I'm Fresh and you are now listening to the Breaks podcast. These are highlights from our Saturday night hip-hop show on KUTX 98.9 in Austin, Texas. My co-host Confucius Jones and I are native Austinites and we love talking to hip-hop, Texas hip-hop, hip-hop history, and what's going on right now. And just so you know, the opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and do not necessarily reflect the position of KUTX in Austin, Texas.
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So like I said, South by Southwest
is over. South by South-breaks 2024 is over.
Actually, I feel like we're forgetting somebody. Jakarta.
Jakarta.
I need to tag Mike on this graphic,
cause I was when I was making the
pose, I'm like, I forgot somebody.
But he had and shoutout them, they
had a great show.
My favorite part of it was our
shortest bout that breaks.
I love that I was home by 1130.
I love that, I mean, I went home and
took a shower and got nice and snug
in my bed.
It was a great, great show.
So now, of course,
I understand it and we're kind
of doing the same thing. You take
time to get
your life back together after South
by Southwest.
If you're involved in a heavy way
and also to look forward to the next
year.
Great. Some people a friend
of ours who was working south by.
They go on vacation right
after.
I wish I could.
Well, I mean, some people here, even
did.
I probably am next year.
Wouldn't be mad at it.
But there's nothing wrong with
looking forward to the next year
right now. Granted.
With that being said, we have no
idea who's going to be on side by
side.
None.
That's not even an inkling.
But for all of you out there who saw
the lineup.
And all of you out there who hit us
up wanting to be on the lineup.
This is the best way to get on
our radar.
And we're about to explain it.
I'll start it off.
First off, start submitting
music now.
That's the simplest thing I can give
you to start doing it now.
Like we said before and numerous
times on the show, the way we
operate in terms of selecting
artists is either one.
You have undeniably
created this huge buzz in the city
within hip hop and R&B, to where we
have no other choice but to
put you on a showcase, for example,
a great source of great songs and
blew up last year of digits
shipped through our digits.
It blew up, we started
playing it, and then we had heard of
Summer jam.
She didn't submit the song to us,
but the song got so big
we had no choice but couldn't.
We could not ignore.
Couldn't you acknowledge?
Yes, yes, yeah.
Now, on the other hand, you have
somebody like a Jedi I512
who we have been playing on here for
a while. He becomes artist of the
month up here and he gets a rotation
of KUTX and we also add him a summer
jam.
So he went through the process of
submitting music, getting recognized
kind of by the listenership here
and then us adding summer jam.
So that's kind of how it goes there.
We try to add people on there who
not only do we play on a consistent
basis so the listeners know who they
are, but somebody who the listeners
might know about already because of
the moves they're making in the
city.
Those are the two best ways I can
think of to get on.
Man, put your best foot forward and
then the best music that you have.
If we like it, as I tell most of
y'all, when I see y'all and y'all
come to me.
Me. Why you put me on show me,
man. I needed to Be on this show,
man. Why am I not going on the show?
Man. Send the
music.
It's very simple, very simple.
Like I tell a lot of y'all
KUTX loves when we do something
or when they do something and hey,
they have the music to play
is real easy.
Something that is already being
play, whether it's just being played
on the breaks or in the regular
rotation.
They like that.
Send the music, send the
music. It's really not that hard,
man. If you don't want to send the
music that just tell me you don't
care. And if you don't care,
don't expect me to care.
So send the music.
It's just, it's it's really as
simple as that.
Or like Confucius said,
man, get your buds up to where
it is just undeniable.
Yeah. Just undeniable.
Like you mentioned, grace.
And I even say jet.
I was even at it when we added them
to Summer jam.
I think he was at a point to where
it was like, you really can't ignore
him. He's kind of the most at
that point was probably the most, if
not one of the most consistent
artists releasing music.
And a lot of people were talking
about Jada. We just happened to get
him for his very first performance,
and he hasn't done anything since.
He's put out music.
Yeah, he's put out music, but he
hasn't performed, and I think that's
just the way he wants it.
But yeah, word
we are paying attention.
I know a lot of y'all think that we
are not paying attention, but we're
paying attention.
And if you don't make the line,
then you just don't make the lotto.
Maybe try again next year.
Like, I mean, to be fair, side
by side breaks is not to know all
ends all. But I mean, I get
it helps and everybody wants that
stamp of approval and credibility.
And not just that, but my advice to
artists would be plan out your year,
right? Say to yourself, okay,
I didn't make Side-By-Side breaks in
March.
Let's say I'm gonna just take March
off and reassess some things.
But when April comes, I'm going to
start from April to next
February.
My plan is going to be this I'm
going to put up this amount of
music. I'm submit this amount
of music to them. I'm gonna reach
out to them in some way.
I'm not gonna lie to you guys.
I don't mind emails.
And I understand that's some of the
only way y'all can kind of talk to
us. But also, it's kind of make
yourself stand out. And I'm not
saying, like, I'm just super, super
special person that needs special
privileges, but try
to do something to be like, hey, you
know, I check out the show all the
time. I like the last thing I talked
about. It was really Interesting.
Don't insult me.
I tell you that even if you're
trying to be sarcastic, you
don't troll me.
Yeah, that don't work.
Don't troll me.
That your music is just undeniably
that good. Please don't.
I don't care if it is, I will swipe
left and delete that.
Don't troll me.
Don't throw me.
You know, just something like that.
Because what I found is a lot of you
guys that complain
about us not playing your music or
putting you on our showcases,
or people who want
to be a part of them, don't
really listen to the show.
And so it would help sometimes
if you out in emails would say like,
hey man, like, you know, this last
topic I talked about really
interesting. Here's my thoughts on
it. No, I agreed with Frazier.
You Confucius I have music
I think you know might fit into
what you are looking for was good
and whatever.
Something like I said to stand out.
But the main thing is you want
to be able to create a type
of brand and buzz that
the listeners recognize.
The reason why, you know, you see,
like the One Trees or the
Rock, the Park, all these lineups or
South lineups.
It's because a lot of these artists
we play on a consistent basis
and listeners want to see them.
I can think of even this year at
Schultz, you know, we play girl on
girl a lot and girl, girl and girl.
And it was a good turnout format.
Schultz people want to see him cast.
Overall, I was just about to say I
missed cast overall, but I heard
that the turnout for cast overall
was really good.
What's her name from?
Seattle. Brittany.
Howard.
No. Not really.
Yeah. Brittany Davis I heard, like,
it was a great performer and she had
a great turnout at the radio days.
Days? You know why?
Because we play her consistently.
And that's the thing. Like, as an
artist, you want.
