Akron Stories Featuring: Hareston Clay

Akron pride can turn into a full-on history lesson fast, and that’s exactly where we go once Hareston Clay pulls up. He’s an independent R&B singer and songwriter from Akron, Ohio, and the second he starts naming spots, the memories start flying: Rolling Acres Mall, skating rinks, local TV that felt like MTV, and the food runs you still make when you land back home. We talk about how a city can live in you long after you leave it, and why hometown stories hit harder than any trend.

Then we pivot into the headlines with the Afroman raid story: cops raid his house, find nothing, and later try to sue after he flips the footage into a music video. We get into free speech, who gets to play victim, and why creativity can be the loudest kind of pushback. From there it’s real-life economics, too: gas prices climbing, premium fill-ups hurting, Tesla-at-the-gas-pump flexing, and the ugly truth behind “good old fashioned American greed.”

The biggest deep dive is music. Hareston breaks down why radio doesn’t spin R&B like it used to, how streaming pushes two-minute songs and instant hooks, and what we lose when the bridge disappears and the album experience fades. We debate artistry vs mainstream success, talk classic singers you can actually feel, and end by putting you on Hareston Clay’s newest music, where to find him, and what he’s building next as an indie artist. Subscribe, share this with someone who misses real R&B, and leave a review telling us the best hometown spot you’ll defend forever.

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Transcript

New Intro And Guest Arrival

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Yeah, I got to do it.

SPEAKER_05 0:54

Oh shit. We better.

SPEAKER_10 0:56

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_07 0:57

They just let me out. Oh shit. We got a new intro. Hey, hold up. Y'all still listening to the to the right show? And we have royalty in the house. I'm just gonna let y'all know that now. We got another cat in here from Akron, Ohio. And I just found out.

SPEAKER_08 1:15

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_07 1:16

Joe just thought he was from Ohio. He's from the AK Rowdy. Hashtag 330. He knows about Ricky Powers.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

I fucked up.

SPEAKER_07 1:29

And Braun James. We're talking about Akron. Yeah, I fucked up. Appreciate you, Joe. Hey, thank you. That shit got me hype. We getting it out the way.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

Now, anyway, nigga, the way they talk about it make you want to move to that motherfucker.

SPEAKER_07 1:43

We already said, welcome to the Nobody Shit podcast. Goddamn intro. Damn to whoever did that. This is this is uh your boy Bosco sitting to my left. You know what it is. It's Rod. And to my left. No, we got no. Hold on. We said him for last. You said the guests for last.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

One and only motherfucking Rodeo Joe, baby.

SPEAKER_07 2:04

Rodeo Joe. And to my left.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Superman is in the building.

SPEAKER_07 2:14

You're gonna get one more bell. They talked over your introduction last time.

SPEAKER_11 2:20

Where are the white women at?

SPEAKER_07 2:24

Wait, hold on. We really supposed to go live. Wait, we done. I know. Oh damn.

SPEAKER_08 2:29

That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_07 2:30

To my left, we had somebody displaced.

SPEAKER_08 2:33

Wait, and to my left, we still got it introduced.

SPEAKER_06 2:36

Yeah, I guess this be the one that called Christian, aka Casper this week. Shit.

SPEAKER_07 2:41

We got somebody from Akron. Ohio. I'm hype, boy. I need see. I told you niggas don't mess with Akron. In the building. Lost. Open pantry. Mr. Pantry. Remember them Jojo's? The Jojo's was on fire. And the red soda. I don't know what the fuck is JoJo's. Swinson's. Swinson's and it's pop. It's not soda. Yeah, it's a big thing. That's right. Definitely pop.

SPEAKER_01 3:09

I'm from Albany. Tennis shows the Coke.

SPEAKER_07 3:11

Anyway. It all depends on the tune. We like our guest to introduce himself. Go ahead, sir. Man, my name is uh my name is Harrison Clay. I'm an RB singer, songwriter, you know, from the AK Rowdy 330. You know what I'm saying? 240. Y'all know another RB singer is from Akron. Howard Hewitt. Howard Hewitt. James Ingram. Yes, sir. I'm gonna let you niggas know. Devo is from Ohio. They from Kyle Falls, but hey, what else we call it? Caucasian Falls. See? Yeah, Joe. This ain't gonna end, huh? Hey, no, hell no. We talk about Akron today. Akron. Akron suffered an L today. Duh. Hey, that don't make no difference. That's don't make no difference. We still win. Duh, we're gonna always win. Ohio State can lose. Miami of Ohio can lose. Akron. That's all right. Lost. When we lose, and this nigga, he's from the military. So he don't really even have a home, a real hometown of coin.

SPEAKER_06 4:21

Horse with no name asked for that.

SPEAKER_07 4:23

Exactly. Why y'all talking about?

SPEAKER_01 4:26

Carrier S wins at the end of the day, you can't remember.

SPEAKER_07 4:28

Is Washington a Washington state in the tournament? Nah, they out. Arizona State?

SPEAKER_08 4:34

ASU. Arizona didn't make it. U of A. U of A made it.

SPEAKER_07 4:39

Oh, but he went to ASU. They won in AT. So that's like me being like, oh, okay, well, Michigan is still in it.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Why would you say that?

SPEAKER_07 4:48

No, I'm just saying. No. Look, that's just like him saying, oh, Arizona made it. But he went to ASU. I know for a fact that I can't. That shit don't come.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

I can't let that other school.

SPEAKER_07 4:58

Well, see, now he can be happy for Arizona.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

See, I can't let that other school come out of my mouth. Yeah. The other school can't come out of my mouth, bro. Hey, it's all good. Who's that? The old school. Other school. Hey, as long as they lose. Anyway.

SPEAKER_07 5:16

I hope y'all welcome. Love. Thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you. The introduction. That's our new intro.

SPEAKER_06 5:24

That's that.

SPEAKER_07 5:26

Hey, that's compliments on my boy Z. I forget what he said he called us all. Shout out to Z. His AKA Production Company. But uh we cooked that up. He played like 10 beats and 10 different rappers. And then this one came. Oh, that's it right there. All that was, he put the introduction in. And then that's what it came up with right there. Oh nice. Just the just from our little intro our description for the show. What you want. I was like, hell yeah, that's all right, right there. Hey, let's play. We got new buttons. I got something for you right here.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

I was just gonna say acting got talent.

SPEAKER_05 6:14

Don't let him do that to you, Joe.

SPEAKER_07 6:17

Can't stop it. You can reach over and press the man.

unknown 6:20

Damn right.

SPEAKER_07 6:21

Roll tag, baby.

unknown 6:22

Fuck it.

SPEAKER_07 6:22

Hey, he was like, we ain't got no turn your mic off now. We got the all right, y'all. We're gonna be serious. I was having fun with these buttons. I was like, you know what? Let me go ahead and uh make some stuff. Yeah. Get the button ready. I forgot what this button is right here. Push it.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

C senor.

SPEAKER_07 6:45

That's in Latina. Yeah!

SPEAKER_00 6:48

C senor.

SPEAKER_07 6:51

Hola. Come on, te jama.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Man, don't say that no more. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_07 6:59

Alright, no, go ahead. What you gonna say, Christian? Get the button. Mother.

SPEAKER_06 7:08

Get it ready, get it ready.

SPEAKER_07 7:09

Hey, see now if we was on a delay, mother. You'll be able to catch it. Alright, y'all. Niggas got a toy. I don't know what we're gonna talk about. Sharad said he had two topics. I had a couple topics. That shit is fun. Uh oh. And we got my man. You gonna sing for us? You gonna sing, or you just might get a little bit more. I'm gonna talk about some singing. You can't. Because there's a lot of dudes in here. I need a little bit more estrogen for you. Oh hey. I feel you on that. Listen. You talking about it. I don't know. Listen. You can get for the niggas. That's the joke.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

And you know what?

