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We have a great show lined up. We got some guests
this week.
Have some guests? Yes, we do.
We have JM, the
founder of the Austin based.
I don't want to say promotion, but
event company, Hubbledvision,
and also he has an artist along with
Blvck Svm that is
originally from Florida,
but has been recently
based out of Chicago.
So, JM,
you founded Hubbledvision.
I guess I have to ask why.
Found why start and
build Hubbledvision?
Well, first and foremost, I feel
like I should give a little spiel
because a lot of people ask me what
the name means.
That works to.
But my question.
Yeah,
for me, like growing up, you know, I
was I was very will till this day.
You know, I call myself an
astrologist to this day, but I was
very infatuated with space, the
stars, the planets, the sky.
And I followed the Hubble Space
Telescope, like, for a young.
Age to do with the.
Telescope. Yeah.
And so I'm not sure how familiar you
all are with the Hubble Space
Telescope, but it was supposed to be
in space for only ten years.
And in 2020 was its 30th
anniversary.
Mm hmm. And so
in that time, I was already kind of
curating and thinking about a
creative community or
collective with my friends.
And it kind of
like, you know, it was just one of
those things where it dawned on me
like, okay, this is this was
supposed to be here for this
long, but it surpassed it
and it went further and it's still
alive and it's still prospering.
And so I took that as a analogy
for kind of what we're doing.
You know, we're a creative
satellite, as I like to say.
And with that being said, you
know, the Hubbled comes from that,
you know, being able to
set out on a journey, but also
not being afraid of where it may
take you because it may take you
left when you're thinking about
right. But that left could be the
right way, you know,
And obviously the vision is just
having the vision to see it through.
Right?
Yeah.
It makes sense.
Blvck Svm, what is it like?
You know, you're from Chicago doing
music. What is it like to work with
HubbledVision?
You know, I've I've been in contact
with GM for a little while now.
A few months, six months, something
like that, maybe even longer.
And when he reached out about
this opportunity, I was really
excited.
I've only done one
festival in the past, so
we've been keeping in contact for
the past few months, like pretty
consistently about this.
And I'm just I'm excited to work
with them. I, I really,
I see the vision that he has,
I think, and just
seeing how he's been able to curate
different events in the past, like
going on his IG and just looking
through everything and seeing
how everything comes together.
It's cool to be a part of that this
and it's cool to hopefully help
push that vision forward.
Have you seen oh,
so this week
Afrotech is here in Austin once
again and you
all threw a show on Friday.
Afro vision.
Mm hmm.
How was it like?
I have to ask, like, how was
the event?
I mean, you know, for me, I'll.
I'll. I'll keep it short.
You know, it's like
whenever we throw events, we really
don't have an expectation,
Right?
Or really a target audience.
You know, I feel like we let our
music and the people we bring around
speak for itself.
And so the outcome
kind of speaks for itself.
You mean.
I've been to I've been to a couple
Hubbledvision events and
I've enjoyed every one I've been to.
Them. And we appreciate, you know
you know, it's after.
I've tried the sauce is great.
You know but it's
it's funny because I'm I
grew up in Austin and so
being able to curate events
spaces that I used
to you know look forward to going to
like eight years ago ten
years ago, you know, like we had a
residency at Native Hostel.
I remember there was a point where
me and my coworkers would go to
Native Hostel to, like, enjoy
ourselves, you know what I mean?
And so I feel like that's kind of a
good way
to kind of see like the progress
that I've done. But as well as the
progress people around me have, you
know, put into seeing things like
this become possible.
And it's very possible.
And so my my question
is for
your music and for your brand, what
do you want? Effort.
How does Afrotech help build and
expand both things?
That was a better question.
Yeah.
That's a good question.
I'll I'll I'll speak on the first.
I think for me personally,
I think I've got to a point where
not only do I have
a good amount of resources that I
can use, whether that be
for miscellaneous, you know, events,
showcases, listening Parties
even like music curation,
music management.
My hope is just
to be able to make people
appreciate Blvck Svm the way that I
do. You know, because
you ask any of my friends like this
man is in my top five.
Yeah. And now he's in
the city of Austin, you know, doing
a performance at my event.
Yeah. So for
me, like, that already is
enough.
You know, and obviously,
everything that I have here, I'm
going to give graciously to you so
that you can be able to exceed
out in the South as well as you
know, where I'm at or whoever
you go.
I appreciate that.
So with that being said, Blvck Svm,
you are out of Chicago.
How do you feel about being out
in Austin now?
So I'm originally from
Florida, from South Florida.
I grew up a little bit north of
Miami.
I moved to Chicago for school
when I went to college in 2014.
So I've been in Chicago for a minute
for about ten years.
This is my first time in Austin.
I think we just got it.
Yeah, we've been around, so
I
haven't really experienced
it fully yet, you know, but to
pop around to a few spots with JM
these next couple of days
and
I guess I just haven't really gotten
a good sense of it yet.
But it's cool to be here.
I like I'm from
the south, like the Southeast, so
I really liked the warm weather and
any anywhere that I go where the
weather is is warm.
