Drake's ICEMAN Album Is Complete GARBAGE | Kevin Hart In SERIOUS Trouble!

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome to another episode of the Hip Hop Uncensored Podcast. I'm your brother O God. And sitting across from me as my co-host.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

What up, y'all? It's your man Sam Ant, CEO of All Hip Hop News. You're in the building for another edition of the Hip Hop Uncensored Podcast. Oh God, what's good, my brother?

SPEAKER_02 0:13

What up, what up? Peace to all the family out there. You're locked in with the best. Friday, May the 15th, 2026. Shout out to everybody listening on the podcast. Iceman dropped today. To all the Drake fans is going to listen to this, please give us your opinion wherever you see this at the NFL schedule dropped. We're going to talk about that towards the end of the show. So if you want to hear the sports segment, make sure you guys stay locked in and tuned in, you know, with us for that particular segment. But peace, man, man, how you doing on this Friday morning?

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Chilling, man. Time is crazy. We halfway through 2026, man. We're halfway through May already. They say that the older you get, the faster time and life goes. And they ain't lying about that, man. But we're here. Another episode. Let's get it working.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

Yeah, definitely, man. So let's start up with Drake, man. He had a much anticipated album release. Now he did drop three albums today. The Iceman, the two other albums, man. I'm gonna be honest right off the bat. First, I'm gonna say this about Drake. He's been out since what, 2009, 10, maybe, 11?

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Yeah, it was seven and two.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Okay. So the longevity and the consistency and the bangers that he made, I don't want to take nothing, you know, away from him. He's one of the best artists. I ain't gonna say rappers, but you can put him in that list too. But he's one of the best artists, you know, out right now. So I want to give him his props right there. However, let's start off with just the album, man, and the iceman. Honestly, going through the other albums, man. Look, let's let's do this. Let's do this. Let's go back to the source rankings, right? One to five. Let's exclude Iceman. Let's start with the other two albums. Out of a one to five mics, what do you give the pride, the other two albums that he dropped? Now, look, we know we come from the era where you gotta digest things, but preliminary, just kind of listening to the music and skimming through whatever we did, what do you get the first two albums?

SPEAKER_01 2:18

Super early. We're talking about 10, 11 hours into the albums coming out. And obviously, it's a lot of music to digest in a very short amount of time.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

So don't take this as gospel, right? Still gotta digest it. Two and a half.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Why is that so far? Just because for me, let me let me go ahead and say this. Because in our in in a genre of hip hop and even RB, there's probably maybe five artists living today that will make music and seemingly the world stop when they drop music. And Drake, whether you love him or hate him, is one of them people. Yes. He's one of them people. Music things stop, shit stops, and we talk about that one person and that body of that body of work for probably the whole week, right? And Drake's one of them people, so salute to him for that. When Drake drops music, or one of those five people, or one of those elite artists drops music, you put high expectation on that. And it just seems like when you have that much music in a two-year span, it just seems like you put a bunch of throwaways on there. Like people record thousands and thousands of songs. But there's something special about getting those 15, 16, 10, 11 songs, the best ones that put in the body of workout. And when you have 60 songs, it just kind of gets diluted. The product gets diluted. So for me, those two albums are two and a half simply because it's just music that right now we don't need. Could his album stand the test of time? And three, four, five years down the road, we're talking about Iceman and the two albums that followed it as some of the best, maybe. I doubt it, but you never know. But yeah, as of right now, that is why. It's no is no hate on Drake. I'm not the biggest Drake fan, but I'm really trying to come at this conversation with an objective eye and ear and an opinion because I think he's one of those artists, one of the most polarizing artists we've seen in a very long time. And unfortunately, when you talk about him, opinions and viewpoints get skewed for various reasons. But I'll I'll go ahead and let you go ahead and take it from here.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

No, I'm gonna play. He put a lot of disses out. One was DJ Khaled. I'm gonna I want to get into that. He diss Jay-Z, Rick Ross, he diss everybody on this joint. He almost went Cat Williams on this joint. Like I'm I'm shooting at everybody, but I'm gonna play this snippet first, and I'm gonna play some of the song, man.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Khaled, you know what I mean. The beef was fully live. You went halal and got on your dean. And your people are still waiting for a free Palestine. But apparently everything is in black and white and red and green.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Alright, so hold your thoughts on that one. I'm gonna play a little bit. I think this song right here is the best song, you know, on an album. So I think it's this one. A little bit of it. You heard this one? Okay. I want to say supposedly he's letting people do this. I don't know if you heard that. Yeah. So that that that that's actually dope. I wish I was up and I had some space. I would have done that shit without. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 5:20

React to the songs, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Right, but let's play. Yeah, let's see.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

I remember nothing around me, all the up and stare. But apparently, everything is the black and white and red and green. I'm seeing everyone's true colors for the red ones and a thing.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Alright, so man, that he shot at everybody. Shot at Jay, Pusher. He shot at everybody. Rick Ross. I like that little Aiden Ross. That was dope. You get Aiden Ross and stream for Aiden Ross. That was dope, man. Uh obviously, this the sample, amazing. To me, I like that type of music. I like the you know, the soulful type of music. To me, this is the best song of all the albums. Period. What's your thoughts on this one, man? You ain't bobbed your head one time. You didn't move your head. You're just like, man, okay, nigga. But what's your thoughts? I'm a drink. I'm listening, I'm gonna listen to this during all day, man. Just that song.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