It's kind of like people say about
money. You want to have different
streams of income.
You don't have just one musically.
You want to be able to have
as many people as possible listening
to you so that you get asked to be
on these stages, because that's
really what it comes down to.
And we're we're honestly the lower
level of it, but it's higher you get
in the industry. They're going to
ask you, well, how many streams
do you have or how many shows have
you done? What type of shows have
you done?
Because nobody wants to take a
chance on somebody who has nothing.
And by nothing I mean no buzz, no
good catalog of music.
I've talked to a friend of mine.
He's trying to put out music, I told
him, I said, man, just rerelease all
the stuff you already have. You
think it's good enough to rerelease
it so you can have a back catalog?
So when people look you up, they can
say, oh, he's had this whole thing
going on.
For example, I like Lucky Day when
he dropped a song over what his
biggest song I rather used biggest
song.
It made me really go back and look
at his past catalog.
He has a lot of stuff that, you
know, just never caught on, but
it was dope.
Was probably his biggest song.
But yeah.
Which song?
Role some more.
That's like, oh, was almost Jordan
excited.
All right.
I mean I don't know.
But I understand what you're saying.
Even when Romo came out when like
when you went to look up Lucky Day,
there was still stuff there.
Yeah. So I
same thing that people said about
Nipsey when Nipsey passed out, I was
musically. Well, yeah, a lot of it.
So that's what I tell artists like
just create a back catalog.
And just like I said, get to a place
in your career to then we put
you on that stage.
You already have a built in kind
of base, because what happens is
a lot of times you guys come to us
saying, like, I want to be a part of
South Bass. I break one of the
people out of Summer jam, and
we look at him like, if we put him
on the stage, the people that
probably show up, it's going to be
the friends and family, which is
fine, I get it.
But bro, this ain't 12th grade
theater. But we we're trying to, you
know.
Trying to catapult you and push you
forward.
And reward the listener.
You know, like, hey, you know, you
you support this. All this because I
remember when I went to was after
the month, had a couple people
emailed me, fans of KTC saying like,
oh, we like his music.
We're fans of him.
I had that when he was there at the
when he when he was performing at
some of them, a lot of people was in
that they enjoyed hearing him or
heard him first on the
breaks and they been enjoying us
playing him.
I think, you know, stuff like that
is important. But like I said, we're
not thinking about side by side
breaking down, you know, pop our
minds probably around November,
December.
Don't come in February,
no part of February
asking about the show because I'm
going to tell you by
February the latter will be done.
I will be done in January.
We will be sitting back and
just waiting for South By to
happen by February.
Don't come February say,
oh, I need to be on that now.
And if I hear you saying, I don't
know how they doing it without me,
I'm going to reply to you and say
the same way. We've done it for the
last six years.
My best example
is be. My final one would be
if you're trying to pursue somebody
romantically.
My best advice
on doing that is go after somebody
who likes you.
What I mean by that is you go after
somebody who takes
an interest in you.
Wants to support you, wants to help
you, and wants to be
a part of your life.
Right?
I would suggest not doing that with
somebody who.
You just met.
And the problem with a lot of you,
honestly, is y'all treat us like
y'all just met us.
We've been on the air seven years.
We've made it very clear from our
email, Twitter,
social media, whatever, how to
submit music.
Don't pop up on Valentine's
Day saying, hey, I want you to be my
Valentine's Day.
Well, we have never heard about you
before in our lives.
Who are you and why should we do
this.
And send the music?
Just send the music, man.
That is the best way for
us to gauge whether
we want you on a show or not.
May send the music and send it
consistently.
Don't just send one song and
then be like, oh, but I sent one.
But you sent it in June
because come time to do
send us our breaks.
We might not be playing it anymore.
Exactly.
So there's so many podcasts
now. So many, so many.
It's the new I got it mixtape
effects.
It's kind of been there, but now
it's like it's.
Really out there, especially for
athletes. But, we're focusing
on music.
Somebody who I've been seeing on
majority of those podcast,
is former Roc-A-Fella CEO Damon
Dash.
Now I'm going to give you some
backstory. Dame Dash now headed over
to fresh for the topic.
Dame Dash was one third
of the ownership
of Roc-A-Fella records, which
included Dame Dash, Kareem
Biggs Burke and the greatest
rapper of all time, Jay-Z.
Dame Dash is responsible
for elevating Jay-Z
to superstar status.
Dame Dash is from Harlem, and
he took a chance on somebody from
Brooklyn. If you know anything about
people from New York.
People in New York are super
territorial, so that is a big deal
that somebody from Harlem decided
to take a chance on a rapper from
Brooklyn.
To put it in a Texas reference
is like somebody from Dallas
taking a chance on somebody from
Houston.
Eventually paid off.
Roc-A-Fella records and Jay-Z
were one of the biggest labels and
biggest artists of the late 90s and
early 2000.
At some point in the mid 2000,
Dame Dash and Jay-Z Green Big
Bird go their separate ways.
The exact details are not known.
There's all kinds of speculation and
opinions about what happened,
and to this day, Dame Dash and Jay-Z
seem to not have any type of
relationship.
Dame Dash has been going on podcast
explaining his feelings
about Jay-Z and what have
Rockefeller for years,
so much to the point that what
people feel like they've talked
too much.
But the question I have is,
does hip hop need another Dame dash?
Does hip hop need another
dame?
Dash.
Oh, man.
Now for context,
one of the things that people
alleged Dame Dash and Jay-Z fill out
about a Dame dash is very
egotistical and he yells a lot.
He's boisterous.
Yeah.
So does hip hop need
another dame, dash?
I'ma say no.
My explanation is we already
have Dame and these
days I'm big on.
We already have this.
We don't need a duplicate of that.
What hip hop needs is somebody to
take what Dame did
and then raise the bar and elevate
it. We don't necessarily need
somebody to come in and be exactly
what Dame Dash was.
We just need somebody to come in and
be better at what Dame did,
or take what dame did and just take
it to its
next evolution, whatever that
may look like.
I know Dame catches a lot
of flak because yes
Dame talks a lot.
Dame is always talked a lot I
believe is just that.
Now like you said
everybody has a podcast.
Yeah. And social media pushes
everybody out there.
So now we are just really seeing
Dame Dash talk more.
But if you follow Rockefeller
the way Confucius that
I have, you know, like
this is just par for the course
of the day. This is just dame if
Dame if Roc-A-Fella was still
around, I believe Dame would still
be the most talkative person of
him, Biggs and J.
I think he would be still on
everybody's podcast
all throughout the city of New York,
cause most of these podcasts I'm
finding are based in New York.