That's the mood for me.
So the tropical people.
I'm already enjoying it.
So, yeah.
I was thinking you got y'all got
that cold, too.
Yeah. It's like, Wait a minute.
Isn't that what I signed up for?
I literally, though,
going forward, what's next for,
you know, for you, like, say I'm in
for help. What's what's, what's next
after this? Because I know
Afrotech's this big thing.
And but of course, the vision, of
course surpasses that.
So what's next for you guys?
Are we talking collaboratively or
individually?
Both.
Oh, no, both.
I think JM and I, we
already we put a track together
a little while ago, and
I think
there are just going to be a lot of
opportunities to continue working
together in both the
song creation capacity
and the performance capacity.
Like, I'm always going to be down
to pull up Austin, like wherever
you're at, whatever shows you're
putting on, like you already know,
I'm a tap in.
And because I'm a fan, like
outside of being a collaborator.
Like I'm a fan of
ofJM's work in the same way that
he's a fan of mine.
So I think that that goes a long
way for me.
It's it's really easy to tap in with
people whose work
and whose work ethic I have
genuine respect for.
So
that's what I would say collaboratively
and outside of that.
It's just, you know, putting out
good music consistently.
You're going to get a project ready
to drop in December and
then just push 2024
just in momentum.
Yeah, yeah.
Just, just using all of the momentum
I've built up to continue drop
and continue
trying to be successful
with with making music and
promoting the music all the all the
steps that go into, you
know, getting stuff happen.
Like a mentality.
Yeah. Yeah.
And I would say for myself,
collaboratively, obviously, you
know, I
spend a lot of time listening to
music.
And so for me,
any time I have the opportunity to
bring someone like Black Sam out or
even be able to know somebody
like that, where it's like, okay,
not only are you doing what you're
doing, I'm actively working
to round out everything so that
everything makes sense.
I'm just looking forward to the
future. I think
this weekend will be a very good
testament to kind of the work that
everyone in this room has done.
And for me, you know,
I just want to keep doing stuff
like this, you know, because I
think a lot of people need it,
especially right now in the world.
And I feel like it gives
people more reason to
create, you know, and not only
create but be around creative
people.
Because I'm sure you meet someone
every day that says that they're not
creative.
It's like, are you going to lie in
front of God?
Everybody on Earth is creative.
If you're not around creative
people, if you're not in the
creative circle, then you
know you're not going to think you
create a high standard.
But last thing I'll say about that
is I'm actually about to move
to New York in February,
So thank you.
And I'm definitely hoping that by
the time I get there, you know, I'll
be able to set
similar foundations to what I've
done out here and be able to, you
know, bring people like Black Sam
and even y'all out there, you know,
and, you know, maybe have like a
little special club podcast
for.
I'm.
From New York.
I'm not from New York.
I am gonna stop, stop.
Before I believe in that.
You got to stop doing that.
That is just what
you think your taste is
in New York.
There you go. There's nothing wrong
with that.
I don't see anything wrong with
regard to other people.
I'm from New York.
They start to believe that their
making.
Book.
Is landed, and we will find a
way to get that in there.
But yeah, but that's
collaborative. And then
individually,
as cliche, it's I just want to keep
growing, you know, I want to keep
learning how to balance my life,
whether that be work in
creative work and just
do things better, do things more
efficient, meet more people
and, you know, keep putting
together stuff like this where
there's a lot of different people
come together for one purpose, and
that's to show art, you know,
display our.
Guys, we've got before
we get out of here, let everybody
know where they can follow were let
the both of you let everybody know
where they can follow you on social
air. Find and find your music.
You can find my music on any
platforms.
Blvck Svm with v's instead of A's
of A's Instagrams
the Handle's Blvck Svm, I think
Twitters FpgSvm
Pretty pretty consistent.
Yeah.
They all say the same for me
on everything.
jeanishorus
and then you could find us a
Hubbledivision like the
Hubble Space Telescope.
I hear a lot of people saying, Is
the Hubble division, is it?
I went to school.
I'm not going to
fail. I'm not going to miss an I
just for the sake of the aesthetic,
you know?
But, you know, hopefully you'll
heard my reasoning
behind the title and, you know, can
kind of figure out the rest for
yourselves. But Hubbledvision on
literally everything.
Take care. Thank you all so much for
coming.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me.
This is a go.
Hip-Hop Facts time.
You.
Facts about the culture with
that we check these facts.
Yes.
Yes we have.
So they are.
Fine.
I granted I understand that some
people you don't know how well you
know these what they've been
checked.
You can look these up, you can
Google these and find them.
I'll go first.
All right, let's go.
Let's go.
We don't have any more Jermaine
Jackson, this is this is.
We.
Know what Michael Jackson does.
And I'm pretty sure he's they are
the ones who scrub the Internet of
them.
I'm devilish, right?
I have California
love the Dr. Dre and Tupac
video, which was though had the
mad, mad, Mad Max esthetic.
Every time I think about that, I
think about Snoop Dogg in
the Divine was documentary When he
was when he was describing video,
he was like he said
blank, never see Mad Max before,
which is true about the bad.
