Let It Rain Podcast
Truths of the Music Scene, Celebrity Life, and Online Boundaries
Ever found yourself tongue-tied in the throes of a heated debate or when someone tosses a harsh word your way on social media? Join us as we dissect the fine line between personal boundaries and public opinion, all while serving up a side of raw, unfiltered thoughts on navigating the rocky terrain of the digital world. Our latest episode is a deep dive into the complexities of the music industry, the razor's edge of online interactions, and the dance between our private and public selves.
Strap in for a candid conversation that doesn't shy away from the tough questions—like how does one balance the ego when faced with criticism, or what it really means to maintain privacy amidst the glare of the public eye? We're bringing the heart of our experiences, spiced with a little humor and a lot of honesty, to explore everything from the dynamics of celebrity controversies to the everyday challenges of relationships in the era of social media. Plus, we tackle the intricate decisions artists face in the music industry and the strategic moves in the battle rap arena.
From Drake's leaked video to the intricacies of intimacy, we leave no stone unturned in this exploration of contemporary social dynamics. We even wade into the waters of marriage, kids, and the decisions that shape our personal journeys. And for those who geek out on industry trends, get ready for an insider's take on the music scene, award shows, and the surprising decisions behind content distribution partnerships. So, come hang with us—it's not just a conversation; it's a session of truth-telling with friends who aren't afraid to get real.
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Ever found yourself tongue-tied in the throes of a heated debate or when someone tosses a harsh word your way on social media? Join us as we dissect the fine line between personal boundaries and public opinion, all while serving up a side of raw, unfiltered thoughts on navigating the rocky terrain of the digital world. Our latest episode is a deep dive into the complexities of the music industry, the razor's edge of online interactions, and the dance between our private and public selves.
Strap in for a candid conversation that doesn't shy away from the tough questions—like how does one balance the ego when faced with criticism, or what it really means to maintain privacy amidst the glare of the public eye? We're bringing the heart of our experiences, spiced with a little humor and a lot of honesty, to explore everything from the dynamics of celebrity controversies to the everyday challenges of relationships in the era of social media. Plus, we tackle the intricate decisions artists face in the music industry and the strategic moves in the battle rap arena.
From Drake's leaked video to the intricacies of intimacy, we leave no stone unturned in this exploration of contemporary social dynamics. We even wade into the waters of marriage, kids, and the decisions that shape our personal journeys. And for those who geek out on industry trends, get ready for an insider's take on the music scene, award shows, and the surprising decisions behind content distribution partnerships. So, come hang with us—it's not just a conversation; it's a session of truth-telling with friends who aren't afraid to get real.
Subscribe on Youtube ! thanks LIRP FAM
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Speaker 2:What's your thinking about when you said all that what's up, what's up, get a little freestyle. I was trying to, alright, so I so I be trying.
Speaker 1:When you freestyle, you try to focus, but you know what I'm saying. When I got my boy. You know what I'm saying, paul's on my back. You know what I'm saying. I know my boy got my back, so I don't even care. I was trying to focus, to get to some kind of train of thought, but I really didn't care. So nothing really Cause one day are you ever gonna, are you ever?
Speaker 2:gonna give us a serious freestyle after, though I'll give you one right now, cause we know you right, I'll give you one right now, but it's probably not gonna be let it rain.
Speaker 1:you see what I'm saying? That's another, that's another sign. It's gonna be let it rain. See, y'all didn't know, spoon could rain. Bro, you gotta be, you gotta give us all the pain.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I'm ready for the act.
Speaker 1:You gotta be ready. I'm still gonna give it to you, paul. What episode is this man? I want to say this is at least 272.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, 292.95. What's up? What's up, my guys?
Speaker 1:I'm feeling good in my heart.
Speaker 2:We back, we back. We ain't dropped it a minute, but you know previous last couple of episodes we're gonna have some technical issues. So you know, we back, we back. Hopefully. You all did great work. Don't forget to you know, like, like and follow all our social media Facebook, tiktok. Youtube especially we on Spotify, Apple, MySpace, YoSpace, your grandma space, and let it rain, and let it rain. Podcast man, what's the one? What happened before TikTok? What?
Speaker 1:was the one before TikTok oh.
Speaker 2:Vyne, Vyne, yeah go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we need to get a Vyne account.
Speaker 2:Speaking of age man?
Speaker 1:I don't think I was known for Vyne, like that I was with 15 second clips, something like that.
Speaker 1:It was it used to be on it. No, I ain't never. I didn't even really get it. I still barely I understand social media because the music stuff, but like I still really difficult to me that people's attention span is that short. I definitely be on it. Y'all know I be on it but it really like I can't like tell my life like that. I just like I like different stuff, just a whole bunch of ideas, but like people really be like telling their life and going through it on social media, like trying to people get people play by play.
Speaker 2:So you laugh at people going through it. No, I'm not laughing at people going through it.
Speaker 1:You think that you can tell your life like how, your emotions, your real feelings and like a post. No, bro, Like you know what I'm saying, You're feeling changed bro.
Speaker 2:How you feel about, since you being in social media, how you feel about people comments bro.