SPEAKER_08 7:51

I ain't singing a y'all hard legs up in here.

SPEAKER_10 7:56

Fucking about the convert one of them. And you see back to it.

SPEAKER_08 8:03

You never think it's a yo.

SPEAKER_10 8:08

Hey, yo.

SPEAKER_07 8:11

He loves old jam singers too. Hey, you hear about this new cat? Hey, man, I do like man, we both like RB. Come on. Come on.

Afroman Raid Song And Lawsuit

SPEAKER_01 8:19

We both love it. I'm telling you. I tell you. I was speaking to him earlier. I got old, man. I've been listening to Smooth Jazz. I said, God damn, I fuck around and got old.

SPEAKER_05 8:28

Speaking of singing, ain't really a singer, but have y'all heard about this Afro Man story? Yes. Yes, yes. Man. That's crazy. Is that crazy? I don't know. No, tell me because I hear it. Oh, he already won. What did he do? I know, but I'm just saying. So what is it back in 2022? His house got raided by a couple officers. Sheriffs. Sheriffs, right? Okay. The county sheriffs. Of course they didn't find nothing. So he made a song about it in a video. He took the home video and made a song about it. Them raiding their song and they tried to sue him. She up here crying on the song.

SPEAKER_06 9:09

Same shit Drake sued for. I'm just saying. Drake got money, money.

SPEAKER_07 9:18

He's about to take us out. I'm just saying. Hey Drake, I like you.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

They were trying to say that they he he ruined their lives. And they they're not lives not the same.

SPEAKER_06 9:31

Same thing Drake tried to say.

unknown 9:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 9:33

God damn. I'm just saying. I guess this is hate.

SPEAKER_07 9:38

And then they even tried to say now the kids are in danger and shit. Oh, that's true. Well, the police kids? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

Hold on, fucking. Let me find out. Judge is like, nah. Afro man, like, hey, they the one that came to my house. You you didn't say that shit when you had a gun on my kids. So I'm within my motherfucking right.

SPEAKER_06 10:00

So here's here's here's one of that. Hold on. Hold on now. Hold on now. That's all.

SPEAKER_05 10:19

They run around my house with guys and kick down my door. I had the right to kick it in my backyard.

unknown 10:27

My bad times my bad times. Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_05 10:31

That was a support for me. So their house had to kick down their doors. Then try to play the victim and suit them.

unknown 10:42

So what they did.

SPEAKER_05 10:43

Damn. So yeah.

SPEAKER_08 10:47

So did he win money? No, I don't think. No, no. He won he won the right.

SPEAKER_07 10:55

Oh, so now everybody's gonna be buying the song, huh? Yeah, I'm gonna try to find that motherfucking video. But the vi yeah, the video on YouTube. Yeah, it's all YouTube. Oh, is it? Yeah, it probably got a lot of views now, though. I don't know. I've never gotten a lot of people.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

I'm pretty sure he's going to. I could have said that me watching that shit. I'm gonna put that shit out there.

SPEAKER_04 11:16

Who was that? His attorney was rated for following search warrants related to possession, trafficking, and drugs, and kidnapping.

unknown 11:21

No, he was never charged.

SPEAKER_06 11:27

Four days ago.

SPEAKER_04 11:30

There's a deputy that like this without information again. He did not defend those deputies. His Afro Man directly after that verdict.

SPEAKER_06 11:44

Afro man.

SPEAKER_07 11:45

Randy Walters.

SPEAKER_06 11:46

Randy Walters is a son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_05 11:48

But I saw that shit, man. So they show a video of the female officer out there crying on the stand. And I need to find out where she's at. Yeah, all of them are like that.

SPEAKER_08 12:01

Nobody's asking, man. I was like, I'm just saying, I just pictured a Latino. But he's like, I'm not a little Latino. Where's he from? Afroman? I don't know where he's from.

SPEAKER_06 12:11

Mississippi. Oh, that happened in Mississippi? Uh wherever Adam County is.

SPEAKER_05 12:20

But anyway, so she's up there crying on the stand. And um, so you know, they was talking to him. He's like, She's like, oh yeah. She wants to play the victim, but I didn't play the victim when they was holding a gun to my face in front of my kids.

SPEAKER_07 12:35

I was like, How many kids? I mean, how many uh cops ready to discredit? I don't know. I think it was two or three. Two. It was a bunch, right? They had a squad. That's crazy. Shout out to Dude, man, for having that creativity, man, to turn a bad event into something. That's what he said.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:02

One of the songs is called Lemon Pound Cake.

SPEAKER_08 13:06

That's how I like Lemon Pound Cake after sued him. After they didn't kick down his dough, they gonna sue his ass. Yeah. Get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_05 13:14

Yeah, that shit popped up on my timeline yesterday. I was like, damn, this is crazy. But yeah, that's I'm glad he won though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 13:23

That's right. Especially nowadays. Yeah. Especially nowadays. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:30

He came in there with the suit. We ain't got a winning record. It's like he ain't take took that suit off in about a week.

SPEAKER_05 13:35

He's like, make America great again. The suit is a American flag. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 13:45

Make a breaker great again. I wonder how long it took uh for him to make that thing. Or who made it?

unknown 13:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 13:54

Stars and Stripes.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

It took a lot longer than Bessie Ross took make that nine. See.

SPEAKER_07 14:02

Man. That is that. Now that's that's all right there. That was just kind of a feel-good story I had for y'all. I appreciate you, sir.

SPEAKER_01 14:11

You usually don't come out with too many of them, but you good. You do. You know what?

SPEAKER_10 14:19

I'm just saying.

Gas Prices Tesla Flexing And Greed

SPEAKER_05 14:21

Hey, that's a good story.

SPEAKER_07 14:23

No, that is. Hey Joe, people want to know what you're drinking today. Some branding. 50 cents. Go get it. It's really good. Is it better than Club? Sure, sure. Kevin Hart? Oh wow. Kevin Hart's a killer, though. It's a killer, but it's a little bit of a little bit of a what is that? What is that considering Conya?

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Like Brandy, I don't know. Like a brandy. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 14:52

What's the difference between Brandy and Cognac?

SPEAKER_01 14:57

Brandy is a little harsh. You know what I'm saying? Not as sweet, right? I think it's I think I think I think Cognac like grapes or some shit.

SPEAKER_07 15:11

Oh shit. I don't know. You know, I don't know. You you the resident drinker. You you are just like, Joe is our expert drinker, slash cook on the show.

SPEAKER_01 15:22

You know, Superman turned out to be one of the smartest guys I know. I just want to say that. Oh shit. You know it's coming. Don't want to get political, but god damn it.

SPEAKER_07 15:40

You're in your car now? Hell yeah. Hell yeah, you in this car, goddamn.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

You ain't gotta buy no gas. Laughing at the motherfucking gas station price. I didn't I didn't I think pull up to the gas pump and go to Succo and King, get a soda for the hell of it. Be looking at us like we stupid. And then and then you got the girl. I didn't know Tesla take gas. I was like, yeah, don't they?

SPEAKER_07 16:08

No, hey, I think it's funny. They hey they have people uh online on some of the social media sites, like in Tesla's, and you know, they just pull obviously they just park and they go inside the gas station. But they pull up to a gas pump and then walk inside. I was sitting there wondering, I'm like, is that a thing? Like they flexing on fucking. I've seen it before even in person. I do that. Hey, like, man, what y'all trying to do? But you drive a gas car.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

I know, but I I stopped and got some gas today, and uh and I'm sitting there like I'm running$75,$80, right? And my motherfucker needed and he may have for real. For real.