Back to that. Really a black people
movie. Yeah, I've seen it, but
there's.
Not like I've seen the original you
know, I've seen the original.
Mad Max Fury Road was good.
Anyway, to sum up in the treatment,
what the video for that was shot by
Hype Williams, the
seminal music video,
Hip hop directors out of the billion
shot.
I.
Barely gotten him.
The treatment was written by Jada
Pinkett, who
at the last minute didn't want
anything to do with the video.
She wrote the treatment for it and
that was it didn't just didn't want
to do it after that.
I figured it.
Out. Although she goes on a press
run, you know, wrote a book.
You mentioned that. But you it's
like, wait and see.
I'm I'm shocked.
Shocked. She mentioned anything, any
and everything that didn't have to
do with Rupert.
They may look different if
you have if you an ex of somebody
who either Jada Pinkett, Britney
Spears, you go through it right now.
Boy, they say Justin
Timberlake packed up and went to
Mexico.
Oh, yeah, but that's not my
fe. Oh, my first fake
Martin Lawrence kid play.
Salt and pepper and salt and peppers
manager Herby at
one point all worked at
a Sears call center in New.
York every.
Yeah I think
at different at one point in
time all of them were there
together. But at certain points it
was like Martin was there to use kid
play, and then it was like Herbie.
And then it was like,
I think Kid or play
it with Herbie in play.
At the beginning, the insult came.
Some people came in in the end, like
they left, and then it was just kid
play and Herbie the like.
At one point all of them were
working at.
Who was the plug that was.
Out.
From what I saw.
They were the people. She was.
I was well, I mean, they hired up.
You come up with a different one.
I thought it was Herbie was working
first and then apparently
he was in a group with Martin
and they was going to do Martin was
trying to do music, and he realized
like, yo, I can't rap.
So I'm not I mean, I'm not.
I'm good on it.
But what
I heard was Herbie was working there
first, and then he got play at a job
and the play was like, Oh, I know
somebody else or I need a job.
And he got killed up there.
And then salt and pepper came in.
Herbie, I think Herbie would want
get near by your job.
I don't know what would Herbie was
doing at Sears.
He was getting out of home music.
I shout out to Herbie, Maybe.
We live in a history you
don't know it
Going from jaded of Will Smith Now
summertime there.
What I guess I would argue that
Jesse Jackson Fresh Prince, big
song.
Oh, I think it's
making appearances on stage.
It might be
slightly I.
Think so that would that would play
a lot of places.
It was I'm not I'm not down I
wouldn't want.
To do whatever Will Smith performs
It's kind of his go to.
I mean who.
But summertime debut after
an episode of Fresh Prince
Williams's new podcast, Class of 88,
he was interviewing
Jazzy Jeff and his son Jaden,
and and asked him like was one of
his big moments as a rapper.
And he was said,
Yeah, we were able to convince NBC
to debut Summertime after
Fresh Prince the short episode,
and Will said he was inspired by
Michael Jackson debut in Thriller on
network television to the Wheels.
Like, I was always one of my goals,
too. And he said, We debuted the
next thing No, next week it was
number one.
That's what's up, man.
We were making history, particularly
drums.
Please.
Turtle, don't do well.
Of course, Spotify, outside of the
Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Well, obviously, it is
their biggest song with over 95
million streams.
Fresh Prince, The Fresh Prince theme
song. I don't know. I had the second
verse.
Boy, and I think I think it was only
played on like the first episode.
I'm like, Yes, it is.
Either the first episode of it was
only played one time.
Yeah, I think I thought the way this
going, what is happening?
It's like it's a whole song.
Oh man.
Did you have to clean it up with boy
man man?
Oh my second fact
where we. Oh,
the movie colors one of my favorite
colors.
Colors, colors, colors.
That easiest hook ever.
Leads me into
my fact that you sung the hook
of the.
Song.
But that was
not originally the
title song for the movie.
Ice-T said.
The song was
called Colors that.
Ice-T said he was brought.
When he was brought in.
He did a whole different song for
the movie and he was like, Yo,
when you are asked to do
music for a movie, you can ask
to see the movie.
And he was like, So we went.
He was like, me.
Him and his producer went to the
private screening for the movie
Colors and
I don't like it move that way,
really of color.
You like
the colors, man.
I'll rock with champagne.
I mean.
You like champagne, but you like.
Never mind.
Yes. No, I do not like Ethan.
Oh, well, yes, I like Sean Penn as
an actor. Yeah.
Talk about act of Go.
Debatable.
But anyway, anyway,
I think I would.
Oh, he said when he
was watching the movie.
As he was watching the movie, he was
like, Yeah, well,
what's the what's the title song?
And then like, the title song was a
Rick James song.
They call you, but
it wasn't cold blooded.
But he was like, Is Rick James
on that is still on the soundtrack,
but he was just like.
Yo, yo, yo, yo. No, we got.
We got to do something else.
He said he went to the director and
was like, Yo, I'm going to do a
title song for this.