Speaker 1:I just it depends on who it is. For me personally, like if it's somebody I know and they really got something to say that's thought provoking or whatever, I'm gonna pay attention, but in general like I don't care. And then it feels like if I say that our podcast get to the top and then like say Gilly a while or say some stuff, like I'm gonna listen to it but I don't even think somebody important to even do that, because every time I think about like I post my opinion on different stuff, but I just know that's my opinion People be taking comments like they like that's your mama or somebody saying come on bro. Like it's just everybody talking. That's a group, group thing. You know what I'm saying, how you feel about it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm up and down. I'm up and down seriously, because sometimes I have my dad's. I'm like I should. I know, I know I shouldn't be reading the comments and this, but some of them people be talking crazy on the comments Like you don't. You don't know me in real life or what I really got going on. You talking, you talking from a corner of this right here. This message is just behind the scenes or whatever Like they're, just in general, not just I take a person sometimes.
Speaker 1:But, yeah something like it's so funny because I feel like you're not the type of person to take them personally.
Speaker 2:But it depends on what it is how I'm feeling that day.
Speaker 1:I feel that too.
Speaker 2:I feel that too, I think because we're all humans at the end of the day. But the other time I don't care, because people people judge anyway. Like you're the great person, I'm the bad person when it comes to opinions. But you know, I see one side of the way and that person see the other side of the way. But what we don't do is lie about the situation. A lot of people lie about the situation, but you can't control nobody.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. Like that's what it comes down to every time for me, especially being a person who always own social being in the public. I talk to so many people, shake so many hands, dj and do other things Like I got used to. Like I have to learn how to shut my ego down because my ego give me trouble. Yeah, I want to slap somebody because they say something crazy, but like is that really going to help me or help them at all? Like they just stupid At the end of the day, that's what it brought down.
Speaker 2:They don't matter.
Speaker 1:facts together, nah, like I can't, I can't, you know what I'm saying and then like if that's really their opinion, if it's a situation where I would like to speak and say my opinion and somebody got an attitude about it, it messed up the conversation too. And then, like being on the platform where we going like it's always going to be people saying I don't really agree with that. You know what I'm saying. Like so, like I'm just ready for it. I mean ready for it being like I'm ready to ignore it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. Like you said, like it was about my child or something like that. That's really like personal and you know me. Yeah, like, come to me. That's what that brought out to, but like if it's a random or somebody, I'm associated with man. Come on yeah.
Speaker 2:That's how I be.
Speaker 1:I look at it like I'm looking at somebody else comment on another post when they talking about my. That's how I like.
Speaker 2:Like it don't affect me, reason about it, but when it comes, like you know, they hit home like that, like bro, you don't even know me. Like that I fuck you up, like I feel you, but it's like why would you say that this name Some people look at, say, for something like a relationship topic, like what I'm saying is not wrong, that's because you don't agree with it?
Speaker 1:It's my big. It's my big. This is my podcast. You can get on your own podcast and say whatever the hell you want to say, but this, mine is, and I'm gonna say whatever the hell I want to point blank. That's how I be.
Speaker 2:I'll be like bro, what? And we agree to disagree. That's how I they don't talk about it. It's like how you say that you never get this. You'll never get that, bro. I got a lot of shit I like I, like when you disagree.
Speaker 1:That's the point of bringing it up for us. I mean, like we just two black men expressing our thoughts and then our feelings and our expressions of emotions, like which we don't get to do because, man, we have to stay quiet. So when you say something back to me, oh yeah, you better believe I might fight, like you said I might be ready for all of your asses literally, I've been waiting for somebody to say that.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I feel you, speaking of that, what you, what you think about usher and Alicia Keys?
Speaker 1:The.
Speaker 2:Thing the thing about it was a lot of people are criticizing usher, saying he was too close to.
Speaker 1:Alicia Keys. Personally, I mean he did grab or whatever, but like you, think about people in movies.
Speaker 2:You perform it.
Speaker 1:If people in movies have sex technically and kids to do all kinds of stuff, you know what I'm saying. That just was in front of people in live, but like they do that in a small room with only you know, a certain amount of people or whatever. So like, if they're a performer, as a performer and an artist or whatever, like you have to go in the character and if that was a part of the song or they could have had a relationship before in Swiss. Know that and don't nobody else know that he like nah, they real cool though, like they like real. We all hung out. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they actually got married like the day after or something to his longtime girlfriend. I think they have for days before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it was just like you know what I'm saying. A lot of people was blown out of proportion. That's his wife, that ain't mine.
Speaker 2:A lot of people was blown out of proportion. I know Swiss gonna say something to him when he get done this. How you know he ain't talked to Swiss before. The scene is like hey man sell it.
Speaker 1:They had some memes going. That was awful.
Speaker 2:That was like.
Speaker 1:I look at it like Swiss had his glasses down. I don't want to be saying like they ain't do that in the rehearsal.
Speaker 2:Like I'm a married man. I look at it like if I know my wife may entertainment and another guy does, I'm not finna get mad cause I know this part of the performance, but when he carry stuff outside of that performance it's gonna be the issue. You know what I'm saying? 100% yeah, so I'm not the type of person to get mad about that. I like when somebody give my girl a compliment or hey, buy a drink for a latte, that's money, I say I ain't for that.
Speaker 1:I'm not a jealous type person.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. That makes sense.
Speaker 1:No, I definitely like it when somebody hit on my girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Cause I don't think I'm the type of person I don't think about say if my wife cheating, I wait till it presents itself. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right when the situation happened. You know what it is, and they don't sense of putting that thought on my head, cause she can do whatever she wanna do anytime, yeah, so why would you get mad at a thought?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, but a lot of people, a lot of people is like man Swiss, he couldn't touch my wife like that, this and that.