I think he still will be doing it,
but I just think hip
hop needs somebody
to come in and just
do Dane better.
One of the knocks against Dane
would, like you say, he's
boisterous, he talks loudly, he's
egotistical.
He's not nice to people.
Yeah, he's he would be right.
You in front of everybody and
embarrass you and then act as if
like that was okay.
And like, yo, man, just suck it up
and just keep and get the job done.
But that isn't always can do.
That's not conducive in the
workplace. One, you can get sued by
that these days.
So we don't need somebody to do
that. We need somebody to
have the same mindset, well,
get the job done in a more conducive
way within the industry
in this day and age.
But I think a dame like person
is needed.
I saw a video of Ray Daniels, who
also talks a lot,
and he was saying that,
you know, the reason why you
don't see anymore.
I guess he was meeting superstars.
He said the record
label Kill the Star,
and I was like, it's still stars
in music, period.
Were superstars.
I don't think that many superstars.
And he was saying the label kill
superstars because they don't
sign subsidiaries anymore,
like Roc-A-Fella was a subsidiary
of Def Jam Records,
and then Def Jam is also a
subsidiary of Universal
Music Group.
I don't agree with that. And most
AutoZone subsidiaries,
most of them are signed directly to
the major.
True, but the gist
of his point was, is that
you don't. Or at least I
think at least he's not saying
that you have these smaller
labels being bought or brought
in by these bigger labels that are
the incubation or curating
the next star and the artists,
and those are the ones that are
developing the artists, and then
they end up at Interscope.
Then you get a Dreamville that ends
up at Interscope, and now we
can usher out an Ari
Lennox.
I would say she's a stoner
superstar. Well, our willingness
also has some things that she has
done, how she got to get
under control herself.
But that's neither here nor there.
But I think that's what Dane
was. Dane was the guy that
saw the talent in somebody
and that could be able to say,
you know, we can work with this.
I like beans, let's get beans.
I think we can make him a star.
He can rap.
We can mark him.
We can find a way to market
beans. And I found a way and he got
to go. Albums.
I'm not sure what to become.
Indeed it might I wouldn't go, I
wouldn't percentage in album sales
by the time he kind of came out.
But the first two albums wouldn't
go.
And JCA.
Oh, he he became a millionaire.
And I think, like you,
that's just what day in Rockefeller
was like. We're going to find these
artists that probably no other label
would give a shot.
And we're going to show you that,
you know, we can make them a star,
and I can push them.
I can give them they shot.
I think that is
needed. We just don't need it.
The way Dame went about always
doing things.
There's been plenty of people after
Dame who had Dames mentality
and more successful
and went further than he did, I.
Think because the way they went
about it.
I think there's more dames
needed only because you
need more people now in the
industry, especially hip hop, who
willing to take chances on new
artists and really
invest into them like Dame did with
Jay, I mean.
And make the same mistakes they did,
unfortunately.
And this doesn't take away from
Dame's intelligence of greatness.
Dame ended up being
a means to an end, which I think
is why he gets on his podcast and is
so emotional about what happened in
him and.
Jay, because he recognized that he
was a means to an.
End. He was he that J
not used him as a stepping
stone, but
as the story of J is told, Dame
becomes a stepping stone for J's
ascension to where he is now,
because clearly J has gone on to be
bigger after Dame than when he was
with him without music.
Exactly.
And so there are people, and that's
just the game. But a lot of people
don't want to accept that, hey,
you might just be a stepping stone
in somebody else's career.
It's human nature to want to be
a part of something that's great,
and to stay a part of something
that's great.
But it's also very true.
The reality of it is a lot of great
things go through evolutions and
changes, and you might not be there
for all of it.
What invasion say on,
on the Avengers movie, something
isn't beautiful because it lasts.
Yeah.
Like it's not great because it's
going to last forever.
Like the rain.
You can't rain forever.
Although people try, but you just
can't reign forever.
But some people out there and
anybody who's listening, who
aspiring to be a music manager or
being a music executive, you have
to understand that Dame's problem
is that he never accepted
and he still hasn't accepted,
that J just outgrew
him.
A lot of you guys that once again
are listening, guys and girls who
want to listen and become music
executives need to realize that
you're going to be that person, too.
Now, once again, Dame's problem was
Dame was the bad cop to J's good
cop. So when they split up,
obviously everybody goes with good
cop.
Dame has been very vocal about the
fact that he went he fought many
battles behind J.
And he's hurt now that J is not
around anymore, but.
You know, you got to give him credit
for that. Because for him willing to
go, to give it all for
one artist who he didn't grow up
with, don't get a misconstrue.
Most of these guys in New York, they
grew up together.
And so even Steve's dad and I grew
up in the same project.
So, yeah, the
music industry needs more of that,
but it just needs more people to
understand that.
You're not going to always be around
for the whole duration of an artist
career. Jazzy fate was
instrumental in Sierra's creative
beginning, and they're not.
They made music.
This is what the second album.
Tope and Tia.
Yeah. They're not they're not
together anymore. So that's just
that's just life sometimes.
But I think that's what I mean by,
like to have
somebody with dames mentality
just change the way you do
your focus, your focus
and and how you approach these.
Like, yeah, like you said, you're
going to have to realize that.
Yeah, you might just be the stepping
stone. Yeah.
You might be the sugar knight to
somebody. Doctor Dre.
Yeah. And if you notice the
similarities with Sugar Knight and
Dame is that you
could tell they were fully convinced
that without that,
their presence is the only reason
that these artists that they've, you
know, helped out.
I helped get to superstar status.
That is the only reason that that
happened. Like, these people cannot
exist on this level unless I'm
involved in it.
I think that is the
ultimate downfall of Dame like
reason. I think a one of those
podcasts can tell you which one.
Just seen the clip.
He was talking about his whole D.D.
172 venture.
Right.
And he spoke about it as
if it was this label that he had all
of these artists, the Wiz Khalifa,
the big creates, the currencies,
the Staley's and how like,
yeah, smoke this like, yo y'all, I
talked stallion. He went over it and
he took that deal and and it didn't
end up working out obviously talking
about Staley signing with IMG,
which I believe under at the time
was under Atlanta.
Yeah.
And it didn't work out.
And then Staley is now back
independent. Well
then framed it was framing
it like so you're trying to tell you
you don't take that I was the one
looking out for you.
Well, but isn't that what you want
for an artist that you work with?
Don't you want them to aspire
to get a bigger gain and go get the
bag? Ain't that what we all about is
going to get the bag?
Staley did what he felt was best
for him at that time, and he thought
like, yo, me signing with Rick Ross,
who at the time arguably was the
hottest guy in the game,
starting his label.
