How Lil Wayne, Future, OutKast & southern hip hop TOOK OVER rap game

29:40That's when I knew the whole sound was changing. I said, yo, they got the whole country in the Choco because I just went through the whole country. In any case, I'm in there with Scott Swordman. I'm at an argument because he was like, yo, I can't give you Dirty South drums. I said, yo, you got to give me Dirty South drums because that's the shit. so he's producing it and the whole time I'm looking at the heavy set girl dancing by the speaker and I'm like nah nah nah she ain't dancing to it yet she ain't dancing to it and he finally threw the drums where I saw her by the speaker you know doing that shit and I was like that's it she's dancing to this and so that's how we came up with Make It Rain up in Memphis and so Memphis got what?

30:23Yo Gotti rest in peace Dolph Dolph Glorilla Glorilla Moneybag Moneybag yo and then they they're all who's the guy down with Young Dolph they just signed is it Key Glock Key Glock you know so right now it's safe to say Memphis got it you think so in the south they doing in the regional they doing more than they doing more because they doing more than their numbers they they they They causing a lot of fucking problems out there. Oh, for sure. But they, you know, since future, right? So what I was trying to tell my nephews, Nori's kids, I was like, yo, you know, they was... Noah? Noah and Noah was telling me that the young thug invented trap.

31:18They're confused. They're young. They're young, right? So I'm trying to tell them, yo, what about T.I. I had an album. Trap music. So I'm trying to tell him that that whole wave, you know, future pretty much created that whole wave to me. Like with the sing rap, like, you know, all that shit, you know, he had that shit lit and he still got it lit. You know, so I feel like he's on Pluto. He's on a whole number. Yeah, he's on Pluto. He don't really, he really misses. When he's cooking, he's cooking with fucking fish. Oh, no. He's definitely, he's like a Jadakiss, you know, never had a whack verse.

32:05He got songs. He got fucking nuclear missile songs. Yeah, for sure. I remember when he. These shits catch wildfire and they stay on fire. I remember when he gave. It says no more water. He gave, what's his name? He gave Cala the boy and Cala gave it to Ace Hood. I woke up in my Ferrari. You know how that shit used to knock in that fucking club? He gave Cala the feud. No, no, he gave him all that shit. I got the keys, keys, keys. I got the keys. You know, we talking Southern hip hop. We got to take it to Miami, 305. Bet that up, won't. Bet that up. The list is crazy down there. you first I was you gotta start off with two live crew Uncle Luke and the boys we got JT Money JT Money you know there was this there was a crew James you wouldn't know this crew I think it was called Society they had this one record I was addicted to this record back underground real hip hop then you got Trick Daddy Dollars Trick Daddy you know that Trick Daddy wouldn't stop going platinum and he wouldn't want to leave Miami.

33:19But I'm signing on Atlantic Records and he got, I don't know. Crazy. Like Trick Daddy's a super duper hit maker and a chef for real. Trick Daddy? My pot. No, he cooks for real. I done ate little crunk fritters that he made out there in front of the pork and bees, the biggest projects out there. in Miami. Gotta go Trina. Trina's like one of the leaders of all the girls in hip hop. Gotta go Trina. You know, don't they? 305. And then they gave like, it was, not really, but it is the birth of Rick Ross. Ricky Rose. Ricky Rose. I don't think I ever been in a club where I had that effect of hustling, hustling, hustling, hustling.

34:20Like people banging on the walls. The DJ would play it 20 times in a row. Hustling, hustling, hustling, hustling. Pitbull, Flo Rida. Flo Rida. Broke Michael Jackson's record 10 years ago. Flo Rida broke everything there is to break. And he called a mean lawsuit. They did him greasy, one of them companies. And he fucking smoked him again. and then smoke. Yo, shout out to Nephew, the whole crew out there. Then we could go on with Ball, Greasy, everybody else who's contributions to the game. We got to say Kodak Black if we're going. You better say, you better say, Bill. He's not Miami. He up in Florida.