Speaker 1:So I feel like it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the. What do you call it? Like the essence of disrespect? Yeah, that's what me and I feel like them dudes. What they saying is like, bro, it ain't about what they did, it's disrespectful period, anything disrespectful. I gotta address it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's like that's kind of like somebody being pretty, like disrespect is almost in the, in the eye of the beholder. You know what I'm saying? Cause you don't know what Swiss, you don't know who they, he, the hug that made you know, you don't know what they situation is so and you know they can have an open marriage. You don't know shit, no way. So like, why are you even judging it? That's, that's.
Speaker 2:I guess, why do you even care that much?
Speaker 1:I mean, it's just comments. Same thing, it's just comments. They're just not giving someone, somebody in to an open marriage. You know an important person to say it. Then it's like, oh, we should listen to him, cuz what you don't even know if you married Bro, I don't even know how you feel about.
Speaker 2:I'll just say how you feel about, like your homeboy following your ex.
Speaker 1:I Don't, I can't say nothing about it. She do it, she wanted to. Yeah, personally. Yeah, I know I find out about it, but you better believe me here this.
Speaker 2:I know some people like say, if you in a group, you in a group down, like that girlfriend's are like wise father, they homeboys this and that, because it comes from like bring with all that you don't know where to lead to. I feel like if you get, if you thinking about that in that point you shouldn't be with that girl, or you know, I'm saying no, I feel like it can very very very go.
Speaker 2:Both ways it can get weird, but that's all about the attention of a person who your friends choose, and maturity, yeah, thank you have.
Speaker 1:We brought that up, like can we all just be friends, like how do? How do you deal with you know? I'm saying like, how do you talking with your partner, like is it okay if I, you know, be friends with someone, so his wife, is that okay with you? And how do you feel about it? Yeah, and then you go from there and then ask your boy, and then I don't know, I feel like that's fine.
Speaker 2:I feel me personally I feel like it's fine, but a lot of people feel like I ain't doing it once I know when you doing it, it's like I see some people that I seen a post.
Speaker 1:Some dude said that like you shouldn't be my girlfriend, shouldn't be friends with my homeboys On Instagram, stuff like that, like, and then I'm not friend with a girlfriend. Yeah, like stuff like that. Like keep out of. Like romance and friendship we should be, yes, two different, like relationships. I mean, I could see that if you dealing with some bum ass dudes and trust issues.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's a lot of trust issue.
Speaker 1:Well, and that's what I'm saying, like some bum Some bum dudes or some bum females? Yeah, you might. It might be drama, but that's cuz you, like you said, you can't, you don't trust your partner in this controller.
Speaker 2:I feel like I feel like all this stuff, when you got to tell that person you can't do this, you can't do that, you can't do this man, like it's life, like you know, I'm saying I don't know.
Speaker 1:I sometimes I feel it because it's like you don't know, even though you love that person, you don't know if they matured enough to handle it and they may not be. Yeah, so like as a dude or a girl, like babe, I kind of feel weird about you doing that, cuz you know I'm saying I ain't saying you told me you cheated on, so what's over this, and that made me feel secure, but like you got to go about it that way instead of trying to be controlling. But I don't know, man, I just think to each his own. Personally, you know, I'm saying like not me personally, I don't. I feel like like you pretty much know the point. When somebody is stepping over lines, they always come out, and so that's my thing. So do you address it like you said until then, I feel like I got three kids together.
Speaker 1:So no kids get this age where I, like you know most mature as youngest dude I ever met in my life, though a lot of dudes ain't got that a lot of people have a good example. That's like you know. You got to control yourself. A lot of people can't control it. You don't say, like a lot of dudes is really wild out here bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but what helped me is I'm looking at one man and one trying to go. I feel like that's up on the one man. You got.
Speaker 1:You got goals. You got like purpose. You got visions. You got you know places you're trying to go, and if these kind of people ain't like that, then you might, might not need to be hanging around them.
Speaker 2:No or trust your partner I feel like that ain't no dirt you sweep up that's list, that's list. I follow it If you. I'm telling you this now people out there is in a relationship, if you are gonna over social media and this and that with your partner, not for that attend, you ain't gonna be with a flow anyway. That's, that's simple shit, right? But the real facts in life is you know you take care of your family, doing what you got to do to provide for your household, and social media ain't one of them.
Speaker 1:Well, I just feel like, like you said, like if I don't know being say we blow up to the point of you know, this is all we do, which we want to do, it could be issue with like dang, you always post me, you'll never post me, babe. You know I'm saying I get it because that's your job. It's kind of like you don't bring me. Like everybody know you but they don't know you married. Or everybody know you but they Don't know me. But I'm, you say I'm so important to you and I feel like girls be wanting that attention low-key, not every one of them, but like it's a thing where I feel like a Queen want to be like known as with the king, if that makes sense, it's a, it's a thing. But I mean you have to know your wife, you have to know what you're doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you going dinners, this and that, what do? What matter about that? A fucking post.
Speaker 1:I'm just, I'm just give me, I'm just playing devil.
Speaker 2:It's plenty of people guys like that too.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, for sure, for sure, you don't want to post me.