And now I'm over here with meek,
who's scorching hot and wild.
They just one guy, Wally, who was
also hot, and then they bring me to
kind of balance this out.
Yeah, I'm gonna go over here.
Deals don't work out.
That's music.
That's just entertainment.
Period. And Dame
frames it as if, like you say, they
like. Easy. Y'all would have been so
better off if it were just me.
But who said that?
Because currency suits you.
Yeah, and cars left aside
and turned out pretty good.
Don't seem to be complaining to me.
Facts.
Neither does Big Crate.
Neither does Wiz Khalifa.
It worked out for Wiz Khalifa going
and taking the big deal.
Mind you, all of these people still
had their own thing going because
Cory was running with Johnny Shapes
and that was his manager.
So it ain't like he needed you to be
a manager.
It's not like we needed you because
Wiz was hot, bro.
By the time he hit Diddy.
172.
As I spoke this, I probably needed
to, but I don't see him hurting
either.
I think the overall thing is his
name just hasn't that.
He's like I said, the downfall and
we both thought we both said he
never understood that.
Maybe I'm not ready for the higher
ups like I wanted.
But of course his arguments always.
Well, I didn't want to be that
person anyway. Well, I think he did.
I think he did too.
Especially so many people who
started under him, you know, are now
those positions.
But I do agree with you.
I do think that more
Daim esque people are needed
to take the big risk on
more unknown artists.
Cause remember, ladies and
gentlemen, Jay-Z
was turned down by virtually every
major label, all the label, even
the label that he ended up over
there with the distribution deal in
Def Jam.
They originally turned him down
and did not sign him,
and Dame took that chance
and helped Jay get hot.
I think that is needed more and
I think they're out there.
I just think we just haven't seen
the next dame
make themselves. No.
Don't go anywhere.
We'll be right back.
I'll pop that unpopular opinion.
Hip hop next time you jump the
gun.
That little fast forward of the
show.
Unpopular opinions coming, but right
now, right now, right now. Say but
perfects.
Who wants go first.
Kick things out. Kick things off.
Google recently
I think ban be announced is that the
artists balls have passed
away.
I saw a reporter before that she had
made an Instagram post about needing
a new kidney for some renal,
I believe, disease that she she was,
going through, but
Bhumi tweeted that she had or posted
on Instagram that she had passed
away. So my fact is, boss was the
first woman to be released
on Def Jam.
Worse, I also didn't know it was a
Def Jam worst idea.
It just didn't didn't happen.
Well, she was the first woman.
Really make tables over there.
I think you might have been the
first artist released, but she
was because I received the first
woman released from on Def Jam was
signed by Russell himself.
Yeah. Def jam had left Jam West,
their Jam South, and all the reason
Def Jam South took off as good
little music had been that before.
Literally would have never.
You know, rumor has it some
it was fact.
keep.
That. Yeah. Keep it, keep it, keep
it, keep it, keep me if you got it.
If you gotta ask, keep it.
Now I'm trying to think of what my
original fact was going to be.
Yeah, I'm gonna make it fake,
because that original fact was kind
of more speculation than okay,
now it was Drake's new favorite.
Seem like neither one of them know
the truth to it.
No. So piggyback off yours
or a Pita to boot.
Def Jam South was run by Scarface.
And Ludacris is what he had to take
off. But when Scarface
first put in charge, he tried to
recruit people from the home team.
He tried to get Paul, walk me in
that little flip and they all turn
him down.
Me they say that deal was trash.
I'm sure he says it.
I'll get your back. Rick.
It's Def Jam we love to tape you
message you raised.
So originally Def Jam South
was going to be had.
It work itself out would have been
the home base for the Houston
explosion.
But also the argument that had they
all going over, there would have
been a Houston explosion.
I can see.
That. And the only reason Ludacris
was able to take off the way he did,
in my opinion, is because he was
already huge in Atlanta,
because his album back for the first
time is basically incognito
with like 3 or 4 new songs.
So.
Well, I mean, things happen for a
reason, right? Yeah.
Whatever reason.
My second fact,
Andre 3000, apparently
one of his first rap names was jazz,
and that was because of.
Trying to talk with.
Yeah. He explained that, is
because of the song we got the jazz
and him in Big Boy were
huge Tribe Called Quest fans, which
I think if you are now cats fan you
you know that because they picked
him up and give him props to.
O.
A Tribe Called Quest.
Many of times anyone supposedly was
supposed to do an album.
Yeah, for to say that.
Before five passed away.
The video footage leaked of Andre at
the advice. You know, we do an album
that was never gonna happen.
You don't think it was going to happen?
No.
I think it could have happened.
Now, Andre is very
self-aware, and I think he got to a
place like, you know, I'm really
only here because I'm a fan of these
guys, not because I really want to
do this.
I think that's why it would have
happened, because I think he would
have got the he was so much of a
fan, I think he would have wanted to
do it. I'm not saying he would have
put his best foot forward.
No, I think Andre thought someone
else. People do it. It's kind of
like there's nothing I can add to
this. It's like when Quincy said it
was a no no, neck with
that. Dre said Stevie hit him up.
Oh, yeah.
He's like, how can I beat this?
Like, I can't beat it that you
worked on.
Anyway, moving on.
It is the 20th anniversary of
confessions.
Usher's seminal album,
his biggest album that's.
Been selling.
The second highest selling album of
2000, behind No Strings Attached and
sixth album, the newly reunited In
Sync.
Apparently the album was inspired by
none other than Eminem.
Wait, what?
According to usher, quote, I have
Eminem to thank for that.
Well, in the time where I felt like
music was in transition and R&B
specifically was in a place where it
could go older or could kind of
be what it was.
You had all these great, you know,
artists that were either performers,
dancers, singers or whatever, but I
felt like there was
no honesty in the music, the honesty
of hip hop and what Eminem was
saying on his records.
It motivated me like, yo, if he
could be that honest, you know,
through hip hop.
And there have been other stories,
storytellers, but never quite as
vivid as Eminem.
So I was like, we need to keep it
real. Like Eminem.
I want to go all the way in.
So let me talk about the unspoken,
the things that people don't want to
talk about and don't want to have to
deal with.
That's interesting.
I had no.
Idea. I mean, either, but
considering confessions is about
Jermaine Dupri and then Jermaine
Dupri says, yo, that never really
happened. Like, I didn't get
somebody else.
I wasn't with somebody, didn't get
somebody else pregnant.
But I just was like, with Jermaine.
I've heard you say that this song
is about you and like.
But I don't know, man.