SPEAKER_08 16:51

My bad, though. I'm right there with you. It's like, damn, that fucked up. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Like, you gotta be fucking gotta but but you know, fast forward two weeks ago. Yeah. Two weeks ago, I stopped at the store and uh I filled my tank up. And I was like, it was like 90 bucks. I was like one fucking 40. That's about me.

SPEAKER_07 17:15

Yeah, you want a truck too? Okay, it'll go down. Premium gas. We just gotta steal some more. It'll go down.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

We just gotta steal some more. We'll be gonna get the reserves, though, right?

SPEAKER_07 17:34

Let me let me tell you something.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

Let me tell you something one thing in this motherfucking world you can count on. Good old affair, uh, good old fashioned American greed. It'll never let you down, bro. That's true.

SPEAKER_07 17:50

How much money is enough? Good old fashioned American greed would never let you down. I do have a motorcycle that you don't ride. I sure don't filling up my tank yesterday.

SPEAKER_05 18:02

I'm but I'm gonna get it.

SPEAKER_07 18:04

It's gonna cost you$30 to fill that motherfucker. No, hey. If it cost me$30 to fill it, yeah, I'm saying. It's gonna be$20 something. Yeah, it's gonna be like$21,$2,$5.

SPEAKER_08 18:16

I filled mine up with$15, so I know it's$20 a year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:21

Yeah, because it's gonna be where did it used to be?

SPEAKER_08 18:24

Used to be$12. Or nine. Used to be like nine, single digits. I didn't even I didn't even break 10. I was like, yeah, I love this motherfucking motorcycle. And then roll everywhere.

SPEAKER_07 18:33

Yeah. Real, that's about to be me. That's crazy. That shit's truck.

SPEAKER_10 18:38

Gonna be like, hey, beep, beep.

SPEAKER_07 18:43

It's gonna be hot as hell outside. Hey, I'm just gonna start riding a real bike. A real one? I start peddling.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

I don't blame you though, because that shit is like, ain't this some fucking fucked up shit? You see all these kids like a whole motor bike gang, right? They got electric bike. Oh man shit. Hey, they be all up and down the street. Yeah, lazy motherfuckers. Dog, they all at least we have moped.

SPEAKER_08 19:08

Ain't none of them pedal.

SPEAKER_07 19:09

Ain't pedal pants ride. One lazy. Some of them got on helmets. I'm like, man, what the hell? Lazy motherfuckers. Safety first. For God.

SPEAKER_08 19:25

Man, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yeah, legend bike, though. That don't make no sense, though. Like, let's let's let's just take the whole but hold up.

SPEAKER_07 19:32

So, hey, they are a little gang around here. I be seeing them over here like a slam chickens and safe way. It makes sense.

SPEAKER_05 19:39

I can't hit on them now. Cause you know if you was the advocate. If they had it, you was gonna be riding that electric. So you said if they had them, you're gonna be difficult. Way back then. Way, way, way, way back then when you was a kid. When I was a kid a long time ago, many way back then. It was a few ways.

SPEAKER_07 20:01

It was a few ways. I'm only trying to make you, Joe.

SPEAKER_05 20:04

I don't know. You know.

SPEAKER_07 20:06

We had a chain on it.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

You were with you. You know you were what one? Shit, I didn't even have a mic as a kid.

SPEAKER_05 20:16

Oh hell, oh hell. Uh let's hear it. Okay. You just cycle. It was the bike in the bike. Right. It was funny y'all's car.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

It was niggas.

SPEAKER_07 20:43

That was easy.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

We had a lot of that.

SPEAKER_05 20:48

His toy was a rock. We had a lot of.

Toys Childhood Memories And Mall Culture

SPEAKER_01 20:51

Nah, actually it was a syrup can, bro. Oh yeah. Y'all want to know the truth? Is a syrup can and a June bug? Yeah. Oh, shit. What was the June bug's name? Larry.

SPEAKER_06 21:05

I didn't mean it.

SPEAKER_07 21:06

I just tied a string to it so it wouldn't get away. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

You think it had a leash on a June? Hey.

SPEAKER_05 21:13

Alright, Joe.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Hey. I'm not making this shit up. I can't. I feel you. No, we know you ain't. I only wouldn't have had toys with my brother. That's because he caught on fire and shit in the hospital and gave him all them goddamn toys. Storytime. He wouldn't let y'all play with it. Nah, sorry, stingy ass.

SPEAKER_06 21:30

Older or younger? The older. We need that story. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_07 21:36

They was the little army man. Yeah. And the Indians. And the Indians? Yeah. Yeah, that's when you can play.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

That's what Fox could play like cowboy but then they would cheat because the motherfucker had the dude laying down. You can't knock him over.

SPEAKER_07 21:48

Nope. Nope, that's true. I had that dude. Acronym. You remember the uh Candy Company and Rolling Egg? Yeah, exactly. So they used to sell the little army man, man, with the little parachute on. Hell yeah. Yeah, hey, I remember when remember where the arcade was? And we used to sit there and throw them and watch them and watch them go down to the next floor. Did the parachute work? Hey, yeah, the parachute worked. It was like a little plaster that you throw them over the ball. Oh, he met with the parachute. No, we didn't have no parachute bag. Hey, that can have shit. Tell these cats, since we're speaking about Rolling Acres, tell them Rolling Acres was the spot. Man, that was the spot. That's why I saw House Party. Oh, you snuck into the movie theater because none of us was old enough to watch any of them movies.

SPEAKER_05 22:31

So wait, hold on. So what is Rolling Acres? What is the mall?

SPEAKER_07 22:34

It was a mall. Okay. It was a mall. It was at the time, it was like one of the best malls in Akron. Yeah. There wasn't no Chapel Hill, Summit Mall. Like, I mean, there was like three malls in competition. Both for Summit Mall and Cog Falls or Caucasian Falls, wherever you're from. Like those were the for the white areas. Yeah. Rolling Acres was ours, but everybody came to Rolling Acres. I mean, it was everything in there. Athletic Attic. Athletes added. The movie theater. You had the candy company. You had a Merry Go Round. Yeah, we had all of that. We had Merry Go Round. Sears. Is it Sears? What was it?

SPEAKER_01 23:10

What was that other one? Chess.

SPEAKER_07 23:12

Oh, Chess King? Yeah. Hell yeah. Is it still around? Had the hottest chicks. They tore it down. It's an Amazon. Yeah, it's an Amazon. Yeah, they had the hottest chicks in the motherfucker.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Merry Go Round, though.

SPEAKER_07 23:23

Oh, hey, listen. I miss Rollin' Akers, boy. Yeah, and that was D-spot. I remember that's why I got my first pair of Jordans.$64.99 from Foot Locker. Now that's a tank of gas.

SPEAKER_06 23:42

Man, barely. He got me ribbing this. Look, I don't let it go below three quarters.

SPEAKER_07 23:51

Yeah, that fountain was fire, man. I mean, it's just the little stuff, man. The fountain, man. Everybody, because that was like in the middle of the mall. So, like, if you was on maneuvers, that's where you meet up. All the crew meet up there. Okay, we're gonna hit this with this and this. And you know, go meet meet a little girl, be like, oh, let's go to the video arcade. Let's go to the pet store and look at the rabbits. Yep. Y'all give me the roof. We had the pet store up there, bro. Dog, I'm telling you, dog.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Y'all niggas take a chick to be rabbits.