Speaker 2:But you, you got all these high Uprevents, this and that, but you don't want to take me. No, I don't want to take me what you hide. No saying, you got somebody there.
Speaker 1:You like, you got a.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's going on? I'm not good enough for you what I'm too what yeah, I'm too fat yeah well, yeah, that works both ways. But if you got a net, I feel like cuz we a guy, so I was, we go we talk from a guy. But, we understand a female cuz. We was raising the house of females.
Speaker 2:So, I got. I stay in the house over five females I'm the only male in the house like. So I'm saying so when I say when I can, when I can, when I talk about it, I'll look at both sides of the equation about everything. That's how I always look at life. Yeah, I understand why that person feel like that, but also, are you willing to understand how?
Speaker 1:I feel about it, yeah, and a lot of times I feel like a lot of times women don't see that a good one will, but I feel like low-key She'll want to shine too and like, like you said, it'll have to be a balance of, like I do this for you, why you do like you sacrifice that for me, yeah. But I think a lot of times it's easy to get caught up, like for me, like it's easy to get caught up because everybody know me, everybody whoo-hoo, and then they see me a girl or my girl or whatever they like I didn't know you was, I didn't even know you had a girlfriend. This is like you ain't even ever asked first off. You know, say you just assume because I didn't post somebody.
Speaker 1:You know, I don't got nobody this, like they don't got nothing to do. That's this, my personal life. Yeah, this what I give y'all is what I give y'all. Yeah, so y'all people, you have to set the borders and the Boundaries in your own life before you ever get out in the public, because if you don't, that's when the problem yeah.
Speaker 2:You write, you write about that cuz.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm talking my wife.
Speaker 2:I asked my wife you be listening. This nation. I peep my wife. She got a shorter attention span, like so she liked to 10, 15 second clips. She don't like no 42 minute episodes. Like a lot of people, you know I'm saying yeah which I get it. She's more younger, it's the younger generation thing. You know songs nowadays only two minutes for sure. I saw making days be five, fifty, seven. Brah woman, a woman.
Speaker 1:Somebody talking. You know I love you. So apparently, drake, a video of Drake got released where he was a self pleasure.
Speaker 2:So you told me you talk man like in bed, like he. He said that a video got, I saw.
Speaker 1:I didn't see the video, but I just seen a screenshot of it where he got his situation covered up and but they said like he had a phone and then I'm like, but somebody took a video of him doing that.
Speaker 2:So what is like it? One like a he and I'm like he got his phone, but it went like a mirror.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't, I don't know that I forgot. Yeah, I don't know if it was a mirror or whatever.
Speaker 2:Either way, so that was. That's why he was trending on Twitter.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I didn't click on it cuz I mean I'm a Drake fan but I ain't clicking that much. I got us to worry about but I like him as a Hustle to yeah, so I was so obviously he let out a little video, a little 15 second Video so it wasn't him, though he didn't leak it, somebody else leaked it wait, sent to a girl, I was a guess, so girl.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I'm drinking with 36. I don't even know, bro, I don't know. I just feel like you drink at that point I understand why. I understand you still. You know saying people still does that in the real world, but ain't didn't know shit like that since eight, nine, great.
Speaker 1:Soon as soon as I heard about it baby.
Speaker 2:This video ain't gonna do no justice.
Speaker 1:Because he told me about. He's the first one, bro, he's like man, easy, that drink video you heard about. Like nah, he was like pretty much, you know he doing this thing. I said Drake Video taped itself like somebody. He's like whatever. I was like in the bed, ain't no girls, ain't nothing. He was like. I was like so you saying Drake is basically me?
Speaker 2:The lonely. I think there was one he wanted, though that's why he was won. I think there was really one in one for him to send out a video like that. Cuz me, I did that on eight, nine grade, but you know, I'm saying, I'm just, I'm that stop person, bro, but think about it.
Speaker 1:You ain't like, you're almost a billionaire.
Speaker 2:I mean, he's still human.
Speaker 1:No, I get a hundred percent, get it.
Speaker 2:I probably wouldn't do it too honestly. And now y'all look, talk about, don't you people talk about? I would never did that you doing in that, check your snap like I know you doing it. I know you did the last five years. That's. That's the part that gets me in the world. People act like that's not, that's human, bro, that's human. Oh, he can't do that. He got a hot statue. No, no, no, listen, it makes the style. You do what she do.
Speaker 1:But then do that now. Make you a whole though.
Speaker 2:And what's your eyes? What make you a whole like, is the body count. I great question Would you rather have somebody got a hard body count, or somebody that has sex more than a hundred times? And it can be what's same dude?
Speaker 1:I would rather somebody who had it with the same dude.
Speaker 2:And what's the difference? Though it's the same spirit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like when you you know sex is spiritual, you have six with a lot of people Like you taking on, especially girls, especially if you letting them Orgasm inside of you. Gotta think about that cuz man, everything in a man that come out. So me, hopefully you grab me stuff, or being protective anybody doing it, no more.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, I'm saying that's how I feel about.
Speaker 1:I rather have a little.
Speaker 2:I love being locked in real estate. I'll be rude child if I had to do with Drake. Do bro. It ain't like he got all that money, but he's they gotta send out deep eggs.
Speaker 1:That's why I heard my like. I said, bro, he might will put, put my face on that. Like I'm single, like that's some single dude who ain't got you know me, like, bro, like you could have went, you can fly anywhere, fly anybody out and I know yeah.