34:59Kodak Black is Florida. The whole fucking Florida. You go to Tallahassee. You go to T-Pain. T-Pain's contributions to hip hop music go unnoticed in a major major all I do is win win win no matter what T-Pain is one of them special chosen people in our culture he will live on forever these times he has songs that will be played our kids kids kids kids kids who hear T-Pain trust me you already know if we left anybody out, we sorry. And speaking of that, I never seen nobody had a club on till. I'm talking about from a Miami perspective. Like, um, Jeezy, man. Jeezy. He had dudes running up the wall.

35:55Jeezy got the trap song Bible. All he gotta do is hit play. I'm your favorite rapper, favorite rapper. I'm a favorite trapper's favorite trapper. He was going to Snowman. He got the Bible playlist for trapping and possibly yo shout out to Eif Rivera you know Eif Rivera my man Eif who shoot the videos he made the snowman Def Jam paid him to make a logo and he made the snowman logo for Jeezy crazy out there shout out to Eif Eif did that he created that t-shirt you know what I'm saying like my man right here yo T-Mark shout out You've been giving us fire every day. And we love to see. He come with gifts.

36:44He come with legendary shit. T-Box. You know I wore your hat in Yankee Stadium. And you know how this shit goes. Whether you hit it out the park or you don't. As long as they talking. You know what I'm saying? I realize that this game of 2025 social media and all that. If you're winning or you're not. if they talking you're doing great yeah so they was fucking me up because I had the delay on the mic meanwhile your cap is in every fucking interview they keep showing and showing and showing and showing I had your shit in the tuck for something legendary and so when I did that Yankee Stadium at the World Series I threw that hat on look at Jada Jada like yo I'm rocking his shit all the time but he got the Yankees This is my man made this.

37:38Water. Gwitty. You ever climbed on the top of the Yonkers water shit? Tower? Hell no. I got to be on the ground. I ain't know how you feel about flying. That's how I feel about being in the air. In the heights. Yeah, up on shit. I don't want to be. You know, my building had a water tower in Forest Project. So it had a water tower. And we used to play hooky in there. Yo, kids, if you from Forest, don't do what I've said. but you know we used to skip school in there and it was like a water tower but you go up that ladder and then they had like a little the round part in the top was like you could chill in there and we go up to the roof I mean we chill in there from fucking 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon and act like we came home for school so in your neighborhood y 'all ain't used to ride on top of the elevators?

38:27Yeah we did all of that. So in the projects we would ride on top of the elevators stick to shit, you know, you can stick them. And they say, yo, why? And Whitney Young, 354, 358, we used to ride on top of the buildings, but where I lived at, on Warburton and Ravine, they had the gates of hell. That was an old, like, factory that we used to play in that you could die anytime you go. It was missing. Shit was, you gotta go up, but the stairs is loose and missing. any, Lord God, thank nobody never fell in that shit, but we was doing some fucking stupid ass shit. Yeah, we had one called Dead Man's Hell.

39:10So Dead Man's Hell was like, yo, I mean, if you did it, you might have saved 20 minutes, right? So you go from my block to Third Avenue where you go chopping. They had some shit, Dead Man's Hell, where they had a wire and it was just like a little, a little, if you fell, you died. It's a little bit of space. You could do it, but the wire, if you ain't get scared, I mean, people were doing that shit. Grown men, women were taking dead men's. If you didn't take that, you had to walk around maybe 10, 15 blocks. Like, it was some long shit. You did that in, like, two minutes. You already. Halfway down.

39:49Oh, more than that. You already, like, that price position and where you want to get. But Deadman Hill, that shit was crazy. be like, we had no business doing that shit. Just dumb. The producers. They over there. This is not me, y 'all. This is the producers. I ain't even going to blow them up in case you bump into them in the Super Bowl. They saying, is it me or are the ladies slowing up? It was a good two years where the ladies had it in the smash. I don't fucking think the ladies is slowing up at all. Glow is glowing. Nicki can never she hits shit out the park Megan's a mega star you talk about Cardi every day she just dropped a new single that shit's on fire they turn into mega stars one thing about the females they get a single or a good album and they turn into mega stars Sexy Red Sexy Red St.