SPEAKER_07 24:24

No, man, that was just, you know. Girls like animals, man. Hey, I need you go get some ice cream at the friendlies, man. Let's go. Oh, we can one ice cream come. Oh. I remember I hey. I used to sit up there and look at friendlies like, damn, they rich. I gotta go to Dairy Queen. Yeah, man. The Dairy Queen. Yeah, that was right down the street from the house, man. Hey, that was Dairy Queen. Hey, man, that was the first one. Hell yeah, everybody. That was the spot, man. Then remember, uh, I know it was a little, a little ways. Oh, was it up the street? Uh Church is Chicken. Churches. That was over there. That's like on the Orlando. Is it? Yeah. You know, church is gonna stay there, man. Hell yeah. And the one on Hawkins. Well, if you if you're familiar with it. It's called V Odum now, but yeah, yeah. Yeah, we call it, we call it Wooster. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, hell yeah. What about? I know you remember the uh with the rollercade. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Used to go skating. Go skating. It was one on Hawkins, and then everybody went to Playland. Playland was the spot too. Yeah, yeah. And then remember, I know some people would go to uh the one on the what was the one on it was on the east side. Right in front, right down the hill from East High School. Yeah, I can't remember that. Telling y'all, cats. Y'all messed up, boy. Somebody here from Akron.

unknown 25:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 25:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 25:55

Joe was sitting there. Deep regret.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Joe, you ain't know he was from Akron?

SPEAKER_06 26:00

Deep regret.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

I ain't knew he was from Akron. I've been knowing this nigga for years. You just thought he was just from Ohio. We used to call him the spaghetti boys and shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:09

I worked at a spaghetti company, man. Uh huh.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Him and his boy, we all be in the gym working. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. Spaghetti. That's home team, right?

SPEAKER_07 26:18

Yeah, I was right there on in Tollison, man. It was called American Italian Pasta Company. I used to work there. Uh-huh. So we leave work, man. We work the night shift, me and my boy, and uh we go hit the gym right after work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

You remember Bert?

unknown 26:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:35

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you ever you ever meet anybody out here that they find out you know you're from Akron? Or they'd be like, oh yeah, I'm from Akron. Be like, oh, where are you? Like, I asked you. Uh-huh. You went to Book, though. Oh, he's from Akron. They'd be like, oh yeah, I'm from Barbarton. Or I'm from Wadsworth. Not Barber Tucky. Exactly. That's what we call Wildsworth, Waztucky. We call it Waztucky, though. Why is that?

SPEAKER_11 27:01

Why is it called Walucky? Hey, where are the white women at?

SPEAKER_05 27:10

Point taken. Point taken.

SPEAKER_07 27:13

I'm not saying nothing no more. I'm just gonna hit my butt. Next question, please. Nice. Hell yeah. Next week, we're gonna let y'all talk about people from y'all's hometown. Now you're not. Shiraba don't have a hometown. He from all over. I got a mommy and daddy though. I'll see them. Now you didn't. My mom is no longer with us. Now you just showing up now.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

I got a mommy and a daddy.

SPEAKER_07 27:46

Fuck you.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

Mommy and daddy.

Rolling Acres And Old Akron Hangouts

SPEAKER_07 27:50

Christian do too. I'm mama rubber. Say something else. Mama was my daddy. Neither does Joe or well. I got a daddy, but you know. I I grew up with mom and dad. Oh, did you? Yeah, they still married. They just celebrated their 50th year anniversary. Oh, did y'all go right there? To them. Yeah. Yeah, for real. Congratulations. Right there. Well, you know what? My dad's still married, but not to my mom. I think they just celebrated 20-something. Yeah, I don't know. I was an adult. I was already, I think I was already living out here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's 20-something years then. Yeah, that's oh yeah. And then now you know, uh, they did they tell, did they tear down Chapel Hill? Or is it still there? It's still there, man, but it's empty, man. So really all we got is Summit Mall. Oh, Summit Mall. They put all put all the money in Summit Mall and over there in Fairline. Which I mean, yeah, you know. If you know. I remember, dude, we never, never went to Fairline. How often do you get back? Uh I would well, I moved back there in 2021. Oh, did you? And I immediately regretted it. The first pothole I hit, man. I was like, man, I can't wait to come back there. So Akron's really not that great. Just the road service, man. Hey, just the road service. Beautiful, dawg. Hey, that was our motto. Akron is beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. I'm telling you, dawg. Okay. Hey, and then see, now remember you used to be able to ride up and down Copley. Yep. But now I don't they only have it to where one thing. Is it gentrified? They starting to. Yeah. Like you see, where uh Edgewood, where the Edgewood project. Downtown, because downtown, man, like when we was growing up, it well see, man, a little short history lesson. Akron used to be like the spot. It was the Hollywood of the like on the Midwest, man. People like a lot of famous people, like back in the 30s and 40s, that was the spot. Because you gotta think, like, that was part of the industry. Like all that Northeast Ohio, Pennsylvania, Detroit, all car industry. So they were like rubber capital gang of money out there, man. So you had big name people that would come through there. So, you know, unfortunately, like they tried to gentrify early in like the 70s, I want to say the late 60s. They tore down a lot of the black neighborhoods and a lot of the black area, like they're into for a freeway project. So a lot of businesses suffered. Downtown was suffering. So fast forward what 20, let's say 2015, 2016, you know, they started really just kind of pouring into downtown again, bringing you know, more businesses, whole concerts, yeah, um, different venues. Like, I mean, they totally redid um civic uh theater. That's like hey, remember the Easter Civics? Yeah, yeah. Trying to tell you.

SPEAKER_05 30:51

Easter Civics?

Akron Then And Now

SPEAKER_07 30:52

Oh, I couldn't wait to put my name, have my belt with my parachute pants. I'm like, somebody nigga, I'm about to be Ralph Tresbot. They've totally redone that and made it to where they're trying to draw people downtown. Yeah, my boy, he told me that is yeah, wow. Totally different, man. But it's the same, but it's it, you know, it's it's totally different, man. Yeah, it don't have that same. I know when I'm when I am back home, I mean it feels good because I always hit Swinson's. Yeah, Swinson's the first one. Uh I always gotta go to Mr. Hero. Yeah, get the Roman burger. Hey, that Roman burger, man. And then uh I go over, it's around the corner from my uh Pop's crib, uh Kleins. Klein seafood to get some smelt, bruh. I know y'all sitting here, y'all know nothing. Oh no, no, we talk about it. No, but hey, it's all about us and the Kleins, man. Like, I'm gonna tell you something about Kleins because then Klein, and then you you throw that high, oh, you throw the hot sauce in the city. But you could get the like, okay. So one side was like if you wanted your own fish to cook it yourself, like they had everything. Like you could get, but then you could order what you wanted and they would fry it there. Oh so like I would get the prongs and the perch, man. Me and Perch and the Prawns, yeah, the uh big old scrimps. Um yeah. Them was them was my my uh drug of choice at the time, man. So I would go, I would, I would go up to them. Scrimps, and then the dog fry it up, man. They get the fries and a little roll with it, man. Oh man, you winning on a Friday man. And then yup, and then you know sometimes people go over there to default, get to the chicken. Fresh chicken, man. Like, y'all, I'm I'm just glad you're here because every time they do something, I'm trying to tell you, man, like y'all, and no knock to Pete's fish and chips, but they ain't got nothing on some Kleins, bro. When I came out here and they was, oh man, Pete's fish and chips, I'm like, okay, let me see what they're talking about. Absolutely nothing. A square on Kleins, dog. A square pin your home turf.

SPEAKER_06 33:05

So aside from the potholes, what brought you back to Arizona?