And that's how he ended up coming up
with color, because he was like,
Yo, nothing in this movie is for
real. He was like, None of this is
none of this is believable.
None of this stuff actually happens.
He was like, we was watching the
movie and the scene where they
I guess they in the county jail and
it's like bloods on one side and
Crips on one side and they are all
banging and throwing up.
They saw us and said he was like,
You know that? And he's like, That
doesn't really happen when you get
like that. He's like, by the time
you reach that point, you already in
the jumpsuit, like, nobody's in
their interest in like
and they flannels and sneakers and
they k like, nobody's doing it.
Nobody's waving a flag.
I agree with that.
But
like, so he was like, I would just
come up with something better than
what Rick James Then what they chose
Rick James on. They chose to be like
the title song for the movie.
That's how I ended up writing
colors.
So that was not good.
But I'm so.
I like colors, man.
I like bad movies.
It's not I wouldn't say that you
like bad. You just
you had your blinders really come on
And third movie to say that.
I was.
Like, you know, it's like for me we
talk about it to be like, you know,
I like you, the child.
And I watched it one time,
I think when you just moved in to
that apartment we lived in, and I
was like, This movie sucks.
There's no plot to this.
I mean, look at this point,
our into the for the comedy.
Oh God can you if you elaborate too
deep you.
Know hilarious movie at this point
because I'm now I'm just like yo
none of this is believable.
A lot of it is none of this.
And then you learn the fun facts
about the movie you like, Yo, this
is wild.
My final fact, let's go back to Hype
Williams once again, one of the most
important music video directors of
all time, especially for hip hop.
I actually noticed it when I saw the
fact he directed Drunk in Love.
That's not the fact, though.
Recorded by Beyonce and Jay-Z.
I did not that
I guess because that video came out
at a time when videos weren't shown
as much that that the rise
of video them being on TV.
But I'd seen a video about it.
No, it was him because I'm so used
to hype Williams having these big
extravagant videos
and hype, Williams said. That was
the purpose of the video, which is
why that video only took 3
hours to shoot.
If you look at the edit, it looked
like one take.
Went to on.
A beach.
They would run around on the beach.
So I make sure I had the right video
and I haven't been on the beach.
Yeah, I know. You're like Beyonce.
Oh, here we go.
Once again, start with that
narrative. You and and there it is.
But you weren't in Joe.
But
I'm just like, you have got to
laugh.
Why don't we not don't like I mean,
I can't afford it.
What are you talking about?
That you're you're you're going to
Atlanta. You got money pressure to
reach out to you.
You not saying that.
Phrase got money. I will have to be
as the word to label yo.
Uber.
Uber black.
Oh.
We had 3 hours.
3 hours looks rather short
for like a high grade
video, like
artists of Beyonce's caliber and
hype.
Williams big pivot to Glasgow.
Two weeks Yeah well we could have
obviously that want to go down that.
Having to go having to go from
Barbados.
To Miami.
What I made of trips is
I'm prepared all the way to the end
of death.
That's my final fake.
Oh, right.
Oh, my final fact.
Questlove before his
name was Questlove, he went through
a plethora of names
trying to figure out
what to what to name himself.
He said when
they were starting, when him in
black were starting out,
he didn't really he was going by his
actual name, Amir Amir.
And then he was like when they
changed the name,
when they changed the group's name
to the roots, he was like,
Well, I got to come up with
something catchy, you know?
Tariq's going by Black Dot.
I need to I need to come up with
some, like, equally as catchy.
So he said one
of the names he came up with was
a brother question,
and he
was like, when they were doing
interviews, people were just saying
Brother, brother
because he was writing it like
brother with a question mark.
And so they would they will.
Put the question mark in the
teleprompter.
And they would say, I'm.
Ron Burgundy.
And he's they were they would do
interviews in L.A. They would just
be the same brother
like. And he was like, what?
His brother question And it was
like, oh, we just thought, like, you
just say, like.
Like
too complicated for no reason.
So
he's like, the next one was
just like a question mark
because he was like, Yo, you know,
it was around the time Prince, you
know, changed his name. He was just
going by a symbol and he thought
that was cool. So you're.
Not Prince.
He just went with a question mark.
And he was like, people was confused
as now what to call him, because it
was like.
Today, 100 million copies of Sell
It In and Who You Are.
Yet it was like
nobody knew what to call him.
So he was like, Well, I need
something that's cool and as catchy.
So he was like, he was flirting
with like this
question, Love, question,
question, love.
And that's how I ended up landing on
Questlove.
So, yeah, I mean, I like Questlove
the name
I piggyback off your fact
blacked out and Questlove in the
Motown family video Boys, to me.
They all want the same house, right?
You said they could take your
passport, boys.
You made them talent. You that, but
you couldn't.
Call at home. And I do not
know that
well.
Stick around for more after this
quick break.
And now it is time
for unpopular opinion with fresh
himself.
Let's talk about Texas, man.
Okay. The Rangers.
No regulation Rangers.
I mean, shout out to them. They have
won anything yet. But I got to be
honest, I.