Speaker 1:That's not what you do. I know whatever. I'm just saying like if you that desperate to do that, to send it over, but I feel like there was a trusted person who shared. It had to be a very, very trusted person who he did that with. He what he had done it before. Yeah, he figured whatever, unless he just came came.
Speaker 2:They want to. He needs some.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm with you, I know he could have released it and just did it just to keep people talking, because he's trying to make it music. I don't know. Yeah, maybe you might be finna, try to sell some underwear.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you're trying to do. Yeah, you gotta think about it. He ain't been trending in a little minute, so you're right.
Speaker 1:That's how I felt about it initially, like maybe that was it, cuz I know drink a me, I know he ain't lonely.
Speaker 2:Roots would have did this and out something like that, then what would have been bad?
Speaker 1:That's the only fans for girls like oh man, you could have paid, you could have made money off that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's my drink had only fans man. I feel like I like the type of dude to do it, though I feel like he wouldn't have to do a show again. You think so? Yeah, I think I do the upload and he's gonna get you. Don't get subscribers, wallace, we probably get a bag.
Speaker 1:Oh dumb bag. I really wonder how is dude do, do girls even play? Pay for? Only fans for dudes.
Speaker 2:Hey, yeah, I know they do. I don't know. That's a great question, I don't know. I ain't never heard a girl.
Speaker 1:I mean, I know, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's a lot of people, some people yeah, I feel like young girls young, crowded people. Bro, lot of people know the back pages. Look out everybody only fans for sure. But the older, the older people want to keep you know people, keep my only fans live. Would you ever could you date a girl to got a? Only fans?
Speaker 1:Probably not why not?
Speaker 2:Oh, why you say that cuz only fans ain't only about six? Why?
Speaker 1:I could maybe mess a day there, but I don't know about, like man, like it couldn't be serious. She had to get off of it.
Speaker 2:I don't know. No, no, no, no, we're gonna slow that down. Hold on, hold on. What's up, you couldn't they? Nobody got a home fans bro.
Speaker 1:No man.
Speaker 2:I mean, what if you was in the entertainment business like that too? You realize it's just a app, bro.
Speaker 1:I get that it's just an apple or whatever, but like I Just don't see myself like you to me, like like her body is you know woman's body is hers, but like if you gonna boost something up and that you got to pay for everything, like unless she shared the money, then I don't get it.
Speaker 2:I mean you benefit to. I'm saying y'all together. You know y'all might eventually get married. You benefit. I mean you matter only fans. But it's like ain't like she out here just showing everything, like she can Just be like this for my support.
Speaker 1:I thought you meant like going off.
Speaker 2:No, that's what I'm saying. That's why I said only fans ain't only for showing your titties. You know, I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I thought you meant like that.
Speaker 2:That's why I said, that's why I would definitely like they the musician.
Speaker 1:No, I definitely like. I would yeah, like that. Yeah, I thought you meant just like pretty much like they, somebody who do important.
Speaker 2:That's why I thought you meant anyway for you single, single, no kids. You're definitely only fan at my.
Speaker 1:No. Bro, I couldn't wait for it. I'm gonna be under. I can't wait. I might do that, might not, though I don't know. I'm in different stage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm saying, I'm saying if you had no kids, this is the 15 year old ago, you 15? Yeah, you go lie, you're not gonna come.
Speaker 1:I can't say that got him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you go lie.
Speaker 1:Why you gotta make me. You, bro, I'm gonna mess with her, probably back there. I still in the mouth. Are you a crush?
Speaker 2:crush crush factory.
Speaker 1:Grape and orange. You know the flavor's a crush. They got the funny flavor.
Speaker 2:So you would have did it 15 years ago. Not that, not the stage you in now. The healthy, the healthy Nate, not this stage, but the huh toxic. Oh, what office?
Speaker 1:I'll just wait on you, the one when I wasn't looking to be in a relationship. If I that's, I will mess with someone, but I wouldn't look into being in a relationship with somebody who was extra promiscuous. I just can't do that. I hear they, not they not they not, that's not that I hear they not built for relationship.
Speaker 2:I feel like People getting a vice from a. I feel about adults getting a vice from somebody that don't have kids about their kids.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, that's corny. I feel like if you don't have a kid, you really don't know how. The emotional side of being a parent. It changed your life, if you're any kind of person, because it's new, all of the feelings of being responsible for someone and understanding that they're looking to you for everything, basically and they didn't ask to be here, man it changed your whole life. You're any kind of man on one. How do you feel about it?
Speaker 2:I agree with you. The majority of it I agree with, but some people that don't have kids that's been around kids their whole life understand that they might not be able to make kids. You know what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying I respect that too.
Speaker 2:But they're around kids, they love kids. This and that I feel like it just depends on what the topic is about it. You know what I'm saying. It's like somebody being married but single people trying to tell married people what to do and they ain't never been married. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:I don't agree with that either, though yeah, I feel like everybody got an opinion, which is fine, but if you're in period, you ain't really based on experience how valid it is, unless I've known you to be just a smart, smart, motherfucking person. If I trust you on most stuff in my life, then I'm going to listen to period. I don't care what it's about, but if that don't mean I'm going to do it either, but if you normally make the right decision when it comes to shit, then I'm going to rock with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm with you on that. When it comes to like, I feel like the line drawn is with the kids and your husband and wife Girlfriend, boyfriend is totally different. I don't care if nobody say your girlfriend, boyfriend is totally different between your husband and wife.
