. Can nobody love a black man like a black woman? And this, of course, like we guys said, the Instagram race wars of America, Andrew, this devolved into, not devolved, but I guess it turned into a lot of Latino women coming in that were married to black men saying, how can you say that's true? And it's back and forth, it's back and forth. And the last comment I'll end on is somebody saying, on me, man, why would you marry an Asian black, getting with Mexican? I can kind of understand because we've been neighbors for forever now, but other cultures are just so alien to me. I think it depends, man. To me, Genie was always like pretty down and like pretty urban. But yeah, GZ, we're talking about like the snowman. 3,000. No, that's true. Those snowman tees that everybody was wearing back in like 2004, that was because of him. Yeah, he wasn't talking about the snow on the Benyez. No, he wasn't talking about the snow out in Aspen. No, not the snowmen and out in Nebraska. I guess David, overall, I mean, this is celebrity gossip. Obviously, like, you know, you don't want to invest too much into celebrity relationships because you never know how long they're going to last. But a lot of people do, let's be honest, in 2023, there's a lot of people on the internet. I'm probably assuming that their jobs maybe not the most high-powered jobs on Earth that put a decent pie slice of their 24-hour ratio paying attention to celebrity news. All right, let's just play this out, man, because we don't know why they got divorced. But let's play this game. That if, what's the reaction of people if GZ, if it found out that GZ cheated, or what's the reaction if everybody found out that Genie cheated? Yeah, I do think it's going to be different. It's going to be kind of racial. Unfortunately, right? It's going to be like, oh, black man doing this. And then Genie cheats and is like, oh, see Genie said that thing back in the day about black man and blah. And then it's like... I don't know. To be honest, it's interesting because everybody's going to read into it, but nobody has any more information than like the next man. So everybody's going to speculate and you could be on the dot, you could be partially right, you could be partially wrong, or you could be completely utterly wrong, just speculating about something that you have no idea about. But to be honest, Andrew, you're talking about it. It's top of your mind, which ultimately when you're in celebrity, Andrew, that's one of the most important things that you, whether it's upside things that happen to you, downside things that you are in people's mind. And that leads to the branding and everything. I think like we said, the truth is, Andrew, like we said, rich people, they're going to have the money, the networks, the resources, the systems and the infrastructure to make sure that their daughter's life is amazing. And that's very different from a regular person. I don't think that regular people fully understand, Andrew, you can get $150 massage gun on Amazon. You can get the $600 massage gun, which is like the TheraGun Pro, which is the top prosumer, right? But there are $3,000 and $4,000 massage guns that professional massage people use that you can't even get through traditional consumer channels like Amazon or Best Buy. Wow, wow. Do you know what I'm saying? Like there's levels of things and access that people are not even aware of. So like people with a lot of money, they can like stabilize their life. Right, right, right. But I'm saying that the average person, I don't even know if they're aware of that. Maybe some more, some more. Yeah. And I think that just like people following celebrities, whether that's Elon Musk running around doing this acting crazy, acting like he wants to repopulate the earth. Nick Cannon said it, but he was motivated more by like history. Elon said it because he was more motivated by like saving human mankind. But your average person should not try to emulate this. No, no. It's not going to work. So anyway, guys, let us know what you think of this whole situation in the comment section below. Is it worth talking about? Is it something that you and your Asian friends are discussing? Or do you see this as being more discussed in non-Asian circles? Of course, I wish the best to Genie Mai, her daughter, Monaco, GZ as well. Until next time, we're the Hop Hop Boys. Keep it civil. We out. Peace.