Don't think we talked about what anything
it was. It's over.
Is it? Yeah. They won.
Oh, I paid attention.
Boy.
No, clearly, I'm not.
The only one is.
One of the team with 21 years over.
The only one is the lowest rated
to watch the World Series.
A lot of people never watched.
An MLB with man.
They made it all the way.
But shout out to the old man.
I got to the Rangers. There's been a
while me.
But they wanted.
Yes, but no, I'm not talking about
the Rangers. I'm not. When I say
let's talk about cases, I'm not
talking about the Rangers, I'm
talking about Texas rap and Texas
rappers for my
unpopular opinion.
Oh.
I think it's more so of a question.
Do Texas rappers get lazy?
And I ask that because
Vlad and Young Jack.
Yeah, the clip came across
my Instagram, I think
a few days ago, a week ago,
somewhat.
And it was the clip of Young Jack
speaking about Texas
and how, like, you know, Texas
rap was.
And most people say it is.
And I think most people say this
because there's a sense of jealousy
with Texas Rivers.
And young Jack was speaking to how
I you know, in Texas, a lot of the
rappers that you see,
you know, were poppin and had the
money and the houses and the cars,
all of that before they got those
major deal, as we said on
the show before.
Slim Thug's debut album
already platinum was named that
because in Texas he was
already platinum.
Like if you go back in oh interviews
after he got signed, you know,
excuse me, he was saying in
a lot of interviews, yo I everything
that a lot of these rappers had love
already had. I already had
Rolls-Royce. I had the big house.
I had all the jewelry, all the
diamonds because, you know, we were
selling. I was I've been selling in
Texas. I've been went platinum down
in Texas alone.
And young Jack's whole thing
was I think
he felt like at the.
Texas drivers got a bit
too comfortable because
of it. And so now I beg the
question.
Do Texas Rivers get
comfortable?
I just saw Mexico
creeping on Halloween
here, and I was at Anton's
and.
I expected the crowd to be
a bit larger than what it was,
but it wasn't one.
It could just simply mean it was
Halloween in and out and everybody's
on the street when it comes to
Halloween.
So they could have just been here.
They could be like, Yeah, I'm going
to six. I'm not really on to a show
or whatever. I'm doing something
free, going to a bar, bar
and all of that, but.
It got me thinking.
About young Jack's point that
Texas artists or takes
mainly Texas rappers.
When you live in a state as
big as Texas, where
in Texas we are pretty
much closed off and
we don't really care
what the rest of the country is
doing or being
big somewhere.
We don't care about being big in New
York, in Texas, like we don't care
about appealing to the East Coast
or appealing to the West Coast or
appealing to the Midwest.
We feel like y'all from Texas.
We ain't Texas. I don't really need
anybody else.
And that mentality comes
because the other coast ignored
that.
And I think we've kind of held on
to it. And it's what has kept us
rather kept us to ourselves
and continue to feel
like y'all don't really need to be
popping in Atlanta.
Granite L.A.
Rocks with us, but I think
a lot of Texas artists look like
you. I don't really I don't need to
go over there.
I don't need to do a show over
in Florida, Like I don't need to go
do a press run and be in Miami and
be on the radio in Miami.
I'm in Texas.
I can go platinum here
just simply in Texas.
And I think that has made
some artists a bit lazy.
You don't have to appeal,
necessarily. Appeal.
To anywhere else in the country.
Like, I don't if I'm a rapper in
Texas and I'm successful, what
I care about Detroit for, what I
care about doing the show in Detroit
or in Ohio, and
going there and doing the press
rolling when my album comes out,
I'm a sell in Texas and I'm gonna
make my money in Texas and I can
tour throughout Texas and
get my show money and maybe go to
Louisiana.
And be good and be fine, which
is you see, a lot of people have
been saying for the longest time,
man, zero should be way bigger.
Zero need to pop out zero.
Man And when they go gazebos, I
mean, y'all sleeping on zero?
When people don't know about
zero, I think that's because zero
probably looks like, you know, I
don't need to go anywhere else.
I can do what I do in Texas
and be a Texas legend and be popular
in Texas forever and maybe
go over once again to Louisiana,
maybe Alabama or Tennessee.
But outside of that,
I'm good in Texas.
I don't ever need to leave Texas.
And I think a lot of Texas drivers
have stuck with that mentality and
it kind of made them lazy,
especially.
Ones who have
broken out past Texas
like a mac. So I think at
a certain point.
Think. I think things have slowed up
a bit for Mac, so that's
due to certain reasons.
I think fighting the RICO case kind
of helps slow things up a bit,
but I think at the end of day
he kind of looks like
I'm a favor. I live in Texas.
I don't really need like
I don't really need to be anywhere
else Texas going stream music.
So I'm good.
And I think that kind of makes you
lazy when you only think about
just the area that you are
coming out of.
You are from like you.
Don't put much energy into pushing
the music as hard as you can
because you know your people are
going to support it.
Now, granted, that can backfire
because it definitely backfired on
the second album.
He blames it on a tornado hitting
Dallas. But I also was like,
well, what about the resident state?