Speaker 1:It's level to it For sure.
Speaker 2:But me personally, when I was already with my wife now I already looked at the same my energy didn't change. When I married her, got you, we grew more and more because we go in life. You know what I'm saying, but my energy I didn't change nothing.
Speaker 1:I don't think I changed either.
Speaker 2:I didn't change nothing other than I just make sure I want to be extra prepared for my family. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, I feel like different people have different meanings of marriage. Some people, like you said, they feel like this Once you get married, once you put a title on it, it's different. I can't leave. I always leave. You could have always left periods.
Speaker 2:You could have always left, yeah.
Speaker 1:You can't even know borders on nobody. It might be consequences to you leaving, but you could always leave. I think a lot of people and then other people put religious things on it, like that's between God, but it's like you was doing it anyway. So, whether you shacked up or whatever, you was already in it. But I think that's a personal thing. For me it didn't change anything.
Speaker 2:People ask me all the time, bro, they be like bro. How I feel to have kids, how I feel to be married, how I feel it's like bro, if you're trying to be on the right path, it doesn't bother you, you just keep adding along, keep growing, sorry about that.
Speaker 2:But you have people like bro and on top of that a lot of people change. Listen, if you know, a lot of people change when they get that ring bro. That's a point blank period. I don't understand why people change Bro. It's one thing like, all right if you're not really hitting kids.
Speaker 1:For girls it's a big deal like generally, because they all right, I got somebody, you trap-based type of shit. You know what I'm saying. Even when they get engaged, they start thinking like, you know, like, I got me one, that's a big thing for a girl to find a dude to marry, even if she been out here. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, like for us pretty much when we get you as a girlfriend, it's the same thing.
Speaker 2:I ain't looking at it like that. I ain't looking at it like it's the same. It's like you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like it's the accomplishment for a chick to find a husband. That's a good husband, of course, but, like in general, it says like you're worthy in society. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but for us it's like it's a big thing to stay a player man, stay single bro Do whatever you whatever, whatever you know what I'm saying Like dude, like whatever, now that I'm divorced I feel like I see both sides of it and that you know. I see why. You know a woman want a good husband but I see, as a man who've been through it now, like what I will take in her partner and not If you're going to marry somebody. They can't be certain shit, I just can't take them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, certain shit.
Speaker 1:Certain shit, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I just I don't know. I just look at it and it's like man, like people, like I just don't understand. Like you did, you did what it took to get the ring. Why change now? You know what I'm saying. Like it's hard just getting the ring from anybody.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying, but you know I feel, I feel like I feel like the change happens because they have a preconceived idea of what it's going to be after Like, and then, like they was doing like a lot of women, act the cert. They pretend for years till they get that ring. Then you see the real deal, Cause they're like okay, I got him. Now he ain't going nowhere and it ain't even that he might, he might you think he going to love you forever just cause he said I marry you. No, it's just cause it's better for our taxes. I mean, I'm just saying it could be like cause we had a child together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know a lot of things.
Speaker 1:But like you cause, a lot of girls get that ring and things like, oh, I'm in.
Speaker 2:And it's like no, maybe you like matter of fact you just now starting. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like you should be extra working cause he you know, a dude did really make a commitment, so like let's really really like knuckle down, or like he got. He know that technically I believe you got my back all the way out forever. If not, then I wouldn't have never get you on ring.
Speaker 2:Let's change topics. Let's go. I'm married. I don't even like talking about marriage. So what you think about Joe Button basically going at the top streamers like Kassanat and Aiden Ross, about saying, like the hip hop record label, don't even need them? Because, you know, streaming is a new way.
Speaker 1:What did he say? What did Joe Button?
Speaker 2:say you just like, nobody really know who they are, they don't really influence, they don't really push music like that.
Speaker 1:I guess technically. I mean, I think about how Joe just Joe always been.
Speaker 2:Joe always been like that towards the new generation people. Though, yo, I said you know what I'm saying, but I feel like me personally I feel like it's a great way because the streaming is the way new wave right there.
Speaker 1:So I feel like Joe, I don't feel like he was wrong.
Speaker 2:I just feel like he was naive about the situation and the mugs. I feel like he was wrong as in they do push the envelope Because all the record label people go to them.
Speaker 1:You feel like they influence you on the next one.
Speaker 2:Yes, they very, very. We don't podcast, and don't get me wrong and we can still push them like people sit beside them. We can do this. But when it comes to the stream, because you got to think about it, they got a young kids audience. That's who people trying to gravitate to and at the end of the day, we still listen to old people, but they're people like Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:They don't even know who Usher was. I got you. No, I feel like Usher, like, like you said, like 30 years old, like man that's like me in the 90s listening to somebody in 60s Like what.
Speaker 1:But I feel like he got a point to say that I feel like it shouldn't influence. I feel like the industry should have grown and it hasn't as a company because they lazy, so but I think you're right that it is influencing. So anything that some you know, kai, or somebody like that says like kids, listen to it, got wait. But that mean, does that mean it's actually good? Just like with the killer Mike situation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because Kai was like who was killing Mike. Nobody know that Topia should have won Travis Scott.