40:50Louis she fucking bigger than life they take they turn the females turn into mega iconic stars they get out of the realm of art Lotto's mega fucking she's not iconic because she's still young but she's a mega fucking star yeah she is shout out to Lotto I fuck with Lotto but the women are they slowing down if they are they like at a nine you know what I'm saying Because I felt like two years ago, the girls was bigger than the guys. They not. The girls is fucking shit up. They killing shit. But they really was fucking it up. Yeah, yeah. A few years ago, it was no oxygen. That shit was like shit.

41:36They was leaving no room. Yeah. If you a guy, you rap and get the fuck out the game. Shit was on smash. They was running that shit for real. But if they did fell off, they went to a nine. You know what I'm saying? They didn't fell off. They still killing. They got out of the orbit. You know, Ice Spice. It's out of here. She wasn't allowed. Dunkin' Donuts. She's on Donuts. Yeah, but she wasn't allowed. No, she's on some commercial on YouTube. She's on all types of shit. She got some shit. Kate Spade or some shit with the DeMio sisters. They played that commercial. But Ice Spice, she wasn't allowed to lose her ass, man.

42:15She lost some weight. And the people made it get it back. Oh, no, it was awful. My nephews is like, yo, we off Ice Spice, this, this, that. I've never seen nobody. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't got nothing to do with that. She lost her ass. That's what my nephews say. They was like, well, she lost her yalla. They was like, yo. And then she got it right back, and they jumped on it like that. Just like that. Shout out to Ice Spice, man. Ice Spice from the Bronx. My man Sauce Gardner. nah nah she be with fucking them what's her name Taylor Swift oh no she dating a football player I seen the guy yeah I seen him I seen him in Carbone you know what I'm saying the private joint oh no they doing shit like that the females is out of here they doing Carbone I seen him I walked in the room not everybody gets in that the room I'm talking about specifically and they was in that shit.

43:17I was like, okay. Because it took me years and years and years to get to the private rooms and the speakeasies and shit where you bumping the Dolan or some shit like that. They mad young and they right up in there. That's telling you what's going on out here. They got that boost. You remember you used to climb the roof and then they give you the boost and you jump up to the roof when you was a kid? Yeah, step on somebody's shoulder. Yeah, you can't. Stepping in hands. The boost. Stepping in hands and they boost you up. That's how you learn how to do backflips in the hood. Or they go in between.

43:55See what I'm saying? Dudes and they flip. You know, one thing about the ATL, the police been trying to put people way away out there. Like with the Young Dog and the YSL crew. What's the other one? The Y &M, Melly. He from Florida. Yeah. Melly? I thought he was from Atlanta. He from Florida? Florida, yeah. He from Florida. YMN Lucci. One of them. Lucci. From Atlanta. YMN Lucci. Melly is Florida. Lucci is Atlanta. All right. Sorry, Melly. Lucci. Right? Free Melly. They were trying to book everybody out there with them Ricos. They were trying to book Donald Trump before he went for president. Trump still got to open.

44:43Trump case. Yo, they used that Rico loose-handedly. You know, I watched that whole trial, too. And what's your man? I don't know if we should give him a shout-out here. Your man. Who? The craziest witness ever created. What's his name? Woody? Oh, Woody. Shout-out to Woody, man. Yo, Woody was out of control, huh? They said he got locked up. No! If he did, let him out. Free Woody? Woody back in? Oh, no. Woody, fuck if he back in. They're going to give him 10 ,000 years. It ain't none of, it's some light shit. If he hopped a train, they giving him 10. Street racing. He out, man. Oh, so he out. He got a new V.

45:23He was racing down Peachtree. That boy Woody is on that OJ Simpson list. I'm telling you. Woody should not even be in Atlanta. Leave Woody alone. Woody should be living in like Bahamas or some shit. Because when I'm telling you, if they catch him for hopping the train, they're going to throw the book at him. And he was straight up, if we're going to listen to him and believe him, like, I can't read. I don't know shit. I don't this. I don't that. Like, that boy, they're going to smoke his boots. I think he was just playing stupid on the stand. I mean, it was very, very, very entertaining. Oh, no, no.