You caught that, huh? Um, because oh god. Was he spitting bars? Of course. You a Kendrick fan, though, so you can't. Okay, let me say that too. That's a very important place you put it. Because just because I'm a Kendrick fan does not mean I'm a Drake hater. I hate that shit. Word, because when I it was when Jay-Z and Nas were having their beef, you can say and pick whoever you thought won that battle, but you can still be fans of both artists. You can you can have your one, you can have your favorite, and you may be able to look at Ether, you may look at Takeover like a fuck that nigga for that song. Right. But you all in in in totality, you still appreciated the artist's work. So I'm not gonna sit back and go because I like Kendrick and because I'm a Kendrick fan, no doubt about it, that I'm gonna automatically hate on Drake. Not gonna do that. But what bothers me about the song is it's we've heard this cadence and this style. Yeah. We heard it on Take Care. We've heard this song. Maybe not the bars, but we've heard this song on every single album he's had. And maybe this is just a linchpin on how he does. It's a dope song. I'm not saying that. Put a dope beat behind it. He's definitely gonna spit some metaphors and spit bars. He's a very talented artist. This is what he does. Right. But it's the same shit, bro. Same flow, same cadence. It is. It's we we we criticize these mumble rap artists for giving us the same shit. But in no disrespect, but Drake just gave us the same shit he's been giving us since 2009. Some people find the nostalgia dope and like it and want him to stay with it. Other people kind of fall back looking for more. And I'm one of them people that kind of just sit back looking for more. Another thing that bothers me about just what I heard in that song, and this kind of contributes to him as a person, and I don't know him like personally, but kind of how he moves outside of the booth, it's some bitch shit. Move on. Move on, yeah. God damn, let's just cry and whine about every fucking thing. We're still upset about people that danced on stage with Kendrick when he was in LA and he did not like us. We're still talking about the big fucking three. We're still doing this shit two years after the fact. You still want to bring up Meek Mail and what you did to him eight years ago. We're still talking about this shit. Right. When it when can it come a point when it's like, all right, and this is why I honestly think that beefing in hip hop in 20, I think Jay-Z may even alluded to this, it's hurting hip-hop more than it's actually helping. Because back in the day when we had beef records and people were beefing, we still appreciated the artists and they had an ability to move on and move past it and move forward. We won't automatically just attributing them to this beef. He can't get out of this shit. Yeah, he's stuck. He's stuck. And it's like people won't allow him to get out of this shit. They're stuck. So it's like, yo, that beef, and them records did more harm than good to the culture because he cannot get out of this shit, and we can't appreciate the brother as an incredible artist that he is because he has to continually answer questions about taking a fucking L two years ago. You took an L, bro. It's okay. And you're talented enough to get past that, but you won't allow yourself to get past it. Now let me talk about the genius in Drake.

SPEAKER_02 12:05

Yeah. Because he's a genius.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

Yeah, both sides, yeah. He's a genius in this. Because he understands that talking about streamers, bringing them on and having them promote his album, letting people get on their platforms and individually break this shit down and have his name consistently in the algorithm. Something I gave him criticism on a couple minutes ago in dropping 60 songs is a genius move in itself because 10, 15, 20, 30 songs are gonna be on billboard next week because people are constantly listening to it. Yeah. So it's genius in his marketing plan, but when you come to like the actual hip hop and what I'm thinking of and how I'm how I'm looking at him and where he's at on the Pantheon of Greatest, the shit's disappointing me a little bit, bro. Like you, you constantly, you're living in the past, you're living in this shit, you can't get out of it, and you're giving us damn near the same thing you've given us for the last 10, 12 years. So that's why I didn't bop my head. That's why I'm not vibing to it. Did he say some shit? Yeah, he was spitting balls all through that drone.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

But it's just like, damn, man.

SPEAKER_02 13:03

Like, what where's the evolution at? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Where's it at?

SPEAKER_02 13:06

Yeah, well, you yeah, and I I was thinking the same thing. I'm listening to it. I'm like, this shit, I can do this flow. Like, so so I I get it. I felt that was the emotion that I felt when I accidentally listened to it. But let's kind of, you know, move over into the streamer part because I was watching DJ Academics earlier on Instagram, and he was talking about how Drake flew him out, like a woman, like a female, to Toronto, I guess. Iced him out, got him wet. Nah, but anyway, I'm just joking. But iced him out, you know what I'm saying? You know, and to me, people accuse us and others of this, of payola, of rockination sending you a check, or somebody, you know, doing this to sway you. They understand. Drake understands, unlike any other time. You were just saying a few minutes ago, he needs the Aiden Rosses. He needs the DJ Academics. Because all throughout this, when Drake was beef with Meek Mill, however long that was, eight, nine years ago, who was attacking him? Academic was attacking on behalf of Drake. Anytime Drake got into with Kendrick, he was talking about bot farms and this was fake and this. He was like, This campaign to try to totally discredit Kendrick. It didn't work. But it goes to show you the power of these streamers now. And Drake enlists the power of these streamers. He's now using this shit as a chess move. Like, shit, I'm gonna fly him out, throw an OVO chain on his neck. I'm gonna shout out Aiden Ross, I'm gonna slide them whatever in the background because I need them to talk about this favorably. Now you got these guys on the stream acting like they bust the nut. You would think they was in there getting Felatio. Oh my god. Look what Drake said. I can't believe he's talking about this person. Woo! Woo! Like, it ain't that serious. This is the same shit we've been hearing from Drake for the last 10 years. He didn't do nothing profound or crazy or nothing like that. In my opinion, the other two albums beside Iceman is throwaways. It's throwaways. It's him trying to be afrobeat, him trying to do pop shit, him trying to do this, just trying to, you know, obviously he's gonna he gonna chart on billboard. Yeah, you know, he's just what are you gonna do? But as far as people saying hip-hop was fed by this, I don't know, bruh. I I don't really know. But again, genius move by getting and enlisting those streamers right now that, you know, are going to bet for you. But is it genuine?