He did.
Like, but no, but I think what he's
trying to say is not so much about
what you're saying that I.
It's my life. But let's talk about
things and on records and R&B
records that normally aren't talked
about in most albums.
Yes.
Him talking some very, some very
real topics. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's right.
And if you think about it, Eminem
was huge in the 2000.
So you got to make sense what kind
of he.
Was he didn't do.
Hone in leg, I guess.
Makes sense.
All right, my third and final fact.
To A Goofy Movie, which is said to
be the Blackest Disney movie
ever.
Somebody said it was who was there?
I said I didn't see them as being
Black. I didn't watch it as a kid
and see goofy as a
Black man. That's not what I saw
when I saw goofy, and to be honest
with you.
But, but but the consensus says it
is the biggest movie.
So I'm rocking with the consensus.
Whole episode of The Light about it
when it went true.
But that's just
I mean, I get why the episode
was meh. But anyway,
like I said, I'm rocking with the
consensus. So with that being said,
apparently Bobby Brown
was supposed to be the original
voice of the musical
acting in A Goofy Movie power line
that was supposed to be Bobby Brown
not having Campbell.
Apparently, powerline is supposed
to be an amalgamation
of Michael Jackson, Prince,
and Bobby Brown.
Aptly so.
Disney wanted either one of those
gentlemen and they went after Bobby,
and I didn't read why
Bobby ended up not doing Prodigal
Son. Bobby Reason and
Tevin Campbell ended up being it,
and I think it worked out for the
best.
Oh, wow.
Nice.
Another anniversary.
Mad villainy.
Yeah.
Collab between the late, great MF
Doom and Madlib.
The entire album was produced by
Madlib, except for the first track,
which was produced in collaboration
with doom.
It is also considered one of the top
500 albums,
as voted by Pitchfork.
And, say, rolling Stone.
By Pitchfork. Five of their all time
all caps.
When you spelled a man's name.
It was ranked number 11 on the Best
Albums of 2024
on The Wire and All Music.
The main thing with the album was
that it almost didn't happen.
So I can, I can imagine.
MF doom is famously what was
famously known to be hard to find,
and so in 2021, when they
would, you know, as the album
started, the idea of the app started
to come together.
Egan, who was the manager
of stones Rose label, which is
Madlib, was signed to,
had a friend in Kennesaw, Georgia,
which is a suburb of Atlanta.
And asked the friend say, do you?
If you know, do you mind giving him
some beats?
And three weeks later said the
friend called back and was doomed.
Love instrumentals won't work with
Madlib, but one of his quasi
managers made an offer asking for a
plane ticket to Los Angeles in
$1,500.
So apparently when they got out
there, they basically like, so about
this money and they stole through it
and had the money.
So, Egan said
that he's basically playing with
just Doom and Madlib in the room and
hope that they'd start working
together. Just hope.
For the best.
And then figure it out. And it ended
up working out for the best.
And they got the money to him eventually.
Yeah, I mean.
I'm glad it worked out.
Yeah, I know that's considered a
very important thing in hip hop.
So it is, it is, it.
Is about the Madlib and the late,
great MF doom.
Which people say.
I saw a video recently
about MF doom, and people was like
the people only I was in.
If it was some random podcast
and they were like, they didn't get
it. Like give me one album by
MF doom that like
solidifies everybody's argument for
them. And my mind went to mad
villainy. And the person who, like,
I can't really name one.
I mean, you ain't really listen
cause you could easily say it mad
villainy or easily say,
food and like been done with and
done with that whole argument, but
all right, man.
Unpopular opinion. Time
had to give the dramatic pause, and
I'm not mad at him.
He would fresh himself right now
on the breaks.
Last year.
Is due last.
Year. That.
I'm sorry. You got it.
You got it.
Last year we had, windy day
on the show, correct?
No. The last. That was 2023.
All right. The years have been
blending together. Like who?
You who you telling?
But last year, in 2023, we had
the great windy day
on the breaks.
And she also she also spoke
about when she was here.
She spoke about the podcast
that she co-hosts, the Chico
podcast that I listen to quite
regularly, and I share the clips.
I share the clips with you all on my
Instagram story.
I hope you all are paying attention.
And one of the clips
got me thinking.
And it's something that I had
already been thinking.
But when her and her podcast
fellow podcast host, Kingpin in
Ferrari said it, I was like,
I've been saying this man.
And their whole thing was
which is my unpopular opinion, is
talent doesn't matter.
Their argument was talent doesn't
matter within the industry and it
has never mattered.
I don't know about it.
Had talent never
mattering, but.
When I say talent doesn't matter.
I'm saying.
Talent isn't the only thing you
need.
In the 21st century, in the year
2024 to break
through.
I hear a lot of artists,
a lot of artists, all
caps on that.
Say, oh man, I'm
telling you, man, I read way better
than me. What are you getting at?
Look, man, I mean, I read way better
than you. How are you? Listen to me,
I rap better. Oh, I sing better than
you, so who
cares?
Who cares? We all have heard the
saying. It's a dude in the hood
right now who's been enjoying it and
getting no shot. Why he didn't get
the shot.
Just because you can hoop don't mean
you should be Jordan.
Why? He didn't get the shot.
Did he put the work at the game?
Was he out there practicing?
Was he had to putting up shots?
Was he the as determined
as Michael Jordan?
Did he go to college?
Yes. Did he get the grades to go to
college?
Yes. You just don't think it's
easy. But see my scouts.
Why?
You don't know? He went to a you, I
guess.
I don't know, it's a million
reasons. I my thing is,
talent isn't the only thing
that prevails.
You is not the only thing that
push you forward in this day and
age.
I believe talent will get you in the
door.
But once you in the door, then what
you going to do that you more
talented? So it's five
other people in that same room that
you in that's highly talented.
So what?
Everybody gotta find some way.
As Confucius said when we were
talking about Sabah
South breaks, you gotta do something
that makes you stand out.
Talent isn't going to get it.
I think Cardi B
is highly talented, but I don't
think her talent is what pushed her
forward.
It was the personality and
everything else that came with
who Cardi B is that made
us all stop and pay attention.
We all didn't stop and pay attention
to the music because we just like,
yo man, she really spitting on his
track, man. We made man.
I mean, she really spitting on lick.
That's not what made us pay
attention to Cardi B.
We were paying attention to Cardi B
because we thought
she was hilarious. We thought she
had a great personality.
She was relatable.
If she was just somebody that we all
felt like I could kick it with
her man, she just seemed like a
ball of fun to hang out with.
Talent isn't what pushed her
for. Man, you need way
more than talent.