Like, why didn't
Houston? But our people in Houston
bought out more people in here and
also San Antonio or El Paso
or the rest of the state.
Like what? Like you can't just say
just because people in Dallas
didn't buy that.
Like you've got an entire state.
But I think that's like the one
time that that I know of that
is like backfire.
But like yeah I think Texas
rebels have are a bit lazy,
man.
I disagree.
All right. Let's talk about it.
Your argument, I think,
holds the most weight when
you talk about the
the deejay screwed generation
of rappers, which
I am. McLuhan switched out on that
because they would they started when
the screws got around
that group in
Yamamoto unfortunately has been
He's an engineer too.
He was ran that during that time
that group of Houston rappers
has the mentality of being
self reliant on Houston and
Texas as a whole because they were
selling tapes out of their trunk.
You know, Screw famously would sell
it at his house, which house was
driving around Texas
handing out CDs.
Anybody that came out of that camp,
I can give you argument for.
So, yeah, that includes the fat
parts, the hulks,
the zeros.
Trey is one of them.
That's those are those slim thug in
there.
Palwal these people that
came up seeing
Lil Flip. How?
Having a career.
In Texas can be its own
self-sustaining thing. Like you
said, it's Limberg said I was
already planning before I put out
the album. I had two cars and jewels
and all that, but the generation
after, I would argue, had
a different mentality.
Would you say the same thing for
Dallas?
We mean Well, Dallas to.
Dallas has the.
Same.
Idea.
So I thought it really
they I mean, they did if you talk to
them and I have they did travel
to other places, but they mostly
their base was here.
They mostly focused on Texas.
But I'm saying this next generation
after, which includes we run our age
a little bit younger, I feel like
they started branching out because.
I.
And that you can include like Megan
came from that Travis
Travis yellow B.C.
riff riffraff machine gun Kelly
He's right. He's from Texas.
Is he? He's from Texas.
Really? Cargo bangs, Machine
gun. Kelly from Texas.
Where I know
him to be from Cleveland.
The band were like, wow.
Boy Machine gun.
KELLY Yeah.
He was born in Texas.
Oh, about to like that man Ribs,
Cleveland Heart.
Yeah, No,
they bought Texas.
He like for him to say solid
Cleveland that bone.
In Mexico and Ken the man
getting a man assigned to Roc Nation
in Mexico. Didn't he say Jay-Z
helped him with
like sequels one of his album of the
day song?
Yeah.
So I think they that generation.
I think he's managed by Roc Nation.
Yeah.
So I think that generation branched
out and realized, okay, because
we can't just drive, you know, city
to city, sell to TV anymore.
We have to do more.
So I wouldn't say they're lazy.
And Travis famously left Texas to
get on like nobody Texas put him on.
I do famously remember him.
Getting into it because it was all.
Online. It was seen you around.
And I also thought to myself, Slim,
though, you and your thirties
brothers kid at 18, why would you.
But that But see, that
that exchange to
me proves my point.
Slim and slim thug's mind.
If you're not in Texas, I mean, you
must not exist, but it drives his
body like, bro, I.
I'm not.
I'm not. I'm not.
Because it's limp. It's in pimps.
He said the same thing.
They gauged success by
who they saw walking around the mall
buying stuff that was for them.
Like, okay, you're I see you at the
car show, I see you at the mall.
But then the generation after them
who, you know, couldn't afford it,
which fans couldn't afford, it was
like we got to find something else
because they say, this is not this
is not this is not the culture that
we are part of as much.
So, yeah, I would give like I said,
if the people that we grew up on,
the people you name, yeah, I think
they kind of got to a place like,
Hey, I'm fine, I don't really care.
But the generation after,
like, there's no way.
Megan thee stallion if you the to
take that would be as big as she is.
I agree.
It same thing with Travis.
That Travis state he does.
No, they don't have
that Travis was that a lot of like
gutted. We first came out there's no
way that it worked in Texas.
So yeah I.
Like I said I think yeah that that
deejay screwed generation yet they
didn't care they didn't care
and beautification helped with eight
super independent sales.
So I'd like them to do
it all and they don't care.
But in California they
have to do you know if you if you
listen envision him he you know, at
one point in time he was like really
close to Dr. Dre.
He was on The Grinder, too.
The other one, his second
album had a Dre beat and
put me a beat on it.
And I'm doing I am cool.
I don't really care to do anything
else with this. And like, bro, what?
Like you're the first Southern
rapper with a deejay for me, a beat.
I go, whatever.
And I, I remember
premier talking about then I think
that was more so premier.
Wanting to work with Devin.
Yeah, and like, being a fan of Devin
and like, you know, I'm also from,
like, I know Devin's people, I know
Devin and I know his people.
Yeah. So, like, I want to work with
Devin. Like we from the same,
we from the same city, same area,
same neighborhoods.
So, so that that's what I'm saying.
But David Devin wasn't out here like
you're, I just got to make this album
and try to, you know I may be able
to give me a break. I'll take them,
but I'm not doing it.
I'm a rapper. Let the butcher let
that be. I'm not.