46:02He definitely gets. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He knew what he was doing. He was throwing them people off. I just think it's crazy, bro. No, it's crazy because. The new telly so far was a strike. Nah, you know, I'm more like Ralph Cramden, man. The Honeymooners, man. You know what I'm saying? Ralph Cramden. You Cramden if Cramden had bread. Cramden had a lot of bread. Cramden was down in Miami. Oh, you mean in the jacket? I'm talking about Ralph Cramden. He was on his knuckle. In the TV show? Yeah, Ralph Cramden was on his knuckle. Must drive. He was fucked up. And he wasn't in the union. Nah, nah, he was fucked up.

46:39At least he had somebody to pick on. What's his man's name? Norton, man. Norton. Yo, he was killing Norton. The real Jackie Gleason had bread. The real Jackie Gleason. He was a pool shark. He was. He'd be in Miami killing dudes for bread. That was his gambling. He ran Miami. Minnesota Facts. Yeah, Minnesota Facts. He ran everything in Miami. So that's who I aspire to be, man. You know what I'm saying? Jackie Gleason? Yes. Yes. Joyce Randolph. Let me tell you what, Joyce Randolph. Art Carney. Art Carney, yeah, dude. Who's murder? Yeah, yo, that shit was the shit, though. Oh, yeah, the marathons on New Year's?

47:23You don't know about the honeymooners?

47:30Yo, I was scrolling through the Sprite living track list the other day and immediately started arguing with myself. Arguing with yourself? I'm serious. It was wild because records like California Love, Still Not a Player, back then, those aren't just songs. Nah, those are moments, memories, snapshots of where hip-hop was and where it's going. Exactly, and that's what Sprite gets. They spent over 40 years celebrating artists who really defined the culture. And now they flipping it, letting the fans be part of the conversation. Which is where it gets interesting, because the real debate is why. Like, why did that song matter?

48:12Why did that line hit? Why did it change hip-hop forever? I can't promise you we got the answers. But you're definitely going to have a good time figuring it out. Go check out Full Sprite Living Tracklist. And break down the stories behind your favorite bars. At livingtracklist.genius.com. This is the Sprite Living Tracklist. Obey your thirst.

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50:04Can you help me shape this? How about we flip it on his head? How about we flip the script? What if the surprise woman, who actually you think is the straight man, is actually the one who's acting weird? Adam Scott. This entire time, you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I would never expect. Let go of that. I have. I would never set expectations for something like that to happen. like if the universe allows for something like that to happen i'm open to it i'm always going to accept you know danny mcbride fine yeah it's all this fragile masculinity exuding i could smell it walking down the hallway to be honest with you i was like is that weed nope it's fragile masculinity yeah ben stiller no because a lot of times in out of context people don't get it or even know what a circle is.

50:59You know what I mean? Like they're like, oh, what's a state? Everyone's so dumb except for you. And fake. Right, fake and also not interested or just like, oh, I've got my life. I don't care about your life. And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Nick Tutoro. You probably know me from NYPD Blue, The Longest Yard, or Spike Lee's Black Klansman.

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52:05Delivering happiness. Mariano Rivera. Oh, my God. And many, many more. Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro. And listen now. Yo, this is the fuck. Ben Simmons. The Knicks have... Hold on one second, one second. I'm sorry. they buying me socks you know what I'm saying I'm trying to be cool I'm trying to I'm trying to be you you got the socks at 158 yeah they got me Rich Cotton just go tell me not Rich Cotton they saying I need like Louis socks and all this kind of shit I just told you you getting one where it's cool we got I got all of the socks but get these from 158 up NYC Rich Cotton man they got me I got an APB out on socks they all they all trying to get mad socks.