And I just think a lot of people
in this day and age rely
solely on their talent, pushing
them forward.
Nobody really cares how well you
can rap these days.
Y'all get on the internet, complain
every day about how somebody
is trash, man.
They suck. Man. I can write better
than them. I coulda did this.
What are your songs?
Can you write a good song?
I don't think 50 cent is the
best rapper,
but boy, can he make a song.
Yeah, boy can he make a song.
And I think that's what propel
50 cent forward.
21 questions is just a great
song in the club.
It's just a great song.
Could he out rap some people?
He probably could out rap.
Some people. Oh, there's some people
that can out rap. 50 cent that
didn't get the same look at 50 cent
got most definitely I
believe that, yes, I definitely
believe that. But hey
look who's who is who.
And where these people ended
up is all I'll.
All I'm saying is talent
isn't the end all be
all. In this day and age, you
need a lot more than just
talent. A lot of people don't want
to become quote unquote content
creators. But hey, you
need that to move forward.
You have to show you a personality
some way.
A lot of y'all want to come up here
and talk. A lot of y'all can't talk.
And when I say can't talk, I
don't mean like physically can't
talk. I mean that when
you talk.
It's not interesting.
This doesn't sound good.
You sucking your teeth.
You. I mean, and it's just
a lot that nobody really
wants to sit through
15 minute to an hour interview,
hearing it.
And a lot of y'all
just don't had a personality.
Like, I think superstars or just
stars in general have what they
call the it factor, and not
everybody has the IT effect.
Doesn't mean you can't be
successful, but you need
a little more to break through
in this day and age.
This is all I'm saying.
Like talent does not
just simply push you forward.
Like I said, it gets you in the
door. It'll get you on some stages,
it'll get you some streams, man.
But everybody wants to be this.
I won't say everybody.
Let me not say that, because
everybody doesn't want to be the big
time superstar.
Well, a lot of people want to be a
big town superstar, and mainly the
people who hooting holler how
talented they are and why
they not getting certain looks or
why so-and-so or this person over
here, or this lady over here, or
this guy over here, got
to look over them.
Want to be those big time stars
and are only
wanting their talent to
push them for it, and it just don't
work like that anymore, man.
This is not Berry Gordy signing
Motown. And I don't think talent
was. Everything was all he
was looking at then.
I don't think anybody has just
looked at how talented somebody
was. Talent will get you.
A certain place.
But what happens after you get them
in?
And that's my unpopular opinion.
And also, I wanna say we've made a
lot of great points on this topic
during South by Southwest at Shoals
Garden. I just couldn't remember
what they were.
Talent gets you in the door.
I wouldn't say talent doesn't matter
because you need some of it.
But also, we do live in a time
where the best marketing
genius gets in the door further
than the talent wise.
That part you mentioned, Cordy.
Cordy was able to
get on because her marketing
prowess was top notch,
even though she wasn't, you know,
she wasn't like no marketing
strategist. She was just making a
bunch of funny content
in the early days of Instagram.
And that led to her being a loving
hip hop, which created another fan
base, which she parlayed into a rap
career.
Cardi B of course, the two
top female rappers would be Nicki
Cardi, and I don't think anybody
would argue that Cardi raps better
than Nicki, but Cardi is just
marketing wise, smarter than Nicki.
Talent matters
at a certain level.
I would argue talent matters at the
level that we talk about when it
comes to soundbites outbreaks, you
delete B talent.
Yes, it helps to be good at
marketing, but we we need the
talent.
But as you ascend and in
the industry.
The marketing has to kick in on
a more homegrown level.
Jay Soulja, Jay Soulja the very
good artist, very very good artist.
But his marketing I would argue is
better that his.
Artistry is pushing him into a lot
of rooms.
Exactly. So I also
shout out to him for that Brian
Simpson look on the Netflix bitch
comedy special, but
it's those type of things that
keep him in these conversations,
because when the music isn't getting
him, having him talked about smoke
at his.
Like I said, him being on that the
Netflix comedy special.
So talent matters
to me.
But we would be naive to think we
live in a time where talent is the
main know all ends up.
I do think Berry Gordy was looking
for talent.
I'm saying I don't think Berry Gordy
was solely looking
at talent.
But I think at that time he needed
you to be exceptionally good.
Yeah, most after him to.
But also, that was a time when
labels could sit you down for 2 or 3
years before you came out, because.
He did it.
I know the fantasy of the Jackson
five being found in Gary, and it
took him some years before he
finally put them.
Out and took a lot of them at
Motown. Some years before.
You get to go to that factory.
Yeah. Before a lot of them came out.
Even Stevie Wonder had to go through
it. And Steven was a prodigy.
Marvin Gaye went through it.
Yeah. So that's what a lot
of them say. Motown sound got the
same song.
You saw Michael singing this, but,
talent doesn't matter, but it just.
Maybe 30 years ago,
the percentage of talent you needed
was was way bigger than it is now,
but now you probably need just 10%
talent.
Because that's why when people, like
you said, people jump out of trash.
I mean, they are. But first, I
think Playboi Carti is one of the
worst authors of all time.
He's been consistent in this.
But his marketing and brand
is just on point.
He's just that mysterious.
I'm different. You know, I'm goth.
Now, this whole vampire thing, he's
doing.
Like, people like it.
I think.
The kids love.
It.
I don't, you know, I
there's that one Playboi Carti song
over, like, okay, I get it.
That's never happened.
But I like Magnolia.
Probably the only one.
Yeah, that's probably the only one
that. And,
he did okay on theme if
you didn't hear the yelling.
But that's not to say
that don't be talented.
Yeah. I'm not I'm not saying that.
I'm not saying
if you feel like you aren't talented
in music or entertainment, period,
to just jump out there and just,
like, push something else in
marketing and social media.
No no no no no no.
Don't want that to get misconstrued.
Yeah. Because what happens is if
you.
Have some.
Talent, if you're all marketing with
no talent, it looks really gimmicky
really quick because at some point
the talent has to showcase through.
So yeah, you could say caught it as
a rapper better than Nikki, but
quite a kid, at least at some point
she has to get on stage before.
Yes, she can just go to Instagram
and you know, and be funny, or else
she has to.
The music has to come through at
some point.
There have been instances of this
where the very little
talent and then all the marketing
has, has pushed somebody forward.
Takashi six nine.
There we go.
No talent.
But he was smart. He came.
He was smart in marketing.
Smart marketing got him there and
they pushed them forward. But it
only lasted so.
Long because once that time, when it
was time for that talent to get
game, when he got on them,
allegations pop up and
actually convictions. He got
convicted that time.