Speaker 1:Right, and I think he told me it was a great album. I think killer Mike's album was a great album, but I do think lyrically and killer Mike. Album was fire it was me, but I feel like the industry.
Speaker 2:I understand Travis Scott because he knew more popular.
Speaker 1:He popular the beats is fire I understand why Kai said that the thing is like the Grammys is based on a.
Speaker 1:It's a group of musicians, it's not, it's not public vote. So the streaming stuff technically don't matter, like that's the thing, that kind of understand. And if the young cast don't understand how the business side of stuff is, then they ain't gonna never get the influence that they're supposed to get. Now. Record companies don't care about the Grammys because they're about money. So if Kai say it we're gonna put some money behind it because it's gonna, so it ain't Okay. Yeah, travis didn't get the thing, but Travis still gets what. I bet Travis Scott got my money and then kill the mic, do yeah, and there's just. You know. So that's what it boils down to.
Speaker 1:The Grammys is outdated, that's. That's JZ's right, that's Beyonce's right. They want, they want you to create a song like Elton John and like nobody care about Elton. That stuff is old. It's pretty much like you know me and my age, or you know when I was younger, like listening to say Biggie or Parker, something, somebody like. Now you got to make a song to sound like Chubby checker, like now Brian from the make no checkers. You know what I'm saying. Like to get a Grammy and that's how the, the, the Grammys have equated to what's how, how the modern industry, music industry, is moving and it's just behind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 1:I agree with both I technically agree with both of them. You didn't watch Canaan.
Speaker 2:You feel the clown? Why not? Why you said it biggest 50 cent fan of them.
Speaker 1:Come on, I ain't watching.
Speaker 2:I ain't watching Many, many, many, many men get in my car Like this is what I know. What this is big talk for man and a whip talk for me.
Speaker 1:What up?
Speaker 2:I haven't got listen. I started watching season season one episode.
Speaker 1:Oh, you started studying. I know you. For the love.
Speaker 2:So I have, I'm not, I haven't watched it Bro.
Speaker 1:I was like four episodes and I had one and one One I ain't finishing it.
Speaker 2:Two I haven't watched it. Three none of those.
Speaker 1:You're hitting 50. That's your boy too. It be your own people.
Speaker 2:Bro, listen, I support it, though, man, I support it, I just haven't got to it yet it be your own people. I just haven't got to it, Because I'm a type person that I can't stand watching, even though it's multiple seasons. Now I just haven't got back to it. I can't stand watching every week by week. You ain't gotta be better than me.
Speaker 1:50 gonna get you. I ain't mad, but I can't stand watching something like every week.
Speaker 2:I got to wait till it come back on. I like the, what you call it Benz watch, Benz watch yeah. I like the Benz watch stuff. You know what I'm saying. I got the watch stuff, was two seasons and I already in it.
Speaker 1:I did what you saying, but this was too good, it was which one you on. The last season of Kani. Ain't it the name of Kani? Yeah, Power 50 cents. Kani man, that last episode, bruv, you don't watch this season bro.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna watch it, but listen, bmf come on up.
Speaker 1:Best season, best thing on TV, one of the best things on TV BMF. Come on up, bmf. Man, I can't wait bro.
Speaker 2:I didn't know Freaknik was a real thing bro.
Speaker 1:I didn't.
Speaker 2:I didn't. I didn't know like there was real, real, until I asked a couple of people like yeah, I was snuck down. I was snuck down when I was 12, 13 years old.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm gonna say my sister, she five years old, she Freakniked it. Yeah, she went.
Speaker 2:She Freakniked it. Yeah, she what you want to talk about. Y'all see him. Y'all see him. Look at her. Hello bro, she actually went, went. Yeah, she went to Freaknik.
Speaker 1:Everybody would go bro. It's just like on a spring break. That's cool. Okay, that's what you're gonna say about my sister bro, I didn't, I just got to ask. Watch what you do, bro. I just got to ask Watch what you do with that, bro. Watch what you do with that family, look at them, emotional y'all. Emotional Look at them.
Speaker 2:What you all right. Let me ask you something.
Speaker 1:Y'all we got.
Speaker 2:What you think about this Battle Wrap talk guys. We big Battle Wrap fans, so we gonna start putting that in our stuff.
Speaker 1:Let's go.
Speaker 2:What you think about Smurrrak, what you think about Smacks saying there ain't no more money?
Speaker 1:All right, cause it probably ain't, he just smithed it off.
Speaker 2:You think so? Yeah, now, this is what I really think, cause you know he put that play towards the app.
Speaker 1:Bad investment, whatever, still spending it.
Speaker 2:That's how I see it, but I feel like I don't think they're recouping all the money they spend on these people. That's what I really think.
Speaker 1:I don't know how, once you get a certain amount of subscribers, what the views equal Plus the venues? My thing was I thought Smacks was making the money off the venue, Like what was it? We was looking at one battle in New York talking about going on one.
Speaker 2:That was Smacks.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. How much was the ticket?
Speaker 2:The ticket was cool. It was like cool, like 60.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. But like you got 60. We got to think about it.
Speaker 2:The venues holding two or three thousand though. So there you go. You got stage pass for 400, 500.