SPEAKER_03 15:31

No.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

If Drake were to throw an LVO channel on your neck or my neck or anybody else's neck that does this commentary thing, are you gonna have a genuine opinion? Hell no! It's just not. I don't care what you say. It's just not.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

I wouldn't dick ride every song unless I was paid to dick ride every song. Right. But do you think that I'm gonna sit back and give out of five mics, give any of them songs two and a half? Do you think I'm gonna sit back and be upset about him giving the same cadence? Some of the shit that I really feel about it, you know, subun the rug. Yeah, we're gonna leave that to off the microphones, off camera. Yep. You know what I'm saying? And we'll talk about it on our personal time. You know what I'm saying? Because this motherfucker just flew me out, threw me some chain. I'm not gonna diss somebody that just showed me this amount of any psychological. Yeah. And at the same time, how authentic is it? He had the song that you just played, he talked about how a hundred thousand streams just secretly went missing. I'm sure he's talking about a hundred million with Kendrick Lamar, not like us. You were trying to paint the picture as if this song didn't have the motion as it claimed. Right. Nigga, it did. It did. It did. Whether the streams were fake and y'all all do it or not, that shit had impact. That shit was played at the Super Bowl. And billions of people watched it. Kids in cars all across America were singing that shit.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

You can't bot farm that shit like that.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

My daughter, she don't even know what the fuck. She said, she knows they're not like us. What, wah, wah, wah, what? And she'll tell me, dot fuck them up. Point to me, just go, dot, fuck them up. Still. So that wasn't no bot farm. She ain't listening to this shit on YouTube. But you made it seem like. And then you have your your people go in the bat for you. Oh, this fake. This fake news. This is what's so fucking corny about this. Yeah, true. Oh my God. And and academics, he's a smart, he's a smart character. And he's a listener and he's a savant of music. He definitely is. But he's paid. Because when he was listening to Kendrick Lamar's stuff on during them beef shits, this motherfucker's like, oh my god. This man is kicking this dude's ass. He was listening to Jake's shit, but as soon as Kendrick dropped, meet the grand. As soon as Kendrick dropped, not like us. He was like, yo, this motherfucker's killing this dude. He knew that. It's genuine, his genuine feeling and thought came out on stream. Like, yo, Kendrick, drinking his shit. Yeah, yeah. He's going. You knew it. In real time, the fakeness could not be hidden. It couldn't. You knew it was real. But if a dude throw a chain on you, that's just like, all right, we've had people that come on this platform and show us an immense amount of love. Love on camera, love behind the camera, and no money had to be exchanged. If they were going through controversy and bullshit, you think we're gonna get on this microphone to criticize them? That's on a lower level. No, somebody throw me $300,000 and they give me $100,000 on my neck. Nigga, I ain't saying shit about that. Yeah, it's just the way business works. And this is what the problem is in hip-hop, because now you got people like that who can get 500 to a million people on a stream in one sitting talking about this as if it's gospel, and you have a whole generation of young people thinking, oh, well, fuck Kendrick, fuck Drake Cole, fuck this person, fuck. We gonna rock with Drake. You can literally rock with all of them if you want. But that's just Drake knows what he's doing. It's smart. I don't know how effective it is and good it is for the culture. Like it's two totally different things.

SPEAKER_02 18:33

And he's is he alluded to, he wants to be that song. He's about to leave UNG. That's a whole nother topic. Maybe that's why he dropped 60 songs. Yeah, yeah, they get maybe that's why he dropped three albums to finish up his little thing, and now he can go independent. But that we'll we'll talk about that another time. I think because I think academics even said that. One thing you give academics, he plugged in.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

Plugged.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

And people are dropping him, giving him stuff, and they want to be on there, and you know, which brings me to the next topic. I was watching a podcast, I can't remember the name of the podcast, but Meek Mill was commenting on it, and this individual was saying that streamers are more influential and important than rappers right now. And Meek Mill had a whole bunch to say, like, nah, it ain't true, and he was giving his reasons why. But I think this proves it right here. This alone proves it. Well, and I'm gonna give you get your opinion on it. Do you think streamers right now, you you know, you I ain't gonna put the names out there, but you know your academics and obviously your Joe Buttons and all these different people are more influential and important than artists right now?

SPEAKER_01 19:30

Let me ask you this. I'll answer that with a question. This could be rhetorical or you can answer it. Do you see more rappers turning streamers or more streamers turning rappers? Yeah, I mean, you see it. Which one do you see more? Everybody's getting into this game. What lane what lane do you see these people falling into? So you tell me who's more influential. When the rapper decides no longer to be in a booth and his lyrics are no more no longer valid or or sustainable enough to carry a career, he gets behind his microphone and he talks about shit like we talk about. So, Meek Mill, unfortunately, as much as I love you, you're a little misinformed in that, or you don't want to get with the times, or you don't want to really understand what's going on, or you don't want to get up behind a microphone and talk on a podcast, which I salute you for. But let's not act like it's not fact that streamers right now run the wave of everything. Streamers right now are running content, how it's viewed and how it's disseminated. Period. Music, movies, TV shows, whatever the case, streamers run this shit. Right. So to sit back and act like they don't run it in hip hop, you're out of your mind. This is why Drake probably laid out a million dollars for streamers like Aiden Ross and academics to talk about his shit in a good light. This is why he's probably not, this is why he allowed streamers to listen to his music free of charge and play that shit. Do it. If he if he if they didn't matter, he locked that shit up, nigga. This shit don't matter. I'm gonna make my bread. Anybody was making money off of me. But he understood opening them doors are gonna bring millions of people to his doorstep. Well, who's facilitating that? The microphones. So no, no, without question. It's not even a fair debate. The shit ain't even close, if you ask me.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