52:56He going to waste it. Those shits is one way like Air Force. And it's over. So you say the Rich Cottons? Rich Cotton. I got the Rich Cotton. That's what I'm wearing. Go up a little bit. I mean, go bring it up a little. Ben Simmons. You been dying to talk about this guy. The Knicks is in talk with, I seen it. It might be allegedly something I seen in the sports world that the Knicks is in talks with Ben Simmons. The first comment I seen is Fat Joe. No bueno. That's no bueno. That's emphatically non-ciphered, y 'all. So you wouldn't like Ben Simmons off the bench? No way. Listen, let me talk before you say why not.

53:40And I'm not enthusiastically happy about it, but just look why Mike can work. You don't, you need him to handle the ball. He can fucking hell of a passer. and he can stick anybody from one to five. We don't need him to shoot. Pass it to Clarkson. Pass it to the big nigga from France. And pass it to whoever else they left in. Bridges or whoever. Think about it. I'm confused. Because I can't see that dude do nothing. The producer said we're going to talk about him longer than he's going to play if he signs. Yo, listen to what I'm saying to you. I'm confused. like Ben Simmons is he's a wash I think they gotta hypnotize him back to Ben Simmons right now he's been everything what about the young boy what about the young boy around the world and I ain't been Simmons he ain't been playing and he ain't been playing yo that's a fact but I watched him since my vert I watched he got He got it in him.

54:49Somebody took it out of him. Boss, if that's a boss. He had it. That's a super boss. He used to be a killer. He was the man, but he ain't that no more. I think it was Philly. Philly done something to him. Yo, listen. A lady in Philly, a cheesesteak, something in Philly. Shout out to my man, Skinny Joe. Yo, Skinny Joe, I'm coming down there for that Philly cheesesteak. My man just opened up a Philly cheesesteak. Oh, no. I see that. I see that. I roll by there. The line is like a million man. I was going to go in there. You said that shit, the realest shit in the world. Be ready to drive down there.

55:25No, no, I'm going next week. I'll go to Miami tomorrow, but I'm going to the... I just need one, but it's the real deal. I just need one, but I've been watching it on Instagram. Shout out my man, Steve Modarano. So my man, Steve Modarano, got the Italian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. His cheesesteaks are undefeated. but this just off of face value. You ain't Segway the fool. Steve, skinny, skinny. Yo, his shit looking real. I know you brought up Philly. Yo, the guy's a piece of shit. He's washed up. He's not. Trash. Ben Simmons is done. He's a vision of himself. He's scared of his own shadow.

56:07Now, mental illness is real. I got a crack therapy. I got a delusion to, I got one of your kind of shit. That is delusion. Think about this. And Philly's my second home. It's my favorite place. If I had to get out of here right now, I'm moving to Philly. They love me. They protect me. They love me. I love Philly, too. I think when you're a rookie and they're initiating you in Philly, they take you somewhere. And it happened to Markel Fultz. It happened to Ben Simmons. But Markel Fultz came back. Now, he came back to start home. And Ben Simmons could come back. Long time. He don't got to. Look, Ben Simmons just forgot how to shoot.

56:52He can't play. Markel Fultz had to. No, this guy can't play. He can play. He just don't want to shoot. Somebody told him, don't shoot. And he fucking mind. Nah, I can't. He clocked him with the thing. Look. If he gets the eye of the tiger back, which New Yorker might get back, put it back and he'd be idle. He was at Brooklyn, they ain't do shit. Now let me explain. He didn't have no fluidity. He wasn't even showing up. He wasn't moving the groove. The Knicks ain't going to. The Knicks is going to even help you or fucking hurt you. Let me explain something. There's no gray area in the garden. Ben Simmons is washed up.

57:33It's over. There's no way, no hope, no nothing. We can't rewind the time. I got hope. I got faith. I cannot rewind the time with this man. This guy's still in. He's fully in the gray area. Especially off the bench. Nah, he can't do nothing. I've been watching him for years. I used to like his game. And I've been watching him for years. I swear to God, I've been watching. Your Marshall folks came back. He had a little spurt, went down to Orlando. Your man, Ben Simmons. He can go to Orlando. Take him to Disney. He might see three stacks. You seen the money they gave my man Polonkyo? What are you calling?