SPEAKER_07 33:11

Oh man, the snow, bro. It snows there. I you know, I I'm not a cold person, man. I just so when when did you move out here? Originally I moved out here in 05-06. Okay, and then I moved back in 21. You know, uh, just doing the dad thing. My kids were out there, and you know, that's a whole nother story. But, you know, then I moved back uh 2024. Okay. So you glad to be back? I'm glad to be back because I, you know, I it's just the snow, man. That first went, I I refused to buy a winter jacket for like six months, man. I was just rocking out the house. I'm like, man, rocking hoodies and freeze, and I'm like, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it, man. When you see that snow, when you the the the the most depressing part is when you go to work and you done worked all day and you tired and you just want to go home and you gotta clean your car off and warm it up for 15, 20 minutes. Hey, he he from Illinois, so he definitely you know he knows about it, bro.

SPEAKER_08 34:07

You know, like oh yeah, no, he hey scraped the window in 25, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 34:13

He from the same, he's from Rockford, Rockford, Illinois.

SPEAKER_05 34:18

So you would prefer this hundred degrees than that all day.

SPEAKER_07 34:22

I take this over that on any day. Hey, I'm with any day, anytime you gotta put on three layers of clothes to go to the store, like live.

SPEAKER_05 34:31

Just to go outside, and you never get that chill off you, right? So when you get cold, you get cold.

SPEAKER_07 34:36

When you hot, you can go over somebody's house with a pool or whatever. Just all you need to do is just we talking about them kids, man. And I'm just like, man, y'all wouldn't last five minutes anymore, bro. Like we walked to school, and like we had a we had a superintendent of our school that man, it would be like 20 below, and he would not close the school. Hey, ain't that crazy? You'd be sitting up here. Like, please, can we see our name on the ticker? Like, yeah, yeah, you sit up there. Remember uh Akron when we had channel 23? Billy Soul, bro. Billy Soul. Yeah, he played music videos. So, like the introduction. That was our MTV. Yeah, that was our MTV. All the and that the intro was like Michael Jackson and in the Jacksons, man. So it would be bumped, and then they would play all the videos. Like it was like 45 minutes of just music.

SPEAKER_08 35:27

I'm telling y'all, Cat. Nice.

SPEAKER_07 35:29

Hell yeah. And made me want to go visit. Channel 23 was up. No, I'm telling y'all. I've been to Cleveland. Hey, no, Akron is okay. He can even tell you this. Akron is. Now the areas like that we're from, okay, maybe it's not so nice. But obviously, you know LeBron still has a house there. Uh the area he lives in, shit is nice as hell. Over there, like right off, no, it's some super, super nice areas. Even in in the inner city of some nice areas.

SPEAKER_06 36:02

But just hearing y'all go back and forth like pretty much validating everything that you be talking about. It's dope to hear the fact that that's glad.

SPEAKER_07 36:11

That's why I'm glad he's dog. Hey. Hey, what we we call it black. Yeah. We call it black.

SPEAKER_06 36:18

I'm I'm I'm not to cut you off, my bad. No, no, you could. So I'm I'm the only nigga, as far as I know, the only nigga who is from here. Really? Yeah, born in the world.

SPEAKER_07 36:26

Yeah, you don't really, you don't really mean obviously local.

SPEAKER_06 36:30

I'm a damn, I'm a damn unicorn.

SPEAKER_07 36:32

Alabama, Illinois, Arizona.

SPEAKER_06 36:35

Like it ain't a whole lot of us here.

SPEAKER_07 36:36

Yeah, like Army. I claimed Texas, but yeah, okay. Why not? Wait, I thought, hey, now I thought he was he was claiming uh Washington. He was claiming Washington. So I graduated. His parents did move to Dallas. No, no, no, no, listen, listen, listen.

SPEAKER_05 36:52

I graduated high school in Washington.

SPEAKER_01 36:53

Because they won the game today or something.

SPEAKER_06 36:56

Texas? They won yesterday. Hey, you hear about Texas Tech getting rid of their dumbbells?

unknown 37:00

No, I didn't hear about that.

SPEAKER_06 37:01

The football team? Yeah, five to thirty-fives, they don't have no more.

unknown 37:04

That's good.

SPEAKER_06 37:05

That's good. What? 40 and over. Exactly. That's right. Exactly.

SPEAKER_07 37:10

You can still get a good workout.

SPEAKER_06 37:11

Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 37:12

Anyway, I'm a military brat, right? So I grew up in New York, Washington, Germany. My family is from Texas. I used I lived in Texas for a lot of my life, but I graduated high school in Washington State and I came down here to go to school. But my family's from Texas, that's why I claim Texas. So it is what it is.

SPEAKER_07 37:32

That sweatshirt you got with your high school on it. Motherfucker, you don't claim Dallas. Where is that?

SPEAKER_05 37:37

I don't claim Dallas. That's where my folks is from.

SPEAKER_07 37:41

Dallas, Texas.

SPEAKER_06 37:42

But yeah, it's just dope to hear.

SPEAKER_07 37:46

Hold on.

SPEAKER_06 37:47

The history behind this man's.

Moving Away For Weather And Family

SPEAKER_07 37:50

No, I'm trying to. Okay, let's see. Let's see what else. Now, did you ever go? I don't know. Do you you remember Waterworks? Did you ever go to Waterworks? Okay, now that's my point. I've been one time, I snuck in. That's all the white people went. Is that like the water park? Did you ever go to Perkins Pool? Perkins Pool, yeah. Yeah, so Perkins Pool was Perkins Pool. But that was a spot in the summertime, though. Hey, wasn't it the spot? Everybody sit up there when they used to do the king of the courts. Ed Davis. Ed Davis. Ed Davis. That was where LeBron, man, like, you gotta understand, like, and you know, it's a lot of athletes, a lot of people that have come through Akron High Schools and their programs. Like, you know, we talk about Ricky Powers, but there was a lot of like great football players, like city, you know, local folk. You know what I mean? And like Ed Davis and that area, man, was them was some great games of basketball, like street basketball. Like you had you couldn't come on there and be no scrub like at all, bro. Like Chambers? Ask me where I hooked at. Told you niggas. Unfortunately, I was all I did was get rebounds and set picks. So I didn't get it. You were still there, though. But still come. And they was, I'm, I'm, you know, LeBron was it's cool, don't get me wrong, man. Like, you know, whatever status I put him as the GOAT because he's from the city, man. So I can't I can't say less about him. Um I love MJ, but there was like, we had superstars that came through Acker. Like, one that came to mind is like before LeBron, there was uh a brother named Doylen Robinson. Doylen was cold. Doylen? I remember him. Doylen was cold, man. Like this was pre-Lebron, like you had the uh twins. I forgot the twins. They went to St. V. They went to St. V. They were cold. Like, it was a lot of great basketball and football players, man. Like that's what's up.

SPEAKER_06 39:53

Try to tell y'all, Kat, don't I'm already knowing that whole old put some respect on my name. Like that. Oh, hey. Like people talk about uh nigga Florida, Texas County being full of Hey, where are the white women at? I love that part full of athletes, but like that region.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

You know, he might have called them white women, but you called them great girls.

SPEAKER_07 40:19

Hey.

SPEAKER_05 40:19

But what what we used to call them pink booties, but now I did see something where they said like the best athletes come from. I mean, normally it's like Florida, Cali, Texas.

SPEAKER_07 40:34

Okay, they're the largest state. Right, exactly, because that's what I'm saying. Not to cut you off, but the piggyback on what he's saying, cities, New York City, Los Angeles, they have more people in them cities than we have in our state. That's why we're so proud when a singer or hey, that's why I'm always big up in Halle Berry. Like, hey, you know, like you, and literally, honestly, to your point, like half of us be like two or three relatives away from actually touching that person. Like, like we know their people, like you know, like I know some of LeBron's people. I know, you know, a lot of those, like I don't know a lot of Halle Berry's people. That'd be a whole different story, but I wish I did. I know my buttons, I know my boy. My boy used to talk to her. Exactly. Like, you know, it's it's somebody somewhere, like what they call it, seven degrees of separation. Yeah, yeah, what is it? Six, six, six, six degrees of separation. Yeah, hell yeah. You always like six or seven people away, man. Like for real, for real. Like you one phone call, you could be in touch with them like right now. Oh yeah, man. I know so-and-so. I used to get, yeah, yeah. He been through here. Like that call at your house, Joe. Yeah, we ain't gonna go into that, but we can't go within that one, man. That was a little deep.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

Yeah, can't go within that one, but that was hilarious, though, bro. I wish I was there.