And I hope he don't go back later on some copyright content shit. Like a couple weeks down the line and try to hit people up. Let them make their bread, bro. I mean, it's enough money out here. If you already got hundreds of millions of dollars, you you close to touching a billion. Let these little streamers and shit make their little bread. Yeah, which you worry about 11,000 for. You know what I mean? And then if it's like if it comes down to people ain't gonna do it because they want that revenue. I'm sitting up for hours listening to your music, supporting you, giving you streaming money while listening to your music. You can't give me a little super chat, so my little ad revenue I'm gonna get on my YouTube or Instagram, whatever I'm doing this on. Like, come on, I think more artists need to need to follow suit with it. Stop being so fucking greedy. But I I you know, I hear what Meek Mill is saying, too. I honestly do. Because our artists got a lot of influence, man. A lot. But I think now it was a time where artists had more influence. But I think now it's slowly the pendulum is not to say they don't have any, but the pendulum is. Starting to shift now. It's really starting to shift. Now it's only a handful, in my opinion, of artists that have the same type of influences as streamers. Before it was just all artists. Like people following Future Wave, you know, this person's wave, this person's wave. Now it's like we gotta turn it, turn into everybody got a kick account now. Kick must be paying big dollars. I'm about to start a fucking kick account. Like what is everybody doing on kick? You know what I mean? Every little thing I see is kick, kick, kick, kick, kick. So yeah, right now I have to defer and say, yeah, streamers right now.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

I wish it wasn't, right? Exactly. I mean, I want to agree with Meek. It shouldn't be that way. But one, one, the lack of talent out here, the lack of real actual hip-hop talent is crazy. There is none. You know what I mean? We got like that era, that Meek Mill, J. Cole, Drake, Kendrick Lamar type era, right? When we looked at Jay-Z and DMX and Jaden all and we seen these young ones that we talking about right now coming right behind them. And we was like, all right, these are the these are the artists that's gonna carry the torch for the next 10, 15 years. Who's gonna carry the torch now? NBA Youngboy? Who we got to carry the torch? Who we got who we looking at as artists now that's like, okay, they they're gonna be here for the next 10, 15 years. We don't.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Right.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

We got streamers. Right. You know what I mean? So I wish I I I I want to agree with Meek, man, but we right now, it's not even close. Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 23:20

Kevin Hart, Heartbeat Network, is supposedly in serious trouble right now. Now, there's been a lot of allegations on the table, you know, that you know, it's a lot of the company is pretty much hemorrhaging, losing a lot of money. It's laid off employees, but they have pretty much said that Kevin Hart went ghost, left the company, you know, for weeks on end, changed his phone number. Employees have been getting laid off and things like that. You know, the Heartbeat Network, whatever. Um, at one point they said he had about 80 employees. He's downsized to maybe 15 to 20 right now. Now, there's a lot to it, again, but these are the reports that's been coming out about Heartbeat Network. I'm a little surprised. I'm a little surprised, you know, at that. But what are your thoughts on that story coming out? This story came out a few days ago.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Yeah, and I'm just hearing about it right now. Okay. I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised because starting a network and doing all that shit independently is not easy. Yes. That's why you got NBCs and ABCs and Viacoms and various places like that that can pilot a show, put out a season of a show, take that loss and continue to move on because they're huge. An independent company like a Heartbeat Network, no matter how successful or how much money Kevin Hart has, when you're starting to put money out like that to be a production company, the losses can't come as exponentially as an ABC or a Viacom or an NBC. You take one, two, three, four losses, it's like shit. Yeah. Now all of a sudden, I gotta cut back. Now all of a sudden, yeah, I might have to downsize. Yeah, all of a sudden, unfortunately, this business may have to go belly up because I cannot afford to take this man this many amounts of losses in this one venture because it may empty out everything that I have. Yep. Right? So am I surprised? No. And then kind of Kevin Hart alluded to it a couple weeks ago. He was live and he was talking about how streamers and people like Drewski and people like High Sonet and iShow Speed are kicking these networks and these these theaters asses because they can get on the phone with a $20, $30 budget and make millions of dollars when the the networks and these publishing companies are throwing out $300 million and they're not seeing that back. So he kind of told you, like, uh, it's a it's a wave going on right now, and unfortunately, money's being lost to some of these things. And Kevin Hart's not a stupid dude. Now, him ghosting and him chaining his phone number and him no longer talking, that's not good. That's our allegations. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know the ins and outs of that, so I'm not gonna attack the man personally, right? But a network is not easy to do. It's not, so I'm not surprised that it's it's not doing well. I've I've obviously I want to see it do well. I don't want to see anybody fail, but we're in business, man. We've been in business for 10 years. We know the ups and downs and the eps and flows of business. And when you get into this type of shit, when you are relying on people to consume your content for you to get revenue, I'm not surprised, man.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

Yeah, and this is, you know, one of the reasons why black businesses fail at a rate very high, because we lack the access to the funding in the time. We don't have the time. Like, for example, you'll see companies that lost $100 million or 20 million or $30 million, and they're able to recover because they have more access. And for us, it's like, again, like you said, with Kevin Mahard, it's over with. You can't afford to take that type of loss. Even if he's worth, you know, three, four hundred million. He's not trying to lose $150 or go negative before he can start making a profit.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

Right.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

And that's, you know, those hard decisions when it comes to business. It ain't easy. It's good when it's good. As we know, and everything's coming in, and you know, everything is great, and you could pay this and pay that. But once those days start coming, it's time to pay this person or pay this bill and pay that. You ain't got it, it's like, holy shit, it gets very, very difficult. So I'm not surprised, but like you said, because you know, Kevin Hart is not a network. He's not those, those bigger, and you talking about a Fox or NBC or ABC, you're talking about trillion dollar probably valuations. Well, it's like their money is long as shit. They can you know lose for 20 years straight and still make it. And even they make cuts. Great point. It's you know, to eventually get it back where they are or file bankruptcy, restructure some things to get back, you know, where they want to go. That's what I was trying to tell people the difference between bankruptcies with even like Dang Dash. There's two different types, there's more many different types of bankruptcies, but these companies will go through bankruptcies where, you know, all right, I'm gonna settle my debts. I owe Sam Ant 5 million. Yo, can I give you 1.5 right now? That's all I got. I owe all this stuff. But now when we're talking about chapter 7 bankruptcy, it's like I gotta give up my company and you gotta take whatever's left. Now I can't operate this company no more. Two different things restructuring my debt or giving up my company. That's what I was trying to explain to people. So these bigger companies do that often and they file bankruptcy and stuff to restructure and be able to breathe and to be able to live. That's like if we we had a company, let's say we owed a million dollars for where we was at. We ain't making the money no more. So how can we pay it? All right, we gotta file bankruptcy and tell people this is what we can pay you, so we can now start getting back, you know, in the black again. You know what I mean? So look, I don't look at him no different because of this. I'm not looking down on them, it's just a part of business. When he was doing this thing as a comedian, he had people backing him. That's a different story between you going out there, think about it. 80 employees. You got to have the building, you gotta pay these people taxes, taxes. They might you might want to get health benefits. There's a whole bunch of things that go into this that people don't see. It's constantly money is going to be going out, whether you're making it or not, because these people are there working.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

