 Ladies and gentlemen, this is the 80th land-based drippin', Mr. Vegan, and I'm here to serve, but let them tell you weed is bad and alcohol is good. Alcohol destroys livers, alcohol destroys families, weed cures epilepsy, weed cures cancer, you know what I mean? And it's different aspects to it, you know? I call myself a cannabis advocate, you know what I mean? Alcohol, I do like smoothies though. Got a smoother on there, show some love for Ray, ladies and gentlemen, with the beautiful smoothie one time. That man, health as well, you know what I mean? Eat healthy, be dope, run the city, paranoia, get in busted. Cause I know this weed mustin', and I'm smokin' like a baddest, I'll spuck all the repercussions, nigga. Got the brain cells buzzing, open up my pioneer gland, havin' some deep discussions. The bad vibes, I keep em runnin' cause this black tourmaline on my body say you can't touch me, nigga. Tunnel vision, high block of mine, I can't hear the shit that they talkin' about. Sense of media keep it in large amounts, windows down blowin' to fog it out when the hawk is out. Whichever way the breeze blowin', we finna have some trees goin'. Cause shit is crazy nowadays, roll one and watch the world go up in flames, baby, won't you smoke one with me? There's different strands and different type of levels to this cannabis, you know what I mean? You got the flour, you got the oil. I choose not to partake in, but I get down with the flour, you know what I mean? Let's go. Different levels, different strains, yeah. Dabs and wax, a different game. The oil's used so many ways, it's so healing, how they lot niggas up for so many days. They turn around and grow their feels on em. Implants, me curing, shipping years, homie. Epilepsy and cancer, this shit is real, they know the truth, it's all about extermination and dollar bills, homie. We gon' say that for another time, and I'm just tryin' roll another dime. A Norda plug until he on the line, I play the music so loud until it conducts a rhyme. See, I just wanna smoke, baby, I just wanna smoke, smoke, smoke, yeah. This shit is crazy nowadays, roll one and watch the world go up in flames, baby, won't you smoke one with me? Play and smoke one with me. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the 80 Vi. It's your boy Gray, cannabis advocate, and that's the 80 Vi service announcement. You did. It's the Smoke One produced by Remix God Sway. Now man, show some love for Remix God Sway. And uh, change your mind, open up your mind and expand your thoughts on the plant that we call cannabis. You do what I'm sayin'. Y'all have em off in this day, yeah, uh, won't you play Smoke One with me? It's the 19th, it's the best time to smoke right now, uh-huh, cause ain't nobody smokin' with me, baby. I'm too clean, that man can't have germs up on me. It's your boy Gray at Smoke One. We're gonna use a medley of frozen fruit, some pineapple chunks, some mixed berries, and some mangoes. We brought back SmuBee's The Right Way with a nice nutritional fruit medley. Make sure you stay tuned for more 80 Vi's. Yo, yo, you were now lookin' at two of the baddest niggas ever. Pussy real good. One more time. That pussy real good. One more time. Gobble, gobble like it's data time, at least a two-bed room. This is a message that I hope you're not messin'. He got the good coochies on, I'm tryin' to hit it. Coochie, coochie, coochie. Hey man, but it look like he got it down, man. Cold in the name? He is? He's way better. Where is he from? Man, he's from somewhere. Somewhere America or somewhere else? Man, he could be from anywhere, Jack, but I'm telling you, man, this cat is hot, man. Man, this cat right here is cold, though, man. Man, look at that cat, man, he's high. He's clearly high, man. What makes you think he's high, man? Man, look at his eyes, man. Man, I like the way you gotta do rag-tide, man. I don't. I'm telling you, man. Listen, cut zoo. Get on the ones and twos, man. I'm telling you, he's colder than this cat, man. Man, I don't believe it. You got to show me. Trust me, baby. I don't believe it. Cut zoo. Listen, man. Trust me on this one. Cut zoo. That don't even sound like nothing that's pleasurable, man. Cut zoo. That's exactly- I love the goddamn zoo. Why would I want to cut it? Listen, man, I'm telling you. That cat ain't no drummer, man. Man, that cat is whatever he wants to be, man. Listen, man. I ain't the type of person that has shit on anybody's dreams, man. But that cat ain't no drummer. Man, you can't say you ain't the cat to do that while you're doing it. Now, listen, man. That's why your mics are tangled up, because you're not listening. Man, listen. One thing I can always do is untangle any tangled situation, baby. You know me. Cut zoo. Get loose, baby. Show them what I'm talking about. All right. Well, my mind right there was just doing that. You got to show me something else. Nah, he can't do that, man. He