SPEAKER_07 42:02

That was real funny. Yeah, dawg. See that because I know, and then because I know we're around like, you know, the the the same age range. So I I know we remember, like when we had uh Gold Circle. Yeah. Remember when Gold Circle was across from Rolling A? Yeah, yep. Um Damn, I'm trying, I'm trying to think. What else did we have? Did y'all ever I remember we used to hit the uh the cathedral? Yeah, the cathedral. Yeah, because they had the buffet. They had the buffet. Ernest Ain't yeah. I ain't Ernest Ain't he was the televangelist, man. Driving a roadroid. Yeah, bro. He was he was the local dude, man. He was on TV, like on this one channel, man. Oh, like it was a cathedral, and it had this big, I don't know, was some kind of tower. Yeah, the the big satellite dishes is like his own little TV. He had his own TV show, man. He was like, You know, like TD Jakes and all them cats? He was like that way before them. Yep. And I remember I seen him one time, and he he was uh that's obviously I was older and I was working, and I saw him in the Rolls Royce. I was like, oh wait, that you know had that little piece on or whatever. Oh hell, that's Ernest Angel. I'm sitting at the light, like, oh hell, I got a light way star struck. I remember I met Billy Sowell at from from uh from video the video show, man. I thought, man, I thought I'd better celebrity, man. He was just, I mean, because like I said, man, he played all the music videos, he had interviews, he like it was just like our local station. But as far as like music wise, like, and then they had two shows. So after school was the the we would watch them, me and my sister would watch them after school, and then they would have the new set of videos at 7 30. So 3 30 was was one show, or like four o'clock, and then seven. 30 was all the new video.

SPEAKER_01 44:01

So I'm gonna say this. I know y'all had some badass radio stations up there, though.

SPEAKER_07 44:08

Oh yeah. We had they they remember when they used to play for Lovers Only?

Local TV Radio And Cassette Era

SPEAKER_01 44:14

Yeah, for Lovers Only was the they had some shit you wouldn't believe, and then they had the mixed uh mix the motherfucker was just DJ Coachies? DJ Coaches did they play everything though?

SPEAKER_07 44:25

They played everything W Z A K. She wouldn't even edit it. They wouldn't even edit it. 88.1 Yeah, dawg. And hey, and 88.1 was uh college the university was a college radio station. So they was running it.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

And the motherfucker would say, get your cassettes out. Because they finna go off. Hell yeah. And you pop your cassette in that motherfucker and hit recording and you walk away, bro, for two hours, dog.

SPEAKER_07 44:53

You don't know the pain of having your your tape get wound up.

SPEAKER_05 45:01

And you walk me in you.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

I know you get your little screwdriver, you can take that motherfucker apart.

SPEAKER_05 45:25

With a crease up, you like it.

SPEAKER_07 45:26

Yeah, put it back together.

SPEAKER_01 45:28

And I I I've went as far as to uh tape them back together. I've never taped it.

SPEAKER_07 45:36

But you only give it one drop.

SPEAKER_08 45:37

One one leg. You can't put two. No, you gotta do it on the bottom of it.

SPEAKER_07 45:42

Hey, that that's when you'll be on the phone and be like, hey, I got a song for you. Then you hit play, you got the phone up to the speaker. She'd be like, oh, that's so nice. And then at a certain point, you could call in to some of the radio stations and request a song. Like you call in, like, hey girl, you know, I got listening in the next hour, you know, I got this song. Yep. And they would they would shout you out like when was man. Hey, that's when you really get some good points.

SPEAKER_01 46:14

I'm just saying, I know they had some bad radio.

SPEAKER_05 46:16

That's how you get that timing down when you can press that record button. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:22

I was in Ohio. I heard about eight motherfucking versions of Atomic Dog. Hey, bro.

SPEAKER_07 46:29

That was my jam. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

Did you ever go to uh I'm trying to think Atomic Dog, they had about eight.

R&B Today Attention Spans And Albums

SPEAKER_07 46:38

Did you ever used to go to Bear Rocks? Yeah. You remember uh Bear? Okay, see, it might've been because it might have been shut down. See, so he because that's because now this is like the little age gap. Uh I know we would go to Bear Rocks. Um, so you wouldn't, you definitely wouldn't remember BBs. It was like it was at Akron Square. Yeah. Remember when they had Montgomery Wolf? Yes. I remember the stores. Yeah, and uh B's. This is when I was a teenager. So like you can go in there, it was like 13 to like 18. And you would think, like, damn, you in here, some 18-year-olds, but you still in there. Yeah. But you ain't think about that stuff. No, that that you ain't think about none of the getting into that subject, because I mean it's a lot of hypocritical stuff. Yeah, that's all I'm gonna say. But when we was growing up, it it yeah. I do have a question. Seeing that you're in the music and stuff, what do you feel uh like how RB was and how radios was back in the day to like how it is like right now? Radio, radio today don't spin RB like that, umfortunately. And the sad part is like all of your hip hop and rap music is based off of a sample from RB. Back in the back in the day, like okay, when we was coming up, first of all, there wasn't a a specific station in the sense of play top 40. So you heard a mix of everything. So you heard everything on the radio station. But when it comes to RB, like, and this is why you see like Boys the Man touring, you see New Edition touring, you see, because it's still a love for actual singers like women and fellas that want to set the mood right still want still want somebody singing, but it's not popular, it's not catchy enough. Um you know it we went from for a play to just fucking pretty much. Yeah, you know what I mean? So is it's that that whole but I think some of it's coming back though. It is.

SPEAKER_06 48:51

So I was some of the new artists out here. I was gonna ask because it is traditional RB is a good thing.

SPEAKER_05 48:57

It's coming back because I'm gonna tell you right now, and and and Bosco knows this. My favorite artist right now is Elmin. Get on Elmin. Yeah, he he he's cool, he's cool, but he's he's not like you said, he's not uh y'all need to get on, but no, but see, I'm gonna tell you like real, and this not even because dude is nice, uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 49:21

But my favorite artist, still Luther. Well, Luther Cole, man. No, I'm just saying, he's so that so I get what you're saying. I'm just saying, right now, like new artists. I really don't even move. I'm hey, I'm still listening to Luther because Anita Baker.

SPEAKER_05 49:34

I'm like, well, well, but like what he was saying, kind of piggyback on the saying, is just straight from love to fucking right. So some of these new art, Giveon, for example, they're talking about love. Yeah, I like I like him.

SPEAKER_07 49:48

Give you an what's the one? Caesar. Caesar, yeah. Is it Daniel Caesar? Caesar. Yeah, I like some of these new artists are talking getting more back. What's my guy? Uh Chicago Kid. What's the what's the BJ to Chicago? Nice, bro. Oh, yeah, yeah. Um, oh go ahead. Ask him what's going on. What you were saying, Christian.

SPEAKER_06 50:06

Oh, I was just I'm just asking if uh if traditional RB is still a thing.