Right.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Totally different than this Kevin Hart making his money and people paying him to do shit. And he got a production or a company behind him that's going, it's totally two different things. So I honestly is smart. Now, like you said, him ghosting and leaving and shit like that. If that's true, I think that's that's a cowardly thing to do. Changing his number, not showing up. You know what I mean? But those are just allegations right now. And you know, when you know, if they more comes out, we'll talk about that. But I wish the best for the brother, man, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

Yeah, and what I don't want to see is him starting to lose generational wealth to keep a company when business is set up for you to go ahead. And unfortunately, if it don't work out, you know, I mean, dump it. Fuck.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

Yeah, dump it, yeah, for sure. For sure, for sure. Let's move on to so G Unit sneakers are making the comeback, man. What you think about that? I don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Never won. People think you don't like 50 cents. People like, man, saying I don't like 50 cents. That's a lie. Because when G Unit came out and if sneakers came out, boy, I had them all. I had the fatigue ones, I had them all. No, no, no, no. I was a G Unit sneaker rep. As a matter of fact, it's crazy. I wanted to model for G Unit. I used to go and do different things and go on different runways and things and kind of try to work with them. Okay. No, complete opposite. I was a huge fan back in the day when it first came out. Like I said, I was trying to model for them and everything was cool. But do I want to see a resurgence of the G Unit sneaker? No. But I don't want to see the S dots. I don't want to see, you know what I mean, baby fat. I just certain things, you know what I mean, as nostalgic as they were during their time. I don't need to see them shits again. G Unit isn't popping the way they were popping back then. The the group itself, the individuals itself aren't popping enough for them to drop a G Unit sneaker. Like, what's popping for them to really want to buy them? So 50 ain't rapping. Lloyd Banks ain't around doing that like that. Young Buck ain't there, game ain't there. Yeah, yo, who's gonna represent this brand to actually push any unit? So hell no, I don't want to see that shit.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

Yeah, I just don't see. Like, I don't think they even maybe they're gonna put out a new design, but the sneaker game is tough, man. Unless you copy somebody's prototype, you know, it's gonna be very tough, man, because it's like every style is almost out there. Unless you can like do like easy, I'll give it to him, man. He really changed the game with his like I know you got I got them now to this day, they're comfortable. I'm wearing it. Okay, look, and they look different than anything else out there. And I I you know I just wish he's not having the same effect, man, as he did with Adidas. It's just not the same, even though I think his prices are lower now. He did he just put out a new slipper. I don't know if you've seen it. Nah. You know, it's sort of like that, but it's like thinner. Okay. You know what I'm saying? But and he raised the price of those to fit 40 now.

SPEAKER_03 31:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

But I heard he's having like the district issues, like things coming on time. Oh my god. You know, things like that. Did you order anything or it took s took long for you?

SPEAKER_01 31:41

I ordered these. Matter of fact, my wife and I ordered a pair of four for everybody in the crib. We ordered them probably in like September. Got them at Christmas. So we got to Christmas. Oh my god. Like two days after Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

So what was it saying like the whole time? Pending, pending, pending.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

To where like we thought we got scanned. We didn't know. Wow. And then I looked on like one of the Instagram posts and it was like, yeah, it took me forever to get it. Yeah, it took me forever to get it. So I showed her, I was like, I think we good. It just taking forever to get here. And then we didn't get an email saying they were on their way. Nothing. One random day, they just got a box of fours, four Yeezys. Uh slide. And that's the thing.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

And you know, when you talk about the you know, the the distribution channels, that's just to me, that's that's supply-demand distribution, that's you know, all that mixed in one. Because when you you look, maybe they bought the prior one even made yet. Right. And they had to go through the factory, or they was on a boat, they couldn't, you know, pay to ship it all. It could have been a whole bunch of different things. But with the D's you already know. Like these people got to get this. We promised this in three days or two days, we're gonna get it there.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

You order them shits on dicks or datas or Nike app, you get them shits three days. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

Three days, and that'd be the difference, and that's that's what people want. And that's why you got Amazon now even moving to I think an hour or day shipping, hour shipping. Overnight shipping, they do all kinds of shit. Sometimes even the same day. Yeah, because people want that, and I you know, that's a whole nother thing, man. Because when I want something Amazon, I want it by the next day.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

Amazon's on another level right now, bro. Yeah, you can order something at nine, and that should be there at 6 a.m. Like on the city. Really? Yes. Wow. Shit's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

Yeah, and I mean the convenience, and the price is always gonna be lower. You know, but yeah, yeah, that's you know, that's the thing. But uh, I wish Yeezy the best. So called so-called Drake dissed everybody. He even diss Ye and come it was going, yeah. So it was a it was a joint that it was kind of gay to me, dog. Ice, ice, ice, ice. Ice, ice. You talk about somebody like somebody taking medication, so Aiden Ross is like, oh, that's Jeezy.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

Ice, ice, ice, ice.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

That's what it sounded like.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

Ice, ice. And then you're gonna have motherfucking streamers like him talking about that he's the greatest rapper of all time. You see how he got 60 things on billboard and all this shit, and kind of convoluted the real conversation because you got corny motherfuckers.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

Numbers never equated to being the greatest of all time in anything, bro. That's like say LeBron got more score points than Jordan. I don't mean he better.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

Played 13 years more than he did, right?