was just doing it. All right, do something else, then. Told you, man, that cat ain't no drummer. Well, you was right. That cat plays drums. That cat's a drummer. All right, well, since you're a drummer, won't you play me something funky from the 70s? Oh, you want some 70s funk? I want something from the 70s. No, no, that's how I'm all like the 90s. Oh, you want it funky or the 90s? I want the 70s. All right. You mean something like that? What I'm going to do with it, I'm going to do what I always do and bring phone from me to you. Bring the phone from me to you. I said yesterday, hey, I went to the park even though the park was closed. OK. From the park, even though the park was closed, being stuck up in the, don't cook no food. And so I went to the park, even though the park was off it wasn't nobody, not even no home. I think it wasn't better than being stuck in a house than using Goddamn. Yes, indeed. The house and I was crumbling herb. Just crumbling herb. Now, what you saying? Sitting at the house while I was crumbling herb. OK. I'm just crumbling herb. Uh-huh. I'm about to roll up with joint and smoke it to the head. Even got a little weed on my leg. Oh, weed? Pick this shit up and roll it. That you gave me made me do a old school thing. My sweatpants and my shibbity-doo-bop-da-doo-bop-doo-bop. The shibbity-doo-bop-da-doo-bop-da-doo-bop-da-doo-bop. I didn't know you was going to get funky like that. Shout me out to Duane. You know what I want to say right here? What's that? What's that? Girl, shake that laughing taffy. On, shabba-dabba. Shabba-dabba. The laughing taffy. Shake the laughing taffy. Girl, shake the laughing taffy. The laughing taffy. The laughing shake. Shake the shake. The laughing taffy. The laughing taffy. Hey, I don't mean. Shabba-dabba. You know what? Oh, weed? Lookin' for this one. So hit her with my cheek. Go stick it in. Du-du-du-du-du-du. Okay. Do the took a dip. Shabba-dabba. Tweet-tweet-tweet-toot-oo. Shabba-dabba. Shabba-dabba. Hey, Abadabadou-ski. Shabba-dabba. Hey, Abadabadou-ski. Yeah, balcony, as I look beyond the streets, the people are waving at me, being what I wanted to be until I became what I am. Yes, indeed. For sight to have the mind to see beyond the clouds in the sun, the only one is the one that you have begun to become. But until you are him, then you will never be he because he is me and I am the one and only. Yeah, I understand. Now the perception of the black man has been perceived by the white man only to be misunderstood in the long run. And when I say the long run, I'm talking about the marathon, my mama's oldest son. I bet across that my father worn his back, true product of American soul. Ain't no Africa just black, leaving never coming back where I'm going. I ain't never been nowhere, but I still rise in the morning like God's son. Well, whatever it may be, from tight nappy hair to smooth waves, the black man did not emerge from a cave. The black man has spared the weight of a million worlds on his shoulders and yet he still gets over. You see, the black man has the struggle and has the will to win. So although they try to prevent him, he will always be number one to me and you. And see, they think they understand because they have one black friend. If you have one means you have enough to count. So that means you never had enough, just like me. I ain't never got to be an American citizen one day and my mother, hey. Well, you are aspiring to be something you should never aspire to be because an American citizen can never be me. I am of the world that the man has created to try to take away from me. But I am the creator. I am the motivator. I am the intimidator, which is why they don't want to see me fly. But yet I saw above. I am the one. I am the two, the three, the four, and the five. I am the reason why I am alive. My brother. You gonna stop bullshitting all the time too, man. You play too fucking much. We are in here, Los. We vibing. Man, them boys just went crazy, man. What's up, man? Just did his name. We got a homie Gray in the building. First of all, we got to say thank you for being part of the family for so long, man. You really dope at what you do. Man, y'all are amazing and inspiring, bro. You know what I mean? And I'm just honored to be here, man. Every time y'all call me up, I'm gonna hit it down. Well, look, let's do the interview part. Yeah, of course. You know, for the people who don't know. We got to sit here and act like well-known so we can ask you some good shit that the people who don't know will do. So tell us, how did you get started, bro? In music? Yeah, exactly. Man, I've been writing music since I was 13 and really, really did it professionally in 2010, you know what I mean? I got paid for my first open mic, like $75 or something, you know what I mean? It just kept going, bro. That's the game changer. Once they give you some money for some shit you would have did for