But I, I think the generation
that was fans of the DJ screw
generation, they said we got we got
to we got to grow this.
We can't like say the
things that weren't back in 97
don't work now.
Don't know, don't work in 2017,
in 2017.
And it doesn't work. It's good.
It doesn't you know, even
I don't want to hear it in slip
working that they tried that whole
year. You know we still sustain in
Texas because you've been around 30
years.
Nobody else made.
You couldn't start rapping tomorrow
and start telling you that a guy
that wouldn't work.
So that's not a
thing. But yes, that was going to
popular opinion.
All righty. All righty.
Look, I got confused.
Lou turns into rebuttal.
And now
let's get educated, man.
Here is Confucius reads
the news.
Yeah.
That like we said earlier in the
show, if you get your news from me,
I need to talk to somebody.
I should not be your only source for
news. Granted, also, your source
of news should not be Facebook.
So I get it.
Please allow it to be Facebook.
This happened
last Saturday
so I don't get a chance to really
dive into it because I kept my news
together for the show.
Before the show, I'm not.
I'm not reading the news live, guys
like I'm I'm getting it together.
Then I come on here and talk about
it. My pants dropped out.
Oh, no.
I guess he got tired of doing
rallies at gas stations in KBS
is.
Your website if you want, like a
drugstore dating.
Site.
Well, there was that barbecue spot.
Camilla Well, Bill Miller's.
What was that?
Yeah, it was his. It
sort of surprised nobody.
Mike Pence is no longer running for
president. I guess he thought that
trying to go against Trump was the
move like they all do.
The minute that Trump said he didn't
like you no more, you can do your
job trying to steal an election.
You would like the momentum.
It wouldn't happen.
Like I said, it doesn't help that he
has the emotions of a Terminator.
So that that,
you know, it just wouldn't work
out. But that's one more down, many
more to go. Oh, Larry had also
dropped out.
I didn't even know Larry Elder was
Larry Elder was running.
I only knew because he was on the
Breakfast Club and they did a
horrible job interview with him.
Larry Elder has been
OC. I'm trying to get word to you
that that's nothing.
It's not a curse word he's been.
Shucking and jiving for a while.
You got it. You got to come with it
when you did when you when you did
those type of people, because they
they're out there to use that.
They are prepared for the whole, you
know, what are you you're
not doing things for black people.
They don't care so little that
Mike Pence is out.
I'm pretty sure the next couple
months it'll be more people because
nobody's really holding on.
Person is polling decent distances
and he's still like 50 points behind
Trump.
So it just it is
what he has has.
While.
Moving on to Trump is well,
his lawyer, Olina Hubbell,
says he would not go to jail mainly
because he had Secret Service.
Which you know what?
I make a lot of jokes about Trump
and his people. Good Lord knows they
deserve it.
But that is kind of a good point.
What happens if he does go to jail?
How does Secret Service work?
You know, we've never seen it
before.
We never see it.
I don't know. Like, we don't know
how that works. Like.
Imagine being on the Odyssey Tribe
Walk by the Secret Service.
Like, I think this. Look,
I glad to. I try to be as free.
Do you imagine working for Secret
Service and having to show up every
day to the prison?
Jail matters?
Well, I got to be in here.
I got to do nothing.
Man.
You precio
nowhere, Jones. Who do.
I know? I blending and I try to be
afraid to jump so quickly.
I get protection to man.
Look, you know the guys in the crowd
jump on me, Brett. I mean that.
They had servers work.
For extra help.
He didn't get beat up, but it looks.
Yeah.
Like, bro, we get high for him that.
President in his family they want
to.
Do what you have to think about it
you know you're in bad shape
when your lawyer her excuse for you
being charged for his crimes.
I mean he can go jail. He got you
got Secret Service.
How about he didn't go to jail if he
didn't do it? How about that?
How about that? Be in your defense.
That is not an admission of guilt.
Granted, she did say that.
She said, quote, He's protected by
the Secret Service, period.
So I always tell people when they're
panic, listen, he's protected by
Secret Service, number one.
Number two, he did nothing wrong.
That should be number one.
I would use it.
We should be number one.
I mean, if he did do it, he's got
Secret Service. But I mean, he
didn't do it. That's not had it.
You know what?
It's because nobody wants to work
with Trump. That's why he gets these
bottom shelf lawyers he found on TV
during more.
In the personal injury lawyers.
Yeah. Man
187 occasion now for
you a structured settlement
that a breach at Meals on Wheels
here in Austin somebody open up the
wrong email all the data got leaked
from dates of birth home
address, the diagnostic code, phone
numbers, Medicaid numbers
in some instances, Social Security
numbers, more.
So they are changing security
protocol now
because once again, somebody over
email, they should have asked I get
it e sometimes look very
sophisticated so sometimes you open
up want you shouldn't be why me
that's why you would have to meals
on wheels like if
I'm if I'm writing an email
and I'm trying to hack into
something it's not going to be Meals
on Wheels it right now
it's some debt I got.
I need to clear out. I'm going right
for that.