SPEAKER_02 34:08

He even dissed LeBron. I'm like, why are you dissing a fucking basketball player?

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Do you don't know why? No, what happened? Can I tell you how gay this shit is? Yeah, yeah, yeah. LeBron was dancing with Kendrick on stage with Nick. Oh my god. That is why. Because Drake and LeBron were so cool at first, and now all of a sudden, because he's cool with Drake, he can't be cool with Kendrick. He's not allowed, can't be cool with both rappers. Right. So him dancing a not like us in Inglewood, a place where LeBron plays basketball, he's not allowed to dance and have a fucking good time with him and his family. So now he gets shots too. That's why. Oh my god, they couldn't get any cornier. This is why I'm like, yo, what are we doing here, bro? Yeah. This shit is I wanna I wanna like Drake. I've wanted to like him for years, but it's something about him.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

Something about him. I ain't gonna lie, yo, I'll be saying the same thing. I say the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 34:55

That just makes me not go all the way there. I'm just like, ugh, yeah. Whatever.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

It's something about the nigga.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

It's not about him.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

And it's like I don't like he just I don't want to say the G word or something like that. But he's just like, I ain't gonna say that he's that.

SPEAKER_01 35:07

It's not a body.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

But yeah, it's something's like this nigga's just a little rubs, it's just different.

SPEAKER_01 35:11

It's just like uh.

SPEAKER_02 35:13

Even the way he talks and shit, and the way he moves around and I can't smoke a blunt and have a real conversation with this nigga, man.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

I can't do it. I probably start laughing at the cool within, like, all right, so you got your circle, right? He might be cool with three niggas in your circle, and you don't want looking at him like playing sound like that. My boys had me at some fucking cornballs house, and y'all just sitting there eating this shit up. And I'm like, Can we get the fuck out of here, please? Yeah, this is cornball shit. That's what it reminds me of.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

It's wild. Let's jump into the schedule.

unknown 35:39

Woo!

SPEAKER_02 35:39

Real quick, man. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm telling y'all watching. Y'all better win my for them first two days, man. That could be oh too out the gate. That could be, but uh I I I saw, I briefly saw y'all's schedule, and I and the back end's not too crazy, right? The back end's a little lighter, what I seen. What do you think about the schedule, man? Is this even the right one? The Washington Commanders schedule this year. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

Oh man, so one, I think that we have a good enough team to make the playoffs and make a real run, right? So I can't say that and then go, oh, I'm so scared of the schedule, right? Because we got good teams on that schedule. Very good teams. And when you looked at the schedule in the past, I can go, okay, I think that's a win. I think that's a win. I think that's a win. There's two games where I'm like, I'm confident going, okay, we should beat Tennessee. We should beat Arizona. Those are later on in the year.

SPEAKER_02 36:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

Outside of that, all these shits are 50-50, bro. All these shits are 50-50. When you open up a season with Philly on the road, yeah, that's crazy. Dallas on the road. Oh, Dallas on the road, too? Then you come home and play the Seahawks. What? And then go to London and play the Indianapolis Colts. No way. And then the Giants, and then I forgot who we got weeks. Oh, you're right. Holy shit. It's a gauntlet, bro. It's a fucking gauntlet.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 36:58

Um we gotta come out of that. We gotta we gotta weather the storm.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

Two and two.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

We gotta come out of that with uh with an even all-winning record. You know what I mean? Because that that's that that is brutal. And none of these games on the schedule easy. Indianapolis is not an easy out, right? The Giants, as much shit as they talk, they got Sam Frank Giants. Oh my god. I think we're gonna beat them. That's not an easy out. Frisco's not an easy out. The Rams are not an easy out. The AFC South, who we play this year, who you usually is a gimme, that's not an easy fucking out. So yeah, no, the schedule's brutal. It's brutal. But that being said, um, I like the talent that we have. I think that Jaden Daniels is a lot of people put him in top 10. I personally, and I'm 100% biased, think that he's a top five. So if he's who I think that he is, gotta go out there and win some of these fucking games. And you gotta go out there and produce. If you want to be a Super Bowl team, a playoff team, then schedules like this, you gotta find a way to manage, get through, get your ass to the playoffs. So, real quick, I know it's early as hell. I got anywhere between nine and eleven wins, the ceiling being 12, the floor being seven. You know what I mean? It's gonna be a tough one. But I'm I'm excited. I'm excited nonetheless. I'm souped up that we're playing your opening day. I had a feeling that was gonna happen when I seen the Giants against Dallas at the Nassau. They're gonna put us, they're gonna put Philly and Washington together. 425, I think it's a great time. You know what I mean? But yeah, they put us in a gauntlet.

SPEAKER_02 38:18

How do you get out of Seahawks at 1 o'clock? That should have been a prom time, Joint.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

I'm glad it is at 1 o'clock. Oh, man. They are traveling all the way to DC at 1 o'clock, that West Coast team. So hopefully we get them a little tired and they ain't carrying some of that swag that they had last year. Because if they come in swagging like last year, oh shit. But no, them the first two games, man, we gotta come out of that a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 38:35

You got to be good.

SPEAKER_01 38:36

One and one.

SPEAKER_02 38:37

Yeah, you're gonna have to be good. Got to. If you're like mediocre, no, we're gonna lose. Yeah, you're probably gonna lose a lot of them games.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

Yeah, you're gonna lose a lot of boar. Right. So we'll see, man. It's it's not easy. It's not easy.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

Yeah, why'd that get such a hard schedule?