But even after that and being
released, like the talent, I think
people realized that yo
dude, just not good.
He's not good.
Like, yo do like this song.
Just like what?
This song's just not good.
You can't rap, okay?
And if you follow his story.
Yeah, that's.
He didn't get into it to me.
He got a two because he was
marketing.
He was trying to find something to
get him on. Yeah.
And rapping was the one that took
off. But yeah, the talent wasn't
there.
So yeah I'm I'm
saying have I'm not saying no.
Walking is with no talent.
I'm saying have some talent.
Have please have some talent.
I'm just say in this day and age,
I don't think it matters as much as
it did.
Say 20, 25 years ago.
I did.
But you. I mean, better have some.
Yeah, you gotta have some at some.
Point, because it's going to come in
handy when the lights that flashing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We were going to see a lot of these
newer acts.
See if they got the real talent.
Yeah. You're not going to be on have
it for long. You know Nelly, you
know you're not as big as he was 20
years ago, but he can still perform.
I've seen it.
So, you know,
he's on to a Jackson right now.
And now here we
go with Confucius.
Reads the news.
Yeah. Good old, good old news.
With South by being.
Last week a lot happened, but
I didn't get a chance to do the news
show. So no one pop opinion,
no news.
But we're back this time with more
news.
How do you feel about the movie The
Little Rascals?
The movie, not the racy show from
the 30s.
I think I've only seen, like
a few episodes from the show.
From the 30.
The movie.
I enjoy it even today, even as an
adult. Maybe that's just nostalgia
driving me, but I think it's a
classic.
So this is not a reboot.
But.
In Houston on the 14th, which was
last week at a Wells
Fargo. It was robbed by three
suspects.
The FBI called the Little
Rascals.
If you tell me, if you if you finish
reading and you tell me that
it was it was three people
standing on each other's shoulders
with a trench coat.
No, but that'll be hilarious.
But close enough.
The suspects are now in custody, and
they are 11, 12 and 16
years old.
Robbing a bank.
Robbed the Wells Fargo in Houston.
You said 1112 and 16
1206. Well, what Is the world
coming.
To? Two of the suspects were taken
into custody after their parents
recognized them in the surveillance
photos and contacted law
enforcement.
Not the mom of snitching.
Whoa, wait wait wait wait wait
wait.
Wait wait wait. The mom was working
at the Wells Fargo.
I would hope not.
11 years.
So my oldest son is 11.
I can't imagine him.
Me? He barely knows how to make
waffles. He robbed a bank.
He played another GTA.
That ain't real.
They got away. Do they had to get
that? That's. That's what that's the
crazy part about. They robbed the
bank and got away.
That's the craziest thing.
Bro. My coordination 11 years old.
Hail 12 was.
Horrible. I mean, that's crazy.
That's crazy. I've just been just
saying, like, getting away with
robbing a bank is not.
It's like I'm better.
I wasn't robbing a bank and getting
away with it. Then you do. Winning a
lottery.
That is true.
They used to be.
It used to happen yearly in Austin.
We were like, stodgy, getting warm
out. They start robbing banks for
some reason.
That point Ken Paxton, the
attorney general for Texas.
Because he was in the.
News who was the shining example
of doing the right thing
and wholesomeness.
Is.
Far and fleeting.
Yeah. There you go.
He's introducing lawsuits to
two adult websites over accusations
that they're not following the
state's age verification law.
The latest effort to legally go
after adult websites.
The office of the attorney general
filed two civil lawsuits Tuesday
afternoon in Travis County against
the respective companies that owned
two websites that say the names.
Paxton said they're not doing enough
to stop those younger than 18 year
olds from looking at adult content.
Paxton's office will like a court to
issue a permanent injunction against
the two websites, and forced him to
pay hefty fines.
They will come into compliance with
House Bill 1181,
which went into effect September 1st
last year.
That bill requires age verification
measures to protect minors from what
the law supporters call
exposure to sexually
obscene materials.
I'm not mad at it.
You don't want children under 18
seeing something that's supposed to.
Here's my issue with Ken Paxton
outside of the fact he's super
corrupt.
Just kind of wish I had that same
energy when it came to guns.
I just kind of wish you were in
that.
I mean.
Our governor has had that same
energy when it came to, you know,
ATO not getting hold of.
Guns. I was going to go there, but
issue a segment.
Yeah. So, like I said, I
if you want to go to One Direction,
say we need to protect kids from
things that could harm them
mentally. You have to go after that,
affect them and hurt them.
Feeling like you.
Got to do the whole spectrum.
Like you maybe should do better
about that.
They run the whole gamut on that.
So clearly, y'all have the power it
feels to look after kids in that
regard, because that Texas also has
one of the strictest abortion laws
in the in the land.
You should probably look out for the
guns too, because guns also kill
kids if you didn't.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
Yeah, it getting back to the of all
the things you have to worry about,
you worry about adult sites.
I can't wait to you go.
I know we're supposed to be, you
know, but Ken Paxton, you've.
Max. Documentary time.
Get on it.
Good boy.
I mean, they look at.
It, they they get a max documentary
on him, boys.
Man, that's going to be episodic.
Boy, maybe some seasons on that one.
What Ken Paxton is doing the most.
Been doing a lot for a while.
One of fresh. His favorite artists.
Kelly is still an idiot, apparently.
I don't take him on me, man.
Don't put him on me.
You did a fact about him two weeks
in a row. You gonna get this work?
Kelly, a good hip hop DD is seeking
a revision for his 30 year prison
sentence. And his attorney has cited
frat culture during her appeal.
Speaking to an appeals court on
Monday, March 18th, attorney
Jennifer Botting reportedly
claimed cottage for attorneys could
be deemed racketeering organizations
under a law. Youth convicted singer.
The law was used when he was found
guilty on three counts of child
pornography and three counts of
child enticement, according to
missing.
Bougie and tried to persuade judges
that prosecutors improperly used a
racketeering statute written to shut
down organized crime, to go after
Kelly and attempt to reverse
the 2021 convictions or win
him a new trial.
Quote. This is not a collection of
people who had purpose to recruit
girls for things that
they shouldn't have, whether they
turned a blind eye, whether some of
them suspected that some of these
girls one date, that's a whole
different matter.
And once we get into that sort of
territory where we're
going to say that constitutes a Rico
enterprise, what we have a lot of
organizations, we have a lot of frat
houses.
We have all types of organizations
that are now going to become Rico
enterprises.
Let's say she's right.
Rico statute really hard to uphold.
She might have an angle with Rico
David our Kelly.
If your argument is that frat house
would do it to lock them up too.