Speaker 1:There you go, so you're looking at a hundred, 120 off the venue, if you do it right. I mean minus production, minus playing the artists and all that. So plus the views come in after that, you know.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Man Smacks said the biggest issue was he ain't going in the red for nobody, because a lot of these people overpricing themselves, the ones that not like the mid-tears, low-tears.
Speaker 1:I dig the end. If you're freezing something on stage, they can't do nothing about it. I guess maybe it's something in the contract where if you freeze or you don't get your bars off, you don't get paid.
Speaker 2:They ain't saying like the Hitman Hollers, the Murder Moots, they bag hot, but they actually draw in people.
Speaker 1:Some about new people.
Speaker 2:A lot of people. There's only a couple people left there that can draw in the crowd. The first one to jail.
Speaker 1:It's a two-fold problem, though, because URI used to be the place where the breeding ground where you became. Now they just only do big battles. They used to be like we seen all of them before they got hot.
Speaker 2:The farm system not right though. The foundation ain't right, no more, because the North's got left. They let the North's go.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that, but I did know that or noticed that they start having all these team battles. They tried to flood the market with too much ballon too fast. It should have been in seasons.
Speaker 2:But they had to Caffeine.
Speaker 1:No, before caffeine. I'm saying I feel like they started doing that before caffeine.
Speaker 2:I thought they went crazy when they got caffeine.
Speaker 1:When it really started blowing up, when Lux and Calico. Then they started doing battles every week.
Speaker 2:What was it like 2012 or 2013? It was just doing battle, but it wasn't as many as it is.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Bro, now them battles is OP.
Speaker 1:Right, that's what they started doing, trying to get the money from it because people was all into it what you strike when the oil is hot. But you should have just like a show. They should have did it in seasons you know what I'm saying or like a sport. They would have been way cooler From December to the summer. They maybe had one summer big event.
Speaker 2:They had to wait until December again. Remember, they just do something mad. The problem is a lot of the big time people. They forgot what was going on, that they were. I mean, it was business at the end of the day. But they probably should have said price and they accepted what they accepted, but they would start giving out the big bags.
Speaker 1:You got to give something, to give something.
Speaker 2:It became too much wrestling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it is. It's, like you said, too many battles, dang People in the same crews fighting each other just because people want to see it.
Speaker 1:But let it be six or seven months. Give it a build up, and that too, when you're marketing, we ain't got to do nothing but click on it and we're looking for the next URL and maybe the crowd maybe influenced that. But five months twerk versus whatever. We know that thing is going to be lit, everything should be set, but it'll be like two weeks. That battle happened or like the one I think of it just happened super fast.
Speaker 2:I don't think they need to go back to the build ups it do, bro, Because they give me people short here the time to write and they not giving out the work.
Speaker 1:So the bars ain't there, the crowd, the hype ain't there, and then, like you said, they turn to wrestling. It didn't used to feel like real beef, but it kind of did, because they doing it so fast, there ain't no way they could be mad at them. They just said something about them two battles ago. That was cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they just talking in spaces three days ago, just fine. Now they got a battle coming.
Speaker 1:I feel like what this is? Just me and, being a music guy at my age, I feel like SMACK should have hired an A&R person from a record company and with that, brady was getting in there, started cutting records with these boys, teaching them how to actually rap and turn that stuff and turn them into real artists. Some of them rap, but he should have signed all of them.
Speaker 2:They know how to rap I feel like battle rap, not rap, more than people in the industry hip hop, but the thing is they don't know how to format it. Format it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Like, teach them how to get them a producer, give them a PR person, get their whole brand when they come to like going into the industry because you can't battle rap forever, technically, so like, and then you don't want instead of depending on SMACK or trying to get a crazy bag from a battle, why don't you have, like, several bags, which a lot of them do it now, but like it's just now they realizing they on wild and out there on different things, and some of them already been on wild out, but you see what I'm saying and that's why people start going against SMACK.
Speaker 1:You can't blame SMACK Like he gave me a first check.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's vaulting, but the thing is that out it came with fake strings, fake numbers he was. He was holding it like visibility that only can get visible by the app. You know what I'm saying. So when it's time to negotiate some shit, you gotta have the app to show the numbers, and a lot of people that still ain't got the app. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:People got it.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. But visibility wise, how did you start looking at battle?
Speaker 1:rap, of course, youtube.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but SMACK said there ain't enough money. That comes back from YouTube, but you gotta think about it.
Speaker 1:I don't understand why he didn't partner with YouTube, or he could have had a business savvy to do that. That would have been it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he should have just partnered with YouTube.
Speaker 1:That would have been it. Should have just partnered with YouTube.
Speaker 2:Should have renegotiated his yeah, let's say, caffeine gave that bag, got bagged back.
Speaker 1:Somebody. He was gonna get it from somewhere, yeah what Drake.
Speaker 2:Drake kept on with that.
Speaker 1:I mean, I mean, but YouTube, I guess you know they're a billion dollar company, so why not? But I feel like that's the future, that's the way of the future. Like people from the start, yeah, I mean, that's the only thing that makes sense. Why fix it if it ain't broke? So, like anybody who's trying to partner with us, we need to have somebody who know what this person brings to the table and negotiate the deal. Why not? We ain't gotta do nothing, but let them keep doing what they do. That's them. Yeah, they got their channel already. They got subscribers, they did all their work. We just got the platform. It's gonna be a flat this or we see whatever you're growing. We gonna give you a couple more points. Let's go. We ain't losing that.
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