SPEAKER_01 38:53

I don't even know if it's necessarily as hard as everybody else. It's the timing. Like Washington, or they got Philly away and Dallas away. Back-to-back games to start the season. Like, that's crazy. Like, if those are spaced out a little bit, it may not seem as difficult, but then Seattle. And then Seattle. We can easily go three. Uh we could, I don't say easily go three and oh. We can easily go 0-3.

SPEAKER_02 39:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:15

You know what I mean? We gotta win at least one of them games. Two would be great, three would be phenomenal. But we go 0-3, we could be in trouble. And it's very possible. Now, I know a lot of people are looking at last year, looking at the defense last year, looking at the struggles injury-wise last year, and kind of attributing that to what we're gonna go through. We don't know what the fuck we're gonna see. We got a new defensive coordinator, a slew of new defense. The defense is gonna look different, the offense is gonna look different. So hopefully, throughout the uh the training camp and off-season, these play uh these these preseason games and these uh what do they call them shits where you go to the team and you play them during the week? Oh, joint practices. Joint practices and things like that, we got to get a lot of work in uh during the offseason and during them games, man, because we cannot afford to have any time where we're laxing days ago or trying to get our feet three game of this. Nah, we got to come out mid-season for them because they they put in the gauntlet in front of us early. So we'll see. Yeah, it's a good idea. I just say y'all schedule it. What y'all looking like?

SPEAKER_02 40:06

Well, yeah, it's it's it's it's rough. It's pretty rough. We have um, we start off obviously with y'all. Yeah, then we got the Titans, you know, home. We got to start with two home games, then we go on a road to the Bears, the Rams.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Oh, y'all got the Bears, we got the Vikings, okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

Yeah, Jaguars, Panthers, Cowboys, Commanders, Giants, Steelers, Cowboys, Cardinals, Colts, Seahawks, Texans, Niners, Giants. So we pretty much got the same points.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

Different timing.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

Different timing. It's like I said, it's gonna depend. We probably won't have AJ Brown, you know, so that to me that changes a lot of things up. To me, it's gonna come down to the offensive line, you know, the offensive line at the end of the day. Can we get keep have our running game going? Can we dominate up front? Because I think if we dominate up front, we could beat anybody. I think our defense is gonna be that good. You know, it's gonna take them some time, obviously, you know, but it's gonna come to the that's my biggest concern is that offensive line. Are they gonna be hurt limping off the field? Because I think we can get back to dominant football, we're gonna we're gonna win maybe third, 12, 13 games, you know. But one interesting thing about the first game with us is that nobody's gonna know what they're gonna see. Right. Because nobody knows your coordinator, nobody really knows, you know, our guy, you know, put both of them being in the same. So it's gonna come down to adjustments. And if I had to give it to any, I obviously would give it to Vic Fangio. He's been there longer, you know what I mean, and is skilled. And I think our defense on paper is better, but that doesn't say what the offense is gonna do. Is Jaden Daniels gonna return back, you know, to that unstoppable form? Who's gonna be our other receiver besides, you know, because y'all still got to get somebody? I see people, Stephon Diggs. I think he'll be, but you want two older guys though? On a one-year deal?

SPEAKER_01 41:46

Him and Terry? Yep. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

He's not a bad receiver.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

One year. Of course, yeah, one year. I got we got Antonio Williams in the third round out of Clemson, who who I think is gonna be a nice little piece. He's a rookie, so he still has to prove himself and have some time. I love to see him in a slot. He can play outside, but I think ideally he'd be in the slot. Right. We need somebody on the outside. I don't want Deami Brown, I don't want Van Jefferson, I don't want Luke or playing.

SPEAKER_02 42:09

Where your boy at? Your boy uh Traylon, the X AJ, Traylon Burks.

SPEAKER_01 42:13

No, no, Trelon needs to be the fourth receiver on that roster. Real shit. But um, yeah, if if you're telling me, if you're telling me wait for Ayuk till September or sign Stefan Diggs today, sign Stefan Diggs. I don't say fuck Iuk. I don't know why I would even want Ayuk. Sign Stephon. I don't know what's going on with Ayuk. He's fucking looked.

SPEAKER_02 42:32

I don't want person, he looked fat as shit. I don't know if that was real.

SPEAKER_01 42:35

It's weird. I ain't I can't even hold you.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

And he's like, you know, maybe I'm know it's probably more going on. I don't think he's gonna be the same player.

SPEAKER_01 42:41

Mentally, he don't look like he's all the way there. Right. But if they release him and we sign him, then I'm willing to give him a shot.

SPEAKER_02 42:48

Hang on with the same player, bro. I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_01 42:50

Do I think he'll be 2023?

SPEAKER_02 42:52

Right.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Top seven, top eight. Not after jump. He ain't played in two fucking years. Right. That's another reason why I'm leaning towards Stefan, too. Yeah, he's been playing. Give me Stefan Diggs, bro. I bring Stefan Diggs.

SPEAKER_02 43:01

Bring him back home.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

Give me Stefan. But we'll see him.

SPEAKER_02 43:04

Think they will because they know he's from there. Probably not. They know how to watch and do shit. They probably won't knowing them.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

I'm I'm torn because half of me thinks because of his reputation, they won't bring him in. But then you brought in Marshawn, who's didn't have a bad reputation, but he wasn't the cleanest, you know what I mean? Like he has some shit off the field too. So I mean, Stefani never broke no law. He just got a problem with pussy.

SPEAKER_02 43:26

So if it can look it can be looked at as a distraction with some organizations, yeah. With the Cardi B shit. And I think teams could probably overlook that though.

SPEAKER_01 43:34

We need to.

SPEAKER_02 43:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:35

We need to and bring that man in. Bring that man in. You know what I mean? You tried to you tried to overpay for Alec Pierce. I'm glad we didn't get him. We tried to get Romeo Dyes. We didn't get him. So clearly you see a need at receiver. You got one in the third round, but can that can you confidently walk in and think that he can be slotted as your wide receiver too as a rookie? I wouldn't even put that on him. So uh give me, bring me Stefan. Even his 31 to 32, I'm cool. Bring it.