What do you think. What did you
think. The answer here is to that.
If I was judge, I said, do you have
any specific frat house you want to
mention right now? I'm saying
because it's if that's what you
want. If the argument is
we need to get him out of here
because the statute that you put him
in under isn't fair because Fred has
to do it.
Then, like these frat house.
Whatever you need to do to protect
women. Yeah, I'm all for it.
Lock up. Alpha.
Whoever I was, I had
the argument. You take it is
like the same thing they say.
Like you when they talk about, you
know, tear down statute was talking
to a judge watching on Slaves by
Mullins.
Yes. I get statue down.
I don't get it. He was president on
the. What do.
You think? Answer. The answer's all
the test. Yes.
Like nobody that owned slaves.
They have a statue.
And anybody who abuses women does
not deserve to be walking around
freely like I don't.
I'm confused on what to put that
what the argument is here.
Yes. Okay. If your argument is that
the Rico is too wide and it's too,
you know, it's a gotcha thing, I get
it.
There might be an argument that
might have been thing he'd been
charged for, but I'm pretty sure I
can't. I still think he could be
charged for.
I mean, well.
I Rico was the only thing that got
him on, like, come on,
stop.
I get it's your job as his lawyer to
do that. But saying if Fred
has to do it is not the flex you
think it is.
We got frat houses.
I could follow the Rigo two.
I didn't get the two.
That's like people who smoke
cigarets, who complain of people who
drink soda.
What? We're both unhealthy over
here. Please don't do this.
You shouldn't be drinking or soda,
and you shouldn't be smoking
nicotine.
We're both killing ourselves.
What are you talking about here?
So that all I can hear, you know,
it's a frat house to do it, too,
Oh, my kids get in trouble.
You know, smelling you tell on each
other is not gonna help. Consider
y'all were in the same room when it
happened.
That it's not going to work out the
way you think it is,
And that. But once again, like in
gym is why our Kelly is still an
idiot.
You can't read infections in the
Midwest.
Functionally illiterate.
Apple.
One of my favorite companies in the
laptop I'm currently using, is
getting sued by the Justice
Department over antitrust
laws. Okay.
According to the Associated
Press, the U.S.
Department of Justice in more than a
dozen states have filed a lawsuit
against Apple in federal court,
accusing it of violating antitrust
laws by making it software
and hardware products largely
inaccessible to competitors.
Apple's walled garden, quote unquote
approach to business, as it is so
often called, makes it difficult
for rivals to compete and for
customers to switch to other
company's products.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of
the European Commission slapping
Apple with a $1.95
billion fine.
Apple, the commission concluded,
prevented music streaming developers
from informing iOS users about
alternative and cheaper music
subscription services available
outside of the App Store.
I was proud to get a lot of
applicants who would be honest with
you. Apple makes it.
Kind of them.
Do you have to imagine
being any other app?
That is not supported by Apple.
They really make it hard for you to
to bless through.
And also one of the arguments is
that Apple undermines
other apps and technology, for
example, that are under iMessage,
the green bubbles.
But you can't get them to let you
under UK if you're not.
If you're not.
That matter unless you let you have
cell service.
What apple you get underwire for?
So I mean Apple
knows what it's doing.
Do they deserve to be sued?
Yes.
You know why. And I'm hoping they
lose because I want them at some
iPhones to come down.
Because I need a new one.
I look at price. They ask $1,000.
That's why I still have my little
cracking ones at that point.
I know I need to doing some.
You know, we can I can contribute
to the reals.
But yeah, I was getting
sued.
So how will Apple
prompt over that?
The suit also suggests that Apple
has made it harder for Android
messages to appear on iPhones,
obstructed rival payment platforms,
and restricted how competing
smartphones integrated wireless
devices are
restricted. They can't do it.
Would you be restricted?
Oh, boy.
Luckily, most Android people don't.
Don't read the news.
So,
I don't have to worry about here in
their mouths, but I basically told
you. Apple. Look, I don't care what
you say about Apple. I'm sticking
with it.
This is what it is.
It is. I'm faithful to Apple.
I like their products.
That's just the way it is.
It looks good when you pull out a
MacBook on iPhone.
They look good. You pull out the
Guardians Android phones.
Sorry.
Or a PC?
God. It's heavy.
And on top of that, I mean, yeah, I
get the lawsuit. And also to kind of
defend Apple a little bit while,
yes, they all kind of win monopoly.
I'm surprised they hadn't get hit
with nothing yet.
They did just enough to kind of stay
out of that. They're like, hey, we
won't buy everything. We'll just,
you know.
Got on just enough not.
To be a monopoly.
But Apple don't have everything.
Like they ain't got no waterproof
phones.
It's waterproof.
What? What phone is waterproof?
I was 13.
What? 13?
13 up to, like, a certain amount of
years. Waterproof.
So a certain amount of feet.
Yeah. Most things can survive a
certain amount. Yeah.
But I. Yeah, that's why it's not
waterproof. Is water resistant.
I don't have to.
I mean, I think if it's less than
three Viet.
Nam, two if it's 13V2 while it's
a pool, bro.
But. Yeah. No, let's say I was
allowed to play with.
Your.
Your iPhone falls in the toilet.
Now, you can pull it out and you
don't have to, like. Really?
Yeah, I'll put it in rice and all
of that.
You have to realize that
one that's, the Federal Trade
Commission goes through you.
They sued Amazon.
Amazon.
The government is the probably the
only entity
on this world that can go up against
Apple in a lawsuit, because Apple
has the most liquid cash of any
other company in the world.
So they have the money.
But the government, like we got the
money to do all I'm
taxpayer dollars.
So all I'm saying is my taxpayer
dollars go to Apple iPhones coming
down price wise, I'm all for it.
And that is Confucius reads the
news.
All right man. Hey, look, if I give
me a cheaper iPhone, I'm all for it.
I'm just like them.
If I get 13, I can knock the price
down on a 13, a low multi.
I'm saying.
Wait it.
Me I got I think I looked
up, I looked up the 15 Promax.
That thing was on and off.
I looked, I looked it up to to
titanium and was like yeah, I won't
be getting that.
I'm cool.
I'll be on eBay looking mine.
That's what I call I get it for
cheap.
I think the cheapest I found with a
15 is the regular 15 for
$5.49 With used.
And then of course somebody that had
have a good celebrating with like
two two sales.
And he took a picture like I'm a
cancel man.
Okay.
Think about it.
If I'm putting a word when he sent
it to me that we were a better
rating, although they're kind of.
But guys, maybe you
think I was like 120 something.
Oh man, we suck.
I was late in.
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