58:15Pablo? Pablo? Polachero? You messing. He making me get his name, man. Pablo Boncario. Boncario. Boncario. Boncario. Yeah, man. Let me tell you something. I'm sorry, Pablo. This guy gives you a picture. Hold up. Hold up. Let me tell you about Boncario. Boncario. He just got the... No, no. They did the right thing. I thought about it, right? I said, yo, if you put Poncaro on Detroit, they're the favorite. If you put Poncaro on any team that's almost looking to go, they're going to win a chip. So I feel like, of course, Orlando gave them the bag, but they also played defense. because there was like anybody we give this guy to, imagine you send Poncaro to Golden State.

59:12You send Poncaro anywhere they got a chance. If they already got a one-two punch, ATL, whatever, they got a chance at a chip. This guy Poncaro, I seen some shit the other day. Maybe we don't watch Orlando. But when they announced the deal, they was like first NBA player with 25 plus. I was like, they put them in the names with like, you know, Will Chamberlain and this and I didn't even know he was doing that kind of, I love him I didn't know he was doing legendary status numbers that's what he's doing so shout out Poncaro you know he know he got a weird name don't get it fucked up his best friends had to study his shit, he got a weird Poncaro man he got a weird name, Poncaro what's up brother, I love Orlando team And I do like...

1:00:05And Shamgar just got an assistant coach job on Atlanta. Shamgar, what the fuck is up, Sham? What's going on, baby? I got to cheer you. You know, Shamgar, one of the only people I know from the street that made it to the league. So you know this street... You know Skip made it. Skip, that's it. That's it. Rafe and Austin. That's it. Who else on the street made it to the league? But Sham ain't from the street. He went to college. He went to college. Yeah, but I know Shan from the street. Yeah, we know him from home. Yes. He's from the street. But he in the league. He's assistant coach. He went to college and killed.

1:00:43He killed in college. Yep. OK, so yeah, yeah. He killed in college. He did that in Providence. He did that in Providence. Yeah, he killed in Providence. I know what he did in Providence. And I salute him. But what I'm saying is, to me, let me say. You just know him. Fat Joe met him in the street. Outside. Street basketball. You know, he got the sham. You know what I'm saying? He invented a move that every one of our players that we think is the greatest of all time. Everyone. He did hours and sessions with Kobe and he did hours and sessions with Gigi. He's legend. He taught them how to sham guard.

1:01:24Yeah, they took for hours, dribbling skills for hours. He got story. He told me shit to Kobe and Gigi. listen Shamgar salute brother because I seen you in the streets I know you went to college but I seen you in the streets and we could easily get lost in the streets and he was in the streets so that's just why I'm trying to tell you I know Shamgar was sitting on the block to three in the morning drinking talking this like he was in the streets and now he a coach of Orlando, that's huge. He was in Dallas right before that. Yeah. What you think about Dallas chances? Kyrie don't want to go back.

1:02:09They just signed D 'Angelo Russell two years,$13 million. I think that's a good feeling. For Ky. Can you see? Burn it, dog. Yo, listen. I really am not a fan of D 'Angelo Russell. I mean, he's good, close, but no cigar. I'm sorry, guys, he had his chance. And what's crazy is I actually was there when he got drafted to the league and his confidence, walking up there, you would think he was the next AI, the next Kobe, the next MJ LeBron. He will, I never forget that. And I remember to myself saying, yo, this kid got to humble himself. And boy, the league will have a way of humbling you if you're not out there doing what you got to do.

1:03:05And so, D 'Angelo Russell, congratulations on sticking somebody up for another check. Yo, with that, why look 53 when you can look? I can't believe this guy. No, I'm trying to tell you the truth. Why get 30 million when you should be getting 3 million? He gave him 13. I'm a little upset. For two years. Yo, and I don't get jealous, man. I'm a little upset. I looked up this week. I guess they started the trades and all that this week. It's like five NBA players in a row with 100 million and better. Do you know what rappers got to do to make 100 million? What's the percentage of rappers that ever made 100 million?