SPEAKER_02 43:59

Bring it. Did you guys with OTAs and all that shit yet or no?

SPEAKER_01 44:02

We did rookie OTAs. Okay. Um, I think the team might have been together, but we ain't did nothing officially with rookies and you can yet, right? Nah.

SPEAKER_02 44:09

When is it coming? Like June, maybe? Yeah. That's just right here, man.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

It's here, bro. Two weeks will be in June. That shit's here. And that's what I want to see. June 1st is a big day, obviously for y'all. And then if San Francisco lets Iut go. Because if they don't let him go by June 1st, this motherfucker may be there to September. And if he's still in September, as much as I'm kind of reserved on the AJ now? No. Oh, okay. He might be in fucking San Francisco in September. I don't want. Damn. No, we need to fix that by then. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

But if he comes in without any work with y'all, he might even start, bro.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

I don't, I just two years off is a long time. That's why we need him. If if it's gonna happen, it has to happen now. We gotta see what he can do. We gotta knock the rust off. He has to get out there and start running. Because if it's by September, then he's no good to us.

SPEAKER_02 44:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

No good to us.

SPEAKER_02 44:53

Yeah, nah, that's real, man. But I'm excited for the season to be, you know, to come back around full circle. The AJ thing, I'm pissed off because I feel like we would have had him this year, man. That wide receiver quote would have been. Oh my Gary. God, uh, we'd I think we definitely went back to the Super Bowl, you know, Barn Health and the offensive line.

SPEAKER_01 45:10

Offensive line, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:11

But yeah, without him being there, man, I'm really interested to see how this shit's gonna look. You know, the rookie kid that came in, you know, we'll see. Who we get was the other receiver we got from uh Green Bay. I forget the nigga's name. Me too. Doctavian Wicks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He ain't I mean, he ain't him, but you can get open. I AJ to me, you know, I was saying AJ was the best receiver up until last year in the league. I don't think that now. I think he fell off a little bit last year, but a lot of times he was open, you know, and I think it was an issue with him in Jalen, man. Well, Jalen was like, fuck him. I really do. For whatever reason, maybe I'm wrong about that. Yeah, but it was times that he uncovered quick and he would go to Smitty, he would go to somebody else. You know what I mean? And maybe because it was AJ was bitching and complaining, he said, you know, whatever. I don't know. Hopefully I'm wrong about that, but we'll see.

SPEAKER_01 45:57

It was rumors about AJ going to the Jags and real quick before we send him over there. Do you think okay? So with that said, do you think that that in New England is a guarantee? Because I don't.

SPEAKER_02 46:06

Hell no.

SPEAKER_01 46:07

Yeah, I don't.

SPEAKER_02 46:08

If he's available, Talby's gonna take the best. Like, fuck what AJ wants. I think Halby's gonna take the best deal for the team because AJ's gone. I'm not gonna let you just go where you want and give us some shit back. No, I'm gonna get the best. You give us Brian Thompson and a one. I'm just you know hypothetically throwing it out there. I'm taking that shit. Yeah, or you give me a one and a two, I'm taking that somewhere else. As long as it's not the NFC. And that it was rumored they was gonna send him for uh Devontae Adams. I'm gonna like that. AJ for Devontae. That would that was close to happening, Adam Schefter said. Maybe another pick somewhere else, maybe like a third or something in there. But Adam Schefter said he thought that was gonna be is gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

But Devontae's exceptional, but he's older. He's a little longer than the tooth, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 46:49

So yeah, but yeah, I you know the Jaguars, there's been a couple other teams. It's gonna be a lot of teams calling after June 1st. And they're gonna just be the Patriots, and everybody said, Oh no, fuck that. Right. Come on, man. Like, yo, if the Jets want him, you wanna give us two first round picks?

SPEAKER_01 47:04

They got it. Miami got it, the Jets got it.

SPEAKER_02 47:07

Yeah, and I don't want him going to where he's gonna contend. Even though New England, they got a brutal schedule.

SPEAKER_01 47:13

Oh my god, yo. I'm gonna be paying very close attention to New England this year. Oh, yeah. I'm on Hate Watch. Oh yeah, me too. Every fucking week I'm on Hate Watch. I got yeah, come on, New England. Let's see if you put that money where your mouth is.

SPEAKER_02 47:25

Because it's gonna come around. I mean, all right, so the last one. Out of the quarterbacks that was drafted, well, how are you ranking them? Drake, you know, your boy Daniels and Chicago Cat. I don't know why I remember his name. Caleb.

SPEAKER_01 47:38

I'm biased, but give me, give me, give me five. Caleb and Drake in that order.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go Caleb, Daniels. That year kind of, he ain't gonna play a lot, Jaden Daniels. But I'll say it like this. It's 5149 between him and Caleb.

SPEAKER_01 47:56

It was a disaster, man.

SPEAKER_02 47:57

Yeah, it was disaster. Disaster. Yeah, if he would have stepped, if he would have kept, even if y'all would have lost, if he would have kept playing well, it was like, all right, defense, you know, let this game up. He still did his thing, then I'll be like, all right, he's number one. So this year is a big year for all of them. Because Chicago, people predicting them to go back. People predicting Drake made to fall back to Earth, and people don't know what's gonna happen with JD Daniel. They people think he's gonna get hurt. Yep. Again, that's what they that's what they're predicting. So they the organization's got to do a better job protecting that young man. He can't be running like he used to. He can still run, but he got to be more protective of his body, extra protective. Like fuck it, I'm gonna get down.

SPEAKER_01 48:29

Well, that's why David Blau is there. You gotta protect him. Yeah, definitely. So no more of these assigned runs and shit and have him taking on five fucking defenders by himself and all that wild shit. But we'll see.

SPEAKER_02 48:40

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