SPEAKER_07 50:10

It's it's a thing. It's I mean, it's a thing because like when I've been out and I've actually got a chance to perform, people always celebrate it because it's a it's a difference. It's its own lane. Um is it gonna get the mainstream push? I don't think so. Not right now, because again, it's about the catchy hook. Yeah, like strategically, like strong songs are designed for the strip club. And the reason why I say that is because you got two minute songs. Yeah, so two minute songs with a quick hook, two and a half minutes, that's like the limit. And the attention span of most people isn't that long. Like, like you was talking about Parliament and Atomic Dog, like Atomic Dog was like 10-15 minutes. Like knee deep is 15 minutes. Oh, knee, oh y'all know, y'all know about knee deep. Yeah, I forgot. Oh, come on, bro. Not just knee deep. Yeah, not just become knee deep. Good day. And then then what's your name? We do redo it uh De La Soul. Uh-huh. Just me, myself, and I think that's a good one. Oh, oh, the George Clinton. Oh, oh my god. So all of the all of those knee deep was uh Funkadelic. Yeah, Funkadelic. Yep. Oh no, go ahead, my bad. Go ahead. They don't want to invest like that time, you know, of actually singing the creation to have a bridge in a song to switch the tone. You know what I mean? Like the whole song structure and the anatomy of a song has changed. It's just it's producer hook, repeat, repeat, repeat, hook.

SPEAKER_05 51:42

But like you said, it's attention span, right? I even I I find myself falling into that because listening to them new people. Attention span. Man, really in that. Yeah, yeah. But if you can put together a whole album to where I can just keep it constantly on repeat from song from top to bottom, then that's that to me, that's what grabs me.

Artistry Versus Mainstream Success

SPEAKER_06 52:05

And Rod, it's funny you mentioned albums. I'm I'm playing albums back. Like I'm because Spotify has a feature where you can, you know how back in the day with the CD, it would just start from the beginning, you just hit the replay button. Yeah, right now I've been listening to uh starting the bumping A Gangster and the Gentleman, Styles P. Yeah, kiss the game goodbye. And I'm about to uh run Sheik's album too. Okay, but let me ask you this, Clay. As an artist, would you what do you think is more important? The the art itself or the mainstream success that the art brings?

SPEAKER_07 52:45

I think it's the art. Because and the reason why I say that is because if it comes down to cookie cutter, and I call it cookie cutter because it it pretty much follows the same formula, like that's I I could easily do that. I that's I mean without thought. I'm not saying that the artists that do it, they don't put thought into it, but there's a blueprint that they follow, they follow the blueprint, and that's why it's been successful. As far as the artistry is concerned, like for me personally, I want I want one of my albums to be like Marvin Gay. I want it to be like Michael Jackson. I want it to be like I was just in the fair saying, like, Luke still love listening to Luke.

SPEAKER_06 53:27

Speaking of Marvin, y'all ever heard of October London? Yep, October London is nice. He's one of those. He puts me in the mind of Marvin. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:35

And and I love, I don't want to sound like I'm a hater. Please, please don't take it this way, because dude is dope.

SPEAKER_06 53:42

But that's strategic too, because let me find the guy that sounds like this person versus the new voice that is unique in and of itself. I kind of don't like that. That was my initial response to him. That when you heard him, you say you sound like Marvin? Yeah, the familiarity.

SPEAKER_07 53:59

Because here's the one thing I'll say. Now, obviously, I can't sing a lit unless I'm in the shower or by yourself. No, but here's here's my thing, here's my thing right here. When I listen to like Luther or Whitney, and I'ma even throw Keith Sweat and Bobby Brown in there. I'm not, I'm I mean, I'm listening, but I feel it. The music now, I'm listening to it. I'm listening, like, oh, okay. Back then, I felt it. And I was like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 54:37

No, I feel your neck. Damn.

SPEAKER_07 54:38

But now, like, music now, I like some of the new people. I'll be like, oh, okay, yeah, that's cool.

SPEAKER_01 54:43

No, that I was in Ohio and I felt between the sheets.

SPEAKER_07 54:47

Oh, dog. Damn, listen. Classic. I mean, even like R. Kelly, like, I fell R. Kelly. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You have to feel R. Kelly.

SPEAKER_01 54:55

Okay, don't, don't, no, no, go. I'm gonna say this, man.

SPEAKER_07 54:58

I think we have a I think we have an issue. It's the same issue we have with Bill Cosby. Like, we have to separate the artist from the person. Because Cliff Huxtable wasn't Bill Cosby. You know what I'm saying? Cliff Huxtable is a character, and we love Cliff Huxtable. That Bill Cosby. Same thing with R. Kelly. R. Kelly, man. R. Kelly's music, you know, and there's a lot there's a lot of things that you can weave into that, but dude is dope. Song right now. Hey. Hey, we love R. Kelly over here.

SPEAKER_01 55:36

I'm gonna tell you how R. Kelly.

SPEAKER_07 55:38

Real quick, the very first time I heard R. Kelly. He sweat too. Um remember the song uh Slow Dance? It was R. Kelly. I was at a party down in the basement and Goodyear Heights on New Parties, man. Y'all don't know, man. I was like, man, listen. And I met, dog, I think I that's where I met my little uh high school girlfriend that we, you know, we dated like six, seven months. It would, it was down, and we was listening to uh, it was R. Kelly. Oh, dog. Just like he said, R. Kelly is great. Now, Robert Kelly or hey, that's that's where I have another line. But it is it's easy. And if the Cosby show is on, hey, should I still watch it? And and that's that, you know, like I said, man, like that's separation. Like most of the like, I remember, you know, reading an article about uh what's my dude from uh power? The the young the the son Oh Tyree Tyree everybody hates him in public is it like dude that's a character that's not me. Like, why are you mad at me? I'm just playing the character like hey motherfucker.

SPEAKER_06 56:56

But that's but that's that's the sign of a great performance. Exactly. Because I was mad at that nigga for a second.

SPEAKER_10 57:02

Stop watching. I didn't watch the world.

SPEAKER_07 57:08

Everybody hated Tyree.

SPEAKER_05 57:10

I know there was like a video going about or here's the thing.

SPEAKER_07 57:14

He said he was somewhere, I think he was crossing the street, and I guess some people's like, oh, F you Tyreek. I'm a like like they gonna mark him or something. I'm like, he was like, dude. But you gotta separate that.

SPEAKER_06 57:30

No, but I'm an actor. I get it though. What y'all talking about? That's how I feel, that's how I know when a movie is good to me, is when I'm sitting there looking at, like, say, for example, uh what was the movie I just watched? Will Farrell. I'm looking at Will Farrell like he's a goddamn piece of shit. But it's the character that he filmed.

SPEAKER_01 57:48

Right, right. Right. Will Farrell?

SPEAKER_06 57:51

Yeah, he I just watched a movie called Everything Must Go.

SPEAKER_01 57:54

No, I ain't seen that.

SPEAKER_06 57:56

That was actually filmed in uh Arcadia.

SPEAKER_01 57:58

Really?

SPEAKER_07 57:59

Oh, was it?

SPEAKER_06 57:59

Yeah. Shot on location.

SPEAKER_07 58:02

Hey, that's like uh everybody had that reaction when we we uh going back to Tyreek. Remember uh on Low Down Dirty Shane when Jada Pinkett saw a dude, Chad, whatever his name was from her favorite soap.

SPEAKER_10 58:17

Chad!

Separating The Art From The Artist

SPEAKER_07 58:18

That's what I think about. Uh Jada Pinkett reacted to homeboy from uh from her favorite soap opera. So Clay, I got a couple.

SPEAKER_05 58:27

So all right, so you do RB music, right? Uh-huh. So you got you got music out?

SPEAKER_07 58:32

I got music. I got music out. Oh, yeah. Promote that.

SPEAKER_06 58:36

Okay. Hope that talk. Yeah, no, go, yeah, pull all your stuff out there.