1:03:50A couple rappers made 100 million. Not for rap. Yo, how you watch these basketball players? They'd say it. No. You watch the ESPN and shit is like, yeah. Julius Randle, 100 million, three year deal. 267. I think Poncero got. But somebody, SGA. What's SGA got? 274. Poncero got 287 for five. How much SGA got? 277 for four. What the fuck? What am I doing wrong? You don't know how to shoot the turnaround. You got the leg for the euro. You already got the leg for the first jump of the euro. Look. I ain't got the winner to come back. You don't got to come back. I ain't got the hop, step, and the jump.

1:04:41That's what got you the 100 mil. You got the half euro. I don't got the hop to go back. I ain't got the hop. But you got the first one. The hop, step, and the jump. I got the first. Yeah, boy, you would admit. I got the looks as deceiving legs. It would have called you to just, you know how to do it. I ain't going to lie to you. I had to move. Rack just got the one out. Yo, you got to stop. Yo, all right.

1:05:08SGA$285 million. Without the comp. Like four years, no agent fee. No agent fee? Fuck. Pure money. Pure. The boy got his own money. Yo, he got his own shit. and I just want to know what the fuck we doing wrong. My legs are bad. You can't shoot the turnaround, man. You don't know how to do the show. You ever notice these ballplayers, they want to be rappers? I don't know what for. Let me talk. Let me speak on that. Why? I figured it out. Ballplayers like rappers. They don't want to be they want ballplayer money but they want to be rappers with their contracts. If they had to switch contracts, there'd be less ballplayers.

1:05:58They'd be playing the piano and on. They wouldn't want to rap. They wouldn't want to rap if they figured it out. No, I just think everything is perception. They would never say a rap again. I think of smoking mirrors. I think the ballplayers think the rappers got as much money as them. They've been watching. I'm telling you. They can't think that. Bro, I'm telling you I'm sitting next to Jeff Teague. How much money Jeff Teague made in his career? He did all he did. Yeah, yeah. All right. He did pretty good. What's pretty good? LA World, I'd say over 50. See how much? Good. He said now. See who he doing this for that?

1:06:31Hold up. He signed a three-year 57 in 2017. And then what else? He got more than that. You know what 57 million is? By the way, the man told me, yo, I remember yo, one of these things you was driving up. He made nearly 100. you was driving a black like fuck you kid you got a hundred million like 98.8 to be exact they look at us 98.8 that's on a low end like he's not low end that's on a low end low end my ass when I'm from I used to go see Ron Altez and fucking Queensbridge projects when he got that like 40 million or something. He had an old school pickup truck. He used to play for me at the Rucker.

1:07:19I would go to Queensbridge to get him. He's sitting out there with chancletas on in front of the bed. Like somebody ain't tell him, yo, you're a filthy rich superstar. And he was out in the projects in the summer every day. And by the way, Ron Artest is undefeated in the Ruckers history. He never played a game that he lost. So if he played 100 times, you could have bet the kitchen sink on him. He never lost. One time we had a game, he cut himself all the way here. He taped the shit and still won the game. Ronald Tess, he was different, but it's safe to say I will switch with the ballplayers any day.

1:08:00And a baseball player. Yo, we gotta wrap this up. You're making me mad. Ronaldo shit. Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia getting like 500 million, taking the plane to Dubai every day. There's a 30-minute flight. Taking the... He lives in Dubai. It's 700 million over two years. That's disrespectful shit. And he flies over there for the game and flies back in the private like a joke. His kids are in Dubai. Yo, this ain't that. That ain't this. And it's cracking kiss, baby. You already know what it is. The biggest fucking show in the globe. A phenomenon. Rookies of the year. We going for that number one spot.

1:08:42And let me tell y 'all, I see y 'all shaking in your boots. We coming. The train is coming, baby. The train is coming. See ya!

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