free. If you did, you'd have went broke. That's it, man. Yeah. What was the spot that gave you your first money? It was actually in Baltimore. It was a spot called Five Seasons. Shot of the Five Seasons. Five Seasons. It was in Baltimore. Out here making stars, for real. And now it just kept going, bro. I worked the corporate job, but I kept rapping in the car every Friday. It was called Great Can Freestyle. You know, I just hit every open mic in the city, rapping, you know, every Friday. And one day I just rapped a song, I rapped a verse on a big Thanksgiving shit, and that just... Yeah, I mean, yeah. That's the one that took off right there. You go hard for the vegan, man. Tell them about the plant-based lifestyle. Man, I was never vegan, bro. That's the thing, man. I've never seen myself doing this. You would have told me how to be a vegan, advocate, or made a vegan Thanksgiving song, bro, to laugh, bro. It's just when my girl was like, we going vegan. I'm like, who the fuck is we? Like, you are vegan. Like, I support you. You know what I mean? But, bro, her first meal was chicken alfredo, and it wasn't no chicken. It was vegan chicken. Wow. It fucked with me. I'm like, I thought you was going to eat down grass. Football field, right? That thing. Well, I was like, see, if you're going to cook chicken every night, what's shit? I fucked with you. You know what I mean? I'm not mad. And that's what happened. She really turned into a chef overnight. She watched YouTube videos. She used me as a test dummy, dawg. And, bro, I felt amazing after like two weeks just cutting out meat. Like, I dropped 20 pounds in two months. My mind started getting clear. So I'm like, dawg, there's something to this, dawg, because the way we look at it, we look at it as some hippy white people shit. Like, I don't know what the fuck they doing over there singing Kumbaya, you know what I mean? Like, but- They hungry. You know, but one thing somebody couldn't tell me was how I felt. I felt the difference. So they can joke on me all different, bro. My blood pressure went all the way down, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? Just felt healthy. So I wanted to really find a way to promote that in like a cool way. Like, and people who would say I would never go vegan. You know what I mean? Like, don't even see that as a possibility. We never even had anything outside of canned vegetables and or knowledge of anything outside of that. But I was just feeling like amazing. So I was like, how can I get this out in a cool way? Because I know if I just say, man, drop your chicken. Drop your steak. Come follow me to the green side. Like, that's not going to fly. Because we whole food is culture, you know what I mean? So we love what we eat. And so to make it cool, that'll help. You know what I mean? The younger generation want to be a part of something cool. And I think it's cool to fucking, all y'all do is eat. Well, you know what I mean? It just affects your health. You know what I mean? So we think pills and medicine helps our health. No, bro. When you get sick, eat the right shit. Like, yeah. That's the game. Yeah. You giving them the game? Like, and then you start learning about the pharmaceutical business and how they target us with food in our communities, in black and brown communities, and in low income communities. Like, they spend advertising money on fast food services in these communities. And then, obviously, they do the red line of laws. We have no access to. The good stuff. Whole foods and Trader Joe's. You know, we got Pigley, Wigley. We got the damn windbixies, you know what I mean? So, but yeah. Play-based dribble rush is eat healthy, be dope, bro. Do whatever you was called here to do in your life, bro. Just put health first, bro, because you can gain the world, bro, and be down on the inside. Like, once you fix this, it's more than just physical. It's your mental. Hell yeah. Last thing they tell you, that's probably the first thing you feel when you start transitioning. It's like, bro, shit. It's like, birds are chirping. Like, I don't have this grudge no more. It's because what we take in is fucking with our mental. We ain't even making that connection. That's fucking crazy. That's crazy right there. I mean. So, where can people follow you? Where can they get ahold of everything that you're doing, man? Put your information out so people can, because you know you're an advocate, and haven't just sitting here looking to talk now. You got to do a tape or something. Right. You know what I mean? Like, just sitting here now has just intrigued me to be like, maybe I can't eat biscuits in gravy that's made out of biscuits. I don't know. I mean, it's just like it makes you feel like, I don't know. It's just, exactly. But it's just the newness of it. So, people need somebody to just be their motivation. It's like a train in a gym. If somebody can give you the option to be able to push you and get the knowledge. So, where can they get ahold of that, man? It's official great music. G-R-E-Y. Official great music. Plant-based dripping. Plant-based dripping.com. Get all the merch. Yeah, man. You have to be dope. You know what I mean? You know, start out slow. You know? Do meatless Mondays. Just every Monday, you don't fuck with me the cheese. Right. See how you feel on Mondays for two weeks. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Like, man, I got a little more energy than do Monday Wednesday. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. You meet on the weekends and now, you know what I mean? Just incorporate more whole foods and grains into our meal because Western society got us all fucked up with chicken wings and pizza and fucking sloppy. You know what I mean? Shit that is unhealthy for us and unfortunately kills us first. Right. And that I was just sitting here talking shit, but, nigga, I don't want niggas to think you out here just rapping about vegetables. That shit. Right, right, right. You really get down with the music, man. What you hitting us with today? Yeah, man. What you talking about the verse? I'm saying what you hitting us with today on 85, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, we did on Smoke One. Smoke One was produced by Revenge God Sway. Sway, Revenge God! Yeah, that's how I got right there. That's my nigga. Try not to swear to Revenge God. Man, he went ham on that beat. He always do. I mean, bro, Revenge is crazy. But yeah, he said that was a Smoke One, you know. As a weed advocate, that just fell right in the pocket, man. Then we did Don't Shoot Me Down, which was a playoff of No Diggity, you know what I'm saying? No doubt, again, produced by Revenge God Sway. It's on the project, The Breaks, which you can download or stream everywhere, man. That's available, yeah. If learning a new language is on your to-do list, Babel makes it fun and easy to start having conversations in a spaniel or whatever your preferred language. Es usted la nueva, Bacina. Look, Babel is designed to get you speaking your new language quickly with daily 10 to 15 minute lessons. Es usted la nueva, Bacina. Bienvenida. Bienvenida. Yo soy la nueva, Bacina. Babel teaches you real dialogue. You're not just learning words and phrases out of context. Es usted la nueva, Bacina. Si. Yo soy la nueva, Bacina. The speech recognition technology helps you improve your pronunciation and your accent. Babel is available as an app or online. So your progress will be synced on all your devices. Libby Nespa. Bonjour, Freddy. Labby Nespa. 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Bitch, I'm a hot stepper, flaming like a hot pepper. Call myself a late bloomer. Go away backwards, not never cleaned up. Ground floor, I'm trying to see the top. Level never won the rock. Best is lava stones I got. Sever, don't shoot me down. Good Lord. Hey, yeah, uh, whoa. Don't shoot me down. Good Lord. Yeah, round, round. With the vizier now, she don't shoot me down. Good Lord. Yeah, uh, not me. Don't shoot me down. Good Lord. Yeah. Listen. Uh, we the truth. Open up to see the proof. The only problem is them devils see it too. He broke in promises they'll never see a stew until we fight back for our owner. Ain't no hope for me or you. We'll just be in the wind. Having dreams of getting wins. Riding reckless in the band. School system to the pen. Front of diapers to the pen. They been trying to do a sin. Pump that poison in the food. It changes sales under the skin. But we ain't keeping up programming. Keep us stuck tiptoeing. Rabbit holes go deep as fuck. But we can't see it. Because our minds ain't deep enough. We only reading what they teaching. Bullshit, they feeding us. But listen. Fuck all of that diss and change your opposition. Understand the puppetry from top positions. We getting fucked by the system. Cops and politicians. Yet we kill each other. Two for one. They love the competition. Love the sins and coffins. Love us all in prisons. Want to call us niggas. Want us to call them Christians. Using Martin's face so we can hard division. Why they congregate and push the laws that break this hard division. It's a genocide. It's a genocide. Every day around this great country black men are dying. Earlier than everybody else, we brush it to the side. Now tell me where's the law. Man, don't shoot me down. Good law. Hey, uh, come on. Hey, don't shoot me down. Good law. Bitch, I'm riding with the vials. I'm just staying alive. Man, don't shoot me down. Good law. Hey, am I all buried? Listen. Man, don't shoot me down. Good law. Hey, don't shoot me down. Please don't shoot me down. Ooh. Please don't shoot me down. Hey, just talk to me. Won't you just talk to me? Whoo. Won't you just talk to me? Whoo. Don't shoot me down. Boy, that shit hard. Hey, listen. That's called don't shoot me down, you know what I mean?