Harrison Clay Promotes Music And Plays Snippet

SPEAKER_07 58:40

Uh and I'm an independent artist, so I mean, so I'm not, I have my own label, so I'm I'm signed to myself. Okay. Um what's the benefits of sign? I mean, obviously, you own your own. Do you happen to uh sign niggas that can't sing? I mean, you can do it. Hold up, hold up, y'all ain't gonna shit on me. I'm about to show you niggas. Don't no, don't show you. I sing better than him. Um listen, let me let me hold, hold on. Listen.

SPEAKER_01 59:46

What are you gonna do me then? I just said America got a tell.

SPEAKER_06 59:53

No, but what's your what's your name on Spotify?

SPEAKER_07 59:56

Spotify is uh H-A-R-E-S-T-O-N C-L-A-Y. So Harrison Clay. Uh, you can follow me on social media. Shout out to my boy Charlie West, man. That's who I've been working with. That's my brother. Uh, we have a studio, Studio 13. Come check us out. Um, and the new album that's coming out is called Love Is. Hey, look at him on spot, man. Hey, look at it. Clean wing is a guy.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:22

With the fedora? With the fedora. He got the beard trip.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:27

That mug is the follow right here. I thought that was Jeremy Burke Jr. I'm like, yeah, golly. Hold up. We got we in the presence of a star. My latest single. My latest single is um it's called Inside. Um that's uh it's it's it's called Inside Lingerie and Silk Pajama Music. Can we play a snippet of it? Yeah, play a snippet of it. Hey, I'm gonna tell y'all right now, you're gonna blow up in Germany. They love us in Germany.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:55

Oh, yeah, they love us. Shout out to Germany.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:58

Shout out to Germany, Putin Todd.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:59

Yeah, man, my niggas.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:16

Oh yeah, he definitely sat in the mood.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:20

Yeah, I wouldn't say that you niggas either. Right, right.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:29

That's nice right, man. Okay. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:32

Yeah, that's that's going in the car right now.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:38

Hey, I just want y'all to know, nigga, you know that from Ohio.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:45

Just like LeBron James, man. Hey, that was Harrison Clay right there. Inside. Y'all better get that, man. I'm about to run that run that shit up on Spotify.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:53

Yeah, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:56

Support Harrison Clay.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:56

Oh, hell yeah. Hey, anytime you got something to say.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:59

And throw your Instagram on there too.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:02

Instagram is uh Harrison underscore clay. Uh H-A-R-E-S-T-O-N underscore C L A Y. Just follow me on Instagram. Facebook is uh Harrison Clay Music. Um be looking for the new album we dropping uh this year. Uh it's called Love Is. Uh I want we uh collectively, me and Charlie West worked on this album, and you know, the whole goal is to bring love back to the game, tell a story, you know. Just bring the love and the soul back. Like, you know, Love Signals. Love Is is the single, but Love Signals is the is the title of the album. Hey boy, hey, it is, man. That's that's that baby making music right there.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:45

I I paid for Spotify and already followed the band. Appreciate it, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:49

Hey, bring that music back, baby. Black folks, you need more than two kids.

Random Questions Powerlifting And Wrap Up

SPEAKER_07 1:02:55

And I'm gonna let y'all know. We do, bro. We need the more dark-skinned niggas is starting to become extinct. I was watching a basketball game. Tell me about that. And I count it team, bruh. Light-skinned cat. I'm talking about light, pretty light-skinned. And which team was that? And they was all of them. All of them. Alabama. All mixed. You know, wait a minute. I was now today they call it biracial. I don't know what it was. We called it. Oh, she was mixed. You see eight light bright and two Africans. That's true. Y'all, I saw it's gonna be African. Light skinned cats out there.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:44

Man, you know.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:45

I'm like, man, what in the hell is Steph Curry?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:49

Everybody wants another Steph Curry.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:51

Oh, I tell you what. This disclaimer though, uh, I'm not responsible for any pregnancy. No, that's that's my disclaimer. Oh, hey, I got a question. Oh no, go on here.

unknown 1:04:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:07

And I was thinking about this shit. It don't make no sense. Oh, hell. Okay. Why do niggas flesh a condom and then a toilet, but not paper towel?

SPEAKER_07 1:04:21

Things that make you go, don't you use both? Wrap it up in that toilet paper? And no, no, I said paper towel. No, no, no. Paper towel, paper towel. Paper towel. Paper towels don't disintegrate. Like toilet paper. Why do, hey, listen, why do they tell you not to flush paper towels down the toilet?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:39

Because they don't, they don't disintegrate. They expand.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:41

Yeah, they don't, they don't, they don't, they don't, they don't.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:43

And you really you ain't supposed to wipe like you ain't supposed to flush the wet wipes of the dude. Yeah, I heard that. Yeah. For real.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:50

Even when they say flushable. When they say flushable. You ain't supposed to flush it. That's why I bought a toilet that said it flush motherfucking pool balls in that bitch. Yeah, you just all it does. All it does is right on the diameter.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:04

It's on the box then. Yeah, we'll flush the ball. That's the two.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:07

Fuck that.

unknown 1:05:08

Damn.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:08

See, yeah, we still got the same outro. Oh, yeah. Hey, hey, Mr. Clay, I'm glad you came by, bro. Thanks for watching. I like you, bro. Thank you all. Hey Harrison Clay. Shout out to you, brothers, man. Yeah, appreciate it. Appreciate it. That's how we operate. We didn't touch on all positive energy.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:31

This nigga could bench press like a motherfucker too while you're bullshitting.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:35

Oh, that's what's up. That's for all y'all Robin. We'll let y'all know.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:42

Back in the day, hey. Don't just go at it back in the day, baby.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:47

I'm gonna let y'all know right now on air. I will not be here next week. Okay. Taking it taking next week off. I gotta recover.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:54

Oh, you got a competition coming up?

SPEAKER_06 1:05:56

Next week, yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:57

Sir, what day is it on? Saturday. Power lifting anyway.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:06

You going for 500 pounds on the bench?

SPEAKER_06 1:06:08

No, no, I'm going for uh shit. Still trying to hit that 1,500 total.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:13

I heard that. To the L. Strong. To the L. I did 1200 total. I did 1200 total.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:21

That's what's up. You weak.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:25

1,200 balls a yeah. You do not talk in Christian's presence. 1,200 pounds.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:35

That's it. Hey, I don't tell you. Hey, I had a mission. I do 315 on every motherfucking thing in the gym. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:43

Yeah, I'm not I'm not touching that. And I did that. I'm not touching that.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:47

I did 300. Shoulder press. I did 315 shoulder press. I ain't doing none of that. I did 315 incline. 315 D. Hey, dang. Oh, squat wasn't nothing. Hey, ask that nigga about his shoulders now. Go ahead and lift your shoulders up. Bend down and touch your toes, nigga. Hey, that's from my 315, boy. I can't even scratch my ear, right? Oh. Yeah, man. You definitely gotta come back. Man, appreciate it. Yes, yes. Anytime you want to promote something, appreciate the history. Hey, listen, when the album drops, come back. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:35

Oh yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. We gotta do a rollout or something.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:37

Okay. Shout out to Akron, Ohio, aK Rowdy. Copley Roll. 1040. Dog, you see, y'all niggas just hey. What about make me sick? No. And his Uncle Rush was like, hey, hey. I'm a hater. Who was the pizza place? Geno's? Geno's is still there, man. I'm a hater. Geno's still there. I'm a hater. My dentist was right next door. Danny Wilson. Danny, that's a good one. Black dentist. And then that no we out. Black dentist. What are you talking about? Hey, you never had a black dentist? I take my shit off. I'm exactly.

unknown 1:08:35

Hell yeah. Hollow.