I mean, I'm guessing they well, some
of them old folks that pension.
See you citizens pensions like
those that are living updated again,
Social Security numbers, I guess.
I'm guessing. I'm guessing.
I mean, maybe they made insurance
that bad. I don't know, man.
It's hard.
So I guess maybe the will tell
people, change your password because
apparently folk around here don't
know how to not open e-mail.
They shouldn't.
I mean, most older people don't.
Yeah.
Variety.
Came out with a news issue.
And the lead story is
crisis in Marvel.
Yes. Marvel Studios, the studio
that makes The Avengers
all your favorite superheroes that
are dark and gloomy.
Apparently, there's a lot going on
over there. Granted, if you're a fan
of Marvel, like me and Fresh York,
it's got obvious.
On one hand, the special effects
team is decided to unionize, which
has never happened for.
They have issues with Jonathan
Majors, who was supposed to be the
new big bad for Marvel.
Thank God to be a white man.
He's having some domestic issues
that he has to go to court
for.
I mean, things kind of turner type
of things seem to be going in a
positive direction for him.
I guess I miss.
I've got to go. He's the guy going
to go for it? No, no, no, honey, get
arrested, fool you. He's got to go
to court, too.
But I know he's still got to go to
court.
I'm just saying he was trying to
like Slade. Honey, I wouldn't have
wanted posted for stuff there, but
what are you doing?
Wanted posters?
Yeah.
What I'm saying is
that I don't want to say that John
Major did do it. I'm just saying
he's not looking good right now.
You do it to me.
That's fair.
That's legitimate.
And I'm always looking at that to
apparently marvel at one point in
time instead of just getting rid him
altogether did bring in Dr. Doom.
Like I say, but we white man.
White comic books game Gaga.
Apparently the movie The Marvels,
which comes out next Friday, is
underperforming ticket wise.
It has one of the lowest
presale tickets of any Marvel movie.
You know, I heard something about
fans and their reaction to
the marvels. They were upset
that Brie Larson
isn't gay in the movie.
And I was like.
Well, she's never really been gay
before. Like, if you read
the books, she's had several
relationships with men.
She's gotten she's never been
like. Well, according to the line, I
was just baffled. It's like, yo
yo la protest because she's not gay.
Well, according to the article,
the problem with they they
normally when they test screening
films, they film it for executives,
not the people involved. Mm hmm.
But because they're so worried about
it, they filmed it for audiences who
say, this isn't what we thought it
was. And also, it's also that helped
that the director in
post-production started working at a
hold on the movie,
which moved the whole of the
country, started working to hold of
the movie.
Yo, that's great.
I'll get back to this lady.
Apparently Mahershala Ali was about
to get out of Blade because the
script that was given to him, he was
the fourth lead, which How do you
make Blade the fourth lead of his
own movie?
It was supposed to be like female
centered, and he was going to be
like a fourth lead of it.
And so Kevin Fogg, who runs Marvel,
had come back in there and just get
rid of everything. And he's now
hired the screenwriter for Logan.
To him. I'm kind of emotional.
He's like, I'm out.
It's like, how do you lose an Oscar
Award winner who called you
to do the movie?
So we'll see what's going on.
Apparently, Marvel was bogged down
by Disney's demand for constant
content. They want a movie to
theaters or a TV show on
Disney Plus.
And Marvel could keep up with that
demand. It stretched everybody to
the end. Clearly, with the movies
being put out would have really
special effects that were being
changed on the fly.
Apparently, She-Hulk, the show and
Moon Knight had special effects that
were added like weeks after the fact
they debuted.
So, you know Kanye West.
Yeah, man.
So but but you know,
the industry still has faith in
Kevin Feige.
They had a marvel.
They have not rolled out the X-Men
yet. Fantastic Four.
And I think industry insiders feel
like that might be their saving
grace. There's also talk to them,
try to bring back the original
Avengers, you know, Robert Downey
Jr, Scarlett Johansson.
Which, if that's the case, Seyfried
would pay for the cleaner, pay for
the job.
By the way.
It's great to have Scarlett Johansson
through your boyfriend and break
the bank.
Disney got it.
And they do got it.
So let's see, man, you know, I'm
going see Marvel's next week.
I am going to probably see it
after I come
back from Atlanta.
I will leave.
I was out in the news with this note
in regards to Marvel comedian
Roy Woods Jr who was on The Daily
Show. He's leaving now because he
should have made the damn host.
But they didn't.
He made a good point about Marvel
movies now.
He said, When I was growing up,
if I saw a sequel to a movie,
all I had to see to understand what
was going on in the sequel was the
movie before it.
Now, would marvel after what, six
shows and three other
movies? I understand what the hell
is going on in these movies, and
that is Confucius reads the news.
Oh, right.
I mean, it is a lot to Kibo.
We're now in the whole MCU and,
you know, everybody else is kind of
picked up in their own little
universe.
Yeah, kind of.
Yeah. So it's a lot If I'm not.
For Loki getting rid of all those
multiverses. Cause I've got to go
get this back to one.
Yes, I'm going on the.
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